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  • Thank you for calling this aspect out. I’m surprised so many people are overlooking it. I protest YouTube for the same reasons, but I’ve got one more to add.

    When they merged Google Music into YouTube, the service became worse. I’d often have music streaming throughout the day over my speakers, but that broke after the merge.

    Anytime I watched a video on my phone that had Content ID-recognized music in it (even in the background), they would cut the stream to my speakers because I am only allowed one stream with any music in it at all.

    This isn’t the behavior when you use the ad supported service. Only the paid.

    Not to mention all the proper features of Google Music that didn’t carry forward.


  • Byter@lemmy.onetoTechnology@lemmy.worldGoogle Fiber goes big with 20-gig plan
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    11 months ago

    If you’re struggling to think of a use-case, consider the internet-based services that are commonplace now that weren’t created until infrastructure advanced to the point they were possible, if not “obvious” in retrospect.

    • multimedia websites
    • real-time gaming
    • buffered audio – and later video – streaming
    • real-time video calling (now even wirelessly, like Star Trek!)
    • nearly every office worker suddenly working remotely at the same time

    My personal hope is that abundant, bidirectional bandwidth and IPv6 adoption, along with cheap SBC appliances and free software like Nextcloud, will usher in an era where the average Joe can feel comfortable self-hosting their family’s digital content, knowing they can access it from anywhere in the world and that it’s safely backed up at each member’s home server.


  • I’m also a UBI layperson, but this is my understanding:

    Basic incomes don’t need to match or exceed the cost of living to provide some of their purported benefits. One of those benefits is replacing difficult to administer welfare services (of which there are some discussions in this thread). In that way the $2700 per person per year can be more efficiently allocated (towards an ideal national gross prosperity) by the individual.

    This might solve issues like the infamous “welfare cliff” that have arisen from difficulties in administration.