I went official, straight from them.

I had the funds after a book I wrote made enough sales to justify a laptop to write the next one more organically, so I went with stuff that would be most likely to have the least issues.

Imo, you aren’t going to notice any issues regarding speeds

The t480 is still pretty damn solid for the exact reasons you said. Unless you’re going to be doing some crazy stuff where you’d need a more potent device to begin with, it’ll serve most needs.

Mine is similarly specced, and handles even some video editing and photo editing without any problems at all. I can play games on it, assuming they aren’t batshit. And, I can have a dozen windows open and flip between them with no lag at all.

The battery upgrade is a must, in my book. The regular version is okay, but the extended lets you work on documents all day, while also playing music. That’s pretty damn nice.

That track is so fucking good. I haven’t checked the rest of their stuff yet, but I plan to

Me either! Tbh, 2024 has been a good year in metal overall. Judas Priest is another band I didn’t expect to see anything from. Dimmu Borgir is supposedly recording actively. Ensiferum dropped a damn good one. Behemoth has one that’s supposed to be out soon. On my end of things, I’m happy as a pig in slops!

Yup, or as least afaik it is. I’m not deepinto CoF, so I could have missed it before, but I don’t think I did

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Hard to top something like that though.

But definitely still an enjoyable album for sure

Beat me to it lol

Man, I just hate that I found him well after his early work. So many years missed of enjoying him.

But! Back before covid, when I finally gave him a listen, there was all those years of music waiting to dive into. So I guess it works out lol.

Like, I had heard him before then, just never really paid attention. I can’t think of a single song he’s sung that I don’t like, which is pretty rare for me. Gotta admit to being pretty basic in my favourites, stuff like “days gone by”, the more ballad side of things.

Yeah, it definitely fits!

I dig the hell out of it. It’s pretty much my preferred “vibe” of theirs. And the guitar is just extra sweet, but still crystalline and tight. Which sounds/looks weird when I see that sentence, but I can’t think of a better way to describe how the guitar sound feels lol. I mean, they’re all obviously top tier at what they do as individuals, but this track, the guitar just works for me, even above the drums.

Well, just glancing at it, it isn’t discord. It doesn’t connect to discord servers at all.

What it does is replicate discord, in a way that allows users to still make use of things that discord users are already into. Bots in particular.

So discord won’t have access to anything that goes on at all, unless you’re using something that also connects to discord.

Pop-ups and fake notifications would have more to do with the client you’re using than the back-end would, so if you use a client that does those things, I wouldn’t bet on that changing.

The caveat: I’m no dev of any kind, so I can’t say anything about the actual code, I’m basing this on their own description. I linked the page to my cousin that sometimes will give a quick scan for hinky shit for me, but there’s no telling if or when he’ll do so nd get back to me.

That would be a hell of a virus!

But people would notice, and pretty quickly. Even if this megavirus could somehow manage to do it without data loss, mimicking every aspect of windows perfectly, making file structure work the same, etc; it couldn’t do anything about the programs that simply don’t work on linux yet.

Once the first person noticed, it would be a huge deal

This made my day, and it hasn’t even been a long day yet :)

The headphones, and any other gear, probably make some difference; I’m balling on a budget, with some tin t2s for iem, and beyer 770s (80 ohm) for cans, through a fiio DAC for the cheaper devices (but my main player is an old lg g7). Now and then I’ll break out the portapros, and it’s more prevalent since they tend to be a little muffled in the mids and highs no matter what they’re plugged into.

But just the difference between something like gmmp, phonograph, musicolet, vanilla, etc, it can be a huge difference for me. Gmmp is decent, but there’s static where there shouldn’t be, and using the eq tends to distort on the low end even at low amounts of boost.

Can’t recall if vinyl stood out from the rest of the pack or not, since it’s been a couple of years since I did an extended comparison. All of the ones using the standard android audio processing were prone to some degree or another of mudiness to my ears. Some would get distorted playing through anything other than headphones, particularly with hip-hop and house tracks. That was with multiple aux cables, Bluetooth, and on multiple devices.

But, yeah, I would love it if max ported his eq app to other platforms.

Poweramp

There’s nothing else out there that’s really an equal, foss or not. The closest it gets is neutron, and that’s a hot mess of an app.

It’s the sound quality that’s standout. It doesn’t hurt that it’s a decent player in every other way too, but even apps built for audiophiles don’t match it in real use, in every situation.

None of the foss players are worth a damn sound wise; might as well use whatever comes with the device on that factor alone.

Best metal concert, Metallica 92, which was also my first. I’ve seen them other times, but they were at that perfect balance of energy, skill, and creativity in that era.

Overall? Elton John. Dude is just non stop entertainment from the second he walks on stage, until he’s done. Just a phenomenal performer. Enough so that I wasn’t a fan before the show, and only went because my patient was going and needed assistance. Left the show a fan, and was bloody well impressed with how he handled the small back stage meeting with my patient as well. Took time to really talk to the kid, and not just in the “get better champ” kind of way. Then took a moment on his way out to pat me on the shoulder and say thank you.

Just a genuinely great dude imo.

Smaller shows, I went with my cousin to see a local band ages ago, when I was visiting him. A band called October. Maybe thirty people in a shitty little building, but they killed it. Afaik, the band ceased to exist not long after, though I have one of their cassettes still. I think, anyway, it’s been so long since I pulled them out of storage, those tapes might be to old to work now.

Windows 10.

The way they rolled it out, and everything they shoved down the throats of anyone that “upgraded”

I think 16 terabytes? Might have been twelve. I was consolidating a bunch of old drives and data into a nas for a friend. He just didn’t have the time, between working and school and brought me all the hardware and said “go” lol.

Fuck it, I want Amon Amarth for LA. Make it happen!

I’ll accept Kataklysm, Cannibal Corpse, Metallica, or Dimmu Borgir in a pinch though.

Idgaf about where they’re from, welcome to the melting pot, motherfuckers!

There’s plenty of apps that do it already. I don’t have a list any more, but I’d bet that as comments pile up, one will form lol.

It would be nice for lemmy itself to have options like that, particularly for web only users.

Me? I mainly use sync and connect. Sync has the best dual column layout of the few apps that have the option, but connect is a better lemmy app overall. I use tablets for 99% of this kind of activity. Did with reddit and do with lemmy, and the multi column feed is just better for that. Phone, it’s connect.