we have +30C summers and -30C winters. perfectly balanced. i visited relatives in Vancouver last summer and the 36 degree heat was basically unbearable.
the point of democracy is that the elected are normal people. they may have expert advisors but they are not selected for their expertise, like it or not. bypassing this by adding a layer of obfuscation helps nobody.
i've had dynamic lock screens available since my 2010 HTC desire... don't really see how that's new. absolutely ruined the battery life so i never really used it but it has definitely been an option on every phone since.
as for llms in phones, i will do everything i can to keep them out. if the npu chips were open and had published apis it would be a different thing. as it stands now it's just a black box data vacuum that can tell jokes.
so you want like an adapter that can deliver audio separate from hdmi? like it has a hdmi port and a 3.5mm jack? i think i've seen stuff like that but i doubt you'd get a good dac in one of them.
bear in mind i was 10 during 9/11 so a lot of it was just upending things i had taken for granted. but like, how the US was pretty much allied with the taliban throughout the 80s, giving them training and weapons to fight against the soviet-friendly progressive, secular government of afghanistan.
i wouldn't say "i don't do albums" is a negative response. i even asked about it to see if it's just me. then you start talking about formats and fidelity rather than music, which other people engaged me about.
i "get" why people like vinyl. it's a ritual thing. i can't do rituals due to how my brain works. i also "get" why artists make albums. it's a way for music to tell a story, for narratives to interleave, to experiment with emotional changes. i "get" all that. i understand it. i know it. i would love to listen that way. it just doesn't work on me. i don't know why. i've tried, god knows i've tried.
jumping to the conclusion that i do not understand, and then reiterating that i do not instead of trying to explain it, and using unattributed quotes, is being cryptic. it is not clear.
and regarding cobain; artists know that the way people interact with their work is not up to them. throwing tantrums, accusing people of being "fake" for being... people, that's a teenager's way of looking at the world. it's not enough to create something people love, they must love all of you, or it's "fake". this happens all the time. look att blink-182, toto, chumbawumba. fucking rick astley. the difference is what they make of it. and to be clear, i'm not being down on curt. the man was obviously going through it. i'm just saying that you're not making the point you think you are with that.
that would be interesting! the few "albums" i have gone through recently have all been by mashup artists, so the genres have been all over the place but the "touch" of the artist has been there throughout.
i realize you get off on being cryptic, but i can't accept this gatekeepy bullshit. I'm too old and neurodivergent to care about whatever profound wisdom you want me to discover. be straight with me, or shut up.
going from "i don't listen to albums" to "maybe you don't like music" is incredibly strange. i listen to tons of music which i love. i just don't do albums. I buy loads of songs on bandcamp and have multiple constantly growing playlists hundreds of tracks long.
You will never hear a recorded song more clearly than vinyl
that's just demonstrably not true. maybe on a perfectly calibrated player in a completely dust-free lab environment with no air movement on a never-played vinyl that was just pressed and has never been moved. as soon as one of those conditions fail to hold the sound is distorted. from an acoustic perspective, live music also tends to have really weird sound and it's usually muddied by the environment.
man that's way too few. the ones that are usually counted here are