And they don’t even have to go through an aggregator, it’s just for ease of use and discovery, pretty much every app will let you put in an rss feed url, so podcast could be self hosted only reliant on having an internet connection… well, hell…. Only reliant on having a shared network connection with your target audience

Lol, but seriously… licensing costs the license holders nothing… but it does costs spotify something.

2 ebooks could easily be >15hours. OP sounds like a bullshitter to me. I don’t see how they could come to the conclusion that “its also counting time listened during my paid-for ebooks”. They could provide more info, but they arent. I think they just got mad that they couldnt finish the last 20 minutes of the book (understandably) and decided to flame spotify

I saw some avant garde shit the other day, and there it was on spotify. Everyone is on spotify

Honestly, like… who isn’t on spotify? I think Metallica was holding out, but there on there now, and looks like Garth Brooks is also holding out. No one else I’ve ever looked up, including very small artists, were not on spotify.

Theres an iOS app too… only available via testflight, and I don’t recall where the link is… but its out there.

First week of hits are free, and I’ll give you another week of free hits every month. So as long as you don’t need more than 1 week per month of hits, then you’re golden.

Honestly though, if OP really got 27 days into the cycle before using up his free hits, its almost a perfect solution for them.

Ok, thats funny. But for real, what I’m lightly annoyed by is the way they seem to be using the 15 hours of audiobooks as a sort of free-trial to get you to buy more credits, and also how much podcasts and audiobooks are pushed even for those of us who exclusively use spotify for music. On the other hand, if you use the feature, it cost you nothing additional to use up to that 15 hours, or those free books, its strictly a value add.

Licensing costs

Oh man, I did the hard work (it was easy) of reading some rules and answering some questions via irc to get an invite to MAM and wow is that a treasure-trove of ebooks and audiobooks.

Of that list, BBB is apparently more of a business extortion scene. But consumer reports seems cool, I’ve used their site a few times.

The rest, I’ve never heard of

Mine just doesn’t auto-install with windows, on new machines / windows installs I have to go out of my way to manually download and apply the drivers to get it working. But hey, ~14 years of printing for $100 ain’t bad

Not all 3rd party inks are created equal, btw.

I gotta find this one paper for you…

It was like “if you run antivirus A, and then run antivirus B…. You catch more viruses than running either one by itself”

Big wiki is coming for you

Jk, I’m probably just as out of the loop as you. But maybe it’s OP that out of the loop.

I thought wiki was one of the good-ish guys.

Sounds like they just proved that some people left Reddit for lemmy and now like lemmy.

While this kind of work is necessary, confirming assumptions, it’s not particularly interesting.

For project ideas, I think most of us start with a problem and learn how to solve it. But without some foundational knowledge, you may struggle to even realize what’s a solvable problem.

You should maybe start with something like Linus Tech Tips “techquickie” content. Look at tutorials for home servers and home labs.

Or just spin around with your eyes closed, and point at a random tech object in your home, then start searching for info on how that works. How you can customize it, fix it, break it, make your own.

Not sure how else to help you jumpstart what many of us have just been naturally doing our whole lives. Like… be curious. That’s the key actually. Curiosity.

Hmm… you seem to be right.

Someone needs to re-host it

Roku really should not sell most of their cheapest options, they’re very bad, while the top of the line Rokus are very solid.

Idk, maybe theres something there. Sociology research, tech research… something along those lines might interest you.

See if there are any papers by researchers in your area on similar topics. You can search google scholar. And maybe reach out.

Any chance you work in acadamia?

I didnt read the whole thing, but this gave me research publication vibes.