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T-Mobile reminded customers of this clause through a recent update to its terms and privacy notices. Customers must agree to them to continue using the T-Life app, which is the gateway to all things T-Mobile.

I've never installed a T-mobile app in my life. Usage of an app does not wave my rights to a class action and never has.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago*

    some of the retired plans are almost 15 years old, designed for the 3G and early 4G eras.

    It was LTE and I saw no improvements in the last 15 years. I would not have paid the insane price they were charging 15 years ago if it was only 3G.

    T-mobile is not interested in keeping a regular customer.

    T-Mobile has covered its bases, making it clear that it would rather see customers walk away than drag it to court.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 weeks ago

    everyone says they get tattoos for themselves but whenever I think about one for myself I think how little i look at the spots i would get a tattoo. id rather people pay attention to my music and no tattoo is going to do that.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 weeks ago

    I ended up just paying for Obsidian Sync. It's not very expensive and I really don't want to depend on Google, Apple, and Microsoft to make syncing work cross platform.

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  • [–] 49 points 3 weeks ago* (14 children)

    I live on capitol hill and often walk down the mall for my daily exercise. I don't really follow the news so I had no idea the "state" fare was going on. What I did see was heavily armed guards and fences in a normally open area with loads of tourists specifically not going to the fare.

    I think the armed national guard scared them off. Anyways, here's a photo of the B2 that flew over that day.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

    the industry term is called bouncing the track, final cut pro calls it compound clip Option + G. most daws will have a "bounce to a new track" or "bounce in place" but the effect is as you described; all the effect and automations are recorded in stereo or mono and saved as a unified clip. you can specify if you want to record pre or post fader. choose pre fader if you want to avoid recording bus send FX.

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    We are in a golden era for buying and selling digital LPs. While I’ll use Bandcamp, sleek alternatives like Ampwall, Subvert, and Mirlo are equally great options. These online markets inherently incentivize artists to avoid filler or risk losing a sale, while the subscription streaming model requires artists to pad their catalog for pay per play. Streaming has revived the worst trope of the old music industry: the album that is just "two hits and a bunch of crap."

    Spotify’s business model demands album filler because the platform pays out royalties based on "stream share" which trigger a payout the second a track hits the 30 second mark, incentivizing artists to maximize volume over value. This has fundamentally warped modern songwriting: albums are aggressively padded with short, two minute tracks and repetitive hooks designed specifically to feed the algorithm and inflate stream counts. On Spotify, a deep, cohesive artistic statement takes a back seat to sheer data output, turning what should be a focused LP into a bloated playlist of algorithmic bait.

    Accidental hits happen way more often than you’d think. As it turns out, artists are notoriously bad at predicting their own success. When you buy a digital LP on a platform like Bandcamp, you are investing in a complete and curated piece of art where even the tracks the artist never expected to blow up exist naturally as part of a cohesive story. On subscription services like Spotify, those same happy accidents are treated like lottery tickets while surrounded by cynical, algorithm optimized filler designed just to farm streams. Buying the album ensures you are experiencing those unexpected gems as genuine creative discoveries, rather than digging through algorithmic bloat to find them.

    Bandcamp serves the genre; streaming serves the algorithm. When producers target platforms like Spotify, artistic nuances like tempo variations and volume dynamics are sacrificed to strict LUFS loudness standards and predictable, club friendly danceability. This algorithmic pressure strips electronic and club music of its experimental edge, forcing tracks into a uniform, compressed sonic mold just to survive on a playlist. On Bandcamp, however, the music is freed from these rigid streaming constraints, allowing producers to prioritize raw genre authenticity and dynamic storytelling over sanitized, playlist ready optimization. Soundtrack and orchestral music have become major casualties of this shift, as their essential cinematic highs and quiet, emotional lows are flattened into a lifeless wall of sound just to meet streaming's volume requirements.

    Just so we're clear, I'm not here to sell you my album. Go ahead and enjoy the whole thing ad free on my website. https://thejoyo.com/#more

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