I’m assuming everyone here listens to music somewhat regularly, but I’m curious about how much you care about it. And i specifically want to know about your enjoyment regardless if it's considered a timeless masterpiece or just a meme song.
I care about it a great deal. I have no genre or time/era preferences and will listen to basically anything that is interesting in some way or simply connects with me on an emotional level, though I do love a good interpretation of genre convention too.
Do you care about having decent enough devices to enjoy it or do you just buy the cheapest pair of earbuds to silence the world around you?
I'm no audiophile but I invested in some DT1990s years back paired with a nice EQ and a Bravo V2/FiiO E10K that serve me well to this day.
Do you have favorite albums or do you just hit play on a random playlist and zone out?
Neither. Weird dichotomy.
I have favourite albums and artists, but most artists I like these days aren't really "album artists" and most music I regularly enjoy are artists from 2010s onwards or from pre-1990s era of singles dominating. Even with the album era of 90s-2010s when CDs really sealed the deal on albums as the default, I don't regularly listen to albums as a whole.
I make my own playlists and I mostly use them as a collection of songs I like where I pick out the individual ones and listen to those on repeat, until I pick out the next song. No shuffle, no algorithm/autoplay ever. Most playlists are either genre themed or hyper personal life arcs. I must have spent hundreds of hours making them, curating and sorting them.
Do you ever listen to music just to enjoy it and nothing else?
Yes
Do you talk with passion about your favorite songs/albums/artists?
And yeah I talk about my favourite music all the time, maybe even too much, it seems that music as a whole is less and less appreciated with time, which is a shame, but it is what it is.
Do you spend time searching for music?
Yes. But these days Spotify's suggestions at the bottom of my personal playlists do do a lot of the work for me. However I also find lots of artists through word of mouth from the people around me, music featured in other media and through artist collabs.
Voted for them as opposed to who? Zack didn't have our back last election exactly, it was them vs reform & Tories odds are it may come down to that again if the press finds dirt on Zack. I'm trans so trust me I don't love the paternalistic red tories, but I don't personally blame anyone for voting for them.
Wild. I wonder what airbus did differently that it affects them in particular? Like why are their systems more exposed to solar radiation than any other plane?
This really sucks. GDPR is extremely important for our way of life online and this is a crucial defense against privacy invasions of behalf of the corpos. Is anyone trying to stop this shit? We can't have beligirent lobby groups backed by assorted anti-democratic bastards write our laws like it's D.C.
The starting point for this attack on user rights is a debate in Germany about people using GDPR access rights in employment disputes, for example to prove unpaid overtime. The German government chose to label such use as “abuse” and pushed in Brussels for sharp limits on these rights. The Commission has now taken over this line of argument and proposes to restrict the GDPR access right to situations where it is exercised for “data protection purposes” only.
What the fuck, Germany? I thought you were good. This is some AfD-tier shit.
In practice, this would mean that employees could be refused access to their own working-time records in labour disputes. Journalists and researchers could be blocked from using access rights to obtain internal documents and data that are crucial for investigative work. Consumers who want to challenge and correct wrong credit scores in order to obtain better loan conditions could be told that their request is “not a data-protection purpose” and therefore can be rejected.
Let's see them then. What were the social media comments in question? The article talks about "conspiracy theories" and "denying sexual violence", so I'd like to see what exactly those comments were because to me this doesn't just seem like what you'd expect, so I'd like to see it before I dismiss it.
Eh, idk, but to me rogue one is still whatever honestly, that movie is peak nostalgiabait for the most part with a serviceable plot that keeps things moving like a series or short levels of Jedi Knight or something so you can keep munching popcorn, and the cinematography and setpieces are actually really good.
Sure it's now even more fun because the characters are fleshed out in a primetime TV drama that came out years later and I do rewatch it more often because of that, but it's like saying revenge of the sith flows well with clone wars S7, nah, not really, there's an island of quality between the two.
What even is zorin os lol I've never even heard of it. Normies really do surprise me often like this, like they mathematically calculate to pick the strangest least expected things through the most alien of mechanisms, it's always fun trying to figure it out after the fact. Delightful news!
Worth every penny. Andor was peak. Ig it also explains why it felt so real compared to the weird plastic feel the SW sequels have (apart from VIII on the island) have.
Technical solutions are only there if there is binding Incentive, and compliance with EU law is absolutely a binding Incentive for "rest of the world", if they operate inside the EU, which most megacorps do.
The two aren't in opposition, one is a pre-reqiuisite for the other. Yes having FOSS privacy tooling is good but normies won't use it, nor is it a bad thing that besides that they actually have some rights in the matter.
You sound like you've never actually worked for a tech company lol, compliance is everything.
Premiere, Photoshop, Lightroom, FL Studio. They either don't work or work terribly on Linux. That one DAW on Linux from Ableton devs that's decent still has awful UX compared to FL and VST compatibility seemed spotty. I do use Linux daily (Debian flavor) though just not on my main PC but on my laptop, and also on the work laptop for work.
It's more about how the people use the site, and which page and when and how, which devices, and how often etc. You would also want to track anyone before they sign in, and it's also a way to identify issues/bugs and accessibility and identify outages/incidents and security issues without those being directly reported.
By "you win" I meant to say I've no idea why your local government would issue popups, which I guess means this isn't just limited to American megacorps though, hence I retract that specific argument because of your counter example.
This whole legislation sucks for everyone involved.
No, it doesn't, I'm still massively in support of it, what?
I absolutely stand by GDPR, even if you found one example of public entities that for some reason also use cookie popups instead of properly complying, even if they all did that, I would not for a moment wish it any other way, no public or private body of any kind has any right to any of my information for any reason without my explicit informed properly scoped consent for each given interaction.
I think the legislation is great and I would support a massive expansion of it and the US equivalent in CCPA.
For as long as data has any value, we must regulate it lest predatory orgs will abuse it and take the working class for all they're worth straight to a surveillance state or a corporotocratic dystopia.
From what I can find, they use Google Analytics to track website visits and it's why they have cookie popups, but beyond vague statements I can't find anything about why they want this data in the privacy policy.
My best bet would be that they can track how many (unique) people use the site and how often they use it and for what so they can ask for appropriate financing from the federal government come budget season, that's also why the NHS uses it.
The website looks very nice so I'm fairly certain it's made by a private third party, at least in the UK everything that can be privatised/outsourced, is, even private companies often hire some other company to make their website, so I have no proof.
I care about it a great deal. I have no genre or time/era preferences and will listen to basically anything that is interesting in some way or simply connects with me on an emotional level, though I do love a good interpretation of genre convention too.
I'm no audiophile but I invested in some DT1990s years back paired with a nice EQ and a Bravo V2/FiiO E10K that serve me well to this day.
Neither. Weird dichotomy.
I have favourite albums and artists, but most artists I like these days aren't really "album artists" and most music I regularly enjoy are artists from 2010s onwards or from pre-1990s era of singles dominating. Even with the album era of 90s-2010s when CDs really sealed the deal on albums as the default, I don't regularly listen to albums as a whole.
I make my own playlists and I mostly use them as a collection of songs I like where I pick out the individual ones and listen to those on repeat, until I pick out the next song. No shuffle, no algorithm/autoplay ever. Most playlists are either genre themed or hyper personal life arcs. I must have spent hundreds of hours making them, curating and sorting them.
Yes
And yeah I talk about my favourite music all the time, maybe even too much, it seems that music as a whole is less and less appreciated with time, which is a shame, but it is what it is.
Yes. But these days Spotify's suggestions at the bottom of my personal playlists do do a lot of the work for me. However I also find lots of artists through word of mouth from the people around me, music featured in other media and through artist collabs.
Art, no question about it.