Hmm, the website seems to be down.
As with most things, when big corporations take over it becomes bad. Definitely agree with you that using it as your only way of getting info is bad, but it’s not much different from relying on one influencer or podcaster for all your info other than it being more likely to be more well researched. I will say at least with my local one it’s a pretty diverse method of entertainment. They’ve got all kinds of weird and quirky shows on.
Really depends on the station. Some of them (especially the bigger ones) will have ads quite frequently, but others will have a few every now and then and there are some that don’t have any at all.
Woah, that sounds awesome. I’d definitely be interested in helping out with that.
Thanks. Got mine pretty recently and I’ve been enjoying it a lot. It’s nice when you want background noise but don’t wanna curate a playlist on a streaming platform. I have ADHD so I need some kind of background noise to be able to focus on most things. All I have to do is turn it on, sweet deal.
Over all a nice little radio. Only thing I’m not a fan of is that it’s only got a micro USB port for its power source. I don’t like micro USB cuz it tends to break. Other than that, it’s got decent sound quality and you can connect to it via Bluetooth and play music from it. It’s tiny and compact.
Some stations are like that, but there’s a lot of cool ones out there that play a variety of music and are not for profit so there aren’t many ads. The smaller ones are usually better in that regard. Highly recommend checking out Radio Garden. It shows a bunch of stations that also stream from all over the world, cool stuff.
I’m involved with a radio station in my area and it’s soooooo cool to sit in on shows. All of the stuff you hear is done by live humans. They go in and manually put CDs and curate the playlists and control the levels of everything. Sometimes they talk in between with some context for the song or random musings they have. Sometimes whoever is hosting will dedicate a particular song to somebody they know. It’s so endearing and human. Occasionally they’ll have a prerecorded show but most of them are live.
The cool thing is that most radio stations these days also stream on their websites, so if you haven’t got any good local stations you can stream other small community ones. Radio garden is a cool website where you can stream stations online from around the world.
Yep, that is the model.
Do I need to have elevated network permissions to do that? I don’t have admin access on my WiFi network and it is shared with a lot of people.
The hardware switch looks promising. Are there any decent ones for under $50 out there or are they usually a big investment?
I’m thinking use it to host a Minecraft or matrix server. I’m not expierenced with networking so nothing super advanced.
Might change if you get a VPN and change servers. I’m assuming that the suggested accounts are based on location.
I completely forgot about repositories in F-Droid. This is very helpful, thank you.
I’m curious, why do you use that over a VPN?
Same. Seems like YouTube is back on their anti VPN and frontend spree which will inevitability have a workaround and then they’ll be at it again. It’s cyclical at this point.
I’ll look into it. Thanks.
Edit: it’s not on f-droid :/
You’re absolutely right. We need to have many different options for many different people.