Thank you! I was wondering if there would be one soon. Glad some people were already offering to do the job.

Good time to look into splitting and sharing your Costco membership. Possibly remove you and your partner, and go half with someone else.

I just installed it this summer using ArchInstall. I’m on Pipewire as well.

I’m looking to use the microphone too.

It works great but only with the wireless dongle. It works poorly with Bluetooth, and doesn’t work at all with direct USB connection. My original question was hoping to see if I could quickly resolve direct USB connection with the headphones since that seems like it may be the easier to get a great connection.

I’m also on ArchLinux!

I use a Navidrome server and ProjectBlue app on my Android. I haven’t figured out how to download music for offline use by using my ProjectBlue app though.

What’s a better alternative for a CPU

Canada please!

Looks as if Visa Debit has about the same and slightly less fees than Visa Credit Cards.

https://www.clearlypayments.com/blog/how-visa-debit-works-in-canada/

Looks like buying physical gift cards is the way to go…

Everything is on Qobuz for me. Bandcamp, not so much. But Bandcamp also has music you can’t find on streaming services.

If you buy your music, say on Bandcamp Friday where Bandcamp waves their revenue, you could host your own streaming server, and eventually cancel your Spotify membership.

https://isitbandcampfriday.com/

https://www.navidrome.org/

https://github.com/navidrome/navidrome

There is also Qobuz as an alternative which pays the artist $. 01873 per stream, as opposed to Spotify’s $0.003 per stream. About 5x more. Plus you can buy the music from the platform if you want. And it has higher quality audio, family plans, gift cards.

https://www.qobuz.com/ca-en/music/streaming/offers

But they’re much cheaper on fees than non-debit MasterCard and Visas?

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How well are Visa Debit or Mastercard Debit as an alternative for paying online?

I have no recommendations for versions. Depends in your case.

Although I’ll mention that some people don’t like that Pixel by default doesn’t include the bottom menu on the screen, and uses other swiping features on the screen to do the same thing.

However in your system settings you can change the UI to gave the navigation menu at the bottom of the screen similar to Samsung.

Interesting. I find keeping my screen on, keeping it plugged in, and not putting battery saver can heat up my phone some.

People in this thread mentions setting the phone to only charge to 80%, it will hell extend battery life.

Settings -> Battery -> Charging Optimization

I’ve been loving Qobuz so far. Migrating our family was easier than I thought.

Plus it comes with a free music migration tool.

Qobuz distributed royalties due to labels and publishers corresponding to an average amount of US$0.01873 per stream

This means that Qobuz generates on average five times more revenue per user than the market average,

How much does Spotify pay per stream?

Spotify pays artists between $0.003 - $0.005 per stream on average.

That works out as an approx revenue split of 70/30 - so that’s 70% to the artist/rights holders and 30% to Spotify.

Qobuz? High quality music. Family plans. Music purchases and audio file downloads. Gift cards!

My battery is lasting about 30% + longer with GrapheneOS. Plus my phone heats up less.