💾 Archived View for tilde.club › ~oldernow › 2023-12-07-08-46-16.gmi captured on 2023-12-28 at 15:37:43. Gemini links have been rewritten to link to archived content
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Amazing - and, yes, this is mathematically impossible - how much more I've forgotten than I've ever known.
Looks like I'd already been experimenting with having a "free" Neocities site, with links to mp3's in the Google Drive zone. And that seems to work fine for mp3 delivery so long as people are clicking on mp3 links whilst logged into Google. But if/when they aren't (I verified this by attempting to access in "Incognito Mode"), although the file seeming loads into a player in Chrome, clicking on the play icon invariably leads to: "There was a problem playing this audio file." (Although the popup that displays that text also has a "Download" button that works, and the downloaded file plays just fine....)
It continues to astound me that in 2023 I need to find a workaround for such nonsense. How in fucking hell to you give me an online "drive" that allows me to set permissions so that "anyone on the internet" can access it, but if they're not logged into Google it somehow won't fucking play in their browser, but instead has people downloading such files so they can play them in whatever their default browser is, e.g. when double-clicking on a filename in the Files app?
So instead of working on honing the site to be spiffy per my definition thereof, I'm blowing time trying to make friggin' mp3's play in a Chrome browser tab, something I'd have thought was solved forever at least a decade ago?
Well, it's all somewhat irrelevant, because I see I've way too many personally identifying touches at said Neocities site, and just plain don't have time to "dick with it", because of course making things available online is always one form of seemingly senseless dicking around or another: hosting leads to one dicking around realm, and leaning on others' online services to another.
To me it screams JUST GET THE FUCK OFF ONLINE AND LIVE IN PEACE....