The web version works without an account? That’d be news to me.

Sure but that won’t do anything about software issues :p

At the federal level, yes. There’s lots of things going wrong in the “greatest” country on earth. That doesn’t mean you should stick the head in the sand and ignore advocating for incremental improvements. If no sensible transport advocate actually does anything for it because they think there isn’t enough public support, you’ll never achieve that goal, no matter how many advocates there actually are.

Not just bikes recently released a video which touches on this topic with some more differentiated discussion:

https://nebula.tv/videos/notjustbikes-these-two-cities-used-to-be-the-same
https://youtu.be/4uqbsueNvag

I wouldn’t be so pessimistic. The Netherlands was also a car dependent place that bulldozed neighbourhoods for highways a few dozen years ago and look at where they are now. Change can happen, it just needs a critical mass of supporters and time, lots of time.

Journalism that has any tooth whatsoever would mostly fix this.

As long as no proper journalistic standards exists, populists can pour their BS down the media drain unquestioned, unchallenged. If that’s all you hear about a topic, that’s what you’ll believe.

Note that the clients being FOSS is of little relevance because all they do is forward a recording to a blackbox proprietary service run by a for-profit company.

The code that has access to your audio and does the actual task at hand is not FOSS in the slightest.

Nah, bergamont works mighty fine offline in Firefox on Android right now already. You don’t need stupid LLMs to do machine translations.

The real difficulty is OCR and combining the two.

Everything is behind GrapheneOS in terms of security. It does a whole lot more than just being up-to-date.

Whether you need that degree of security depends on your threat model though.

It’s based on LOS; you get all the features.

Looking around, the latest release available is from …February?

I would not recommend this to anyone if that’s true.

Is there a bridge like they have for IMAP btw?

Spotify -> MOTU M2 -> HiFiMan Ananda non-stealth

“High resolution” audio is completely useless for listening (16 bit 44.1 kHz is the best it gets) and there is little value in lossless encodes for listening purposes too, so I don’t get the point of all those “Hifi” streaming services.
If you own lossless encodes, I guess it doesn’t hurt to use them even for listening as storage is cheap these days.

Speaking of which, I’d like to switch to purchasing my music though because Spotify will certainly continue on its path towards full enshittification. I want to be in a position where I own all my favourite music before Spotify will be infected with ads on premium plans. Oh and artists are somewhat more likely to be paid a little for their work that way (I hope…)
I plan to use the free YT music for discovery at that point.