smee

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[โ€“] smee@sosial.link 0 points 6 days ago (4 children)

I am 100% sure it's possible to attend baseball games without the Ticketmaster app, just not the ones you want to see.

It may not be the flashiest, biggest games with the baseball superstars or the matches hyped up by the media or your peers. And that's what people want. ๐Ÿคท

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I've stopped going to concerts at the big avenues because I have to use an app or buy tickets online. I can't see the biggest artists with the most flashy albums that's been hyped up by all the advertisements. Actually bums me out. But I can still attend other concerts at less predatory avenues.

Such is my way of navigating clown world.

[โ€“] smee@sosial.link 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (9 children)

There's always going to be cars that are repairable, they're just never going to be the flashiest, newest, cheapest or most media and socially hyped up vehicles. And that's what people want.

Folk complain about a simple thing like non-replaceable batteries in phones. But there's always been phones with replaceable batteries. They're just not Samsung phones or packed with the latest AI.

And honestly, if people cannot understand what they're signing up for... Perhaps they shouldn't sign away their first born child to begin with?

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[โ€“] smee@sosial.link 21 points 1 week ago

If that's not a bridge then I got a bridge to sell you!

[โ€“] smee@sosial.link 13 points 1 week ago (15 children)

If one uses Spotify instead of a personal music collection one controls, this is what one gets. If one uses Facebook, Google or similar, this is what one gets.

I read about 1/3rd of the piece until I was sure that not a single one of the problems described concerns me. Because I don't use Sonos, I don't use Spotify and every other shitty service described as enshittified in this text.

I feel sorry for the technologically poor, every single sod who totally relinquishes control of most of their digital life, in a time when more and more of our daily live becomes digital, to people they know are out to get them. I will never understand it.

[โ€“] smee@sosial.link 3 points 1 week ago

That's nice.

[โ€“] smee@sosial.link 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I like Navidrome, it also supports the... Subsonic(?) protocol so one can use dedicated apps with on-device caching, which is nice for mobile devices without unlimited data.

[โ€“] smee@sosial.link 14 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I'm a man who both stand and clean my own toilet, sorry if your preconceptions are wrong.

[โ€“] smee@sosial.link 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What, it's 1834 now - Central European Time.

[โ€“] smee@sosial.link 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Nostrachadmus.

[โ€“] smee@sosial.link 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I have no idea what that means.

[โ€“] smee@sosial.link 43 points 1 week ago (11 children)

Who is this Liugi Mangonie?

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