Thoughts

"iTunes Match requires iOS 5" — I don't think that's an issue. "you can listen to iTunes Radio" — No I can't, iTunes Radio shut down in 2016. => https://support.apple.com/en-us/108935 iTunes Match was (well, I guess, "is") a service where you'd pay Apple a yearly subscription, and they'd take songs that you had on your Mac (normally from burned CD's), "match" them with the listing of the song in iTunes, and let you download the song from iTunes on other devices without having to buy it again. If they couldn't find a match, they'd upload the song to the cloud so you could still sync it. The concept is simply completely superseded by Apple Music. (In addition to allowing access to songs on iTunes, Apple Music today allows you to upload songs downloaded from e.g. Bandcamp and it will sync them to all your devices.) Unlike other Apple Music predecessors, like iTunes Radio and Ping, iTunes Match is a paid subscription. This means that if Apple shut it down, they'd lose the revenue from everyone who subscribed in 2011 and then forget what it was. But it's also still possible to subscribe in 2025, if you want to, if that's your jam. Just in case you really want to pay a subscription for songs that you already bought. (If you cancel the subscription you keep the songs, so you're technically paying for the syncing not the songs.)

Sometimes I just wish that people would care about the same things that I do. The older I get the more I realize that no one else will ever care.

Since it was so hyped, I don’t know if I just had unrealistic expectations or if it was actually bad. I enjoyed reading it so I don’t think it was bad. But it’s hard for me to articulate something I like about it. I want to be nice and give it 4 stars but I also want to be sure I’m not being biased by the fact that I know it’s popular. I think the tiebreaker is pacing, and it’s paced really well, so I’ll give it 4. The reason it’s surprising it’s at 4 stars is because I have no desire to read the sequel right now. It’s weird. If I liked it, which I did, why don’t I want to read the sequel? I like it more than other 4 star books that have had me hooked on the whole series. My theory is that the shorter two-novella format ruins my ability to get hooked and engaged. The other big issue, I’ve decided, is that the “conflict” for the main character is its identity and how it fits in with humans. And the “plot” is a completely tangential action plot about trying to stay alive. I want to watch murderbot continue to evolve its relationship with others and its conception of itself. But I don’t actually care about the action scenes because they’re not actually related to that.

to do something and Safari's like, eh.