Thanks for that - the Freetube/SMPlayer part worked for me!

What is the full content of the Target URLs field for RunWith? Trying to get that bit working now. Thanks :)

No, it’s because I like open source operating systems and a linux tablet would mean it could be used for other things too if needed.

I agree. I think the music industry (and others) have reverted to a feudal & medieval way of exerting control over markets. Which, like you say, is not a proper solution because people want something real.

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

I don’t mind either way. This works - thanks :)

P.S Do you know of a way to browse other gsettings keys?

Yes :)

Looking into that command and checking the current value uses ‘get’ instead of ‘set’. (If that’s helpful to others reading this).

You are a peach, thank you 👍

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?

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.

I use vectors in it all the time. They’re really useful and you can do a lot with them in GIMP.

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.

It sounds like GIMP ticks all your boxes.

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 do too. But I have this illusion about Debian that everything is perfect, authoritative and dignified, which it is of course and then I am struck by this kind of candid resentment and bitterness in apt like a bolt out of the blue. I just don’t what to think any more.

I’ll cry if I want to.

“I take full responsibility for my Arch install” is one of my favourite lines from a linux youtuber.