Pretty much this. I have a pair of studio monitors set up for music and tuned for music. Game audio and random youtube videos don't sound so great with that setup, so I don't want it to be my default.
Sure, I could change the default every time I fire up Spotify, but that's annoying and I really shouldn't have to do it -- this kind of setup is not that unusual for music lovers, and it's not a difficult feature to add.
It lets you set an app to use a default audio device, which may solve your issue with spotify. Some apps just ignore it, and only play through the system default though.
Is Amazon really a core project dependency for software projects that use them? If prices get jacked up, I don't see why a get obect from S3 couldn't be replaced the equivalent call to Azure/Google Cloud or even an open(3)? Yes, migrating projects is a pain, but there has to be a point where it makes financial sense, and if not, what's the problem?
I'm a student at a top 5 CS school. I feel that the majority of the value of my degree does not comes from lecture, homeworks, or exams. I feel the acess to opportunities on campus is where much of the value comes from. We have many bright, talented, and diverse people on this campus. Not only my fellow undergrads, but also the professors, grad students, researchers, employees of companies with a campus presence, etc. There's huge opportunities for collaboration on programming projects, both in class and out of class. There's a great startup culture, with a lot of campus resources. There's a slew of companies that employ students for part-time co-ops on campus. Almost every professor talks about research they would be interested in getting students involved in. We have very active IEEE and ACM student orgs. We put on a great hackathon everywhere. I could go on, but to put it short, you almost have to try to avoid opportunities to not develop yourself as a computer scientist/engineer. If you're teaching yourself, you have to be proactive in working with projects online, motivating yourself to work on personal projects, seeking out opportunities, where as on campus, the opportunities basically come to you.
I actually used to have Google Play Music All Access, but the bugs would just drive me insane. I think the worst one was where it would play the censored version of a song, no matter if you chose the edited or explicit version. The only way to fix it was to delete your locally downloaded music, which I keep 60gb of my favorite tracks on my phone. I finally jumped to Spotify premium and I've haven't experienced any bugs. Plus, Spotify premium is half the price because I get a student discount. I think the only thing I miss is no ads on YouTube videos.
