dan
California already has a law like this, so the companies have already implemented this workflow. They just need to remove the geogating.
Makes sense.
I've got an older car (2012 Mazda 3) but years ago I replaced the radio with a Pioneer one that supports Android Auto. I like it and Plexamp works great on it.
If you have anything like a 9-5, you're probably getting around 10-20%.
My wife works as an associate attorney (a lawyer that's not a partner, meaning they don't own the company they work for) and I think she makes maybe 1/4 of what the company bills clients for her time. Of course, some of the money would go towards things like property taxes for the office, bills, etc.
And that's not as bad as someone working in big tech who may make a decent salary (senior developer at Google or Meta is around $270k/year salary plus $300k/year stock) but the company may make hundreds of millions of dollars per year from your work.
USB in the car and plexamp everywhere else.
Why not Plexamp in the car too? If you don't have great mobile data, in Plexamp you can download playlists for offline playing.
Buy CDs, rip them to FLAC, and self-host something like Plex + Plexamp. Plexamp is a very nice app, but I'm sure there's others.
tough luck if a song gets pulled because of legal disputes or whatever.
This is the thing I hated about Google Play Music. I had some playlists where half of the songs were missing due to various issues between Google and the music labels.
I'd recommend ripping MP3 tracks
This is how you end up with a library of very low quality tracks. YouTube's compression isn't great.
Yes, the artist gets nothing, but the more important thing is the services stealing from the artists don't get anything either.
Why do you feel that YouTube is different to those other services? Does YouTube pay more per view than Spotify pays per listen?
They've never been profitable and current estimates say they won't be profitable until at least 2029: https://www.businessinsider.com/openai-profit-funding-ai-microsoft-chatgpt-revenue-2024-10
A recent report estimates that they won't be profitable until 2029: https://www.businessinsider.com/openai-profit-funding-ai-microsoft-chatgpt-revenue-2024-10
A lot can happen between now and then that would cause their expenses to grow even more, for example if they need to start licensing the content they use for training.
In the article, Linus explicitly said that it's not just a US thing:
And FYI for the actual innocent bystanders who aren't troll farm accounts - the "various compliance requirements" are not just a US thing.