The best part is that this was added in response to people complaining about it not generating diverse enough people, so they made it randomly add different races to person requests that don’t specify race.

It’s from Star Wars Episode 1.

I haven’t watched that movie in years and watched it the other day with my son.

He’s not even eating the cheeseburger, crap AI.

It’s weird that PHEVs are just now taking off when BEVs are becoming more viable.

They’re also doing the same thing with Google Play - arguing that collecting user emails for osm login doesn’t count as collecting data.

Voice control for activities will no longer be available on Fitbit Sense and Versa 3 devices. You’ll need to use the buttons on your device to start, stop, pause, and resume activities. You can still voice control activities on Pixel Watches.

Wow. Removing an existing feature from an older and cheaper device and leaving it only on the newer, more expensive device?

Free as in freedom, not free beer.

No, anything from Tidal is still DRM controlled but it integrates seemlessly with everything I have locally.

I’m not locked into their player. Tidal integrates through Plex and I manage my music library between Tidal and local files there. And again, I still buy albums but we’ve both acknowledged we can’t buy all the music we would listen to.

To be honest I simply find Tidal + Plex integration to be more convenient than piracy. I’ll pay my $10 per month for the ease of use and still buy an album or two per month from artists I want to support.

My discovery is a combination of Tidal and last.fm similar artists/recommendations and people on various forums. It’s one of the few things I still go back to Reddit for. The other thing is that I like to listen to a band’s full discography when I discover them. I recently found The Ocean and all 9 of their albums are solid. That’s a lot to buy.

Just to add, I do buy albums but more as a way to support the artists. Tidal is for convenience.

That works if you listen to just a small number of albums, but I average about 15 unique albums per month and probably 60 per year.

Sure you can change songs, but with Android Auto I can have it play a different album or playlist with voice commands. I can fast forward through ads in a podcast either by tapping the skip button or talking to it.

Honestly the bigger thing for me is the superior GPS without a separate unit though.

Eh, it’s nice to be able to reliably control my music from the screen with Android Auto.

I honestly would have considered the Blazer EV were it not for this.

I moved to Tidal + Plex. Loving it so far.

Ha yeah I run openSUSE on my laptop and Debian on my server.

Maybe I’m old but I’m really getting annoyed with apps becoming so bloated with features. The podcast integration was part of why I left Spotify. I was tired of having podcasts pop up on my home screen. Tidal luckily is free from this for the moment.

“Do one thing and do it well.”

Pandora didn’t replace buying music. They did not add the “on demand streaming” option until after Spotify was prevalent.