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Duke Nukem would like to have a word with Halo.
I switched to Qobuz from Spotify. Never going back. Better sound quality, good UX, and they pay artists more than 10x what Spotify pays per stream.
Spotify has been promising better audio quality for years and I just don't think they will deliver.
I switched to Qobuz. Mainly for sound quality, but they also pay artists more than ten times as much and they have pretty neat long read articles and deep dives, which is a way more satisfying way to discover new stuff. It's pretty great.
It's so desperate.
If you're happy with them, then it's a good pair of headphones for you! I think the best indicator is that if you can listen to them for long sessions on end, then it's good stuff. If they pinch, itch, if the sound makes you restless or if you feel like taking them off after an album, then it's not a good match.
I tested them and they don't even sound that great. For the price, there are a lot of WAY better options out there.
But that is the case with many Apple products.
As a non-Brazilian, I’d like to add Os Sertões (Rebellion in the baclands) by Euclides da Cunha. That one messed me up for weeks.
I often feel blessed with a “small” language as my native tongue. We have a very strong tradition of (mostly) excellent translations and readers here are generally very curious about stuff that was written in different countries and cultures.
For those of you who speak Dutch: check out Roger Van de Velde. He was in prison and institutions for almost all of his adult life and wrote some truely amazing work.
Uitgeverij Vrijdag recently republished some of it. I can recommend ‘Scheiding van goederen’ and ‘De knetterende schedels’.
That was a nice read. Publishing sorely needs more of this.
I really hate the hit-or-miss strategy of many publishers of the last three decades. Publish ten books fast and hope one takes off and makes up for the others. It’s not fair to the talent that gets smothered by all the crap that surrounds it, it fosters a kind of clickbaity-approach to writing, and then there’s the massive amounts of wasted paper…
I (36m) read this recently and I couldn’t shake the feeling that I would have liked this a lot more if I had read it fifteen or twenty years ago. It was very clever at times, language-wise it was buzzing, but it felt very hollow and adolescent at times too.