I cancelled my years long subscription to Spotify because they were intentionally feeding me AI music alongside real artists in generated playlists. Every now and then you’d check the artist and there would be no bio or any info online about who was playing the current song.

I’ll never give a single cent to Spotify ever again.

Yep go to that url on your Kobo’s browser and then on your computer or phone and upload a file and click “kepubify” so that it converts to an epub and then send.

I wish people like you would have actual understanding of the things you talk about so confidently online. You’re just posting disinformation and you’re absolutely wrong.

Kobo does not need any account to use. Out of the popular mainstream eReaders, it is one of the most open. You can add non-drm ebooks to it without any issues unlike the Kindle.

I’ve been using send.djazz.se to wirelessly transfer books to my Kobo, as well as the open source Calibre program on my laptop.

No accounts required.

How have they received payment in the past?

According to your logic, we should all be paying subscription fees for all video games since there are often patches and dlcs added to them in the future. This is deranged.

You’re naive if you think AI slop will ever be cut out of anything ever again.

Ya wasn’t Palantir the good guys who just wanted to industrialize middle earth and move on into the future and Gandalf and the hobbits were the radical socialists who just wanted chaos and nature and inefficient shit???

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He heard that Star Trek gives ya nerd street cred. Probably thinks the Borg are the good guys.

Can confirm. Blew a fuse when Spotify started sneaking AI generated music in my playlists and my whole family said I was overreacting and that it didn’t matter

People on average will literally put up with anything. You can charge them $10/month for their email and you see 90% or so of all people just shrug and then pay it.

It’s never going to be released. Zero prototypes and being pushed by a billionaire.

Your wife probably searched them online. The advertisers got your public IP address to display ads of what was searched. It’s so subtle and people leave digital bread crumbs everywhere that it gives the appearance that the phone is listening to you.

Truth be told it’s more processing power and work to stream and auto transcribe everyone’s audio from their phone. It’s effortless to just scoop up all search and purchase data.

Your phone told advertisers you were located at Lowe’s using GPS. Then your credit card company told advertisers you bought drill bits. If you looked up any cabinet door handles in the past, that data was given to advertisers too. They put all those pieces together to serve you more ads on drill bits and cabinet door handles.

When I was 16-22ish, I knew everything. I was sure of it. I had it all figured out. Everyone was an idiot except me. I tried giving everyone advice because I had the best advice.

Then reality kicked me in the ass and brought me down a couple pegs and I realized that I was so incredibly wrong. I’m just a guy with limited knowledge and the world and universe is so vast and different that no one can “know it all” or even come remotely close.

I’m so thankful for that. Otherwise I’d be a fucking moron with a dumb leather jacket waxing poetic about skilled trades as I pretend that next word guessing chatbots are the pinnacle of humanity’s creation.

You want to charge real money for a slop guide on using slop machines that you made with a slop machine? 🤡🤡🤡

How do you cast from your android or iPhone to am HTPC?

It’s weird that techno drug dealers are in charge of governments and economies and are trying to force everyone to do their drugs.

I’ve used it to control my headless Windows server back when I was into self harm.

DWService is great! Never had issues with it. Try it on your own machine to play around and see if it works for your usecaze.

Wild. I knew Henry Ford was a Nazi but didn’t know square dancing was a result of him lobbying schools to try and control the culture. Nazis are dumber than rocks.