Leaving spotify, offline music options? - Lemmy.World

So as the title suggests I’m looking to leave behind Spotify for many obvious reasons over the previous years. I’m thinking that because of my fairly limited music library that I should just stick with an offline library. However I want the option to expand it as I find new music here and there. I know that I can use things such as Jellyfin to organise a library on my PC, but are there good options to “sync” the library to my phone other than just simply drag and drop the media?

What's a good alternative to messenger that I can plausibly convince friends to move to? - Lemmy.World

Knowing what a privacy nightmare all meta apps are, I’m wondering if there is an alternative option which is more privacy friendly but still has some of the ease and simplicity of some features such as messenger. I already know there will be friends I can’t convince and thats fine, I may just have to accept that. But if I could avoid using it as much, I’d really like to.

What's an impulse purchase you've made and it turned out to be awesome? - Lemmy.World

So I kind of impulsively bought a Steam Deck OLED this weekend, I hadn’t really done much research and I haven’t really played any games in about 15 years. Now I have to wait for it to be delivered and, I’m worried this is something I’ll use a few times and forget about it. What’s something you impulsively bought and fell in love with?

What do blind people dream about? - Lemmy.World

Hopefully this doesn’t offend anyone and its something of an assumption that blind people do have dreams but surely the lack of sight doesn’t stop someone’s brain from being able to hallucinate?

On the fence about the importance of privacy? Start researching articles about using advertising data points(example article linked) - Lemmy.World

I’m wanting to get a better understanding of what the actual data is that advertising companies have on us, we all know its “a lot” we often hear. Whilst I came across this article, which isn’t exactly surprising, it is disturbing to read the following quote >Certain types of businesses or campaigns are based on selling to people experiencing certain major life events. Funeral homes, for example, obviously want to connect with people who are planning a funeral, terminally ill, or lost/losing a loved one. The sad part is that this was published back in 2015

International Court of Justice to hold public hearing in relation to South Africa's accusation of Genocide being committed by Israel - Lemmy.World

The request for the hearing was lodged by South Africa 29th December 2023, as of 3rd of January 2024, the ICJ have officially responded, that public hearings will be held on the 11th & 12th January 2024.

When you just wanted to have a quick read of an article using the in app browser... - Lemmy.World