Powderhorn
@Powderhorn@beehaw.org
Editor and tech enthusiast
At some point, I have to admit neither is true. Let’s see …
Wage slave and vandweller.
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- Comment on After 25 years, Wikipedia has proved that news doesn’t need to look like news 23 hours ago:
Probably Greek then.
- Comment on ChatGPT to start showing ads in the US 1 day ago:
This stuff’s made in New York City!
- Comment on After 25 years, Wikipedia has proved that news doesn’t need to look like news 1 day ago:
SEO has been absolutely terrible for news.
- Comment on ChatGPT to start showing ads in the US 1 day ago:
Don’t kinkshame … some of us enjoy prompt fondling.
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I still did my own writing. It was just a way to be one step removed from the source material.
- Comment on Spotify’s 3rd price hike in 2.5 years hints at potential new normal 1 day ago:
Oh, FLAC will boost your file sizes. I’m content with 320 mp3s.
- Comment on Spotify’s 3rd price hike in 2.5 years hints at potential new normal 1 day ago:
OK, try buying the single you want from Tower in 1997. I actually spent $500 at Virgin in Vancouver to discover new music, but the ROI just wasn’t there.
- Comment on ChatGPT wrote “Goodnight Moon” suicide lullaby for man who later killed himself 1 day ago:
God, one year at the school paper, the applicant for ad manager talked about her “wonderful repertoire with editorial.” Some malaprops, you can handle. This was just like “how the fuck?”
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I’m not an asshole, just an opinionated prick.
- Comment on Spotify’s 3rd price hike in 2.5 years hints at potential new normal 1 day ago:
OK. Listen to what you like, I’ll listen to what I like, and we can go about our days.
- Comment on Spotify’s 3rd price hike in 2.5 years hints at potential new normal 1 day ago:
Are you not judging me without context?
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I guess that’s certainly a thing to do. But not all albums are journeys, and thus, one buys individual tracks because the rest of it sucks.
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Rent goes up 15%, and you get a 2% raise. Fucking thrilling.
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- Comment on Spotify’s 3rd price hike in 2.5 years hints at potential new normal 1 day ago:
When I had stepkids, I very quickly turned to piracy for their shows to avoid the endless “I need this because I saw it in an ad” routine. They were allowed to watch TV all night, and each morning was “what demand are they going to have now?”
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I once accidentally made mustard gas at home trying to unclog a drain. I had bleach and ammonia on hand, and I ended up sleeping outside on the sofa on the porch of the main house after the hell I went through with my throat.
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Why are you taking personal offense that I said I didn’t understand the behaviour of others? This is a petty hill to die on.
Look, people waste money on plenty of things, myself included. It just feels like being at the mercy of a company to listen to music is a poor choice.
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I’ve got nearly 2,000 tracks and a few dozen albums that take up 25GB on my phone. Too large to store locally suggests a lot of ballast you never listen to.
- Comment on Spotify’s 3rd price hike in 2.5 years hints at potential new normal 1 day ago:
You’re tying your access to music to a subscription. That feels wrong to me.
- Comment on Spotify’s 3rd price hike in 2.5 years hints at potential new normal 1 day ago:
Maybe it’s just my age – I presume you were born in 1987 – but subscriptions are anathema to me. I rarely buy $10 in music in a given month, so there’s no value there to me. Add in the AI tracks, and, well … what would I be paying for?
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The computer speakers aren’t terrible, and my earbuds acquit themselves decently when using my phone. Would I like some nice 8" speakers and a subwoofer? Sure. Not realistic in a van.
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I’d also recommend KCRW. I found a lot of great music on their stream. My boss would pipe it through the setup in the copy store.
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I mean, I can just choose a track on my phone or computer, hit play and have music. I don’t currently have a speaker setup.
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- Comment on Spotify’s 3rd price hike in 2.5 years hints at potential new normal 1 day ago:
There are several albums I listen to as a complete work. But you can’t tell me that albums with one good track and a bunch of detritus weren’t a thing.
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