In a modern hospital, depending on how healthy a baby is, it might get as many as 15 minutes before the not-removable-except-by-cutting RFID-enabled tag is attached to the wrist or ankle and it becomes part of the hospital inventory and the movements are tracked religiously. They are deathly afraid of accidentally mixing up babies between parents (with a side of worry about them getting stolen). Each of my kids were born at a hospital that averaged a delivery every 15-20 minutes. A nurse may see 50 deliveries in a shift and keeping track is going to be a challenge.
A lot of E-commerce software have data feeds that are ingested by parties like pricespy. These feeds are typically either public or made available after mutual agreements. Scraping a large amount of sites for data is just too much labor in the long run.
Kudos to Spotify for supporting libspotify and its use-cases for so many years. I'm sure it hasn't been easy and that copyright owners haven't been very fond of it.
Any sufficiently advanced act of benevolence is indistinguishable from malevolence. Or, perhaps, and somewhat less grave, they needed this time to build their case / simply hadn't gotten around to this yet.
Spotify has become pretty hostile towards its users, which makes it hard for me to believe there was any good will involved here.
I really don’t get the hostility thing. I’ve been paying Spotify for like a decade — I give them money and then I play music with extremely broad device support, a massive library, and seamless offline with no upcharges.
Spotify has got to be one of the least shady services I use.
I've experienced a massive downgrade of the offline experience in the Android client over the last couple years. It used to behave offline-first, so if I drove out of cell service and played a saved album, it would look locally first. Now I have to force it to offline mode explicitly, which is a pain when on a long rural road trip. If I don't, it'll spin endlessly trying to load album art and tracks I already have saved.
They use some of the darkest and most unobvious manipulative techniques to steer you towards some very nasty content - most of which comes in the form of their podcasts.
Edit: It doesn't seem to me like the content itself is of any particular interest to them beyond the engagement its resulting in. It's that same hateful and harmful content you see on all these platforms where money has become more important than humanity.
Yeah I notice they push the Joe Rogan Experience on me pretty hard even though I’ve clicked the button to stop showing me that rec. Can’t really blame them for trying after spending all that money on him though.
They're quite mean to free users; ie. they can't listen to Spotify in other countries, and they have a song skip limit. But that's at least understandable from a freemium perspective.
The most hostile thing they do to paying users, IMO, is not implementing basic features that people have been crying about for years. One example: you can't just select a bunch of songs and put them into a playlist.
Wait I do that all the time, I multi-select and drag songs into the playlist I want to add them to. It’s great for combining multiple public playlists with a similar vibe.
Anecdata: I’ve found USB powered external drives to be unreliable on the Pi, even when powering the Pi with an official power adapter. I’d recommend using an external drive that comes with its own power adapter.
Counter anecdata: I've got a Ceph cluster running on multiple RPi 4s using external Seagate 4 and 5 TB portable hard drives. So far zero issues for about 1 year since I bootstrapped this cluster..
I use a combination of official RPi 4 power supplies and an Anker 6-port USB power block that I'm pretty sure tops out at less than 3 amps.
More importantly, everything is plugged into APC UPSes.
Reasons for self-hosting: GitLab.com's not-so-great availability [1], slow code searches (compared to self-hosted with GitLab Advanced Search) and the fact that you can keep your code and resources off the public Internet.
The fact that you do need to upgrade it yourself regularly is indeed a drawback. On the other hand, an Omnibus upgrade has only failed me twice in the last five years or so, so there's little reason to not do automatic upgrades at night and fire off an alert in case something doesn't work as expected afterwards. Their releases are typically solid, so kudos to the team.
