Martin P.

@PaperCities
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202 Following
164 Posts
landscape architect, immigrant, cyclist, dad rock, COYS, he/him, lurker, retooter
Somerville, MA
@scalzi stay high, Scalzi! Congrats!
@jwisser totally, the writings been on the wall for years, it seems the legacy windows stuff still allowed me to live in the 00’s for just a few more years
@jwisser I mean, I haven’t owned a Mac in 15 years so there’s almost certainly something I’m missing, but iTunes.app on Windows makes it wicked easy and Music.app on the Mac makes it 100% unintuitive
@jwisser I have gigs and gigs of music accumulated over decades on hard drives, and I just got a new Mac after years on a PC and Apple Music makes it, as far as I can tell, impossible to play that music on my hard drive, like I used to on the windows iTunes app? Wtaf

@[email protected] it took a second for me too but love it. His record from a year or two ago with Marta Sofia Honer is wonderful, if you haven’t heard it.

https://intlanthem.bandcamp.com/album/recordings-from-the-land-islands

Recordings from the Åland Islands, by Jeremiah Chiu & Marta Sofia Honer

11 track album

International Anthem
@histoftech if you have one to spare, I’d check it out!
@novelgazer @charliejane yeah this is the one for me, didn’t hear the original til years later

It's funny: Both Bandcamp and Patreon had the easiest and most straightforwardly long-term profitable business models imaginable: Sit between indie creatives and their fans, provide some basic services for mediation (comment sections, media posts, semi-global payment) and take enough of a cut of any payments to cover the costs and then some.

But because that business model wouldn't scale forever, they are instead being gutted, because ever _increasing_ growth is the only model capital accepts

@nedraggett ah shit this sucks