Jack_Burton

@Jack_Burton@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is anyone NOT steaming their Music?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m just gonna paste a response I had to another similar post a while back:

  Not who you asked, but I can tell you where I’m at with that. My primary listening is on an mp3 player, and I also use a home server for listening on speakers/tv. Switching to a separate device used only for music has made my listening far more deliberate. When I pick up the player, I’m making a point to listen to music, not just have it on in the background like I used to. It’s also a pain in the ass (comparitively) to make playlists on it (I purposely chose a scroll-wheel style and no touch screen) so I’m listening to a lot of full albums now, which I never really did before, exposing me to a lot more than I used to since I don’t just throw the song or two I like on a playlist and leave the rest.

  There’s been an interesting side effect that I didn’t expect: Being more deliberate with my listening has sharpened my ear to music, I hear music in movies and shows in a way I never used to, I’m beginning to recognize voices and band styles by ear, I actually focus on music now instead of it just being part of the background. As such, I find a lot of new music these days by looking up songs from movies and tv. For example, the most recent:

  • I completely devoured the Sinners soundtrack. (Ludwig Göransson is a fave and I’ve always been a fan of Buddy Guy)

  • Watching Dope Thief, I realized I never skipped the intro. Got me hooked on Little Simz

  • James Gunn has some great taste. Beyond season 1 of Peacemaker, Season 2 has already got me absolutely loving Foxy Shazam, and after the latest ep I’ve been getting into Hardcore Superstar.

  • Strangely enough, Rick and Morty has some bangers in the later seasons, and got me listening to stuff I never would have like Kishi Bashi.

  Additionally, there’s the news. I’ve been listening to Bob Vylan and Kneecap, and only heard of them because they stood up to support Palestinians.

  Not only has my listening become more deliberate, but my sourcing of new music has as well. No longer relying on an algorithm to do the work for me has allowed me to hone a new skill and learn how to find new music myself.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨should I apologize to this friendly manager I had an argument with?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not sure you understand what it means to “lean left”. The left tends to focus more on compassion, sympathy, and empathy. Regardless of their management position, you were in the wrong, so yes, you owe them an apology.

  Take responsibility for your actions, apologize when you’re in the wrong, treat people with respect. This is what it means to lean left.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If spiderman shoots webs from his wrists would not the tension of shooting and swingiing up a skyscraper pretty much break his wrist? Also why SpiderMAN shouuldn''t it be SpiderTEEN?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It was in Superior Spider-Man. Doc Ock takes over Peter’s body and starts running around as Spider-Man. He confronts Scorpion and punches his jaw off, realizing that all the times he fought Spidey, he was always holding back and could’ve completely destroyed him any time he wanted.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My Bank Recently Changed Their Interface to Move Money Between Accounts⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  When you pay a bill, do you select who you’re paying then the amount from whichever account, or do you select the amount from an account and then select the company you’re paying?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep. 3 weeks ago I switched my main PC to Linux (which has been a hard road since I use it for work). It was the last attachment to Big Tech I had left, and I can now say I don’t use anything from any company who’s CEO was at the inauguration or has since bent the knee. Feels great.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The USA prided itself on a nation of immigrant, heck even the Statue of Liberty says it. When did immigrants (US citizens from the old world) become anti immigrant and why?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.”

  Lyndon B. Johnson

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Did a teenager actually just die from eating raw noodles?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Huh. Never seen that. Learn something new every day!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Did a teenager actually just die from eating raw noodles?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Wait, they make 3l?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Did a teenager actually just die from eating raw noodles?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They make 4l bottles?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Actors that have been the least believable scientist castings, I’ll start.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  He didn’t just “study” he has a Master’s Degree in Chemical Engineering and received a Fulbright Scholoarship at MIT. Pretty spot-on casting honestly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who's the most ridiculed POTUS of history?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  To be fair, I’ve read that the Texas proverb bit was him cutting himself off mid sentence to prevent a sound bite of him saying “shame on me”. I have no idea of the veracity of the claim but it’s interesting if true.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Belkin is killing off parts of the Wemo Line⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you have a Pixel you can install Graphene OS

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's up with the sudden increase in AI slop?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah most comments sections are cesspools that only feed the negative wolf inside us. It’s interesting that now that I’ve cut out most comment sections, I realize how absolutely tiring it is being a part of them, or just reading them.

  Lemmy is pretty good overall, but I really am starting to love just a basic RSS feed. Looks like what I’m used to (Lemmy/Reddit) but only links to articles, no comments at all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's up with the sudden increase in AI slop?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This brings up an excellent point about addiction. A quick longer than I’d planned anecdote: over the last few years I’ve nearly completely dumped all social media (and big tech in general). Facebook, Insta, Twitter, all gone. The only social for the last few years I’ve had left was Reddit, and I dumped that a couple months ago (all social media is toxic, I learned).

  I swapped Reddit for Lemmy a few months ago and noticed a huge difference, not just the fewer toxic people, but in the lack of posts overall by comparison. I found myself scrolling through the same Lemmy posts throughout the day, my brain trying to repeat the cycle from Reddit, but stayed strong and didn’t go back to Reddit haha.

  Anyway, there’s still toxicity on Lemmy, and I realized how much it affects me without the cloud of all the other socials bogging it down. Not a lot, but enough. So I made a decision and went back to my old nerd days. I didn’t want to miss out on legit articles I was interested in from social media so I set up an rss reader. I started checking out Lemmy in the morning, and my rss throughout the day, which doesn’t update often.

  What I found at first was I was re-checking lemmy, re-loading rss, and thinking about what else I can put on my phone to scratch that itch. I was (am) still addicted to the dopamine hit of forever-feeds of useless garbage. So instead, I picked up a book. It’s been a long time, and it’s a slow adjustment, but wow is it ever so much better. Aside from some small interaction on Lemmy in the morning like this, I don’t see comments anymore, I read the info I’m interested in reading and make my own judgments without comments trying to sway me, and use my former doom-scrolling time to read a book.

  To sum up, you’re absolutely right. Addiction is a bitch and the average person doesn’t even realize they’re addicted.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft is is bed with Google now, in a worse, more OS-integrated way than Mozilla was. This timeline sucks.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s exactly what I’m typing this on.