Music (mainly prog rock) and veggie loving, geeky cat butler living in Hertfordshire UK. A lover of all things LOTR (since I first read it nearly 60 years ago) scifi and what have you. Ex soldier (Royal Artillery) and other trades ;-)

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Cake day: March 15th, 2024
  • Baggins@piefed.socialtoBuy European@feddit.uk•It's time to boycott U.S. digital services! Here's a chart to help you do so:English
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    5 days ago

    ‘I switched to Qobuz and I like it much more than I liked Spotify.’ The sound quality was the best of the lot but like I say, the choice just wasn’t there.

    And I never had a problem with iCloud. I had a mac.com email address from when they were first avail. I hadn’t use anything Mac since 2014 and when I picked up a used iPhone SE, everything was there when I logged in. iCloud is now avail online and all my old docs and pictures were there. All my iTunes music.

    Horses for course I suppose - Never thought Tim Cook would bend the knee though :-(

  • Baggins@piefed.socialtoScience@mander.xyz•Researchers create safer nonstick surface, cutting use of 'forever chemicals'English
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    5 days ago

    ‘but with pets in the house, and cooking a lot, it just works.’

    Could you explain this bit please? I’m at a loss to see how this involves my cat.

    Edit, I have some cast iron, but my wife can’t lift it. And NGL as I age it’s getting a bit heavier for me and I can see a point where I’ll not be too happy lugging it from cupboard to stove.

    I think carbon steel may come to my rescue there - just cannot afford it at the moment. My Christmas list is stuck between a pressure washer and a carbon steel pan that was mentioned on here a short while ago. A German brand.

  • Baggins@piefed.socialtoBuy European@feddit.uk•It's time to boycott U.S. digital services! Here's a chart to help you do so:English
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    5 days ago

    I know why you’re getting downvoted.

    But sorry people, Spotify is streets ahead of the others (IMO) as there is a far better choice of music. For me anyway, YMMV but I’ve given up with the others.

    Same with video streaming - you cannot deny that the quality (technical and production, if not content) of Apple TV surpasses the others. I gave up with Foundation and Silo (plots) but the quality was superb. For All Mankind is probably the best thing ever on TV after The Expanse.

    iCloud is just so polished and seamless. I gave up with Proton Drive as it was just too clunky and flaky. And that’s after being a paid up Protoneer since almost day one. I still use Protonmail, Pass and VPN. Am just on a lower paid tier than I was before. Plus Vivaldi uses Proton for VPN.

    I’m all for buying European where possible, (German bier, French and Italian wine, CachyOS or Mint) but am not going to wear a hair shirt and accept second or third rate performance because the internet says ‘America Bad!’