There’s a lot of necessity there. Our natural speaking voices use the throat and lungs in a different way than any singing techniques. And, there’s multiple ways of using them to get a desired sound.

So there’s some degree of style involved, but past a certain point you have to change your voice to sing rather than just speak in tune (which is still a valid thing of its own)

Kinda depends on what features in sync made you like it.

Overall, boost, connect, thunder and summit each get close to parity, but only close. But, you could say that in reverse, (that sync only gets close to parity with any of them) it isn’t a slight against any of them.

Eternity is another one that I’ve had good use of, but development on that seems to be stopped as well, so I dunno if that’s a useful option.

Past those, you get less similarity in ux and ui than would make sense to compare. Like, the apps that mimic voyager (or whatever the popular iOS reddit app was called), things are laid out so different that if you used sync as a primary, you aren’t likely to enjoy that ui.

On a phone, I kinda favor connect over sync, despite it looking very unlike it compared to boost or eternity. But on a tablet, nothing else does double columns in portrait worth a damn for me, and aren’t great in landscape either. But boost and eternity come the closest to the visual ease sync has.

that’s sync

I was going to include screen shots of the ones I have on this tablet, but uploads shit the bed and are being weird after that one. So no promises that I can do them all

boost

eternity

connect

and interstellar since it does piefed better than anything else I’ve tried, and still does lemmy just fine.

Decided to install thunder and summit long enough to give a visual

thunder

annnd summit

As you can tell, everyone has a slightly different approach to the UI. But they’re even more variable in what settings are available, little niceties, etc. Theming is all over the place from a bare bones light/dark/oled to the relative broad visual options of boost and sync. None of them are bad at all. They’re reliable, work even on older devices without bogging them down, and are all easy enough to get going with.

Lack of core function, and no sign of future updates in this case.

I’d also apply the term to other situations, such as a github page being taken down without any word from development about it, or similar.

Or, if an app is otherwise functional, but can’t be installed/accessed via apk/app store (like the keyboard app swype that works fine, but you have to jump through hoops to install on newer android versions and is no longer listed in any store)

As others have said, it isn’t dead, but don’t expect any future support or updates.

Ahhhh, iirc, it’s one he built himself.

It’s actually come up in comics before, more than once if my mind isn’t playing tricks.

I don’t doubt that he would have at least taken lessons from open source type projects if Linux doesn’t directly exist in the comic universe.

No worries :)

That is a very confusing set of criteria. You want someone like two specific artists in the title, then name two specific bands/artists in the text that are radically different from those in the title (not to mention each other tbh)

That being said, you might like Norah Jones. Haim has a similar vibe to Merton, though I’m not sure either is specifically “romantic” overall.

There’s Sade for another smooth soul voice.

Toni Braxton might scratch an Adele-ish itch. At least her early stuff.

Kinda spitballing here. But there wouldn’t be an Adele without Aretha, Nina Simone, and Etta James. I would even argue that those three are the greatest voices in soul, and rank high with any genre open to comparison. Shit, even if you don’t like them, you gotta listen to some of their stuff (assuming you haven’t) just to understand the foundation of soul. Yeah, there are men that could have their own top three like that, but op specified female singers by their examples. (Shout out to Barry White and Marvin Gaye in particular)

Ooh! Joss Stone! Gotta give her a listen. Not as smooth as some of the queens listed above, but just as much depth.

Corinne Bailey Rae is worth it too.

A bit less well known, but Allison Young does a solid retro-jazz style that’s not quite in the same zone, but her voice is so good you should try her out anyway.

I dunno, my brain has hit a wall trying to circle back into Motown, which is n amazing musical destination to hit, but not quite the same vibe as Adele brings, but informed the underpinnings of a lot of later singers. Diana Ross alone could take the crown in that regard. But Motown covers a wide range of styles, which makes it a great music era/genre/whatever-you-wanna-call-it to dive into when looking for romantic music.

Oh boy! Dogging in the park at night! Can’t wait to get into some of that!

Ngl, as a decades long metal head, you’re probably better off ignoring burzum except as a meme. Seriously, it ain’t worth it musically. I mean, they were kinda foundational to an extent, but not good, if you get me.

Early Bathory is a much better place to start down the black road, imo.

My thing is that if I’m outside relaxing, I want the birds and bugs and wind. If I can’t have those, headphones aren’t an acceptable replacement, so I’ll fuck off back inside.

If I’m outside as in going about town, I don’t want my hearing compromised. It’s a fate safety issue. Even bone conduction gear is a distraction that I’m not okay with. Like, it isn’t even about being hit by a car or whatever, it could be something as simple as a shopping cart that’s loose banging into me. My crippled ass would be in the floor.

My brain is enough stimulation for me. If I’m out in the world, my brain is going to be going a mile a minute scoping everything out. Doesn’t matter how many times I’ve been in a given location.

I prefer car hole too, but don’t tell me wife.

That’s true, but I would argue that the player owned definition of it came so quickly on the heels of the typo that both could count as valid, with the caveat that the first usage being a typo would have to be considered a mistake, rather than the coining of the slang term itself.

Which is stretching things a bit, but still fun to think about.

It’s pronounced pwned, as all right thinking people know

Air purifier? That’s a less than ideal term since it gets applied to stuff like ionizers that are of dubious efficacy.

But a straight up filter, hell yeah they work. Just check the filter on your furnace/heater sometime. Same with any AC unit.

If you have something that has a filter, it will reduce dust, period. Without a filter, you aren’t going to reduce dust worth a damn, if at all.

But you also need to make sure it’s turning the air over often enough. I haven’t looked the info up in ages, but if you want a decent reduction in particulates, the device has to move air fairly significantly it it isn’t going to about to much.

Like, my house is right around a hundred years old. Four humans, and various animals over the years. Shit is dusty what with the dead skin, particles from things like carpet, pollen, dander, etc. Enough stuff gets produced that even with the regular furnace/ac filter, and a handful of one-room filters spread throughout the house (which tends to be better than one big one imo) we still get dust buildup on everything. But if we don’t run the filters, you can both visibly and nasally tell the difference.

A newer house isn’t going to have as much, so you can likely get away with less air turnover, short term, and need to dust less. But you’ll never be totally dust free just because you can’t move enough air to prevent at least a little settling.

Gods, the first time heard Elba get suggested as a possible Bond, I flipped out. Then it eventually reached a point where it was definitely not going to happen, and it made me really not want to see any more Bond movies at all. There’s some actors born to play a role, and if they don’t, it’s kinda horrible. Like, if Pierce Brosnan had never had a chance to be Bond, it would have been a miscarriage of cinematic justice, no matter how the movie actually turned out (I enjoyed his turn personally).

The fact that it’s essentially impossible to have Elba do even a single bond film now ruins the franchise for me

Well, of course there’s a benefit.

To anyone selling the ivermectin or whatever to people that don’t need it.

Seriously. That’s it. There’s zero benefit to taking medications like that if you don’t have symptoms.

Shit, I’m hostile now.

Legit, I’m usually nice to people, even though I hate people at large. But I don’t trust any motherfucker at my back until they’ve proven they can be trusted.

That’s how I would handle things in a crisis like that. Short term, low trust, mutually understood cooperation, but with safety valves.

No more or less flawless than windows, Android, or the iOS stuff.

It’s different flaws.

In a pinch, some superglue liberally applied can either block reception or muffle it so much that anything it could send would be largely useless. Or you can open it up and remove it and hope nothing else breaks in the process.