MP3s compress pretty well, depending on the bitrate you rip your CDs at. Your Pixel should be able to easily store upwards of 300 hours of audio without much issue.

OP specified that they do not have a PC. They have a Pixel phone and an iPad. I’m not sure if there are any Android or iOS apps that support connecting to a CD drive to rip audio files.

https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/25/18229714/cognizant-facebook-content-moderator-interviews-trauma-working-conditions-arizona

It’s a long read, but very much worth it. It goes into detail about the types of material these people have to spend all day watching and reviewing, and talks in length about some of the unhealthy coping mechanisms these teams develop for themselves. Lots of drug use, sex in the office, and suicidal ideation.

While the article focuses mainly on Facebook moderators, I used to share an office with YouTube’s content moderation team around the time this article came out, and a lot of the article rings true for YouTube, as well. I imagine it’s similar across all the big platforms.

Thank you for your service. o7

You can’t always trust that the mods will - or even can - take any action, though. Especially due to the federated nature of things.

For instance, you and I are both commenting from different instances, on a post made on a third instance, by a user from a fourth instance. Who has power over who in this situation? Between you, me, and OP, none of us “belong” to the instance this thread is in. Who are the three of us supposed to be trusting to keep this place clean of that sort of content?

One could argue that that’s just the inherent risk you take in using federated platforms, but I don’t think that’s too widely understood among the user base at large just yet. A simple user-maintained scoring system, even as rudimentary as Lemmy’s implementation currently is, does a lot of heavy lifting in regards to filtering the good content from the bad.

For what it’s worth, the scores are rarely accurate, anyway, as not all instances sync scores with 100% accuracy, if they even sync them at all. Some instances don’t allow or even calculate downvotes. Your score can vary wildly from instance to instance.

It’s actually kinda funny to open up your comments in multiple instances to see what your scores are across communities. I’ve noticed that I’ll get heavily downvoted on some instances, but will see highly positive scores on the same comment from my “home” instance.

I’d have to say no. That allows for hate speech, harassment, and general trolling to hold equal footing with otherwise civil conversation.

I had a Ford Taurus that I swore by for several years.

Well, swore at, mostly.

You could watch The Terminal 9 times back to back, and have just enough time left to be disappointed by some overpriced meal at the Wolfgang Puck.

How is that any different from organic posts without comments, though?

More and more developers seem to assume everyone else can afford what they consider to be cheap, and feel entitled to gobble up all the resources on other people’s systems as if they aren’t needed for anything else.

It’s adding insult to injury when most of these games are now also launching at $70-80 these days, too.

If you’re paying $20/TB, you’re probably getting ripped off with some counterfeit garbage from a no-name Chinese Amazon seller that’s not even close to the advertised capacity. I wouldn’t put anything on one of those drives that I have any intention of keeping for longer than a week at that price.

I’ve got some bad news for you: that’s the entire internet. Maybe if you were familiar with more than just Reddit, you’d know that. 🤷‍♂️

I only go to YouTube when someone links to a video I’m interested in

I wonder if this is part of the discrepancy, as I use YouTube pretty much all day long. I work from home and pretty much always put some YouTube videos on my TV while I’m working. Maybe YT just has a more robust dataset for my account to filter recommendations better.

“Woah!!! Check out what happens when I stick a synth cable into my butt!!!” And it’s not because I ever watch videos like that

You don’t gotta hide it. We’re all friends here. ;)

I actually like the recommendations. I usually only get content that’s relevant to my interests, and I’m always finding new channels that are interesting and worth my sub.

Sometimes I wonder what I’m doing differently from everybody else, because I never see much of the spammy/irrelevant content everyone else seems to be getting. Or maybe I’m just easy to please.

I’d be okay with that. All the excitement today gives me anxiety.

Telegram is awful with spam. I’m constantly getting sent links to Telegram groups for Russian porn models who all pretend to be underage and spamming their Boosty links. I feel like it’s probably part of some scam to bait people into buying something illegal and then blackmail them later. I don’t keep it installed anymore because I don’t need that sort of incriminating shit on my devices.

I’d delete my account, but I have a couple people who only use Telegram, but I’m getting close to cutting them off over it unless they switch to something else. I’ve reported this to Telegram numerous times, but these accounts keep popping up and keep managing to reach me.

It’s always the 'phobes that have the biggest hard-ons for free speech. I wonder why that is.

Soooo… that’s a “no”, I take it?

“Ah finally, I’m all alone,” I said to myself as I sat in my bedroom at midnight.

“No your not.” said Knife Guy.