You could never officially choose system colors in AOSP. It was always white with teal accent. If you’re thinking of Substratum, that was kinda an unintended exploit when Google was working on adding native theming for OEMs.

Volume buttons are being made more customizable in Android 15, which is launching on Pixels soon.

Privacy settings have never been reset for me, maybe you’re confusing it with Windows 11.

I have news for you then! They’re already doing it

Companies could take and steal as much as they want from smaller artists in that case

December 6th is still coming

“Gameplay”

pervasive unchecked nullability

Addressed nowadays with the question mark and exclamation mark syntax, and programming without nullability is a pain

Framework management is hell, fat binaries inconvenient and not default

Nuget?

Compiler output only marginally better than working with c++

No one claims it’s faster at runtime than good C++, it’s just a lot easier to write decent code

Link? I just find graphite dev which is not related to drawing

If you must use Spotify, use ZSpotify with DOWNLOAD_REAL_TIME and hope you don’t get banned. Alternatively, use it with a burner account.

I prefer Deezer and pay for Deezer HiFi. Deemix still works to rip FLACs from there.

Isn’t YTM like 128-192kbps AAC? I’d rather not even bother ripping that lol

Spotify’s encoding (vorbis 320kbps) should be transparent at the maximum bitrate. However, it’s possible that the files uploaded on there are mastered differently, for average consumer consumption instead of the full dynamics of most source material. I know SoundCloud enforces “loudness” mastering with presets when uploading for example.

The real reason Spotify’s quality is inferior to others is that, if you have the music files, you can apply in-app parametric equalization on every platform and compensate for imperfections of your output device.

Tidal, Deezer and Quboz all have ways to download the content. The most stupid one being to record the output of the music player, but there’s tools that automatically get the full metadata too and ensure the audio is cropped to silence.

To do it in an intended way, Bandcamp and other services let you pay once to have access to the source file on your account “forever”.

Opus at max bitrate is only like 1/4th the size of FLAC. At that point, why not just store it in 10GB while keeping the full quality?

Only one of them gets to make the decision to fire the other

Somehow this is just as incoherent as Trump transcriptions

Without DirectX or OpenGL you’d have to create a GPU driver or do CPU rendering…

Fonts can be handled by Windows itself.

I don’t care about internationalization, just EN-US is good enough.

Having more pixels doesn’t change asset sizes when the pixels used per asset are the same. Just show me the smaller button or use vector graphics.

Windows takes a percentage of your available RAM, you can boot it on 4GB RAM and it will use 1GB of so

The reason is that you can find lossless rippers for all of them, so you could archive the files and use them anywhere

Check if they’re on Tidal, Deezer or Qobuz, then your problem is solved

Thank Google for that “feature”