They put a Spotify logo on the thing, and they don't trust any of us to improve the brand image
Spotify won't open-source Car Thing, but starts refund process
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Re: Spotify won't open-source Car Thing, but starts refund process
#232@Spotify open source this.
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#233Re: Spotify won't open-source Car Thing, but starts refund process
#234Earlier quoted context omitted.
> they actually sent me an email asking for my checking account number and routing number to be sent to them VIA EMAIL Is that an actual issue with US accounts? Over in EU it's common to publish your account number (IBAN) and routing code (BIC) on your website, letterhead, and obviously on bills you send to customers so they can pay you. They should only be able to send you money, not use it to request money, right?
Nope, your IBAN alone can be used to set up withdrawals. That has to be approved by the bank, so it's not as easy as stealing the IBAN, but still...
Only businesses can create SEPA Direct Debit mandates, and they can be blocked easily and refunded at the initiative of the account holder no-questions-asked within two months.
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#235Earlier quoted context omitted.
In the Netherlands, when you buy a new appliance you pay a few euros extra "recycling fee"; the company delivering the new appliance will take the old one back for recycling, and / or the money goes into a fund for recycling the product you just bought. (I just read up on it, it used to be a separate charge, it's now baked into the price, probably because people were balking about it)
>the company delivering the new appliance will take the old one back for recycling Do all shops offer this in NL?
They must when above a certain floorplan size.
Re: Spotify won't open-source Car Thing, but starts refund process
#236Earlier quoted context omitted.
>My (texas) city comes and picks them up at no charge, and I don't feel that's an unusual situation. That IS pretty unusual, and in a positive way. I live in one of EU's richest socialist countries (Austria) and here YOU have bare the cost of transporting your old fridge or washing machine to the city's recycling depot, which is a huge expense for your average joe as that means owning or renting a car plus renting a…
When you set anything metal outside on the curb with a free sign, it gets recycled. Either someone takes it to use or they scrap it to be melted down for repurposing. I talked to an elderly man digging in my father's trash for metal recently. He's not doing it because he's poor but because he's retired and bored and gets cash for the scrap that doesn't affect his social security income. He recycles everything with me…
>When you set anything metal outside on the curb with a free sign, it gets recycled.
That's not allowed in Europe if you just dump your e-waste in front of the building with a "free sign" on it. You get fiend for littering and the garbage company that picks it up fines the building where you live and it goes into your rent costs.
Re: Spotify won't open-source Car Thing, but starts refund process
#237Premium customer since 2013. Spotify would only give a refund in the form of Spotify Premium credits. And ironically canceled my subscription in the process of giving me the credit. SMH. Likely will GitHub Actions export my playlists and let the subscription expire.
I feel Spotify is really losing sight of its core competencies and its actual value proposition at this point. Will be interesting to see how this shakes out.
Spotify was amazing in recent years for 3 reasons: 1. Early pioneers in good ML based music taste making aided by teams of people who knew the various genres.
2. Spotify’s ability to do this well came from its strong investment in metadata which gave them a corpus of insight into what people listen to and why. Somewhat analogous to the rich tagging TikTok does to its videos on support of FYP.
3. The ubiquitous and continuous client support made it so easy to bring Spotify everywhere, that any alternative was going to mean more friction. In a way Spotify Connect is their iMessage blue bubbles moat. The ubiquitous and branded clients available on tons of hardware and every OS was their social contract. It was cool to use Spotify and not cool to be an Apple Music or Tidal user. The slow but continued atrophy of client support only builds distrust in this narrative. And that gap is closing when compared to other services.
Re: Spotify won't open-source Car Thing, but starts refund process
#238Premium customer since 2013. Spotify would only give a refund in the form of Spotify Premium credits. And ironically canceled my subscription in the process of giving me the credit. SMH. Likely will GitHub Actions export my playlists and let the subscription expire. I feel Spotify is really losing sight of its core competencies and its actual value proposition at this point. Will be interesting to see how this shakes…
3.1 - Car Thing was likely never going to be profitable but it was continued investment in that social contract. You can bring a Spotify UI everywhere. Even places where maybe it wasn’t needed or already served. But kept the mind share of its customer base. I used mine on my desk for example and was asked about it constantly.
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#239Earlier quoted context omitted.
At least with dishwashers, part of the reason is actually that home dishwasher detergents are no longer allowed to have phosphates. And for a lot of people the no-phosphates thing happened around the same time they got an energy-efficient dishwasher. And then they blamed the bad dishwasher performance on the energy efficiency, when it's actually that home dishwasher detergent is far less effective now. Except restaur…
Fascinating. Time to go buy dishwashing liquid from my local restaurant supply store instead of the grocery store then.
It won't work -- putting aside the phosphates, it's a totally different formulation, because restaurant dishwashing machines run for 2-4 minutes, rather than 30-60.
On the other hand, if you searched online, I'm sure you would be able to find the exact type of phosphate that was removed from dishwasher detergent, where to order it independently, and in what proportion it could be mixed together with modern dishwasher detergent powder, to restore the sparkly clean dishes you might have grown up with. You would also want to research the legality of such, as well as whether it would actually have any environmental impact or not where you live.
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#240Earlier quoted context omitted.
Wireless earbuds are going to be filling landfills soon. They have become near unrepairable as of late and once the batteries inside barely last 15 min, people will just trash them and get new ones. At least wired headphones could be used for decades without issue.
How much use out of something is enough? AirPods weigh 10.4 grams for the pair. Let's say two hours per charge, and 400 charges, before they're no good. That's 1.3 milligrams of e-waste per hour. After 77 hours you have one aspirin pill's worth of e-waste on your conscience. Filling a landfill? With the case, I get about 1.5 million per shipping container. How big are landfills where you live?
Don't you think comparing something degradable like aspirin to plastic and lithium batteries is a false equivalence?