You know what I meant, don’t deliberately misunderstand.

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That pays exactly $0 per stream to the artists.

Daniel Ek is investing in European defense companies. This is not unethical.

Spotify paying like shit to their artists and platforming Joe Rogan are totally valid reasons to move away though. But the thing is that Spotify is sort of like radio. How much did radio pay for artists for each time the song was played? Genuinely asking.

What I do is I do 90% of my listening on Spotify. Then when I hear something really good, I buy and download their album, usually on Bandcamp and mostly keep listening them on Spotify because it’s just so much lesser hassle. Seems like the best of both worlds. Thought about going to vinyls but I’m not hipster enough.

Matrix seems to work well. I’m on a smallish non-profit server. I regard it as the premium open-source step forward from IRC.

The worst problem is that there are really no channels that I care to follow.

Ah ok. Well, the decent alternative to all that is Tesla.

So does GrapheneOS apparently, as long as we’re talking about Androids.

What does Android Auto do?

Good reviews. Unfortunately the device is 18x10x4mm larger than my already gigantic Pixel 9

1 - tap to pay. I don’t see how this can practically be done. Like, at all.

Yeah, better go back to carrying pieces of plastic with you at all times. Bonus: you can leave your phone home and still pay for things.

The way this article was written was weirdly sycophantic. It’s like the meme where “everybody stood up and applauded” but in this case it happened every 5 minutes.

Well, I hope anyone will care what I think when I’m 83.

Yeah, I figured there would be a workaround. Also

>>> (10).years()
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<python-input-0>", line 1, in <module>
    (10).years()
    ^^^^^^^^^^
AttributeError: 'int' object has no attribute 'years'

But the other thing is also: can you add methods to the int class so that they’re available everywhere? I suspect that you cannot in python, at least without significant hackery. And I also suspect that it’s probably something they decided to prevent knowingly.

Ruby is object-oriented, modelled after Smalltalk mostly. So

irb(main):001:0> 10.class
=> Integer

So you’ll just have implement the method “years” on the Integer (or something more generic like Numeric) class and then “ago” on whatever class the years method returned.

You might imagine that you can do something like 10.years().ago() in python but the parser prevents you:

>>> 10.years
  File "<python-input-0>", line 1
    10.years
      ^
SyntaxError: invalid decimal literal

Doesn’t seem like it would have to prevent it, back in ruby:

irb(main):001:0> 10.0.class
=> Float

Ruby is a pretty cute language in my opinion, and I find it sad that python kinda drove over it.

CachyOS might be the easiest one that gives you something decent. It’s basically an Arch Linux with slightly better compiler optimizations and tweaked kernels. Also a tweaked version of proton in the core repos.

Started by a German dude so EU++ or something. And of course it’s based on Arch Linux, which was started by a Canadian dude.

It’s on top of distrowatch too, but I have no idea what that implies.

My NAS is a Raspberry Pi4 with a single consumer-level SSD. My backups sometimes complete.

I mean yeah but it feels stupider to me. Like bumping your head on something repeatedly then seeing somebody else bump their head, laugh at them and then bump your own head again. Political slapstick.

I’m not USA or from USA.

Both sides have had opportunities to make it illegal and neither have done it. I wonder why.

Perhaps, although when was the last time that happened in the west?

High-tech western military investments in an age of Russian aggression is actually a good thing to do. And it’s even European instead of US or Israel.

I see no reason not to fully support this. Sure, a pacifist world would be awesome, but that would require a lot of things to happen that are not realistic at all. The alternative to european defense investments is not peace, it’s death and oppression.