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  • What do you recommend for playing deeper tracks from artists I follow? I don’t like to like songs, I either want to like entire artists or just listen. I’m also relying pretty heavily on daily and weekly mixes synced to my phone, for the car, since I don’t have cell service around where I liv nowe. Like, at all, and spotty for hundreds of miles.

    I used Google Play Music back in the day, and they were great about this, but YT Music took a major step back. Even if it’s better now, I’m trying to extricate my life from Google.

    Pandora has this concept of modes, where you can choose to listen to Deep Cuts, Crowd Faves, New Releases or Discovery for a given station. The problem is:

    • It still gets redundant within the given mode
    • Managing stations grows to be a pain in the ass
    • I don’t want to listen to all new, more loosely related, or popular tracks; and it won’t let me set mode preferences for the standard station
    • I really dislike Sirius XM as a company, and don’t want to support them.

    I used Apple Music for maybe 18 months between Spotify stints, after YT Music. I was trying to switch over to the Apple ecosystem, but am moving back to AOSP Android and Linux. I do like that the depth played from a given artist is a good bit better than Spotify, but I dislike that I can’t either follow artists instead of liking songs, and can’t easily get a list of liked songs to unlike in the future.



  • Ah, I think to get 64GB from a Thinkpad you’d have to move up to a P series, and even the P16s and P14s that are based on the T16 and T14 will be significantly warmer and louder than those others. They’re very much tuned for performance. Unfortunately, Lenovo is soldering RAM far more on their AMD models than the Intel models, so you won’t be able to run above spec.


  • Check the status of Asahi Linux, they’re making a lot of progress on Apple silicon, but it’s very early. I wouldn’t recommend it, at this point.

    Do you actually need 64GB of RAM? The Thinkpad T16 AMD would be a good choice, but the T14s AMD has just stupidly low fan noise in Notebookcheck’s review. You definitely want to focus on AMD, Intel’s efficiency is… not great right now. As an added benefit, you get AMD graphics from the APU, so none of the Nvidia driver fuckery, and better performance than Intel.

    Personally, I’m waiting for the T14s Gen 4 AMD. The 7840u is zen 4, GCN 3, and TSMC 4nm over the 6850u’s zen 3, GCN2, and TSMC 6nm. The T14 and T16 just hit Lenovo’s model database ‘psref’ earlier this week, so I’d expect them out in the next couple months. The T14s hasn’t been seen yet, I’d guess it hits psref in the next couple weeks. But, I’m prepared to wait into Q4, if need be, and some think I will be.