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Here are some pics of my mums old iPhone 3G. For even more nostalgia, these pictures were taken on my LG G3, which was my first Android phone, hence the potato quality. Truly retro.

my variation is insane man yells about design, branding, technology, music, the value of art, radiohead or serious post that's way too long for its own good. there's no in-between.

Google is so good at branding bro, their payment service originally called Google Wallet was rebranded to Android Pay when Apple Pay launched, then was rebranded again to Google Pay, and then was rebranded once again back to Google Wallet, but this time Google Wallet only refers to the app that you use to store bank and other payment/loyalty cards while the service/payment method that actually allows you to spend money via contactless on your phone and online with Google is still called Google Pay (also sometimes styled as GPay). Also don’t forget that in some markets like the US have a different Google Pay logo which is again different from the other Google Pay, also the US Google Pay is usually referred to as GPay. There was also Google Pay Send, which is technically the actual ancestor to the original Google Wallet, as it was only a service to send and receive money rather than a full on payment method like Google Pay is. Makes sense, right?

I've seen a lot of Taylor Swift fans who seem more invested in the streaming numbers and chart placements rather than the music itself. At this point I feel like I've engaged more with this new album than some fans and I didn't even like the record all that much. Just a reminder, the value of art is not determined by numbers, but by the value individuals get from it.

crazy how Spotify is putting the price of premium up yet again (11.99 now) when they are the only major music streaming service other than YouTube to not provide any sort of high resolution audio option, no Dolby Atmos, no spacial audio, and they are one of the worst in terms of what they pay artists. meanwhile they add stuff like video courses that no one wants and you have to pay for individually per course on top of premium as some sort of knock-off skillshare

doesn’t beat the time that guy leaked secret pentagon documents on a minecraft discord server and another one called “thug shaker central” which led to this amazing dramatic shot for a news programme in the uk

Flashback to when I installed the leaked early build of Windows 11 onto a virtual machine when it still had the old Windows 10 settings app, desktop icons, and more unfinished parts vs Windows 11 on my current machine right now.

Saw this remix of The National Anthem by Radiohead for the Napoleon film trailer. As the expert on Kid A, I need to complain about why this is a bad remix. Long post incoming, likely will be boring to most, but I said I’d post whatever I want, so yeah. If you wanna hear the remix, you can find it here: https://youtu.be/YUISPYzz90k and you can hear the original here: https://youtu.be/NfQD1QiQ9o4

The remix doesn’t understand what makes the track work. The whole idea of the original is repetition, the song is chaotic, with eerie radio samples and other sounds hanging around, later on, a brass section bursts into the track, drowning out the rest of the track with an organised assortment of jazzy chaos. However, throughout the whole song, the iconic, heavy bassline loops, no matter how wild the music gets, the bassline is there, even the drums drop out here and there, allowing the chaos to swallow the song whole, but the bassline never falters. The remix ignores this, the bassline is barely there, the horns are gone, the chaos is gone. The whole point of the organised chaos is to fit with the lyrics, Thom Yorke’s voice is filtered to sound nervous, he sings “Everyone is so near” and “Everyone has got the fear”, showing a sense of anxiety, partly to do with Yorke’s fears about how big Radiohead got after OK Computer, like packing arenas. The film’s subject just don’t fit the song, they have nothing in common. It feels like it was added because it’s called The National Anthem.

this is my friend's dog. his name is alfie. he’s a very good boy.

really cool of jeffalo to buy twitter, it's so much better now because it's exactly like wasteof

what makes music so powerful to me is how it many times is a representation of the artist. music in a lot of ways can be a looking glass into someone's thoughts, fears, hopes, dreams, feelings, their heart, their soul - tragic or joyous, music lets us not just see into the artist's mind, but also allows us to broaden our understanding or feel less alone in how we feel.

that's what makes music like the new mgk and trippie red ep so painful to listen too, it's soulless, it's plastic, manufactured, fake, or whatever else you would describe as the opposite as genuine. treating serious issues like depression as an aesthetic rather than a whole, painful, and difficult place to be mentally. worst ep I've heard this year without a doubt

if you're looking for a album that's full of heart and genuine emotion, javelin by sufjan stevens is a must listen, it's gorgeous.

for those not aware already, this was an april fools joke. thanks to my mods who helped out writing and coming up with some of the questions! also thank you to everyone who took the time to answer my dumb form i made for a joke lol. if you wanna see the answers everyone gave, check out this pdf here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/10-77LJgc9jSBDyiBoPkBUmM4FWx5_F11/view?usp=sharing (note the first few responses have empty answers to some questions as they didn’t exist yet when they filled the form out to test it)

Heya, my Discord server ta’s hangout is looking for new mods! If you wanna join the team then please feel free to fill out this Google Form: https://forms.gle/RUcJGXTQymE3uUfG6

There's no end date, rather we'll just go through the applications until we find enough people who are suitable.

Looking forward to reading your applications!

Happy Trans Day of Visibility!