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I'm sure it did on my iPhone, I relied on it to play music in the car since I don't have cell coverage for the most part. I'm not sure about the Android app, and my subscription is lapsed now so I can't check.

What do you recommend for playing deeper tracks from artists I follow? I don't like to like songs, I either want to like entire artists or just listen. I'm also relying pretty heavily on daily and weekly mixes synced to my phone, for the car, since I don't have cell service around where I liv nowe. Like, at all, and spotty for hundreds of miles.

I used Google Play Music back in the day, and they were great about this, but YT Music took a major step back. Even if it's better now, I'm trying to extricate my life from Google.

Pandora has this concept of modes, where you can choose to listen to Deep Cuts, Crowd Faves, New Releases or Discovery for a given station. The problem is:

• It still gets redundant within the given mode
• Managing stations grows to be a pain in the ass
• I don't want to listen to all new, more loosely related, or popular tracks; and it won't let me set mode preferences for the standard station
• I really dislike Sirius XM as a company, and don't want to support them.

I used Apple Music for maybe 18 months between Spotify stints, after YT Music. I was trying to switch over to the Apple ecosystem, but am moving back to AOSP Android and Linux. I do like that the depth played from a given artist is a good bit better than Spotify, but I dislike that I can't either follow artists instead of liking songs, and can't easily get a list of liked songs to unlike in the future.

It's annoying enough that Netflix removes my account and watched history, after I go a few months without the service. But I still deal with it a couple times a year. This... this makes me just want to never touch anything Ubisoft ever again.

I tried that, and couldn't get it working. There must be some other package I'm missing. I tried some stuff like carrier services, but no luck. Or maybe it's the sandboxed nature of gsp, but I think there's something else missing. There's a dialog that launches in Lineage without gapps and Lineage with MicroG, but fails to register the feature still. But in Graphene and Calyx, that dialog never launches.

Yeah, I use Lineage on a Pixel 5 since I switched back from an iPhone a few months ago. My intention was to run Graphene or Calyx, but I can't get wifi calling working without gapps installed, even with Graphene's sandboxed play services and the dialer. I think ATT Prepaid is using the new wifi calling negotiation that Google implemented in Android 12. I have zero coverage from any carrier for miles around me, so wifi calling is pretty critical. So I installed mindthegapps, enabled wifi calling, and then disabled all the Google stuff again. I didn't want root, so I'm not too thrilled with this situation.

I'll be switching to T-Mobile/Mint or Verizon/US Mobile in the next few months, so I'll try again then. But I'm seriously considering getting a Light Phone. Then I'll use a Pixel Tablet with Graphene/Calyx and a Garmin Fenix for handling music, calendar/email, hike mapping, browsing/media while lounging, maybe a work account, etc. I'm also considering just limiting the software footprint on the Pixel, but.. that's too easy to override on a whim.

Another option is a Unihertz Jelly Star, so the screen is too small to do much. I'd really like Spotify in the car, and mostly just my downloaded daily/weekly playlists since I have such limited cell coverage. I'm not entirely sure if the Fenix can play to the head unit over Bluetooth.

I suspect the decades of infinite scroll is destroying my attention span and already limited emotional response, which is combining with my autism to put me in a place of pretty much near constant burnout. That leaves me on the cusp of meltdown at all times, it's not a good place to be. Luckily reddit gave me an excuse to do what I'd been leaning towards for over a year, and there isn't such an overload of content over here yet.

Or just grow enough strawberries as tribute, apparently...

It does help to live in the middle of a fertile forest, with lots to eat. But I still have no chance of getting strawberries, raspberries, blueberries, or currants for myself without a fence. Even with raspberries and blackberries growing everywhere wild, they'll still eat all mine.

Same. I missed swiping at first, but it was getting so unreliable that I think I'm better off now that I'm getting used to it. It fixes my two major annoyances with the AOSP keyboard, though: occasionally losing suggestions until clearing cache and force restarting, and no suggestions in search fields.

I don't think it's an indictment of the concept, but rather a failure to realize it. I think there are two big improvements to be made, that would solve the author's issues:

1. Seamless user switching, with user recognition by fingerprint and voice
2. Make the dock function like a nest mini when the tablet is not present

Ah, I think to get 64GB from a Thinkpad you'd have to move up to a P series, and even the P16s and P14s that are based on the T16 and T14 will be significantly warmer and louder than those others. They're very much tuned for performance. Unfortunately, Lenovo is soldering RAM far more on their AMD models than the Intel models, so you won't be able to run above spec.

Check the status of Asahi Linux, they're making a lot of progress on Apple silicon, but it's very early. I wouldn't recommend it, at this point.

Do you actually need 64GB of RAM? The Thinkpad T16 AMD would be a good choice, but the T14s AMD has just stupidly low fan noise in Notebookcheck's review. You definitely want to focus on AMD, Intel's efficiency is... not great right now. As an added benefit, you get AMD graphics from the APU, so none of the Nvidia driver fuckery, and better performance than Intel.

Personally, I'm waiting for the T14s Gen 4 AMD. The 7840u is zen 4, GCN 3, and TSMC 4nm over the 6850u's zen 3, GCN2, and TSMC 6nm. The T14 and T16 just hit Lenovo's model database 'psref' earlier this week, so I'd expect them out in the next couple months. The T14s hasn't been seen yet, I'd guess it hits psref in the next couple weeks. But, I'm prepared to wait into Q4, if need be, and some think I will be.

I'd say at least he only has 7% of the GOP vote, but the alternatives are so much worse. He's pretty much their Biden, at this point. Hell, we don't even know if he believes this garbage. The fact that so many people are beating the drums about things they don't even believe, for the sake of winning over demographics, is truly terrifying.

We had a Mac 128k growing up. I've flirted with the ecosystem since, but really don't enjoy their software and walled garden. From an engineering standpoint, my M1 Macbook Air 2020 is pretty much everything I want aside from the keyboard. But damn if I can't wait to get back to Linux.

Beats the hell out of IDE.

1/4" slices spread in a pan with butter on high medium heat, adding water 1/2 up the slices. Cover with black pepper and savory, maybe a little thyme, some chili flakes if you like, and a good amount of thinly sliced shallots. Cover until the potatoes are mostly soft, and remove the cover. Once the water evaporates, cook until the potatoes are fairly browned and flip. It's perfectly ok for them to break apart some, but try to minimize it. Once the second side is nicely browned, deglaze with brandy. Flip one last time as it evaporates.

removing the ability for an aide to read and summarize legislation for an incumbent.

Make the fuckers pass a comprehension quiz before they vote on anything.

Would it make sense to have a separate aggregator app, that focuses on aggregating data from different ActivityPub apps into a single feed, so that those apps can focus on their core competencies?

Even without an atmosphere, gravity would pull the debris to crash into the planet itself.

Termination

Everybody, absolutely, without a doubt deserves to live a good, fulfilling life working the standard 40 hours a week. I'd say 32 hours a week is a far better goal, and with AI, maybe less.

But, local businesses have been under assault by chains for decades. Many of those chains have grown to be absolutely massive. They also tend to peddle us absolute junk that needs to be replaced regularly, instead of lasting decades to lifetimes with some amount of repairability. We're fed manufactured garbage. We're pillaging our earth to support this corporate greed.

These local businesses can hardly sustain at this point. The honest ones are mostly gone, serious compromises to downright predatory practices are required for something relatively local to thrive. Or it needs to meet some strong niche demand that's not addressed at all by the big corporations, and you'll bet that they will once they see there's good profit to be made.

Raising minimum wage is going to kill off even more of the self sustainability and local-sourced livelihood that we've largely lost over the last 100 years. Things weren't perfect in the past, far from it, but the future is full on dystopian. Raising the minimum wage isn't enough, we need to drive the greed out of our governments and our board rooms, and truly support and nurture local businesses and cooperatives so that markets they can serve can't reasonably support huge soulless corporations.

We need to go back to giving a shit about each other, instead of chasing convenience and an easy buck. Only then can we reasonably keep minimum wages in lockstep with (a hopefully more manageable) inflation, and not destroy our local economies in the process, so that we can live in a world actually worth living in.

Not to mention, the parties have a large amount of control over who is able to successfully run.