My partner is really enjoying the MP3 player I got them.
It's super liberating to be able to just drag whatever files onto your device from wherever you want without a bunch of extra hassle.
Really disappointed that Apple has so much shit in the way of just using the device. Bonkers how Apple nuts are convinced it's got better UX than alternatives. Maybe it's better if you're wealthy and only use Apple products and services for everything.
@mauve I currently DO use Apple Music to manage my library of downloaded music. It works reasonably well (no FLAC support) but very soon I'll be switching that out for some other program & music player on my phone so that everything syncs with my NAS that I'm building...
No idea what that's going to BE and I haven't looked into it yet. Kinda dreading it?
@mauve I think ideal world music solution is the full quality FLACs are on the NAS and then decent quality MP3s are auto transcoded and loaded onto my laptop and phone?
@mauve bingo. my hypothesis is most people don’t like thinking about technology and how it works. Apple has the greatest real world presence to allow people that can afford to not think about it, to be able to think about it the least.
it sounds weird writing it out, but i’m getting at a “phone goes brrr” situation, customer goes to the Apple store and nothing catastrophic happened besides maybe spending a money or two, which hasn’t been the case the other times they’ve tried technology.
@tychi Yeah, that's a good read on the situation. I think right now more and more people don't have access to throwing money at a thing so there will likely be more people that need technology that works outside of that context too.
E.g. my partner is an artist and it's getting harder to afford anything with the cost of food and housing skyrocketting here in Canada right now.
@mauve totally totally. i’m working on building dweb tech too btw, i missed part of it, but i recognized you on here from the presentation you gave at a virtual meetup.
my background is user experience— my latest is trying to unify dweb projects into a cohesive interface.
currently have a wip poc running https://braid.org, https://gun.eco, and https://solidproject.org, in parallel from one command that should run on any unix-like os with node and deno installed.
@tychi That sounds really interesting! I think @agregore is a similar thing for me where I want to combine a bunch of p2p things in a cohesive interface (URLs + HTTP methods).
I've also got a CLI based thing for Agregore (a bit out of date now) which is like node or deno but with a focus on Web APIs and p2p. https://github.com/AgregoreWeb/agregore-cli
Is the source for your project published somewhere I can mess with it?
i disabled the homepage for now, but took a video. i’m toggling “the os” by tapping the orange bars.
this file is where i’m starting my services in parallel: https://github.com/tylerchilds/kickstart/blob/main/pup.json
if you’ve got deno and node installed, this one command will grab the latest source tar and spin it up in a tmp folder
`deno run -A https://deno.land/x/sillonious/quick-start.js`
the https://sillyz.computer doesn’t have those services installed publicly yet, but that’s the interface you should see on :8000
@tychi Love the aesthetic in this. 🥰
@mauve I had a set of shiny new Apple gear for the five years around 2010 on the hope that it would be a cohesive PAN. But, no. Device to device communication was flaky and awkward and their cloud services were just the worst. Nice hardware, terrible software.