What is the best / most ethical #mp3player still in production?
What is the best mp3 player of all time, including models no longer produced? If you allow for modifications / upgrades, like replacing the hard drive with a flash drive, does that change the answer? To be clear, I care most about the user experience today, not how much fun it was like 20 years ago.
I already ordered a Tangara, but they aren't shipping yet, and @Maggie's Sansa Clip died so she's looking for an mp3 player now.
Sadly I had completely forgotten about them, and when I opened the box, their batteries were 100% dead and wouldn't hold a charge. This is why we need easily repairable open hardware!
We've finally cleared our main garden of all our inherited plants, except for the yucca. Assuming this is common yucca / Yucca filamentosa, it is native to just south of here, like Virginia, so I think of it as helping the plant move north ahead of global heating. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yucca_filamentosa
Also, I'm told that previous owners have tried to kill this plant multiple times and failed dramatically (it looks very healthy). I try not to pick fights I expect to lose.
The next day after clearing the garden, we were able to sketch out the garden path and put a few plants in the ground in the morning before the rain arrived.
The goal is a native plant pollinator-friendly permaculture food forest, with the emphasis on supporting local wildlife before feeding ourselves. So far we have planted two highbush blueberries, a dwarf black chokeberry, and a Viburnum dentatum / arrowwood. (I think the arrowwood may also produce edible berries, I hope to learn more.)
@nancywisser These are straight species local ecotype blueberries, the guy who sold them to me said he did nothing to his soil and they grow fine. I do wonder if the soil is acidic enough for blueberries to be happy, but the yucca apparently prefers acidic soil so its health indicates the soil couldn't be too basic.
I mixed some compost into the soil in the hole when planting them, and put compost on top. Someone left a Christmas tree on the street, might add the needles hoping they're acidic.
@mcneely As local as possible really, depends on the circumstances. Ecoregions don't really line up with state lines, so something regionally appropriate might come from a few states away, while a plant adapted to a different environment in the same state might not be as good.
I got my plants from Good Host Plants, which goes to great pains to get plants appropriate for Philly. They are located in my neighborhood, so plants that grow well for them should work for me. https://www.goodhostplants.com/
@acm_redfox Birds mostly, our neighborhood has lots of birds passing through on their way to and from the woods, but I also hope to attract snakes and other random critters
@liaizon I've been very annoyed because the Transportr website has a map on it that claims Philadelphia is supported. I repeatedly go through a loop where I download it excitedly to check, open the app and find no support for Philly, delete it in disgust, forget this ever happened, repeat.
That said, I also would love FOSS public transit directions on the Web.
From a quick search, a few people (including Randall himself) put up VK Couples Testing sites after the comic, but they don't load anymore. Thinking we need to bring this idea back.
What’s so bad about a road?
Roads are forest killers.
"A road means access. Once roads are bulldozed into rainforests, illegal loggers, miners, poachers and landgrabbers arrive. Once they get access, they can destroy forests, harm native ecosystems and even drive out or kill indigenous peoples. This looting of the natural world robs cash-strapped nations of valuable natural resources."
@Bellingen "these roads can be actively encouraged by aggressive infrastructure-expansion schemes — most notably China’s Belt and Road Initiative, now active in more than 150 nations."
I never considered the full implications of China's Belt and Road Initiative, but it's clearly going to cause a lot of harm, including non-obvious effects like this logging. I shouldn't be surprised that roads are harmful, but I guess they're a harm that keeps on harming.
@gnomon@drdrang All of those other people would of course deal karmic justice with brutal efficiency, but I voted Taylor Swift because she's a lot like ScarJo. If sama were smart enough to learn lessons, he would learn a lesson and not do the same things to Taylor Swift, but I bet he thinks he's above learning lessons, and it's funnier if he proves he's a fucking idiot yet again.
Somehow getting on the bad side of an octopus woman is more understandable, who would see that coming?
@zorn Yeah, I started thinking about leaving Spotify and reactivating my local music collection when my favorite Dashboard Confessional albums vanished for a while. https://jawns.club/@skyfaller/101398977465333751
My last straw was when Neil Young and Joni Mitchell pulled their music to protest Spotify funding Joe Rogan (an action I supported, but also Joni Mitchell is one of my favorite musicians).
I'm using Syncthing to maintain my music collection across multiple computers at the moment, redundancy seems good.
@jimshreds@zorn Did any of the bootlegs make it on to the Internet Archive? I understand they have a lot of bootlegs of e.g. The Grateful Dead, although I've never really explored them because live recordings usually aren't my thing.
@thecorefiles Hahaha, funny given my recent post about The Bourse. How is business / foot traffic there? Are there other vendors open? Or is it still kind of dead?
@mwl Maybe having the confidence you can handle violence if it happens may make you less scared, and therefore both more effective at delicate de-escalation tactics and at violence if de-escalation fails?