Yeah, on my good headphones the difference is quite noticeable

Turns out we actually did not need nor want to hear so much from other people.

It's not made by google

But the time to create a novel, a videogame, or a news story is not infinitely reproducible, either. So when you are pirsting one of those things, you are actively reaping the benefits of someone's time for free, like going to a concert without a ticket

Since banking secrecy has been abolished, so basically 2009

Or just cheap ones. VW and every other maistream cars are getting unaffordable.

The thing is that economies of scale do not really work with (good) journalism. You'll never get a ton of clicks on an in-depth, nuanced and well-researched story, because it's not really "sexy". That's why even serious publications need to put out clickbait content, as it essentially funds the actual serious journalistic work. The problem here is that clickbait articles cause a reputational damage to publications.

A paywall makes it possible to avoid all of this, but then you run into the problem that fewer people have access to your content, rendering what you do less impactful.

As a journalist, let me tell you something: the reality is that news is an awful business. It's hugely useful for public discourse, but it does not make any money. It's essentially a public service, like roads or public transportation or schools: they are essential parts of society and they don't work as a business.

Some countries realized that, and they have public-funded or state-funded media, like the BBC (on NPR, in a different way). While this poses huge problems with regards to conflicts of interest and freedom of the press, that's the only economic model that actually works.

LOVE Notebookcheck. It's probably my most trusted source when buying / recommending laptops and components

Loudness war is real (it's been for quite some time) and it's a plague

Yeah, I think that's to be expected from a site with that slant

If it's that cheap, though, it just has to be shit. It's just not realistic, otherwise

NP, to be fair I also had to double check to make sure they weren't actually affiliated, lol