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  • King Gizzard Pulled Their Music From Spotify in Protest, and Now Spotify Is Hosting AI Knockoffs of Their Songs

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  • Qobuz allows you to stream but also to buy high quality albums which you can then download as well. Of course choose the option you prefer as long as you support bands you listen to. I bought plenty of King Gizzard albums on Bandcamp too now. Other bands I buy vinyl from that sometimes also means I get codes for those albums on Bandcamp. And through Qobuz artists I listen to at least get higher reimbursement for those streams.

  • What's with those people?

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  • Countries where you have to drive as much to the right as possible also have laws stating it's illegal to overtake on the right. Overtaking on the right has the same fine as jogging the middle lane if there's space on the right.

    I guess this mostly indicates to always check the actual road laws of the regions you're driving in. But generally in Europe hogging the middle lane indicates you're a danger on the road who should not be allowed to drive a car.

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  • Nice to look at is subjective. I find them ugly, but ofcourse that is rooted in knowing that they're basically dead land that just looks green. Just like tree plantations aren't as pretty as a forest. What I find prettier is chaotic growth that is mostly left to it's own.

    Smell, again subjective, I find the varried smell much more pleasant. But the smell is always superceded by the nearby dairy farm anyways in my case, as it is for my neighbours with their grass yards

    "Pleasant to use" you mean easy for kids to play on? Can't argue with that if you have kids. I don't and I enjoy watching my chaotic yard used more by birds and insects. , knowing that there's at least more life in there.

  • Trump's Nobel Prize desperation now a 'running joke' among diplomats

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  • It will be (and already is) much, much worse than just an embarrassment.

  • Mental Health

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  • Like others stated, if it's not someone I'm close to, I wouldn't want to do it. If my partner however asks me for help, being able to help her and solve a real problem she has, brings me tremendous joy.

  • EU cave in on vehicle trade rules will cost European lives as US pick-up trucks flood into Europe

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  • The people who buy this will feel fantastic about parking them like assholes in a way that it bothers people.

  • It really does

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  • Waking up with the sun setting is what generally feels good, depending on how far north or South of the equator you are living.

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    Microsoft sending AI mails to raise your 365 but if you say you will cancel they back off

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  • I've mentioned it in another thread about this, bug in case you really want to understand: people sign up for much more than the desktop office applications. It's a full on groupware package that comes with 1TB of cloud storage. Which automatically gives you access to your documents on any machine you use. If you get a new windows device you basically don't need to put in any effort into setting things up because it's already there. And for 80 euros you can do this for five people.

    So in short: convenience for a reasonable price. To the point where it's hard to justify running it yourself. Especially because your family will start to ask you how they can get MS office again.

    Office alternatives have long existed and have been good enough for a long time. I remember writing my evening class project reports in them 20 ish years ago. Funnily enough on how to integrate Linux servers into a Windows domain and authenticating with domain users on that machine. But if you want to compare M365 to something, compare it to NextCloud.

  • Microsoft sending AI mails to raise your 365 but if you say you will cancel they back off

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  • But none of what you mentioned has a mail server/client nor cloud storage. Do you run your own groupware environment for yourself?

  • Microsoft sending AI mails to raise your 365 but if you say you will cancel they back off

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  • I don't disagree agree that that's technically true. But in practice it's simply not going to happen. My 70 year old mother just wants to use outlook to mail her friends and I've setup het phone to save the pictures she takes of her grandkids (my nieces and nephews) on OneDrive so she can share them easily with the rest of the family. Same thing for my brother and my SiL. For 80 euros a year I get a full groupware experience with no extra work. Is it perfect? Of course not. But even with a higher budget there's no feature for feature alternative.

    Hell, the chances of getting my work to switch to OSS cloud subscriptions is higher than getting my family to do it.

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  • All true, but making 4 other people do this who will also continue to ask on how they can use Office because they need it for work/school is way more work.

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  • I've used LibreOffice (or OpenOffice as it was known before), and a problem with this approach is that your family will still constantly ask you to install Office and crack it for them. And those who don't know any better will ask your help to open the PowerPoint their friends keep sending them.

    Not to mention that LibreOffice doesn't have an easy to integrate backup solution, nor an easy way to share big photo folders, let alone a decent mail client.

    LibreOffice is a good thing at what it wants to be. But it's not comparable to what MS is offering in the form of a subscription though. You don't just switch and only replace the word and excel alternative...

  • Microsoft sending AI mails to raise your 365 but if you say you will cancel they back off

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  • It's been a while since I got that mail, and made sure I have the none AI version, but isn't it mentioned in the mail itself? Or in a link from the mail?

  • Still a better love story than twilight

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  • How can you know you're not interested without having a conversation? Try shifting your focus to having a pleasant conversation, even if that leads to nothing. Not that that is easy all the time but if you're chatting on a dating app or something it should be doable since it's not exactly real time. If it's in real life just own up to it by saying you're nervous.

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    What were some computer programs and games you grew up with?

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  • Wonder Boy in Monster Land on the sega master system.

    I'm frustrated I can't seem to find a place to buy it for pc easily. (Admittedly it's not like I'm trying very hard since I'm not really interested in tweaking with simulators and stuff.) There was a game with that name in a sega retro thing sold on Steam but it's definitely not the original version. I still know the start by heart.

  • Future queen of Belgium caught up in Harvard foreign student ban

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  • To be clear, I'm Belgian and in favour of abolishing monarchy. But as the news about her is unavoidable: she did study at the royal military academy as all in line for the throne have too. Then she went to Oxford for her Bachelor degree. Plan was to get the master at Harvard.

    The justification is partly elitism for those schools, partly getting exposed to other environments, and partly getting too avoid being to isolated in Belgian schools where the attention would be inevitable and security too hard.

  • Netflix Puts AI Ads in Paid Tier: Pirate Everything at This Point

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  • It's made intentionally hard though. Try buying The Expanse Blu Ray collection for example. Season 4 literally only comes region A locked, and is not playable on non modified Blu-ray players if you're in the EU. I was excited to buy it after getting a decent Blu-ray player so I could rewatch it with my partner who hasn't seen it, but something dumb like that does put a damper on things, so we haven't even bothered with it, despite downloading it.

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  • I would agree that right now there are more choices. I don't entirely agree they're inherently safer. Nor that this choice would have been available as a choice when the original decision was made. (At a time when the US was at the very least considered to be an ally to Europe)

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  • If you think security of infrastructure has anything to do with PGP you're misunderstanding what I mean. Self hosting mail for an organisation like the ICC would require multiple FTE's. In the same vein that the current US administration is retaliating against them other rogue nations are constantly specifically targeting them. It's already hard to deal with this without being specifically targeted and a couple times being targeted usually causes you to be compromised, dealing with it full time is almost impossible. Unless your team is monstrously big and securing your groupware is one of your core activities.

    I've literally had jobs like this, and the idea that the average university that self hosts is more secure than Exchange Online is just plain wrong. I'm sure you can point to a couple of them that are safer of course, but they 'll be the exception.