So, all posts are from the perspective of people that are really into music. Enthusiasts that care deeply about individual albums and artists.

Whereas streaming services are most likely designed to cater to casual listeners like me. I can’t remember the last time I listened to an entire album. I haven’t liked any individual artist enough to attend a live concert. I generally listen to music while I’m doing stuff as background noise.

I used to listen to the radio for that. But streaming services algorithms were a strict upgrade to that due to lack of ads and talk show hosts.

Honestly, I don’t know if I’ll be able to determine whether a given piece of music is AI generated or not by listening to it.

So I don’t think direct purchase of digital LPs could ever be viable for people like me. And I’m guessing (based on the success of streaming services) that there are a lot more people like me than there are enthusiasts. Yes, I can switch to the least bad streaming service according to Lemmy, out of solidarity (and no other reason). Remember 99% of people won’t do that.

Just adding a perspective that might be missing from this community

Shrug. Meta employees make bank.

Dunno how attractive they are viewed as, because everyone there I personally know were already married before they joined Meta.

$$$

Consoles are a shrinking market. If they were offered money by TV manufacturers to cooperate with putting more ads on it, they most certainly will.

And I suspect Microsoft/Windows will too. Apple might not, though.

In the US

FTFY. The long term outcome for this is that the world stops revolving around the US. For better or for worse

Yeah initial setup requires their app (once).

But you can use their app without creating an account, which is such a breath of fresh air compared to everyone else.

https://reolink.com/

Offers all the features Google/Amazon do, but without the subscriptions.

Plus they joined the open home foundation, so they’re unlikely to enshitify.

Might I suggest Bitwarden.

It’s open source, syncs across every platform I know of, and supports passkeys.

Eh, the world is a lot more dependent on air travel than we were in the 80s. I don’t think Trump will be able to do the same

In Australia, that model costs $28k USD brand new!

https://evdealergroup-byd.com.au/configurator/byd-atto-3?postcode=2071&store=380&state=NSW

https://reolink.com/

Has all the same features, without the subscription or cloud account

Money, usually.

The professors I know in Texas are usually there because they got a promotion and a significant pay bump to move there.

I’m guessing women don’t get drafted for special operations in Ukraine

Pretty sure they can. Or at least, they can deny you entry into the country if you decline to unlock it for them.

That sounds like an awful lot of work to workaround a problem that shouldn’t have existed in the first place.

That’s where time dilation will kick in

You’ve never been to rural Japan if you think they primarily use public transport.

Hell, even in the outskirts of Tokyo most people have cars and drive.

That said tho, there’s no excuse for urban city centers to not be walkable.

So far it’s helped in motivation, but not in implementation.

Turns out combatting bots is a hard problem and hobbyist admins and nonprofits have a lot less resources than their for-profit counterparts.

Just now. I was reading this thread and grinning at other people’s misfortune so my wife decided I should join them and bit me 😵

Appeal to who?

Like… I don’t know any organization that would listen to them that actually has the power to do something about it.

It’s dead. The main dev announced they’ve ceased development and shut down the main instance.