there are companies that just provide a good service/product/app without much controversy. unless you’re one of those “capitalism is inherently evil” people.

for some reason my work is the opposite. they were all lenovo (which were great), but we were forced to switch to shitty dells.

The thing is, VPNs won’t protect your privacy much. Browser fingerprinting technology has achieved its goal. True anonymity online is damn near impossible now.

except for traffic that does not come from a web browser at all. like API calls to download linux ISOs.

or pretty much all remote IT work.

fuckin A.

synology also did this recently. shit should be illegal.

you could probably even get copilot to write it!

consider this. most musicians don’t have [n]early as much money as Paul McCartney. Even Paul McCartney didn’t have much money when he was starting out in the 60s.

It’s more than that. genAI can’t create music out of the ether. It has to be trained first, meaning it basically “listens” to a shit ton of music before it can generate any music. That means:

1. Its music will be 100% derivative with no true creativity at all. Do you just want a mishmash of all pre-existing music forever?

2. most importantly, the artists whose music the genAI was trained on were likely not compensated at all for that training. So not only is the music ecosystem going to be inundated with AI slop, but we’ve stolen from working musicians to do it.

be realistic my friend.

you’re saying protesting the use of AI to make music is gatekeeping entry? It’s more like protecting the IP of fellow musicians. How do you think AI was trained to make music? Do you think musicians were compensated for that training?

so? other businessmen only like AI because it makes them money.

like it or not money is important in our society, even for artists.

honestly though how much battery do you need on an average day?

the vast majority of people put cases around their phones which eliminates the camera protrusion. If you do use a case with an Air, it’ll still be thinner than the other iphone options.

or maybe there are other reasons people don’t want it. crazy huh.

if this was my year to upgrade i might have gotten one. I use a magsafe wallet which evens out the back with the camera bulge.

99% of my days the battery would probably be sufficient, but if I’m going on a trip or whatever I can use a magsafe charger. You can’t do the opposite with a thick phone; you’re just carrying unnecessary bulk every single day.

the main issue for me is the price. I like the idea, but I’m not sure how much of a premium I want to pay for it, if any.

you are way overthinking it my friend. running a docker container for jellyfin is not a big deal and requires virtually no maintenance. lots of QOL improvements too like tracking watched status, playlists, metadata, clients that run on an actual television, etc, etc.

another year another blog complaining about apple icons.

his youtube channel is printed on the packaging, at the very least that’s advertising.

Also DDG is a perfectly viable option.