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Cake day: June 26th, 2023

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  • I think that’s part of why he is being so careful with language, it’s in line with him coming out to say homosexuality is not a crime earlier this year.

    Hopefully this is just paving the way for further change but when the Church holds a lot of power in countries where lgbtq+ people are outlawed and heavily oppressed I can see why he’s slowly introducing ideas like it’s not against the law and being permissible to baptise.

    I’m no fan of the RCC but if the pope quickly does a full 180 on these issues the church will likely fracture and the countries where things are pretty extreme will break away and, double down on the persecution and allow it to become an identity marker.






  • I’m using a 2011 imac & 2010 macbook pro as my main devices. I have an rpi4 as a little media center & personal server.

    2160p x265 looks great on the pi, 2160p x264 is grim. Encoding 2160p on any of my systems is pain.

    Ongoing it would be nice to be able to re-encode the occasional 2160p video faster than a tenth of real time or feeling like I’m overly stressing very old hardware.

    Think I may keep an eye out for a 2nd hand nuc, I like small & quiet and I didn’t realize until posting this thread that cpu encoding is preferred to gpu. A nuc would also be nice for some better retro game action than the pi4.









  • Found a forum post that explains how to add and follow other libraries, which is nice. The libraries I’d been trying to follow don’t seem to have public share links displayed, the ones in the example work.

    Appreciating the sharing side of FunkWhale. There’s a lot of potential and some good sounding pods out there. It has the basics. It works as a personal or social music pod, pods can interact, subsonic & maybe other activity pub stuff too. Most importantly it has content, lots of it.

    Currently listening to another pod directly from my home pod for the first time, which is nice.


  • Been looking at it a little more over the past month or two.

    There’s a lot of interesting music out there and nice to be able to wander around people’s music collections.

    I’m not sure on how one should navigate Funkwhale land. I have an account on a pod but don’t know how I’m supposed to follow or interact with other pods I have bookmarked, it seems to only mention channels which are a bit useless.

    Perhaps I have just misunderstood Funkwhale but it seems like it could be an amazing federated community for music. As it is I think I need an account for each pod or to just use listen not logged in. It seems more like a replacement for jellyfin/navidrome and the like with some fediverse functionality as opposed to a world on federated instances sharing and collaborating.