South Australia reached a peak of 155.3% renewable share, breaking its own record.

https://reneweconomy.com.au/australias-main-grid-hits-new-renewable-record-share-of-77-9-per-cent-driven-by-rooftop-pv/

https://explore.openelectricity.org.au/energy/sa1/?range=3d&interval=30m&view=discrete-time&group=Detailed

With the SA <-> NSW interconnect being setup in 2027 could see even higher share

i cannot believe they called it the iCar… do they not have any imagination at all

like naming things is one of the best parts and they went with old apple product from the early 2000’s

gas is good until you have enough storage to handle days without sun/wind

what are they proposing as an alternative?

they’re opening a plant in Europe?

that’s just spotify, i assume you would also have youtube, apple music, and bandcamp and also do live performances on top

it’s never been easy to make money in music, these guys will tell you:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=g-qkY2yj4_A

and that was the 70’s, as mentioned earlier:

In 2024, more musicians are making and releasing music than ever before. In fact, a new report has found that more music is released in a single day now than in the entire year of 1989.

the market is flooded, you’ll need to really put a lot of effort in to break out

That is basically nothing for any artist that isn’t in the top tier of mainstream success.

Did you not read your own article you linked to?

• 1,000 monthly streams ≈ $3-5 (enough for a coffee)
• 10,000 monthly streams ≈ $30-50 (could cover your streaming subscription)
• 100,000 monthly streams ≈ $300-500 (now we’re talking meaningful income)
• 1,000,000 monthly streams ≈ $3,000-5,000 (potentially livable wage depending on your location.

https://simplebeen.com/artists-make-on-spotify/

You’re essentially pirating music by using Spotify

As above, you can see the payout rates in the article… a liveable wage on just Spotify alone is not equivalent to piracy which pays artists nothing, this is on top of Apple Music etc

In 2024, Spotify alone paid out a record $10 billion to the music industry—totaling nearly $60 billion since our founding.

10 billion in a year is not piracy (which is $0), are you the author of the article?

In 2024, Spotify alone paid out a record $10 billion to the music industry—totaling nearly $60 billion since our founding.

https://newsroom.spotify.com/2025-01-28/on-our-10-billion-milestone-and-a-decade-of-getting-the-world-to-value-music/

You have to remember that prior to Spotify the music industry was desperate, as people turned to downloading mp3’s illegally the music industry basically just resorted to suing people who potentially downloaded a song.

I’m also very highly sceptical of this whole article, from the crappy accounting to

Lidarr is just a tool. Like any tool, it can be misused. Yes, people could point it at less-than-legal sources

My setup uses sabnzbd integrated with Lidarr for handling downloads of content I’ve purchased

Riiiiiight.

You’re just hooked up into a piracy platform that pays artists nothing by coincidence.

On top of this:

In 2024, more musicians are making and releasing music than ever before. In fact, a new report has found that more music is released in a single day now than in the entire year of 1989.

Music simply isn’t a high value product anymore, the market is flooded, there is more music coming out per minute now than you can listen to.

But it’s all good, I’ll keep paying for Spotify because Spotify pays all the artists I listen to.

Majority of music is in albums, nearly 12,000 different tracks listened to, but most are singles, I rarely listen to albums from start to finish

I listen to a lot of music in general

https://aussie.zone/post/19441027/16055498

Also I figured out you can turn off the payola:

To opt out of receiving sponsored recommendations, go to your Spotify account on desktop > Account > Privacy settings > turn off Tailored ads.

This will opt you out of receiving sponsored recommendations and personalized ads generally across our product. If you turn off Tailored ads, you will continue receiving podcast ads in your Premium account, but they will not be tailored to you.

So even if you broke it down to me just having to buy singles I’m still getting a ridiculous amount of value from Spotify

Monthly Cost $9.99-$14.99 One-time server setup + storage

The problem is that’s not the monthly cost because (in addition to running a server not being a one time thing, they need maintenance) it’s not including the cost to actually buy all the music:

Digital purchases (Bandcamp, iTunes, Amazon, etc.)

For me:

https://www.last.fm/user/ikt123/listening-report/year

Paying for 7808 albums in 1 year is unfeasible, so this is not a replacement for Spotify for me, it could be though if you only listen to a tiny amount of music, at current rate of $15 a month for me, it’s equal to like 1 album and like several smaller singles, if this is all you listen to in a month go for it.

I doubt it, I really think 1000+KM solid state batteries with 5 minute charge times would be the preferable system.

How many times do we have to watch venture capitalists enshittify services before people learn.

In reality maybe they consider the fediverse worse than the “enshittified” venture capitalist backed service?

Klarna is like a payment layer on top of a payment processor, different things, even they recommend stripe:

https://docs.klarna.com/

tbf not sure if anything the EU makes can compete with it

N’oubliez pas le méduse

https://www.france24.com/en/france/20250811-jellyfish-swarm-forces-france-s-largest-nuclear-plant-to-shut-down

mfw i’m up for 36 hours after drinking 8 cans of redbull

i was expecting a downturn tbh

6% increase in people flying seems very economically optimistic to me

But the International Air Transport Assn. expects air travel to climb 6%

is that right

That’s $11k in China right? There’s no possible way they ship em for that cheap outside of China

ok so not news and a quick search shows zero mention of solid state batteries, I’ll pass

hasn’t the earth already gone through several mass extinctions even before capitalism was invented?