Hoarding resources: It's hardwired into our "core-rope" memory and it was essential for our survival until very recently.

Ah, yes, the 2020 toilet paper shortage. I was so high and mighty after my early March Costco trip. It's good to be the king.

The future was promised to be that robots do the manual labor, and humans make art and sing merry songs.

Don't forget the part about getting to have sex with Orion dancers! Once you've gone green, you never go back.

I love how Lobot used to be exceptional as a "bluetooth asshole," but now he's mainstream orthodox.

He didn't change. We did.

Hey Europe, make your own competitors, and then the question will be..

I only wonder what will be financially left of MS, Alfabet, Meta, etcetera when ther only consumers are in the USA.

..why should US consumers use these services?

Here's the problem: if you stop relying on my cow, then the rest of my family here in my house, might start thinking they are allowed to get their milk elsewhere, too, thereby avoiding all the mind-altering drugs that I have been secretly putting in the milk to control everyone. Stop poisoning my family's minds with this subversive "use a different cow" talk!

If UK and EU citizens don't have to use our data-hungry and ad-barking servers, then US citizens might get the same idea! Surely you can see why that's totally unacceptable.

In other words, it would be the ultimate super-31337 status symbol.

As an ignorant outsider shooting off his mouth on the internet, I would speculate that hybrids are likely helping the adoption of purely electric cars in a minor way, by adding scale to the production of various electric components.

A hybrid EV (at least the type popularized by Toyota) is just an EV with a local gasoline engine+alternator bolted on, right? So there are still electric motors in each. And I ass/u/me all the stuff that would be on an ICE's serpentine belt are electrically-powered on a hybrid, so the AC compressor in this hybrid could theoretically be the same exact AC compressor as in that pure-EV, etc. Thus some of the two markets' parts can scale as one, making them both slightly cheaper.

Throw in plug-in hybrids, and then we also get the fact that these plug-in hybrid drivers are creating some demand for charging networks, which of course increases the utility of pure EVs as well.

No kissing and telling! I demand you scrub from the internet all references to the personal information about the hugs and kisses I received from you.

algorithmic feeds

We need to find, capture, try, execute, and then piss on the grave of whoever decided that the word "algorithm" was the best word for what they didn't like about Facebook. Their hasty decision, combined the word's apparent mainstream sexiness (who knew?!) is going to result in the word's loss.

Clarification -- by "Who would want that?", I meant "Who would want people laid off?". Not me, for sure.

If there is a hypothetical "eating in" movement, restaurants will have less custom. So serious thought must be given to livelihoods disrupted by this. Strategies are needed not just for restaurant staff, but restaurants owners as well.

When the market for tobacco declined, tobacco farmers diversified into alternative crops specific to their regional conditions -- fruits, vegetables, cotton, etc. But cigarette makers, habituated to revenues doing what they did best, diversified into "next generation products" like e-cigarettes (vapes) and heated tobacco products. They aso continued to engineer traditional cigarettes for higher addictiveness and appeal to new markets. You don't want a repeat of what happened with tobacco. The worst scenario would be surviving restaurants drifting toward food that's even more addictive and unhealthy.

Alternate business models include dark kitchens, commercial share kitchens, and local home-based chefs who sell and deliver a mix of fully-cooked food, semi-prepared food and groceries.

I agree. Thank you for replying.. my famil has had the same experience.

I did. Who would want that?

But my personal experience, my family's experience, the experience of the other person who replied in this thread, and common sense, all attest that eating out is generally worse for health and finances. If you can cook healthy meals at home, that's the best option.

Perhaps an alternative to 'eating out' could be 'eating inside out'.
A buyer would source fully cooked or semi-prepared food from local home-based chefs and eat at home.

The summary makes the article sound a lot dumber than it really is. But it is dumb, and the core dumbness from which the rest of the article derives is here:

I thought about setting up a self-hosted media server to stream everything to my phone. But ultimately, I got lazy

He knew real the solution to all his problems, but like he says, "I got lazy," and so he went to his comical Plan B. Despite weird statements like this..

Many folks are sick of streaming in general. They’re sick of giant corporations, algorithmic playlists, and an internet infested with AI slop.

..he actually doesn't appear to have any problem with streaming at all. It's just that he had been using a proprietary streaming service called Spotify, which does things very differently than a user-oriented approach (e.g. self-hosted subsonic API server) would do. Navidrome isn't a giant corporation, the algorithm of its playlist is "play what the user told me to play" and whatever AI Slop you play depends completely on what AI Slop you decided to add to your collection.

But by conflating streaming tech with proprietary streaming services, he gets to make up a lot of non-existent problems with streaming and sneak by the core premise of his entire article: "I got lazy."

So he decided against the obvious, and instead, went with a less convenient alternative. I particularly liked the part where he called cassettes "compact and super-portable" by comparing them to vinyl, instead of the actual media competition: flash memory, remote spinning-rust, etc.

Does Android even have a music store anymore?

Hopefully not and never. OS-specific music (?!) stores are a very silly idea.

As a [reluctant, but what else is there?] Android user, my music comes from the same sources it would come from if I owned no phone at all.

The typical customer is neither an accountant, nor are they interested in the business's tax internals. Charge what the sticker says. If you want to charge more, fix the sticker.