Isn't Apple still peddling Metal that nobody wants to learn? I haven't been following the happenings on that front, but also heard absolutely nothing new from there.

Meanwhile here I'm getting angry reading complaints from potheads who don't have to spin the roulette as to whether they're gonna be couch-bound or bouncing around on any given day.

Thanks for the recommendations!

I finally looked through my notes, and didn't find much more that I could add, but perhaps try also Yazz Ahmed's ‘A Paradise in the Hold’ — which is jazz with Arabic influences; and Aksak Maboul's ‘Saure Gurke’ — on the electronic side. Margenrot's ‘Obkhod’ also has some Arabic-style percussion, reminiscent of Muslimgauze, but is generally a quite puzzling mix of post-industrial, post-punk and a bit of minimal music.

Thanks for the recommendations!

Regarding the history of the phenomenon, TBF labels like Habibi Funk and Awesome Tapes from Africa have been around for a while, and they're releasing actual regional music, including that from decades ago. Habibi Funk is from the mid-2010s, but ATfA is twenty years old currently. There's also stuff like ‘Cambodian Rocks’ from 1996 and ‘Saigon Rock & Soul’ from 2010, both with songs from the sixties-seventies.

Cuz Murica numba one!

Seems you're correct about 'yıldırım', but according to both Wiktionary and DDG, 'şimşek' also means lightning, specifically in meteorology it's lightning between clouds. And apparently 'Şimşek' can be a name too, both first and last one.

Scrolling on the app details works on mine

It works, yes, but for me the scrolling speed seems to not match my thumb, and there's some inertia added — which are both signs that scrolling is hijacked by JS that does its own scrolling instead.

I also find it hard to believe Duolingo Music is free.

The site seems to not have a clear marking for freemium apps. AlternativeTo does that well, they're just marked as 'freemium/proprietary' (or, in rare cases, 'freemium/open-source').

Mostly yes.

The full tune is like four minutes longer, which is half of the chopped version's runtime.

Looks like you added the image after specifying the link. The default interface for Lemmy and the most-popular apps replace the link in this case, and don't support showing both a link and an image (I'm guessing it's not supported by the protocol, but I've seen differing info about that).

Here's the link for future visitors (on Bandcamp): ‘Songs for Broken Ships’. The music is pretty cool and chill.

What, am I the only person who always found his looks offputting? It's like he has some money and okayish starting parameters, but went through typical sleazy ‘pickup artist’ bullshit. Silk shirts and such, eugh.

So in about eight months they should be back to where they were five years ago. Is that plenty far?