Honestly I’d love if more companies could adopt their payment model. Phreeli looks like a solid cellular provider and I’m sure their double-blind armadillo thing is legit, but if I could just mail them an unmarked envelope with nothing but a numeric account identifier and some cash I’d like it way more. Same with Tuta. But I understand there’s some possibility for logistical concerns there (what happens if the user loses their account identifier? Too many banks still use SMS 2FA, etc. etc.).

They have a few days trial, and encourage account sharing. So you could give it a crack and split it with a friend. Quite a few shows and podcasts they do are worth the price.

Besides, they pay the talent far better than anyone else in Los Angeles, if that kind of thing is important for you.

RamNode for all but one of them. They’re not the best, but they’ve been solid for years.

Ill tell ya. I have been here before myself. More than once. But also not. never this bad before.

They were not profitable though, you can only do that for so long before you fold and then no one gets anything.

that is a valid point tbf

but you can halve it if make a family accoubt with friends :)

Yeah most of the stations are pretty good even if it’s not my usual genres and I’ll skip around, but Groove salad and defcon are my usuals, i like beat blender for an alarm and mission control for background music while working.

30 bucks a year seems a bit steep, I don’t know if it’d be worth it at that point over buying a tab book every now and then, or just using the free version. They still have a ton of great and accurate tabs and you can build your own library if you setup a free account.

I can see Slipknot sounding a bit incomplete on just guitar. Zoom makes some good multi effect processor pedals that can sample and do drum loops, but that gets a bit technical and sort of a whole thing in and of itself, I have a great time fucking around with mine, though. Not sure what your metal tastes are, but if you’re into any doom or sludge that stuff translates well to just guitar practice and playing, a lot of three piece bands with heavy guitar emphasis. Wizard Fight by Weedeater is a quick and fun song to learn, if you’re looking for something simple and heavy to get back into things with.

Also, C standard is king.

Whether you’re just starting or you’re a master shredder, there’s something for you. I haven’t used any of their lessons, as I found them after I’d been playing for a long time, so I can’t attest to the lessons themselves, but going through their options they have a lot of lessons for learning scales and practice exercises, and can build your own library of tabs and lessons so you don’t have to search for the same song over and over while learning or refreshing on it. A lot of the features are free, so even without the membership it’s still a great resource for any guitar player.

For me, the meat and potatoes is in the tabs library and the pro tabs option that you get with a membership. It lays out the full song in bar format and you can have it play a midi tone version of the song from what’s in the tabs so you can hear the notes and watch the tracker to know exactly where that tone is supposed to land with proper timing. It helps so much more than straight tabs, as you can see and hear where and how the sound structure comes together for things that are hard to translate when you’re just looking at numbers on a page trying to figure how to play those with proper timing and placement, especially for complex things where it’s a million notes in a cluster with nothing to translate timing.

Like any community tabs archive, not everything is always a correct tablature, but the selection is better than everything else I’ve dug into. I’m not sure what the monthly is, but I see the same lifetime deal I got pop up from time to time.

I looked at Windscribe’s site. I find black theme too difficult to read. If I can’t investigate a service for whatever reason, including website design, I don’t use it.

Hetzner webhosting starts from 1,60€/month.

Not really. I self-host with a reverse proxy.

https://www.webhostingtalk.com/ is still a good resource for that. Geared toward discussion about servers rather than just hosting, still, it can help find a decent host. Some fly-by-nighters fly through there… by night, of course.