I don’t know that information. My understanding is that Apple is right behind Qobuz/Tidal for percentages paid to artists, and significantly better than Spotify/Meta.

https://artists.apple.com/support/1124-apple-music-insights-royalty-rate

There certainly doesn’t seem to be any reason to disfavor Apple on this front.

The problem is that they increase the price

Apple’s price increases on Apple Music have not even kept up with inflation. Adjusted for inflation, Apple Music costs less today than it did when they launched it in 2015.

The price for Apple Music, just like the price for everything else in the economy, has inflated.

When Apple Music launched it was $9.99 for an individual. That’s $13.98 in 2026 dollars. In October 2022 they raised the price to $10.99. That’s $12.32 in 2026 dollars. Now it’s $11.99 in 2026 dollars. Adjusted for inflation, that’s the cheapest they’ve ever priced it.

Family plan price went up a bit, adjusted. $19.99 over 2022’s $19.04.

https://keepingupwithinflation.com/tracker/apple-music/

The photograph in the post depicts $100 bills.

P&R dropped one primary cast member in season 2 and rewrote the rest of the characters significantly. Changed personalities and shifted relationships, it was a big shift in tone and cast.

They scaled back a lot of inter-character drama, made all the characters more relatable, and made the depicted workplace more cohesive and less adversarial.

Parks and Rec does not follow the pattern you describe. Season 2 was a big format and tone switch.

You’re proselytizing mercurial in a thread full of git users. Migration is implied in your comment, even if you didn’t literally use those words.

“Simpler” is not necessarily an improvement and might actually be a downside. “Intuitive” is not universal and might not even be accurate for other people with different experiences.

I read just fine. Maybe you must learn to chill.

Sometimes I take 3 showers a day and it’s still less total time than I’ve wasted online.

. . .and your bed gets continually dirtier. . .

Whose sheets are dirtier? The person who only climbs into bed once they’re freshly showered and clean, or the person who takes their entire day’s accumulation of dirt, grime, dust and pollen and climbs into bed covered in all that filth and gross?

Neither of those observations, even if true, are an incentive for someone to migrate away from git.

You’re absolutely right!

I dunno, man. Home Assistant talks to my LG washer and dryer. The tablet on my desk shows a countdown timer for both when they’re running. It’s convenient as hell because I can’t hear the finish chime from my office.

Just to stay on topic, according to my router they’ve generated 256KB of traffic this week and 1.55MB the past month.

I actually find straight down to be really annoying and always struggle to keep water from streaming down into my eyes and face. I find the slight angle from a wall mounted shower head much more versatile for cleaning and comfort.

“Signal devs could take care of that”

They did like eight years ago.

I imagine that the signal devs viewed it as a similar concern as when you mistype your password the error message doesn’t give you any way to know if the password is wrong or if the account doesn’t exist.

If only some of your notifications are sanitized then those are the suspicious ones. If all of your notifications are sanitized then none of them are suspicious. Or, at least, they’re all equally suspicious, opaque, and unidentifiable.

Why do you so confidently assert things which you do not know but merely believe without checking?

Signal has supported this for many years. Users can choose full content notifications, name only, or no-content notifications.

That’s called a “fontanelle”

Username checks out.

I don’t think it requires or implies coordination. What looks like coordination might simply be an overall increase in authoritarian governments globally which all share many of the same incentives to limit privacy and increase population tracking.