Fwiw, my mom had a similar debate and decided classical music instead. Came from some company called baby beethoven. So I’m biased but I think music is probably best. Words won’t really be understood anyway just tones. No angry sounds around baby.

Agreed, for the features included the premium is genuinely worth it. Much better company to give money to than spotify.

The UI has lagged behind a bit but there are firefox and chrome extensions to improve/customize the web experience to a pretty decent extent. I do wish they could get their shit together with the placement of stations on mobile. Still as you said it consistently finds new music. When I try to look at a song’s “radio” on spotify, it gets me angry 0-100 real quick. Why? Well I ran a small experiment.

I started by going to a song radio playlist. From there, go to the radio playlist of the first song. Now add every one of those songs to another playlist. Back up, go to the next song radio, repeat while excluding duplicates, for 10 songs.

Each of the radio stations had about 180 songs. So the final playlist would hopefully have in the neighborhood of 500, accounting for duplicate overlap. But how many songs did I actually end up with? 195. The recommendation algo is not designed for discovery it’s designed for comfort and familiarity at every angle. And i hate it.

Sorry this turned into a spotify rant aha I just needed to share that experiment after seeing my own results.

I browse lemmy exclusively, as a result of distaste for corporatization. Personally I have no reason to leave and I doubt I will anytime soon. I don’t have any particular niches that I’m a part of, so the only thing that would cause me to leave is if the feed dried up. I usually open lemmy in the morning and scroll All - top 12h. I get an hour or so of scrolling before I reach posts with sub-10 votes. And that’s all I really need. I’ll be here until I can’t do that anymore.

That’s why I specifically try to avoid saying that, and instead say “important question”. Almost always interchangeable, gets the point across, and you don’t sound like a subservient AI.

Immediately kill myself as quick as possible. That’s genuinely one of my worst fears is being entered by a bug. I have an obsessive habit of wiping the inside/underneath the lip of the toilet every time I use it just in case there could be a spider. There has never been a spider. Yet I’m compelled to do it every single time.

I haven’t seen anyone mention Pandora but it’s still around. I kept using it even when I was paying for spotify. Over and over again Pandora has played new (to me) artists that have really caught my ear. I listen to a lot of different things and it’s been responsible for probably 50% over the last 15 years that I’ve been using it. The ads are less invasive than spotify and can be easily removed with uBlock origin in the web player. Can’t recommend it highly enough.

Set a timer for hydration. You will forget towards the end of it. All the things your body does automatically will become less effective. Like obviously your fuse will be shorter. But you’ll feel more hungry with less warning, for instance. Satisfying that in a way that might normally make you a bit tired could be enough to make you crash out. But you need to keep eating or you’ll feel like starved hell. Keep it light/snackish. Also try to avoid extra stimulation. If you need stimulation to stay awake keep it minimal as you can.

Additionally, recognize the point of damage. If you’re finding yourself taking completely unintentional ‘microsleeps’ (passing out for 15-120 seconds) that’s your brain screaming for mercy and you should take rest if it’s even remotely possible, and results get truly unpredictable past that point in regards to emotional/mental stability.

Hope that helps, here to answer if you want clarification on anything there

Same, and just like this tweet. I genuinely can’t be sure if it’s real or not, at first sight.

This is good to hear. Means we just have to keep pushing forwards.

Seriously. It’s peak reddit behavior. Part of what made lemmy feel like such a breath of fresh air when I migrated was the distinct lack of karma-farm-esque posts. I’m unfortunately speaking in the past tense now.

I arrived at that point a few years ago. You’re in for a world of discovery. As an fps fan myself I highly recommend Ultrakill. There’s a demo so you don’t have to commit.

I have been in a similar position and will vouch this is solid advice. Best to build some kind of rapport over time when computers/working in IT is involved. Some people know extremely little about it, and some people are quite afraid of what they don’t know. The best way to overcome that fear is understanding, simply having a decent trust for you as a person probably won’t suffice.

Edit just to say I nearly teared up reading your post, I really feel for your experience. Remembering tomorrow is a new day always helped me when things were worst. I bid you success in all you try.

They are hollow, only a couple millimeters thick. They melt in less than a minute.

The deletion is absolute (all atoms, creates a true void), and infinite in size vertically. Your first use of this power results in massive tectonic shifts and (admittedly low-key) global chaos.

Everyone within 100 meters feels an urge to look in your direction as soon as you think about using your power.

So yes, the landscape is changing drastically. As it has done before. I believe it’s possible for us to adapt when that happens, as we have before. We’re not yet at the point you describe so I couldn’t say how it’ll happen. But I have a blind faith that it’s at least possible for us. This doesn’t mean we should relax and wait for it to happen, but I would rather think about solutions than “oh no we’re fucked nooo”.

I wouldn’t be surprised either. There is an intelligence portion on which you’ll be disqualified if you score too high. I wonder if it was that part.

Two people died. This is just disrespectful.

I saw that and it just felt so incredibly off. Literally saying things like “bro you can play any game you want”. Salesman-ass bullshit.

Meanwhile I unveil a plan to continue not giving a goddamn cent to J Bozo. Ever.