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I saw a headline on some guitar magazine "These are the most over priced guitars currently". Says a lot and it's true.

There's not much point in throwing money at a brand name anymore. Quality control is long gone and they all come straight out of a factory anyway. It's alright though, because factory quality is decent, and with a little know-how you can easily make them play good.

My best guitar is a $100 kit-build. Acknowledging that I'd need to do a full setup on any guitar I figured I might as well paint and assemble it myself, because I'm not going to pay several hundreds just for a paint job and a logo.

It probably depends on the seller. Amazon doesn't buy/sell everything themselves on their site. Many things are from smaller companies using Amazon as a front end store.

Selling things to US customers can be quite complicated for European sellers and many simply choose not to. The issue being customs fees and registration for individual state sales taxes and such. It's a pretty heavy and costly process just to send a few products. If it was possible to sell a lot of products that way, Amazon would already be doing it and could easily outcompete their own seller clients.

My work has a EU only webshop and I've noticed that some Americans place their orders to be delivered to a German address and get charged German sales tax. I suppose there's some company forwarding the packages and doing the paperwork.

One could say that they placed 3 inches of the same area as UK elsewhere.

It'd be nice if they cleaned that shit up.

Yes Android Auto is needlessly complex. I don't think the parking sensor is the cause anyway.

Perhaps there are some options on the phone to disable screen takeover or pop-ups or something. Deleting all app permissions is my best guess.

It's generally a lot less pretentious, which might appear as a lack of "intelligent" comments. Most Lemmy users just don't spend hours trying to write page long comments on obscure topics that nobody else here cares about.

Also, in the more specific communities, lots of things are taken for granted. Places with more users will more often have the "todays 10000" user, who just discovered something that is new to them and then decides to write about it in detail. Lemmy is more polite that way: Not reposting noob stuff on a daily basis for karma or whatever point system brings it up constantly on other sites.

There is no good fix. It's a Google thing. People have tried using roots and OBD2 fixes, but there is no easy solution.

I don't know the Spotify app that well, but it should be possible to scroll through songs on a playlist using controls on the steering wheel or voice control. Those methods shouldn't trigger the scroll warning.

Alternatively, he could skip Android Auto and use Bluetooth instead if it's only connected for the music. That's what I do for other music apps and the steering wheel controls also work just fine that way too as long as I have prepared a playlist in advance.

11 is missing the hour hand in the miniatures.

Once upon a time the west. (Ennio Morricone)

Blade runner (Vangelis)

I don't ever use the start menu for anything. I can't be bothered to look through that mess.

Instead I press the windows key and type the first few letters of whatever I need, unless it's already stickied to the bar. It's fewer key presses than clicking through the start menu. I suppose that still counts as opening the start menu, even if I don't use the actual menu structure.

I also use the windows + arrow keys to toss windows around the multiple screens. It has a lot of other purposes, like creating extra desktops etc, which I admittedly never use.

It's a useful button for sure, but it does get a little overwhelming when combined with shift ctrl or alt . I can't possibly remember all the uses, but I have the most commonly used on muscle memory.

It's always a resistor. Planned obsolescence is basically putting a too small resistor somewhere. The parts they make for repair shops are usually better, so if you do take the time to swap a print, you will have a better appliance afterwards for a fraction of the cost of a new shitty machine.

Soldering the specific resistor can be done too, but for anyone who doesn't have a stock of resistors and soldering tools/skill it's usually a easier and just as cheap to get new print if they're available.

The music doesn't have to be completely synthesized.. Most early computers would simply reuse the audio snippets as "samples", and program the pitch and timing in a "tracker"

Listening to the Flappy Birds music, which I admit that I did, then all of the music could be done in a tracker, even if it might not have been originally. It's a bit of a lost art form, but there are several kilobytes to save!

Personally, I have been considering making a HTML5 game, including the sunvox DLL, to make it really easy to put tiny yet advanced music files into a cross platform browsable game. Haven't gotten around to it though..