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noun: epigone; plural noun: epigones; plural noun: epigoni

a less distinguished follower or imitator of someone, especially an artist or philosopher.

Flag flown upside down as sign of distress outside of US State Department building today in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

international

How does that work for a ship from a country like Cuba?

Do they hang it backward? I.e. With the red arrow pointing toward the pole?

What about Japan?

Interesting... From site that must not be named:

However back then if the ship had a symmetrical flag they would tie a knot in the flag when flying it.

For those of you good at tech, what is up with this Microsoft Store error? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Not OP, but mostly inertia. I have a workflow. I have the programs I need to do what I want. Most of it is stuff I've had in place for years. Can I do those things on Linux? Probably, but I'd have to look into it.

That being said, my laptop doesn't officially support Windows 11, so the Windows 10 EoL in October will probably be the "external force" I need to format my drive and switch. Well done, Microsoft.

50 states, 50 capitals in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

They can't suppress everyone flooding the system with the same message.

OK, but what message? I've seen a few announcements saying that there will be a protest, but the best "message" I've seen is "Say No To... *gestures broadly*".

That's not exactly a cohesive protest.

Edit: ok, this post has more information and plenty of discussion. Maybe I'm just subscribed to the wrong communities, but it seems like every post was just some variation of this image and no further information.

What is this? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

Soo... How does one get rid of it? I'm using the android app, though I recently switched to using the internal browser. Google play says all of my apps are up to date, so I'm not sure what changes I could make to update the PWA.

Edit: Well, I got rid of it by switching the "Open Links In" setting(Settings > General > Other) back to "Default Browser" and then restarting the app. After that, the red icon is gone. I switched the setting back to "In app" and restarted again. The red icon is still gone.

I'm not sure if just killing and relaunching the app, or toggling the option was the solution, but it's gone now.

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I'd Like to Buy a Vowel, Ryan (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I gave my handyman a todo list, but he only did items 1, 3 and 5. in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Well, you can cross those off and call it even.

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"Popular" Playlists (lemm.ee)

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Does anyone have any thoughts or suggestions on how to create a playlist of songs from my library that have been released as "singles" or "Top 40s" across a time period?

Let's say I wanted to throw a 90s party, and I wanted to create a playlist from my library using only songs that people are likely to know. I recognize that's totally subjective, so maybe that's why I'm struggling to find what I want. I can create a playlist based on album release date, which gets me a bit of the way there, but the playlist is going to include a lot of "deep cut" tracks and whole albums that few people know. I'd rather not spend too long curating the list. I was hoping for a way to just find popular tracks, and it seems like basing it on "chart toppers" would be a good place to start. Ideally, it would be genre-independent, but limited to songs that got decent radio play, so Backstreet Boys to Korn to Shania Twain are fine. Yo Yo Ma maybe not so much.

It doesn't seem like Plex has information available in the filters to achieve that. It does have "Popularity" as an additional column header if I list my music by "Tracks", so I guess I could sort by that and limit the results to some value. It feels a little clunky, though, and I'm not sure where it's getting that information.

I know that Library Radio is a thing, but I can't seem to make it do what I want. I only have 4 stations on the web interface: "Library Radio", "Deep Cuts Radio", "Time Travel Radio", and "Random Album Radio". Clicking on them just starts playing music from a wide selection that I have no control over. I know that "Decade Radio" exists, but it doesn't seem to be giving me what I want, either. It frequently pulls instrumental tracks from movie soundtracks. I have "Smart Shuffle" enabled on my server. I'm not sure if that's helping or hurting my experience (I've seen some very mixed reviews on that feature). I also can't find "Decade Radio" on the web interface; it seems like Decade Radio is only available on Plexamp.

I'd rather just create a playlist. That way it would be available everywhere, and I could tailor it a little bit, if needed.

So, yeah... any tips? It seems like the "filter by decade, sort by popularity, and limit by count" might be my best option right now.