I don't know what's my personal impact but since I discovered Finamp, I've been listening to my personal collection for a few months now and open spotify once a month instead of daily usage.
But I won't cut it because it's a family plan.
I also guess I'm getting older because I find music less interesting and less in phase with my taste and the Spotify algorithm is either bad in finding new stuff I like or always pushing the same 20 songs that I've listened too much.
> … and the Spotify algorithm is either bad in finding new stuff I like or always pushing the same 20 songs that I've listened too much.
yeah, it’s terrible. just plain none of the streaming services algorithms are any good, at all. apple has been the best i’ve found, but it’s still not very good.
the best methods by far are what i imagine theyve always been:
- talk to music nerds at your local record store if you have one. record stores are coming back in a big way in most mid-sized plus cities. if you’re too shy to talk to the people, most will have a wall with employee recommendations. but keep in mind, just talk to them, they like talking about music the way we like talking about computers. if you’re lucky they’ll sound to you the same way we sound when we talk to normies about tech, like gobblygook. hang in there.
- people. talk to other people. big bonus multiplier if they’re actually music wonks.
- college radio stations. they still have actual djs who play the music they actually like.
- go to concerts at your local venue. obviously, not cover bands lol.
- look up indie labels (i don’t mean indie music genre, i mean non-corporate) and watch their web pages for new releases. (a lot of them don’t have much of a social media presence so watch their web pages for their releases) non-corporate labels are the only ones putting out anything good at the moment.
I think overall there's been a huge amount of regression in discovery for music but also like... most other things. Recommendation algorithms tend to show you more of what you already like, which makes it incredibly hard to discover new things you might also like. Also creates a huge popularity bias where what's popular gets more popular and what isn't doesn't stand a snowball's chance in hell.
One of the lost joys of the past is reading a print magazine that has no idea who you are and discovering articles not written for your demographic, but that regardless expose you to new perspectives and ideas, maybe you find a new hobby or band or whatever, and enrich your life forever. That stuff just isn't happening anymore.
I miss grooveshark. Exposed me to an absolute ton of new music, and still has what I feel was the best mobile UX. The "play now, play next, play later" buttons were genius
On which criteria? Since Margaret Thatcher said she wanted her money back, and even more since Brexit, UK is geographically in Europe, just like Switzerland or Ukraine, but definitely hasn't the "European Mindset", UK is its own thing as they've always wanted to be.
If you look at my list you see it includes both EU and non-Eu countries. IMO the non-EU country's mindset is more like that of its nearest neighbours who are in the EU. Ireland is far more like the UK than it is like any of the EU countries mentioned.
I would be interested to hear a definition of that "mindset" that includes all EU countries that excludes the UK, Norway. Switzerland, Iceland etc.
It seems like there's no limit on that because you're more valuable to them as a potential product for their ad reselling business that whatever price you may bring not to be a product. I'm sure luxury companies would be interested to show you ad if the subscription was 2000$/month
Please don't mix stereotypes, it's not because I own a Mac mini that I'm an apple guy. Macos is mandatory if you want to publish an app on the app store.
They spoke directly at op and you responded for some reason. Op made an iOS only app and that’s most likely why they referred to them as ‘an apple guy’.
Nobody was saying “everyone who owns a Mac Mini” or “everyone who ever has published an iOS app” is ‘an Apple guy’.
Yes, I go to school, then I get a job, then my taxes pay for the school for my neighbours kids, they get and job, their taxes pay for the school aso. But, this chain is broken if the ones benefitting from public services don't give anything in return to finance those public services. A billionaire that made their fortune did it with the help of public services but usually, they tend to try to pay the less taxes possible.
>Yes, I go to school, then I get a job, then my taxes pay for the school for my neighbours kids, they get and job, their taxes pay for the school aso. But, this chain is broken if the ones benefitting from public services don't give anything in return to finance those public services.
That just depends on how you do the accounting, right? In a similar vein to how "police just exist to protect capital", it's not hard to construct a narrative how the whole point of schools and roads are to prepare workers to be corporate cogs and to transport them to work as corporate cogs. In the case of roads it'd be difficult to argue otherwise. For someone working 9-5, non-wfh, most of their road use is for getting to and from a job, in other words an activity that benefits corporations and their shareholders. On the flip side, if an amazon delivery truck uses public roads to send packages to you, is that only amazon that benefits (because $$$, obviously) or are you benefiting too?
> For someone working 9-5, non-wfh, most of their road use is for getting to and from a job
Nah - most of their road use will be embedded within every single product they consume across every waking (and sleeping) moment of their life.
Whether that's the immediately obvious direct road-transport involved in getting finished items from the farm / market / factory to their local store for them to be able to buy or whether it's the never-ending long-tail of indirect road-transportation usage that's ultimately critical to every aspect of modern life - from the most basic movement of raw material to produce energy (and the moment of the people who do the extraction and production), through movement of materials to grow their food - whether the literal seeds; the fertilisers, the raw materials to make the spade that was used and so on ad nauseam.
I don't think you realize how little tax some of the richest individuals actually pay. They can dodge taxes and exploit loopholes in ways that aren't available to the "average" person. Of course the average person shouldn't try to dodge taxes, and neither should the ultra wealthy, because if they are applied in a fair way, taxes are good for the community. The problem is just that it doesn't work in a fair way in practice.
This was basically never true because of all the exceptions and deductions you could do.
>now its optional. this isnt that hard
No, such arguments usually rely on redefining "income" to mean something else, eg. unrealized gains. Even the much maligned "borrow, lend, die" wheeze is less common than what people think.
referencing previous taxation on the rich in this country the past 100 years makes me think otherwise. so with even less tax, all those deductions and exceptions help even more. Keep pretending. The scale of the wealth disparity isnt really sensical and seems to be a global threat to stability. if you wanna stroke the status quo, go for it.
Ironic given that seemingly all you have to substantiate your arguments are vibes, and the rest of your comment is just a pathetic attempt at tribalism rather than anything concrete.
As well as all the people that DON'T use AI agents to talk to companies or the gov. Because if the new normal is 'mail bomb them until you get what you want', your single, soft email will just get buried.
Jensen Huang gets red in the face and tight in the pants thinking about all these institutions running infinity agents in a red queen's race for the status quo
The problem is that a lot of people don't want things to be deterministic because they want the risk of getting one over on you. They choose a worse system because essentially gambling gives them a thrill.
I don't know about these particular fridges that got hacked, but most supermarket fridges I've seen around the world either have no doors, or if they do, their doors have wide gaps and no seals (they'd only make it harder for the shoppers to shop, and given the usual foot traffic, they'd wear out completely after a week).
Exceptions I've seen: some top-opened supermarket freezers (particularly with hinged, heavy doors), and most fridges in small shops. I've seen a few that could turn into pressure bombs this way, but I very much doubt these had any networking/remote control capabilities.
They don't charge you for your own runner but they wanted to. The downtime hasn't really impacted me and not really a reason for me to leave github, but making me pay for using my own infrastructure would quickly encourage me to leave github.
But I won't cut it because it's a family plan.
I also guess I'm getting older because I find music less interesting and less in phase with my taste and the Spotify algorithm is either bad in finding new stuff I like or always pushing the same 20 songs that I've listened too much.
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