It really annoys me how often I see major media others citing reddit these days. It seems it really ramped up after the IPO. It’s never anything good either. They’re just either outsourcing basic journalism or complaining that reddit is too negative.
Which is weird because neither of those things are illegal. You can absolutely tape the radio. You just can’t distribute it. Just like you can copy your own media for your own use as much as you want.
This may just be a semantic argument. Media production can consider it piracy, but that’s irrelevant as it had no legal standing. Without a law prohibiting something, it’s legal. And the fact that they sued and lost means it was never illegal and the media companies can declare it “piracy” or “treason against Columbia Pictures” or whatever they want until they’re blue in the face but no one cares.
The VCR was invented, marketed, and sold to do this very thing. When the VCR first came out (same for betamax) they didn’t sell pre-recorded tapes because the only way they had to make those was to manually record them individually in real-time which was prohibitively expensive. That’s also why movie rental places caught on: early VHS movies were too expensive for most to afford. But not too expensive for a business to rent hundreds of times.
Suffice to say: if recording TV was piracy, it wasn’t illegal and the people bitching had no way to enforce their will.
VPN is very available but this would probably still stop the majority. It’s like locks: it won’t keep everyone out, just enough not to try.
They’d just pay a contractor to stand up a server on azure or AWS. Most of the labor would be moderation which is probably why they won’t do it.
They couldn’t remove anything without Republicans crying censorship. And because it’s government run, first amendment protections apply. Which means they couldn’t remove a lot of what moderators already do.
No. Blue LEDs are used with a cover to create full spectrum white light. Bluer light makes our brain think it’s day time and can inhibit sleep.
If TVs would have it that would be nice. I use a PC attached to my TV and don’t have the option.
Thanks. I was interested how it was getting access to Spotify music library and suggestion algorithms but turns out it just isn’t.
Wonder why is trying to pretend to be Spotify when it could just market itself as a YouTube music interface.
Navidrome server streaming to Symfonium through Wireguard using music downloaded with Soulseek and suggestions generated by Listenbrainz. No, it’s not as convenient for the average user.
Understanment of the century. If you end up listing 5 different pieces of software to replace 1, then it’s going to be something for enthusiasts only.
There is no way you can use Spotify and think it has a low amount of music. There are precious few things I’ve looked for it doesn’t have.
Spotify sucks? What are some good alternatives that have a similar amount of content and suggestions?
I’d rather people not engage with it at all.