It’s at least something to explain what the title’s referencing. Acknowledging that smaller audiences are often preferred doesn’t really seem at odds with that. It just points to A and B having higher priority than C, right?

But people should just read the article, it’s pretty quick and has more context than the quote.

Key quote for the curious:

They [the paper he’s discussing] conclude that there’s a community-member’s “trilemma”: a set of three priorities that can never be fully satisfied by any group. The trilemma consists of users’ need to find:

a) A community of like-minded people;

b) Useful information; and

c) The largest possible audience.

The thing that puts the “lemma” in this “trilemma” is that any given group can only satisfy two of these three needs. It’s hard to establish the kinds of intimate, high-trust bonds with the members of a giant, high-traffic group, but your small, chummy circle of pals might not be big enough to include people who have the information you’re seeking.

When I was very young my mom was making bread with beer and I begged her to let me try it. Finally she relented that I could have a sip. I took one smell of the can and never had really had interest in trying again.

Thought when it became legal for me, but figured I would either waste 5 bucks if I hate it or become an alchoholic if I don’t. Don’t trust myself enough to assume I’d always stay moderate with stuff like that.

Now that I’m older, I’ve seen plenty of friends get deep into it then struggle through getting sober. Feel like I made good decisions.

It’s gotta be The Cool S.

Hopefully this initiative sticks, sounds like my next phone (eventually) might just be Motorola/Graphene.

And thanks for being on Lemmy! Try to keep in mind that all the less-active-than-you’d-hope communities need your help. Engage where you can to support the community building effort, it makes a difference here.

This thread (and community) is kinda the starter pack: https://threadiverse.link/lemmy.ca/post/40160493

Other than that, search for your interests and sift through /all a little, you should be able to build up your subs pretty quick.

Kdenlive - Worked the best for me, but has the worst name.

Shotcut - Seems feature rich and reasonably good

Openshot - Seemed more approachable, a little less performant.

Blender - I’ve heard it includes a good video editor in there somewhere, tho I’ve never used that.

Olive - I think was another Foss video editor? But it might be discontinued. Never tried it either.

Not a course, but consider joining the community over at !languagelearning@sopuli.xyz, always nice to see more folks learning.

Nice. Yeah, it’s a fun topic, thanks for starting it!

JustinGuitar is great for sure. It’s a little frustrating that he doesn’t put tabs in the videos - sometimes that would save a lot of time. But you can get those too if you sub I guess. The song lesson library there is also super helpful.

The question was a fun excuse to think about some old tutorials I’ve seen, and dig through the bookmarks. Any subject is a pretty broad ask tho. Out of curiosity, why do you ask? Are you just thinking about learning something new for the fun ot it?

Linux - LinuxJourney

Linux/system administration - Sad Severs

Programming - LearnXinYminutes

Programming - Lazy Foo’s SDL/C++ tutorials (Not sure how practical it would be to learn either of these anymore, but I enjoyed it when I went through)

Vim - vimtutor built in tutorial

Vim - Vim Adventures game to learn Vim’s keys

Godot - Heartbeast’s tutorials

CSS - Grid Garden

Web Design - Web Design in 4 minutes tutorial

Web Design - Visual design rules you can follow almost every time

SQL - SQLBolt

Guitar - JustinGuitar’s Beginner’s course (and beyond)

Music theory/guitar - courses from Signals music (many are pay what you want, he also has plenty of good info in his freely available Youtube videos)

Chess - ChessNetwork’s beginner to master playlist

Blender - The Donut Tutorial

Pixel Art - Gas 13’s tutorial

Pixel Art - Derek Yu’s tutorial

2D Art - Drawabox

Japanese - Sakubi’s grammar guide

Japanese - Bunpro’s grammar references

Japanese - Tae Kim’s guide

Smash Melee - melee.cookbook.gg

Melee - Advanced How to Play parts 1, 2, and 3 (outdated, but decent foundational stuff)

Melee - SSBM Tutorials channel

Funny to see this, I was just going through some old playlists today and listened to some Extol. Not one I think about often, but a fun band!

Yeah, there are some I still follow. Love to see that they’re still kicking, here and there.

NodeBB seems like a really cool thing. Forums never should have been abandoned!

The Ink Spots are an interesting case. They’re a vocal group from the 30s. Not only did that group Theseus itself and then dissolve by the 50s, but afterward there were legal disputes. A bunch of the past members claimed rights to the name. Courts ultimately said ‘nobody owns the name, you can all use it’. So anybody with any connection was going around performing as The Ink Spots, and those groups were also changing members. Over the decades there were probably multiple fully Theseus’d versions of the group going at the same time.

Andrew Hickey has a good podcast episode on it that you can listen to/read. https://500songs.com/podcast/the-ink-spots-thats-when-your-heartaches-begin/

Here’s a couple I’ve seen around, tho I haven’t dived too deep:

• OpenGameArt (Usually kind of a mixed bag on quality, but the site has good concept and intentions)
• https://musopen.org/ (public domain, classical stuff, also a bunch of sheet music if you want to do things the hard way)
• https://degitx.com/ (an individual that produces rock/metal/chiptune kinda stuff and puts it out under CC licenses)
• https://gravitysound.studio/ (Had it bookmarked, but it seems the free page is gone or at least moved. Looks pricey, and terms don’t seem clear)

Sad to me a lot of times means stuff about time passing and getting older or things changing, so most of these are along that line. Some of the ones I think of first:

Time, Fat Old Sun, and High Hopes by Pink Floyd

In My Life by The Beatles (also Ozzy)

Hurt by Johnny Cash (orginally NiN)

Preaching the End of the World by Chris Cornell

There Was a Light Here by Demon Hunter

Thanks!

But yeah, it is rough. No wonder they keep it a secret, lol.

I have occasionally. I’ve got Google Play on my phone and I used to use a small tablet to do some reading.

Ultimately I find much better success rates reading a paper book. Having a single purpose item laying around helps motivate me, and the low-tech approach reduces distraction.