• jet@hackertalks.com
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    3 months ago

    Avoid subscription services. You may pay more short term, but you won’t have to remember to cancel anything

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      2 months ago

      This, the only monthly subscription I have is internet plan from my cellular provider (15GB for $5 at 10mbps). Zero regrets

      Any cheaper showoffs are welcomed :)

      PS: I don’t get why people subscribe to music services. I mean, you could just download your favorites and listen locally…

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        2 months ago

        Sure, I could, and would like to own my copies. It’s just that would be a lot of work and money with the experience ultimately being worse.

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          2 months ago

          They trick you to think it is (by screaming features at you that you soldemly need), but IMHO, it’s not. I only have a couple of songs that I like, and shazam new songs that I will hear along the way.

          I honestly think that shazam is the only proper feature that I just might pay subscription for. It’s brilliant. It just works, every time!

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            2 months ago

            I have a service that extracts my playback data.
            I’m fairly confident I would not just discover 6700 different artists by word of mouth, searching, or shazam combined. It would take a lifetime.
            Shazam identifies music that’s playing- where is it playing from in the first place?

            We seem to have different use cases.