Planning on hopping on as soon as the kid’s in bed!

You would need to look at the terms of service with your provider.

Someone at BuzzFeed is reading our Lemmy conversations:

https://www.buzzfeed.com/laurengarafano/the-hunger-games-characters-ai-vs-the-movies

Did you know that mastodons were relatively short? Despite being nearly 40% more massive than modern African elephants, the American Mastodon was 25% shorter on average!

It’s not a minimum before a check is issued. If you do not have a certain number of annual listeners on a track you never get paid out for it. If you had 100 tracks that were each streamed by 999 listeners who each streamed them 100 times per year every year, Spotify will no longer pay you a dime, ever.

I think a key point of confusion is in the way they presented it. They talk about how many songs have “less than 1000 listens” and that those would only make $3, but then their new policy is to deny payment for “less than 1000 listeners.” If each of those listeners streamed the song once per month, you’re talking closer to $40 than $3, and that’s on a per song basis.

The newest part, which is Spotify refusing to payout what small artists are owed if they don’t hit a certain streaming threshold, is 100% on Spotify.

For alternatives, Tidal allegedly pays better and at least doesn’t do this. Qobuz is not owned by any big tech company.

https://get.bandcamp.help/hc/en-us/articles/1500006084082-What-are-Bandcamp-s-fees-

They charge a 15% fee. So the artist (if independent) or record label (if not) gets 85% of whatever you pay.

I did, I cancelled Spotify and switched to Tidal because of this, and noted the reason in my exit survey.

I think making this mandatory with the option to opt out rather than the reverse maybe crosses a privacy line.

Is it really that different with a medical procedure? You’re signing informed consent forms regardless - it’s just a matter of if it says “decline” next to the check box as opposed to “opt-in.”

So these children are driven to work due to poverty right? So isn’t the answer to try to address that rather than to say “stop using cocoa harvested by child labor?” Like I’m totally pro-non-child-labor-cocoa, but wouldn’t the kids just get other jobs then?

It’s tricky because the data itself is going to be biased here. Think about it - even the video game is specifically called “Spider-Man Miles Morales” while the one with Peter Parker is just called “Spider-Man.”

Katniss is actually a good example. I was not aware of the details, but the books apparently describe her as having “olive skin”. The problem though is that if you image search her all you get is Jennifer Lawrence.

That said, Homer is yellow.

If a request is for a generic person, sure. But when the request is for a specific character, not really.

Like make one of the undefined arms black.

The main issue with Usenet is retention. I don’t mean that you should worry too much about retention on your particular providers, but just as a general concept the idea that after 10-15 years files go away means that it can be tough to find older media, especially media that is not popular enough for people to reupload.

People always talk about needing multiple servers but I just use Astraweb and I have been fine. I have a block plan on another server somewhere but I honestly didn’t even set it up when I reconfigured nzbget.

Movies and TV shows have been super easy to find on Usenet, but even with a couple private indexers I have found music and books to be hit or miss. I use Tidal with Plex and the $10 per month has been worth it to me simply because I listen to a ton of different music. That said, probably 80% of what I listen to has been available on Usenet.

I read a lot of nerdy books (fantasy and sci-fi) and that’s been easy enough to find, but my wife’s more mainstream tastes have actually been trickier.

Yeah I was still on the plane and it was in airplane mode.

You don’t even need to go the screen share route, Plex has Watch Together built in.

I downloaded this stuff hours before I went to the airport.

I mean not streaming at all back with the DRM issues but I guess that’s fair.

Their support site literally says “when you don’t have an internet connection” so if it’s working the way you describe then it’s not working as designed.

I’m glad it worked for you. My problem is that if I can’t trust it to work reliably I’m just going to use something else.

I was on airplane mode on my tablet.

Dude no. Don’t be ridiculous.

Well yeah I use VLC for the stuff I’ve downloaded.

We were downloading Netflix stuff to my S7 FE’s SD card since January of this year with no issues.

I use Linux but the only issues I have are 1) lower quality, since the best quality is usually restricted to Chrome and Edge on Windows and Max, and 2) no downloads.

Netflix is terrible but Disney+ 4k with HDR looks decent.

Their help page says you can download to watch where you don’t have an internet connection. So if there is some DRM BS then that’s going directly against what their help page indicates.

Now I will say that Tidal worked flawlessly so I at least had some music.

So… what’s the point of downloading then?

The US price hike was several months ago, and there was no grandfathering either.

It’s the Tetons, specifically seen from Glacier View Turnout. You can see Grand Teton on the right.

Hey, I’ve been to that very spot.

Why can’t we just have cool multiplayer modes in games instead of a separate game?

Agreed, so let’s celebrate the progress and find alternative ways for people to provide for their families rather than act like robots are taking the desirable jobs.

I do find it funny that just a couple years ago people were talking about the horrible conditions in Amazon warehouses and now we’re concerned about humans not needing to do those jobs.

For survival/crafting/whatever games - let me adjust drop rates and toggle things on and off individually, rather than just choosing a difficulty.

What I mean by this is looking at something like Ark versus Subnautica. Ark gives a super fine grained level of customization around spawn rates and other settings. You don’t even need to strictly enable or disable hunger but can set the decay rate, for example.

Ah whoops.

This doesn’t make it better. That’s $125 per message then.

I had it for Stadia and it was refunded when they closed, but for $4 I might buy it honestly. The “progression” was super flawed but the actual gameplay was fun.

From video gaming to card games and stuff in between, if it’s gaming you can probably discuss it here!

It wasn’t even Sennheiser, it was a company Sennheiser had licensed their name to.

It’s really unfortunate that Sennheiser has diluted their brand so much. Between this deal with Epos and their consumer division going to Sonova, it’s hard to tell what’s actually still made by Sennheiser. I imagine it will become more evident as Sonova starts designing new products and they start to diverge.