Spotify is not owned by Tencent. It’s publicly traded, and tencent owns part of it.

There are a lot of reasons to hate Spotify (and Daniel Ek) but this is not one of it.

The short version: Tencent Holdings is about to own 10 percent of Universal, which in turns owns around 3.5 percent in Spotify, which in turn owns around nine percent in Tencent Music Entertainment, which in turn is part-owned by Universal’s two main rivals (Warner and Sony), but remains majority owned by Tencent Holdings, which in turn owns 9.1 percent of Spotify. (And, yes, no kidding, that’s the short version.)

https://www.rollingstone.com/pro/news/who-really-owns-spotify-955388/

Isn’t Wii 720p? Raspberry pi 4 would be better

I also use Wipr 2 and quite happy with it. Was using AdGuard pro before. Blocklists not being customizable is pretty annoying though. So far I haven’t felt the need to switch back.

It hasn’t finished yet, let’s see if they can stick the landing

I follow blogs, gaming news and various other websites via RSS, and check my RSS reader couple times a day for new articles. Whenever they publish a new article, reader fetches it and there’s always something to read

I use NetNewsWire on iOS

Lemmy (also mastodon, in effect fediverse) is about quality and interaction, rather than consumption. So userbase being “tiny” is a feature. Here, your posts aren’t buried under karma farming accounts, your comments actually lead to discussions and get replies.

I’ve switched to RSS feeds for my consumption habbits

Assholes? Yes too

They can also start mixing their regular drinks (Pepsi) with sparkling water and up the ratio as they get used to the taste. Eventually they’ll be just drinking water.

Credit where it’s due, switch is pretty durable except joy-cons, and they are pretty easy to repair yourself

https://www.cbc.ca/sports/olympics/summer/athletics/onlyfans-alysha-newman-canada-olympics-1.7290724

Are they stupid? Yes

FTFY

Addition: his father is a founding member of a right wing party in Turkey

I haven’t played any game I bought last autumn sale ¯_(ツ)_/¯

No, there’s no API for that

I strongly think what you did is incorrect but I appreciate you sharing your view, and disapprove those who downvoted you. Upvoted.

Agreeing with you on Palestine, but I think Trump will be way worse, in that case and many others.

You clearly haven’t read the full essay.

So long as the capital markets were willing to continue funding loss-making future monopolists, your neighbors were going to make the choice to shop “the wrong way.” As small, local businesses lost those customers, the costs they had to charge to make up the difference would go up, making it harder and harder for you to afford to shop “the right way.”

https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/12/give-me-convenience/

Food for your thought.

I don’t know, to quote someone I read here: “The world shits when the US farts”

US electing an authoritarian might encourage authoritarians all around the world (even more)

My rational side wants to see Harris win, but the anarchist in me wants to see Trump win, just to see what would happen. Not living in the US, obviously.

Trump winning could be a disaster for the whole world since US is such a major player in basically everything, but my anarchist side does not listen.