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- Comment on Spotify doesn't make profit from music streaming, despite having over 400M monthly active users, because it pays two-thirds of all its revenue to the rights holders. 11 months ago:
Spotify is horrible quality for 2023
To my surprise, even Spotify’s standard (not high or very high) is extremely difficult, if not practically impossible for the average consumer to differentiate from lossless (on better than consumer grade hardware). Upon hearing this, me and several friends decided to test it for ourselves by taking lossless files for several songs and resampling them to the same codec and bitrates that Spotify’s standard quality uses, then ABX testing the before and after with Foobar’s ABX and exclusive mode plugins (also tried the popular comparison website, but that’s apparently less accurate). One of my friends had access to a college studio, I have a dac and sennheiser, and the third had sony wxm4s. To our surprise, none of us could consistently differentiate the two. Its not perfect considering we didn’t grab the outputs directly from the streaming platforms, but that would’ve added extra variables like volume normalizing (louder sounds better).
Our conclusion is that the quality “difference” is likely placebo and probably a waste of bandwidth.
- Comment on Pressure grows on Apple to open up iMessage 1 year ago:
Never looked into it, what’s so bad about RCS besides it being proprietary? Way better than SMS in my experience.
- Comment on Pressure grows on Apple to open up iMessage 1 year ago:
RCS seems to be pretty openly licensed out to other OEMs, definitely a lot better than iMessage.
It’s still proprietary though, a far cry from something like Matrix.
- Comment on Smartphone sales down 22 percent in Q2, the worst performance in a decade 1 year ago:
Nice. In the rare chance that you haven’t heard of GrapheneOS, now you have.
- Comment on Smartphone sales down 22 percent in Q2, the worst performance in a decade 1 year ago:
Did you get your phone from your carrier? In addition, some brands do that with cheaper phones. Can buy unlocked phones.
Maybe try Google Pixel or iPhones that have terms against pre-installing shit.
- Comment on Google says it can’t fix Pixel Watches, please just buy a new one | With no official repair program and no parts, broken Pixel Watches are just e-waste. 1 year ago:
Apparently the replacement parts for their phones are significantly cheaper than almost every other manufacturer. (I have just been hearing this so I don’t know for sure if it’s true, correct me if I’m wrong.)
Overall their phones seem to just be to a high standard. 5 years of support and other components that make them the choice for GrapheneOS (Privacy/Security focused rom that has greatly contributed to upstream Android)
- Comment on Lots of random instances defederated from us for being crypto related 1 year ago:
Sorry for the bad formatting, I was on mobile. But yeah, they all list reasons like “Crypto bullshit” or something so 🤷. Just interesting to see that so many instances have gone out of their way to block us.
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- Comment on Is the rslashmonero experiment funneling our community back to Reddit inadvertantly? 1 year ago:
Figured I’d share my opinion that the mirror should be removed. I don’t want to see reddit content, if I did I would just go to reddit myself. The mirror just clogs my feed and I’m not able to interact with the people posting anyways.