Faircamp is a great option for hosting yourself and Bandwagon is also federated. Both are free and open source and both have ‘label’ functionality, which means that a single computer-person can host many artists, in the same way as any other online music platform does but without the exploitation and cultural degradation.

In fact, if any other musicians reading this want to form a cooperative and share hosting and maintenance costs and desicion-making let me know. I’ve already been through the setup process myself with Faircamp. It would be cheap and have the same functionality as Bandcamp.

Libreoffice is rad and I use it all the time.

Crazy. DDoS attacks are illegal here in the UK.

Thanks for your work on both!

What is Intel Microcode anyway? Been bugging me for ages seeing it reported for violating vrms.

I think the original wasn’t getting maintained properly or something. There was a big conversation about it a couple of months ago on one of the open source communities here if you want to search for it. Nothing shady iirc.

“Why wait until you leave office to openly work for us? Now you can do it straight away!”

It’s great. It’s the most “just works” experience I’ve had with Linux.

This has made Rupert Lowe look very silly.

If you’re struggling with your windows plugins I highly recommend checking out kxstudio for native Linux ones. There are excellent plugins for audio production on linux. I also recommend using Ardour as your DAW.

Thanks :) I’m happy to chat to any musicians who read this and are curious about alternative release options.

These exploitation economies are a race to the bottom.

That’s exactly what they are and exactly what they do.

I don’t have any app suggestions for you but have been reading through the comments and just wanted to say that I’m 100% with you.

I have a similar conversation with other musicians I know and it’s the reason that I (and many others) won’t release anything on Spotify: Just being there adds value to them and what they do is destructive and dirty.

I hope you find something and keep standing up for what’s right!

The Labour government is not left, so who is the supposed rift with?

In fact, from what I can tell, all the talk is about cooperation with the Greens, independents, unions and community groups. Bringing the left together.

I haven’t heard any of this ‘splitting the left’ talk from leftwing backbenchers - only from Labour leadership goons and the right - which I think tells you everything you need to know about the message.

Over the next few years we’re going to have to be better than we were in 2019 at seeing this kind of FUD for what it is or we’ll get Farage as the next prime minister.

And we won’t get another chance to do something about it until 2034.

Jami ftw 💪

Check out Kiwix for offline libraries like Wikipedia and TED

Your timing is excellent: Debian 13 is due for release on Saturday :)

Good one, especially for hikers and sailors 👍

Also have a look at Jami. You can use it for calls and sharing files.

I have a smartphone and a small dumbphone - one for work stuff and one for play. I have glued velcro to the backs of them, so they can be like one phone in my pocket. Ultimate flexibility.