with an international network of corrupt oligarchs manipulating the media

This is literally an AI artefact. There’s every chance someone reading this understands its contents better than the author. What a joke.

I went from Tidal to Apple. They’re both fine. The main takeaway is when you switch platform it takes a number of months before the recommendation algorithm becomes useful. But there’s tools you can use to jump between providers, it’s less hard than most people think.

Also buying on bandcamp. I’d never pirate music from an artist who I know is struggling to make the numbers work - I need them to keep making music.

because for some time spotify was cheap, easy and useful so people were happy to pay

it’s fast become less of each of these and relies more on playlist lockin

They need to make this provider agnostic somehow. That would be amazing.

they do at least make it very easy to migrate away

closed source security products are a contradiction in terms

The issue is to become a successful CEO you tend to have to believe your own lies and very quickly surround yourself with sycophants. Whats more if you buck this trend you tend to limit your skillset as societally we reward bullshit more than results.

fire it into space futurama style

https://mailinabox.email/

cash is not known for its inherent security properties

put your cash in a safe; don’t give agents access to your banking api

I buy my cloud hosting with soy futures, of course

I’m more asking what cash is supposedly giving you

I don’t think it’s a good alternative, I should have said.

Cash? Which has its value controlled by a central bank which will devalue the wads under your mattress to help bail out their friends? Commodities are king.

I guess the alternative is streaming? I don’t think we’re going to be getting another generation of subsidised hardware.

I haven’t thought about geforce now for a while. It’s a bit of a different prospect now it’s owned by the highest valued company in America.

I think steam deck 2 as and when it comes out will be a golden age. I think it stands a chance to completely consolidate the market.

What process is there which successfully prevents AI code submissions? I wonder if we’re even having the right discussion here. It’s a very hard thing to police when people are doing work for free.