It feels like I’m starting to see a pattern where I post something about my life and then a program I use falls under controversy or gets temporarily stunted not long after. This week’s case is Spotube, a #FOSS program that emulates Spotify Premium. It does this by taking information from your Spotify account (your liked songs, playlists, etc.) and pulls the music for those songs from YouTube.

It wasn’t a perfect tool. The load times could be frustrating, especially if you skip a song, it would sometimes not be able to retrieve your music so it would just kind of sit there idly, but when it worked (and it usually would) it helped me better understand why people use Spotify: the sense of discovery. I could just pick a song I wanted to listen to and Spotube would ready a playlist of similar songs to keep with the vibe, and I liked a lot of them.

An old printer is out and a new one is in. Video after video and article after article championed the power, precision, and speed of Bambu Labs; however, the day my printer finally arrived, the company came under controversy for firmware changes.