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  • the system exploits you!

    i live a fine life actually

    the system exploits other people!

    🤣

    believe it or not the system has also improved the lives of billions of people:

    Two centuries ago, the majority of the world population was extremely poor. Back then, it was widely believed that widespread poverty was inevitable. But this turned out to be wrong. Economic growth is possible, and poverty can decline. The world has made immense progress against extreme poverty.

    https://ourworldindata.org/extreme-poverty-in-brief

    wow incredible😀

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  • thanks! i live an incredibly high quality life thanks to the system that exploits me, i literally live a better life than kings did 150 years ago

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  • not really, most people on the grind are working towards having f u money and early retirement

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  • As of the most recent data, the United States exported about 920 million pounds (approximately 417,000 metric tons) of scrap plastic in 2023, marking a significant decrease compared to previous years. This represents a drop of about 80% since 2015, largely due to changes in global waste import policies, especially China's 2018 ban on plastic waste imports. In 2024, Canada was the leading destination for U.S. plastic scrap exports, receiving about 142,000 metric tons, followed by Mexico with over 87,000 metric tons

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  • do companies/factories in your country not also recycle what they can? are they not paying money to garbage collectors who are incentivised by the state to sort their garbage?

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  • https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/China%27s_waste_import_ban

    that was 2018… some countries tried to send it to other 3rd world countries but then they also put in their own bans

    so most have now developed their own systems for dealing with their own garbage/recycling

    this place i swear is as misinformed as your average trump supporter on facebook

  • Google just broke all third-party YT clients, including yt-dlp; a full JS implementation is now required.

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  • youtube has a monopoly on video content, they can (and will) do what they want

  • Get ready to see ads on your… Samsung refrigerator

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  • the galaxy fold looks awesome but these refrigerator ads ain't it

  • Spotify is finally launching support for lossless music streaming

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  • It's funny how many times people on Lemmy have accused Spotify of not paying artists fairly but for some reason there's a large amount of 'I pirate music and pay artists nothing' that goes on around here and no one says a thing

  • Spotify is finally launching support for lossless music streaming

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  • Incoming Spotify premium plus subscription tier

    That was what they were planning to do, a new premium tier that would have lots of extras but then Apple released lossless audio as part of the standard base tier so Spotify gave up on it

    To me I don't really get it, I've had flac audio files in the past and I haven't really found much difference in audio quality above 192k

    Just to confirm there is no new tier for this

    From today (September 10), Spotify Lossless will be rolling out to Premium users across over 50 regions including the US, UK and Australia. Spotify says the rollout is starting now and will continue though October. You’ll receive a notification alerting you when Lossless is available, but that’s not all.

    Surprisingly, Spotify Lossless is free for Premium subscribers – a huge sigh of relief given that previous rumors suggested that lossless audio would come in the form of a paid add-on called ‘Music Pro’.

    https://www.techradar.com/audio/spotify/audiophiles-rejoice-spotify-lossless-is-finally-here-and-its-a-huge-step-for-the-streaming-service

  • Why I Ditched Spotify, and How I Set Up My Own Music Stack | LeshiCodes

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  • that’s just spotify, i assume you would also have youtube, apple music, and bandcamp and also do live performances on top

    it’s never been easy to make money in music, these guys will tell you:

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=g-qkY2yj4_A

    and that was the 70’s, as mentioned earlier:

    In 2024, more musicians are making and releasing music than ever before. In fact, a new report has found that more music is released in a single day now than in the entire year of 1989.

    the market is flooded, you’ll need to really put a lot of effort in to break out

  • Why I Ditched Spotify, and How I Set Up My Own Music Stack | LeshiCodes

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  • That is basically nothing for any artist that isn’t in the top tier of mainstream success.

    Did you not read your own article you linked to?

    • 1,000 monthly streams ≈ $3-5 (enough for a coffee)
    • 10,000 monthly streams ≈ $30-50 (could cover your streaming subscription)
    • 100,000 monthly streams ≈ $300-500 (now we’re talking meaningful income)
    • 1,000,000 monthly streams ≈ $3,000-5,000 (potentially livable wage depending on your location.

    https://simplebeen.com/artists-make-on-spotify/

    You’re essentially pirating music by using Spotify

    As above, you can see the payout rates in the article... a liveable wage on just Spotify alone is not equivalent to piracy which pays artists nothing, this is on top of Apple Music etc

    In 2024, Spotify alone paid out a record $10 billion to the music industry—totaling nearly $60 billion since our founding.

    10 billion in a year is not piracy (which is $0), are you the author of the article?

  • Why I Ditched Spotify, and How I Set Up My Own Music Stack | LeshiCodes

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  • In 2024, Spotify alone paid out a record $10 billion to the music industry—totaling nearly $60 billion since our founding.

    https://newsroom.spotify.com/2025-01-28/on-our-10-billion-milestone-and-a-decade-of-getting-the-world-to-value-music/

    You have to remember that prior to Spotify the music industry was desperate, as people turned to downloading mp3's illegally the music industry basically just resorted to suing people who potentially downloaded a song.

    I'm also very highly sceptical of this whole article, from the crappy accounting to

    Lidarr is just a tool. Like any tool, it can be misused. Yes, people could point it at less-than-legal sources

    My setup uses sabnzbd integrated with Lidarr for handling downloads of content I've purchased

    Riiiiiight.

    You're just hooked up into a piracy platform that pays artists nothing by coincidence.

    On top of this:

    In 2024, more musicians are making and releasing music than ever before. In fact, a new report has found that more music is released in a single day now than in the entire year of 1989.

    Music simply isn't a high value product anymore, the market is flooded, there is more music coming out per minute now than you can listen to.

    But it's all good, I'll keep paying for Spotify because Spotify pays all the artists I listen to.

  • Why I Ditched Spotify, and How I Set Up My Own Music Stack | LeshiCodes

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  • Majority of music is in albums, nearly 12,000 different tracks listened to, but most are singles, I rarely listen to albums from start to finish

    I listen to a lot of music in general

    https://aussie.zone/post/19441027/16055498

    Also I figured out you can turn off the payola:

    To opt out of receiving sponsored recommendations, go to your Spotify account on desktop > Account > Privacy settings > turn off Tailored ads.

    This will opt you out of receiving sponsored recommendations and personalized ads generally across our product. If you turn off Tailored ads, you will continue receiving podcast ads in your Premium account, but they will not be tailored to you.

    So even if you broke it down to me just having to buy singles I'm still getting a ridiculous amount of value from Spotify

  • Why I Ditched Spotify, and How I Set Up My Own Music Stack | LeshiCodes

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  • Monthly Cost $9.99-$14.99 One-time server setup + storage

    The problem is that's not the monthly cost because (in addition to running a server not being a one time thing, they need maintenance) it's not including the cost to actually buy all the music:

    Digital purchases (Bandcamp, iTunes, Amazon, etc.)

    For me:

    https://www.last.fm/user/ikt123/listening-report/year

    Paying for 7808 albums in 1 year is unfeasible, so this is not a replacement for Spotify for me, it could be though if you only listen to a tiny amount of music, at current rate of $15 a month for me, it's equal to like 1 album and like several smaller singles, if this is all you listen to in a month go for it.

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