Evkob

Yeah I've been excluded from work group chats on two separate occasions because they used iMessage and considering another platform was just entirely off the table.

Although to be honest, I consider being excluded from work group chats to be one of the best features of my phone!

I just tried it with that album, worked fine for me.

I do not want these ill-obtained files, so I cast them into a fire of media for you.

In the future, maybe try DD on another browser? Could be some addon or setting giving you an error.

This reminds me of years ago when I was trying to get my grandma off of Internet Explorer.

The only thing that worked in the end was adding a shortcut to the desktop and changing its icon to IE's. For a lot of younger people, or older folk who resisted computers until the 2010s, Chrome is the internet, the same way my grandma thought IE was the internet.

They even have Ted Cruz in it (as himself).

This nightmare world we live in would be hilarious if we didn't have to, you know, live in it.

"Car companies needs SUVs to survive financially!" is not a thoughtful response. It can easily be disproven by looking at the first 60 or so years of the automobile industry before SUVs were even a thing. The SUV takeover is a pretty recent phenomenon which has taken shape over the last twenty years.

What's the album?

I just tried copying a direct link to an album on Amazon Music and it downloaded it just fine. That album is available on other platforms, though.

I think we just have two very different use cases. I've used MP3 players and SD cards on smartphones in the past and for me streaming is such an upgrade.

Dicovering new artists or albums would mean having to cull something else from my collection (or upgrade storage, which isn't really always feasible/practical). Now, it's as simple as right clicking and adding to a playlist. I can jump from Wu-Tang to The Mountain Goats to that one band that's coming into town I might want to check out to fucking Crazy Frog if I feel so inclined. Sometimes I want Jack Johnson, sometimes I want Louis Armstrong, sometimes I want The Who.

I don't think I've listened to any of these artists for any particular amount in the past year or so, so why would I have them downloaded? But after listing them I might just go make a somewhat eclectic Spotify playlist.

Convenience, not needing a dedicated MP3 player, music discovery via algorithms, being able to play stuff you haven't already downloaded (ex: playing music at a gathering with friends is a lot more fun when anyone can just request basically any song imaginable and load it within seconds). These are my personal "excuses" anyway.

I don't and have never paid for Spotify with the idea I was supporting artists in doing so, but I still find it kinda funny that artists not getting paid well is your justification for not paying at all. Like I said I'm under no illusion that any artist I listen to is getting a significant payout from my streaming, and I'm very pro-piracy as well, but I do support artists I like through direct album/ticket/merch sales, or even via Patreon. Some of these artists I probably never would have discovered if it weren't for my addiction to the Discover Weekly playlist Spotify spits out for me. I wish more people would do this though, especially for smaller acts.

Also just an aside, but I feel like toning down the snark might get your point across better.

My top genre was "indie québécois" and it placed me in Québec, so it's at least smart enough to figure that out.

It routes your traffic through Piped instances rather than YouTube's servers. The main reason is probably just that I prefer LibreTube's UI.

NewPipe is an open source YouTube client for Android. I personally prefer LibreTube but either one is a lot better than using the official YouTube app.

I'm glad to know I'm not the only one who went on a bit of an open-source mania because of all the Linux and FOSS nerds on here.