I wish more people stop hating on Excel. It's an incredible tool with cool stuff baked in (Python support, PowerQuery, etc.). Just because some people misuse it as database or it doesn't scale well beyond a couple of 10k rows does not make it a bad product. For 90% of daily office tasks it's just fine.
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I think royalties from <1k streams are basically nothing anyway. Giving up the ability to distribute your music for free and reach more people would be a terrible idea.
If you have a newer macOS version on an entry Intel machine, ordinary tasks can cause a lot of fan noise. You can activate Low Power Mode [1] to reduce clock speed and therefore the fan will not be as loud. See if the reduced clock speed does not interfere with your daily tasks.
> My decision to delete Facebook is not captured in their data.
I think for some people, it is. If I want to "delete Facebook" then I want to delete my account and every data associated with it. This is often not a straight forward process because sometimes the delete account option is buried in settings, you have to contact support, fill out a form, etc. Hence a quick search will guide you through the deletion process.
I've spun up Hitchin' a Ride by Green Day and I think the results are quite interesting. Despite them being completely different from one another, they somehow manage to catch the vibe of certain sections of the song.
So a lot of comments here suggest copying it to another application and process it there.
Two points from my side why I would not do that:
First, you can do this directly in Excel either with a regex expression in a macro [0] or PowerQuery [1].
Secondly, I don’t know about the authors example but generally if you have to do something like this the column is likely to be one out of many, i.e., part of a table. I can’t point my finger to it but I imagine there might be a lot of steps in that process that could go wrong (formatting issues, altering table scheme, etc.)