Hear hear. 📢

Thank you for the excellent suggestion. Worked perfectly. Managed to uninstall about 50 pieces of bloatware from my phone, starting with Chrome.

Props to you @zerozaku

This is very alarming. My eyes have never been opened so widely as they are in the last two months since I started ungoogling and FOSSing. This post has veritably split my eyelids.

Edit: Since reading this thread I have installed Shizuku + Canta and removed Chr9me and about 50 other pieces of bloatware from my phone.

Props to @zerozaku for the suggestion.

Thank you for the explanation. Its a pretty shit situation from an artists point of view it seems.

I’m guessing there was never any way for artists to fight this model when it developed. It was made so attractive for consumers like me to have music available on tap, that it would have been impossible for artists to fight against that level of convenience and demand.

I didn’t realise the figures were that bad to be honest. I suppose I assumed that because it was a way to get music to more people really quickly, that it would benefit artists.

Appreciate the explanation. 🙏🏼

Fair point. Admittedly, I wasn’t thinking about my response from a musician’s point of view.

Can you expand on your comment so I can understand the context a bit? I’m assuming from what you said that paid streaming services are not a positive thing for artists (or maybe smaller artists), and that it would be preferable if people were buying albums and singles outright? I’d like to understand it better.

This person just needs to manage their notifications and phone control better.

Also, while streaming (in my case Spotify) subs may seem expensive, it would be horrendously expensive to use an iPod and buy the amount of music I listen to (and three family members for that matter) instead. Considering the monthly sub, its fantastic value.

Personally, and without having made much effort, the issues mentioned in the article are a non-issue for me. And did I read that the HD and battery need to be modded?

Seems like a classic case of finding a problem for a solution.

Big deal. I did something like that once with no AI whatsoever.

That’s the most devastatingly effective description of the shitshow that I’ve ever heard.

Well worded and thanks. ✌🏼

1tn is plenty to go round surely!!!

Yet they still are knocking on the door of a 1tn valuation. 😖

Alanis could write an extra line in a particular song about this.

Or she could write a new song about NIMBYism, hypocrisy etc.

It’s not FOSS though I think? Free and paid tier. Website doesn’t say much about privacy etc. I actually have Lawnchair running silently and almost configured to mirror my Nova home screen but there doesn’t seem to be folders in the app drawer which is a pain, unless I have totally missed it.

Edit: Indeed, I totally missed it, in the settings. FFS.

Excellent. Lawnchair it is then.

Libretube, smarttube and the like. You realise the amount of bloated shit there is on YT when you use one of those. They are like a front end on the infra I suppose. Not familiar with Loops, must go digging!

Yet the FOSS alts are still free. Hot damn.