ropatrick
ropatrick@lemmy.world
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Fair point. Admittedly, I wasn't thinking about my response from a musician's point of view. Can you expand on your comment so I can understand the context a bit? I'm assuming from what you said that paid streaming services are not a positive thing for artists (or maybe smaller artists), and that it would be preferable if people were buying albums and singles outright? I'd like to understand it better.
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I guess when you pay with a credit card, theres limited information being shared. Taking things at face value, you are paying for a service that wont track you, see your data, give away your data etc. Looking at it in terms of privacy vs. anon is a good way to look at it. If you want anonymity, you won't be using a credit card I assume, unless it's a throwaway you can top up. I imagine people who want full anonymity would be using stuff that's more specialised and niche than the lik...
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Yet they still are knocking on the door of a 1tn valuation. 😖
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I love the sound of this but can I ask, if the net goes down and you hardly notice, where do you get your 'net' from? Or is it that your intranet doesn't need internet as such and everything is just local? I might have answered my own question there but I'm interested to understand it a bit more. Thanks!
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It sounds like you will be buying the laptop and that it won't have loads of college security stuff on it, which is good for what you want to do. Depending on your needs in terms of bespoke software, Linux Mint OS might solve a lot of your issues. Piece of piss to install and way better option than Windows. As a former Windows user since W95, I moved to Linux Mint this year and I will never go back. I had an old Windows 10 machine that was unable to run Windows 11, so I installed Mint on i...