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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • The first one is pretty much down to, as Gabe Newell puts it, “piracy is a service problem”. Spotify came along and (initially) provided a much better service compared to pirating your music at the time. Once they created the market segment, competitors started their own streaming subscriptions. I’d also say the Google music “upload 50,000 tracks for free” got a lot of former pirates to jump.

    Now the services are going through the same enshittification that most popular online services seem to be going through, we can see piracy increasing again. Someone will notice and fill the gap in providing a good service again at some point and the pendulum will swing once more














  • I’m fine with a brioche bun, they’re upper tier buns

    But don’t stack a load of stuff in there to the point the brioche disintegrates under the heft of it

    That’s why we have the pretzel bun

    (Likewise, don’t use a pretzel bun if you’re not gonna load it up, that bun needs grease for balance)




  • The headphone jack is gone for good, I would bet everything I own on them never reintroducing it to the pixel line.

    The back fingerprint sensor is also probably not coming back now they’ve been using the behind-the-screen style for a few iterations now. But I could maybe see this showing up on the mid-cycle budget pixel refresh (the “a” ones) if it somehow made financial sense for them or perhaps on the fold with multiple behind-the-screen ones.