Category: technology

What happened to MP3 Players?

I think MP3 players are a good investment, you can add whatever songs and podcasts you want for free, you can play them with the screen off for free, they don’t drain your phone battery or storage and you can pick them up for $17.

10 years ago everyone had an MP3 player, they were everywhere, and some of my most fun memories was pirating the latest song heh, a one time purchase, one thing you didn’t have though was the music recommendations, and the convience of being able to listen to any song at any time without having to hook it up to a computer and transferring files.

The high end MP3 players today run android, very thick and run off subscription services, I do wonder what’s the point in them, just use your phone. The cheap MP3 players are low quality and aren’t great. If we could have something like the ipod nano 5 with open source firmware and a replaceable battery, yeah! that woud be the perfect mp3 player in my opinion, small, slim, quality.

Iphone 16 💀😭

I purchased an iphone 16, what went wrong? just after the return policy, the UK demanded that apple inserts a backdoor into icloud, apple refused and has stopped encrypted our backups, that’s another thing, IOS is so locked down, when i’m in europe I can download apps and work the phone without an icloud account, but in the UK I cannot.

I also found that a 60hz display on a $899 smartphone is unacceptable and the camera is just bad, no other words to really describe it, I get a lot better photos from my Motorola and Pixel 3a. To be fair to apple though I did like the camera zoom slider and the battery life was great! but considering my country is starting to become like the country they criticize for lack of free speech, censorship and surveillance they sure do want to be like them.

So I have got rid of the iphone and went back to my pixel 3a, which still runs well and can download apps and use it thoroughly without making an account.

ARRR! i’m a pirate 🏴‍☠️

Subscriptions now destroy our finances, the pay once and keep it forever ideology has gone out the window. With subscription services charging more money, dumping ads on the platform and lower quality can you really blame someone for pirating a movie or tv show?

At least I can download it, view it anytime I like without ads, without a monthly subscription. I’m not a monster if I really like a film or tv series I will purchase the DVD but it makes sense that spending $45+ a month on some entertainment is ridicolous and unsustainable.

I am not promoting piracy, but it does make you wonder how much we’re being fucked in the ass, don’t forget the $10 subscription to your doorbell or the monthly subscription to turn on the already installed heated seats in your BMW.