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> Amazon is an easy first stop but they make it super hard to do comparative research (sort by price does not sort by price, no useful filters, inconsistent or missing product info, etc.) and so I usually do end up putting it in google/ddg instead and finding an alternative store to buy from, or get something second-hand (within reason).

Since you're in Germany you might want to take a look at aggregators like Geizhals or Idealo. Geizhals in particular enables the user to narrow down product searches by a very complete property/attribute filter. Once you found some products that meet your requirements, both services will show you were they are sold. You will notice that Amazon rarely has the best price and the quality/accuracy of their product listings, descriptions, etc. is downright terrible.

Amazon still features fast, reliable fulfilling, but so do some other shops. Bottom line is that you have lots of choices in Germany.

As a hobby road cyclist I can recommend doing some core / stability training in addition to cycling. And of course, make sure that your bike and its geometry (saddle and stem height, stack and reach) generally fit you. Biking should not hurt - unless it's due to the high effort you put in.

Push is absolutely optional. A great device, but still very much optional.

Let me add Ableton's book "Making Music", which is quite well done and relevant to beginners as well as experienced artusts/users: https://makingmusic.ableton.com/

You mean the 5950X, which makes this even more impressive.

I understand that it's less convenient but you actually can buy that 2TB NVME SSD as external drive too. It should operate in the same ballpark as decent to higher end internal NVME SSD options.

However those are somewhat neglected by their user base. Digital releases are rarely even listed along with their physical counterparts on Discogs. Of course it's up to the users to actually create and maintain those entries.

> - Wikipedia still has the best common-sense/canonical info about singles. For example, Wikipedia will tell you in the first sentence (or infobox) "song X was first released on album Y in year Z." Answering that can actually be quite challenging on other services.

Sad fact: For a while Discogs had an experimental feature aptly called "Tracks". It allowed individual tracks, not just the whole release, to be viewed as separate entities along with references to all releases on which said track appeared. A database of canonical tracks.

It enabled me to see if that great track from an ultra-rare and hard to find album perhaps appeared on a compilation or any other much easier to buy release. Sure, you can achieve similar results by simply searching, but it's much more cumbersome and downright difficult when it comes to rather generic track titles leading to countless irrelevant results.

Sadly the feature was abandoned: https://www.discogs.com/track

I wouldn't let an auto tagging solution anywhere near my collection - at some point it will get things wrong. However if you don't mind manually checking and editing tags I find Meta [1] to be an absolutely fantastic app.

Every new release that gets added to my collection will spend a few seconds in Meta so that I can check and edit the meta data and rename the files in a consistent way. Obviously you can also edit multiple releases at once.

I used quite a few tagging apps over the years, Meta is without a doubt the best of them.

[1] https://www.nightbirdsevolve.com/meta/

Indeed. It's rarely mentioned but eBay still offers the most streamlined selling experience and the most attractive selling prices, despite the 10% fee. To me it seems as if buyers on eBay are just as tired of time-wasting, long-shot negotiations as sellers - which is a good thing for both sides.

> or use a USB cable and manually copy the music to my phone.

So? I don't see the problem. I sync my whole music collection to my iPhone (using iTunes' very helpful transcoding option from lossless to 256 Kbit/s in order to fit onto the 512 GB internal storage). Using an USB cable about once a week to do so isn't really an issue, is it?

> Then when listening to said recordings on my phone, the music player tries to upsell me with Apple Music.

This can be disabled in the settings entirely. That way you won't see Apple Music in the music.app. Again, I don't have any use for Apple Music either, but I think it's fine for it to be present by default since for most people streaming is the most common way to consume music these days.

> It is very logical, and this is the point that many of us, advocates of owning over renting, try to explain to people, unsuccessfully. You didn't purchase a license to content. You purchased a temporary license to listen to a piece of content on a particular service - a license that's valid only as long as the service wants it to, and definitely won't outlive the service itself. Basically: you're renting, not owning. It's all there in the terms you agreed to. Except, of course, services design the UX to make it seem like you're buying, and not borrowing.

That is not true for music. DRM-free downloads of purchased music have been the industry standard for pretty much all digital music stores for over a decade now - from iTunes to Bandcamp.

In that regard music differs from video and gaming since the fact that it's sold DRM-free enables you to truly own your digital music collection. Obviously this doesn't apply to streaming options which are much closer to renting, but that's self-explanatory I think.

> I foolishly purchased an album or two from Google Play Music, which will be defunct by year end.

I never used Google Play Music, but don't they sell DRM-free music like every other digital music outlet from iTunes to Bandcamp? If so, the files are yours to keep, aren't they?

Obviously Google (or iTunes, Bandcamp and others) aren't responsible for hosting and backing up your media indefinitely. That's the buyer's duty in my opinion.

That is exactly why I prefer eBay to sell stuff. I happily give up the 10% sellers fee for not having to deal with countless potential buyers acting entitled, trying to negotiate or telling me how they could get the same item new for about half my asking price.

Plus, doing hard exercise doesn't always lead to weight loss since the resulting muscle mass isn't exactly weightless.

> I have a large collection of rare and unique tracks, and I listen to music every day. I've been very satisfied with Google Play Music and now I'm having this utterly abysmal YT Music bs forced on me. It feels like a cruel joke.

I don't see how you're forced to use Youtube. I agree that using Youtube as your music library and management tool seems ridiculous. However why would anyone but casual listeners do so when there are plenty better alternatives? Just use one of the countless music players and library management tools much better suited to that task. Personally, I love Roon [1], but if you prefer something more affordable or free several other options come to mind:

- MusicBee

- Swinsian

- Foobar

or just plain old iTunes / Music.app

All of them are much better music players / collection organizers than Youtube.

[1] https://roonlabs.com/

I just want to emphasize how great and affordable Uniqlo's Merino range is. Merino wool is a fantastic, functional material and the value Uniqlo is offering here with their low prices but good quality is basically unmatched.

Of course you as a consumer could also act and decide on your own.

I'd understand if the grand parent poster refused to use price alerts at all, maybe in order to avoid unnecessary purchases, but GP argued that a different service is better because it doesn't use affiliate links, which seems rather strange to me. After all you get an alert for a product you chose at a specific price you defined. The use of affiliate links doesn't change anything in this arrangement.

I'm surprised. Do people not sell their old iPhones? Since it's significant money I always sell my old device and obviously I include the (unused) headphones as well as the charger (which I actually do use)

I would assume that it takes your local iTunes library into account, but apparently it doesn't: https://www.reddit.com/r/HomePod/comments/advq56/cannot_make...

Furthermore the 512 GB option is, again, only available on the pro models. I'd sell my 11 Pro and get the 12 Mini in a heartbeat if I could get it with 512 GB.

Another user without a case reporting in. I udnerstand that people try to protect their expensive devices, but it seems absurd to me to hide a beautiful device like an iPhone (particularly the 4-5 as well as the new 12 generation) in some form of mediocre wrapper.

However when carrying the phone in my pocket or bag I always use a fabric sleeve with microfiber inner lining. To me this approach is the best of both worlds: The pure device when in use, but protection when carrying it around - Plus, instead of having to put the device down on hard surfaces the sleeve serves as a soft bed for the phone. And the microfiber lining keeps the display clean.

All my past iPhones looked pretty much pristine when I sold them on ebay.

You're comparing extremes. The well-rounded person without side-project might just be as capable and experienced as the candidates he's competing with. If that's the case I'd always rate well-roundedness and interests outside of the immediate scope of the job more valuable than a long list of side projects.

I’m not sure how scarcity during launch is relevant to this particular discussion. The design of the console, which was the original issue discussed here, will be the same whenever the console becomes widely available.

On the other hand I agree that looks won’t be the deciding factor for any potential buyer - casual or not.

> This is not criticism, but I'm wondering why there are so many people developing their own alternative product.

Recent privacy laws introduced requirements which Google Analytics can't meet out of the box - at the very least there's is lots of uncertainty. Website owners like to avoid having to annoy their users with consent banners. Of course it's hard to get a definitive answer but it seems using Google Analytics without a consent banner doesn't comply with local regulation in Germany and/or Europe.

The problem is that I most likely have to get consent (opt-in) from the user in order to collect that data - at that point I can either trick my visitors into giving it by using various dark pattterns or I end up with a dataset that is pretty much useless since nobody will opt-in.

If those are my options I prefer not having to annoy my visitors with consent banners over extended and persistent analytics data. That's why we actually migrated from Google Analytics to Plausible.

By the way: Import of analytics data from Google would be a great feature if anyone from Plausible is still reading here.

Does it? I think it should treat everything as a string since it can't be certain about the correct type. It could also suggest the correct type rather than applying it without user confirmation.

iOS content blockers pale in comparison to uBlock Origin. I use Firefox + uBlock on my Macs and wish I could do so on iPad and iPhone too.

Thank you for mentioning this. I feel as if I have to repeatedly jump through those hoops to decline on the very same sites every other day, if not visit.

Surely the GDPR has to have the foresight of dictating that my choice to accept or decline has to be valid for an equal amount of time, doesn't it? If I'm confronted with that popup as long as I'm declining the regulations are worthless.

> It's beautiful to see someone like McConnell, who understands political power and is able to use it fully and legally w/o overstepping. If Democrats had someone his equal then they would be pleased too.

Regardless of which side you're on - I don't think that's a worthwhile basis for political discourse and shouldn't be the modus operandi for what basically determines the development of a country.

Then again, you're right of course - the fact that McConnell and other don't actually overstep in legal terms just shows that the rule set isn't suitable for the current political climate in a time which is shaped by disregard of norms and mutual respect.