Hmmm, for buying automatically, you might be looking into Bandcamp Clubs. You pick one of such “clubs” and you get one album into your library each month that you can keep forever.

For downloading, there’s Batchcamp.

I personally don’t mind visiting the website whenever I have some spare time each month to get something. I also have a task that reminds me of Bandcamp Friday (spoiler: it’s the 1st Friday of almost each month). In the months when there’s no Bandcamp Friday, I just mark the task as complete and move on.

It took them quite a while. But if there’s also anyone else that’s still decided to build an actual music library, independent of streaming platforms, instead, here are a bunch of popular bands/artists that have some or all of their music on Bandcamp, among those that I listen to:

• Radiohead
• The Prodigy
• Molchat Doma
• Korn
• Bush
• Nirvana
• Foo Fighters
• Evanescence
• Gojira (music released under their label page)
• Arch Enemy
• Paradise Lost
• Killswitch Engage
• Rise Against
• Porcupine Tree
• P.O.D.
• Knocked Loose
• Mastodon (music released under their label page)
• Opeth - check the pages of Candlelight Records and Peaceville
• Alcest
• Insomnium - check the pages of Century Media Records and Candlelight Records
• Lacuna Coil (music released under their label page)
• Dream Theater (music released under their label page)
• Geese
• Cindy Lee

There are plenty of other indie bands that I recommend choosing from, but most people that stay on the streaming platforms stay for the big names - that’s why I wanted to create a list with names that are sure to be instantly recognizable for anyone who’s been listening to music in general, to a certain genre of music or who is looking for something more popular from the latest years. As a disclaimer, this is also why you might find some controversial names - I didn’t take my time to check all of these artists’ controversies; if there are any, let me know.

Remember, you can also support them by buying their albums on physical media (CDs, vinyls, cassettes etc.) or by going to their live shows whenever you have the chance.

Even if you decide to pay them something like $4 you have secured them more revenue than they gained by listening any of their songs for 1000 times, but if you buy their music on Bandcamp Friday, artists get a bigger share of the price you pay.

@Quexotic anything involving self-hosting is a hassle though, and the advertising is not there, unlike anything that comes from big tech. But the results are highly rewarding.

Not if you become accustomed to it and revolve your daily habits around it. But yeah, once she will get home assistant it will clearly be a liberating experience.

Nothing yet, and still undecided. Dealing with the hangover now, lol.

Disappointed. I was hoping to actually see Gabe’s face.

@remington thanks!

Not Bulgarian, unfortunately, as I was not talking about Bulgaria, but Romania. Be hopeful as well though 😁

@remington yayyy, waiting for our chiefs of the judiciary to follow suite.

Yeah, I know. But it’s still a different platform, lol.

I booked it too btw. Initially I thought 95.something€ was the full price. Now I’m unsure if I will continue since my phone is only 2 years old (although I dislike where Google is heading Android and Sailfish looks sick af)

But can it run crysis?

I like how you posted this into the Android community, lol

@Fubarberry Metro Exodus. Looking forward to finishing it.

Looking forward to getting a new phone with Sailfish OS. Seems to be the most advanced, open OS as of now.

Welp, I just played Stardew Valley again 😁

This one cracked me up, that’s for sure. And I’m not even in Russia.

Lately, I’ve been in a bunch of electric cars, including the Tesla (which was a Bolt or an Uber). I must say, I was impressed. Beyond the main purpose of saving the environment, there are plenty of other perks that they have:

• You can barely feel and hear it. On an ICE car, you always hear the engine running and feeling the vibration of it. Even if it’s largely unnoticeable, it’s basically still there. And whenever you rev the engine, it’s getting even more noticeable. On an electric car, there’s no such thing as engine noise. It’s basically either working or not working. And when it’s working, there are fewer moving parts making this noise and shaking the car around.
• They always come with an automatic transmission, so they’re easier to drive. I know that might not be an advantage out there in the US, since you also have ICE cars with automatic transmission, but here in the rest of the world it does make a difference, since almost all cars are manual.
• A way better acceleration. I know some of the cars I’ve been in were basically sport cars, but I never felt like being stuck to the seat in a car before.

I honestly don’t even know why would anyone oppose the switch, tbh. Okay, I know it takes more to fill it up than just sticking the pump in and pressing the handle, but the capacities that modern batteries have, make it feasible to just time your trips in a way that you can even charge them at home overnight or something.

I only got an account because Friendica can connect to it this way. Otherwise, no need for another corporate silo, but with federation as a buzzword slapped to it.

yea, looks like the closer you get to Russia, the more you get to know it better 😁 also see how the Baltics and Poland are so staunchly anti-Russian - even the Polish conservative president is like that!!!

Hope you’ll gonna get out of this looming autocracy soon. The world still needs you! 😁

They did spend the equivalent of 1% of Moldova’s GDP on propaganda tbh.