There are a couple of benefits to credit cards (in the US at least).

• Protection: If some steals my credit card info, I can fight the charges with the credit card company (and am not out any money while sorting it out) . With debit cards the money is gone and you’re fighting to get it back.
• Rewards: most offer good cash back or point rewards. It means I save 2-3% on average compared to using a debit card
• Persk: Many cards will add coverage for car rentals or discounts just for using them for the purchase.

If you pay off the card each month you get all of those persk at zero cost. While technically credit card companies charge stores 2-3% for each swipe, in the US at least there is no price difference for the customer for cash/debit/credit.

Edit/TLDR: In the US it’s cheaper and safer to use a credit card (if you can pay the balance every month).

Third prong, looking constantly for new information. Yeah, most of these sites may be basically static, but it’s probably cheaper and easier to just constantly recrawl things.

I keep expecting something, the lifetime pass has more/less paid for itself.

That being said, they do still offer the lifetime pass, so clearly they see it as worth it.

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As someone who was was an adjunct before and during the pandemic, I can tell you from first hand experience that a lot was lost when transitioning from in-person to remote learning.

The most obvious impact was participation. Even at the college level, when students aren’t physically in the classroom they are less focused on the class.

However, even beyond that there are a lot of things that suffer:

• The ability to just walk over to a student to see how theyre doing (whether they want you to or not).
• In class exercises and group collaboration.
• The ability to easily dive into questions and tangents (drawing programs online are very hit or miss).
• Not to mention audio and video issues.
• Ability to read the classroom (going to fast, something wasn’t clear, etc.)

It may not sound significant, but it really adds up. Not to mention that the impact from covid in education is very visible at all levels of education.

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Don’t forget weather!

Or in other words “Male enhancement” research

Your comment is exactly the point I was trying to make. The world is complex and imperfect, so anyone with the power/responsibility of a president is going to do controversial things.

I mean we absolutely could call out their flaws too, someone with that much power/responsibility is going to do abhorrent things (drone strikes with Obama being an easy one to bring up). Just like the four on Mount Rushmore these things aren’t what we typically call out because they either were “of the times” or not on the same scale as their accomplishments.

I mean, the real issue is that everything is half truths. It allows peoe to glom onto whatever they want to hear or enough to rile people up without ever learning the full truth.

Plex and plexamp is the best music hosting setup I’ve found too. Users can have their own playlist and there is some smart playlist generation.

They also had (maybe still have) tidal integration.

However, you’ll still be relying on other services (probs spotify/etc.) to find new things.

Thanks for jumping in on this. I just think OP has heard DRM bad and not thought about what DRM means. Once youre asking for a service that does everything for you, DRM doesn’t really play a role.

I could see an arguement for open playlist formats or something so you could move your account history around, but there is a limit to how useful or practical that would even be.

I mean I understand and support DRM free media, but I literally don’t understand what OP is asking for. If they don’t want to own/manage the music, then what part would be DRM free?

How would you define a DRM-free online service? If you aren’t managing your own files, why would DRM free matter?

You want them to do that regardless of the how the country keeps track of individuals. The point of all that asking is to make sure they have the right patient for the right procedure.

You don’t want to have something amputated or removed unless you have to.

That’s cause all the Devin’s are distracting you with the AI uprising while actually planning their own.

The power bill side is also not even clear cut. The longer processing time for slower chips sometimes ends up resulting in higher costs. It’s surprisingly not as simple as lower wattage chip is cheaper to operate.

Ah, bucatini, the devilse pasta. Nothing like accidentally aspirating on your pasta sauce.

I’ve tried to watch it twice and I feel like I just am missing something about it. May be too random for me.