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Even tho i have a several TBs library I still stream, because I always endup wanting to find and listen to new things that aren’t in my library.

Generally if something is on my library, I’m already tired of it.

So I endup streaming from YouTube music free + unlock origin. If I want to listen to a whole album without having half of it’s songs replaced by a low fidelity music video version I open the album link with mpv or listen to the album from telegram bots like @deezload2bot or @linemusicbot

Idk about GrapheneOS in particular but I find the sandboxing solutions for GNU/Linux like bubblewrap to be much more granular than standard Android.

“give us access to manage phone calls or we won’t you me answer internet calls (which have nothing to do with actual SIM calls)”, “give us access to all your files or we wont let you share that file via the share function (which doesn’t need fs access to work)”.

On GNU/Linux I can only give a program exactly the resources it needs, I can disallow dbus, I can block it from accessing potentially troublesome things like /dev/dri, can overlay filesystems and pretend that’s my real home dir. Or can just mount the whole / to some other system.

Have you tried getting a louder alarm clock?

Like plug your phone to a powerful speaker system that reaches 100dB. That should wake everyone.

Doesn’t have to be expensive or HiFi, just loud.

May not be an option if you have neighbours tho.

Also, I’ve noticed that I can sleep through music and vaccum cleaner just fine, but I find certain sounds like TV speaking stressful, so maybe try finding an “annoying” sound.

Don’t all children do that?

I used to shew on everything, my friend used to literally destroy pens by shewing them too much. I think it’s normal.

Why do you want a middle class? That implies the existence of a lower and upper class.

Instead we need to abolish classes

And I would be one of the few people who wouldn’t go on vacation and would have to refuse must jobs because of some absurd believe that even if a copy of me is made after I’m dead, that’s irrelevant for me since that’s still not me and I don’t want to die.

Or maybe I would take the teleporter as an alternative to suicide, and whoever would take on my life wasn’t me, so my problems where their now.

You can pirate on your phone just fine, there’s libretorrent on f-droid, new pipe can stream and download stuff from youtube and youtube music, you can also download from deezer on telegram with @linemusicbot and @deezload2bot.

(Rimusic and kreator also exist but are buggy)

Funny because I have the exact opposite experience.

Most of my life I’ve lived in a tiny apartment, so tiny that I literally can’t keep my room cleared because have no space to store my stuff.

Yes, I can literally walk to the nearest, coffee place, or take a subway to the mall or cinema or whatever people usually like to go, but I have no interest in those places, instead I would love to live in a rural place where I can walk along nature or just rest outside without being right in the middle of people and traffic and ugly buildings.

Oh, and the worse part, my new neighbors that don’t let me blast my guitar amp or listen to music past 10

OK, so, I literally just finished watching Lovecraft Country and I was thinking “this was so tragic, it’s good to know history made things right and this kind of institutionalized racism doesn’t exist anymore, now lets check Lemmy”, oh shit…

Maybe we should start calling it GNU/Linux again, I myself am to blame of starting to call it just Linux in recent years.

So you will if you pay a loan for a new car…

…more, actually.

No decent (local) music player, no DSP, no music streaming with newpipe, decent video player to watch series in bed, screen too small to read books, no e2ee messaging, no web browser, useless camera, operating system without security updates.

I honestly couldn’t care less about calls and SMS, I only use that like few times a year.

While not full proof, but you can always sandbox it with firejail or bubblewrap.

But make sure to read the documentation thoroughly.

The fuss is that every time you transcode to a new format you accumulatively lose quality.

So for example if you have an 320kbps mp3, but then that takes too much space so you transcode it to 192 mp3, but then you discover the opus codec is more efficient so you transcode it again, but then you want to make a fan video of the same song, so your video player transcoded it again into video friendly aac.

The quality on your final video is going contain the faults of all the files upstream.

Meanwhile if you edit the video from a lossless source, it will only get encoded once.

So it doesn’t matter for streaming, but it matters if you want to download and convert to other formats.

Completely unrelated, but I just remembered that I have a server too. It’s funny how often I forget this.

It doesn’t run apache but I haven’t updated nginx in months…

Last time I did a simulation few months ago, DDR4 motherboards (and memory if I recal) were still considerably cheaper than DDR5.

I used to download and seed torrents 24/7 directly from my shitty consumer smr drive.

Not only speed was very slow but I think I killed the drive because of that.

I’m still thinking how I’m going to proceed now that I’m setting up my NAS again, I think I’m going to have to torrent to some smaller, cheaper but higher quality drive and then copy to the smr archive, until I can afford an enterprise drive.

It’s also possible that I killed the drive due to bad heat management, but in the datasheet it says something that I’m only supposed to use it for 2h a day per year and not 24/7.

From my personal ethics standpoint, intellectual property is a form of private property which I’m against, also a form or artificial scarcity, which I’m also against.

If you want to support a small artist? You can maybe donate to them directly? Is that a thing? Maybe they have a patreon or something? In my case I have way less money than the artists I consume from so donating would make no sense.

Also, the act of making a copy doesn’t remove the original, the artist doesn’t get poorer because you pirate their content.

Because not everyone has the skills, the know how and the time to learn a new operating system.

Most people if they were to try to install Linux would probably endup breaking their systems somehow, most don’t wanna risk it.

It may seem simple to us, but think of it from the perspective of someone who is afraid to install a program because thinks it’s going to make their computer explode, have no idea what a bootable USB is, and have never used a command line their whole lives.

With modern computers with UEFI and secure boot installing Linux is even harder, no average user is going to mess with any of that.

For the average person, the computer is just a very secondary thing in their lives that doesn’t get any attention besides the average “my phone is full, I need to copy my photos to the computer”. Tech companies know this so they exploit the user’s ignorance.

Unfortunately $300 is still the double if what I’m willing to pay for a phone, I paid 150 for my spyware phone, and while I hate the lack of privacy and freedom such device provides, it does everything I need it to do with the apps from f-droid. I just don’t use it for anything that requires secrecy.

I guess I will just stop updating when the new “feature” rolls out and see what happens.