TPB is first and foremost a torrent-link site, not a community.
Years ago, I belonged to a filesharing BBS that did introduce me to tons of new music, all of it indie, because it was populated by people that were particularly interested in indie bands.
TPB is a "mainstream" torrent site, and therefore reflects those interests. If you saw the lawsuits stop tomorrow, guaranteed there would be plenty of targeted-interest sites out there.
I personally don't like recco systems (computer or vote-driven), because hearing someone talk about *why* they like a particular album, a person who's opinion I trust based on past successes, is far more valuable to me, and often results in my listening to music I wouldn't otherwise be exposed to. As said at other points in the thread, free downloads are only half the answer.
I'm a hobbyist indie artist, and the last place I'd offer anything would be TPB, because no one would ever see it. Instead I post to forums of my influences, under the appropriate "user created music" sections. It's a campaign that provides fewer listeners, but extremely targeted ones. YMMV.
Actually I disabled the new translucent window manager effects, and my memory consumption is maybe 10m more than it was with XP.
When I first bought my new laptop a few months back, I thought having Vista pre-installed was going to be a horror show. I actually quite like the embedded search in the start bar and the loading effects on standard windows, though the control panel is a bit of a frigging nightmare right now.
Y'know...I really don't get why Mac is this beacon of usability. They do some things really well, and then a whole lot of stuff I can't stand.
1] All version of macOS have a "feature", where closing the last instance of an application doesn't quit that application. Every other OS I know of does this practice.
In some applications, this does actually make sense, but for the vast majority it doesn't.
Most common result: Mac users complaining their systems are slow, because they've just done 25 tasks in 25 different apps, closed all the windows, and don't realize those apps are still running.
2] Mac has poor hotkey support. In windows and most graphical linux distros, I can get around the OS even if my mouse has completely died or is otherwise unavailable, and vice-versa. Windows should get particular credit for its accessibility achievements.
I'm a big photoshop fan, and in windows, when I want to resize an image, I can use alt+I+I, or alt+E+S to stroke a selection, etc etc etc. There is no mac comparison I've found.
It's such a shame. The whole design methodology of having all contextual options for any window in a single location has proved to be a good one in several usability tests, but they drop the ball with the lack of accessibility support.
3] What's with the stubborn insistence on the mouse kept to a single-button? Nearly every Mac loyalist I know either went right out and bought a two-button mouse on day one, or is a computing novice and has no idea how to access context menus. To this day I forget which key brings up the menu and have to play around with it. it *should* be "option" I'd think, because I want more options, but I think it's control or something.
4] Web development for Mac sucks ass. Cyberduck is quirky as shit, text-wrangler is passable, Coda isn't free and frankly I find one window to be stifling since I'm a multi-monitor guy. *nix and Windows both have insane amounts of amazing, free APIs.
5] Macs are habitually RAM-starved out of the box, which I don't get considering they throw in all these shiny shitfuck effects now that we used to bitch about Microsoft for doing. Considering the price tag, what the hell.
I've used them for years and
6] my productivity is always reduced. And their mice aren't
7] ergonomic for my big man-hands. And their
8] recovery options are limited. And I personally dislike
9] lumping application launching and task management into one giant clusterfuck that only differentiates between the two with a
10] tiny
11] translucent
12] spacer.
If Linux had Photoshop, I'd be there, but it doesn't, and so going on my tenth year as a web developer and freelance photographer / hobbiest singer/songwriter, Windows remains my OS of choice, and
13] I wish to god someone could come up with something that would change my mind.
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TPB is first and foremost a torrent-link site, not a community.
Years ago, I belonged to a filesharing BBS that did introduce me to tons of new music, all of it indie, because it was populated by people that were particularly interested in indie bands.
TPB is a "mainstream" torrent site, and therefore reflects those interests. If you saw the lawsuits stop tomorrow, guaranteed there would be plenty of targeted-interest sites out there.
I personally don't like recco systems (computer or vote-driven), because hearing someone talk about *why* they like a particular album, a person who's opinion I trust based on past successes, is far more valuable to me, and often results in my listening to music I wouldn't otherwise be exposed to. As said at other points in the thread, free downloads are only half the answer.
I'm a hobbyist indie artist, and the last place I'd offer anything would be TPB, because no one would ever see it. Instead I post to forums of my influences, under the appropriate "user created music" sections. It's a campaign that provides fewer listeners, but extremely targeted ones. YMMV.
Quit being such a Godwin's law Nazi.
Actually I disabled the new translucent window manager effects, and my memory consumption is maybe 10m more than it was with XP.
When I first bought my new laptop a few months back, I thought having Vista pre-installed was going to be a horror show. I actually quite like the embedded search in the start bar and the loading effects on standard windows, though the control panel is a bit of a frigging nightmare right now.
Y'know...I really don't get why Mac is this beacon of usability. They do some things really well, and then a whole lot of stuff I can't stand.
/rant
1] All version of macOS have a "feature", where closing the last instance of an application doesn't quit that application. Every other OS I know of does this practice.
In some applications, this does actually make sense, but for the vast majority it doesn't.
Most common result: Mac users complaining their systems are slow, because they've just done 25 tasks in 25 different apps, closed all the windows, and don't realize those apps are still running.
2] Mac has poor hotkey support. In windows and most graphical linux distros, I can get around the OS even if my mouse has completely died or is otherwise unavailable, and vice-versa. Windows should get particular credit for its accessibility achievements.
I'm a big photoshop fan, and in windows, when I want to resize an image, I can use alt+I+I, or alt+E+S to stroke a selection, etc etc etc. There is no mac comparison I've found.
It's such a shame. The whole design methodology of having all contextual options for any window in a single location has proved to be a good one in several usability tests, but they drop the ball with the lack of accessibility support.
3] What's with the stubborn insistence on the mouse kept to a single-button? Nearly every Mac loyalist I know either went right out and bought a two-button mouse on day one, or is a computing novice and has no idea how to access context menus. To this day I forget which key brings up the menu and have to play around with it. it *should* be "option" I'd think, because I want more options, but I think it's control or something.
4] Web development for Mac sucks ass. Cyberduck is quirky as shit, text-wrangler is passable, Coda isn't free and frankly I find one window to be stifling since I'm a multi-monitor guy. *nix and Windows both have insane amounts of amazing, free APIs.
5] Macs are habitually RAM-starved out of the box, which I don't get considering they throw in all these shiny shitfuck effects now that we used to bitch about Microsoft for doing. Considering the price tag, what the hell.
I've used them for years and
6] my productivity is always reduced. And their mice aren't
7] ergonomic for my big man-hands. And their
8] recovery options are limited. And I personally dislike
9] lumping application launching and task management into one giant clusterfuck that only differentiates between the two with a
10] tiny
11] translucent
12] spacer.
If Linux had Photoshop, I'd be there, but it doesn't, and so going on my tenth year as a web developer and freelance photographer / hobbiest singer/songwriter, Windows remains my OS of choice, and
13] I wish to god someone could come up with something that would change my mind.