Sure, that's why I self-host or use trusted services from people I actually know for EVERYTHING I can, not just the stuff that's too awful to accept. I can't be bothered with being disappointed and jump ships yet again.
smee
joined 1 week ago
>He did in fact not get it
Have an upvote for your enthusiasm kiddo.
I don't care if the big corpos set up obvious data privacy traps that sucks the data right out of people's pockets any more than I'm upset about a venomous snake on the side of the road. I'm more upset with the people who blindly walk into them despite clear warnings from more knowledgeable people, and in the process gives up OTHER people's data as well.
I don't want Facebook to have my phone number associated with my name, yet I'm sure countless people over the years have given it to them by uncritically accepting the app's terms and pressed the "Sure, go ahead and have full access to my phone's contact list" button.
I am 100% sure it's possible to attend baseball games without the Ticketmaster app, just not the ones you want to see.
It may not be the flashiest, biggest games with the baseball superstars or the matches hyped up by the media or your peers. And that's what people want. 🤷
reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/…
I've stopped going to concerts at the big avenues because I have to use an app or buy tickets online. I can't see the biggest artists with the most flashy albums that's been hyped up by all the advertisements. Actually bums me out. But I can still attend other concerts at less predatory avenues.
Such is my way of navigating clown world.
There's always going to be cars that are repairable, they're just never going to be the flashiest, newest, cheapest or most media and socially hyped up vehicles. And that's what people want.
Folk complain about a simple thing like non-replaceable batteries in phones. But there's always been phones with replaceable batteries. They're just not Samsung phones or packed with the latest AI.
And honestly, if people cannot understand what they're signing up for... Perhaps they shouldn't sign away their first born child to begin with?
If that's not a bridge then I got a bridge to sell you!
If one uses Spotify instead of a personal music collection one controls, this is what one gets. If one uses Facebook, Google or similar, this is what one gets.
I read about 1/3rd of the piece until I was sure that not a single one of the problems described concerns me. Because I don't use Sonos, I don't use Spotify and every other shitty service described as enshittified in this text.
I feel sorry for the technologically poor, every single sod who totally relinquishes control of most of their digital life, in a time when more and more of our daily live becomes digital, to people they know are out to get them. I will never understand it.
37 days is not bad at all, well done! Hope to see your 38 tomorrow.
That's nice.
I like Navidrome, it also supports the... Subsonic(?) protocol so one can use dedicated apps with on-device caching, which is nice for mobile devices without unlimited data.
You party animal, I went to bed as soon as socially acceptable.