But you see, normal adults don’t just do fun things that aren’t on the pre-approved adult appropriate list of activities. /s

Yeah, it shows they think the bad output quality is the only valid reason you’d be against slop.

The problem is that it’s really hard to leave.

Building your own library from scratch is a lot of work after getting used to streaming.

And Spotify alternatives are either worse or unavailable in my region.

Don’t change the settings from defaults and it won’t look like this.

You’ve specifically changed the profile from default or adjusted settings for one of them to give extra highlight to the roads.
That, or you’ve changed the theme from default.

Embrace. Expand. Extinguish.

That implies careful planning.

In this case, MS thought just mindlessly throwing money around will somehow bring in massive profits.

Ironically, it’s the rolling release that’s much more stable for me.

“Stable” distros often had a long and risky process of upgrading to the next major release.

Meanwhile, my Arch install has been pretty damn stable for over 10 years and went through several different PCs.

If you expect them to dress up for no reason, sure.

Go where people actually have a reason to care and you’ll find them…

Why would you dress up for a hotel?

When traveling “looking fancy” is the last thing I care about.

They can’t even keep their original promise of DRM free games.
For example, they thought they could get away with selling latest Hitman with its always-online DRM, and only changed their minds after the backlash.

Also, from the beginning they’ve been promising to support Linux.
Nothing but empty promises so far, they didn’t even have the decency to publicly admit it’s never happening.

Valve, meanwhile, didn’t promise anything, but quietly funded the development of Wine and all kinds of related open source software.
Thanks to their work I’ve been able to completely ditch Windows a few years ago.

For this reason alone I’m glad to buy from Steam whenever I can.

I really wanted GOG to be a viable competition, but their years and years of broken promises are not going to make me leave Steam.

And why would they care anyway? Why does anyone?

“Pope says” is pretty much irrelevant, even to a lot of christians, not to mention everyone else.

Where’s the problem? It makes learning much more approachable and interesting.

If I want to read, I can just stay at home and read on the Internet.

Pretty sure that’d be illegal under GDPR.

You shouldn’t be exposing any self-hosted service to the public Internet, unless you’re willing to also monitor for potential breaches.

Yeah, but Bandcamp isn’t an alternative to Spotify.

It’s an alternative to streaming.

Which competitor doesn’t allow them?

We fought the man and won.

I think Anna is a woman’s name. /s

Last attempt to squeeze some money before these formats are abandoned in favor of competition, I guess.

Maybe you should reply to that comment you’ve mentioned and ask them to explain why they’re spreading FUD.

To be fair, I’m actually pleasantly surprised that people didn’t go for it.

It’s not like majority of people seemed to give a shit about privacy not too long ago…