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  • Album ≠ album. There are certainly ones worthy of listening to them as a whole. But there are plenty of albums that are just utter garbage too. The war on the single by record companies in the 90s produced a number of albums that were at best a couple of okay singles plus 8-10 pure fillers. Name another Chumbawamba song, you can’t without googling.

    In a way we are reverting back to the 1950s where the single reigned supreme and albums were an afterthought. Now the single song does better than an album again. Some musicians release every streamlined Spotify curated 2 minute song as a “single.” Since most of it is done digitally only why not?

    Dogma is useless.





  • All these plugs were standardized 70 years+ ago when no one imagined one day you’ll be able to buy a Switch from Kazakhstan on something called the internet. In a probably accidental version of regulatory capture, the bean counters at the manufacturers kind of like it that way because they have control over what merchandise goes on sale in what market.

    It’s also now cheaper to build 50 different plugs in some factory before we ask the whole world to switch to one type of plug. Picking a standard will also be impossible if everybody gets a vote in the process.

    USB is the only hope for truly universal stuff but that won’t do for a kettle.






  • The distinction between defensive and offensive weaponry is a bit of political theater. Like the first boots on the ground in Vietnam were “military advisors.” Sure, a missile shield is more defensive in nature but its rockets or drones would not refuse to go on the offensive, if so ordered, on philosophical grounds. A rifle may aid in repelling an attack as well as participate in it. So the premise of your strategy is on shaky ground.


  • If you can’t read Japanese, one of these options disqualifies itself. You used euros a a currency so you’re probably on 220V or thereabouts and the Japanese one will not be. But I don’t know if you could recycle older switch 1 cables and the dock if you have those already.

    The EU model will probably not be hot swappable and what I heard on the rumor mill you’ll still need to unscrew the back of the console. The idea is that users can replace the battery so the manufacturers can’t drown it in glue or use proprietary fastenings unless they provide you also with the tools. But it won’t be like mobile phones when Nokia was the shit.

    In the interest of longevity of the device and to save yourself a possible inflated battery replacement bill in the future, I’d get the new EU version.





  • FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.websitetoAsklemmy@lemmy.mlShould I vote?
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    7 days ago

    Voting is better than not voting in my opinion. That being said, this is a topic I would not throw to the internet to help you decide. The way you have written your post you’re opening yourself up to a lot of partisan replies from the good people of both sides that will probably not aid massively in your decision making process.





  • and they’re also easier on the eyes

    I found that’s the ultimate decision criterion for me. If you’re fine reading on your phone, i.e. you don’t lose sleep because of the extra light spectrum you beam into your face, just stick with the phone. It’s always there and you are already trained to keep it charged around the clock.

    Reading ≠ reading; people have different concepts in their heads. There are people who need the haptics of an actual book. Some may think reading on your phone kind of cheapens the experience. It’s where the diarrhea stream of social media also comes through. Or work emails. I’ve talked with a colleague once and she insisted on a reader device because she didn’t want to give the impression she was on Instagram while reading at the airport. So you need to figure out these preferences as well.