Depends.
Sometimes I just can't find the actual thing by legal means. Go try listening to Bruce Woolley's version of "Video Killed The Radio Star" sometime. I can either try to hunt down a physical copy or I can just pirate it. See also: most video game soundtracks.
Usually though it's more about convenience. If I can just stream something on Spotify, I'll just do that.
If there's a movie I kinda wanna see but I'm not sure if it's going to be good I'll pirate it
It's all rigged, technically. If you go to a real life casino, slots are certified to pay out some percentage of plays. It's like, 8%.
If you play craps, roulette - the house always has the edge because there's more results favorable to them.
The only "casino" game where the house doesn't have an edge is poker because that's player against player. The house doesn't really have a stake in any outcome, they're just being paid to host the game.
This is the part that gets skipped.
It wasn't him just going out and saying a little, quiet prayer to himself. I wouldn't give a shit about that, I don't think anybody would. You do you.
He was bringing a ton of students into the fold. The whole team was praying with him.
He claimed that it wasn't required or expected but come on. You know damn well if you were a player on the team and you're the only guy not praying, you're gonna have a bad time.
I feel like every comment I'm reading assumes there's only two options - either headphone jack + wired headphones, or no headphone jack + Bluetooth.
I just use a USB-C dongle with a headphone jack on it. It'd be nice to have it built-in, sure, but the dongle is only a few bucks, small, doesn't really add a lot of extra stuff to carry if I'm already carrying headphones.
It's not a deal-breaker for my if a phone doesn't have a headphone jack because if it doesn't I can easily add one.
I think most other spam filters can get pretty good at you mark mail as spam and train it.
No idea about push. IMAP does have the ability to keep a connection open and get notifications and some mobile clients support that. My guess is, if the provider offers an app they probably support pushing to it somehow.
It's funny because the way I describe the concept of federation to people is to compare it to email.
"You know how you can email somebody and it doesn't matter if they're using Gmail, Yahoo, Exchange, etc? Just apply that concept to other services and that's what federated means."
So yeah you can host your own email just like you can host your own mastodon instance, Lemmy, Calckey, kbin, etc.
I've been a professional sysadmin for years, including managing email systems covering tens of thousands of users.
Don't do it.
Find a host you like and just use that. If you have to pay that's probably better, that (hopefully) means you'll have a better privacy policy, no ads, etc.
Email as a concept goes back to 1981 with tons of bolt-ons and changes along the way. You'll go years with everything working fine, then suddenly you'll find yourself sinking a lot of time into it when something suddenly doesn't work.
Plus you can have the most modern setup in the world then find yourself dealing with a client that's using the default sendmail config and refuses to change anything, now you've got to create exceptions, blah blah blah.
I used to run my own email for years. Started on qmail, postfix+dovecot. Anti-spam (spamassassin for a while, rspamd), spf+dkim+dmarc, srs, arc-signing for forwards. All kinds of other tools, even wrote some of my own. I've learned a lot and pretty much ran the gamut to be honest.
So all that said, nowadays I just host with mxroute. Bought a lifetime plan. There's features it doesn't have but it's good enough to get emails and a lot easier than self hosting.
I generally recommend finding a host that has the features you want at a price that seems fair. Email is the kind of thing that needs to just always work.
Once you set it up sure, it's rock solid. Until one day you realize your emails are getting dropped and there's some new thing you've gotta look into. Let somebody else handle it.
I mean my version of "a few minutes" is like an hour. Like it used to be you could respond to a text way later in the day or even the next, and that acceptable amount of time is getting shorter and shorter.
I think what people are really missing is being able to feel disconnected.
Like it used to be you'd send an email and you'd get a response tomorrow. Because people would go online occasionally.
Now if I'm not responding to a text within a few minutes people get upset. You'll see people answer the phone during a movie to say "hey I'm in a movie I'll call you back"
I'd like to go back to the world of being connected but having a slight Friday is ok
Based on your other comments of mentioning she was on the phone, it sounds like what was really bothering you was that the phone was getting attention and you weren't. So just say that.
You definitely need to get comfortable with having quiet time where you're both just reading, goofing off on the phone, or whatever. You can't talk 100 percent of the time.
If the actual silence is an issue just throw on some music. I can't think of a nicer time than starting the day with some coffee and music.