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What device? I’ve only used it on the Samsung S22 Ultra and the Pixel 7. IMO was a fantastic experience.

I strongly recommend Apple Music. It has one of the largest libraries and pays better than YouTube, Amazon, or Spotify.

Apple Music is also platform agnostic; there’s even a browser version now. Also, you can download music and choose the quality. It’s far less “algorithm-y,” which I prefer.

Tidal and Qobuz do pay out more, but have much smaller libraries. I don’t personally like them much. The apps feel subpar.

YouTube and Amazon are straight up bad experiences for me. If this was back in 2013, I’d actually have recommended Google Play Music. RIP.

Yep, I was a young person that loved Kanye back in high school when Graduation was the CD I had on me all the time.

Can’t listen to it anymore. It’s ruined. :{

Here are some old ones: Shane Dawson
Onision
Smosh
=3

Not so old: JonTron

Devrom.

I’d work in my sleep if all these conditions are met:

1. It replaces my 9-5 completely.

2. I am still fully rested after waking, or at the very least no meaningful difference to my sleep health.

3. I wake up and don’t remember anything.

To this day, Adobe CS5 is probably the best all-encompassing software package they’ve ever released. CS6 added a few things, but was buggy AF. Then CC came out and it’s been in eternal-beta since. So many lost files and sometimes even OS-destroying updates.

HP. This one is easy. Low hanging fruit. For me, I bought an expensive gaming laptop that arrived defective. I asked for a replacement, they denied and required I send it in for repairs. Waited a month for them to tell me there isn’t a problem. Asked for a refund instead of having it shipped back. They said that’s not how it works, they have to send it back first. So I get it, with the defect still, and call to get a refund. They initially deny a refund due to being outside the refund period and offer a “buy back” credit. I had to spend an hour explaining why that’s not happening and why they’re going to give me a refund or expect to see me in court. Keep in mind, I hadn’t used this laptop more than an hour or two and it’s been shipped around and forth for two months. I did get my refund at least, but the headache was insane and I refuse to even look at HP products.

Adobe: Already said by others. For me, it’s because they charge an insane amount of money for barely-functional software. I used Affinity products instead.

Google: They cancel their services so quickly, it’s more like they’ve blacklisted ME. I refuse to pay for anything they offer in the event it will be discontinued in a year or two. RIP Play Music.

Amazon: Prices increase, service quality decreases, value decreases exponentially. The product I paid for at $79/year was far more superior to whatever Prime costs today. Mostly third party cheap trash. Unfortunately, and most likely by design, there are just a few specific reasons I’m forced to give Amazon money every so often. But at the very least, I’m making the highest conscious effort to avoid them.

I’ll update this if I come up with more.

Edit 1: Netflix: They keep removing quality content and increasing prices. Anti-consumer shit. They are both the reason I stopped pirating and considered starting again.

Fair.

We overestimate what most people do with their computers.

Most people that buy one never touch the re-installation of the OS. I wouldn’t be surprised if I learned 99% of PC users haven’t even done it once.

People buy a PC and use whatever it comes with. They don’t uninstall bloat. They might use a different browser. And then they’ll stick with it until they’re done with it.

It requires knowledge to use different Operating Systems. Most people either don’t have the time or don’t care to learn it. I can’t say I blame them, I never cared to learn about my car. I don’t ever really want to! Yet, I use it every day.

People that disrespect others time are not friends of mine.

I don’t care what level of important any person puts on something they planned. Show up on time or don’t make a promise at all.

That’s why I never explicitly said it should have both.

I was really excited about Favorites in the Music app… until I learned it’s just replacing “Loved.”

I thought they’d have a third type of system:

Favorites / Suggest More (Love) / Suggest Less

It’s sort of like that now, but it’s:

Favorites (Loved) / Suggest More (Added to Library) / Suggest Less

Oh well!

AI in the terms of Computer Science, of course.

Any chance you could refer me? I’ve been applying for places since January and I graduate in December.

I greatly hope Apple allows us to set the Action Button for: Single tap Double tap Triple tap Long press

And perhaps even custom combinations of taps/presses to allow for greater use.

Limiting us to ONE use from a long press is confusing to me.

It’s cool that people have created shortcuts that can imitate this, but it’s one of those “should be standard” things.

I’d devour that!

Basically it means what you can expect the laptop to do.

This tablet is decent for basic web usage, office apps, general use (music/videos etc).

It’s not good for games, dev projects (think big apps), photo editing, video editing, and anything I forgot to list that’s “heavy usage.”

If you don’t need the latter, it’s just fine.

That CPU is terrible for any real CPU-heavy work, but the price and performance and capability is great. I’d be tempted to get one myself!

Honey’s whole scheme is selling your data. It tracks everything. I don’t use it.

I use Baking Soda and Vinegar and SponsorBlock and Wipr.

The first two basically fix video players on every site: basic HTML player instead of the bloatware most employ.

SponsorBlock for YouTube to cut down on sponsored segments that YouTubers may play in the middle of a video.

Wipr for my ad blocker. It’s been incredibly solid since I first bought it. Big fan.