I had 1200 Mb/s symmetric service from AT&T fiber for all of three months at the old place, but in the neighborhood next to Apple Park, nope, no fiber. And Xfinity is a non-starter. I’m pretty happy paying $50 a month for decent internet even if placing the access point correctly is a pain haha
Xfinity’s “5-Year Price Guarantee” is… worthless. It applies to precisely one plan, 400 Mbps internet (5 years) and 1 Xfinity Mobile Unlimited line (1 year), bundled whether you want them both or not. Taxes, fees, and other “applicable charges” are extra and subject to change during and after the promo.
In other words, your base rate may be fixed, but they can add additional charges whenever and however they like. Kind of like how you get “unlimited” data but throttled after you use “too much,” yes, unlimited sponge squeezes when you’re dying of thirst, so generous.
Now I just need to replace the dumb awkward power dongle with a shorter USB-C cable. Spouse will pop a wicker box or something over it and we’ll call it a day lol
I had 1200 Mb/s symmetric service from AT&T fiber for all of three months at the old place, but in the neighborhood next to Apple Park, nope, no fiber. And Xfinity is a non-starter. I’m pretty happy paying $50 a month for decent internet even if placing the access point correctly is a pain haha
We use a T-Mobile 5G wireless access point for internet access. I plopped it down on the kitchen counter when we moved in just to get things started and was surprised to find it hit nearly 500 MB/s in this random spot. After an extensive site survey including wandering the outside of the house with a ridiculously long extension cord, I’ve determined the best spot for the access point is… precisely there on the kitchen counter.
Now I just need to replace the dumb awkward power dongle with a shorter USB-C cable. Spouse will pop a wicker box or something over it and we’ll call it a day lol
We use a T-Mobile 5G wireless access point for internet access. I plopped it down on the kitchen counter when we moved in just to get things started and was surprised to find it hit nearly 500 MB/s in this random spot. After an extensive site survey including wandering the outside of the house with a ridiculously long extension cord, I’ve determined the best spot for the access point is… precisely there on the kitchen counter.
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I’ve listened to this album a dozen times over the past week. Debut album five years in the making from Australian band Arbes, Counterways. The singer has a lovely voice and the musicians frame it while still showing their chops. Very spacious production, clean. There’s some noisy guitars but not a shoegaze band. Some tracks veer musically into The Sea and Cake territory (who I love), except the lyrics make sense, and Jess Zanoni can sing. You’ll probably notice other influences, real or imagined, but overall I’m really enjoying it.
https://arbes.bandcamp.com/track/impasse
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The Basin Street Blues came on from Miles Davis’ Seven Steps to Heaven I was stepped out the door for a walk and let me tell you, this album made a world of difference on a rainy Monday morning. The title track is my favorite from the album.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQMJv3HuZdU
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I guess it will take a few years to complete this hashtag lol
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I’ve listened to this album a dozen times over the past week. Debut album five years in the making from Australian band Arbes, Counterways. The singer has a lovely voice and the musicians frame it while still showing their chops. Very spacious production, clean. There’s some noisy guitars but not a shoegaze band. Some tracks veer musically into The Sea and Cake territory (who I love), except the lyrics make sense, and Jess Zanoni can sing. You’ll probably notice other influences, real or imagined, but overall I’m really enjoying it.
https://arbes.bandcamp.com/track/impasse
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So what's the opposite of a casually thrown-together EP like Freckle? Steve Gunn's The Unseen In Between sprang to mind. I listened to this album heavily a couple years a go, but it's been awhile. At first I was unimpressed with a re-listen, and continued on to Other You. But when I woke up the next morning my mind was filled with the first album, and I think Paranoid is a good representative sample. Here's a talented singer-songwriter, known for his guitar playing, but with an intriguing voice and oblique lyrics that wend through the melodies. Signed to Matador, lots of effort goes into each album, session musicians, producers, touring internationally, magazine interviews, the works. Old-school, in a good way.
https://stevegunn.bandcamp.com/track/paranoid
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I guess it will take a few years to complete this hashtag lol
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Okay, it’s been awhile. I’d been anticipating this new Ty Segal project since I first heard the singles “Who’s Sitting on the Moon” and “Taraval” and pre-ordered the album. And those songs are great! Unfortunately, while there’s ten songs on the album, it feels very casually thrown together, with a few great songs, a couple decent songs, and some short instrumentals to fill it out. Segal and the deep-voiced guitarist and singer Corey Madden clearly have talent and enjoy playing off each other. The songs sound great in spatial audio, especially the last one which is basically a demo track. But the album as a whole doesn’t deliver on the promise of the singles. It falls short. It’s fun! But… I wish they’d taken the time to record a more finished album. They just chose not to here.
https://freckledfreckles.bandcamp.com/track/whos-sitting-on-the-moon
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So what's the opposite of a casually thrown-together EP like Freckle? Steve Gunn's The Unseen In Between sprang to mind. I listened to this album heavily a couple years a go, but it's been awhile. At first I was unimpressed with a re-listen, and continued on to Other You. But when I woke up the next morning my mind was filled with the first album, and I think Paranoid is a good representative sample. Here's a talented singer-songwriter, known for his guitar playing, but with an intriguing voice and oblique lyrics that wend through the melodies. Signed to Matador, lots of effort goes into each album, session musicians, producers, touring internationally, magazine interviews, the works. Old-school, in a good way.
https://stevegunn.bandcamp.com/track/paranoid
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Today's album isn't actually very good, but has two songs that were popular when I was in junior high school. "One Thing Leads to Another" has 50M plays on Spotify, "Saved by Zero" has 5M plays, and "Red Skies" (not from this album) has 2.5M plays. Definite power law for this band, not every song is a banger lol
But so, so much of its time. If you're Gen-X, enjoy! Otherwise, yeah, not missing much.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reach_the_Beach
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Okay, it’s been awhile. I’d been anticipating this new Ty Segal project since I first heard the singles “Who’s Sitting on the Moon” and “Taraval” and pre-ordered the album. And those songs are great! Unfortunately, while there’s ten songs on the album, it feels very casually thrown together, with a few great songs, a couple decent songs, and some short instrumentals to fill it out. Segal and the deep-voiced guitarist and singer Corey Madden clearly have talent and enjoy playing off each other. The songs sound great in spatial audio, especially the last one which is basically a demo track. But the album as a whole doesn’t deliver on the promise of the singles. It falls short. It’s fun! But… I wish they’d taken the time to record a more finished album. They just chose not to here.
https://freckledfreckles.bandcamp.com/track/whos-sitting-on-the-moon
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I discovered XTC in high school and really got into them as an undergraduate at Indiana University in the late 80’s, so they will always have a special place in my heart. This is not my favorite album, but I accidentally triggered English Roundabout and then of course had to listen to the whole album. It’s a double album! Friends, I did not make it. It’s beautifully recorded and very musical (so so far from their spiky roots) but Andy Partridge is so clearly Not Well it just kind of brings down the whole album for me now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSIyaZoG0sU
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Today's album isn't actually very good, but has two songs that were popular when I was in junior high school. "One Thing Leads to Another" has 50M plays on Spotify, "Saved by Zero" has 5M plays, and "Red Skies" (not from this album) has 2.5M plays. Definite power law for this band, not every song is a banger lol
But so, so much of its time. If you're Gen-X, enjoy! Otherwise, yeah, not missing much.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reach_the_Beach
stephen ryner jr. 🦉