Cloud infrastructure is expensive. You won't find any free streaming platform.
The best route is to manage your own Playlist manually.
Workflow:
Interesting music playing on radio/party
-‐> shazam to know title and artist
-‐> search youtube.com for that title and artist
--> copy url of video that best matches
--> paste url on ezmp3.cc for converting to audio
--> await conversion, download generated audio
--> Use a smart-mp3-tags app to add tags and album art automatically
Prons:
until now, i've paid $0 for music I listen to. Evil bastard, I know. I, however, have bought poweramp for $5. Best purchase yet.
you will find any music this way no matter how niche and weird it is. Unlike surfing the pirate ship
bonus: you most definitely will find your favorite audiobooks.
Cons:
no music discovery features. Which is truly the only downside you can't replace.
no backup in case of device loss, so you better make copies manually
Language is a medium of communication between two or more parties. So long as they understand each other, all is good. whether they used klingon or Martian, it don't matter.
What i do know is that, if, hypothetically, internet throws a poll for people all over the world to choose language they will use for communication, every one, myself included, will hold their conner, defending how real and original the language that they are familiar with (and most definitely biased towards) is.
if you put it on a vote on the other hand, something different happens. In fact, it's been happening all along, silently and quietly at the back of our heads. From the first day surfing through the internet to buying your first own smartphone/laptop and choosing the default language for these devices, I know on my part I was driven by convenience. As the majority of media outlets use English. From the shows i watched to the role‐models i looked up on while growing up, they all circled around this fascinating slang that made them even more interesting. The internet's influence towards english made it easy (at least for me) to catch up real quick.
I will say this tho, hearing hakuna matata on the lion king was awesooome
Best you can do is familiarize with linux so that when they decide that six-figure bill for coorperate windows licensing is pain-induced fuckery, you already up and running.
So you will use their officially sanctioned OS and tools, or you will be fired for violating their policies. There's no arguing that.
Agreed.
Still, I wouldn't trust windows after the counter strike fiasco and all the EOL BS cycling around it now. I would push for policy change. It would take time (bureaucracy and all) but will eventually happen
If you are on a market for a Linux-first laptop, AMD is the way. I mean, yes, Nvidia is far better now than half a decade ago, but still, the hoops you have to jump? FUCK YOU NVIDIA
LOL, OP was looking for an alternative to streaming platform, not an introduction to this whole new universe of terminal,
Plus, yt-dlp doesn't work (at least to my knowledge) on a smartphone (maybe on termux? I dunno, haven't tried it)