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“The people that seem to be most distressed by it were the people who had not gone looking for it,” Lloyd said.

Lloyd’s his birth name but he insists we call him Captain Obvious at the office.

The British have all the good luck.

And if anyone wants to discover music, get a scrobbler for a good music network.

Do you have any that you find useful? I haven’t used one in decades.

commenting on random YouTube videos

That’s definitely not new. Comment spam has existed as long as comments have.

Stealing content is also as old as the internet. It would make sense they would use their own music if that’s what they were selling. People that sell affiliate links to stuff paste their logo and domain on the lower or upper part of stolen reels.

I don’t discover music on Youtube so I can’t speak to it’s rise in popularity but things like this get adopted widely when it’s proven to work.

I didn’t understand that, thank you for the clarification.

lot of YouTubers recommend it as something that looks a bit like Windows (on the surface).

Oh yeah, I forgot that was it’s schtick. Well, best of luck to them, regardless of the cause.

Any idea on what caused the spike? I used Zorin years and years ago and while nifty, didn’t have anything that met a particular need that wasn’t already satisfied by other distros. I checked their site and it looks like nothing drastic has changed.

Perhaps some popular influencer or advertisement type thing?

If I’m reading DW correctly, the real switft OS has been around since 2011, which I don’t think predates HML but is still getting up there in age.

Filter your content to get the vibe you want.

Blocking the porn and impotently hostile makes it quite the chill platform.

Both YT music and Tidal offer a trial period, you could listen to some examples yourself since you’re the only person that can determine if the differences in sound quality are anything that you notice or care about.

I’m not a kde fan but that’s pretty. Well done!

DM Twinkle, they can hook you up.

You could make a sandwich in your lap and it wouldn’t be as distracting as scrolling social media on your phone.

Beware of what? It’s no different than any other instance and capable of being subscribed to, scrolled past or blocked.

Stop advertising for them and let them have their federated echo chamber, just like the communists, socialists, leftists and others have.

6. No US Politics.

Please don’t post about current US Politics. If you need to do this, try !politicaldiscussion@lemmy.world or !askusa@discuss.online

So it’s safe to carry on not using it?

All private servers will see the same end if they become popular enough.

Regarding turtle specifically, although I knew it would never actually release, I loved the idea of unreal wow.

Piessants.