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New comment by doublepg23 in "I replaced Spotify with a homemade FM radio station"

doublepg23 — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 16:45:20 +0000

I never experienced but I've heard universities used to have the best curated radio stations.

New comment by doublepg23 in "I replaced Spotify with a homemade FM radio station"

doublepg23 — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 16:44:14 +0000

> There's also many independent internet radio stations or music podcasts these days which can be launched for little money, don't require a broadcasting license and can be listened to from any place in the world.

Indeed - radioparadise.com is a quite nice Internet Radio

New comment by doublepg23 in "What is the purpose of the lost+found folder in Linux and Unix? (2014)"

doublepg23 — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 20:13:16 +0000

Thank you for your service!

New comment by doublepg23 in "Preparing for KDE Plasma's Last X11-Supported Release"

doublepg23 — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:42:46 +0000

I was under the impression that the Steam Deck runs under KDE Wayland? I wasn't aware of it having video game support challenges due to Wayland.

New comment by doublepg23 in "Preparing for KDE Plasma's Last X11-Supported Release"

doublepg23 — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:36:38 +0000

> a much better strategy is to first make the feature unavailable by normal means

They started doing that in early 2024 with the release of KDE 6.0 by enabling KDE Wayland by default. The Wayland-only change won't happen til 6.8 which will be an early 2027 release.

https://pointieststick.com/2023/11/10/this-week-in-kde-wayla...

> And only then, once we are confident that no massive unforeseen issue has surfaced, can the codebase be removed.

Yes, that's the current step they'll be at with 6.8.

New comment by doublepg23 in "EV Stupidity Checklist"

doublepg23 — Fri, 29 May 2026 22:31:18 +0000

I have a ‘25 Subaru Solterra (rebadged Toyota bZ4X) and it checks all these boxes (except it lacks a glovebox, though I believe this is remedied in the ‘26).

It’s a good car in the sense it’s good at car things, even some EV things - but dear Lord is Toyota bad at making software.

The software is consistently unreliable, unstable, and feature incomplete- which they still have the gall to charge for.

New comment by doublepg23 in "Can we have the day off?"

doublepg23 — Thu, 28 May 2026 03:17:36 +0000

Quoting a tweet:

“People on twitter will really be like ‘you believe in voting? that pales in effectiveness to my strategy, firebombing a Walmart’ and then not firebomb a Walmart”

New comment by doublepg23 in "Last.fm is now independent"

doublepg23 — Wed, 27 May 2026 18:14:31 +0000

QuietScrob on iOS/iPadOS works pretty well - it seems any breakage is due to Apple silently changing APIs more than anything on the dev's end.

On Desktop (macOS) I use the official Last.FM app - however it's still a Rosetta 2 app which will be sunset in the fall :(

New comment by doublepg23 in "OpenBSD 7.9"

doublepg23 — Wed, 20 May 2026 21:07:37 +0000

Going off of "data" from r/uptimeporn I can only conclude that Cisco makes the most stable software of all time.

New comment by doublepg23 in "Tesla Wall Connector bootloader bypasses the firmware downgrade ratchet"

doublepg23 — Fri, 15 May 2026 19:02:59 +0000

A NACS to CCS (L3) adapter won’t work with L2 chargers, you’ll need a NACS to J1772 adapter.

This is the one I use https://ev-lectron.com/products/lectron-tesla-to-j1772-adapt...

New comment by doublepg23 in "Tesla Wall Connector bootloader bypasses the firmware downgrade ratchet"

doublepg23 — Fri, 15 May 2026 18:55:12 +0000

I did a lot of research on home charging at r/evcharging and the consensus always favored hardwiring your EVSE if possible.

New comment by doublepg23 in "Germany Forces Lexus to Remotely Kill Car Heating in Dead of Winter"

doublepg23 — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 05:46:58 +0000

With the cold snap in the eastern US I'm quickly learning EVs range and charging short comings in below freezing weather.

New comment by doublepg23 in "2002: Last.fm and Audioscrobbler Herald the Social Web"

doublepg23 — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 04:20:03 +0000

They do? It's pretty limited but if you tap your profile photo at the bottom of Music and then tap your profile photo in the menu again it'll bring you to a "Apple Music profile" of sorts you can follow people with.

New comment by doublepg23 in "2002: Last.fm and Audioscrobbler Herald the Social Web"

doublepg23 — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 04:13:11 +0000

Orpheus and Redacted existed but it's kind of hard to beat the convenience of streaming for the low price in 2025.

Granted you can set up automated *arr systems with PLEXAMP to get a pretty seamless "personal Spotify" setup IME getting true usefulness out of trackers of What's quality always required spending real money - to obtain rare records/CDs on marketplaces - or at least large amounts of time if you went the "rent CDs from the library" route. I personally haven't ran into much RYM releases lacking on Apple Music and what is lacking I can find on Bandcamp or YouTube.