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Phegan , 29 days ago to Technology in Spotify has raised prices for the second time in a year, with no new benefits, after its CEO sparked outrage by claiming the cost of creating 'content' is 'close to zero'

Supporting artists directly via bandcamp and other options.

If you can't support artists directly, and would have to buy physical media which supports the record label and not the artist...pirate.

Phegan , 29 days ago to Technology in Spotify has raised prices for the second time in a year, with no new benefits, after its CEO sparked outrage by claiming the cost of creating 'content' is 'close to zero'

Then let them die.

Phegan , 1 month ago to Technology in Spotify is raising the cost of Premium subscriptions, again

I tried tidal for a bit, but ran into a number of issues with the various privacy methods I used and the lack of a Linux native client made it difficult to justify staying.

I am currently running a navidrome server and supporting artists directly for their music where possible.

Phegan , 1 month ago to Technology in Google AI making up recalls that didn’t happen

It blows my mind that these companies think AI is good as an informative resource. The whole point of generative text AIs is the make things up based on its training data. It doesn't learn, it generates. It's all made up, yet they want to slap it on a search engine like it provides factual information.

Phegan , 1 month ago to Lefty Memes in Doesn't matter how you try to justify it...

If people actually followed the teachings of Jesus, it would be a very difficult world. Christianity is supposed to be socialist as fuck.

Phegan , 1 month ago to Technology in Google Chrome’s plan to limit ad blocking extensions kicks off next week

Firefox is a good option.

But I will raise people one more. Waterfox. Been using it for over a year now and enjoy it.

Phegan , 1 month ago to linuxmemes in Shit...

Broken clock.

Phegan , 1 month ago to Technology in "Maybe This is Too Cool" - After years of layoffs and pay/resource freezes, Amazon execs treat themselves to a private Foo Fighters concert worth millions

We have to all work together to give those consequences. Workers need to act as a united force to push back against the ruling class. Checking out hurt the movement. Help us show them the consequences.

Phegan , 1 month ago to Technology in YouTube videos are skipping to the end for users with adblockers

You can download YouTube videos via yt-dlp and add them to a jellyfin server. If you'd want to watch them without ads and off of Google.

Phegan , 1 month ago to Technology in The Internet Archive is under a DDoS attack

Someone wanted to erase history.

Phegan , 1 month ago to Fuck Cars in The NYTimes is once again trashing the most promising mobility innovation of the 21st century

First of all, that makes sense, as if the media is saying two things that conflict with another, praise the one that is backed up by urban studies and the other IS spin

Second of all, a large section of media is paid ads in disguise.

I would recommend upping your media literacy as it helps you distinguish between spin and not spin.

Phegan , 1 month ago to Fuck Cars in The NYTimes is once again trashing the most promising mobility innovation of the 21st century

I've seen multiple instances of driving being mad that they are in traffic while bikes or buses zoom by.

If they weren't so infected with car brain, the easiest solution is to leverage one or both of those transportation methods that zoom by you.

Phegan , 1 month ago to Technology in Actually, Winamp is not going Open Source

That does not whip the llamas ass.

Phegan , 1 month ago to 196 in Voluntary Mandatory rule

Those who work at this company should all no show simultaneously and see how it does.

Phegan , 1 month ago to Technology in De-Google Your Life - Part 1

It's not.