Any poor quality connector can affect a sector scan and drive performance. Doesn't matter if it's connected to a corroded usb port or a bent internal sata, at the end of the day if you're getting disk errors it's best to measure using two methodologies/data pathways.
Due to the uniquely fucked up way music licensing works, it's likely they license the lyrics through a separate company than the music and probably don't even directly license it themselves (Tidal for example uses Musicmatch's lyric library and api). There's a cost associated with this that is likely outside their control. It's shitty, but it is plalusibly reasonable they implemented this as a cost savings measure.
You might consider the Mackie Crx Cubes. They use bmr drivers that allow a wider Soundstage without needing as much physical space and can be had at a pretty reasonable price. Bass is lacking though, so allocate funding for a small woofer if you want the absolute best experience.
Not sure what made you assume I was an early adopter. Generally, after the pixel 1, I waited until the first few months passed just to get the discount they always had. You seem to make a ton of assumptions to pave way for some fine cognitive dissonance as they never "sorted out the stuff" in those phone models and if you bothered to research it instead of using your own experience as a defacto account I think you'd see that.
Glad you had a decent experience. That was not the case for me and many documented others. The bluetooth issues are particularly well known and plagued the whole series from 1-4, if you didn't use Bluetooth much it probably didn't phase you but holy shit it sucked. As far as nexsus devices go they were a crapshoot. My nexus 6p crashed week 3 and bricked into a boot loop. Google replaced it only for the replacement to do the same damn thing a month later. They had massive QC issues which meant you either got a fine phone or a shit one and a lot of people fell towards the latter.
The newer ones are nice, but as an owner of the first 4 because I need unbloated OSes, they were a complete joke in hardware support and failures. Can't count the number of times I've lost data to my pixel 1 randomly resetting, had bluetooth issues with 1-4, and had a smattering of other nonsense issues with everything up to the 6. Eventually I gave up and hopped over to iOS.
Unless you're just opening up all the ports on your router, it should be blocking all incoming connections by default. I'd recommend doing 1:1 port mapping for the specific internal ips of your services if your router provides that capability, but at minimum just locking it down to only opening the ports required for your services should suffice.
Honestly I think most of the issue comes down to payment processing. Think of the small streaming/etc businesses that could be localized and launched at like 0.99$ a month if it wasn't 0.35$ + 4% and the blood of your firstborn child just to process a payment.
Ever try to craft a search engine? They're miraculously complex things these days and heavily dependant on the quality and differential of data they index. It's one of the leading reasons search across the board has declined (regardless if you look at Google, Bing, etc. Quality has gone down in testing.)
Ai is overhyped and poorly understood. It has legitimate uses, but they're not the ones advertised and hyped to the public and they're likely not going to be as valuable as the market believes, at least not for a long long time.
From my time working at a law firm I can confidently say most mentally healthy people would be surprised at the amount of people that 1. Never grew up 2. Have no problem hurting someone they claim to love 3. Have no problem posting evidence of that onto public social media.
I'd have never bought a computer with one of these keys anyway. They dictate enough about my device, the keyboard is where I'm drawing the hard line.
The directors really did squander the whole franchise with how they handled it. People were naming their kids after characters, "Winter is coming" became commonplace and merch was everywhere. Then seemingly overnight after those last two seasons it's all gone. I feel if they'd bothered to give it any time and care it'd have had the same staying power in our culture as Harry potter, lord of the rings, and star wars.
You and I know very different gamers. I can't even talk people into going pc instead of console/mobile phone. (Which is 90% of the gaming market).
That's not accurate. It's far easier to purchase the game currently than it is to pirate it. You get things like automatic updates, server support, verified software, library management, etc with almost every single point of sale where as with piracy you get none of those and likely a little bit of malware as a treat. If you moved games to a completely open source model, you'd see this paradigm shift dramatically with gray markets spinning up seemingly overnight offering similar features.
Capitalism has scribbled right over the "social good" bits of that. We can pretty much single handedly thank Disney and lobbying.
I think it could be viable for a company to release a game with a "5 year FOSS promise" or something similar, but you have to realize that the gaming community would never adequately financially support most development endeavors if the choice was as easy as downloading it from place A vs place B.
This is gorgeous. Well done.
Yeah. Imo their one hope was to make trackers that leverage both networks, as a sort of middle ground device for like a family with 1 android and 1 iPhone. Without that pivot they've seemed dead since the airtag launch.