I think enshittification is mostly attributable to America. Ads on everything every possible moment, subscriptions for everything, privacy nightmares around every corner… All to scrape the very last penny from ‘regular folks’ while American artists, producers and study execs have so much money, they have no clue what to do with it which alienates them more and more from the people they seek to entertain.

I feel absolutely no remorse for downloading stuff and never pay for it. I can use hundreds of euros a month to far more productive ends and they sure as hell won’t miss my contributions.

Somehow they’ve gotten us so addicted to media, we just consume consume consume. It’s time to vote with our wallets and let those bastards choose which one of their seven California beach houses they are going to starve in.

The Bad Lip Sync version of Gotye (Kicked Your Monkey And I Used Your Goat) kinda always comes to mind

Yeah I saw this too in Groningen, near the Oosterpoort. I was wondering what this was.

Nokia has one. Technically it’s Finnish but there is some Chinese money involved.

I wonder if he realises at all that this will just make the US’s position worse and worse for the entire world, not just Canada.

Boost notifies me when someone responds to my comments. It might be able to push from certain communities.

Edit: I checked and it seems not

I had another look at things and I’ll stick with Tidal. As I read it, Tidal was originally European anyway (Swedish) and it’s still Europe based even though they also have a location in the US. All those musicians that bought into it sold their majority (Jay-Z sold 80% of his shares).

They are transparent about what they pay artists and are second to Qobuz on that. Qobuz is more for scouting music and even though I wouldn’t mind doing that sometimes, I can’t see my mum browsing catalogs to find hidden gems.

… But not on Android.

Biggest issue I see so far is that there is no ‘connect’ type streaming possible to my Samsung Soundbar, but I bet I can still cast so it’ll be fine. I wasn’t very impressed with Tidal’s apps anyway.

I just looked into it and it might be. Thing is I now have a family subscription for 17 euros which only my mother uses. She’s just gotten used to Tidal so it’ll be a stretch for her to switch.

I’ll keep it in mind for now, thanks for the tip!

They subsidised years of huge losses with blood money from oil company investors from the Middle East just to gain market share and they screw over artists. Horrible company.

I use Tidal which is sadly American but does have their ethics a bit better. Bandcamp is best for artists but it’s still American and partly owned by Tencent which is Chinese so part government.

Plus you can send your used stuff back and they’ll recycle it. I also use their soaps, deodorants, shaving cream, face wash, moisturizer and even t-shirts.

Could do with a lil Tuesday catering today

Om the colour wheel I’d say it’s greenish cyan, possibly bluish green.

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So. Both.

I think you’re asking what it costs?

I pay 52,50 a month for 1Gbps fiber and like 12 for 10GB 5G.

I’m not really an avid gamer but I’ve been gaming since I was around 10 which is 22 years ago. I think most games I played somewhere around 300 hours, like Borderlands, Borderlands 2, The Pre-Sequel and 3, so that adds up to about 1200 hours. I finished quite a list of rpg’s over the years.

But, I bought Rocket League in 2016 or so and since you can just casually play a game or two in between other stuff I’ve got over 1500 hours in. I’m not even really that good at it. I think some 100 hours would be just sitting in main menu with friends or leaving it open while going to do something else. Sometimes, I could just listen to music while absent-mindedly driving my rocket car around the field in casual.

So what I’m saying is, time span is an important measure here. Steam should also include stats about how many hours a year people have put in on average, or per month. I think those thousands of hours for some might be put into better perspective.

The rich racist spawns of pure evil are currently in office, how did they lose?

I watched the first five episodes in one sitting, just very intruiged and impressed with how it’s built. It’s excellent.

I see your awake tortie and raise you a sleepy kitty

It irks me that you have to read two full paragraphs before the name of the EU foreign chief is mentioned while Trump and Vance get mentioned a lot.