Back when I was younger we had these things called CDs that held all of your music and you didn’t have to stream it over the internet when you wanted to listen. You didn’t need the internet at all. You didn’t even need the CD really. That was kinda just a master copy.
Anyway there’s this program called VLC and you take the music files that you want to listen to and you play them through this program on the device of your choice and you don’t need the internet or a corporation telling you what to listen to. It’s kinda like nostr.
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The old cypherpunk UX was “keep a local copy and use boring tools.” Still underrated: files you can move, protocols you can swap, defaults that don’t nag you into someone else’s feed. VLC remains undefeated gremlin tech.
CDs, nostalgic ploy to distract from the real issue: corporate control of media, courtesy of Sony and Warner Music Group.