To be fair, I've always upgrade my hardware before the hardware has lost OS support.
If I really wanted to I guess I could run linux on these and use them for something, but I never do (I have one server in my house, it's enough). I upgraded the hardware for a reason.
Look at the Peaceful Guitar editorial playlist on Spotify. (It’s one of the biggest and most streamed in the world.) Every artist on there that doesn’t have a Bio is a fake artist. Meaning Spotify owns the music. They populate their playlists with these artists they own and that way don’t have to make royalty payments to them. It’s very shady.
This doesn't make sense though - Spotify doesn't pay per stream (no-one does) but by a revenue share. So they would still pay out the same more or less - i.e. your premium subscription is put into a big pool and then divided out, it's not like your individual subscription goes to what you listened to.
I guess it could help shift some streams to indie artists with a less favourable contract compared to the big 4 record companies, but it hardly seems worthwhile?
The less 'real' music you listen to, the fewer royalties that Spotify has to pay to the record labels. If you're listening to more 'fake' music, then this saves Spotify money, and increases their profit margins. This is the exact same incentive behind their push into podcasts, another kind of audio content they don't have to pay royalties on. In this case, either because it's shared freely, or because they've acquired the original publisher themselves, e.g. Gimlet Media, Parcast and The Ringer.
This is crazy. Every single one I looked at was like this. Are these even real people playing guitar? If it were piano I’d say it’s 100% just MIDI arrangements.
I’m gonna look into this more. I have friends trying to break into the industry and gaming the Spotify and TikTok algorithms is (unfortunately) a big part of that these days. Having fake, phantom artists filling up your flagship playlists is so anti-creator I’m truly appalled at Spotify.
Docusaurus has been quite inspired by Gatsby and Next.js.
We simple removed the GraphQL data later from Docusaurus, and are more opinionated toward the docs use-case while Gatsby is a more generic tool focusing a lot on CMS integration. We are more developer-centric and based on Git by default.
I suspect no, as if you look at ifixit's teardown they show there's actually a thermal shield in place, likely to prevent your lap from being exposed to the higher temps: https://youtu.be/NjP-aAhHhnE?t=122
Using flat files only solves half the problem, in order to truly be able to host anywhere, you also need to be able to ditch PHP and server side processing requirements. (Wonder CMS, highlighted in this article, requires PHP with a couple of mods.)
That’s why I think static site generators are the more interesting code in this space. I’m a big fan of Gatsby, but there are several other great ones as well. This allows you to host your blog on even an old school “tilde club” type site, and it works just fine.
Still, it is a consideration, and it all factors in. Copying your WonderCMS files to another host, great… oops, it doesn’t have PHP mbstring extension, sorry, won’t run. (And if you’re trying to use “free” hosting, you probably don’t have privs to install the missing requirements.)
I disagree, it was touched on, and glossed over, in the article.
>> “… means being able to start your website by dumping everything into a folder and you're pretty much done (1 step installs).”
>> “Dumping everything into a folder and it just works (1 step installs) makes it easy for even beginners to get a website running, but also it makes your website, blog, forum, journal, or whatever, portable. Very easily portable. You need to put your website on a thumb drive and/or move it to a different domain? Done. Easy. It's just like backing up any folder.”
