I was using radio paradise a couple of years ago, where I discovered a lot of new musics and it was great. But also I wanted to listen to some of my favorite songs (things I listened when I was a teenager and some more commercials titles) and I went to a streaming service. Sometimes I regret radio paradise and the discovering of new things. But also, I like how streaming services allow me to listen to old (and new) things more "commercial".
Radio Paradise [0] is great. What about occasionally listening to it?
I usually listen to my local playlist in my day to day life and Radio Paradise is not exactly to my taste, but I occasionally like it as background music when receiving people. It's less random than my playlist, and I trust it to play good music. And if the music is bad, it's the radio's fault :-)
You could also rip it and listen to it, skipping songs you don't like. That's allowed after their FAQ if you don't split by songs, and I'm no one to advise you do split.
For more "commercial" music (Top 40 stuff), since you mentioned it: I used to listen to Fréquence 3 [1] all day. French webradio, but it's just music, and ad free. But as top 40 turned more R&B, I became less interested (it's not a criticism, I just don't enjoy it). Maybe it's just a period, I haven't checked what it's like currently. But I have the same issue as you, I have not updated my playlist as often as I would like since then.
There's also La Grosse Radio [2] which is nice. Also ad free and just music, mostly, IIRC.
[0] https://www.radioparadise.com/ (putting the link for people who don't know it, worth trying! It's ad free, supported by donations. It's a US radio but you don't need to be American to like it)
Well you can look at the money but environmentally it's a disaster. Closing nuclear power plant was a mistake, reopening coal power plant is another. But I guess what's important is the economy...
If you close a nuclear plant while a non-zero number of fossil fuel plants are still online, you don't care about emissions as much as you claim, regardless of what you replace them with.
Also, Nvidia gpu drivers are the worst (I was on Manjaro back then) to seeif I could get rid of Windows for gaming purposes. I used Linux for games for about 6 months and had to quit and get back to Windows.
Proton is a game-changer, but Nvidia drivers remain the most unstable thing on Arch. Find a version that works well with your card, and avoid upgrading it, if at all possible. It's performant, but I have games that crash once every few hours, but only specifically on certain machines.
This is true everywhere. I have some very expensive Lambda Labs GPU blades, and even their Lambda-stacked Ubuntu upgrades break CUDA stuff occasionally. I think Nvidia's driver ecosystem is held together with chewing gum and duct tape.
I use NVidia on my single Windows gaming system, but every Linux desktop system around here has AMD. I actually end up playing just about any game that plays on Linux on one of my Linux machines, and only boot the Windows system when wanting to play an exclusive title or occasionally just to do OS updates to be ready to play later. I've been using almost exclusively ATI/AMD GPUs since the Mach32 days, but for Windows gaming systems sometimes NVidia has the performance crown for months or years at a time with reasonable stability.
My fastest laptop is an oddball. It uses an AMD mobile processor with integrated graphics and an NVidia discrete GPU. Windows 10 handles that fine. Several Linux distros didn't install correctly at the time I bought it, but Ubuntu did. I'd have been okay with it installing to only support the integrated GPU, but it supports both and has a menu option for every app to launch it on the dedicated GPU. So far the only problem I've had with that whole laptop is a Windows update breaking the bootloader and making Linux temporarily inaccessible.
Been on Manjaro+NVidia for a few years now. Gaming works very well, especially for recent games (2017+). Most "Windows only" games play perfectly. Older games are hit or miss, but misses are pretty rare.
I personally have a qnap Nas because I wanted something cheap. I did not enabled all the fonction and I will definetly not enable all the "internet functions".
I agree with you with the first point, giving money to companies isn't a good idea but I think it's also a bad idea to give it to "the people". I think it would be better to change. My opinion is most people are going to buy thing they don't need. Instead we could focus on better ideas for the future.... I don't know maybe I'm too utopist...
In the meantime, what do you propose people do who have been displaced from their jobs? Or who are unable to work due to social distancing and stay at home orders? Sure, some billers have stated “we will not disconnect/cancel due to nonpayment” but what answer do you have for those people?
This corporate welfare is garbage, and they’re then being stingy with what they’re giving to individuals? Fuck the politicians.
"Bad idea" vs. "Good idea" seems too restrictive to me. I think there are pros and cons to it and the sum total of those pros and cons may be different depending on your circumstances, finances, and personal beliefs. There are some people who need economic relief now and not a moment later. Giving money to 'the people' can help with this but also carries long term consequences like inflation of the currency. Not to mention, the range of people getting money may be too broad - for example, I'll be receiving a check but I don't think I need it at all. Creating a more restrictive or specific criteria for the delivery of this relief though would likely become somewhat of a bureaucratic nightmare and would inevitably slow things down. We've had similar stimulus packages in the past and whether they were effective in their goals is up for debate.
> My opinion is most people are going to buy thing they don't need.
That's... kind of a large part of the point as far as I understand. It doesn't matter where the money gets spent (rent, necessities, luxuries, hobbies, whatever) - the important thing is to keep the economy moving. When large portions of the economy are disrupted all at once (jobs lost, businesses failed) there's the potential for a domino effect.
I recently moved to Linux as a primary (and only os). I was a windows user because of games and I was so fed up with automatic updates, privacy concerns and so on that I decided to fully go to Linux. I searched a lot over internet before choosing a distrib (I'm not pro Deb or rhel or else) so I ended up with Manjaro (KDE version). And it such a delight fully customizable. Steam installed with some of my games working without doing anything "complicated", I was impressed! And then I installed lutris for all non native games. I expected much much troubles but in fact, it was easy. I installed Epic games store first and oxenfree just to test. It runs smoothly! I also installed Control (great game) in standalone still with lutris. I finished the games with only two or three crashes.
So yes gaming on Linux is not ideal it might not be with the best performances also but it was much much easier than I though before doing the big step from windows to Linux. I'll follow any new improvements for gaming on Linux and I hope in the future that every store and game will be accessible natively on Linux. And that more and more user have the choice of the os they want!
