Easy enough. You can also install QuillOS which an open source operating system for Kobos.

The bottom line is that people are accountable for their own actions and not the actions of others, and that’s exactly how it should be.

The problem with that logic is that anyone can be let off the hook for immoral/illegal behaviour as long as they have said beforehand that they’ll do it.

If I walk into a shop and tell the shopkeeper I’m going to rob them should I then get to take whatever I want with impunity?

I know what you’re saying but:

If they abused her it is them who are responsible, not her.

Pretty straightforward.

they’re complaining about how much competition there is

And is that competition fair?

new quality music artists put music on YouTube and music subscription services.

And most of us will never be exposed to it,

There’s a ton of good music

Again, most of us will never be exposed to it. It is culturally lost.

so you have to spend a lot of money to actually make a career out of your own music

So you disagree with yourself about the best music ‘spreading itself’? I genuinely don’t want to humiliate you because I think you are contributing to the discussion in good faith and English may not be your first language but readers should be aware that this isn’t a properly considered point to make.

So traditional music industry is incredibly important to success because they market. They have money to place music where people hear it.

You make my point for me, perhaps even better than I did.

I don’t understand your comment. Can you be more clear?

All of these attacks on Nigel’s Party are so lucid, objective and principled. Why do we handicap ourselves so?

Yes, in a purely free and meritocratic market it would. But the reality is that whoever has the most capital to invest in a release skews the market in their favour by getting a bigger share of finite attention/exposure, whether that’s radio plays or playlist placements.

Free market capitalism is an oxymoron and a failure in its own terms, not just in the arts but across the board. And there will be no music on a dead planet.

Check out YUNOhost, if you haven’t already. It’s designed to simplify self-hosting for beginners.

It’s tragic in a way that as soon as the technology made it possible for anyone to rise up, capitalism stepped in to smack us all back down.

I might have created the best music in a generation but it will get smothered unless I can find a capitalist to invest in it heavily enough for it to get heard.

The more I understand economics and the longer I live with it, the more capitalism seems like a death cult.

I don’t personally have Google Play Services installed but I can see how devastating this could be to open source on Android.

Just to clarify:

Will my apps installed from F-droid be unaffected by this?

I’m usually cautious about the establishment extending its capabilities but since all of my ideas about cooperative and global humanitarianism now suddenly appear to be out of sync with reality I just want my own boys and girls to be harder than theirs are.

I use YUNOhost on a VPS and it came with email out of the box. Which is just as well because I had no previous experience self-hosting!

I think I had a couple of emails get marked as spam in the beginning but everything has been totally fine for the last 2/3 years.

Just off the top of my head:

• Gypsies & travellers
• Jews (duh)
• People with mental health problems
• Unemployed people
• People with the wrong regional accent
• Academics and people with university degrees
• People who voted for Jeremy Corbyn
• People who have the wrong internet connection records (great now the Home Office has those isn’t it?)
• Cyclists
• Vegetarians
• Hipsters

Totally. Especially if the rich can’t get around it.

It’s almost unbelievable how grotesque this situation is.

£20 billion in the hole, after paying dividends and bonuses, poisoning national waters and not fixing leaks and you can still find £130 million to pay spies, one if whom is already the Prime Minister’s bumchum, to try and stop the government nationalising you before the situation gets even worse.

Not sure whether I’m more disgusted at Thames Water or the government tbh.

How are Labour supposed to get the ‘highest growth in the G7’ while at the same time protecting the most outrageously failing companies?

The last I heard Youtube actually makes a loss in terms of cost and ad revenue but is worth maintaining because of the user data it makes available to its parent company. The low ethical standards and backing of one of the worlds biggest corporations allow it to outcompete any alternative.

If we’re serious about dealing with the problem we need to deal with antitrust and privacy.

I doubt they will do it but video creators need to organise and put pressure on government to enforce the law on this.

You can have both parents go out and work full-time to make ends meet (don’t ask about economic inequality) or you can have them around to raise their children. You can’t have both Bridget, I’m sorry.