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.

The sad thing is, it mostly deserved to get cancelled overall.

It just sucks that right near the end it seemed to finally find its footing and maybe start getting good… :(

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.

What a terrible article.

“Multiple” packages mentioned in the title, but they’re unable to actually name more than one in the article…

//edit
Actually, they did leave a link to the mailing list thread at the very end.
I should learn to read the entire article…

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.

Just find better podcasts. I don’t really know what kind of crap people making these memes listen to.

You can check out Darknet Diaries as an example of podcast providing something useful/entertaining instead of just some guys talking about nothing.

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.

Not sure if this is true for all EU now, but they can’t raise prices on their own, period.

They have to inform you and unless you agree all they’re allowed to do is cancel your service once the new pricing is in effect.

And illegal/abusive clauses in the T&C are null and void.

If they use light mode they’re no friends of mine!

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…