Nope, Pixel 6 running Android 14. It’s highly variable but I’d say it happens… every two or three days, sometimes multiple times a day. To say it’s aggravating is putting it very mildly.

Given for months now I keep randomly experiencing UI hangs requiring me to kill Nova, that day may have finally come…

Not funny once you realize all doctors are actually lizard people in human skin suits performing experiments on us. QED sucker!

Keep saying it. It’ll be true eventually.

Ah, see, I’m Canadian so that only works like two months out of the year when we’re able to emerge from our igloos…

Or burned out because they get pulled into every project that’s gone off the rails.

Times like this I’m glad I have not one but two friends who are backyard beekeepers. They are more than happy to give away the enormous amount of honey they collect each year…

Gentle heating in a hot water bath or the microwave will liquify that honey again.

Oh, no worries, just figured I’d add that extra little bit of detail as it’s a useful hook into a lot of other git concepts.

For folks unaware, the technical git term, here, is a ‘ref’. Everything that points to a commit is a ref, whether it’s HEAD, the tip of a branch, or a tag. If the git manpage mentions a ‘ref’ that’s what it’s talking about.

Oh god, I’m old…

Your first two paragraphs make the picture worse, not better.

As for your last, I’m not writing an economics thesis. It was a quick analysis to illustrate a problem no sane person disputes: streaming services have substantially driven down revenue for artists, to the point that for many it’s genuinely impossible to create their art while making a living wage.

Is it better than piracy? Sure. At least the artists are getting something (well, unless you drop below Spotify’s streaming cutoff, in which case you can get fucked). But it’s still a shitty deal and gives consumers someone else to blame as artists slowly bleed out.

The economics with the artists haven’t changed. Until they do I’ll still use them to pay artists a living wage.

Assuming each of those tracks is about 3.5 min long, that’s about 250 hours of music. Given your numbers they paid an average of 7 bucks per hour of music.

For context, 25 years ago a typical 45 minute album would fetch 15 bucks. And that’s not accounting for inflation adjustment.

I’m sure that’s totally sustainable for those artists…

As a former product manager where the CEO led the sales team, I feel seen.

And don’t sleep on Phanpy, despite being a PWA it really is excellent.