While I like spotify for music there are three things that bug me about it:

• Anker.fm ads. Just a rant I hate anker.fm auto injection ads. If you try sleeping to a pod cast it wil go from normal volume TO SHOUTING ABOUT STATEFARM OR DUNKIN. While this issue also occurs on third party podcasting apps spotify dynamically injects a banner ad into podcast art and hyperlinks the ad. I might be overeacting (I hate these kind of deeplink ads). To be clear I don’t mind host read ads like linus sponsor shoutouts but dynamic ad injection is awfull.

• No chapter support

Podcast republic is a good alternative (assuming your just planning to use it on mobile/web)

Second question would the US gov consider google “to big to fail” and just inject a ton of money to restore it (or give enought time to break it up)?

Kinda curious 😉

I doubt people will pay for a windows subscription. Most will stay on 10/11 indefinitely and Microsoft will probably backtrack pretty quickly (look at windows 10 to 11 migration) 😉

I use a combination of a MacMini Oracle cloud, probably not best long term solution but it’s free (while it lasts).

Stuff that runs on Oracle:

• caddy proxy (mostly used for Mac reverse proxy)
• couch db (obsidian live sync plugin)

Stuff on Mac:

• blue bubbles (iMessage relay for Android)
• Plex (for photo backup)

Aside from that not much else 😊

What kinda bugs me about youtube premium is that even if you pay you still get ads via baked in sponsors. I know creators have the right to do what they want with there content but I wish as a user there is an economical opiton to truely block ads.

Currently there are two paid models:

1. Nebula like services. I kinda wish more platforms like this would popup since atleast when you use them you truely get no ads (no baked in nor platform injected). While they have a lot of creators a lot of creators are missing from the platform (its mostly education/tech focused).

2. Patreon/Floatplane. Now this is typically the more popular option with creators as it guarantees a reasonably stable cash flow. The problem is as a user if you have to subscribe to multiple patreons for adfree content it can easly get to the cost of a cable bill (assume each creator charges $10 per month if you have 10-20 creators your follow you could be looking at a minimum of $100-$200 a month just to enjoy adfree content).

A kinda caviot is idk how much it costs in time/labor for production of youtube videos for major channels like linus. It could be that services like Nebula/Vessle would never be able to cover production cost hence why a patreon model is used. Even youtube ads if I recall only was able to cover about only one of their employees saleries (a lot but not enough to sustain the company).

I hope this post didn’t come of as selfish/greedy.

This might be a hot take but I wonder how this would be priced.

It could be handy for cloud gaming (since gforce now publishers are trying to block it).

Try playing super Mario Galaxy Wii while walking on a treadmill

Used to use Apollo and Reddit sync now switched over to Jeroba for Lemmy (android) and pwa for iPad

Might consider sync for Lemmy after it develops.

One thing I like about lemmy (at least for now) is since communities are a lot smaller than reddit their is a limit of new content that can be generted per day (if you sub to 20 or less comunities).

This kinda helps avoid the reddit doom scrooling (I’m guilty of this especially during the blackouts and spez issues).

I mostly never had many group chats (aside from family) so I kinda doged the issue for the most part. That being said I can under stand the annoyence/expectation of having to reply immediatly (I have read reciets turned of in many chat apps with certain exclusions).

As per lemmy they are kinda in a back in forth on enabling it since push notifications would typically rely on google firebase messaging or apples push notification service (for power effeciency purposes). Catch22 is it could go against foss/privacy.

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2631

In the past I used reddit sync on android. It would intercept push notifications from the official reddit app in the background and replace them with its own (practically instantanious).

Currently my work around is MonitoRSS and a discord channel to scan my lemmy inbox every 10 min. It kinda works but the down side is their are times I might see a messageon lemmy then discord notifies me later.

I suppose lemmy apps could use a polling based system but I wonder if their is a way to enable push (granted if one is willing to make the privacy trade off and use apple push notification or google firebase push notification).

Fair point. (I love with apollo specifically how you could reply in the notification shade without even having to open the app).

I couldn’t truly nuke my account. I’m studying for mcat and r/MCAT has a ton of better explanations for aamc (test maker) practice tests.

I sort use Lemmy 90% and reddit 10%.

I also installed blacklist to filter out reddit content (their is a toggle to show hidden reddit searches in worst case if needed). This kinda helps give visibility to other sites.