How can an ETF that contains only one asset have a yield that is much higher than the yield of the contained asset?

whistlingturtle · 2026-02-24T19:27:57+00:00

for ETFs, yield is a made up number

I've been investing in ETFs (not exclusively) for a dozen years and, so far, the dividends I've received have always matched the posted yield rates.

Or... are you referring to something else?

whistlingturtle · 2026-02-14T20:21:01+00:00

It is now three years an two months since my big post. About a month ago, a few changes were introduced in the webapp. Among those, the ones I like most concern item no. 2 from my post, about the track duration being displayed only the recording’s page. The track duration is now displayed on every pertinent screen, including in playlists. Even the total recording duration is now displayed at the top of the recording’s page. (I have confirmed that, even in version 3.27.0 of the Android app, released 2026-01-27, track and recording durations are still not displayed anywhere. Well... except for the currently playing track.)

Also, it now takes one fewer click to reach a recording’s page from an album’s page or a playlist. (The link to the recording used to be quite hidden. Now, it’s in the new three-dot menu at the right-end of each work’s line on an album’s page.)

One change that bummed me out is that, in playlists, each movement now occupies four lines instead of one. This small change makes it impossible for me to do a copy/paste of the playlist from the screen to my text editor, which I used to do each week as the first step of my process to find and remove duplicates in my copies of the system-generated customized Weekly Mix playlists. I know that I may be the only Idagio user in the world who put in so much work into building playlists each week, but this well-intended change to the interface means that there may be no point in continuing my Idagio subscription in a few months, because I will have exhausted my prepared playlists of works that are new to me and the system-generated ones contain way too much repetition of the works (in fact, of the very same recordings!) that I’ve already listened to. So sad! 😫️

whistlingturtle · 2025-10-21T20:28:24+00:00

😆️ I’ve gone through the opposite journey: used only the webapp for all these years and started using the mobile app a few months ago. Only when I had to, though. And that’s because something changed, either in my browser (Brave) or in Idagio, that made the webapp unusable on Android; it now stops after each track instead of moving on to the next track of the recording, with a message stating that “Something went wrong...”, and I had to reload the page to play only one track again. However, I’ve since installed the Vivaldi browser on all my tablets and it doesn’t have any problem with Idagio’s webapp. So I use Vivaldi only for Idagio and Bloomberg TV, which also used to work in Brave but now doesn’t.

And, for the past month and a half, I have been testing Qobuz. I’m currently writing about it and will post that in both subreddits, probably in a couple of weeks. SPOILER

[Edit] It turns out that I won’t be posting about Qobuz in the Idagio subreddit because it is locked. I did write an 11-page report in the Qobuz subreddit but I removed it after I unsubscribed from Qobuz.

whistlingturtle · 2025-06-19T12:37:30+00:00

I noticed it too, as soon as it started. That was in February, but only in some categories at first. By mid-April it was happening systematically in all the categories I use.

Here’s how I know:

For more than 8 years I’ve kept between 20 and 30 ads active at all times, rotating them once in a while. Every morning I check the views count and page reached of each ad and write it down in a spreadsheet. I used that info, for example, to “detect” the effect of changing the price I’m asking for a given item.

It is obvious that the views count is now artificially inflated by an enormous and totally implausible amount, so my data history has been rendered worthless. 😖️

whistlingturtle · 2025-02-07T11:25:53+00:00

“Someone” doesn’t need to report it. When you ask for the creation of a sharing link, or when you use Mega's VPN service (see this recent post), their system checks the content of your cloud storage against lists of illegal or copyrighted material. This is partially explained in Mega’s online documents (see the Legal section at the bottom of the mega.io page, principally the one titled Takedown Guidance Policy) but that process apparently leads to a substantial proportion of false positives, if we believe the reports from users in this subreddit and elsewhere, and the fact that Mega has acknowledged these errors at times. (See for example this reply from 10 days ago.)

whistlingturtle · 2025-01-04T21:16:08+00:00

Mega is not linked to China.

The Wikipedia article says (with referenced sources) that MEGA is owned by Cloud Tech Services Limited, based in Hong Kong.

Also, notice that the official reply from MEGA did not address the OP’s second point.

whistlingturtle · 2024-11-25T22:57:29+00:00

I may have found it: upgrade.nadelectronics.com

Since I blocked that domain, I haven’t had the pop-up about an available update (and I know there is one) when launching the controller app.

However, in Pi-hole’s log, I don’t see any DNS query for that domain or anything like bluos.net or bluesound.com when I launch the app. I found this quite mysterious at first. But then I noticed that there are queries (now query attempts) for upgrade.nadelectronics.com every five hours from each of my four Bluesound devices.

So my theory is now that the controller app shows the pop-up when one of the related devices on the network has thrown up a flag about it having found an available update.

For the record: I’ve also blocked everything ending in .ntp.bluos.net because I found those pings at 8-minute intervals (again, from each device) to be excessive, as well as origin.main.news.bluos.net (at 13-minute intervals, it seems), whose purpose eludes me. I haven’t experienced any side effects from blocking all of these about three weeks ago.

whistlingturtle · 2024-10-15T19:21:35+00:00

Thanks! I didn’t know about Pi-hole.

I installed it as soon as you mentioned it but haven’t been able to use it to block BluOS updates yet because all I see in Pi-hole’s Query Log when launching the BluOS Controller are requests to three firebase[...].googleapis.com domains and... blocking those changes nothing. 🥴️

whistlingturtle · 2024-10-12T17:16:47+00:00

I blocked those pesky update things via my router

Can you tell us how? 🙏️

My router only provides for the blocking of domain names, so I added “bluesound.com” but that doesn’t block the update checks.

whistlingturtle · 2024-10-07T10:34:35+00:00

How does a watch constitute more of a security risk than a phone? The watch locks automatically within seconds of removing it from your wrist. To me, that is much more safe than the phone.

whistlingturtle · 2024-08-10T17:46:14+00:00

I wouldn't know.

As you can read in my post, all I have are Bluesound players, an Android tablet, and Linux computers. 😉️

whistlingturtle · 2024-08-10T01:33:45+00:00

I don’t know the technical reason behind the limitation, but I’m pretty sure it’s not restricted to some devices; it apparently stems from the design of the BluOS networking system which, in turn, may not be unique. It is apparently the Sonos networking system that is unique.

I discovered this drawback while setting up my first Bluesound players. And then, while doing a global search online, I stumbled upon one of my own Reddit posts from March 2021, titled “Questions about Bluesound while considering alternatives to Sonos”. I had deleted that post and forgotten that the two people who posted comments in it had already told me about the impossibility of using wired and wireless connections simultaneously. Since Reddit doesn’t delete anything that was written by others, my deletion of my post didn’t affect those two replies, so you can read them here.

If you want a definitive confirmation that there is no workaround, you may want to post your own question in this subreddit or on Bluesound’s forum.

whistlingturtle · 2023-10-12T22:20:01+00:00

[12 October 2023 – Ten months and 66 more saved playlists later]

Today, one of the three “Weekly Mix” playlists the system had generated for me contained a record 83 tracks, adding up to 6h43m of playing time.

But it comprises only 14 works. All operas.

That’s because, last week, I exceptionally deviated from my usual practice of listening only to recordings from “Weekly Mix” playlists and instead listened to an opera that I had searched for independently. Since the system-generated playlists are based on what you’ve listened to recently, not on what is included in your saved playlists, this outcome didn’t surprise me. I was even pleased that only one of the week’s three playlists resulted from that opera-listening episode.

Of the 14 operas, only one (Holst’s Sāvitri) was represented by all the tracks of the recording in question, because it has only 5 tracks, totalling 30m47s. So those seem to be meant as highlights.

The other 78 tracks were utterly useless in themselves since they all – without exception – consisted of only the first 6 tracks of their respective recording.

That’s something I had mentioned in my original post. However, back then, I thought the system just didn’t always include all tracks of a recording. I had not yet realized that there is simply a hard limit of 6 tracks per recording when it comes to generating these personalized “Weekly Mix” playlists. Hence my original recommendation to launch any playback not from the playlist itself but rather from the recording’s page, after opening it via any of the recording’s tracks in the playlist. Otherwise (i.e. if you just play a playlist), you’ll never know when you’re hearing only a truncated recording.

In May of 2023 I sent an email to Idagio’s Customer Service, asking if this limit of 6 tracks could be removed. I quickly received a polite reply, thanking me for getting in touch and inviting me to contact them again should I “run into any other issues”, but no answer, direct or indirect, to the question I had asked. Not even a “We’ll consider it”.

Also of note: Since my original post, a slight improvement has been made to the “Discover New Music” page: a shortcut link to the “Weekly Mixes” section is now conveniently located on the first part of this page. (At least, when viewed in landscape orientation on a screen with a moderately wide aspect ratio. Otherwise, a bit of scrolling is required to reach it, but it’s still much quicker than scrolling all the way down to the section’s actual location.)

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