Hello guys its been a month now I am facing this problem, I use edge browser now but it also existed on google chrome (and this was the reason I shifted )
The Problem : I study on Youtube that means I have to watch the same video for about an hour or two but my video after random amount of time ,each time pauses and starts to buffer until I refresh the page and all my focus on my lecture is gone. this happens after every 10 or 20 minutes and I am so annoyed of it now
can you guys recommend me any ideas how to troubleshoot this..... PLZ

INTRODUCTION

Hello There! Today i want to share with you a guide i’ve been making for the last couple months. The purpose of this guide is helping out new, returning and even veteran players navigate the user interface menu, the gameplay and graphics settings, along helping out new players configure their very own ability bars; wether they're in F2P or Member worlds and, help them undertand some of the fundamentals behind them, all that information who sometimes can get a little overwhelming due the sheer amount of it.
"This is the default" new player interface" (image credits: The RS Wiki)".
With that being said, this guide contains a couple of “Cheatsheets” along the way, carefully designed to contain as much information and visual examples as possible in order to enrich and make each section of this guide easier to understand. Now, without further ado, let’s get right into it.

USER INTERFACE

Undoubtedly, one of the most important things of any game; regardless of its genre, is the user interface, as this is where all your controls, buttons and vital information is found. As a new RuneScape player, you’re welcomed with a rather confusing interface where Everything seems to be all over the place (as seen on the image above) without clear indication of what it does.
The majority of the time, when you arrive as a fresh player, the first hour or so is spent on “figuring out” what everything does by trial and error and, by the end of it, you end up even more confused, and with plenty of time invested.
Now, if you take a look at the First Cheatsheet below, you’ll notice there’s a lot of windows and information scattered all over the place, but don’t be afraid as i’ll guide you through them in the next couple of paragraphs.
"This is a general overview of your user interface and its many windows".
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• The main chatbox

To get things started, you’ll need to focus your attention to the “Main Chatbox window” (that adorable yellow window on the corner of the cheatsheet), here you’ll be Reading all the information displayed in game, be it a Goblin Examine text, your friends flexing their Chickens Killcount, an in-game annoucnement, a rare drop, a skill level up or a message telling you about how you burnt those shrimps (again). This is where all of the wordplay comes alive, but don’t fret about receiving lots of spam because you can filter those messages by clicking on the first button of this handy header bar; for more information about these icons, refer to the mini-cheatsheet below
"Here's the magic behind the Chat Message filters".
Returning to the Yellow Window, there you can also drag and drop your friend’s, group or clan chat windows, the cool thing about it is that you can configure it to your heart’s content and see what works best for your playstyle; wether if you want to have only your friends chat window, or if you prefer to talk to your clan, the choice is yours.
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• The main action bar and secondary action bars.

Moving on, we have the Green and Purple windows, where you can see your Main Action Bar (who might be minimized, so click on the top right yellow icon to maximize it) alongside your Auxiliary action bars (more on that later, I promise), to not delve too much into what these action bars do, they allow you to cast your combat abilities, use items directly from them (if they have an associated keybind) use prayers/ancient curses to help you in combat and even use teleports to different locations. Sounds amazing right? That’s why it’s recommended to have these windows on the center of your screen and in your line of sight.
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• The Inventory window.

The Blue window contains your inventory, which also contains your items; such as food, potions, Weapon Switches, Logs, Raw fish and all those burnt shrimps you made earlier (yum!), this window should also be within your line of sight in order to keep track of all the items you’re carrying.
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• The Familiar and ability spellbooks window.

The Red window is equally important as it serves as an expansion for both your inventory; if you’re using a "beast of burden" familiar, or your ability spellbooks; if you’re not using a familiar. As you make your way through the game, you’ll unlock a wide array of useful familiars (through the Summoning Skill) which can help you with your skilling (by offering invisible boosts), with combat (by offering Passive abilities and Powerful special attacks) and, some of them are sworn to carry your burdens (namely the Terrorbirds, War Tortoise, Pack Yak and Pack Mammoths, known as Beasts of Burden), the latter can help you bring extra food to your Bossing trips, or even help you stay longer at certain skilling spots, so you can stay there a bit longer without needing to visit your bank as often.
You can customize your familiar options by right clicking on the Summoning Medallion (That Blue Icon with a Wolf Head). When you’re not using a familiar, switch to the other tabs, as these will help you use abilities you couldn’t include in your main action bars. If you’re not doing any of the above, then drag and drop the Music tab here, that way you can enjoy some amazing tracks while you play (and i can’t stress this enough, give the RuneScape OST a try, is really, really, really worth a listen, after all it contains Sea Shanty 2, what else could you ask for!?).
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• The Ribbon.

The small Mint Green window is your ribbon bar, here you can unlock your interface (by clicking on the little lock icon) and this will let you re-arrange the interface windows to your liking, on the cheatsheet you can see a standard “Bottom right corner” style, which isn’t too terrible and a good foundation to change and improve progressively throughout your playthrough.
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• The Skills window, Prayers/Ancient Curses and logs.

The Orange window contains your Skills levels, Prayers/Ancient curses (useful when you’re in combat) and your Drop log/RuneMetrics stats, which helps you keep track of your items or damage/XP. During cerain Minigames or Treasure trails, the interface also goes here, so it helps you out by keeping track of those interfaces in a comfortable spot.
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• The Equipment window.

The Light blue window just above the orange one is your equipment window, here you can see a mini-you version of your character alongside the items you have currently equipped.
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• The Minimap.

Finally, the Golden window on the upper right corner displays the minimap, here you can see where you stand in the current area. And it helps you change skyboxes, filters, open the world hop interface (if you want to switch to a more active/quiet world) and Teleport to the various Lodestones you have unlocked. Once again, make sure you right click every single icon here, you’ll find plenty of useful and cool options to try out.
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• The Developer console.

Now, leaving all these interface windows to the side, there’s a useful tool known as the “Developer console”, which can be accessed by pressing the Keys [Alt] + [¬] (the key on the left of the number 1 key and below the ESC key) or the keys [Option] + [< >] if you’re using a MAC computer.
The purpose of the Developer console is to display some performance information of your game, like the amount of FPS you’re getting, how much memory is the game consuming, how much of the Game Disk Cache has been downloaded; and if the game’s still downloading the cache files, and Finally, it shows your ping.
In order for the Developer console to display all that information, you’ll need to type one of the following commands, keep in mind these are typed without spaces or caps:

Command	Action
commands	Lists available commands.
help	Lists available commands.
cls	Clears the developer console screen.
displayfps	Toggles the frames per second (FPS) counter and alll information above-mentioned.
displayfpsfull	Toggles the same data of the previous command, but adds expandable graphs.
displayfpssmall	Only toggles you FPS counter without any extra information
renderer	Shows information about your graphic card renderer and its capabilities
getcamerapos	Showls the location and the direction of the game camera; mostly used in bug reports.
deletejs5caches	Deletes the ENTIRE game cache, you will need to redownload all of it once again if you delete it.
enablesnow	Enables the snow particle effect in the developer console.
disablesnow	Disables the snow effect.

If you type the command a second time, the information window will be hidden and, in order to close the developer console, just click the same combination of keys used to open it.

LAYOUT WINDOWS

All of those windows shown on the bottom half of the Cheatsheet above, represent a different interface that will appear in the game at some point; like your bank interface, dialogue windows, xp counters, achievements, level up progress icons, loot interface, and many more. The arrangement showcased in the cheatsheet is just an example aimed to make each of these windows easier to find.
You can resize some of these windows and re-locate them to an specific spot that suits your playstyle. Once you are done make sure to click [SAVE AND EXIT] and then on the [SAVE LAYOUT] option select the Custom interface of your choosing; called [MY CUSTOM 1/2/3/ETC], this way you can have multiple layouts for different activities.
In order to access the layout windows editor, you just need to click the ESC key and click on the [EDIT LAYOUT MODE] option, from there, click the [ADVANCED OPTIONS] button, and check the various windows you want to display, overall it’s just a matter of resizing and rearranging them to your heart’s content.

GRAPHICS SETTINGS

You may have seen a couple of amazing screenshots on the subreddit or the Steam community page, yes, those screenshots that are “wallpaper worthy” and take your breath away. In order to make your PC run in such a beautiful fashion, you will need to understand what each setting does and how it impacts the game performance; because as you’d might expect, higher graphics can take a heavy toll on your PC, and in some old laptops, they can even match your frying pan’s temperature (ideal for some shrimp cooking/burning).
By default, and once you run the game for the first time, it will run an “Auto Setup” to determine which option works best for your PC, however, you may still want to customize a couple of settings here and there, as some of these options may only provide minimal improvements at the expense of a smoother performance. On the following Cheatsheet, i’ll explain all of these options in detail alongside some visual examples.
The Current available screen resolutions are: [950 x 540], [1920 x 1080] and [2560 x 1440], the [Fullscreen mode] will use the entire area of the screen and, [Windowed] mode, will let you resize the game window to your liking.
"Here's where you can configure your graphics to look as good as they can, or optimize the performance of your PC by lowering them".

• DRAW DISTANCE

One of the most impactful settings on the game is the [DRAW DISTANCE]; which can be helpful on some Bossing arenas (like Solak, Nex: Angel of Death, Raids, Araxxor, Elite Dungeons and The Wilderness; to see potential attackers on the horizon), paired with a camera set on [FREEDOM - CLASSIC] mode, will let you see your target’s a lot more clearly. Overall, i’d recommend something like Medium or High depending on your PC specs. But, If you have a bottlenecked PC or laptop, choose the lower setting.

• Vsync

[Vsync] or Vertical Synchronization, will help you prevent screen tearing in your game by matching the frame rate of the game and your monitor refresh rate, for this feature keep in mind the following: if you set your game at 120 FPS but only have a 60 Hz monitor, you won’t be able to see any extra FPS, but, if you were to play on a 144Hz monitor, you will be able to see those 120 FPS. [Here's a quick video about this topic].

• ANTIALIASING & ANTIALIASING MODE

On the other hand, [Antialiasing quality], will help you produce a smoother image quality, but, for the most part, this feature won’t be really noticeable unless you zoom your camera very close, and given how impactful this setting is, it’s adviced to turn it off if you’re having performance issues.
The [Antialiasing mode] included in the game are the high performance option [FXAA] which is slightly less taxing than the [MSAA] option; which consumes a bit more of resources, and the combination of [FXAA+MSAA] which makes certain objects in the game blurry.

• LIGHTING DETAIL & BLOOM

The next couple of settings are [Lighting detail] and [Bloom], in the most essential sense of the word, these settings will only help you produce a more realistic image, by simulating accurate light bounces on a specific areas and objects and “Enhancing light sources" (like suns, moons, fires and lava), keep in mind tho, the latter can be pretty aggresive to the eyes, so use moderately.

• ANISOTROPIC FILTERING

[Anisotropic Filtering], what this setting does is add a little more of detail to far away objects by making them sharper the higher this filter goes, for instance, if set to [OFF], far off textures will look slightly blurry, whereas in a high setting [16x] these far off textures will look sharper and nicer. In a similar fashion to Draw distance, if the game performance starts to dwindle down, it’s recommended to set this setting to OFF.

• FOREGROUND AND BACKGROUND FPS

Your [Foreground FPS], will define the amount of FPS your game will output and, like mentioned in the [Vsync] setting paragraph, one must take the Monitor refresh rate (Hz) into consideration when setting the amount of FPS desired. Similarly, the [Background FPS] should be set to a low number, because this is the amount of FPS you game will run at when you’re not actively playing the game (or in other words, when the game is running in the background while you "AFK").

• INTERFACE SCALING

The [Interface Scaling Setting] is mainly used for bigger monitors where your interface may look small, the higher this setting, the bigger your interface will be displayed at.

• SHADOWS & SHADOWS QUALITY

The game [Shadows] setting is pretty self explanatory, as it will display the environment shadows of a particular area. Disabling this setting will make the game look “flat” and slightly similar to the Oldschool RuneScape graphics. it is also suggested to disable this setting if you’re experiencing performance issues.
The [Shadow Quality] on the other hand, will only work if you have enabled the in game shadows and this setting will help define their “sharpness”, with [ULTRA] being the better looking one, or [LOW] which makes them slightly “blurrier”. The shadows setting can be somewhat taxing to your PC or Laptop, so disable this setting if you’re experiencing a poor performance.

• LOADING SCREENS

Depending on your personal preference, you can either enable the game [Loading Screens] or just disable them entirely.

• TERRAIN BLENDING

[Terrain Blending] is, in simple terms, a setting that allows the different floor textures to “blend together” in order to make them more fluid, if this setting is turned OFF, Textures will automatically get disabled aswell.

• SMOOTH CAMERA FADE

The [Smooth Camera Fade] is a setting only visible when certain objects get “cut” by your camera zoom; like walls, trees, rocks, buildings, etc.], the purpose of this setting is to “smoothen” the look of these cut objects, but other than that, it doesn’t really change anything important.

• MOUSE OVER ENTITY HIGHLIGHTS

[Mouse over entity highlights] this setting consists of an “outline” that appears around anything “clickable” when hovering the cursor over it. Depending on the object (item/npc/players/etc.), it will appear as a different colour, e.g: for the majority of NPC’s, it will appear as a Yellow outline, for interactable objects like Fishing Spots, Trees, Archaeology Hotspots, etc, the outline colour will be Cyan, on the other hand attackable NPC’s will glow with a Red outline when clicked.

• REMOVE ROOFS

[Remove roofs] is a setting that will remove the roofing and first floors from the buildings in the game, you can either set it to [ALL] to remove it from all buildings, or [SELECTIVELY] to remove them only after entering these buildings.

• WATER DETAIL

[Water detail] in short, the [LOW] setting makes the water look like a flat surface, without reflections or depth and it gets progressively "realistic" by adding more reflectivity: [MEDIUIM] to [ULTRA], keep in mind this setting is also taxing, so adjust according to your preference.

• AMBIENT OCCLUSION

[Ambient occlusion] simply put, this setting determines how much lighting should a space have depending on its features in order to make it more realistic. [SSAO] (Screen Space) is the least demanding, while [HBAO] (Horizon Based) has a higher performance hit. [OFF] would be the best option if you don’t mind losing this little feature in order to maximize the performance.

• TEXTURES

[Textures] this setting only has two options available, with those being [OFF] and [Compressed], disabling textures in the game will make everything look like a mesh of polygons without depth or detail, therefore, this can also greatly improve the performance of your game.

• VOLUMETRIC LIGHT

[Volumetric Light], this setting adds more realism to light emitting sources on certain skyboxes (like the suns or moons); similar to the Bloom setting, this feature depends, mostly, on personal preference and only if the brighter effects are desired.

• GAME RENDERING SCALING

[Game rendering Scaling] the higher this setting goes, the higher the overall image quality will look, however, this can be somewhat taxing for your computer. On the other hand, a lower setting will make the overall image quality look blurred out, but will increase the performance. Therefore, it’s recommended to leave this setting at 100% and adjust based on your performance and preference.

• CUSTOM CURSORS

[Custom Cursors] to keep it simple, these custom cursors are the iconic RuneScape icons displayed when hovering your mouse over literally anything in the game, like the attack icons, the food icons, the “use item” icon, among others.

• GROUND DECORATION

[Ground decoration], the purpose of this setting is to add more elements to certain areas of the game to make it more “rich looking”, things like Grass, Pebbles, Flowers, etc, are added to the ground.

• DEPTH OF FIELD

[Depth of field], this setting is often seen in photography, and what it does in RuneScape is blur far off objects in order to make them look less “Sharp” on the horizon and, provide a more pleasant effect. Keep in mind tho, this setting is only available if you have your draw distance setting on [ULTRA] or [HIGH].

• TREE CANOPY FADE

In short terms [Tree canopy fade] will fade out any and all Tree canopies around the character, in order to prevent the canopies from obstructing the visibility of the character.

• Futher information about the graphics settings

If you'd like to learn more about these settings, check out the following RS Wiki Link.
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WEAPONS, ABILITIES & FUNDAMENTALS

Finally, now that your user interface is stablished and, you understand what each of the graphical settings does in your game, let's move on to the Combat abilities and their fundamentals.
Keep in mind though, the ability bars shown on the cheatsheet require some levelling up and questing in order to fully unlock their potential and, as a new player, you'll have access to their "lesser variants" but, as you level up, these lesser variants will be replaced by the actual abilities.
Anyways, i highly recommend one of your early goals in the game becomes unlocking as many combat abilities as you can by levelling up and doing your quests, as these ability bars will allow you to get into bossing later on.

Quest Lists	Description
[Quests currently available]	There are a total of 229 quests with 40 free and 189 members-only quests
[Quest skill requirements]	Breakdown by skills
[Quest Completion Order]	This is a guide including the best order to complete your quests according to your levels
[Quest series]	Includes all series and plotlines
[Items & misc. rewards]	Useful and convenient items
[Experience Rewards]	Good to achieve those extra levels
[Quest walkthrough YT playlist]	[Created by: ImSikovit]

There's a couple of abilities you can unlock naturally while levelling up (as shown on the cheatsheet) and some of these are exclusive to a certain combat style and weapons (namely Two-Handed and Dual Wield Weapons), some of these abilities are unlocked by doing quests, and some of these are bought at the Grand Exchange or from other players, but some may be more expensive than others, [so always do your research on the current market prices], ALWAYS, DO, YOUR, RESEARCH before buying or selling items, because some prices shown in the Grand Exchange or Trade Offer price window may not be 100% accurate, specially for new or low volume items.
"Getting to know your abilities, and your ability bars".
You may notice these bars are “Revolution bars”, but what is Revolution Mode? Well, in the most basic sense of the word, Revo will automatically trigger your combat abilities as soon as they become available, going from left to right, and after the Global Cooldown has lapsed.
However, there's 3 ways of using the Revolution combat mode, you can customize if you want Revo to activate your Basic, Threshold or Ultimate abilities in the combat settings menu (more on that later):

1. The first one is used if you want to cast your Threshold abilities manually (making combat slightly more engaging), this means, Revolution will only activate your basic abilities (inside the yellow outline), any Threshold ability included inside this yellow outline won’t get activated as you will need to activate it yourself.
2. The second one, is allowing Revolution to use Threshold and Basic Abilities, This method is preferred in order to let the game do its own thing while you just manage your HP Points, Prayer Points, Prayers or curses and manually activate your Ultimate Abilities.
3. The final method is letting Revolution activate all kind of abilities automatically without any kind of manual input, however, sticking to this combat mode of Revolution can make it harder for you to progress further into “Full Manual” later on.

On that note, Revolution Mode exclusively for basics is quite good and a perfect middle ground as its learning curve should prove engaging and exciting, while also making room for improvement in the long run and transitioning into full manual.
With enough practice you'll reach a point where you may want to actively use all your basics abilities and jump naturally into full manual or, you could keep using revolution for basics whilst you activate some of the basics and threshold abilities yourself. Invariably, it really depends on your playstyle but keep this in mind:

“There is no correct way of playing RuneScape, there's just efficient methods, but even these keep changing and evolving over time, that's the true beauty of the game. It's an ever evolving game that you can play any way you want.”

[Alrighty then, with that being said, feel free to try out all of your abilities and build some ability bars, step by step, little by little].
On a similar topic, you have the Global Cooldown, which is divided in 3 sections (as shown in the Cheatsheet GCD Diagram), and the Ability Queueing.
With [ABILITY QUEUEING] enabled (in your Combat Settings), you can hit any Ability anywhere within the #1 and #2 Global Cooldown sectors; shown above, and it will fire once the GCD is done (you’ll know it’s done once all of your abilities “blink”).
If you were to cast your abilities once the GCD is at the beginning of Sector #3, and you had [ABILITY QUEUEING] enabled, your abilities will fire automatically without being queued.
Without [ABILITY QUEUEING], in order to fire your abilities you’ll need to cast them once the GCD timer is at the end of Sector #2 (or 2/3 of the way), as this will make your abilities fire once the GCD ends.

WEAPONS AREA OF EFFECT

Dual Wield Weapons are worn with both hands, Main Hand and Off-Hand, also, all shields and defenders are always worn in the Off-Hand Slot.
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• For melee the difference is quite simple:

2H swords help with AOE (Area of effect abilities) with Halberds being the absolute best 2h weapons to kill various mobs of monsters.
"Quick diagram about weapons area of effect damage and Bakriminel Bolts".
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• For ranged, the difference lies in the type of ammunition each weapon can use:

2H Bows & Longbows use arrows and some special bows (dubbed chargebows) generate their own ammunition, so you don't have to worry about it.
There's also "Shieldbows", who allow the usage of defensive abilities aswell as offensive abilities.
On the other hand, 2H Crossbows use bolts instead of arrows and this opens up a lot of cool bolts called Bakriminel bolts, which can be enchanted in order to activate some amazing and useful effects.
These bolts are what make 2H Crossbows a better pick than 2H Bows, as there's no special arrows for these Weapons; besides the "Blackstone Arrows", that applies a defense debuff to the target for 12 minutes or until it gets defeated.
On a similar note to DW Melee, Defenders (called reprisers for their ranged variant) help a lot with weapon switching, but also it benefits from a weapon called mechanized chinchompa, which makes each ability an AOE ability.
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• For the Magic weapons:

Mage follows the same rules but the 2H weapons are called Staves, on Mage's case, there's no big difference on the AOE damage abilities as both 2H and DW share the same ones (with a difference in certain thresholds abilities), and both weapons use the same spellbook abilities, so it boils down to each weapon effect and if you want to use a versatile playstyle by using a Wand + Defender (called rebounder in Mage's case), or a Shield. Sadly there's no chinchompas for magic but you there's a wide array of disruptive spells than can aid you in battle.
Each set of weapons enable the usage of specific Abilities and each weapon comes with their own subset of special effects, some weapons don't have them though.
For instance: 2H Swords are good for AOE Damage and when facing multiple foes at once, you can benefit from the Abilities: Hurricane, Quake and Meteor Strike to deal damage around you, but if you want to maximize the amount of targets you'll hit, you may want to use a Halberd Weapon.
If you're interested into more in-depth information about quests, game progression, tips, tricks & guides, feel free to visit the links below, to read more about these topics:

Video topic	Author
[Keybinds for PVM]	The RSGuy
[The Global Cooldown]	Pixel Green
[Tutorial about unlocking important abilities]	Sage Vanburo
[Tutorial about unlocking Shattered Worlds Abilities]	Protoxx
[Bakriminel Bolts basics]	Teh Proez
[Bakriminel Bolts Comprehensive Analysis]	Teh Proez

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GAMEPLAY SETTINGS

The Settings menu is divided into 5 different groups: [GAMEPLAY], [GRAPHICS], [CONTROLS], [AUDIO] and the [RIBBON]. On the following cheatsheets i'll showcase each option found on the [GAMEPLAY] tab and their function. Some of them will be images (as they're self explanatory and explain what they do) and others will be brief explanations on what each setting does, in order to make all these options easier to read and follow.
Under the [GAMEPLAY] Tab you'll find 8 Different subgroups (7 in the NXT client and 8 on the Steam Client), in the following table i'll explain in detail what each subgroup does:
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"The various settings tabs".

Subgroup	Description
Interfaces	Fundamentally, this setting allows you to customize the look of your interface windows, filter which interfaces and warning screens should appear in game, how certain items will behave when using them (like keeping vials after decanting potions or emptying buckets when using the farming skill), you can choose which buff bar icons show up and if you want to display the Game Clock or not.
Combat & Action Bar	Here you can change your combat modes (like Revolution and Full Manual, or the Legacy Combat Mode similar to the Old Fashioned combat mode), you can change your action bars visibility and ability queueing, alongside your action bar binding (which automatically changes your main action bar depending on the style of weapon you’re wielding), you can also change what kind of XP you get from combat, the way you attack other npc’s and your targeting settings along the colors your hitsplats (for aesthetic purposes).
Camera	Another essential feature you will find here is the camera mode, here you can choose the camera zoom modes which are extremely beneficial when fighting large Monsters (so you can see them better) alongside the sensitivity of your camera.
Skills & Experience	A lot of skills come with their own set of mechanics; from finding specicif parts of a mattock, to the amount of bosses you’ll be assigned for your reaper task and if they’re solo bosses or group bosses, all of these settings help you customize the way you interact with these skills.
Messages & Social	On this setting you can customize what kind of messages you’ll receive on login, during your game sesión, from your friends, clan, private and groups chat. You can also customize the colors of each message, the broadcasts from your friends, clan chat, or anyone in the same world, and also, you can customize the events that will be tracked by your “Runemetrics” profile.
Item Drops	This setting allows you to customize your Loot System interface (along various filtering options), you can also customize your lootbeams (pillars of light that let you know when you got an expensive item; defined manually, or a rare/unique drop), on the other hand, you can also customize if you want to receive Clue Scrolls or not, i’d highly recomment checking all of the checkboxes, as “Treasure Trails” are an amazing activity (and very profitable too) you can also enable lootbeams so you don’t miss out any of them.
Legacy	This option lets you customize your interface colors, minimap icons, skillcape models, and combat mode, to make it reminiscent of the old version of the game (the one you may remember from 2011).
Third Party	This is an exclusive option for the Steam Client, what it does is show the world you’re currently playing on (for instance World #2 or World #84) in your friend’s list status.

GAMEPLAY SETTINGS CHEATSHEETS

"The first part of the settings menu windows".
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"The second part of the settings menu windows".
For more information on the topic feel free to visit the Wiki Link.

CLOSING THOUGHTS

RuneScape is a game built around “freedom”, and all of these interfaces, ability bars and settings reflect that, while there’s no absolute best configuration, keybinds or interface, it’s always a good practice to try everything out and learn through testing, in order to find out the best results for our needs.
Whether you’re a new player strolling around the Free to Play towns, or you just bought your membership and are stretching your legs around the member’s only locations, everything you learned from this guide will help you.
One of the commonly asked questions i’ve seen posted on the subreddit and the discussion forums are: how to make as much GP/Hr? What kind of gear to buy, and in which order? What kind of bosses to fight for a given set of Levels? and, while the answers are changing constantly (as prices shift all the time and the Metagame evolves), invariably it comes to the same conclusion, which is:

“What you can do and how consistently.“

On the following links you can find complimentary information like Gear & Bosses Progression and a plethora of useful links, tips & tricks:

• Gear and combat progression.

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• List of useful links and tips.

However, before trying out these methods and finding out how consistently you can do them, one must start from the very basics of the game, understand how the game works and how to make it as reliable as possible whilst also looking as best as it can, and that’s the purpose of this guide, to teach you, the player, what every setting does, how does it impact your game experience and, showing you the fundamentals of the ability bars. The other half will come from your own experiences and how you expand on these foundations.
With that being said, Thank you for passing by, i wish you the best of luck and i hope you found this guide useful, see you all around and take care!

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Section One: Assets and Debt Use this section to explain your current financial picture at large.
Current NW: ~375k. I’ve been a high-earner for 2+ years.
Retirement Balance: As a business owner, I put in money into a SEP-IRA but wasn't able to prioritize it until the past 3 years. Current balance is: $39,238.79. My investment portfolio is $88,465.72. I also have a 7k+ pension from my union I'm working in contributing to.
Equity if you're a homeowner (and how much you put down and how you accumulated that payment): None
Savings account balance and Checking account balance (personal and business: $272,839.99. I keep a ton in a HYSA and in my savings. I have a huge upcoming tax bill and due to my illness I write about below I keep a couple years in savings. It is not what my financial advisor would most prefer but she understands that it makes sense for my particular situation. I’d rather put money into a house but haven’t been able to figure out the area I want to live in.
Credit card debt (and how you accumulated it): I spend a lot on credit cards (AMEX and CHASE) and pay it off every month.
Student loan debt (for what degree) Zero! I paid off high five figures debt. Immensely proud of this.
Anything else that's applicable to you
IF YOU COMBINE FINANCES WITH A S/O PLEASE INCLUDE ALL OF THEIR ASSETS / DEBT AS WELL
Section Two: Income
Income Progression: I've been working in my field for 10 years, my starting salary was $27,500. I wrote an income progression story prior to this.
Have you changed careers? Did you recently have a breakthrough in your career? Here is where you can tell us about your salary/job progression.
Main Job Monthly Take Home: It really depends on the month and what stage of a project I’m at. I get paid based on contractual milestones and I have a deal that pays me monthly. The range is from 10k to 76k per month and I pay taxes every 3 months. I would say my base is around 20k after taxes per month and paying for my researcher.
Side Gig Monthly Take Home: I have about 3 different jobs so I do believe some of the monthly is side hustle income but I kept it in the main spread.
IF YOU COMBINE INCOME WITH A S/O PLEASE INCLUDE ALL OF THEIR INCOME AS WELL
Section Three: Expenses
Please include ALL expenses relevant to you. Here's a good place to get started:
Rent / Mortgage / HOA fees (please specify how you split it if living with a partner): 3400 per month for the rental in the HCOL. It definitely the fanciest place I’ve rented in quarantine. My boyfriend pays 2k.
Retirement contribution if you contribute more than what’s as already specified from the income / pre-tax section. I contribute 1200 for my SEP-IRA per month (if I remember).
Savings contribution: I try to save a lot but right now but it’s hard to calculate as everything feels a bit irregular because of my income.
Investment contribution: For the past 6 months I’ve put 8500 towards my investment portfolio per month which I haven’t seen anyone else do so I’ll probably make it less than that per month for the future year.
Debt payments (please break this down individually and specify if you're paying above the minimum)
Donations (please specify if monthly or annual). Feel free to also put volunteer hours you normally do as well! 2k (Planned Parenthood, Recovery Organizations, Food Pantries, ASPCA, local domestic violence shelter). Aiming for 5k for this year. I give around 5k in family support per year.
Electric: none, taken care of in rent
Wifi/Cable/Landline none, taken care of in rent
Cellphone: I pay for my whole families’ cell phone bill which $414 for all of us.
Subscriptions: 199.96+, this is embarrassing and I even did editing of it last month. Right now for monthly: Netflix (13.99) Hulu ($10) NYT ($10) Patreon ($10) Sling ($40) Audible (22.99) RePost App ($4.99) HBO Max ($14.99) Spotify, split with BF ($6), Curology ($20), Barkbox ($27) Amazon Prime downloads around $20) All write-off able.
Yealy: YNAB ($80) Amazon Prime ($119) Blinkist (99.99) Amex Platinum (450) Chase Sapphire Reserve ($99)
Gym membership: I was a member of Equinox in the city and have spent SO MUCH on gyms in the past 5 years. I currently pay ZERO.
Pet expenses: Insurance is $59 b/c I have an adult dog. Food and toys average ~35 per month. I paid 3k in hospital bills.
Healthcare bills: I’ve paid around 15k the last 4 years in extra health care related costs due to a rare illness. Right now I have health insurance through my union! I pay ~50 out of pocket for meds.
Car payment / insurance: I’ve leased a car and it’s $299 per month and $140 for insurance (boyfriend splits this, so I pay $70 plus lease).
Regular therapy: 400 per month (specialized therapist) and 280 (healthcare professional)
Paid hobbies: Do you count buying apple products as a hobby? This year I had to buy a new souped up iMac ~3k.
Any other expense that's relevant to you
I have a ton of business expenses. Before I receive my take home I pay 10% of my gross income to my agent and 5% to my lawyer (so I pay 15% on top of the 475k but it goes immediately to them). I have a bookkeeper (250 a quarter) accountant (2-3k per year) and a full time assistant. My assistant is currently on one of my show’s budgets but I have paid for her out of pocket (1400 a week). I also pay for an executive coach 2x a month which is 350 a session. Union dues are around $250 a month but are dependent on how much I make. Website: $20 a month. I have my stuff in storage which is currently costing $150 a month but it was about 2k for the move back in July.
Shopping/Amazon: Average ~400 per month
Groceries/take-out: 1000 per month, split with my boyfriend. I am being real with you, please don’t drag me!
Inheritance: My parent passed away quite suddenly when I was in my 20s, the the assets were divided amongst the remaining children. I received ~35k
DAY ONE:
Excited to write a money diary! It’s going to be an expensive week, I think …
Last day of vacation! I sleep in until 9am and go downstairs to make some hot drip coffee. I check my email and I promise that I will NOT stay on email all day. I have some bitcoin/investing/banking stuff I have to take care of but mostly it’ll be a book in bed, watch tv sort of day which feels like I can do forever.
11a I email the bank manager asking some technical questions but it’s time sensitive due to estimated taxes so I know I should call but I email instead.
12p I watch a video about bitcoin and opt for a hot wallet versus cold storage. I read the directions *VERY CAREFULLY* as it all seems slightly difficult to comprehend how the best way to store bitcoin is.
12:30 It’s last day before work stress starts in a big way and I treat myself to my favorite meal which is beef noodle soup + scallion pancakes. I tip 25% $35.60
1p I head out for a drive through coffee at local starbucks (mask and hand sanitizer of course) I use my phone and it’s contactless. $5.31
2p I’m looking for some comfy pajamas and somehow find myself on Madewell. I can’t find what I’m looking for but I ordered a sweet constellation kerchief. $13.29
The rest of the day is spent in bed :) besides a light cycle ride.
Total Spend for the day: 54.20
DAY TWO:
8a: first day back at work after the break, snooze for 15 minutes. Wake up and remind myself to brush teeth before my coffee. I go downstairs and let the dog out and make coffee. I sip it as I call my assistant and outline the goals for the week/what happened over the break.
10:30a: call with my editor, we get on google hangout and discuss the strategy for getting the edit in the best possible place for the network.
12:00p: team call for my other series. I have a bigger team on this one and I mention I’d like to have a group communicable brainstorm and I'll pay for coffee/pastries to be sent to wherever they are currently working from. I love my team.
2:00p: I have a joint therapy session with my therapist and a family member. We are very close and it’s a good way to process some tough stuff. It's a good session with some salt! I work with a specialist who is quite expensive but worth every penny ($300 per session with 60% reimbursed at the end of the month by insurance so = $120). $120
3:15p: I quickly have to run to the bank for an in-person and scheduled meeting, I absolutely begged to do over the phone and they said no.. I need to move money to a newly formed corporation to pay estimated taxes. It takes 15 minutes and I wear a mask (and so does the manager). I pay 1.85 for parking. $1.85
3:45p: Like clockwork, I go to starbucks for the drive thru and order a soy latte to get me through the rest of the meeting. It’s delicious! $5.31
4:00p: I’m billed for my doggo’s insurance, worth every penny for the best girl in the world. $58.96
4-7:00p: In google hang out meetings the rest of the day and I feel like me and my team are on the same page. My boyfriend goes to pick up groceries, they grocery store attendant places it in the waiting trunk (thank GODDESS for these humans, can we get them the vaccine already!) $178 split = $89
7:30p: I made myself a quesadilla while my bf works late. I’m mad at him for throwing out some of my leftovers :(
9:49p: as you can see from yesterday I’ve been really getting into researching bitcoin and the bull run it’s been having. I check my portfolio and decide I want to move my monthly “fun” money from RobinHood to Coinbase and I purchase $50 more of Bitcoin and $50 of ethereum. I invest about 1% of my net worth in bitcoin as I believe in it as a system. $100
Total Spend for the day: 369.81
DAY THREE:
I wake up late as I started working after those trades and working my way through a book for work (or the late coffee). Suprisem I make coffee and the sweet doggo has already gone out. I start the day by eating some leftover eggplant dish. While enjoying a non-traditional breakfast I put on YouTube, I love watching an older tennis match to regulate my running brain . One of my employees needs to transfer court discovery off of a DVD. My assistant purchases a DVD player and burner on my business card for $22.04
My financial advisor does a bi-monthly call to verbally get my OK to release funds for the assessment. I usually do quite a bit but i’ll be paying A LOT in taxes this month. I verbally confirm 1000 to buy our usual index funds and mutual funds. $1000
My development producer is back from break and I am paying her out of pocket until one of current dev projects is financed. The rest of the team (6+ people!) is on currently being paid on my greenlit projects. $275 per day x2 = $550. I pay at the end of the week but want to keep track here.
It’s google-hangouts until a 2pm lunch where I throw some ham and some spreadable cheese w/ a pickle on a plain tortilla and my boyfriend makes me a fresh latte from our home machine, swooooon. I know I shouldn’t go to the drive-through but I love getting in the car and getting a little fresh air. For the rest of the afternoon, I read through my prep for my big network meeting tomorrow and fire off emails. I definitely need help tracking down a couple of deals and email my agent. I go for a walk with the doggo and chase her around while she gallops around, it’s beyond charming.
6:30p: I quit early and get on the airbnb’s echelon bike while streaming the Black List. I push it and am able to do around 40 minutes which is really good as I deal with a chronic illness that I developed a couple of years ago. It’s been a lot to process/manage. I stretch on the mat and detail the work out in my habit journal (this month it’s write a daily gratitude list, spin or go outside for a walk, read 10 pages, tidy around the house and do something nice for someone else). I then VERY POLITELY ask my boyfriend when dinner is likely to be ready and he reminds me not to ask that as he is not a private chef. He’s made a delicious meat sauce w/ egg noodles (while working through his incredibly demanding job) and I am very grateful. I pour us some diet pepsi from a 2liter like it’s a fine wine, he laughs.
8:30p, it’s after dinner and he wonders if we should order dessert from the greek place. The delivery charge is $7 which is highway robbery but he says he’ll splurge and pay for.
9:00p Damn, the show we have been watching has been pulled off the streamer. I rent the season for 9.99. $9.99
Total spend for the day: 1582.03
7:00a It’s FRIDDAAAAAY. Who doesn’t love a short week? I wake up early to get into a zen place before my network meeting. I brush my teeth, add some curology moisturizer to my face and head downstairs to make coffee. I for the first time in a while give myself a fresh cat eye and it’s only slightly crooked, score! I grind fresh beans from a European coffee shop (christmas gift from a colleague) and it’s truly like being there! Well sort of.
9:00a big meeting, it goes so well and is easy and we have some laughs. I remind myself not to be too nervous about these meetings.
10:00a I celebrate the good meeting by…. cleaning the kitchen. It was a wreck and I should have cleaned it last night but didn’t feel up to it. I use the second to last serving of eggplant and fry and egg in the skillet to put it over the cold eggplant dish. It ends up tasting quite gross because I undercook the egg whoops.
10:30a: I got my boyfriend the wrong sized shoe for a holiday gift. Whoops, I return the too small pair and purchase a size up. Shoe place will reimburse me but I want to make sure to get him the shoes ASAP. $127.61
11:00a: I have to pay state taxes and IRS by Jan 15th. My approve my accountant to pay the initial fee of $4500. I keep checking my account to see if it’s gone. $4500
12-5:00p it’s a true whirlwind and I end up getting a pretty distressing personal phone-call. I go for a 25 min walk and call my sister and she helps me feel better about the situation. I call my assistant and we start to build a presentation I’ll be giving to high school students next week on how to get an entertainment meeting and how to follow up. I orate and she jots down. She asks if it’s okay to deliver it back to me by Monday at noon. I have a fairlife milk latte and am still full from breakfast. I copy-check a proposal for another project and prior to sending it to the production company, it’s pretty good if I do say so myself.
5:30p my second in command on big project calls and gives me an end of week summary and I pepper her with questions, I feel like I’m sort of out of the loop and she does a great job of adding clarity. We edit some outreach emails together and set a couple of early in the week meetings.
6:30p I text back and forth with a pal and put on workout gear as I’d actually been wearing pants and a shirt and a real BRA all day! My boyfriend was shocked, how “normal” I looked. I get on the exercise bike and do a light 30 min spin while watching the Blacklist again. It’s pretty grisly and I’m not sure if I am going to continue watching.
8:00p we usually do delivery on Friday nights (my treat) but BF has decided to make some of the frozen lobster tail his parents sent us for Christmas. He makes lobster tail with angel hair pasta w/ some lemon, butter and pepper. It is… DELICIOUS. I also have my cake from last night’s delivery which we split.
8:30-10:00p TV and hanging with the rufus and talking about how Twitter finally kicked that jerk that is the current sitting president off their service.
10:00p I check bitcoin, it’s up to 40k, holy moly. I’m trying to reach 10k and then cash out my initial investment, we shall see.
Total Spend for the day: 4627.61
DAY FIVE:
Wake up like clockwork at 7am and go back to sleep. Lounge in the bed with the boy and the dog until 10:30 when my caffeine headache starts to abound.
11:00a One of my favorite festivals is having to do an online only version of the festival and I want to be sure to support. I ask my assistant to use the company card when she has a second. $199
12:00 I do some bed watching of videos I’ve marked for research. It’s nice to be in a house and use the upstairs. Bf has made an egg white only omelette which I think will be gross but it is actually quite good because it has fresh shallots and jalapeno. I grab a handful of chocolate chips to cap end the lunch/breakfast.
2:10p I’ve been researching an organization I’d like to contribute to. I’m in recovery from a substance abuse disorder and I wanted to find a BIPOC/recovery based org that passes the charity standards. I found an amazing organization in Minneapolis and donate 500 and send a personal note to the head of the org asking if there is anything more I can do for hethe mission. $500
2:30p: I have a zoom with my pals who I used to work and it’s a fun session where I get to ask A’s three year old so many sorts of questions. I obviously do not have kids and am semi-ambivalent but I do love the curiosity of kids.
3:30p: Bf has fresh french onion soup with gruyere cheese. It’s pretty fantastic and I couple it with the last remaining bit of my eggplant dish I made last Sunday and froze. Proud of myself for making and finishing a dish I meal prepared.
4:30p: I go for a very brisk walk while listening to audible, I’m reminded to reach out to a family friend and we set up a catch up-call for tomorrow. I watch tennis and a doc on Paris Hilton.
6:30p There’s a good tennis match on so I set up my laptop next to exercise bike and the minutes start to melt away. I used to be an exercise fiend before my chronic illness diagnosis and have for the last year REALLY ramped down my exercise which is fine. This week, I’m feeling like I'm back to my old self. I bike at an intermediate pace for 30 minutes and a lite pace for a remaining 20 min.
7:30 it’s dumpling night!!! Bf suggests a fancier place but then says no let’s do cheaper! I go all in and get peking duck and it is PRICY but pure HEAVEN. I get a dish for tomorrow too. 103.71 with tax and tip. $103.71
Total spend for day: $802.71
DAY SIX:
I sleep in, I usually zoom with my pals on Sunday morning but I wake up late and send an “opps” text. I grab the physical copy of the NYT and start with metropolitan and work my way into real estate. I’d prefer to have my money in a house versus the stock market but I’m not sure where I’ll live next so it’s not in the cards for the near future. I read and listen to classical music and feel like a fringe character on SATC. I bide my time until the tennis match at 12:30 by watching YouTube videos regarding a certain child actor star.
12:30 I start watching the match, it’s a pretty boring match so I offset it by reading reddit and playing with my dog. I got her a bark box in December and she loves playing with the toys. The rest of the day is a mixture of TV and couch and the internet and I have zero guilt about it.
3:00 I head outside to call one of my father’s best pals. We haven’t talked in years and he and his wife pop into my head and we launch into a fun catch-up call. I speak honestly about my illness (I know i’m so vague here) and it feels good to talk about it. I walk for around 30 minutes and then do a loop with the rufus. We plan to stay more in touch.
3:45 I jump on the echelon bike and do a light 30 minutes as my legs are pretty sore from yesterday. I do this more for mental health benefits than physical as it’s one of the core things that lifts my moods. I even bought myself star stickers to put on the calendar if I do 20+ minutes of exercise. For my illness, exercise is strongly urged.
5:15p: I had to Starbucks drive-through for a skinny mocha and a choco croissant. Meanwhile, I text two friends who have been going through a hard time and check in. I listen to a recovery podcast and sit in the car and meditate on all that recovery has done in my life. $8.80
6:00p: another super boring tennis match! Unsure why they’ve been so one-sided or why I am continuing to watch it? I read up more on said child actor Lindsay Lohan and read a bizarre story in the NYT “Here Is What Happens When You Cast Lindsay Lohan in Your Movie” it’s a disturbing. I help boyfriend slightly with dinner prep and we start to order groceries for the week but do not complete said task.
Total spend for day: $8.80
DAY SEVEN:
8:00am I wrote out my to-do list and action items the night before so I wake up knowing what needs to be done. I watch a couple of Graham Stephan response videos (really weird pastimes) and drink, you guessed it coffee. I load a new edit onto my monitor set-up and take notes, I really like where he is headed. I quickly write out the notes and give the editor a ring. I get a text from my producer on my other project and I do back to back meetings/calls to discuss on how earth we are going to film in the wake of the current COVID climate. I check bitcoin, huge market drop and is sitting at 32k.
For breakfast/lunch I make 2 over-easy eggs with american cheese on a plain tortilla and I throw on some sriracha for good measure. I pair with a fresh polar seltzer and some of the eggplant dish that we made again in sunday.
Meetings are dragging and I’ve had a coffee, a latte, a cold brew and another coffee. Realizing that coffee/caffeine runs my entire life, not uncommon for a person in recovery. I had to do a creative note-card session with my producers today which involves a lot of creative thought but I struggle with a caffeine crash around 2:30. I decide to go for a walk and listen to a famous recovery tape.
4:30 a medical appointment with a specialist via zoom. $140 a session. $140
5:30 I go to the mailbox and get a hospital bill for a CT scan that I had to get a couple of months ago. I get scans every 6 months. My insurance was billed 3181 (insane) but I am only responsible for $104.41. 104.41
6:30p time to hop on the bike. It’s gotten a lot easier and I do a light one and then do a full body stretch. I head upstairs to shower and boyfriend has made jewish brisket which is like a warm hug. We order another round of groceries which is 190, so $80 spit. $80
Total Spend for day: $324.41
Total spend for week: 7769.57 (minus taxes 3269.57)
Reflect on your diary: Yeah this was pretty average minus the 4500 in taxes, I spent a lot of money so it was really interesting to write this up and see where it all went. I come from a spender mentality and am trying to revert into a saver mode. I’m very interested in FIRE and have read several books. Mostly, I am just trying to be more mindful when using a credit card because it can become “I want, I buy” and my industry is very up and down so I really need to be committed and save. Thanks to everyone in this community, especially the mods. Xx

I started using Spotify in 2016 as a premium user and I loved it. It was not perfect, the last year the app on Android was really slow, but at least the deskopt app both on windows and Mac worked great.
I especially liked the discover weekly playlist it generated. I found so much good music with it. The daily mixes were good too but discovering new music was the main thing for me and I was worried about this when changing to YTM.
I canceled Spotify a few months ago and I have been using YTM since then. The reason was YouTube Premium. I joined a family plan so there was no point paying for Spotify having YTM included in my subscription.
Before changing, about a year ago (maybe more), I tried YTM with a free subscription that came with my phone to see if it was any good. I f cking hated it for one reason in particular. I could not stand having my YouTube likes feeding the YTM app. I wanted a fresh library and I thought it was stupid that it was not possible. For that reason alone I stopped using the app and continued using Spotify.
I am glad that now you can actually toggle off the YouTube likes, that was a huge plus for me.
After using YTM for a few months as my only music streaming service I have to say it's good, really good, but far from perfect, and I have to say far from its potential.
The app is really smooth, the UI is nice, clean and I noticed it has improved since I used it a year ago.
The music discovery is amazing for me. I did read in this subreddit that some people complain about it, but in my experience I always get great songs and playlist, all of them. The mixes it generates are good, make sense and really go through all my tastes. The discover mix pretty much always suggest songs that I like and at worst, don't dislike. I do use a lot the like and dislike buttons and I feel it does improve my experience.
I do have to say I spent about a week tuning my library and basically "teaching" YTM my tastes. I transferred playlist from Spotify, searched for a lot of artists to make sure there was enough data to start suggesting music based on my tastes. It did work, I have no complaints about music discovery and generated playlist.
There are some things I miss from Spotify like being able to quickly swap the queue from the computer to my phone. Also, being able to control the player with any linked device was nice, but I think I can live without that, it's a nice feature but not an essential one I think.
I think the PWA used to provide a desktop experience is good enough. It has its issues, it does not remember your scroll position, you can't download songs for offline usage, videos look and sound like crap, but besides that, it's the same experience as in mobile. It does the job its intended to do, which is to play music and give you access to your library.
The Android app works much better. It does glitch sometimes when downloading music, it gets stuck for a couple minutes downloading the same playlist, but after a moment it usually gets fixed. I do think it is really stupid that you can not search for a song within a playlist, but besides that, I don't really have any other issues with the app.
I do hope that the issues I mentioned here and other problems that many other users have reported here are fixed, because if only a few of those were solved, the app would be really amazing.
Sorry do the long post.

Hola,
So like most people born in Cape Breton I live "Away" now. A few nights ago I went googling for old episodes of TalkBack but couldn't find anything :(
I figured I would post youtube videos of the little stuff that reminds me of living in Sydney.
Other folks wanna share?
Mayflower Mall ad 1992 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8_EBwSVFnM
Ski Ben Eoin ad 1993 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ydX3MWs5bw
JR Raheys ad 1992 with Bette MacDonald https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcugk_8Brho
Jasper's commercial from 1989 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QM-O0AE15eI
It fucking hurt me when I heard Jasper's closed, I had been in Ontario for a few years but frig, the memories :(
Cape Breton Summertime Revue 1994 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQoDEQ_YzGA
My old drama teacher Maynard Morrison https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EH42eoDVW1E&t=5s
Christmas Daddies 2000 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mkc2Ry6jivE
The Legend of Kelly's Mountain, my grandmother used to play this all the time, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9qvNWPIVYI
This is kind of funny, I went looking for The Long Wall cd compilation and the top hit on google is "Building Subcultural Community Online and Off:An Ethnographic Analysis of the CBLocals MusicScene" by Bryce James McNiel whom I am 85% sure I went to Sydney Academy with https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/214033225.pdf
A tour of Sherwood Park Education Center, sorry Ms McCready but I still can't do math https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9qvNWPIVYI
I tried to find video of the BEAUTIFUL park behind it but couldn't :(
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Anyone want to post more?

TL;DR: Use the Unofficial Homestuck Collection, an offline archive of Homestuck and associated works with its own internal Flash player. (https://bambosh.github.io/unofficial-homestuck-collection/)
Three years ago, Adobe has announced that they will no longer be updating or supporting Flash Player after December 31, 2020. (https://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayeend-of-life.html#) Due to security concerns, major operating systems (Windows, MacOS) and browsers (Chrome, Firefox, etc.) will start to completely remove support for Flash Player after this date. This is a major concern for Homestuck and its related works, as the original Homestuck has [S] pages that require Flash for the original experience. A lot of the movies have been converted to HTML5 or Youtube videos, but it is still a different/inferior experience compared to the original. For example, there are some interactive game-like content that still isn't converted to HTML5, and the Youtube videos are quite low-res. Homestuck also employs some Flash techniques that changes the structure of the website, which cannot be mimicked with embedded videos.
Here is some info that may be useful to you:
Q. When is Flash going to end for my browser?
There will be updates on January for all major browsers (Chrome. Firefox, Edge, etc.) on January that completely removes the Flash Player.
Even if you download an older version of the browser to delay this fate, Adobe planted a killswitch to block all Flash content from running in their Flash player beginning January 12, 2021, so you will have to pick a version that is sufficiently old (somewhere before the killswitch was implemented.) (Source: https://www.zdnet.com/article/adobe-to-block-flash-content-from-running-on-january-12-2021/)

• Chrome: Flash will be completely removed from the browser somewhere in January. Flash will also be blocked on all versions of the browser. (https://www.chromium.org/flash-roadmap#TOC-Flash-Player-blocked-as-out-of-date-Target:-All-Chrome-versions---Jan-2021-)
  
• Firefox: Ending support for Flash in January 26. (https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2020/11/17/ending-firefox-support-for-flash/)
  
• Edge: As Edge borrows its web engine from Chromium, it would probably end up in the same fate as Chrome. (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/web-platform/site-impacting-changes)
  
• Safari: Flash has already been disabled in September 2020 (https://webkit.org/blog/7839/adobe-announces-flash-distribution-and-updates-to-end/)
  

Q. What are the solutions?

• Perhaps the only easy solution for right now, use the Unofficial Homestuck Collection (https://bambosh.github.io/unofficial-homestuck-collection/) by Bamboshu. This is currently the most complete solution for viewing Homestuck material, since it packages a whole Chrome browser with Flash support, so you do not have to worry about any Flash compatibility issues. It also contains efforts preserving the site's status before the retcon or some old deleted material that was deemed controversial, and it also contains some Homestuck-adjacent works that were removed from the old site. There are other nifty features as well, including high-res versions of music, an adjustable font size slider, custom themes, arrow key navigation, and lots more.
  
• If you just want to watch the Flash videos in video format but hate that the current Youtube videos on the official website are too low-res, you can use the videos from HomestuckArchived (https://www.youtube.com/c/HomestuckArchived/videos). This is also available as a Chrome plugin (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hs-archived/nndloomnepdkmbaohgomkojklffgncjm), which will replace the original videos automatically with the high-res ones.
  
• There exists an ongoing open source project called Ruffle that tries to rebuild the Flash player from scratch (https://ruffle.rs/). However, a lot of the Flash features are still incomplete, so complex videos such as [S] Cascade are still failing to work (https://github.com/ruffle-rs/ruffle/issues/437)
  
• There is a website called HTMLStuck that uses the aforementioned Ruffle player to play all [S] pages (https://j-james.me/htmlstuck/) as close to the original. I've tried it, and a surprising amount of Flash content worked just fine.
  

I use spotify and pay for its premium service, but I also have used my Google play music for years! There's a lot of songs I've bought in my library that I love that I cant just get from spotify.
But my favorite part about google play music was being able to access my music library anywhere without it taking up my entire phones memory. I loved the interface I loved how its play lists work. It was great.
Again, I do have spotify for random albums I dont have or for when I just want to listen to a genre, but I also have a lot of music that isn't on spotfiy. Or sometimes I dont know what I want to listen to, so I browse what I own and pop in Sons of Sylvia or the trans Siberian orchestra for example.
I've looked a little into the YouTube music Google is telling everyone to do, but it doesn't sound like my cup of tea. What music app does everyone else use or recommend?
Thank you so much for all the help!

Seriously, we need it.

A few things about me -

• I am a student (title... duh...)
• First Mac that I own, had previous experiences using friends'.
• I do not do video/audio editing (unlike most Youtube reviewers).
• I hated Macs from the bottom of my heart because of their price to performance ratio.

So let us start from the very beginning.
I didn't believe a single thing Apple claimed in the announcement, and also I didn't believe any of the early reviews. This is the same company who makes laptops that need to be run inside a freezer to get optimum performance (MBP 2018 if I am not mistaken) and hangs if 5 copy paste starts (happens to all MBAs of old of my friends). But the continuous stream of reviews convinced me a little. Barring the fact that most if not all reviews were of video editing, and maybe playing Shadow of the Tomb Raider at 30 FPS in medium. As if that is the only thing Mac users do. But if it can play a AAA title at 30FPS, then it is better than an Intel/AMD U-series chip. Also the RAM management seemed awesome. So I went for it.
And then the wait started............
It took exactly 29 days for me to place the order at the vendors' and him calling me up to get it. And today will be the seventh day that I have been using this continuously. And I mean continuously seriously, except for the time I am in the bathroom or sleeping I am always on this. Setting it up with my preferred softwares/apps, testing different settings, binging, etc.
I hear you ask, 'So how is it then?'
From the top then... (I will be mentioning most things as points ending with [Pro] or [Con] if I feel so)

1. This MBA is the first thing I have ever unboxed without a knife or any sharp object, that was a weird feeling.
2. The charger is sooooo small (compared to my other laptops), and the cable is almost as thin as a mobile charging cable.
3. The laptop feels denser than it looks, a similar-sized Windows machine usually looks thicker but feels lighter, because of the weight distribution of the components I assume, but this machine is thin and feels heavier than it should, but still much lighter than my gaming laptop. No complaints here.
4. And yes it switched on instantly, didn't need to press the power switch at first boot.
5. I know that iPads and iPhones need an internet connection to set up for the first time, the Mac didn't need it till I needed to use the AppStore.
6. The display is just f*cking gorgeous. I have a lot of monitors in my lab including good LG widescreens, none of them come close to the quality of this display.
7. It came with Big Sur 11.1 out of the box.
8. Next came setting things up, like moving the extremely annoying dock out of the way, made it small, shifted to the right and hid it.
9. Feels like MacOS is relatively more customizable out of the box than Windows is, but nowhere as close to a Linux DE.
10. It was already lunch-time by the time I tweaked a few settings. So I was watching some show online then, and my god the display is awesome and so is the audio quality, they are just fabulous.
11. I was dreading the keyboard since I personally use a mechanical keyboard with Cherry Red switches on my main workstation and given the horrible horrible quality of the butterfly keyboards I was genuinely scared. But fortunately, it turned out that my worries were unwarranted. The keyboard is pleasant to type on and I can type quite fast on it as well. But I will surely not claim that my speed is better than on my mech. The keys have relatively low travel but give reasonable feedback when typing fast.
12. Finally coming to the software. What I use mostly have ARM versions available. VSCode, Firefox, Brave, and a default terminal.
13. It is a bit difficult to find good, free software for the Mac, that is plentiful for my Linux system. I didn't find a good looking FOSS SFTP client to access my lab systems, paid options are there like Mountain Duck, but as I said free options are a little less, at least for my use case.
14. Battery life is very good, but DO NOT BELIEVE YOUTUBE REVIEWS about it.
15. It lasts long, very long compared to something else with similar performance. It barely lasts me a day, yes barely. Starting around 11 am or so, it lasts to about 8 pm or so given my use case, not continuous always, it is closed during physical meetings, breaks, etc, about 2 to 2.5 hrs.
16. I have Gmail open continuously, have at least 2 classes daily to either take or teach, so a continuous audio + video streaming + screen sharing. Along with this, I have Google Drive, Google Classroom and Youtube Music always open as well. Plus Google Colab, Jupyter Lab, Google Docs/Slides/Sheets tab also open half the time.
17. As for apps, I have Signal always running, itsycal, Rectangle, Flycut clipboard manager and a few other menu bar apps always running as well.
18. In between the day, I have a few video calls with other students, and I use the speakers whenever I am in my dorm room and headphones in lab.
19. At night I again watch something during dinner. After this my battery is usually at 2 to 3%.
20. I think it is a pretty normal use case for a student.
21. Just a point, I use Lulu, an open-source alternative to Little Snitch, it blocks outgoing connections from the system, like if I do not want Microsoft to know about how I am using VSCode, I can completely disable it's internet access to MS servers, and I have.
22. So approximately I am getting 7 to 7.5 hours of screen time given that many of the apps internet connection has been blocked giving a little more juice than normal.
23. I use VSCode (ARM version) to connect to files remotely. If it is left alone at night, it crashes by morning, don't know why. And I can't quit it even from the Activity Monitor. This has happened thrice till now with me. But it doesn't crash with local files.
24. Safari can't connect audio on Zoom. You have to use the app.
25. Not all ipad/iphone apps run when exported using iMazing like Netflix, and also if you need fullscreen in those apps, you are out of luck.
26. You cannot run .ipa files downloaded separately. Says integrity cannot be checked, this is after disabling SIP.
27. I have not compiled anything in Python or any other language for that matter in this laptop, used ssh to do whatever is needed, but I do plan on doing so soon.

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Till now I feel it is worth it. It is light, loud and last long. If you guys want to know something specific, feel free to ask, and if it some extensive test you want me to run then I will give that update on my 1 month review.