Just as a fun side note, in one collection of her short stories (the wind's twelve quarters), she has a story about the beginnings the Odonians. In her author notes regarding that short story she says:
this story is about one of the ones who walked away from Omelas
I think reading both short stories back to back helped me contextualize better what Omelas means to me and, possibly, to her.
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Not money, but time. In my experience, finding a local mutual aid group or place is a great place to start doing meaningful work and also a great way to meet awesome people.
The amount of high quality tools that "just" ship with KDE is bonkers. I hope they are getting enough donations :)
And still not enough to curb the amount of trash being produced, shipped around the world and then trashed locally when it doesn't match the expectations of the buyer / rips after putting it on.
The popularity of this tool is bonkers. Even conferences sometimes "create a discord".
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A bit off-topic, sorry, but the difference between the answers to similar questions in this community (Lemmy) and others is quite staggering. Here we have people talking openly about non monogamous approaches in healthy and mature ways. Love it!
Thanks for the pic, added to the collage. We need to keep sharing this shit
I wish that more people had attended those classes and learned the lesson
This sometimes also helps when I need a result from reddit: https://github.com/corenting/eddrit
I tried it on a sample of the library and it worked perfectly, I barely had to make any changes.
Thank you kindly folks!

Music library manager recommendation
Hey folks!
I have a music library that has grown over time that I stream using navidrome. The issue is, some of the files have little to no metadata, I have duplicates of the same album, some artist names are misspelled, etc. An it is large enough that doing this completely manually would take a while.
I'm assuming (hoping) that I am not alone in this.
Does anyone have a recommendation of a tool (either standalone or part of a self-hostable media app) to basically assist in cleaning this up? It doesn't need to automate a lot of the process, but, for instance, querying metadata from an online source based on the file name / artist name, detecting misspelled artist names would already be interesting. Similar to Calibre's "retrieve metadata" for ebooks.
Can someone eli5 why that is?
I don't understand. Why do you sterilize acetone?
What a trajectory, failing upwards at each step.
Citations needed has three or two episodes that may be interesting to hear, if you don't mind it being in podcast format.
And you would probably get high on ketamine from consuming it as well.
That is bananas! The implementation details are worth a read. Plus, all the links to other bananas projects are great.
I really wanted to try Judgement from its description, but I have a hard time getting through Yakuza games because although they're great, they are a bit too long for me.
Is Judgment / Lost Judgment as big as a "regular" Yakuza?
Looks great! Have you had it for long? How's the battery situation?
You laid it all out pretty nicely, thanks!
As per your tip I'm gonna check out a couple of restaurant supply shops that I found (which was not as easy as I thought). But I also would not mind scales that I could just power by plugging them in, so I'll check it out as well!
ooh, nice idea, on it. thanks!

Kitchen scales recommendations
cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/18128718
My current digital kitchen scales (Brabantia) go through batteries faster than I would like. I use rechargeable batteries, but still.
I was looking for long-lasting mechanical kitchen scales or at least one of those kinetic energy scales (turn the knob to power it) to use in the kitchen. Any model that can measure in the ~1g to 5kg range with a tare function is more than enough.
Does anyone have any recommendations or experience with these types of scales (knob or mechanical)? E.g., does the knob thing break easily?

Kitchen scales recommendations
My current digital kitchen scales (Brabantia) go through batteries faster than I would like. I use rechargeable batteries, but still.
I was looking for long-lasting mechanical kitchen scales or at least one of those kinetic energy scales (turn the knob to power it) to use in the kitchen. Any model that can measure in the ~1g to 5kg range with a tare function is more than enough.
Does anyone have any recommendations or experience with these types of scales (knob or mechanical)? E.g., does the knob thing break easily?