There's a lot of music out there. Not all of it is available on Spotify.
And not all of us want Spotify applying algorithms to our listening choices. I like to be surprised at unexpected gems from artists I've never previously encountered.
I search www.live65.com for music in the genres I like. Blues, folk, world, deep breath adult contemporary (no, not the "decades" top 40s lists, more modern stuff)
Last time I bought a Win 10 Pro DVD to install on a customer's machine, it was AUD$195.00. And I still had to use powershell to de-provision some of the bullshit. Better than the Home version (AUD$165.00), at least I can use GPEDIT to disable some "features".
Of course, a Windows licence on a pre-built Dell or HP would be a lot less.
Not really - the current British royal house is german-descended. There are noble families in the UK with longer english/british pedigrees than the ~~Saxe-Coburg Gotha ~~ Windsor/Mountbatten family. But the current situation suits them better than rocking the boat.
What do you mean by "The British should be held accountable"?
Who, exactly? And how, exactly?
The monarch, the government, the entire population?
Reparations? If you sell everything - crown estates, crown jewels, all the art, everything - are you going to deliver $7.28 to every single person in a former colony?
How about we look forwards, instead? There's little to be gained in trying to make current-day nations pay reparations for things that their ancestors did.
I've got an Asus eeePC running WinXP. It's air-gapped and the wi-fi is disabled in BIOS. All it does is play music, connected to dumb speakers. I update the music periodically via USB. Remarkably reliable and long-lived hardware.
A poster in another forum pointed out that they staged from Tindal in Australia, and that was also a message to China, which can't reach Tindal with their missiles.
Happened in 2022 to a 2017 MBP belonging to someone I knew. She went out and bought a new one, and put the old one in a drawer. She brought it to me in 2023, I investigated and found the shitshow - Apple saying "nuh-uh", the ACCC (Australian consumer advocate) saying "you'd better", then Apple quoting me $1100 because the ACCC never enforced it, and me getting it fixed locally for $550. It needed a new screen, not because the screen itself was faulty, but because the failing flex cable was integrated with the screen. Screw Apple.
There's a lot of music out there. Not all of it is available on Spotify.
And not all of us want Spotify applying algorithms to our listening choices. I like to be surprised at unexpected gems from artists I've never previously encountered.
I search www.live65.com for music in the genres I like. Blues, folk, world, deep breath adult contemporary (no, not the "decades" top 40s lists, more modern stuff)