Comment on Jeff Geerling: Self-hosting your own media considered harmful (updated). Youtube removed his content, saying that self hosting content is "dangerous or harmful content"

NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• RaoulDook@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  MP3 players aren’t bad, they’re just mostly obsolete when smartphones can do the same thing and we mostly already have one.

  I like to keep several GB of music on my phone from my MP3 library, and I have no streaming music accounts. I pay once for my music if I pay at all.

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  • Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    There is a subsection of mp3 players that have enough power to drive high impedance headphones, Hifi players, some call them. They still make decent sales to their customer base of particular people.

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  • entwine413@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Your phone is an mp3 player. It just does other stuff too.

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    • Colloidal@programming.dev ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I remember when the iPhone came out, it was a little more than an iPod that made calls. The rest is history.

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      • atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I think you might be misremembering; the original iPhone had YouTube, maps (though it lacked a GPS for whatever reason), a camera, Safari, and even a primitive HTML based App Store that paved the way for modern PWAs. Games like Bejeweled were available months before iOS 2.0 came with the App Store.

        The Moto ROKR was an iPod that made calls.

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• BroBot9000@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yes cause they can’t sell you a subscription for your mp3 player.

  Fucking rent seeking behaviour from corporate parasites.

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  • lordnikon@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That’s the one thing idiocracy got wrong it wouldn’t be Costco it would be Rent-A-Center

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    • Bags@piefed.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Costco bought RAC in 2437 after Costco's CEO Harambe Memelord Disney Jr. offered RAC's CEO Squiggy John John John John Johnson a 2-for 1 deluxe latte coupon and an extra big-ass fry.

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• SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Clearly

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