Unfortunately most people are intimidated and wary of Linux because “some of my programs might not work”

Average people aren’t going to learn a new system because the whole “devil you know” thing.

Simply, the majority of people would rather stick with MS than install a new OS.

I’ve tried to get so many people to switch to Qobuz. “but my super obscure metal band that nobody’s heard of isn’t on there.” 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

Fuck Spotify.

Ahhhhhh for sure for sure. I missread the article. I thought the lawsuits were from spotify/Google/deezer. My bad.

Either way, I’m in the camp of “let them all destroy eachother…”

But that’s exactly my point. Spotify and Google aren’t going to pass these lawsuit winnings off to the artists. They’re going to keep it for themselves and pat themselves on the back like they did a good job of stopping the AI company from stealing.

On one hand, I’m happy that an AI company got slapped on the wrist for this. On the other, I don’t give a shit about Google or Spotify.

I hope all of these companies burn and all the money can go to the music artists.

Don’t forget that they are also doing this to desensitize and normalize this for children…

No, honestly, this is a great explanation. That’s how I basically thought it works, but I’m very new to the ecosystem, and didn’t want to make assumptions.

Okay, I understand that Linux Mint can be Ubuntu or Debian… But as a Mint user, would these changes even take place on my end? I don’t entirely understand how these versions are forked. I don’t believe I use Ubuntu… But is mint just built on a new Ubuntu infrastructure?

Can someone smarter than me please help? Lol

Hey bud, thanks for the criticism.

I’m gonna go back to my IRL life now.

Me? An expert? A guy who commented on a Lemmy post??

I said fuck the rich and y’all attacked me for being a shill for big oil.

Get out of here with that bullshit.

Fuck y’all are so fucking pedantic.

Okay, maybe every fucking state has a charger. But some places have not expanded, especially to rural areas.

Jesus fucking Christ. Y’all can’t read extrapolation.

Never comment on anything on the internet. Fucking assholes like y’all chase down every goddamn word.

My dude is that what I said?

I am very anti-big oil. I also acknowledge the fact that big oil has fucked us.

I think if we can break away from their stranglehold on the industry, we can expand our grid and make EV happen. We also have a very large country with nothing in the middle. There are states without any electric chargers installed. It’s a very big hurdle.

I never said we should slow EV adoption. If anything, I think they need to give everybody an electric car for free and make solar panels standard everywhere. But that’s not going to happen because of capitalism.

I’m not using big oil talking points. I’m saying in reality, because of the damage that big oil has done to keep us from going electric, the infrastructure is not currently there.

They’ve paid money to keep us from expanding our grid. They are saying it won’t work because they are making sure it doesn’t.

I completely agree with you that I think it is absolutely possible, but there are bigger things blocking the way.

I mean… The main reason is people don’t have money for a new car. Also the electrical infrastructure in this country is not ready for everyone to go electric.

The gas and oil industries have paid TONS of money to keep people locked into gas vehicles.

Once again, the rich continue to fuck the rest of us.

Just delete your account there big guy.

What a piece of shit bootlicker.

Vietnam is about to see a lot of people connecting to their servers through VPNs.

Hang on, as somebody who knows enough to be looking into switching to graphene, but not entirely enough to know what AOSP is, what exactly is happening?

Am I going to fuck myself over? If I do end up switching to a custom rom? Should I just wait on the Linux community to build something better?

All I want is a working device that isn’t selling all my shit to Mark Zuckerberg

I have noticed that the search function is very unforgiving. Like, you have to search the exact title, because it will not find a partial name.

That sucks that a lot of songs didn’t come up. I’ve actually been pleasantly surprised with the content. Personally. A lot of my stuff that I thought was pretty niche I’ve been able to find.

Are you noticing any specific genres are more difficult than others?

This reads like “old man yells at clouds”

Like on one hand, sure, tiktok has accelerated the amount of info/media kids are latching onto. But also, remember street sharks? Remember pogs? Or floam? Like… shits always been like this.

I use Qobuz! It works well most the time. And it has a huge library. Some things are not as polished as some of the bigger companies. And there’s a lot of Initial setup to get it working…

That said, I would say it’s a great option. I do wish it had better continuous play options, as sometimes I listen to a playlist, and then it just stops. But that may be part of the learning curve. I’m not really a big “playlists” guy… I’d like to start a radio and have it find similar artists (similar to Pandora 12 years ago) But that doesn’t really seem to be the way companies are going anymore.

I have several Google mini devices (I know, I know. I’m working on it, but that’s a whole other process) and they don’t really seem to get along with qobuz all the time.

Overall, I like it, but it still needs work.