Arkhive

I’m sort of in flux again. I swapped from KeePass to Unix Pass, which is meant more for use in a terminal. Now due to the operating system I’m using I’m motivated to swap yet again, but I’m not sure I would suggest what I’m swapping to for folks that don’t have the same use case.

Generally I like KeePass as something more approachable than the more “power user” type tools, but more private than cloud based password managers like LastPass or 1Password.

When I was still using it I used Syncthing to distribute copies to multiple devices and that distributed nature also functioned as a backup.

I didn’t know about this. Does WebHID work? I having to install chrome or edge or something just to use a web based keyboard configuration and flash tool.

In fact I didn’t! Thanks for pointing that out. Though every version of freetube I have installed works just fine. Ranging from Arch, to Nix, to Android and more. I did have a period where the version from the Arch repository didn’t work and I had to install it from the latest source. I thought that resolved itself eventually while I still daily drove Arch, but maybe not.

EDIT: Kid you not, I had just installed FreeTube on android when I found this, and in my excitement did not read the whole post

May I present you…

celestial chorus

FreeTube

Spotify’s payment model also adds a ton of bias to their suggestions. Artists need to hit a threshold number of listens a month to get paid at all, so Spotify ends up just suggesting music from artists they are already paying, rather than letting other folks hit that threshold. It’s also why the “shuffle” feature never actually shuffles a whole playlist before starting to repeat songs. If you really pay attention the songs that get repeated by the shuffle algorithm are the ones from bigger artists to try and keep smaller groups from getting paid at all.

Please let this be your sign to start ditching corporate platforms across the board. Enshitification will come for your pristine app experience eventually. Go spend your Spotify monthly bill on one album every month from bandcamp or something. Own your own media. Share it with friends. GET OFF CORPO AD PLATFORMS! I realize this is the fediverse, so people are already kind of on board, but I think music streaming is often given a pass, or sneaks by our focus when discussing these issues.

Woah, I just got an ad for this today, and was intrigued enough to see what their monetization model was (in app purchases/subscriptions for “pro” features) and took a big pass on it.

I want to boost this approach. At first I just whole sale swapped to the full Proton Suite as a G-Suite replacement. But I quickly decided I did not want all my eggs in their basket, so I kept their VPN because it’s got good interfaces for mobile while also playing nice with OpenVPN on Linux, and then I’ve used other solutions for email and cloud and such, self hosting wherever possible.

This is just a gentile reminder that if it’s truly a flag design, it should work just as well and be readable when hung from the short side.