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I put a hard drive in mine, now it also plays the games I didn’t bought for it!

Indirectly murdering hundreds of thousands of people in pursuit of profits.

Generally speaking, hand grenades are self opening anyway.

I want to say they recently laid off a bunch of people for AI coding despite pushing against AI music. Plus their owners are kind of increasingly Vulture Capitalisty.

I can’t find it at theoment but Insaw something on reddit and lined up a list of alternatices but of course, the alternative suggestions are even more smaller and niche.

I have had good luck with it and there is a pretty generous free tier I think if you want to try it.

I don’t use the app and disabled it. I watch via Firefox Mobile which has Ublock Origin. Also I run NextDNS, which I pay $2/month to, to block ads.

Similar set up on the desktop and laptop, though I also yt-dl a lot.

I also just, really hate video as a format for 99% of things. I MUCH prefer reading blogs and such. Most of my Youtube watching is concert videos. I love live music, even if its mediocre cell phone footage.

Oh yeah, and Spotify pays artist garbage. Its best to buy direct from their website or Bandcamp (on Bandcamp Fridays).

Though Bandcamp is starting to get enshitified.

I have no idea what you are even talking about because I basically never see ads anywhere.

Because in the end they are not even selling anything except accidental clicks at the expense of alienating their userbase and destroying any trust.

I never see ads almoat anywhere, I have layers of blocking, PiHole, UBlock Origin, Ghostery, often use a VPN, NextDNS on the phone, a few other plug ins.

Thats the thing.

They used to know.

Because instead of shitty algorythms, some sales person would go out and be lke “hey Ford, want to advertise on our car website?”

First guy was the entertaining member of The Immortals Incredibles Eternals. That memorable Marvel bunch.

Oh yeah, its so wild when you see it.

Like, I forgot Youtube even has ads.

And just to throw out therr, I get it, people need to make money, I am not against advertising, but fuck the ads are SOOOOO MANY and all come off as SOOOOOO scammy.

If you are showing me an ad online, I assume you and the product are just trying to rip me off and whatever is being promoted is a scam. If it was just “Hey, McDonalds has McRibs” in a little banner, ok fine, whatever. But its all this wild cheap garbage from weird fucking bull shit websites. What happened to actually having a sales person vet this shit?

“Oops, welp, better get a new one with a stupid scowling Trump on it!”

– Idiot Administration probably

Project 2025 has a book.

I recently set up Navidrome on my home server. I listen using Symphonium. Its all basically “Spotify but my own music collection.”

Dad: “Hey son, remeber when I filmed the wrong kid when you were five? Maybe all Asian do look alike!”

Man: “Oh yeah, that was funny wasn’t it dad.”

Son, stepping over from nearby: “Dad, who are you talking to?”