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I hate how MacOS would start Apple Music every time I accidentally tapped my earbuds. To disable it I used an even lower tech solution, which works on corp laptops that don't allow installing arbitrary software:

1. Open System Settings

2. Navigate to Screen Time -> App Limits -> Add Limit...

3. Select "Music" and set an "Every Day" limit of 0 minutes.

Disclaimer: I am an SRE at Google, opinions are my own.

There's an excellent talk by Google VP of SRE Ben Treynor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iF9NoqYBb4U. tl;dw: try to measure actual user experience, and make sure that even the long tile of customer still gets a good product experience. What "good product experience" means depends, on your product.

The rest of the error budget is for you to spend on releasing new features, changing the underlying architecture, etc.

Spotify Form F-1 8 years ago

Their discovery weekly playlist is stellar.

My discover weekly playlist ALWAYS contains at least one song in Portoguese and at least two in German. I speak neither of those languages, and I've never willingly searched and played songs in those languages (except for "99 Luftballons" once).

I also get some terrible variation of "Here comes the sun" at least once a month despite not listening to The Beatles at all. [0] is the one that I hate the most.

Spotify, please sthap. I can't take any more Portoguese, German, and "Here comes the sun" cover songs.

[0] https://open.spotify.com/track/5PWh3rG5zWv7hVvWHRMbsf