Grand Fenwick

https://youtube.com/watch?v=EUXnJraKM3k

Can’t even get bread bowl soup right now.

It’s amazing how Siri gets worse over time.

I have a light in the Home app I named “reading lamp 2”. I used to be able to go “Hey Siri, turn on reading lamp 2” and it would turn on. Lately tho Siri responds “Ok. Reading lamps are set to turn on at 2am.”

True, but the placement of the window controls can be adjusted apparently. Ivory (mastodon client) on iPad has the controls placed closer to the top of its window so it doesn't block any toolbar buttons.

Yeah, you can toggle a setting now that enables windowing and a menubar (the menubar is hidden by default tho you can toggle to have it always on). It's reminiscent of macOS, but not as flexible. It can be janky sometimes.

I'm OOTL. Why am I seeing the number 4 everywhere?

"Rice is great if you're really hungry and want to eat two thousand of something." — Mitch Hedberg

Dynamic contrast (loudness and softness) is very important in classical performance. Composers employ in their scores a variety of dynamic markings that span a wide spectrum from very, very, soft to very, very, loud. Normalizing the volume goes against the composer's intent. A recording of Haydn's "Surprise" symphony would lose its intended effect if it cancelled out its stark sudden contrasts between loud and soft.

Classical music wasn't intended to be listened to in the car or other noisy environments, so you have to keep that in mind. I think most music players though have a setting that can adjust the volume of the audio for such settings. (In Apple Music I think it's "Sound Check").

Generally avoid any albums with generic titles like "greatest hits", "best of", or "music for relaxation", etc, and look for albums that on the cover indicate the composer, the performers, and focus on specific works like "Brandenburg Concertos", or "Beethoven: The Late String Quartets, Op. 125-135".

My area of expertise is specifically Early Music (medieval, renaissance, and baroque periods mostly), and I can recommend some of the bigger labels that are great for these sub genres (as they feature a lot of "historically informed" ensembles with period accurate instruments): Naïve, Naxos, Harmonia Mundi, Accent, Teldec, Alpha Classics, and Alia Vox.

There are streaming apps that are designed for classical music, like Apple Classical. I use it a little for music discovery but I mainly use Apple Music because I had already built out a very extensive chronologically ordered folder and playlist structure to navigate all the classical music in my library (plus Apple Classical doesn't have a desktop version which is a shame).

And heavier is better because it does more damage?

Why is lead used for bullets?