(Stretching the limits of what's on-topic) [Nuxx Vomica](https://musicbrainz.org/artist/b30b2c84-7199-4f55-9bbb-25d403a32cec) - May 25 Berlin @ Urban Spree - May 26 Warsaw @ Hydrozagadka - May 28 Budapest @ Turbina - May 29 Bratislava @ FUGA - May 30 Prague @ Bike Jesus - May 31 Mannheim @ Mayfield Festival - Jun 03 Strasbourg @ Le Grenze - Jun 04 Dijon @ La Vapeur - Jun 05 Clermont @ Ferrand La Cooperative De Mai - Jun 06 Bordeaux @ IBoat - Jun 07 Tours @ Aucard De Tours Festival
[Magic Sword](https://musicbrainz.org/artist/87c59ab5-5f5d-46f4-87e3-c604abb2bb67) - Thu, JUL 11 Bend, OR @Volcanic Theatre Pub - Fri, JUL 12 Seattle, WA @Madame Lou's - Sat, JUL 13 Bellingham, WA @Northwest Tune-Up 2024 - Sun, JUL 14 Portland, OR @Mississippi Studios - Wed, JUL 31 Omaha, NE @Slowdown - Fri, AUG 2 Madison, WI @Mad With Power Fest 2024 - Sun, AUG 4 St Paul, MN @Turf Club - Mon, AUG 5 Des Moines, IA @xBk Live - Tue, AUG 6 Lawrence, KS @Bottleneck - Wed, AUG 7 Wichita, KS @WAVE - Fri, AUG 9 Denver, CO @Meow Wolf Denver | Convergence Station - Sat, AUG 10 Salt Lake City, UT @The Urban Lounge
[Eva X](https://musicbrainz.org/artist/5abb2ab6-81a4-4265-8695-3fc5af3a4068) May 18 - Handlebar - Toronto, ON May 21 - TBC - Cincinnati, OH May 22 - Fallen Log - Chicago, IL May 23 - Small's - Detroit, MI May 24 - Cattivo - Pittsburgh, PA May 25 - Little Mutants - Lancaster, PA
[Balvanera](https://musicbrainz.org/artist/203ab044-7180-4198-9178-5946cd33dce1) MAY 11 @ Cruel World, Pasadena, CA MAY 13 @ Central Saloon, Seattle, WA MAY 15 @ Coffin Club, Portland, OR MAY 17 @ Sanctum, Chicago, IL MAY 18 @ Synthicide, Brooklyn, NY
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already underway
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The Mission is making some west-cost USA stops, with Nuovo Testamento. Then some Western Canada stops, *without* Nuovo Testamento.
DeGoogle Yourself
Volla Tablet is a Google-free Android tablet that also supports Ubuntu Touch
bsammon 5 months ago • 100%
Volla really needs to hire/assign some staff for their support forum The large pile of unanswered questions there does not inspire confidence in their product.
Maybe it's better in the German-language forums.
as found on https://www.songkick.com/artists/9808339-vision-video/calendar Apr 18 Mechanicsburg, PA @ Lovedraft's Brewing Co. Apr 19 Parsippany, NJ @ Dark Force Fest Apr 21 Pittsburgh, PA @ Cattivo Apr 23 Rochester, NY @ Photo City Music Hall Apr 24 Brattleboro, VT @ The Stone Church Apr 25 Cambridge, MA @ Sonia Apr 26 Lewiston, ME @ LA Arts Lewiston Apr 27 Montreal, QC @ Bar le Ritz PDB Apr 28 Toronto, ON @ Velvet Underground Apr 30 Cleveland, OH @ Beachland Ballroom May 1 Grand Rapids, MI @ The Pyramid Scheme May 2 Chicago, IL @ Subterranean May 3 St Louis, MO @ The Cracked Fox May 4 Dubuque, IA @ Fox Den Motel May 5 Milwaukee, WI @ Vivarium May 6 Minneapolis, MN @ Green Room May 7 Kansas City, MO @ recordBar May 8 Louisville, KY @ Art Sanctuary May 9 Hamtramck, MI @ Small's May 10 Baltimore, MD @ Metro Baltimore May 11 Hamden, CT @ Space Ballroom May 13 Richmond, VA @ Richmond Music Hall May 14 Durham, NC @ The Pinhook May 16 Charlotte, NC @ Snug Harbor May 17 Nashville, TN @ Cannery Hall May 18 Atlanta, GA @ The Masquerade - Hell May 29 New Orleans, LA @ House of Blues - New Orleans May 30 Houston, TX @ White Oak Music Hall - Upstairs May 31 Austin, TX @ Empire Control Room & Garage Jun 1 Fort Worth, TX @ Tulips Jun 2 San Antonio, TX @ Paper Tiger Jun 4 Albuquerque, NM @ Launchpad Jun 5 Tucson, AZ @ 191 Toole Jun 6 Mesa, AZ @ Nile Theater Jun 7 Anaheim, CA @ House of Blues - Anaheim Jun 8 Los Angeles (LA), CA @ The Echo Jun 13 San Diego, CA @ Music Box Jun 14 Las Vegas, NV @ Backstage Bar and Grill Jun 14 Las Vegas, NV @ Backstage Bar & Billiards Jun 15 San Francisco, CA @ Bottom of the Hill Jun 16 San Jose, CA @ The Ritz Jun 18 Fresno, CA @ Strummer's Jun 19 Sacramento, CA @ Harlow's Jun 20 Eugene, OR @ John Henry's Jun 21 Portland, OR @ Hawthorne Theater Lounge Jun 22 Seattle, WA @ El Corazon Jun 23 Vancouver, BC @ The Pearl Jun 25 Bellingham, WA @ The Shakedown Jun 26 Richland, WA @ Ray's Golden Lion Jun 27 Boise, ID @ Shrine Basement Jun 28 Salt Lake City, UT @ Kilby Court Jun 29 Denver, CO @ Reelworks Jun 30 Colorado Springs, CO @ Sunshine Studios Live Jul 2 Tulsa, OK @ The Vanguard Jul 3 Memphis, TN @ Growlers
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[Patriarchy](https://musicbrainz.org/artist/2b5cc091-3c4f-4ba3-881c-e01005b17832) Just discovered. Tour is already underway.
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Just discovered. Tour is already underway. [Dancing Plague](https://musicbrainz.org/artist/27a1f2ee-2e1e-47cb-9f34-68c9c50b01c7)
https://chokechain.bandcamp.com/ https://traceamountnyc.bandcamp.com/ 4/02 - PHILADELPHIA PA @ PHILAMOCA 4/03 - TORONTO ON @ BABY G 4/04 - TROY NY @ NO FUN 4/05 - BROOKLYN NY @ (NEW VENUE TBA) 4/06 - MONTREAL QC @ CABARET FOUFS 4/07 - PITTSBURGH PA @ SMILING MOOSE 4/08 - YPSILANTI MI @ ZIGGYS 4/10 - CHICAGO IL @ EMPTY BOTTLE 4/11 - CINCINNATI OH @ MOTR 4/12 - KNOXVILLE TN @ PILOT LIGHT 4/14 - ATLANTA GA @ THE EARL
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/13966888 > Interesting chip-metal artist I hadn't heard of before reading about this tour. Reminds me a bit of Rainbowdragoneyes. >
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Interesting chip-metal artist I hadn't heard of before reading about this tour. Reminds me a bit of Rainbowdragoneyes.
Just discovered -- already underway. March 17 2024 San Fransisco, CA @ Neck Of The Woods March 18 2024 Eugene, OR @ Wow Hall March 19 2024 Portland, OR @ Star Theater March 20 2024 Seattle, WA @ El Corazon March 22 2024 Idaho Falls, ID @ The Gem March 23 2024 Draper, UT @ Leatherheads March 24 2024 Denver, CO @ Kulture Music Hall March 26 2024 St Louis, MO @ Red Flag March 27 2024 Minneapolis, MN @ Varsity Theater March 29 2024 Madison, WI @ The Annex March 30 2024 Chicago, IL @ Distro Music Hall March 31 2024 Toronto, Canada @ Lee's Palace April 2 2024 Detroit, MI @ Magic Bag April 3 2024 Albany, NY @ Empire Underground April 4 2024 Montreal, Canada @ Foufounes Electiques April 5 2024 Providence, RI @ Fete Hall April 6 2024 Mechanicsburg, PA @ Lovedrafts April 7 2024 Philadelphia, PA @ Warehouse On Watts April 8 2024 New York, NY @ Brooklyn Made April 9 2024 Pittsburgh/New Kensington, PA @ Preserving Underground April 10 2024 Columbus, OH @ King Of Clubs April 11 2024 Piedmont, SC @ Tribbles April 12 2024 Atlanta, GA @ Masquerade April 13 2024 Tampa, FL @ Crowbar April 14 2024 Orlando, FL @ Conduit April 15 2024 Miami, FL @ Gramps April 18 2024 Houston, TX @ Scout Bar April 19 2024 Austin, TX @ Come and Take It April 21 2024 Dallas, TX @ Halton Theater April 23 2024 El Paso, TX @ Rockhouse April 24 2024 Phoenix, AZ @ Rebel Lounge April 25 2024 Albuquerque, NM @ Inside/Out April 27 2024 Las Vegas, NV @ Sick New World
Not very familiar with this band, but sounds interesting [Johnny Dynamite and the Bloodsuckers](https://musicbrainz.org/artist/fd9e6aa7-6db7-44f4-9c68-fd07d4999077) March 29 New York, NY @ TV Eye April 07 Roanoke, VA @ The Spot on Kirk April 08 Asheville, NC @ Different Wrld April 11 Miami, FL @ Gramps April 13 Tampa, FL @ Hooch and Hive April 16 New Orleans, LA @ Siberia April 17 Houston, TX @ White Oak Music Hall April 18 Dallas, TX @ Ruins April 19 San Antonio, TX @ Vice Versa Coffee & Vinyl Records April 23 Denver, CO @ Hi-Dive April 25 Las Vegas, NV @ The Griffin April 26 San Diego, CA @ Whistle Stop April 27 Los Angeles, CA @ Permanent Records Roadhouse April 29 San Francisco, CA @ Kilowatt Bar May 02 Sacramento, CA @ Cafe Colonial May 03 Reno, NV @ Lo-Bar Social May 10 Chicago, IL @ Burlington Bar May 13 Toronto, ON @ The Lounge at the Drake Hotel May 15 Montréal, QC @ Casa Del Popolo May 16 Portsmouth, NH @ Press Room May 17 New Haven, CT @ Cafe Nine May 18 Burlington, VT @ Foam Brewers - Burlington Waterfront May 19 Cambridge, MA @ The Middle East Restaurant and Nightclub May 31 Philadelphia, PA @ Ortlieb's
[CD Ghost](https://musicbrainz.org/artist/42e55357-3812-4cca-a4b6-ef02449458ab) Apr 11 El Paso, TX, US @ Rosewood Bar Apr 12 San Antonio, TX, US @ Paper Tiger Apr 13 Austin, TX, US @ Elysium Apr 14 Dallas, TX, US @ Cheap Steaks Apr 15 Memphis, TN, US @ Growlers Apr 16 Nashville, TN, US @ The Cobra Nashville Apr 17 Charlotte, NC, US @ Snug Harbor Apr 18 Baltimore, MD, US @ Metro Baltimore Apr 19 Brooklyn, NY, US @ Saint Vitus Bar Apr 20 Philadelphia, PA, US @ Kung Fu Necktie Apr 23 Montreal, QC, Canada @ Casa Del Popolo Apr 24 Toronto, ON, Canada @ The Baby G Apr 25 Detroit, MI, US @ Lager House Apr 26 Chicago, IL, US @ Subterranean Apr 27 Lawrence, KS, US @ Replay Lounge Apr 28 Denver, CO, US @ The HQ Apr 30 Salt Lake City, UT, US @ The DLC (Quarters Arcade Bar) May 2 Spokane, WA, US @ The Big Dipper May 3 Seattle, WA, US @ Fun House May 4 Portland, OR, US @ Mano Oculta May 6 San Francisco, CA, US @ Kilowatt
coming to a city near me.
09 Mar La Poche Béthune, France 29 Mar Moth Club London, United Kingdom 30 Mar A L P H A B E T Brighton And Hove, United Kingdom 31 Mar Resistanz 2024 Sheffield, United Kingdom 21 Apr Dark Malta Festival 2024 Haz-zebbug, Malta 25 Apr The Oriental Theater Denver, CO 26 Apr Catch One Los Angeles, CA 27 Apr Sick New World 2024 Las Vegas, NV 02 May The Rebel Lounge Phoenix, AZ 03 May Kensington Club San Diego, CA 04 May The Hideaway Cafe Riverside, CA 07 May DNA Lounge San Francisco, CA 08 May Harlow's Sacramento, CA 10 May The Coffin Club Portland, OR 11 May Substation Seattle, WA 12 May Verboden Festival 2024 Vancouver, Canada 30 May Petit Bain Paris, France 01 Jun ULTRA SUNN + Special Guests - Orangerie Botanique Bruxelles, Belgium 06 Jun Gretchen Berlin, Germany 07 Jun Klub RE Kraków, Poland 08 Jun Klub Hydrozagadka Warszawa, Poland 09 Jun Liverpool Wrocław, Poland 28 jul Amphi Festival 2024 Köln, Germany 08 Aug Fonnefeesten 2024 Lokeren, Belgium 17 Aug Fekete Zaj Fesztivál 2024 Gyöngyös, Hungary 03 oct. Johnny Brenda's Philadelphia, PA 04 oct. Saint Vitus Bar Brooklyn, NY 05 oct. QXT's Night Club Newark, NJ 07 oct. Fallout Richmond, VA 08 oct. The Pour House Music Hall Raleigh, NC 09 oct. 529 Atlanta, GA 10 oct. Absolution 2024 Tampa, FL 12 oct. The Cobra Nashville, TN 15 oct. Santos Bar New Orleans, LA 16 oct. Elysium Austin, TX 17 oct. Etro Nightclub Houston, TX 18 oct. Paper Tiger San Antonio, TX 19 oct. Sundown at Granada Dallas, TX 21 oct. Liminal Evasion Wichita, KS 23 oct. VIVO Live Events Overland Park, KS 24 oct. The Crack Fox St. Louis, MO 25 oct. Hangar 9 Carbondale, IL 26 oct. White Rabbit Cabaret Indianapolis, IN 27 oct. The Crucible Madison Madison, WI 30 oct. Small's Hamtramck, MI 31 oct. Sanctum 2024 Chicago, IL 16 nov. Cold Hearted Festival 2024 Dresden, Germany
DeGoogle Yourself
In an age of LLMs, is it time to reconsider human-edited web directories?
bsammon 7 months ago • 100%
1998 isn't "originally" when Lycos started in 1994. That 1998 snapshot would be their "portal" era, I'd imagine.
And the page where you submitted your website to Lycos -- that's no different than what Google used to have. It just submitted your website to the spider. There's no indication in that snapshot that suggests that it would get your site added to a curated web-directory.
Those late 90's web-portal sites were a pale imitation of the web indices that Yahoo, and later DMoz/ODP were at their peak. I imagine that the Lycos portal, for example, was only managed/edited by a small handful of Lycos employees, and they were moving as fast as they could in the direction of charging websites for being listed in their portal/directory. The portal fad may have died out before they got many companies to pony up for listings.
I think in the Lycos and AltaVista cases, they were both search engines originally (mid 90s) and than jumped on the "portal" bandwagon in the late 90s with half-assed efforts that don't deserve to be held up as examples of something we might want to recreate.
Yahoo and DMoz/ODP are the only two instances I am aware of that had a significant (like, numbered in the thousands) number of websites listed, and a good level of depth.
DeGoogle Yourself
In an age of LLMs, is it time to reconsider human-edited web directories?
bsammon 7 months ago • 100%
Lycos, Excite, AltaVista, and of course Yahoo all were originally web directories of this sort.
Both Wikipedia and my own memory disagree with you about Lycos and AltaVista. I'm pretty sure they both started as search engines. Maybe they briefly dabbled in being "portals".
Found this. Coming to a city near me. Supposedly other shows will be added. I'm probably going. March 7th = Brooklyn, NY @ The Broadway March 8th = Cambridge, MA @ the Middle East (w/ Ghost Painted Sky, Gretchen Shae and the Middle Eight + Low Lives March 9th Providence RI - TBA March 14th - Philly/Ardmore PA @ The Nail March 15th Pittsburgh PA @ Poetry Lounge March 16th - Ithaca NY @ Sacred Root Kava Bar (All Ages) April 6th - Brooklyn @ St. Vitus - w/Bootblacks
(I'm not a promoter) This is coming to a city near me. Will probably be there. Riki profile (not directly linked on that tour page, for some stupid reason): https://groundcontroltouring.com/artists/riki Discuss.
retrocomputing
Office workstations
bsammon 8 months ago • 100%
For me the only hurdle was to obtain a SuzyQable CCD Debugging cable.
Where did you end up getting it? These were nearly impossible to obtain for a while, but i seem to remember reading something about how this would be changing soon.
Are there currently any installed instances of lemmybb available for me to get an account on?
Sustainable Tech
The hidden costs of using an electric bike
bsammon 12 months ago • 83%
I saw the "electrek.co" in the overview and thought "that sounds the website of an electric bike manufacturer/seller", but I clicked it anyways, not realizing what I should expect.
I should have known it would be a lame "Bet you didn't know all these wonderful benefits to this product we're selling" article.
(Apparently they're technically not a manufacturer/seller, but it's definitely a shill article)
Antiwork
NoContract
US Mobile Updates Plans With All-In Pricing, Adds New Unlimited Plan And Shareable Data Plans
bsammon 1 year ago • 100%
Maybe... however, there's nothing in the linked article that makes it clear that the custom plans are going away. Actually, in that linked article, it's not clear about anything going away.
I just pulled up https://www.usmobile.com/plans in a private-browsing window. With no web-cookies to tell US Mobile that I'm an existing customer, the website still advertises a $8.57/month plan under the "Not data hungry?" banner. And the knowledgebase article at https://www.usmobile.com/help/knowledge-base/what-plans-does-us-mobile-offer/ still mentions the custom plans (but maybe the knowledgebase is out of date).
NoContract
US Mobile Updates Plans With All-In Pricing, Adds New Unlimited Plan And Shareable Data Plans
bsammon 1 year ago • 100%
I believe they still have the "Custom Plans" available, but they've made them harder to find.
I have a USMobile account with auto-pay disabled, and because auto-pay is disabled, each month, when I renew my plan, I have to select it all over again like I'm a new customer. I just renewed today, and it was a little harder to find -- I had to click on something like "low data user plans" before I could find the option to configure a voice-only account for another month. But I was able to get another month of my $8/mo voice-only service.
It's possible that I'm grandfathered in, but I suspect the renew interface that I have to use is the exact same interface as the configure-a-new-account interface, and I suspect that the custom accounts are still available to anyone.
bsammon 1 year ago • 100%
It would be great to have a lemmy interface that does not require Javascript (even if only for reading) I notice that old.slrpnk.net does not require Javascript to read posts.
Edit: the lemmyBB mentioned in other comments looks like it might be something I would prefer.
bsammon 1 year ago • 100%
Okay, it appears to be a very specific failure--I was able to respond to other comments in the thread but not the one posted by KD.
Now I'm thinking it's probably a Mastodon-to-Lemmy thing. KD's comment (appears to have) came from Mastodon.
bsammon 1 year ago • 100%
I have vague memories of seeing chess tables somewhere in the Allegheny Commons, maybe/probably the ones you're describing.
I'm going to be on the northside this afternoon. If I get there early enough, I may take a look around and see if any remain.
bsammon 1 year ago • 100%
Yeah... it works just fine in this post/thread. Anyone try it in the chessboard thread that I linked in my original post?
bsammon 1 year ago • 100%
My first successful attempt at commenting on a comment 🎉
I'm having difficulty replying to the comment in my post https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/745908 . This was my first attempt at replying to a comment (I just had my first success creating a top-level comment on a post -- not sure if/how that's different) Not sure if the problem I'm running into is because of my web-browser or system (Linux desktop), or because of something about the nature of the comment I'm trying to reply to (appears to originate in Mastodon-land). Any ideas? Maybe someone feels like trying to respond to the comment and give me a "Works For Me" response? Edit: It seems to work just fine in this post. Still interested if someone other than me could try replying in the other thread/post.
bsammon 1 year ago • 100%
What about installing GRUB, and having the BIOS boot GRUB, and then GRUB boots the 32-bit OS?
Which OS are you talking about, by the way?
I recently found myself in a discussion about outdoor chess tables in Pittsburgh. We went online to look for a list, but all we found was https://pittsburghchessclub.org/pittsburgh-outdoor-chess-tables/ . That list seems woefully incomplete. One instance I know of that is missing is the tables in East Liberty at Penn and Highland. Know of any others?