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[–] petrescatraian@libranet.de 61 points 4 months ago (5 children)

Why did I initially read this as Premium Pentium? lol

[–] cosmOS@lemmy.zip 72 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Premium Pentium is the tier above Basic Celeron

[–] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 13 points 4 months ago

I want the Centrino Nano Duo

[–] ImgurRefugee114@reddthat.com 15 points 4 months ago (2 children)

It's all about the Pentiums baby

[–] MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca 11 points 4 months ago

With my mind on my pentiums, and my pentiums on my mind.

[–] I_am_10_squirrels@beehaw.org 3 points 4 months ago

You all wanna be hackers, code crackers, slackers?

[–] Hupf@feddit.org 4 points 4 months ago

Pentium Gold

[–] Apytele@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 months ago

I read "premium premium" which is both spiritually similar and also just fucking hilarious.

[–] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 2 points 4 months ago

It's only a matter of time before they start charging monthly for accurate division.

[–] veeesix@lemmy.ca 55 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Of the 8 plans, 5 are premium level 🤦‍♂️

[–] cosmOS@lemmy.zip 71 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I hadn’t even noticed Basic Platinum before I posted. That one is such an oxymoron that it went full-moron.

[–] optissima@lemmy.ml 27 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Basic latinum has such strong ferengi energy

[–] goldteeth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

That's a lot of yamok sauce...

[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 9 points 4 months ago

I just traded all my yamok sauce for self stealing stem bolts

[–] Wigglesworth@retrolemmy.com 3 points 4 months ago

Microsoft Works

[–] FreddiesLantern@leminal.space 48 points 4 months ago

Kinda reminds me of George Carlin on the illusion of choice.

“18 delicious flavours of rice-a-rony”

[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 45 points 4 months ago

“Premium Lite”

lol

[–] muhyb@programming.dev 31 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Getting Premium Copper from Ea Nasir is better I think.

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[–] floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 31 points 4 months ago (5 children)

Meanwhile Tidal:

Fuck it, we're merging our two tiers and giving you the features of the higher one for the price of the lower.

Anyway, if you're serious about your music collection, get those bits on a disk.

[–] Microtonal_Banana@lemmy.zip 20 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

Tidal is owned by a bunch of billionaires including Kanye the Nazi and Nicki MAGA Minaj.

[–] qyron@sopuli.xyz 14 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Search enough and you'll discover that every company on the planet has some shady stuff in the closet.

Best we can do is support the small, more ethical, companies and exploit to our best the others.

[–] slappyfuck@lemmy.ca 7 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I think it gets overused, but the phrase “there is no ethical consumption under capitalism” usually holds true.

[–] ArsonButCute@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Its overused by people who misunderstand the point.

No, there isn't ethical consumption under capitalism but that doesn't mean we can stop and consider the actual impact of what we choose to financially support. We can make the choice to reduce negative impact, even if we can't eliminate it.

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[–] qyron@sopuli.xyz 4 points 4 months ago

One way or another, we need to live. And it is impossible, for all practical purposes, to produce everything we need to lead a well balanced and reasonable life.

It holds a degree of validity, but like all absolutes, it leaves out everything between complete lack and total abuse.

[–] thewhorealme@lemmy.zip 3 points 4 months ago

They own shares in the company. Kanye has since a few years back sold his shares. Jay-Z should still be a board member though.

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[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 25 points 4 months ago

Is everything premium? If everything is premium, then nothing is premium.

[–] illi@piefed.social 23 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Premium Premium is all that's missing

[–] B0rax@feddit.org 5 points 4 months ago

Premium Premium plus lite

[–] Hyperrealism@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I refuse to pay for spotify and quietly judge anyone who does.

[–] xpey@piefed.social 13 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I loudly judge those who do

[–] Hyperrealism@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)
[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 4 months ago
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[–] harfang@slrpnk.net 21 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I would recommend you to leave this unethical platform anyway.

[–] REDACTED@infosec.pub 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Is there an ethical music platform?

[–] winkerjadams@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 4 months ago

Buying from bandcamp or directly from the artist if possible

[–] Pamasich@kbin.earth 4 points 4 months ago

Funkwhale is a fediverse music platform.

[–] Naho_Zako@piefed.zip 15 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Curious as to which country this is, because under US they only have individual, student, duo, and family. Methinks this screenshot is satire lol.

[–] fadedmaster@sh.itjust.works 14 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I thought it was satire too. But nope.... Looks like in some countries they really have these different tiers.

https://www.spotify.com/in-en/platinum/?hl=en-US

[–] ComradeRachel@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 4 months ago

Charging more for lossless is such a rip off when many other platforms like deezer include it with their regular plan.

[–] cassandrafatigue@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Premium lite

Basic platinum

I prefer Nicotine+

[–] AnotherPenguin@programming.dev 11 points 4 months ago

Still not as bad as microsoft naming sense

[–] JayGray91@piefed.social 10 points 4 months ago

It's not like that for me, but I assume it's because of my different region.

I only have

  • premium individual
  • premium student
  • duo plan
  • family plan

Wish I canceled earlier. The earliest time is whenever before the price hike. The second earliest was when they hiked the price up.

But now I am free. And if I really want to stream anything I'll just pirate YouTube music. There are still a lot of anime style music and covers that are only on YouTube.

[–] Lyra_Lycan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 4 months ago

Well, these aren't real in my country. We have Individual, Student, Duo and Family

[–] devrimci@hexbear.net 4 points 4 months ago

In my country we boycott the Spotify because they removed all the revolutionist songs of grup yorum. So u imagine how bastard they are!

[–] FastEddieB@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 4 months ago

I bet if they added a tier that allowed you to visit Daniel Ek and kick him square in the junk that would be pretty popular.

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 3 points 4 months ago

It's confusing on purpose so you give up before finding the one with no ads and just pick the fifth one down the list

[–] DieserTypMatthias@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 months ago

Just use OuterTune on mobile and YT Music with uBlock Origin on the web. And if you want to have it locally, then use yt-dlp.

[–] Thordros@hexbear.net 2 points 4 months ago

If you subscribe to Goon Squad Platinum, you receive access to the exclusive guild, a 100g daily guild bank withdrawal, PLUS all previous tiers' benefits!

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