Representatives don’t give a fuck what their constituents have to say on social media. It’s full of foreign trolls and bots.

But if you go in person to a town hall / public hearing on an agenda item, they know that you are:

• A real person
• An American
• Extremely likely to vote in the next election.

Source: I successfully killed a local zoning change by convincing my neighbors to go out and speak against it, despite lobbying from a large developer.

You didn’t mention a lack of ads. They remove all the ads when you subscribe, right?

So, all posts are from the perspective of people that are really into music. Enthusiasts that care deeply about individual albums and artists.

Whereas streaming services are most likely designed to cater to casual listeners like me. I can’t remember the last time I listened to an entire album. I haven’t liked any individual artist enough to attend a live concert. I generally listen to music while I’m doing stuff as background noise.

I used to listen to the radio for that. But streaming services algorithms were a strict upgrade to that due to lack of ads and talk show hosts.

Honestly, I don’t know if I’ll be able to determine whether a given piece of music is AI generated or not by listening to it.

So I don’t think direct purchase of digital LPs could ever be viable for people like me. And I’m guessing (based on the success of streaming services) that there are a lot more people like me than there are enthusiasts. Yes, I can switch to the least bad streaming service according to Lemmy, out of solidarity (and no other reason). Remember 99% of people won’t do that.

Just adding a perspective that might be missing from this community

Subnautica

Shrug. Meta employees make bank.

Dunno how attractive they are viewed as, because everyone there I personally know were already married before they joined Meta.

I remember specifically buying an Nvidia GPU in 2009 because their proprietary driver was awesome and could do multi monitors properly using their proprietary X11 extension called TwinView

Didn’t the Republicans immediately repeal that when they came to power?

$$$

Consoles are a shrinking market. If they were offered money by TV manufacturers to cooperate with putting more ads on it, they most certainly will.

And I suspect Microsoft/Windows will too. Apple might not, though.

In the US

FTFY. The long term outcome for this is that the world stops revolving around the US. For better or for worse

Usually, those are the companies that pay you $$$$$

Yeah they now expect you to use their native protocol for sharing audio on the network.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PipeWire#Sharing_audio_devices_with_computers_on_the_network

To be fair, any app written entirely by (human) vendor companies also works like that

Yeah initial setup requires their app (once).

But you can use their app without creating an account, which is such a breath of fresh air compared to everyone else.

https://reolink.com/

Offers all the features Google/Amazon do, but without the subscriptions.

Plus they joined the open home foundation, so they’re unlikely to enshitify.

I’m pleasantly surprised that it takes two did so well. I hope it shows publishers that there’s a market for couch co-op!

Ummm… maybe some more context is needed? That makes no sense

Might I suggest Bitwarden.

It’s open source, syncs across every platform I know of, and supports passkeys.

Not to derail your point, but growing up in Australia, we would mostly use kW. Like, it’s a 200kw engine instead of saying a 270hp engine.

I think it’s a jab at Postman, which is essentially curl with a GUI.