There’s also Deezer, SoundCloud, and others.

The reason why I stay with Spotify is sharing playlists with friends and Spotify connect supported by my HDMI receiver.

With a shared family account Spotify is also affordable.

It’s been like that that since I can remember. Upgrading can extend the lifespan by a few years, but often it’s a good idea to replace the whole system.

It depends on a lot of factors of course. If you buy a midrange machine now, you can upgrade it in five years to a high end machine from today, then five years ago.

Rarely do you get to take advantage of technology shifts like hard drives to SSD. A couple of years ago, adding more RAM and an SSD made machines usable, that had these bottlenecks. Still the best thing you can do to an old laptop or desktop.

Over the last decade performance hasn’t improved that much for most typical use cases. An i7 from ten years ago with 16 GB RAM and a 1 TB SSD, and a NVIDIA GTX 1080 is still a decent computer today.

What makes PCs great is that you’re more flexible regarding how you configure your machine. Adding more storage, more ports, extension cards, optical drives inside your machine etc. is just nice.

With a laptop you end up with crappy hubs and lots of cables.

There are few drop in replacements. Some you might have to replace with several apps or change the way you do certain tasks.

Instagram, X, LinkedIn, and Facebook are hard to replace. Their value comes mainly from the network of the people on there.

You might be able to move communication in a friend group to a Signal group chat.

Pixelfed and Mastodon can replace them partially as well. It really depends on the audience though. If you want to connect with tech folk, mastodon can be great, if you want fashionistas, less so.

Anything using lots of video uses lots of expensive bandwidth, so the free replacements usually suffer in this category. There’s no good endless scrolling reels replacement available at the moment.

PeerTube exists for video, but it’s pretty bare bones and lacks the huge community YouTube has.

Amazon does a million things from shopping, video streaming, backend services. There are alternatives to all of these.

Media subscription services for music and video don’t have good replacements. You can go with piracy and host your own Netflix using jellyfin. Spotify is from Sweden, IIRC.

Google Drive, Dropbox, and other file hosting on the cloud have lots of alternatives, that will lack one feature or another. OpenCloud and NextCloud are the biggest names, but any hoster that gives you WebDAV can replace it partially. It also depends on your use case: cloud backup, sharing files, accessing files across devices, working on the same file, etc.

If Roblox ever folds, there will be an open source reimplementation.

There’s literature and articles about porn and sexual liberation and feminism that goes back decades.

This also makes controversial political discourse impossible. Whole threads are easily nuked because of one spicy comment.

It makes Lemmy a worse echo chamber than Reddit on political topics.

When people delete their account or when they are banned by their home instance, all their comments are deleted as well.

First. You are an artist. You make actual real art and have skills. Your sketch is pretty good as well.

Use http://frogfind.de/ or https://wiby.org/ to search using old browsers.

SUsE Linux had a nice GUI installer in 2005.

Something happened before this video starts. The cops likely had a reason to arrest that young woman. The cops are walking away from the crowd continuously and don’t attack it.

Do wish to die a pointless death and paint pro palestine protests as violent terrorists?

Private key probably. Only the public key is not enough to sign the package.

I agree that it’s a failure. Germany was very slow to ramp up military aid to Ukraine. At the beginning it was just helmets and the delivery of tanks could have happened much earlier. Over time though, Germany has delivered a lot of equipment directly, enabled transfers through Ringtausch, and financed a lot of purchases.

I also think Germany should have provided Ukraine with Tornado Jets and Taurus missiles.

Taurus missiles are the only long range strategic weapon Germany has.

IRC was great, but it failed to progress meaningfully.

Thank you for his hint.

Spotify using several processes and GB of memory just play some music and browse a library is an abomination. WinAMP did most of that 20 years ago while using a fraction of the resources.

Discord similarly is an affront.

Talk to real people in real life.

If you do something you enjoy, you will attract other people who enjoy the same things.