Comment on Spotifies come and Spotifies go, but that folder of badly-sorted MP3s will still be there in the 2050s.

• hansolo@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s an arms race. YT is hard to use, then someone comes up with a great new front end that works for a year, lather rinse repeat.

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  • brbposting@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Authorized-hardware only when 🤔

    Then we’re back to Telesyncs - will be cloud services with device + camera farms to help us rip videos that must be viewed on specific devices - those that pass checks ensuring the only output is on the screen itself

    Then they’ll work on anti-recordable screens? :)

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    • hansolo@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s coming. Android just announced they are going to make devs ID themselves and prevent side loading, so all those great new open source front ends were just given a terminal diagnosis. For now.

      The walled gardens are being walled in like medieval Carcassonne or Dubrovnik. Foreigners viewed with suspicion, only lifelong residents allowed full rights.

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      • brbposting@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        That is a scary announcement

        :(

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