Bandcamp is great but in the POV of a third worlder, bandcamp is never going to reach our audience. People barely make ends or spend much on other subs so paying separate artists not something people here would prefer. Maybe ideal for supporting one or two artists you love.

Sadly, physical media is dead here. Vinyl is still alive in some places but not here.

I don’t support spotify but right now its the best here if you pay premium ofc. if there’s a better alternative that’s not geolocked, has good recommendation algo and pays artists better than spotify, i will be always happy to switch.

and? what do you recommend?

no wonder the board hates him lol? also how can they not know about what they are (or were) working on when they have invested a lot on a company that practically had no products (before chatgpt)?

would be cool if it’s smooth like how arc does it, would instantly switch back to Firefox if they manage that. arc is still buggy on many things or when i use some websites.

what does that parameter mean though?

why would they want to move to a defederated SO, it’s going to be public anyways too.

how important this type of research

I hope they also figure a way to find the bad actors who might use their tools for harmful purposes. You can’t just create something for “research” purposes like this and not find a way to stop bad actors using these for harmful purposes.

google meet and google forms are the only thing that still makes me use google from time to time. youtube is another story since idt there is a good alternative for that, nope not peertube sorry.

guess we can still earn bread for another day.

just for pia vpn since i don’t trust free vpns, also try claude opus instead of chatgpt, it’s better imo.

oh boy

So when we use Google messages for RCS it’s E2EE?

Yeah, plus every indie band/artist these days have their own bandcamp page. There’s always flac available on public trackers for mainstream artist/band. You might not be missing anything.

Yeah, unless Spotify, Deezer and similar services die or become too greedy you really don’t have a reason to come back to music trackers again.

Yeah but I would need to “prove” I was a member

Idt you need to prove that unless they ask you specifically or you say it by yourself.

They don’t care what private trackers you are/were in as long as you pass the interview.

Yeah but it’s members only right?

Yeah but what cd was a private tracker too right?

I’m just too old and lazy and don’t care enough about that stuff anymore to go through a whole interview process and shit.

Well, considering you were a what cd user, I think you can easily clear that, the wait for the interview is ridiculously annoying though. I had to wait for weeks for that.

Do they have PBTHAL vinyl rips?

I don’t know, have to check. I am just tired of the grind these days and just visit it when my friend asks for an album’s flac, or if I get freeleech tokens.

you could get the vinyl rip, and listen them on your phone. idk whether it might sound the same like the exact vinyl but it’s better than Spotify if you have a decent headphones.

Well, there’s still RED and it has almost has vinyl rip for every famous album. I wasn’t a what cd member but RED has a huge collection. If you aren’t in music trackers anymore you should checkout RED

the production and music was so brilliant, metro really did a good job on the latter.

Well I liked spider verse movies. It was awesome and hope they don’t butcher it with AI for their next movie.