thirdsun

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by thirdsun 9y ago
It's not a streaming service. You buy your music there and own it.
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by thirdsun 9y ago
For me it's Bandcamp as well as independent online record stores like: - Piccadilly Records - Norman Records - Boomkat - Red Eye Records - Bleep Some of these stores offer digital, lossless purchasing options, but more importantly all
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by thirdsun 9y ago
You underestimate the world of music that isn't available via iTunes, Apple Music or Spotify. It's huge. While Shazam is far from perfect for obscure music, it surprised me at times and iTunes or streaming services aren't eve
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by thirdsun 9y ago
For those that prefer a native interface and use macOS there's always Paw: https://paw.cloud/ (I'm not affiliated with them, just like the product)
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by thirdsun 9y ago
While certainly effective, it would also be a good way to paint Google as the villain in this matter. It's childish, irrational behaviour in my opinion.
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by thirdsun 9y ago
At least in germany the criticism is based on the fact that Amazon considers its business and workforce as part of the lower paying logistics sector, while unions expect Amazon's employess to be paid according to the retail/trade
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by thirdsun 9y ago
Ending net neutrality is, while not in their longterm interest, just fine for Google & Co. - they are already established players that are able to afford the bandwidth and overcome whatever other barriers ISPs might come up with. It&#x2
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by thirdsun 9y ago
Only available on Netflix US and Canada as well as a handful theater screenings. I've said it before but it almost seems as if those documentaries try to limit their audience. I can't count the number of times I stumbled upon inte
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by thirdsun 9y ago
How about something along the lines of “Without net neutrality the next Netflix, Google or Facebook won’t happen.”
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by thirdsun 9y ago
Well, now add a family to the equation and those 25 mbps are anything but enough.
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by thirdsun 9y ago
Well said. It's easy to take all the in-depth information we have available for granted when it comes to tech buying decisions, but once you try to research more traditional products (I was looking for a new fridge the other day) you
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by thirdsun 9y ago
Oh, this is so true. Just the other day I was thinking how hard it is to find reviews of non-tech products. I was lloking for information on a new fridge and what I came up with was useless marketing crap and what seemed like affiliate-link
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by thirdsun 9y ago
It's not, unless by all you mean some digital content. Donation-based content is still the exception and I think it's fine for creators to set a definitive price/value for their work as they see fit. I buy my music digitall
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by thirdsun 9y ago
Yes, I noticed it on news sites as well. Every minor article is accompanied by a video, which would be fine if it was an actual video with meaningful content, but it's usually a slideshow with a few quotes, which renders the whole vide
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by thirdsun 9y ago
At least in Germany there are mandatory rules. I think after 6 hours of work a 30 min break is required. It's meant to serve as an actual break between long stretches of work. Using a break to reduce your non-stop 8 hour work day to sl
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by thirdsun 9y ago
I don't understand it either. And it's actually easy to handle: My employers always gave everyone the same breaks - how you use them is up to you. Smoking, eating, chatting - all of it. However smoking outside those breaks was a n
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by thirdsun 9y ago
> I'm still buying from Amazon, but only items they stock. Won't help. Amazon mixes their stock with "fulfilled by Amazon" stock from third party sellers. So as long as it appears to be the same product it'll end
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by thirdsun 9y ago
You can't be serious. How would you feel if your salary was generated by a tip jar? IP owners are free to set their terms and you're welcome to not purchase their content if don't agree with them. Don't get me wrong - I
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by thirdsun 9y ago
While that may be true it's a rather recent development that the devs over at Kodi certainly don't enjoy. Kodi or XBOX media center / XBMC as it was known has been around since the early (original) XBOX days. It powered my ho
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by thirdsun 9y ago
I mean that the jack will remain the default connector headphones regardless of what the iPhone or any other phone does, since headphones have other devices to consider. Will there be Apple-only headphones with lightning conenctor? Sure. Bu
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by thirdsun 9y ago
> Yes there are adapters for now but they're transitional and we can expect them to eventually go away. Unlikely. The headphone market is huge and these devices are expected to work with everything, from mobile devices to AV Receive
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by thirdsun 9y ago
While it isn't annoying enough to make me consider Android, you're right - animation takes precedence over interaction everywhere in iOS. It's most notable when using the 4 finger swipe to switch between apps on an iPad: The
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by thirdsun 9y ago
Middleman is still my favorite static site generator and it has exactly that in mind: General purpose website that may or may not feature a blog. If you're already familiar with ruby it's an obvious choice. If not, I'm sure t
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by thirdsun 9y ago
You are reading too much into this - my lacking motivation to deal with these uncertainties, doesn't mean that I couldn't or categorically won't. It's not that black and white. I didn't say that I have problems over
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by thirdsun 9y ago
While you have a point, I think the alternative, traditional option of meeting people out in the real world is rarely efficient and often closer to wishful thinking. While I consider my social skills just fine, I'm simply not the type
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by thirdsun 9y ago
And I thought I was the only one that enjoys sitting back, opening countless tabs on my iPad and researching various options for hours, days or weeks (depending on the significance of purchase) as soon as I have decided that I in fact want&
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by thirdsun 9y ago
Tell me about it. A large part of the community we had at rdio used to meet at in a post-rdio slack channel after the service went down. For months we discussed alternatives and how mediocre and barebones they were compared to rdio. Most of
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by thirdsun 9y ago
Rdio had an option to address that: Its radio / "play similar stuff"-feature would let you select how far you wanted to stray from the original source of the generated playlist. If I remember correctly it went from "same
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by thirdsun 9y ago
While I haven't found a recommendation engine that works well enough for me, rdio's was very close to it. It's big feature, among others, was their heavy rotation section - I only followed people that shared a similar taste t

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