Youtube or Spotify?
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    I'm using Deezer, because its Duo plan's T&C doesn't require couples to live in the same household. (Fuck Spotify because of their shitty plan.)

    Unfortunately Deezer's Android app sucks, because it never reaches the server. Sometimes songs are just restarting or stopping, and you have to press the "add to favorites" button hundreds of times to finally successfully add it to your list. It's horrible. But in the browser it's smooth, there's no problem with it. I even find songs I would never expect to find there (much more than on Spotify). Also you can create playlists together with others, even if others are using a different streaming provider.

    If your only choice is between YouTube and Spotify, I'd go for Spotify because fuck Google, and also Spotify app is smooth, and has the ability to control your music from your phone even when the music is playing on another device. (This is possible to do with 3rd party apps with any music player, but Spotify has it built in.)

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  • Comedy shows have laugh tracks cuz they aren't that funny
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    Holy shit, this is much better than the original!!! Damn, I should rewatch the series like this. Where can I find all of it without the laugh track?

    Edit: I have to add, the long pauses make it a bit annoying. With the laugh track the pauses aren't noticeable (to me at least; my girlfriend did notice the long pauses even with the laugh track, and it was annoying to her).

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    They say, nowadays nearly any laptop you could get is garbage due to insufficient cooling. Maybe they look promising at first, but you cannot use them for longer than 2-3 years, because the components simply get cooked inside. The only ones worthy of spending money on are the business-grade laptops, but they're crazy expensive (for a good reason). Therefore you should probably look for a used one, maybe from a company dealing with refurbished devices. Sometimes it's possible to get one that had been used for like 6 months, and you still have a number of years of warranty on it.

    My personal favorite is the ThinkPad T, P or X series. Those are quality products, and there are official video guides, spare parts for self repair. I've also read about bad experiences about a T580 (I think) here, on lemmy, but the circumstances were unclear to me. They wrote about a bending motherboard issue, when you pick up the laptop holding only at the corner.

    Framework laptops are also recommended a lot, but I've never gotten my hands on one, I don't know their build quality.

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  • How did you find your significant other?
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    Do you remember 9gag? Some of you certainly do. Anyway, during those times they created another app called 9chat, later renamed it to Cookie, and later renamed it back to 9chat again.

    Well, we met there, on 9chat/Cookie.

    There weren't an insanely huge amount of people there, and there was a section for newcomers to upload their selfie and/or introduce themselves. And I found this gorgeous girl there, started to text her, and to my surprise, she actually replied and didn't even ghost me.

    We had a nice conversation there, and we continued on WhatsApp, and three months later we met in real life too. This was 7 years ago, and sadly we're still in LDR, but the most important thing is, we have each other.

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  • Malaysia applies to join BRICS | NHK WORLD-JAPAN News
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    What could be the best possible way for Malaysia to commemorate the tragic event of MH17 on its 10th anniversary? Joining the terrorists who shot it down, right?

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  • Seriously, where do I go?
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    I'm not from the US, so I don't know how accurate this is, and I also don't know if this thing has ever been updated (I found it a long time ago), but there's this tool that might help with deciding: https://www.whereshouldilive.co/

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  • what lemmy web app do you use and why?
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    The amount of people not knowing what a "web app" is, is seriously concerning.

    Anyway, I tried "old" and Alexandrite, but I just ended up sticking with the default. I find "old" ugly, and on Alexandrite, I couldn't find my saved posts. Maybe it has been fixed since, but the default one works for me best.

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  • Can we all agree that whatever version of predictive text we have nowadays is crap, and has been for a long time?
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    I've switched to Gboard on Android back in the days, when it was the only one with proper multilingual features, and been using it ever since.

    I've experienced the opposite: I actually found it rather more helpful than not, despite the occasional errors like you mentioned. But nowadays it's quite rare that it "mispredicts" a word. And what I've found extremely helpful is, that nowadays it doesn't only correct individual words, but it picks up other grammatical errors as well in the sentence. So it's working for me.

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  • What's something you believed to be true but recently learned is actually false?
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    Oh there's a lot.

    • When I was a kid, parents and teachers used to teach, if you have sore muscles a day after an extensive workout, you need to work out even more in order to reduce the soreness. In fact, however, you need to rest those muscles.
    • I thought, pepperoni was pepper. (Like bell pepper, just smaller; similar to chilli). Then my girlfriend enlightened me after a confusing conversation, that pepperoni was a kind of salami. And then recently, at a company event before ordering pizza and after a very confusing discussion of what toppings we order, it turned out pepperoni was actually a kind of a salami, but not everyone agreed. So by now I've learned that pepperoni is neither of them. It doesn't exist. It's listed on pizza menus, and when you order it, you'll get something for sure, but you won't know in advance what it would be.
    • This isn't new, the realization was several years ago, but fits this list nicely: I thought, perfume was something for women. It turned out, there was perfume for men too.
    • Parents used to teach, if you read in the dark (on paper, not on a screen, I must add), you're ruining your eyes. But if you think about it: wtf does low light do to your eyes? By that logic, you're constantly ruining your eyes while sleeping.
    • For some reason I used to think, you could simply delete related entities bound by foreign key constraints in postgres, if you ran the query in a transaction. Once when I finally needed to do this, I learned the hard way I was wrong.

    There's a lot more than this, probably I'll update this comment in the future. Or not.

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  • When you are on a videocall do you also keep looking at your own thumbnail video?
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    I find it weird to look at my thumbnail video, so I almost never do that.

    1. If I have the chance, I don't even enable my webcam. It depends on the workplace...
    2. Generally, I always look at my notes, because I'm unable to keep all the necessary things in my mind while talking.
    3. If no notes are needed for whatever reason, I just look at others in the meeting.

    If I look at myself, that happens maybe at the very beginning to check what's in the picture, but I always hate looking at myself.

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  • Roku explores taking over HDMI feeds with ads
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    Luckily I'm not involved in this smart-TV saga in any way, as I haven't been watching TV since my childhood (there were no smart-TVs back then, but TV shows in my country were shit).

    Now my biggest fear is, if enough people realize that smart-TVs are shit, then desktop monitors will start to become "smart" too. My life will be doomed if that happens.

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  • What foods make you feel like royalty when you're eating them?
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    At first I wanted to say sushi, but basically anything I order online, because they're so expensive. But during those few occasions I really feel like royalty.

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  • What is your proudest moment or accomplishment?
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    I set the timer on the dishwasher to finish approximately when I get home after work. However, that day I didn't really know what time I would get home, as there was an after-work BBQ event.

    When I arrived at home and stepped into the kitchen, the timer showed 0:00 and shortly afterwards it switched off.

    My proudest achievement in like two years.

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  • Scrum is an agile framework that, if applied properly, can boost the efficiency of teamwork. It is known to be versatile enough, so it could be applied in basically any sort of productive teamwork, even beyond IT (e.g. bakeries, government organizations, etc.) However, I've never ever seen it being used anywhere else other than in software development, therefore I've always been curious if Scrum is actually being used outside of IT somewhere.

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    Hi everyone, As I've been developing my Android app, I've quickly found myself in a situation, where all my @Composable functions are quite hectic, not really maintainable. I am wondering, is there any guide for best practices regarding @Composable functions? [Thinking in Compose](https://developer.android.com/jetpack/compose/mental-model) is a straightforward article, and it all makes sense - until I want to build something other than Hello World. Something more complex, I mean. What I understand from the article is, that I should keep the logic out of these functions as much as possible, and pass only primitive types as parameters. Behavior should be kept in callback functions. This is very nice and clean, I like it, but then what should I do, when I have quite a lot of functions nested? For example, on MainActivity I have a Scaffold, within that a NavHost with four different tabs, each with completely different content, some of them with a BottomSheet, which are also completely different for each tab (that has one), and some of the BottomSheets can call a Dialog, which again, has a form in it, and so on. So the hierarchy has quite a level of nesting. And if I understand the recommendation correctly from the article mentioned above, then I am supposed to keep the states and callback function definitions somewhere in MainActivity (or ViewModel), and pass everything through the entire hierarchy. Everything. The value of every single Text (those that cannot be hardcoded), all the list items to DropdownMenus, all the list items for Lists, literally everything. And then, according to the article, the renderer is smart enough to only recompose those elements that *really* changed. To me this sounds tedious. I've also seen recommendations to just pass the ViewModel itself in order to reduce the number of parameters. But if I do that, then how would I make a @Preview out of it? Probably it's possible, but it wouldn't be convenient at all. So what's a clean approach for designing a good @Composable function hierarchy?

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