wrekone

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wrekone,

Grover Norquist fucks off forever

This is the world I want to live in.

wrekone,

Um, yes.

After announcing increased prices, Spotify to Pay Songwriters About $150 Million Less Next Year (www.billboard.com)

When Bloomberg reported that Spotify would be upping the cost of its premium subscription from $9.99 to $10.99, and including 15 hours of audiobooks per month in the U.S., the change sounded like a win for songwriters and publishers. Higher subscription prices typically equate to a bump in U.S. mechanical royalties — but not...

wrekone,

That’s what’s stopping me too. I’ve tried to convince them that Youtube Music (I’m a holdover from the Play Music days, RIP) is good enough but they won’t have it. I miss Songza.

No spoilers please, but does Old Man’s War get better?

I’ve been really enjoying John Scalzi’s catalog- Started with Starter Villain (delightful!), The Kaiju Preservation Society (Sweet…), Lock In + Head On (fun who-done-its), The Android’s Dream (clever, enjoyable read), Agent to the Stars (funny, creative, pretty good)....

wrekone,

I did too!

wrekone,

For me, discovery is the entire reason to use streaming services. I have a ton of hard drive space, and know how to find anything I want to download. I have a fairly large music collection from before the days of streaming. But streaming services help me discover all kinds of things I’d likely never hear otherwise. They still suck, as in they’re greedy as hell and the quality is mid, but I don’t know what I’d do if I had to listen to the same stuff all the time.

wrekone,

Thank you for eloquently saying what I often struggle to convey. I’m saving this comment for later reference.

wrekone,

Tiiiiiight

wrekone, (edited )

Sync. It seemed to have the closest feature set to RiF early on and I’ve just stuck with it since then. I try other apps occasionally. They all have their strengths but Sync feels the most polished.

edit: Sync has started the inserting ads into my feed. Maybe they always have and I just didn’t see them because I use DNS based ad blocking? They have an ad free version, but it’s too much at $20. Even worse, the “ultimate” edition uses a subscription model, or is $99. For a Lemmy app? Insane. Guess it’s time to change apps.

Squarespace to Go Private in $6.9B All-Cash Transaction with Permira (investors.squarespace.com)

Stockholders will receive $44.00 per share in cash, which represents a premium of 29% over the 90-day volume weighted average trading price of $34.09 Squarespace, Inc. (NYSE: SQSP ), the design-driven platform helping entrepreneurs build brands and businesses online, today announced that it has entered into a definitive...

wrekone,

There will likely be no benefit for the employees or the users. For the PE firm, the goal is usually to pump up the value and resell or reenter the market, at a massive profit, in a few years. To do that, they’ll have to make a lot of unpopular choices, such as layoffs and other cost cutting measures. If they’re privately held, those choices have far less impact on the value of the company, since the stock market is heavily swayed by public perception.

wrekone,

I won’t lie, they pulled the wool over my eyes with Starfield. I kept waiting for that moment where they brought it all together and suddenly it would be a great game. I was shook when the credits rolled and I hadn’t yet found the fun part.

wrekone,

Even if this is true, and I’m not arguing that it isn’t, if you’ve committed a different crime with a worse punishment, you’ll have to take that into consideration.

wrekone,

A number of Android phones support most of this functionality. Unfortunately, you have to actually click on a “Lockdown mode” button after long pressing power+volume-up. Hopefully Google catches up here.

wrekone,

The vast majority of news will never directly impact my life. While I care a lot about people in general, I can’t spend my time worrying about everything. Leaving (major) social media was one of the best decisions I’ve ever made.

wrekone,

With further refinement and scaling, internet providers could ramp up standard speeds without overhauling current fiber optic infrastructures.

Don’t worry. They’ll find some way to use this to justify massive rate increases.

wrekone,

You can stream Xbox Cloud games in Edge on the Steamdeck. Works about as well as it does anywhere else.

wrekone,

I see what rule did there

wrekone,

I wish I had understood this years ago. I probably would have found a better place to work.

wrekone,

…micromanagement of advertising in today’s hyper-competitive marketplace…

WTF are they on about? Cable TV is the least competitive market out there. I’ve never lived anywhere with more than two options.

wrekone,

…El Salvador has decided to transfer a large chunk of its bitcoin holdings to a cold wallet and store it in a physical vault

What are we up to now, like Ocean’s 15 or something?

wrekone,

A lot of sites say they only support one specific MFA app. But in my experience, any MFA app that can read the QR code will work.

wrekone,

George Monbiot is a fantastic writer.

wrekone,

Is this an AI generated response?

wrekone,

It’s all fun and games until you step on a rivet in your bare feet.

wrekone, (edited )

The third season genuinely made me angry. Not that it wasn’t good. There were just so many unlikable characters that it was hard to watch sometimes.

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