silentsysadmin's comments

silentsysadmin | 3 years ago | on: Spotify to acquire Heardle

Release radar recommended songs that I just couldn't get into honestly. Tried listening to new songs from RR for several weeks without anything too gripping.

What other new features are you talking about? The mix/match with a friend is a fun feature but again, all top 50 songs I've listened to in that playlist for the last few weeks.

> Don't try to hide your true reason because Apple Music gives you several free months on the crappy subscription.

On the contrary, I pay for Apple Music monthly :P

silentsysadmin | 3 years ago | on: Spotify to acquire Heardle

Agree! The web-player not including features from the desktop application is unacceptable.

I just canceled my Spotify subscription for similar reasons this week. Discovery has become a pain, and I found myself listening to the same 50 or so songs throughout the day from the playlists generated by Spotify. On top of that, the constant push for podcasts has become annoying.

So far I've found great satisfaction using Apple Music.

silentsysadmin | 4 years ago | on: Don’t be spooky

I’m speculating. Perhaps this practice is common because it keeps the books clean on final payouts. Plus it allows the employee to finish any projects they’re working on during the week. Not 100% sure though.

silentsysadmin | 4 years ago | on: “looks like Firefox quietly added ads into the address bar”

I think Mozilla would make some dough if they did periodic fundraising campaigns similar to how Wikipedia does it. A simple banner on the new tab page with a heartfelt message on the state of funding with a link to their donation page would probably be much more simple to implement than this search suggestion thing.

silentsysadmin | 4 years ago | on: Skunk Works Boss Says He Can't Comment on TikTok Video of Stealth Shape

Probably no-longer residing in the US as well.

silentsysadmin | 5 years ago | on: Why use old computers and operating systems?

I would load up Slackware 14.2 on that bad boy.

silentsysadmin | 5 years ago | on: Centos.rip

Changing EoL to 2021 is absolutely unacceptable!

CentOS impressed me so much in the years I've been using it that I wanted to grab a RHCSE and start recommending subscriptions to my clients.

After pulling the rug out from under my feet I will no longer be interested in recommending anything under the Red Hat brand. We will migrate to another solution for our internal systems and not look back.

silentsysadmin | 6 years ago | on: The best Cyber Monday deals according to Alexa: any Amazon-owned brand

There are options. Personally I run Graphene OS on a Pixel 3a. I have no proprietary software (with exception to binary firmware blobs for the modem and other low-level components) installed on my device. All apps are sourced from F-Droid. I've measured very low telemetry data from my device.