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▲ 93 r/truespotify

Would you pay $750 USD for a Lifetime Spotify Premium subscription?

I'm trying to assess how people see value in what they spend by comparing perceptions with another media service.

In other news, Plex, the popular home media server program, increased its Lifetime Plex Pass subscription cost from $250 to a earth-shattering, whopping $750 (yes, that's $750.00 USD), causing a huge uproar in the r/PleX subreddit. You spend it up front and never pay again for their service. (Full disclosure, I purchased a Lifetime Plex Pass for $75 8 years ago.)

While admittedly, that's crazy, if you look at the math, it works out to a cost that's equivalent to just under 5 years of a Spotify Premium subscription at the current rate.

So, my question is this...

Looking purely at value, would YOU, a Spotify Premium subscriber, spend $750 USD to purchase a Lifetime subscription to Spotify Premium? Or stated another way, would you pay for the equivalent of 5 years of Spotify Premium to lock in a lifetime subscription?

Obviously, this kind of industry is plagued by constant rapid change, and thinking about a service 5 years out may seem insane. But is this something anyone would do?

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u/jbarr107 — 2 days ago
▲ 7 r/zorinos

PSA: Don't use the Flathub version of RustDesk for remote access

I use RustDesk religiously, and self-host their relay server. So far, so good.

I used Zorin's Software app to install it, and while it worked great, it was unavailable when I closed it down, despite having the Service started.

It turns out that because I installed the default Flathub version, after some frustration, I found that Flathub installs are containerized and isolated from the system, so of course, when I close RustDesk, the service stops because its container stops.

The solution was to download the installer from the Rustdesk site. This installs a more native version that can start and stop the service at the system level.

The result is that I can now remotely and securely access my Zorin OS PC!

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u/jbarr107 — 4 days ago
▲ 2 r/Facer

Any Facer watchfaces that have large spaces for large complications?

I installed the amoledwatchfaces Phone Battery Complication. It provides an excellent "Next Event" complication by syncing to your calendar events. This complication, when implemented properly, provides a nice display of the upcoming event. An example of this is in one of their watch faces.

The problem is that this complication needs a wide complication space.

Do any of the Facer watchfaces have a wide complication space that could be used for this? I've looked and looked, and I can't find any. I tried using the Facer Creator app, but it looks like I need a Pro subscription to potentially make that work, and even then, I don't know.

Thoughts?

u/jbarr107 — 8 days ago
▲ 51 r/ObsidianMD

OK, this is probably not news to many, but I've used the Obsidian Web Clipper Chrome Extension for quite a while now, and thanks to Niko Milo's YouTube post, I discovered it has a very good "Reader Mode" I never knew about!

(Note: Niko's video focuses mostly on Web Clipper's AI functions (which are very slick, so check it out), but it was the Reader Mode that hooked me.)

Reader Mode is very, very slick. Similar to other reader modes (extensions and built into Chrome), this provides a clean display of an article's text and some images without ads or clutter. You can customize the font, font size, margins, and other visual elements.

You can invoke Reader Mode in two ways:

  • Clicking the Web Clipper button: Click the Web Clipper icon in your browser, then click the Reader Mode (open book) icon at the top.
  • Hotkey: By default, in Windows, pressing Alt+Shift+r invokes the Reader Mode. (This is definable in your browser Settings. I chose to use Alt+r as it was simple and had no conflicts.)

I absolutely love Reader Mode, and having Alt+r always available to toggle it on and off has been so useful!

u/jbarr107 — 19 days ago
▲ 44 r/Stargate

I absolutely love a show that can poke fun at itself! As my wife and I watch the Stargate saga for the first time, "Citizen Joe" was a welcome breath of fresh air. The subtle and not-so-subtle references to so many things were just wonderful. This was one of those fun, "step outside the box" episodes that really kept us engaged and laughing.

At 60, we've seen so many sci-fi shows, but we have this habit of not watching them when they first air and instead binging them many years later. So we are doing with Stargate (following Gateworld's Watch Order list). While we have to admit that things have "turned" a bit in later SG-1 seasons, we still enjoy it and can't wait to see how it pans out. Watching SG: Atlantis concurrently is very interesting, and I can't wait to see what SG: Universe brings.

Oh, and Jack's responses at the end of the episode? Just phenomenal!

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u/jbarr107 — 19 days ago
▲ 9 r/PixelWatch

I think I know the answer, but is there a gesture to display notifications?

I'm not talking about scrolling through or selecting already displayed notifications. I'm referring to looking at your displayed watch face and then swiping up to show available notifications. It currently requires a manual swipe up to display them. From there, I can control them, but not initially display them.

According to several searches and AI queries, there used to be a "flick" gesture, but it seems to be retired.

This is a missing component to true "no-touch" use.

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u/jbarr107 — 19 days ago