Literally just a fucking nazi. Good riddance.

Absolutely senile and the biggest "yes man" of a puppet to ever sit in that office lmao

Not that that makes him any less of a war criminal as the last 40ish people in the role but w/e

Same. I've never been much of a tv/movie person in general, but netflix in its prime was fantastic. But nowadays there are like 30 different streaming services, every single one is egregiously priced, and everything has their own exclusive libraries. Hell I'm surprised they're not streaming genAI slop "movies" yet at the rate they're all going (or maybe they already are, who knows). Fuck all of that noise.

Spotify did the same thing for me years ago. Went from a hand-maintained local library to Spotify, held on to that for like 10 years, ditched them at the start of this year when they were overwhelmingly supporting fascists with political donations. Switched to Tidal for a bit since it has higher quality and better artist payouts, but today I'm right back to hosting a local library (which is better than ever these days), buying what I can directly from artists to support them rather than subscription fees.

I may be stupid

I was typing up "5 decades" and thinking "50 years"

I just canceled Tidal and set up a Navidrome server, and I've probably spent more on bandcamp and such lately than 2 years of that subscription.

So I can't say I saved anything cost-wise, but having more control over my library is absolutely worth it. Realistically a single direct album purchase goes much further than streaming the same album anyway.

Yep, big time. Basically dead at this point, forcing payments to stream your own content.

I started setting up my homelab last month and immediately went to Jellyfin because Plex just screamed "corporate bullshit" to me. Sure enough, it was the right call.

Definitely this. No doubt they do want to terrorize citizens they view as enemies too, but they're absolutely using AI bullshit for all of this.

This is why this tech is so insanely dangerous right now.

They already did

It's fucking stupid but at least it's something to get the apathetic types to actually give a shit for once, even if it's for the most dogshit reason.

honestly one of those times I just don't give a shit about the winner as long as the ratfuck loses. lmao get bent

I didn't pay for any Google bullshit and barely use anything of theirs these days. I paid for the hardware. There are literally full custom roms that sandbox and/or disable their junk

I posted this over on the other site.

The kickstarter mentions a few names but it doesn't seem like Kurvitz or any had any involvement in this, and one of the leads of this project is an AI techbro consultant claiming he was one of the original creators. And yep, Longdue sued one of the original writers and won.

This one's a HARD pass.