Re: News : ARM Trying to Buy AmperComputing

WokieSux282@ud0s4.net <WokieSux283@ud0s4.net> wrote:

  However there's no great replacement for broadcast radio.

I /replaced/ FB broadcast in my car with a small FM transmitter module
and a headphone cable to my cell phone's headphone jack.  The phone
holds all local MP3's (no network streaming) and playback is via this
app:

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/ch.blinkenlights.android.vanilla/

All because "broadcast FM" (in my local area at least) became:

1) talk radio during morning commute hours, whereby every radio station
was trying desperately to turn their DJ into "the next Howard Stern" by
having them all spend 4 hours every morning talking about how long they
spent sitting on the crapper or whether their omlette was cold when
it arrived from the IHop kitchen that morning.  I.e., all crap that I
could not have cared any less about.

2) after every 3-5 minutes of the above, they would then play 8-10 (or
so it felt) minutes of commercials.

Instant info, local interests, no subscriptions/monitoring/ ad-bots
  or such.

I lost: "instant info" and "local interests" (although the "local
interest" of how long the turd was the DJ crapped out that morning was
not /really/ something I cared much to know about).

I maintained: no subscriptions or monitoring

I gained: no ad-bots, and, most importantly, no ads at all.