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For every "OMG, internet is filled with ads", people are conveniently forgetting the real-world impact of ALL COMPANIES (and not just Apple) btw. Either you should be upset with the system, and not selectively at Google.
But it become harder and harder in recent years.
Reason? Docker.
Many current «server-side» products doesn't have good instructions how to install them «by hands» and is not very suitable for system-side packaging (creating port), as they have build systems designed to be used in CI with online access in build time (especially node.js-based and go-based ones, but rust goes same way).
Installation instructions, well-defined dependencies, good versioning, immutable source distribution files? Nah. «Take this Docker file and run it».
It is pity.
Weeks later thanks to a lot of community help, finally found the memory address for audio out and got music playback that was not beholden to any DRM.
This work was all referenced by the RockBox team that made a tiny embedded kernel and OS far more suited to the tasks.
Now all devices that can run rockbox are EOL and other community members are working on an open hardware player to run Rockbox.
https://github.com/amachronic/echoplayer
Couple decades in, but we are finally close to having the first fully featured fully open hardware music player, which all started back with reverse engineering iPods to run Linux kernels.
As someone that does not carry a cell phone, I am absolutely excited about this as it would be a daily driver for me.
Pretty sure the only reason Meta’s managed to do this is because of Zuck’s iron grip on the board (majority voting rights). This is great for Open Source and regular people though!
Anyway, thanks for the feedback regarding the site itself, both positive and negative. This is a 1-2 man project, just for fun, but any feedback are always welcome :)
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