Privacy and security concerns, most of them are like big tech on wheels. See Telsa and others spying on users during intimate moments. Also most have major security vulnerabilities.

Hopefully the author explains how to use SSL/TLS since their site doesn’t :/

I welcome my human counterparts

Check out the current Luddite movement, this is their main complaint

A combination of inputs before my existence, during my historical existence and real time inputs which combined with natural randomness leads to outputs at time

I suppose it depends on what outcome you want. Do you want only your thoughts or do you want something or someone else’s thoughts

Homemade pico had to make it so much better!

This is such a bummer of comment on so many levels. It’s like the tragedy of the commons became sentiment and chose nihilism

Your argument is that since it’s not convient or an exact substitution, we should continue supporting these companies that annoy us?

Understandable, we can only do what we are able to

Support your local baker and chocolate shop instead, big corporations aren’t your friend but your local small business owner could be

Well, if you use credit cards that data gets tracked, stored, mined for years to come, not to mention the dozens of internet servers it took for you to buy that bread in the immediate. If you use cash, I’d assume some local authorities use extra AI to track your movements via cloud cameras (plus fiat isn’t fungible since it has serial numbers)

It would be nice to hear the “pro-[insert your local fiat]” energy use when people argue environmentalism against cryptocurrencies

exactly

yeah not sure. are there ways to rip a drm physical album to audio file?

encrypt everything, layers and layers of encryption and then feed them garbage

why not buy the album and then use it locally on your device? vlc runs pretty much everything and you could fit thousands of songs while offline (could even remove the gsm/wifi/bluetooth from a phone running some FOSS os and turn it into your offline media device). or just get a cd player for $1 at a thrift store, offline, private, full access

thrift stores sell albums for $1 and there are a few sites that sell new music to be downloaded for cheap

what’s the difference between old.reddit and reddit? and why does reddit support old.reddit?

getting better every day!

thank you for your service! it’s been a treat the last week!