I have tried A LOT of different music players over the years on Linux and the amount of ones that do not offer a single easy way to find a given album by a given artist is truly maddening.

I have recently landed on Tauon which has a pretty particular UI that is pretty unlike most others, but after some getting used to worked well for me. Audacious is mostly fine as well, but at some point I did not want to use it anymore because it would just stop responding to MPRIS events too often

For remote playing I have been really enamoured with Navidrome (in combination with Symfonium) lately. It's not super pretty, but it really has the best organization of albums I have seen so far and I kinda just dont use it for local files, because I dont want to do everything in the browser...

As per usual: Good job of extrapolating american circumstances to the rest of the world

I live in Lithuania, and here you can get unlimited LTE for €19.90/month from Telia. It's designed to be used at home for those who can't get fibre optic internet, but I guess it would work fine in a phone too.

Quite opposite. US is far behind and expensive. UK and Ireland had unlimited data plans 5 years ago for 20 euro/month. Today even Turkey or Vietnam have better data deals than US.

> Quite opposite. US is far behind and expensive.

The US isn't far behind. The US had over 90% 4G population coverage long before it was wide-spread across Europe. Europe lagged far behind the US in fact. [1] It is expensive. You're conflating two separate things. The US had unlimited data plans longer than five years ago. Some carriers briefly went away from them and are now going back to them due to competition.

The UK has a median income that is barely comparable to the poorest US states. [2] Why would it be surprising if our goods cost more? Despite that, our cost of household goods is almost universally lower than the UK, with a few exceptions like wireless.

[1a] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/mobile-phones/10288585...

[1b] https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702304914204579396...

Feb 2017: "UK trailing behind Europe and US in 4G usage"

[1c] http://www.vanillaplus.com/2017/02/25/25474-missed-connectio...

"Europe slow to adopt 4G mobile: sector execs"

[1d] http://uk.reuters.com/article/us-telecoms-idUKTRE78Q60W20110...

Mar 2016: "Stop whining, America: Your LTE makes Europe look slow"

[1e] https://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/03/10/twin_prime_global_n...

[2] https://mises.org/blog/if-sweden-and-germany-became-us-state...

Ok, lets put it in a different way. In Ireland I had cheap prepaid card and 40GB/month was not problem (this was on 3G).

I could not do that in US, I would have to sign for 1 year and pay over $1000 in total.

Even if he could... maybe he should just use the paid option with enhanced quality, especially if he starts comparing the thing to Tidal

To anyone complaining about country restrictions:

Selling books is actually quite the complicated matter in some countries. At least in Germany you are not allowed to sell a book at a price of your choice (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixed_book_price_agreement)

It can be pretty fucking annoying to have these laws in place (they do have their merits, but... that's a completely different debate), but I can understand Amazon not having worked out all the legal issues to go worldwide with this

Depends on country. Laws for selling books can actually get quite complicated (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixed_book_price_agreement)

Isn't that what Titanium is selling? Not that I have ever tried it

Completely agree. Dwarf Therapist kinda shows how you can improve the UI without dumbing the game in itself down

It's also hilariously outdated, to the point that the game had a whole dimension less than it does now.

Still a great read though

I loved reading Boatmurdered many months ago; is there anything of similar quality that reflects the current state of affairs in DF?

Bravemule (http://www.bravemule.com) is a great read, and it's a lot more current that Boatmurdered.

Not quite the same, but an awesome glimpse of the story-telling potential of this game:

http://dfstories.com/the-hamlet-of-tyranny/

Sadly, no. While there are numerous different attempts at LPs and stories within DF, nothing manages to both capture the game itself while being laugh out loud funny. It really is one of those rarely replicated gems.

Edit: Although I will say that Tim Denee's attempts come closest (see jayrobin's comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5983250).

The Dwarf Fotress Headshoots LP is from 2009, but it is a 3D version of Dwarf Fortress. I have seen it mentioned as equivalent to the Boatmurdered.

There is a Hall of Legends on the forums. I recommend Nist Akath for humor and excitement. His fighting dwarves become unbelievable.

Yup, credit cards are not really a thing in germany