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https://www.wired.com/2010/05/spotify-adds-us-friendly-servi...
"Meanwhile a new free version called Spotify Open allows Europeans who had not been invited to sign up for free accounts in the past to join without being invited – however, they can only stream up to 20 hours of free music per month, with advertisements."
This is what the client looked like when you were out of hours: https://spotify.i.lithium.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/1... (notice the bar at the top right. dakika = hours I suppose. I can't find a better screenshot)
Facebook required: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/facebook-login-required-for-spo...
"Unfortunately you will need a Facebook account to access Spotify from now on, unless you already have an account set up"
So please just because you weren't there to see it don't say it's a lie
Can't say much about music being removed. I don't remember what they removed and don't have any citations. But I remember it happening.
You can also have a high esteem in a community by being a manipulative fuck.
You do not need those traits to be high status.
Also I don't use Gentoo to get "pointless optimisations". Ricers are the low hanging fruit that's there to be mocked. I use Gentoo because it's the best rolling out there.
The best option for a stable desktop is Gentoo, where you can run old software but then unmask recent stuff if you need it. As a recent example I'll say that MTP support in stable (libmtp) was flaky for my mobile phone. With Debian I would've had to suck dicks in the bug tracker forever to get the fix backported. With Gentoo I just unmask a more recent version et voilà. And that applies to any software you could ever need: you are always going to need more recent versions of certain packages at some point. Stuff that gets fixed, a certain new feature you want, a more recent kernel...
I know someone is going to mention apt pinning but that only works in theory since pinning a more recent version of a certain package usually means you have to update half your packages to unstable because of dependencies. And in that case why even use stable?
You can ask the ISP. They are supposed to store metadata.