It’s still up right now, they plan to kill it by 2024 and YTMP will supposedly be online by then. I suppose this has to do with reallocating their developers and avoiding redundant apps. Not that they’re consistent with the latter.

It’s not like podcast players are particularly complex to build and maintain, so they don’t require that much cashflow. Podbean sustains itself quite well with the odd image ad and AntennaPod is FOSS. I think the problem is more the opposite, since competition is so easy and monetising it would suck interest out of it, Google has no interest in actually competing. Which is why they’re trying to build their own walled garden with uploading your podcasts only directly to YouTube, RSS feeds be damned.

quad core laptops with IPS screens that can run up to 16 GB are like $50 nowadays. throw it out.

Feel free to send me the $50 bucks and I’ll buy one. I still won’t throw out perfectly functional hardware. Until then I’ll make use of what I have, thank you very much.

Didn’t realise I walked into comedy central.

By “stable” I mean that for the majority of the time I will not have any electricity or internet. My use case explicitly requires battery and offline software.

I’ll be away from both stable electricity and stable internet so I can’t just ditch a battery.

communism good; capitalism bad; is that iffy?

fedizen and related terms are funny in portuguese as “feder” means “to smell bad” in Brazilian. Can’t wait to use it with my colleagues.