preach!

I don’t have a car, so if I have to go ‘back to the office’, I will have to use the bus, wake up earlier, and commuting (even with my current employer being 15’ away by bus) is still 30 minutes out of my day that I don’t want to spend. When I am at home, I can just stand up, play some piano to relax, or have a short shower. Things that help me calm a little bit that I can’t do at an office. I also have a better setup than the setup at the company’s office, so why bother.

To be honest, as long as companies open remote positions, I don’t think I want to go back to any office whatsoever.

I feel like instead of writing ‘fuck spez’ on reddit, the best decision is to ditch it completely. I mean, I do still visit reddit due to some niche communities that don’t have that big of a user-base on lemmy, but clearly reddit exists for 10+ years. The change can’t happen overnight. In any case, I am still astonished by how quickly lemmy got that much traffic. From a small village, it has turned into a city, it’s incredible. :)

I work remotely, so listening mainly from my monitor’s speakers during work. After work, I recently bought a really small DAP made by shanling, and as an output I use a JBL small bluetooth speaker or oneplus buds Z2 (I bought them on sale and it was a great purchase). My music collection is a bit large (~2TB) so on my DAP I have ~100gb and it is more than enough. If I need something from my collection, I just transfer it from my pc.

I don’t really like podcasts, but I use the same DAP for audiobooks sometimes.

I like spotify due to the many options I have (web player, awesome mobile apps, and 3rd party clients like ncspot (cli), or psst(GUI client written in Rust)).

I have tried Tidal, but the cost seems a bit prohibitive at the end of the day. For privacy-minded/tech-savvy folks, I would say local music library is the best solution and after that, self hosting some subsonic-compatible software like https://www.navidrome.org/docs/.

I personally have a small VPS running anyways so I use gonic (https://github.com/sentriz/gonic) on the server and symfonium(https://symfonium.app/) on android as a client. So, personal music collection combined with spotify premium, is, IMO, as good as it gets.