So, all posts are from the perspective of people that are really into music. Enthusiasts that care deeply about individual albums and artists.

Whereas streaming services are most likely designed to cater to casual listeners like me. I can’t remember the last time I listened to an entire album. I haven’t liked any individual artist enough to attend a live concert. I generally listen to music while I’m doing stuff as background noise.

I used to listen to the radio for that. But streaming services algorithms were a strict upgrade to that due to lack of ads and talk show hosts.

Honestly, I don’t know if I’ll be able to determine whether a given piece of music is AI generated or not by listening to it.

So I don’t think direct purchase of digital LPs could ever be viable for people like me. And I’m guessing (based on the success of streaming services) that there are a lot more people like me than there are enthusiasts. Yes, I can switch to the least bad streaming service according to Lemmy, out of solidarity (and no other reason). Remember 99% of people won’t do that.

Just adding a perspective that might be missing from this community

Pretty sure they can. Or at least, they can deny you entry into the country if you decline to unlock it for them.

That sounds like an awful lot of work to workaround a problem that shouldn’t have existed in the first place.

That’s where time dilation will kick in

You’ve never been to rural Japan if you think they primarily use public transport.

Hell, even in the outskirts of Tokyo most people have cars and drive.

That said tho, there’s no excuse for urban city centers to not be walkable.

So far it’s helped in motivation, but not in implementation.

Turns out combatting bots is a hard problem and hobbyist admins and nonprofits have a lot less resources than their for-profit counterparts.

Just now. I was reading this thread and grinning at other people’s misfortune so my wife decided I should join them and bit me 😵

It’s dead. The main dev announced they’ve ceased development and shut down the main instance.

Did you even say no homo first?

What is gay underwear? Like a specific brand?

As someone who’s currently wrangling with so much C++ specific issues to try and make just one bloody contribution to KDE, this comment hits too close to home.

You have a link handy?

You can just run yay with no arguments and it does exactly what your update script does.

IIRC it wasn’t legal action from Nvidia, but rather AMD pulling the funding that killed ZLUDA.