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Nissin Cup Nudist posted:If Facebook is the old person social media, what is Something Awful then 
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Nissin Cup Nudist posted:If Facebook is the old person social media, what is Something Awful then a bus station where the bus never arrives
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Jul 31, 2022 20:35
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What do you want me to do, post on alt.something.awful?
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Jul 31, 2022 21:02
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Nissin Cup Nudist posted:If Facebook is the old person social media, what is Something Awful then Dead/dying unfunny forum etc. etc.
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Jul 31, 2022 21:16
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PT6A posted:I'd agree with that, with the proviso that using subscription fees to monetize after the growth phase would probably turn a lot more people off than the occasional ad, and then you lose a significant portion of the network effect. It seems like excessive advertising may also be doing that to a certain point, which is where the "continuous growth" mindset can be blamed. I finally cracked and paid for YouTube and oh god it is so good. The sound quality seems better than Spotify and it seems roughly as good at guessing what I like. Also: no more fuckin grammarly ads.
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Jul 31, 2022 21:24
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sebmojo posted:I finally cracked and paid for YouTube and oh god it is so good. The sound quality seems better than Spotify and it seems roughly as good at guessing what I like. Also: no more fuckin grammarly ads. If Youtube Premium was JUST ad-free on all my devices without any of the other features it'd still be worth every penny, especially now that it appears that you can't install Vanced anymore.
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Jul 31, 2022 21:38
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Unlock origins still seems to work and is the sole thing making web browsing sane anymore.
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Jul 31, 2022 21:40
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UCS Hellmaker posted:Unlock origins still seems to work and is the sole thing making web browsing sane anymore. Get a pi-hole and your mobile browsing gets much better as well. I run mine in a docker image on a 10 year old small form factor dell along with a bunch of other stuff. When I'm out of the house my phone VPNs to my home network so I still get ad blocking as well. It can break things sometimes, but you just whitelist what you need to or disable it temporarily.
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Jul 31, 2022 21:46
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Vegetable posted:Facebook and instagram would be perfectly fine if not for Apple’s privacy changes, as someone above mentioned. Their ecosystem was fine and even flat user growth would have still meant healthy profits. That’s why they’re trying so hard to own the platform of the VR world. They got hosed over by all the existing platforms and can’t wait to get onto from under their thumbs. 'healthy profits' isn't enough in our current capitalistic hellworld. Look at all the doom and gloom articles when Netflix announced a shrinking user base. It isn't enough to be a profitable company. If you can't provide infinite growth for shareholders, your company is trash and they will abandon you and your company will wither away and die.
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Aug 1, 2022 01:11
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Tuxedo Gin posted:'healthy profits' isn't enough in our current capitalistic hellworld. "10-13% shareholder growth every year to infinity!" 
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Aug 1, 2022 01:19
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Someone make the “only x, no y” meme where x=growth and y=revenue.
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Aug 1, 2022 01:24
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Heck Yes! Loam! posted:Get a pi-hole and your mobile browsing gets much better as well. I run mine in a docker image on a 10 year old small form factor dell along with a bunch of other stuff. When I'm out of the house my phone VPNs to my home network so I still get ad blocking as well. This is great, but it doesn't help with YouTube ads. If you want to block those on mobile, just install F-droid, the open source dork app store, and look up NewPipe. It's an ad free YouTube app that can play with the screen off, without any ties to buttcoin nonsense.
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Aug 1, 2022 02:57
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Blue Footed Booby posted:This is great, but it doesn't help with YouTube ads. This fuckin' rules, thank you!
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Aug 1, 2022 04:13
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sebmojo posted:I finally cracked and paid for YouTube and oh god it is so good. The sound quality seems better than Spotify and it seems roughly as good at guessing what I like. Also: no more fuckin grammarly ads. YouTube music caps out at 256kbps while Spotify premium is 320kbps. So any improvement you are hearing is in your head. 
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Aug 1, 2022 08:37
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Mega Comrade posted:YouTube music caps out at 256kbps while Spotify premium is 320kbps. So any improvement you are hearing is in your head. Not necessarily, YouTube Music uses AAC while Spotify uses Ogg. Different codecs have different sounds, like most other audio stuff codec preference tends to be subjective etc. please don't take this as an endorsement of audiophile insanity though. nobody should ever pay more than $8 for a cable etc. Basically nobody's wrong for enjoying music! blunt fucked around with this message at 10:48 on Aug 1, 2022 |
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Aug 1, 2022 10:45
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blunt posted:Basically nobody's wrong for enjoying music! Coincidentally YouTube music has an excellent collection of all my favorite skinhead punk and national socialist black metal albums.
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Aug 1, 2022 11:04
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Mega Comrade posted:YouTube music caps out at 256kbps while Spotify premium is 320kbps. So any improvement you are hearing is in your head. My guess would be that YouTube does compression/eq a bit differently, but it's also completely possible it's in my head I haven't done any a/b testing
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Aug 1, 2022 12:04
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YouTube premium is worth every penny. I put my family on my plan and they were so happy when their ads went away.
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Aug 1, 2022 14:50
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I doubt even one out of ten people can tell the difference between 256kbps and 320kbps.
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Aug 2, 2022 05:08
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Vegetable posted:I doubt even one out of ten people can tell the difference between 256kbps and 320kbps. The people that can afford decent equipment probably have hearing that tops out at 15,000khz or less anyway
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Aug 2, 2022 05:14
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Heck Yes! Loam! posted:YouTube premium is worth every penny. I put my family on my plan and they were so happy when their ads went away. I'm an Apple TV user and too lazy to set up a Pi-Hole, Premium is the only thing making YouTube watchable.
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Aug 2, 2022 05:19
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Vegetable posted:I doubt even one out of ten people can tell the difference between 256kbps and 320kbps. With my gold-plated system, of course I can!
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Aug 2, 2022 12:12
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Made me think of this thread:Goon Boots posted:in our contemporary age the atomization of our lifestyles demanded by the corporations intertwined with them means even infidelity can not be done properly anymore
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Aug 2, 2022 18:33
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For the sake of discretion, charges to your credit card will appear as Vandelay Industries
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Aug 2, 2022 19:48
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Nissin Cup Nudist posted:If Facebook is the old person social media, what is Something Awful then The Forever 21 of internet communications. Old, out of date, thinks it's edgy but is really just taco bell jokes, constantly committing copyright infringement, and eventually bankrupt and sold off to someone desperate to keep its lights on for their own sake. 
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Aug 2, 2022 20:24
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Textbooks are back: in NFT form!quote:Textbook publisher Pearson plans to profit from secondhand sales by turning its titles into non-fungible tokens (NFTs), its chief executive has said. You wouldn't RIGHTCLICK-COPY a CAR, WOULD you?!
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Aug 2, 2022 20:49
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Absurd Alhazred posted:Textbooks are back: in NFT form!  All of my college professors knew that textbooks were a racket but were generally powerless to stop it.
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Aug 3, 2022 02:28
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Absurd Alhazred posted:Textbooks are back: in NFT form! These idiots just reinvented serial numbers for software licensing.
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Aug 3, 2022 04:46
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There's that meme of Neo from the Matrix that goes "Born too late to own property. Born too early to be a TikTok star. Born just in time to pay 99¢ for a ringtone." It also applies to me right when textbook companies began to kill off the used textbook market with serial key backed software components.
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Aug 3, 2022 05:00
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Pearson's been doing that poo poo for years, they had digital components to supposedly help you study that you then need to pay for (or are active goddamn parts of the class plan so you have to pay for it) The smart move always will be to get an older edition used then toss it back on the market. Maybe 2 editions behind so you pay 5 bucks. Also gently caress nursing books because there's no loving difference but the schools demand you pay a grand for 3 books you literally never use
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Aug 3, 2022 10:41
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UCS Hellmaker posted:Pearson's been doing that poo poo for years, they had digital components to supposedly help you study that you then need to pay for (or are active goddamn parts of the class plan so you have to pay for it) This was quite a shocker when I moved to the US and started grad school. Oh, that's why you don't hire more of the grad students to teach, you're having the undergrads pay extra for new licenses so software can do a lot of your homework and grading for you. It's not tuition or "fees", so not your budget, not your problem!
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Aug 3, 2022 15:11
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Sundae posted:The Forever 21 of internet communications. Old, out of date, thinks it's edgy but is really just taco bell jokes, constantly committing copyright infringement, and eventually bankrupt and sold off to someone desperate to keep its lights on for their own sake. I'm charitable and think of it as more of the dingy Elks Lodge or something, with an aging and mostly male population coming back to the same comfortable bar stools year after year.
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Aug 5, 2022 02:03
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Volmarias posted:I'm charitable and think of it as more of the dingy Elks Lodge or something, with an aging and mostly male population coming back to the same comfortable bar stools year after year. Okay, but what's the surrounding community like. We talking kinda edge of the gentrifying town but there's still the "old town" that still consists of mobile homes and immobile trailers? We talking the cookie cutter suburbia sprawl with every other house being a meth lab and the ones in-between have jury-rigged propane tanks attached into the dwelling's gas line? Or are we talking the little quaint town where certain types of people shouldn't be out after dark because the denizens who are out then are the ones who still use slurs on the regular after stumbling out of the bar that would never water down drinks?
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Aug 5, 2022 03:34
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IDK man I just spend most of my time on the bar stool.
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Aug 5, 2022 04:46
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I just found out that HBO Max - the only streaming service I consider worth a drat - is going away
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Aug 5, 2022 16:35
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BiggerBoat posted:I just found out that HBO Max - the only streaming service I consider worth a drat - is going away I'm thinking more and more about getting a paid proxy and just torrenting. They won me over with convenience years ago, but now streaming is
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Aug 5, 2022 16:45
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BiggerBoat posted:I just found out that HBO Max - the only streaming service I consider worth a drat - is going away Yeah the Discovery merger sucks rear end. This is some Bain Capital poo poo. HBO Max was the standout during this extremely stupid time in which every network decided they had to have their own streaming option. cat botherer posted:I never get why mergers like that always seem to torch the more successful of overlapping businesses. Who the hell watches Discovery+ ? I have bad news for you regarding the viewership and financial success of Discovery vs HBO.
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Aug 5, 2022 16:46
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I'm just gonna cancel everything and return to the old ways and just browse the stuff for rent at the library and see what seems interesting in that moment. My Audible subscription is the one I probably get the most for my money out of but even then the subscription model is pretty bad if you're in it for the credits, and nowadays a library membership gets you access to big streaming catalogues anyway
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Professor Beetus posted:I have bad news for you regarding the viewership and financial success of Discovery vs HBO. 
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Paramount + will probably be the only one we don't just cancel when we're caught up with everything. Women's soccer + Star Trek is enough for us, especially since there will be approximately 20 star trek shows by 2025. Unfortunately it's just numbers baby. Discovery is still available to basically anyone with a cable sub which is still a distressingly large number (streaming balkanization has undoubtedly help stop people from making the switch or driven them back to cable). Ad revenues on cable are still extremely lucrative. And most importantly, cheap lovely reality TV is way cheaper to churn out constantly than the scripted stuff HBO primarily produces. (I mean really lol, those people on home makeover shows and poo poo don't even typically get their projects bankrolled lmao). I'm not sure how successful a show has to be on HBO for Discovery execs to keep producing, but I think the recent news is proof enough that it's going to be an extremely high bar to clear. And of course critical acclaim doesn't necessarily mean something is commercially successful. It's still wild to me that they merged and instantly went to town dismantling the single best streaming service in the business for short term financial gains (and massive tax write-offs; I'd bet dollars to donuts that Batgirl isn't even bad, and at the very least probably worth watching for Michael Keaton reprising Batman again). But 
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