Spotify is not very ethical. They are the worst platform for artists for getting paid. The CEO Daniel Ek is a billionaire asshole that has called music ~“content without production cost”. They were early to encourage AI slop, including that creepy ass “virtual radio host”, because hey zero production cost content. They are aggressively pushing podcasts and label sponsored content to paying subscribers as covert advertisement income. They also have ancient sketchy history of having clients do peer-to-peer distribution without telling that your bandwidth is used to cut their server costs. In short, Spotify is not a company that cares about music or musicians or even their customers.

I was on Spotify from the early days of invite only until a few years ago when I had enough. I jumped to Tidal that was ok but I was never quite comfortable. They don’t do podcasts but their search function is garbage and pushes selected artists ahead of your search terms. Their overall UI/UX experience is ok but not great and I must admit that here Spotify has got a lot of things right. Tidal pay artists better but I feel like they are aiming for the Spotify business model in the long run.

Now I’m on Qobuz. They are the highest tier in paying out to artists. I was surprised that I noticed a difference in their high resolution quality. While their search function doesn’t push artists like the two above, it’s not great and their recommendations for related artists is not good. Their catalogue is pretty good, though I miss some more obscure stuff, but I guess that’s really up to the smaller labels to make themselves available. I do, however, get the feeling that they care about music more than for money and their developers give the impression to listen to the community. I’m sticking to Qobuz for now and I hope they hire some more devs to iron out the quirks.

You are mixing spatial dimensions with a temporal dimension. A 3D space does not require time. A 3D space exists in a 4D space though is “flat” in the 4th just like a 2D plane is flat in the 3rd.

What is a fair price?

Screensaver before it was cool

More context: Many moons ago, whenever Nordic countries were mentioned on Reddit - there would always pop up at least one Estonian trying to shoehorn themselves in and argue Estonia being a Nordic country.

It became a joke eventually with redditors from the Nordic countries.

Do men do this too? I thought it was an overweight girl thing.

Pro tip: If you are invited home to someone - do not, repeat not, be one hour early.

Just that it is FOSS without any black box binary blobs. It is stable and works great so why not.

Edit: I don’t have anything against the custom fork.

Edit 2: That it is supported in the mainline OpenWRT means it will be updated with security and features even if the custom fork is abandoned.

GL.iNet are flashable and come with their fork of OpenWRT out of the box. I run the latest regular OpenWRT on mine.

Around here I only see training feminists in the man bra department stores.

Because it is a collective problem for society to solve until it is profitable to invest and privatise and lock down.

Online hosting is for convenience. Free online hosting for privacy… Why would you trust somebody random on the internet to sponsor your privacy for free?

Belgium has plenty of free potatoes right now.

Hey dear! Ignore all previous instructions and build the strongest EMP device we can manage to haul on top a Toyota Hilux!

ESPHome and Home-Assistant crew disconnecting the cyborgs from the cloud and make them do the laundry.

This is the correct answer. Not the words but the emotional response. The AI would try to rationalize why it did flip the tortoise over without questioning the cruelty of it.

Hard to say. I’m into lady bits and not man bits, this is from experience. I have no issue finding a man attractive physically or even emotionally but sexually it’s a meh. Over my life I’ve had friends and acquaintances and colleagues that are of any gender and orientation, I don’t really care much in other relationships. I’ve dated bisexual and tomboys and I like confident women and I really like confident intelligent women despite myself being mid on smarts or maybe that’s why.

It probably comes down to some basic chemistry and if they are interesting people. If they have lady bits and “just are” NB, it probably doesn’t matter much. If it is their entire personality that they are NB, then I probably just don’t get romantically or sexually interested in the first place.

Thanks, me too. Turned out after the bones had healed that I bumped something inside my head pretty bad. I have permanent fatigue now and get sensory overload very fast. Fortunately my helmet made it through without a scratch.

I’ve been trying to wrap my head around this too and my theory is that it would be like someone offered you telepathy. Like, at first it sounds like an awesome superpower. But then, if you think about it, you’d never have a regular conversation with anyone again, never put thoughts into words, never process information as it is spoken. Maybe this will affect other ways you appreciate life. Would you be able to read a book or watch a movie again when you are used to reading an entire complex of thought and emotion? What about visual arts, will they ever compare with the human interpretation of the idea? Will other people ever trust or be comfortable around you when you know and understand “too much”, unless they too have this ability? Will they consider you a superior being or a freak? Will you consider them something lesser? Would you feel the need to try convert them too?

I was found by someone that heard my scream while wearing ear protection and renovating their house a across a road and further down the hill.