Windows removed from my life - check

Spotify removed from my life - check

Facebook removed from my life - check

Non-free software completely removed from my life - check

Now I just have to solve the rest

Did you buy all the music instead of using Spotify? I'm looking to reduce my usage of it as best as I can, but I just don't have the money to buy it all.

Also, do you have something in your network to be able to listen to music f on multiple devices? Or just "old school" mp3s on your computer?

I don't get people who think paid software is the devil....

@mjones44 free as in freedom, not as in beer.

Netflix?

Whats the rest?

I, myself, sticked a sticker on my laptop webcam 😂 I supposse it’s something

Just kidding. What do you want to achieve? Sounds good

@M1sf3t I still love the experience of buying a physical CD 😊 and I use them as backups if one day I cannot use Internet (I don’t know why, I think I’m just a little bit paranoid XD)

@kolaente beer is not free though 😛

@mjones44 This is not about paid software, it's about libre aka free as in freedom software.

@Stuxnet Just like free speech, privacy is a human right and if it wouldn't be, we'd be quite fucked by now ;)

@linux what do you use as music service, self hosted something? I tried ampache but gave up after streaming to subsonic apps didn't work while following everyone exactly :/

Let us know also when you stop ask money for your job 🙂

@dontbeevil Microsoft is the biggest open source contributor, those engineers get paid ;)

Also, Netflix actively works on the freebsd system (giving code and patches to the community for free) which is an entirely open source system. They do pay their engineers for that of course, since they use freebsd on their entire infrastructure.
Closed source software isn't a good idea for them (for their servers) as that would make them unable to patch and customise stuff in a way that suits their own needs ;)

Most of the web runs on open source software, the engineers behind those services do get paid although they might contribute to the software they use.

@linuxxx yes there is always halfway... But what will happen if everybody use only free/open source sw? (also without donations and ads revenue)

@dontbeevil Take a look at RedHat, Ubuntu and nextcloud.

Redhat writes open source software and earns by providing premium support (2 billion+ revenue annually).
Ubuntu has this exact model and it works great (or, Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu).

Then there's nextcloud. Open source product but people/companies can pay for new features they want. Those features are then releases open source.

Gitlab also. They've got a community edition which also gets code from their premium product. You can choose to self host (it's open source after all) for free (or, only your own server/engineer costs) or use their SaaS platform which has free options but for the real enterprise stuff you have to pay.

Very sustainable actually :)

@Mbithy I don't entirely get what you're saying, could you explain differently?:)

@kolaente

Clementine music player on Linux works actually quite nice. I can stream music from it to my phone.

@mjones44

It is not about "paid software". I will gladly pay for software but if they perform datamining on me - I dont want it.

@linuxxx

You can check out Funkwhale, it is subsonic compatible too

@dontbeevil

You do not get the point.

@M1sf3t

I am still on Android, and still using Netflix (altough it is only on a machine connected to my TV).

I also have a car with ALOT of bloaty shit. Considering to change it.

@RustyCookie

Well, I like it too. But I do not like that they are performing datamining and basically know what mood their users are.

@Linux Had the exact same with funkwhale, but that was behind a reverse proxy, maybe I could try it on a separate vps...

@linuxxx

Aaah, I am having trouble with stuff aswell when I place it behind HAProxy... which is stupid.

I find it annoying that devs just assume that people are going to put it directly on a VPS and not behind a load balancer

@FrodoSwaggins okay but are you seriously saying that there isn't some paid software that is fantastic and the best tool for the problem it solves?

@FrodoSwaggins well that's not quite my experience. we'll have to agree to disagree.

@Linux I've been trying to setup funkwhale but goddamn, keep crashing on an SSL certificate error so the fucker won't run (docker)

@linuxxx

I have one up and running atm. Goddamn it was annoying to fix. Next time I am going to use Yunohost to make it much easier.

If you just want it up and running - deploy it on yunohost

@Linux Does it enable one to install funk whale?

Also, I'm trying ampache now but can't figure out how to create albums/playlists...any idea?

@linuxxx

Yeah you can basically install it without doing anything.

I dont know regarding ampache, only used it briefly a couple of years ago

the music debate can all be solved simply: PIRACY!

(dude my childhood was fueled by a Samsung Galaxy S2 Skyrocket running Android 2.2.2 (blacklisted IMEI) with a bookmark for MP3Raid. Up to like 2013.)

@Parzi That still doesn't solve the how-do-I-get-my-dowloaded-music-to-play-on-my-raspi-while-it's-on-my-computer issue

@kolaente didn't see that

@Parzi @kolaente

Funkwhale ;)

@Linux would rhythmbox apply in this situation