At the same time their recommendation engine is extremely good and that’s what makes it hard to abandon Spotify completely for me.

If you need something to cover that gap, MusicBee supports using Last.fm to report back what’re you’re listening to and their service will provide the same kind of tailored recommendations. They’ve been around for over a decade, their trends are pretty good at suggesting new songs.

things like Spotify and Google Music, services which effectively killed any and all MP3 sharing

I’ve been using music streaming apps ever since Apple Music first launched. I agreed with you, I thought it was great and it effectively killed my need for piracy…

…until all those mfs started to mess with the “downloaded songs” feature. I tried YouTube Music, Spotify and Apple Music. They used to work well, but now, even though I download all my musics for offline listening at the gym these apps will randomly glitch out and lock all music away while they try to load, using the internet, my library. The issue is my gym is got no cell reception. And even outside the gym, I travel through some rural areas quite frequently. So when the app decides my offline music requires internet, I can’t listen.

Also, slowly, their catalogues are removing some tracks due to licensing issues and I’ve already lost 20 songs from my library. So guess what? I decided to try music piracy in 2023. And boy, it’s amazing. Music piracy isn’t dead - it’s better than ever.

Quick summary: I used a Deezer trial and a specific tool to download my entire library from Apple Music as FLAC lossless files. I then use MusicBee to organize, download lyrics, listen on the PC, etc, and when I connect my Android phone MusicBee will automatically convert all tracks to high quality Opus and send to the device, where I use Retro Music Player to listen.

Everything works offline, everything sounds perfect, no music ever goes away, lyrics are there, album art, the whole ordeal, it even works on my Chromecast speakers.

Explain that to the official support forums lol

I had a comment massively downvoted in an earlier post about this.

One user claimed I was responsible for destroying the environment, because I said I wouldn’t tolerate the bumps much like I don’t tolerate dead pixels when manufacturers say “It’s within spec!”.

The second user claimed to own the device, and that I was dumb because the bumps “are not noticeable at all”

Congrats Lemmy on slowly turning into Reddit.

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unfortunately

Unfortunately? How is encryption by default a bad thing? It’s amazingly good at protecting data from people who wouldn’t even know what encryption is.

The number of lost laptops in coffee shops protected by BitLocker is insane.

remove the password from a Windows account

That used to be true, but no longer works

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It’s important to remember that internet culture and interactions themselves changed a lot from early days to now.

So actually, yes, Reddit did have a lot of “cloned” content that was just the same as what we were doing on previous platforms, but things were changing fast enough as to also make Reddit develop a personality of their own.

Lemmy could have that too… If we toned down the generic Linux memes.

important to ecosystems

Because they’re invasive species to most places in the world. They’re important for their original ecosystem.

You peasants debating over compositors and window servers.

I only interface with my computer over a headless terminal that prints the output using a matrix printer in another room. I programmed my VERY OWN hangman game, and no, you can not look at the source code to find the answers because I OBFUSCATED THINGS, you absolute lump of failed carbon.

This statement is literally true for every single language on Earth.

That may not automatically imply 100% contribution

Thus the angry fans on the forum.

The most information I could find about it is a forum thread where angry FreeBSD fans react to an article talking about how the Nintendo Switch used FreeBSD components, which led to people mentioning the PlayStation 3 which led to a user talking about how Sony contributed upstream.

Which means I found literally nothing.