You need to report that as a content mismatch. That usually forces Google Play Music to actually use your version, not the server-matched version.
I say "usually" with a hefty dose of skepticism, as Google seem to be very slow to respond to error reports on Google Play Music.
In contrast, Spotify responds within hours and fixes content errors within a week or so, even going to the effort of asking for more information if they need to clarify something with you first.
No, I'm suggesting to spend a bit more money to get a monitor with vastly better ergonomics. Better color rendering, better viewing angles, better resolution, better build quality (more adjustments and no wobbliness), and more inputs.
Your monitor, mouse and keyboard are your primary interfaces to your computer, you interact with them constantly. You also tend to keep them longest out of any hardware you buy. So spend a bit extra to get something that is a joy to use and isn't just mediocre or barely adequate.
That being said, however.....there is NOTHING wrong with trying to make your work life as productive as possible. To do your best and to maximize your money making is a good thing to strive for!!!
Why?
What if I don't feel any drive to earn more money than I actually need to live an enjoyable life? What if I care a lot more about doing enjoyable things, than I do about raising some imaginary "productivity" stat on an imaginary character sheet.
Sure, go ahead and try to maximize your productivity, if that actually, genuinely and honestly increases your happiness. If you take a deep look inside yourself, I think you'll find that there are other things you would rather do with your life.
And no matter how productive you seem to be, there is always someone ready to whip you bloody, for not being productive enough. A lot of the time, that person is you, which is supremely unhealthy.
Which ones would that be? Ublock Origin? Privacy Badger? Decentraleyes? Link Cleaner? HTTPS Everywhere? Smart Referer? NoScript? UMatric? They're all there.
There's a parking garage close to where I live, and they play march music 24/7, to deter homeless people from sleeping there. It is rather surreal pulling in to park with the Liberty Bell March going at full tilt.
And hey...apparently any interaction you try with a new woman these days, can be interpreted as unwanted sexual assault....
Maybe, just maybe you should try changing up your approach, instead of just randomly grabbing boobs as your first step?
God save us if they ever get pr0n VR done right. If men can get full on sexual simulation.....the earth population will head dive to 0 quickly.
There's a lot more to sex than simply the physical stimulation, but I guess you wouldn't know.
I mean, if a guy can get full on sex without the hassle of the nagging of women, the catering to their fickle whims, the risks of unwanted children AND most importantly, the very real risk of losing half of everything you own.....guess which venue for sexual release he'll pursue?/quote
It's not sex if it doesn't involve (at least) one other living breathing person. If it doesn't, it's simply masturbation, and all men do that already. So what's your point?
Don't project your inability to interact with the opposite sex onto everyone else.
I did pay $550 for it 4 years ago, for a 27" 2560x1440 IPS panel monitor with multiple inputs, and best in class input lag and color rendering. Was it expensive? Yes, but I've been happily using it for 4 years, and I fully expect to still be using it for another 10 years, at least.
Monitor, mouse and keyboard are your primary interfaces to your computer, and generally the items that last the longest, because they can be brought from one computer to the next and the next. It only makes sense to save up and get the good stuff, instead of compromising on ergonomics in order to save money.
There are still monitors with VGA ports out there, and I think most TVs still have them. My current monitor is a Dell 27" U2713HM, which has Displayport, HDMI, DVI and VGA, and it's not that old. Similarly my Thinkpad T440 has a VGA port on it, that I never use.
I know the later Thinkpads got rid of the VGA port, the T470 certainly doesn't have it. But it does have Displayport, which can do VGA with an adapter.
So it is very much still supported on a lot of hardware. There are a lot of meeting rooms out there with only a VGA connection to their monitors/projectors.
I have both an inexpensive blade grinder and a good manual burr grinder (Hario Skerton). It does make a difference for French press because of the coarse sieve, but for Aeropress, Moka pot and filter coffee, the difference seems purely academic.
The biggest difference is that the Hario takes 3-5 minutes to grind enough for a cup of coffee, whereas the blade grinder takes 5-10 seconds.
We don't have vending machines, but you can buy a soda in the cafeteria. But soda is different. Coffee is healthy and a productivity booster. Soda is crap for you and makes you lethargic.
You may disagree of course, but that is the reasoning.
Run the drip machine while you shower in the morning, or get a model with a timer so the brew is freshly done when you wake up. In the spirit of Slashdot, you could even rig your old drip machine with a timer relay and automate it that way. Just add water and coffee in the evening, and *boom* fresh coffee in the morning.
Then add that coffee to a thermos, bring it to work. It'll be a million times better (and much cheaper) than any coffee you could buy on your commute, and it'll save you time.
I love that I get a perfectly good (great, even!) cup of coffee using a $5 funnel, the cheapest possible filters, a blade grinder and a $10 electric kettle. The only thing I've found that really matters is getting decent quality beans and grinding them yourself right before you brew.
And yet we have these insufferable snobs who insist on overcomplicating everything. It's. Just. A. Cup. Of. Coffee.
I've been through the whole rigmarole of French press, Moka pot, Aeropress and a few other gadgets. Sure, they make damn good coffee (the Aeropress in particular), but so does the good ol' filter. With so much less hassle and faffing about. Admittedly, I haven't felt the need to get an actual espresso machine, but I take the Italian approach and only get espresso at good coffee shops, because you basically cannot match that at home in any sort of economically responsible way.
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I have, and I have had the option to disable advertising checked, for as long as I've been able to.
You need to report that as a content mismatch. That usually forces Google Play Music to actually use your version, not the server-matched version.
I say "usually" with a hefty dose of skepticism, as Google seem to be very slow to respond to error reports on Google Play Music.
In contrast, Spotify responds within hours and fixes content errors within a week or so, even going to the effort of asking for more information if they need to clarify something with you first.
No, I'm suggesting to spend a bit more money to get a monitor with vastly better ergonomics. Better color rendering, better viewing angles, better resolution, better build quality (more adjustments and no wobbliness), and more inputs.
Your monitor, mouse and keyboard are your primary interfaces to your computer, you interact with them constantly. You also tend to keep them longest out of any hardware you buy. So spend a bit extra to get something that is a joy to use and isn't just mediocre or barely adequate.
I don't know that I'll ever earn quite enough to say it is enough to make me truly enjoyable life.
In that case, you probably need to seriously re-evaluate your toxic materialistic outlook on life, or learn how to balance a budget.
Or you seriously need to change careers, if your current employment pays so little.
So you're perfectly OK with poisoning your attention span, wasting bandwidth and creating a gigantic vector for malware?
Fuck no.
You seem to think of work as something that's somehow "done" at some point.
That being said, however.....there is NOTHING wrong with trying to make your work life as productive as possible. To do your best and to maximize your money making is a good thing to strive for!!!
Why?
What if I don't feel any drive to earn more money than I actually need to live an enjoyable life? What if I care a lot more about doing enjoyable things, than I do about raising some imaginary "productivity" stat on an imaginary character sheet.
Sure, go ahead and try to maximize your productivity, if that actually, genuinely and honestly increases your happiness. If you take a deep look inside yourself, I think you'll find that there are other things you would rather do with your life.
And no matter how productive you seem to be, there is always someone ready to whip you bloody, for not being productive enough. A lot of the time, that person is you, which is supremely unhealthy.
Which ones would that be? Ublock Origin? Privacy Badger? Decentraleyes? Link Cleaner? HTTPS Everywhere? Smart Referer? NoScript? UMatric? They're all there.
We're not quite at that phase of late-stage capitalism just yet, but give it a couple of years.
There's a parking garage close to where I live, and they play march music 24/7, to deter homeless people from sleeping there. It is rather surreal pulling in to park with the Liberty Bell March going at full tilt.
It is painfully bleeding obvious that you have never EVER actually tried interacting with other people in real life.
BULL. FUCKING. SHIT.
And hey...apparently any interaction you try with a new woman these days, can be interpreted as unwanted sexual assault....
Maybe, just maybe you should try changing up your approach, instead of just randomly grabbing boobs as your first step?
God save us if they ever get pr0n VR done right. If men can get full on sexual simulation.....the earth population will head dive to 0 quickly.
There's a lot more to sex than simply the physical stimulation, but I guess you wouldn't know.
I mean, if a guy can get full on sex without the hassle of the nagging of women, the catering to their fickle whims, the risks of unwanted children AND most importantly, the very real risk of losing half of everything you own.....guess which venue for sexual release he'll pursue?/quote
It's not sex if it doesn't involve (at least) one other living breathing person. If it doesn't, it's simply masturbation, and all men do that already. So what's your point?
Don't project your inability to interact with the opposite sex onto everyone else.
Maybe spend some more on a good monitor?
I did pay $550 for it 4 years ago, for a 27" 2560x1440 IPS panel monitor with multiple inputs, and best in class input lag and color rendering. Was it expensive? Yes, but I've been happily using it for 4 years, and I fully expect to still be using it for another 10 years, at least.
Monitor, mouse and keyboard are your primary interfaces to your computer, and generally the items that last the longest, because they can be brought from one computer to the next and the next. It only makes sense to save up and get the good stuff, instead of compromising on ergonomics in order to save money.
There are still monitors with VGA ports out there, and I think most TVs still have them. My current monitor is a Dell 27" U2713HM, which has Displayport, HDMI, DVI and VGA, and it's not that old. Similarly my Thinkpad T440 has a VGA port on it, that I never use.
I know the later Thinkpads got rid of the VGA port, the T470 certainly doesn't have it. But it does have Displayport, which can do VGA with an adapter.
So it is very much still supported on a lot of hardware. There are a lot of meeting rooms out there with only a VGA connection to their monitors/projectors.
The internet is not a credible source of information. It's handy and very easy, but hardly anyone bothers to check facts.
If public sector jobs didn't offer free coffee here, I think most people would consider it a human rights violation.
Isn't that just making coffee the traditional way but in a cup instead of a coffee pot?
Yes, that's exactly what it is. Doesn't stop people from overcomplicating it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
It's perfectly OK to want to kill people after watching that video.
I've never seen such a contraption. Does it work?
Yeah, somewhat. It always lets stuff through a little bit. Which kind of kettle are you talking about?
I have both an inexpensive blade grinder and a good manual burr grinder (Hario Skerton). It does make a difference for French press because of the coarse sieve, but for Aeropress, Moka pot and filter coffee, the difference seems purely academic.
The biggest difference is that the Hario takes 3-5 minutes to grind enough for a cup of coffee, whereas the blade grinder takes 5-10 seconds.
We don't have vending machines, but you can buy a soda in the cafeteria. But soda is different. Coffee is healthy and a productivity booster. Soda is crap for you and makes you lethargic.
You may disagree of course, but that is the reasoning.
For filter coffee (still the most popular brewing method), either drip machine or manual pour over, grind size isn't that big of an issue.
Sure, if you're doing espresso at home, or Turkish/Greek coffee, you need an extremely fine grind. But for filter? Blade works fine.
Run the drip machine while you shower in the morning, or get a model with a timer so the brew is freshly done when you wake up. In the spirit of Slashdot, you could even rig your old drip machine with a timer relay and automate it that way. Just add water and coffee in the evening, and *boom* fresh coffee in the morning.
Then add that coffee to a thermos, bring it to work. It'll be a million times better (and much cheaper) than any coffee you could buy on your commute, and it'll save you time.
Charging employees for coffee is just about the pettiest thing I've heard about in a long time.
The hipster stank is quite strong.
I love that I get a perfectly good (great, even!) cup of coffee using a $5 funnel, the cheapest possible filters, a blade grinder and a $10 electric kettle. The only thing I've found that really matters is getting decent quality beans and grinding them yourself right before you brew.
And yet we have these insufferable snobs who insist on overcomplicating everything. It's. Just. A. Cup. Of. Coffee.
I've been through the whole rigmarole of French press, Moka pot, Aeropress and a few other gadgets. Sure, they make damn good coffee (the Aeropress in particular), but so does the good ol' filter. With so much less hassle and faffing about. Admittedly, I haven't felt the need to get an actual espresso machine, but I take the Italian approach and only get espresso at good coffee shops, because you basically cannot match that at home in any sort of economically responsible way.
Or just make some good old drip coffee instead of bothering with the hipster nonsense.