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Cake day: June 5th, 2023
  • som@beehaw.orgtoTechnology@beehaw.org•UNESCO calls for global ban on smartphones in schools
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    1 year ago

    “Those students who use tablets and computers very often tend to do worse than those who use them moderately,” he adds.

    This is from your article and I could have saved them the money of doing this research. Also this is tablets not phones. They are allowed phones. You know why? because even they understand not everyone can see their house from the classroom window and need to use the phone to communicate.

    Limiting the use during class is all I am in for. Banning it from school is just idiotic.

    Also yes. I do think tech managers in Silicon valley are idiots. The biggest proof of that is we are talki g on lemmy and not reddit.

  • som@beehaw.orgtoTechnology@beehaw.org•Spotify is about to cost more with a price increase planned for next week
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    1 year ago

    There is not a single app for this. For recommendations I now sometimes use last.fm and for songs I use blackhole (even though i have 4 months of spotify premium remaining). Blackhole luckly has a song download option and I can use it with any of my media player and I can’t believe I am saying this but it has a better song recommendation then spotify.

    But if you want to spam 1 artist I would say just search on spotify. you will get a playlist like "this is (artist name) ". That has good songs and you can download that playlist too. But What i do is just search it on blackhole and go to town. Download what I like and jam all the way.

  • som@beehaw.orgtoTechnology@beehaw.org•Spotify is about to cost more with a price increase planned for next week
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    1 year ago

    yes i have like 5000 liked songs now. Been on spotify for 8 years already. It was way more amazing before. I use to play a song then the next song will be something that other people listened but also liked the song I played.

    Fast forward now. No matter what I pkay the next song is always a song I have heard before ESPECIALLY unholy by sam smith. I use to love that song but I loathe it now. I am playing a japanese song. Next song is unholy. I mean what the hell. Then I searched why is this happening.

    The cause came out to be cache management. Of they have a song cached in your device spotify will play that. Guck the recommendations. So I thought lets remoce the cache. That does not work because their CDN has that songs cached now and I still get that god forsaken song instead of a true song.

    I use to pay spotify yearly basis thats how much I used to use it. Now I have 4 months remaining but don’t use spotify on my android. Only on desktop.

  • som@beehaw.orgtoOperating Systems@beehaw.org•That Computer Scientist - Nix is the New Arch!English
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    1 year ago

    ok so i was setting up nixos, it was going good. there were a lot of docs to setup home manage and nix flakes and they are easy to do once you get some hang of it. But then i wanted to do a small project in c++ where i wanted to use a library libcpr. now you can not directly install that library and use it. (AFAIK). You have to create a flake in that project and then use it. Which BTW is the right way to do it. But also i just want to test run a 4 line code.

    To achieve that you either have to do shell.nix or a devshell. Both of which have a documentation which is scattered. It took me 4 days and also help from nixos unofficial discord server to do it. In the end i had to make a nix devshell using a different repo which set it up for you. Then make a cmake file and then and only then i was able to use it. So it has a little bit of a learning curve in the beginning where everything sort of makes sense but nothing works. Again this was all for a 4 line code. In the end some one just suggested me to use docker instead. Which is a valid solution too. But i was already too deep into devshell so I didn’t backtrack.