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Born and raised in London. Just a normal guy with a moral compass.

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They’re all pretty straight forward and Tidal has a better record of crediting and paying artists than Spotify. But ultimately, I would suggest self hosting.

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The revenue from streaming services always pales in comparison to buying the music directly from an artist. The streaming model has been hijacked by record labels who take the majority share, such are the deals they force artists to sign.

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I’m all in on Navidrome

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Could this help? github.com/rosskouk/asknavidrome

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Apparently you can opt out and forego the charge.

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Seeing issues with Revanced too.

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Just tried updating microg, no joy. I also see they removed support for the old Vanced MicroG

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Oh, I never had that problem. Deleted Vanced MicroG and updated Revanced MicroG anyway.

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That sounds like a terrible user experience. Almost as painful as Symfonium losing my headphones when I pause it.

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Can someone break down the thinking behind this?

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It’s explained here: social.treehouse.systems/…/112139649840297169

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They’ve not updated it there either though. It seems to be less of a case of can’t update Android and more of a case of won’t update Android

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Basically, modern app stores have changed how they work and now require the signing keys, VLC feel this is a bad thing and refuse to update. Banks are okay with it, but VLC feel more strongly than banks.

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The guy upset about his 14 year old iPad not still receiving support is hilarious!

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It’s the same version that’s on the Play Store.

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I don’t dispute that

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I thought MissTake’s response was really good and covers pretty much everything

“Thanks to Apple”?

The original iPad was a 32 bit A8 single core CPU that topped out as 1Ghz and with 256MB Ram and used the ARMv7 instruction set.

How do you expect a modern day OS with requirements to deal with real world sensors, and user requirements that didn’t exist back then, to run against that?

The latest iPads have 2GB Ram, are 64 bit, run multiple cores and have embedded motion coprocessors and neural capabilities running a much later instruction set.

Let’s be reasonable here - that device is now about to be 14 years old.

And, if “the hardware works beautifully” how is it “pretty much a brick”?

iPads are not the same as laptops or desktops. Sure, you can still run some Linux distros on older 32 bit hardware, but everyone who does knows of the limitations of doing so and realize that they lack the horsepower of modern day computers and use them accordingly.

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Ugh, I’m biased and so I don’t really want to answer but will try. According the VLC, the reason for them becoming so terrible as a media player is because they can’t update their app. Now as you and me can both clearly see, the latest version available is the version that is in the app store and on F-Droid. If they were crying about not being able to update and had a version or two that they were unable to upload, it would make sense. But nope, they have nothing beyond what they have. Add to that, if you look at their forums, lots of people have been raising issues. One very handsome man even posted this in October

VLC was once the best in class. Not only was it a great piece of legacy software, the Android team were so passionate that they took that reputation and all the expectations that go along with it and exceeded it.

But as time has gone on, it’s just started to languish. If you attempt to rewind a few too many times, the video freezes and you get audio. You can’t play a folder on a NAS without creating a playlist. You play a folder locally without VLC losing its place. Every time the screen goes off, it needs to scan the device anew. And despite being at the forefront of Holo Design and Material Design 1, it’s yet to implement Material You.

It feels like VLC for Android has been forgotten…

To which their response was to ask for logs, despite the fact that the issues can be reproduced on every device I’ve ever tried.

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From my understanding of the quoted text, that’s what the person is suggesting. That at a certain point, things shouldn’t any longer just work and users should be made to take responsibility.

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I just feel it doesn’t make sense to moan unless you have releases you’re unable to deploy.

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I don’t even think it’s that. I think it’s simply a case of them becoming complacent and now they’re scrambling for excuses. VLC has stood still for a long time. Fan sub groups now recommend MPV on Windows and on Android VLC is showing its age. They speak of not wanting to abandon old users on legacy hardware, but what about old users on modern hardware who have been left feeling abandoned by how buggy the software is? When you dig into things, it doesn’t look like anyone is doing VLC full-time and alternative projects are more lucrative and that’s fine. Just say that. Even the other day, when they spoke of their new plans, once you got past the headline, all the plans were sane and made perfect sense, some more than others. I think they’re just a bit embarrassed.

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Besides Tor, I’m yet to see a Firefox fork that makes sense

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Out of curiosity, in which ways are telemetry privacy issues and how does Icecat solve them in a way in which NextDNS doesn’t?

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Even without NextDNS, what data is it that’s being collected that’s so bad?

Every website and app sees your IP address and has done since forever. Intersections like number of tabs, number of web pages, installed add-ons are how features are developed and resources assigned.

You can turn off the sponsored links.

Technical information is again, good housekeeping.

Did you ever watch House MD? Remember how he used to say everybody lies and so would look for hard evidence? That’s telemetry. They need to know what’s happening in order to make the best browser possible, because the alternative is just doing what the people who shout the loudest want and that didn’t work out too well for them.

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To be honest, I find your standpoint immature, naive, ignorant and selfish. But there’s clearly forks that cater to your mindset, so enjoy them.

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Privacy is great and we all make sacrifices to achieve it. But there’s privacy and there’s malicious paranoia.

Let’s look at Mozilla and Firefox. Once upon a time they were doing well, really well in fact, to the point that they toppled a hegemon. They were a breath of fresh air in a formerly Internet Explorer world.

However things didn’t last. A new competitor came forward and abused its new monopoly to get skin in the game, but for the most part actually made a better browser.

Mozilla asked its fanbase what it should do and a vocal minority spoke up. Mozilla focused on those things and people left for what had become a better browser.

Mozilla looked at how the competitor improved and realised the value of data driving decisions, they had said data as opt-in and hardly anyone opted in. Though this is something commonly known. Eventually Mozilla, in order to stay competitive, made it opt out and as a result, with tonnes more data and a better understanding, started making changes that improved Firefox and once more made it competitive.

Unfortunately for Mozilla, there are some organizations that abuse telemetry and so the connotations are of a giant privacy nightmare. Mozilla enables users to see all the data that is sent, but connotations are hard to overcome.

Now with all that in mind, Mozilla’s the last bastion of freedom. It’s in charge of the last non Google or Apple major rendering engine and some of the same people that acknowledge its vitally important, are unwilling to do their part to ensure its survival.

The goal of Mozilla is a free Internet and in order to provide that, they need an important browser. But there are people that refuse to contribute their telemetry, so said rendering engine doesn’t register. The browser can’t improve, it looks like they’re not using the rendering engine and they don’t donate. They’re essentially just being leeches, but they’re protecting their privacy while sacrificing everyone else’s.

It’s like shooting everyone that walks on your road in order to protect your family.

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I hear and understand you. There’s absolutely no way you should just blindly accept Telemetry. But there are companies that deserve your faith until they fuck up. Mozilla is one of them. It’s also worth noting that they only keep Telemetry data for 1 year: support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/telemetry-clientid#:….

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Did the link not work for you?

https://lazysoci.al/pictrs/image/2f86a991-a7e9-414f-8e9f-8141c7b8f3a7.jpeg

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My favourite thing about electric cars is the sound of the motor whirling at high speeds and how quiet they are ordinarily. I have no idea why old people insist on the noise pollution of yesteryear.

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I live in a city. Opposite a school in fact. I can hear the ICE cars every day. I can’t say the same about electric cars. I’m sure there’s some equivalency somewhere, but it doesn’t apply to my real world experience.

The same with riding in ICE versus electric taxis. My mum has a broken back and can feel the engine vibrations and the noise is annoying. That doesn’t apply to electric taxis.

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The motorbikes and scooters are the worst for noise pollution. I can’t wait until they’re all replaced by electric versions.

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I just woke up and your comment is one of the first things I’ve read today and already you’ve made my day. You’re a wonderful person.

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I think you’re conflating a couple things here.

Firstly, the notion that Lemmings are xenophobic is false. While there’s evidence to support this claim, on closer inspection you’ll see the issue isn’t about embracing new platforms, but the type of platforms. This attitude goes beyond the Threadiverse and is in fact one of the fundamental attitudes of the fediverse, as exhibited with corporate instances getting fediblocked on mastodon.

To suggest that everyone is petty because they’re not embracing corporations is a giant stretch.

Counter to the outright lie that’s being peddled here is the excitement about NodeBB and its ActivityPub implementation.

Secondly, people hate Facebook and rightfully so.

Thirdly, BlueSky is still a corporation who, doesn’t implement ActivityPub and have built a platform that pretends to give people power while hoarding all the real power for themselves.

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The comments suggest this is a cul-de-sac, with OS400 and Pick OS having thoroughly traversed this ground.

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Happy birthday to your mum!

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