I think I might continue using it for music discovery only. For everything else music-related: https://mornye.com/ (mobile and desktop, pulls audio and metadata from multiple providers, rips FLAC and populates metadata, builtin player, syncs library across devices).

Of course, if an artist has bandcamp and I can buy singles I want, I’ll continue doing that as well.

For most people who are not into tech, grasping the concepts required for setup would be difficult. However, if you can mostly understand the first sentence in my comment above, it should be fairly straightforward.

Buy a domain, have your email address be tied to that domain and set it so the DNS record redirects to the email provider of your choice.

You can now swap email providers without having to change your email address.

The big non-obvious issue is certification and responsibility.

A rich white person with green eyes will approach you and your dog on your walk, they will ask to pet your dog. Do not let them.

Wait, really? Proven? It’s not even a question, proven to not work outright?

Wow.

Please do.

sentience noun 1: a sentient quality or state 2: feeling or sensation as distinguished from perception and thought

What… is this a joke? These are so non-specific and generic. With this as criteria you could argue for anything being sentient, and nothing being sentient. This is useless.

Hold on, there is a widely accepted definition of sentience?

Of course.

Nord as in the NordVPN Nord?

I have no idea what you are trying to say.

And that is why the collapse of current hype is inevitable.

Which isn’t happening. AI can be run autonomously for simple tasks, but not the complex ones which are actually what costs the most. The quality of LLM output depends on the quality of input. GIGO holds.

Any proton alternatives that are in EU and at least are not under the jurisdiction of 5 eyes?

I always thought that one day Linux would beat Windows. Now I see that this is impossible, and the only one who could defeat Windows is Windows itself.

Yeah, they made it a bit obfuscated after the predecessor got taken out for coming with batteries included. After adding the extensions you can set the spotify extension for search and Qobuz, Deezer for download.

Go to the search tab, paste in your spotify playlist link and it will pull everything in and then you can download.

My recommendation: https://mornye.com/

Supports multiple music services, use whichever service you want to find music, rip metadata from whichever has the most complete, then rip the music from whichever has the highest quality (yes, FLAC). Drop your spotify playlist and it will download all of it. The sublime embedding of lyrics and ReplayGain tags. My god, it even has a builtin player and library management, available on mobile and desktop.

Thanks I ate it