I really wanted to use it, because on my Android phone I use voice input all the time.

That’s why I’m thinking it’s a problem with Speech Note and not my mic, or how I’m speaking to it.

That’s a real shame. I can type quite fast, but my hand joints called it quite a while ago. 😵

mp3va.com has been listed in U.S. Trade Representative annual reports as being unauthorized to sell music. Legal experts have explicitly stated that while MP3VA claims to operate legally under Ukrainian copyright laws, “it is not legal for them to sell this music in the United States”.

I’ve never used the site, but there seems to be an argument here regarding moral law and legalities within the United States.

But the site claims that:

Service www.Mp3va.com pays full-scale author’s royalties to owners of pieces of music, trademarks, names, slogans and other copyright objects used on the site.

If that’s the case, I think the OP should feel good about it.

Buying off a site like them likely pays out more per user than listening to the same songs on a streaming platform.

You know, it may be possible that all the ass-kissing is being done by people who also need their names scrubbed from the Trumpstein files.

Or else, they really just have no problem associating with a child rapist. Business or not, it has terrible optics.

only reason i might want to have kids is to have people who care about me when i’m old.

There are a lot of variables that would need to fall into place for that to be a reality, and chances are, you’ll be supporting your kids until you die.

Not worth the gamble (IMO) in time, energy, and money, if that’s what the hope is.

LTT is probably the reason why I started using Sponsorblock 😂

You didn’t ask for it, but my advice is not to have kids, at any age.

Life is so short, and you’ll never have enough time to do everything you want before you’re too old to.

So why burden yourself with a kid(s)?

That assumes the kid(s) is totally healthy and doesn’t grow up to be an asshole, addict, or troublemaker.

But if your kid(s) ends up with health problems, intellectually slow, or has nightmare behaviour problems, you’ll hate living the rest of your life. Then you’ll resent them, which would suck for everyone.

And at your husband’s age, you’ll be doing it all alone. And in 20 years, you’ll likely be caring for your husband, so there’s no life, even after this kid(s) becomes an adult.

Anyone here youtube creators? Are you seeing the same thing, a general downturn in viewership?

I have a channel with over 20k subs, nearly all evergreen content. Haven’t uploaded a video in many years, so it’s slowly getting fewer views. Fun fact, the pandemic saw the highest view counts, and I also didn’t add content back then.

Every enhancement YouTube brings is specifically to improve monetization, and since I disable ads on my channel and don’t have any sponsored content, I’m not getting any benefits. I also refuse to do shorts, so I’m losing a ton of exposure there, too.

If an active channel isn’t doing well, they should call it quits, TBH. They’ll either have to compromise the quality of their content “for the algorithm”, or their content isn’t actually useful outside of a single view.

I stopped watching LTT videos when they just became long-form ads. Or when everyone five minutes was a sponsored segment.

True story, we have a serrated knife, that was given as a free gift during some grocery store demo (for something I don’t remember) at least 23 years ago.

We use still use it daily 😂

Almost 40 percent of New Zealanders are failing their full licence test the first time around, leaving experts wondering why the government wants to get rid of it.

New Zealand has one of the worst youth road safety records in the developed world.

I know nothing about NZ politics or lobbying groups, but I’d follow the money on this one.

Because stores use a high quality feed

Yes, obviously, and consumers who are buying such high-end displays should do their best to provide the highest quality source to play back on those displays.

Distance from the display is important, too. On a small TV, you’ll be close to it, but resolution won’t matter as much.

But from across the room, you want a higher resolution display up to a certain point, or else you’ll see large pixels, and that looks terrible.

Personally, going with a 4k TV was a big leap, but the addition of HDR and an OLED display (for black blacks) had the most impact.

I find that it really depends on the content on the size of the display.

The larger the display, the more you’d benefit from having a higher resolution.

For instance, a good quality 1080p stream vs a highly compressed 4k stream probably won’t look much different. But a “raw” 4k stream looks incredible… think of the demos you see in stores showing off 4k TVs… that quality is noticeable.

Put the same content on a 50"+ screen, and you’ll see the difference.

When I had Netflix, watching in 4k was great, but to me, having HDR is “better”.

On a computer monitor, there’s a case for high-resolution displays because they allow you to fit more on the screen without making the content look blurry. But on a TV, 4k + HDR is pretty much peak viewing for most people.

That’s not to say that if you create content, 8k is useless. It can be really handy when cropping or re-framing if needed, assuming the desired output is less than 8k.

The difference between 1080 and 4K is pretty visible, but the difference between 4K and 8K, especially from across a room, is so negligible that it might as well be placebo.

Also the fact that 8K content takes up a fuckload more storage space. So, there’s that, too.

I think you’ve missed the point. At a certain pixel per inch, your eye cannot see more detail or discern any difference, so it’s completely useless to have more if you’re not able to pick up on it.

Only a matter of time before megacorps put ads and a subscription service on bird calls, now. 😫

RFC Jr has no medical degree, no public health credentials, no scientific publications.

It’s even worse than that. He isn’t even scientifically literate, or honest, for that matter.

Just yesterday, one of the top vaccine officials at the CDC resigned because of Kennedy’s gross incompetency and anti-vaccine agenda.

Gonna need something to defend yourself with against invasions from rival gangs.

Bullets won’t protect you against an intentionally set fire to your home or base. Without laws, it won’t be gun vs gun situation.

That said, it would really depend on the type of apocalypse we’re talking about.

Massive natural disaster? Nuclear? Pandemic? “Zombies”? Global drought? A breakdown of society?

Bullets might be fine depending on the situation. You might not even survive long enough to use them.

I use the firewall feature to actually stop Photos from accessing the internet, so it doesn’t touch YouTube.

I use third party YouTube apps to block ads and other crap from YouTube videos.

On desktop, I believe adguard will block ads on YouTube.com, but I also use third party apps to play videos.

I use Adguard and block Google photos from connecting to the internet.

Features like edit video still work, so I’m good. If editing didn’t work, I’d disable it.

Depends on the apocalypse.