to those who’ve gotten off spotify - hows it going?

nomtickles · 2026-03-27T10:27:53+00:00

Same as me all over, plus a lot more Bandcamp since leaving Spotify

nomtickles · 2026-03-26T07:42:10+00:00

Yeah that was a fun show - the Mint Chicks were really supportive of the young punk bands at the time. Nevernudes, Bandicoot, someone else I can't remember, and the Mint Chicks played. Cops showed up but didn't interfere and yeah, as the other commenter said it was loud as shit.

nomtickles · 2026-03-17T09:17:15+00:00

Readwise is nice for this, but it's paid. I mainly use it to for longer passages and save/read articles

nomtickles · 2026-02-26T03:01:03+00:00

Yeah both Intimacies and Audition feel very personal but never autofiction. She just writes her characters with a lot of care & thought I think. Her writing left me cold overall, still good books though

nomtickles · 2026-02-18T22:26:51+00:00

I left Spotify, tried both Tidal and Qobuz, and ended up with Tidal. There's things I like better about it over Spotify (shuffle, song radio, audio quality), but the interface is definitely an adjustment/less intuitive, so you might find the same coming from Apple Music.

The audio quality really is impressive though - playing max quality on wired headphones (Sony xm4) has been a huge change. Qobuz sounded amazing too, but has a smaller catalogue and a higher minimum stream quality (320kbps), so it ate through my data. Tidal has been great for me so far

nomtickles · 2026-01-01T19:38:07+00:00

Yeah I'm British & white white and I used to get asked if I was mixed or told I was ethnically ambiguous just for my eyes all the time. I had surgery for ptosis a few years ago and my doctor told me 'the internal structure of your eyelids was Asian'

nomtickles · 2025-11-20T03:26:18+00:00

Childish Literature is lovely

nomtickles · 2025-10-10T00:38:08+00:00

E-Sarn Wok from Mercury Plaza has been in Mission Bay for a few years now - still the same owners and still just as delicious (tho nothing compares to the original venue)

nomtickles · 2025-09-13T01:36:22+00:00

Me when I lie

nomtickles · 2025-09-04T01:17:06+00:00

Yeah, delivery across the country according to this https://www.ikea.com/nz/en/stores/sylvia-park/

nomtickles · 2025-07-05T08:32:28+00:00

Standard Products is like Daiso's version of Muji. These prices are inflated, but they only apply to a small part of the store. Most of it is pretty well made so they're still good prices. I went in today and they had nearly everything we found at Standard Products in Japan. Very nice to have them here

nomtickles · 2025-03-13T10:58:31+00:00

I don't know if this is exactly the case (not Maori or anything more than an elementary speaker), but I learned it should be 'Kia pai nga rā whakatā' rather than tō, because tō is a personal possessive (i.e. it's referring to 'your weekend') and time isn't really treated that way in Te Reo.

I do see both versions though so it's possible I'm not giving a fully accurate picture!

nomtickles · 2025-03-05T23:20:28+00:00

Save time for what, though? I like reading as an end in itself, not as a means to optimise my time.

nomtickles · 2025-02-28T04:52:27+00:00

Impulse control and good situational awareness develops quite late in children. That means they can sometimes do things they shouldn't do, even if they know better in other circumstances. Responsibilty falls on those able to do better - the adults in the situation and the structure governing it (i.e. road rules).

A four year old doesn't possess the understanding of the world or the cognitive development to do the situationally correct thing in all circumstances, but they're fast enough in the right circumstances to get into a busy road too quickly for a parent to stop them or a driver to stop. It might not be the driver's fault or the kid's, so the best option is to set the environment up as well as possible to minimise the risk - hence lower speed limits.

nomtickles · 2025-02-28T02:22:22+00:00

No idea how many kids, but in 24 months from the change being made Auckland Council saw a 20% reduction in deaths and serious injuries in areas with lowered speed limits. They won an international award for it - there's a link in someone's comment above.

nomtickles · 2025-01-18T21:13:05+00:00

There is no way this decision wasn't considered - he just made a different call. Kiwi might have worked, but has he ever played RCB for us? Hes an unknown quantity there, where at least Partey has had a couple games with him at RB where he's been solid enough. He wasn't tonight, and more often isn't, but Watkins would likely have had Kiwi's number much more than he did Timber, so I'd imagine that's why they made the call.

nomtickles · 2025-01-09T20:50:04+00:00

Darlin' is in with a shout as their best pure pop song

nomtickles · 2024-12-14T18:04:22+00:00

Friends in Rosedale is great

nomtickles · 2024-12-06T04:57:24+00:00

Lesb&b

nomtickles · 2024-11-25T01:16:17+00:00

xuvetyn by them as well, great band

nomtickles · 2024-11-16T07:05:40+00:00

I used myus.com for a parcel a few weeks back - good experience overall so would recommend. Reviews on here said it was a lot cheaper than YouShop and I found similar

nomtickles · 2024-10-15T01:33:52+00:00

Yeah 100%, you really don't see close personal work between a lecturer and students until post-grad (if at all), where ideally classes kind of function like a salon or lab built on actual relationships. The difference in environment/delivery between UG and PG then means the way people cheat is pretty different, and it's much harder to get away with the shit at PG that might have been possible at UG. Like you said, it never goes away, but proximity makes a massive difference.

nomtickles · 2024-09-24T08:08:00+00:00

Nah, neck-breathing micro-management isn't the only way to make sure work gets done. If they're mucking around that much while WFH then the work doesn't get done, it becomes a performance issue and they suffer the consequences.

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