Some entities have too much money to invest in stupid endeavors, money that they took from everyone else and they can lose without worrying too much. It’s a rotten society.

A music collection on your harddive is a joy for you personally for ever

As long as you take care of backups

I use Navidrome and scrobble to ListenBrainz and Last.fm for suggestions. I’ve recently learnt about Sonobarr but haven’t tried it yet.

It’s not as seamless as playing a song/artist station on spotify or just letting it decide what to continue with at the end of a playlist, but it’s also free (in both ways!).

The complaint about the one I have on my work ZBook is that removing the cable is more fiddly

wipping?

95 wasn’t good. That’s when the “just format C: and reinstall windows” tradition started. I had to do that to my computer at least yearly until 2000 came along.

That’s how the matrix started!

You don’t own proprietary software. When you allow it access to your computing resources, you can just hope it does what you want it to do, the way you want it to.

Sounds like a bonkers extremist position, and in a way it is, but it’s also true.

Distribution choice makes a lot of difference, but they’re not wrong, manufacturers just don’t write drivers for Linux. Sure, we’ve got AMD, Intel, and even nVidia (fuck nVidia btw) writing theirs, but peripherals are way more hit or miss.

That’s only going to be solved with wider adoption.

You assume they have morals, yet they work for X on an advanced feature