spaghettiwestern

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[–] spaghettiwestern 1 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

It looks like Jellyfin + Mopidy will do the same thing as Spotify Connect which is my most used app/service. Will take a closer look. Self host various other things so adding a new app wouldn't be an issue. Thanks for the list.

[–] spaghettiwestern 3 points 2 days ago

It allows any device to cast music to pretty much any other device that supports Spotify, whether via phone app, browser or Linux app. I have a couple of small computers connected to receivers in different rooms and can control the music playing on them from the attached PC itself or any other PC or phone.

[–] spaghettiwestern 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Looked at that and think it will be an option in the near future, but right now Raspotify and Connect are hard to beat.

Edit: Searching a bit more, it looks like Tidal Connect is actually a thing. I'll take a good look at switching when my Spotify plan runs out. I'll be happy to switch to a service that doesn't screw their artists.

[–] spaghettiwestern 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Would have left Spotify a couple years ago if I could find an app with something like Spotify Connect.

[–] spaghettiwestern 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Doesn't look like it plays well with Spotify Connect?

[–] spaghettiwestern 4 points 2 days ago

Every other day.

 
[–] spaghettiwestern 46 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The really amazing thing is that spez's planet-sized ego created the whole user exodus. People were willing to pay a monthly fee to continue to use the site ad-free via our mobile apps. Hundreds of other companies remove ads when people pay fees, but all of that revenue is just gone along with a big chunk of contributors because spez had a tantrum.

[–] spaghettiwestern 2 points 3 days ago

Who gives a crap what UHC is looking for?

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submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by spaghettiwestern to c/folkandacoustic
[–] spaghettiwestern 61 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

The "Free Speech Absolutist" ~~strikes~~ sues again.

 

Zhang Yazhou was sitting in the passenger seat of her Tesla Model 3 when she said she heard her father's panicked voice: The brakes don't work! Approaching a red light, her father swerved around two cars before plowing into an SUV and a sedan and crashing into a large concrete barrier.

Stunned, Zhang gazed at the deflating airbag in front of her. She could never have imagined what was to come: Tesla sued her for defamation for complaining publicly about the car's brakes — and won. A Chinese court ordered Zhang to pay more than $23,000 in damages and publicly apologize to the $1.1 trillion company.

 

Zhang Yazhou was sitting in the passenger seat of her Tesla Model 3 when she said she heard her father's panicked voice: The brakes don't work! Approaching a red light, her father swerved around two cars before plowing into an SUV and a sedan and crashing into a large concrete barrier.

Stunned, Zhang gazed at the deflating airbag in front of her. She could never have imagined what was to come: Tesla sued her for defamation for complaining publicly about the car's brakes — and won. A Chinese court ordered Zhang to pay more than $23,000 in damages and publicly apologize to the $1.1 trillion company.

[–] spaghettiwestern 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

You might as well put their Customer Service number in your phone now. If your experience is anything like mine you'll be spending lots of time ~~talking to~~ shouting at them.

[–] spaghettiwestern 14 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

IMO when dealing with corporations, after they've been notified once of a problem like yours, any others that happen because they haven't fixed their systems are clearly active malice. It is almost certain they've been notified of this kind of problem many, many times. It is also almost certain UHC hasn't fixed anything at all.

Corporations are legal persons but our society and government consistently hold them far lower standards than real persons face. They literally murder but don't face jeopardy from criminal laws, poison people and are met with a slap on the wrist, and enrich themselves while paying only a small fraction of their illegal profits in fines when they're caught. Can you imagine the penalties if you or I did these things?

The world would be a far better place if UHC was held to the same standards as the people they insure.

[–] spaghettiwestern 111 points 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 children)

United Heath would routinely deny payment for the entire visit if my doctor did anything besides look at the initial issue during an appointment. Let's say I was there for ear pain and my doc said I was due for a vaccination, UHC would deny payment for everything. Since making a second appointment for the vaccination was far more expensive, the only possible reason for this was that a certain percentage of people would pay the bill and United Health could just steal from them and pocket the money.

I spent many hours on the phone after doctor visits demanding they pay the bills as my policy's contract required. I wonder how much the UHC crooks made because of the people who just paid the doctor bills and UHC was able to steal money they didn't earn?

United Health Sucks.

 

Two months after UnitedHealthcare chief executive Brian Thompson was killed, UnitedHealth Group has hired a defamation law firm to take on social media posts that it claims are untrue and reckless, according to Bloomberg Law.

 

We are where we are today because Garland failed spectacularly to act swiftly to hold Trump accountable for his illegal efforts to stay in power four years ago for inciting the violent Capitol insurrection that resulted in deaths, injuries, destruction of property and devastation to our democracy. By turning a blind eye to those crimes for as long as he could, Garland paved the way for the election of a disgraced felon who should not have been on the 2024 ballot. Thanks to Garland, Trump is storming back to the White House vowing revenge.

 

The man who was convicted in the 2022 attack on the husband of House Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole Tuesday following his state trial.

DePape's early morning break-in at the Pelosi home almost exactly two years ago on October 28, 2022 -- just days before the 2022 midterm elections -- sent shockwaves through the United States and was attributed to the predictable effects of increasingly demonizing political rhetoric.

The attack on then-82-year-old Paul Pelosi was captured on police bodycam video after officers responded to his 911 call and found him struggling with DePape, who then bludgeoned Pelosi with a hammer.

The life sentence on state charges is on top of the 30-year sentence DePape received for his federal conviction.

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"Now that I'm inside your house, I own your house right now," the deputy says in the video.

https://www.desertsun.com/story/news/2024/09/07/riverside-sheriff-investigating-incident-depicted-in-viral-video/75122042007/

 

Since people seem to have missed this one, unsealed in the Smith filing:

-Trump used a burner phone, routed through a foreign country to contact Michigan house speaker.

-He tried to pressure the speaker in this off book call.

-Speaker McCarthy knew about the burner phone line.

-The phone showed up as “Spam Risk Egypt” on caller ID.

 

Cuba’s government has spent the last days attempting to get the island’s national grid functioning after repeated island-wide blackouts. Without power, sleep becomes difficult in the heat, food spoils and the water supply fails.

Parts of Cuba’s communist system still function: the municipality sent Maria food. “We are three families here,” she said. “I live alone, the lady who lives next to me [does] also, and there are two children, the children’s mother, her aunt and an elderly man.”

A week after the blackout, the island has returned to the status quo ante with regular power cuts of up to 20 hours a day. But the crisis has left a deep, melancholy dread about the future.

 

Should Donald Trump fail a second time to be re-elected he faces the very real possibility of jail time and massive financial penalties due to the sheer volume of criminal cases and civil lawsuits that are on hold until after the election.

That is the opinion of Syracuse University law professor Greg Germain who explained in an interview with Newsweek that the former president's only path to get out from under the federal cases he now faces is to beat Vice President Kamala Harris in less than two weeks and then push the Department of Justice to drop the cases filed against him.

As Germain stated, the multiple federal cases Trump is facing are solid and his only path to victory may be having them shut down.

Newsweek source: https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-legal-cases-georgia-washington-florida-new-york-stormy-daniels-chutkan-cannon-1974406

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