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by thirdsun 7y ago
Don‘t. If you want macOS just bite the bullet and buy yourself a pretty carefree experience. If you don‘t care about the OS obviously get any of the countless affordable PC configurations.
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You should know that Startpage has been acquired by an advertising company: https://restoreprivacy.com/startpage-system1-privacy-one-gro...
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Now that you mention it, Ben Thompson uses this hand drawn art style at Stratechery[1] - it seems like something that is easy and fast enough to do with one of the countless iPad drawing apps and an Apple Pencil. [1]: https://str
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Careful with that setting. Any non-integer scaling like 1.5x will force macOS to render everything in 5K (I think?) and scale it down to the target resolution - this is way more taxing on GPU, battery life etc. than 2x scaling which simply
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by thirdsun 7y ago
> I feel like I'm in the minority of those who love SoundCloud. It's one the very few places for indie music makers and DJs to showcase their work that otherwise may not necessarily be published via the official publishing chan
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> My friends and I have countdowns on our phones ticking down the days to eagerly-awaited releases, we make plans to listen to it together at a 'premiere' hosted by whoever has the best speakers. If they live up to the exciteme
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by thirdsun 7y ago
It seems as if you're trying very hard to accuse a company whose mobile devices tend to be supported way longer than their competitor's of intentional wrongdoing. It's an option the user shouldn't have to deal with. I&#x
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Fascinating. You're probably aware but room correction has come a long way - I'm particularly impressed with Dirac Live[0], which in my opinion provides significantly better results than Audyssey, YPAO & Co. Personally, I coul
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> People complaining about how user-unfriendly SAP is or how companies adapt to SAP instead of the other way around are missing the point of SAP. > The point of SAP is that the module for your type of business is being implemented at
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ERPNext in my opinion: https://erpnext.com/
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As a music enthusiast and collector myself I'm familiar with that feeling as well as the disappointing state of recommendation engines. However I think it's easy to fall into a habit/routine of constantly looking for and acqu
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You are aware that there are several alternative music app replacements that focus on local libraries? Cs Music Player is probably the most popular one of them: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/cs-music-player/id
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That seems outrageous to me. Replacing my device, whether purchased outright or through Apple's upgrade program, shouldn't be of any concern for my provider.
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https://www.feihstel.com/ - content is focused on my mix series of relaxing, eclectic lazy sunday soundtracks - static website built with Middleman and hosted on Netlify's free tier. It also uses Turbolinks which is an
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I‘d imagine that you could do price comparisons elsewhere once you have found the product meeting your requirements. And finding that product is where Geizhals actually shines due to their incredible attribute normalization and filtering o
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I‘m not surprised at all. I remember countless discussions on Hacker News about the disappearance of the file system and how younger generations simply don‘t understand the concepts of files, folders and their hierarchy. I’d put URLs in the
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Qobuz has lots of popular music from major labels (including Gorillaz). I'm not sure how much more mainstream it can get, but if something you're looking for is missing, I'd say that's a failure and neglect the labels in
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by thirdsun 7y ago
> ...the iTunes store feels like the last place I can get mainstream music DRM free to just play on any of my devices... The question about DRM-free, lossless music sources comes up again and again, but personally I think it has never be
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by thirdsun 7y ago
> That said, of all the people you know in the Apple ecosystem, how many people know/do the following: know what an id3 tag is, manage the metadata of their digital audio content, listen to audiobooks. You could say the same thing a
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by thirdsun 7y ago
When was the last time you tried? Steam introduced a refund system with clear rules a while ago: https://store.steampowered.com/steam_refunds/ As others pointed out the european 14 day return policy only applies to phy
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> Polish studio ZA/UM is absed in Estonia.
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Wait, are you saying that Netflix alters the dynamic range of its source content? That would be awful unless used as a clearly labeled option. I always felt that Netflix' audio quality was rather poor and lacked punch as well as dynami
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Yes, new Apple hardware in particular has a very distinctive, pleasant and hard to describe smell.
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As long as you delete that copy once your streaming subscription ends, it might actually be reasonable. Otherwise a month of Netflix or Spotify would entitle you to pirate their whole catalogue.
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> Art doesn't entitle you to a livelihood. If you don't like the level of compensation, get a day job and do it for kicks like the vast majority of people do. That's not for you to decide. Replace "art" with {you
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It is a true gem. However Yoshimura has been a legend among collectors and in ambient circles long before Youtube was around and I think we should give greater credit to the countless labels that work on re-issuing these long lost gems and
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Honestly, I think an Apple Watch (maybe the very affordable Series 3?) would be your best and most comfortable option. You can have your activites tracked by Apple's own first-party Activity app, which is likely the most privacy-consci
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> What Amazon is doing sounds more like stopping to be an open marketplace, depending on how hard it is to get approved. That's a solution, but at that point they are just another Target or Wal-Mart. Good. If I buy from Amazon I wan
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by thirdsun 7y ago
Meta - A music tag editor for mac For me without a doubt the best audio meta data editor on macOS and an essential part of managing my music collection. https://www.nightbirdsevolve.com/meta/ - Retrobatch - Flexible, s
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I don‘t think anyone’s using family and other real obligations as an excuse to skip side projects - my guess is that people are very aware of the fact that side projects will reduce their leisure time and it‘s a trade off few people are wil

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