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  • Unfortunately it looks like that one is for Apple devices, whereas I use Linux on desktop and Android on mobile.

    There’s some, but I haven’t seen any that have the main features Plex and Plexamp have:

    • Cross-fading when playing random tracks, but gapless playback when playing an album in order
    • Analysis of the music using a local neutral network, such that you can tell it to play play “similar” sounding songs to the current one
    • Automatic playlists - liked songs, decades, etc
    • Downloads for offline playback
    • Multiple libraries, for example I keep regular music separate from DJ mixes
    • Equalizer with presets for common headphones

    And probably other things I’m forgetting.





  • Prices rarely, if ever, go down in a meaningful degree.

    In 2011, there was a large flood in Thailand that impacted ~40% of hard drive manufacturing. As a result, hard drives significantly increased in price. This was back when SSDs weren’t mainstream yet.

    A year or two later, when manufacturing capacity was restored, prices were essentially back to what they were before the disruption.

    Apart from disruptions like that, HDDs, SSDs, and RAM have always been going down in price.







  • dan@upvote.autolinuxmemes@lemmy.worldto my expierence
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    8 days ago

    Not just DuckDuckGo - the majority of search engines and voice assistants that aren’t Google use data from Bing. It’s the largest search engine that has a public API. Even search engines that have their own index usually use Bing to supplement their results.






  • dan@upvote.autoTechnology@lemmy.worldCloudfare outage post mortem
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    I’m a fan of BunnyCDN - somehow they’re one of the fastest while also being one of the cheapest, and they’re based in Europe (Slovenia).

    KeyCDN is good too, and they’re also Europe-based (Switzerland), but they have a higher minimum monthly spend of $4 instead of $1 at Bunny.

    Fastly have a free tier with 100GB per month, but bandwidth pricing is noticeably higher than Bunny and KeyCDN once you exceed that.

    https://www.cdnperf.com/ is useful for comparing performance. They don’t list every CDN though.

    Some CDN providers are focused only on large enterprise customers, and it shows in their pricing.



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    there really isn’t much in the way of an alternative

    Bunny.net covers some of the use cases, like DNS and CDN. I think they just rolled out a WAF too.

    There’s also the “traditional” providers like AWS, Akamai, etc. and CDN providers like KeyCDN and CDN77.

    I guess one of the appeals of Cloudflare is that it’s one provider for everything, rather than having to use a few different providers?