I wonder the source music because it was probably all British and American. And although a significant portion of the world's pop music is American and British, or at least English speaking, not all of it is. There is local pop music all over Europe, for instance, responding to local trends and maybe paying only a little homage to English-speaking pop. The same goes for Asia: all Asian countries also all have their own pop music

I listen to Korean pop music because it appeals to me. And one reason it does is because in a lot of ways, modern K-pop is a great deal like Western pop music from the 80s and 90s. Arguably more so than Western pop music of today.

I think my last 5 phones have had FM receivers, but I don't use it because I don't like any of the stations here. I basically stopped listening to FM radio years ago when I had had enough of the narcissistic hosts. Plus I lost my taste in pop music.

The music station I do listen to now is available on DAB, though. But that hasn't taken off as a smartphone trick yet. It doesn't help that DAB coverage is way worse than FM. Especially in things like building penetration or train tunnels (where it completely fails). And leave the big city and there's _no_ DAB.

So I stream audio over data. Meh.

Yep. Same here. I use mine for streaming video more than games.

Advertising content puts tracking cookies in your browser. Due to how cookies work, they are associated with the advertiser, not the website you're looking at. This means that the advertiser will see the *same* tracking ID whenever their content appears regardless of the site they're advertising on. Since they know what sites they're advertising on, they can match that with the tracking ID they've dropped on you to assemble a history of what sites you're browsing through. Including giving you the same ads.

This is the "forgotten" reason why people run ad-blockers: to nix the tracking data across websites!

So do I.

But sometimes merchants don't like the unusual domain name. I had a credit card purchase go into an odd "hold" state because they didn't know my domain name. Required a phone call (fortunately to a local number!) to fix.

I wonder why. Is it because Facebook bought them? Or is it because they munted the simple timeline with some "algorithm" that is driving people away.

That has a Precision Touchpad in it with the secondary advantage that every once in a blue moon, a Windows update includes a firmware update for the TypeCover. And I have been impressed to see that Windows updates have improved the touch responsiveness over time and now I know why.

And the TypeCover is also a better keyboard than Apple put in their Mac Book Pros (work PC).

A lot of the "suck" effect of particular versions was dependant on the underlying hardware. In my experience, Windows ME on a laptop that was properly supported by OEM drivers was actually quite a dream. Similarly, Windows 3.x on a VLB machine was very stable. It was on a PCI box that it was considerably less than glorious.

Around the time Opera rebuilt their browser on Blink, they spun off the email client into a separate program.

Opera's M2 email client was always fast and scaled enormously. I use it with an IMAP server and 20,000 emails in one folder is a piece of cake. The spam filtering is Bayesian and learns pretty fast. The file storage is not one monolithic file and it supports a number of import formats. HTML editor is toggleable, as is autodownload if images. Multiple accounts are a snap. And the search is also very fast.

I had to change from a Linux desktop to a MacBookPro for work. It really only confirmed why I had never been interested in buying one for myself.

There are UI features in OS X which are clearly "Apple has always done things this way and we don't understand how you could want things different". The Unix-underneath is pretty good, but the BSD-ish toolchain is annoyingly out-of-date. The hardware support is (of course) excellent, but the keyboard is sadly a triumph of form over function - I use an external keyboard whenever I can.

I still wish I had my Linux desktop back.