I use GOS and I am all for correcting people, but perhaps next time, don’t assume they are spreading FUD, and instead assume they are just misinformed

Deleted my account in Fall 2025 after +15 years. Felt good

FYI, Proton CEO also caught flak for praising Trump picks, so they are playing both sides of the field FYI

I believe in FOSS to the point that I often unnecessarily uninstall mysql for mariadb.

With that said, I hate to be the guy w/ a non-FOSS recommendation but my suggestion, Symfonium (a paid app that has a free trial), does have a way to get the full version without Play Services.

I use it for online radio and it also lets you add descriptions/tags you can filter stations based on the tags for if/when your list gets long. And the online radio isn’t even the most popular feature for most users:

• Completely reconfigurable layouts
• Completely customizable ‘Now Playing Screens’
• It’s just one dev and he is VERY responsive to feedback (perhaps overly as he chimes in on most negative reviews on Play Store) and has built out various features based on forum suggestions/bug reports
• Smart playlists: For example they have Favorites, Recently Added, Most Played, Random, Rediscover. And all of these can be further split by Album/Artist/Playlist/Track
• It is integrated w/ my server running Jellyfin, so I can play music across all my devices and allows you to cache/download content for offline playback but otherwise allows you to stream over LAN

There’s too much to cover about it w/o sounding like a shill. Here are some people that aren’t me w/ their opinions:

• https://reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/17lyd3j/dev_symfonium_music_player_cast_the_self_hosted/

And here is an update on changes posted by the dev last week:

• https://reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/1jb6kiz/long_overdue_symfonium_update_thanks_for_the/

If you are legitimately interested/believe in scientific rigor, then here is the research paper published in Nature Scientific Journal by the University of Cambridge: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-08897-0

Thanks for the breakdown from across the pond.

I just change it to reader-mode

lemmy.ml?

There are bots in the fediverse just like everywhere else.

I think the issue is that TiKtok is just as bad as all the other social media and they are owned by a foreign adversary.

Foreign adversaries (ie China, Russia and America) use social media for influence campaigns on each other and therefore their social media platforms can’t be trusted. This is why Chinese people similarly can’t use Google or Facebook

With OpenAI’s latest release, it’s becoming apparent that AGI is looming and it would cause OpenAI to end its partnership w/ MSFT IIRC

More like the Overton Window at work actually.

Biden will likely end up as one of the top 5 most progressive presidents ever. Society expects more from Democrats than they would’ve previously. There’s nothing wrong w/ that, but the argument being presented seems misguided and like both sides nihilism.

Cannot recall. Just remember that texts/calls were impossible so I couldn’t link up w/ people I was looking for.

RIP. Hope that his whistleblowing doesn’t end up falling on deaf ears

Here’s my results from PocketCasts. Niche AF I’m guessing

Currently binging the backlog as we speak. They just hit Covid lol

‘The Rest is History’ is how I’ve been getting my world history. Great banter from two British hosts

Nothing like some crowdsourced help to fine-tune the google search for your kink.

I can’t speak to 5G but my Mint 4G service was non-existent when I was at a concert. It was otherwise great the other 99.99% of the time fwiw. Been a user for ~7 years

Two out of 10 Linux users agree that insert name here is the best distro

It’s audio-specific but I use Audiobookshelf’s RSS feed

I have a local folder where I put downloaded youtube audio and the RSS feed updates automatically when new files are placed there. Then, I access it through Lissen or the official audiobookshelf app.