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Aug 26, 2023 17:19
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Mumpy Puffinz posted:not with that attitude. What happened to the Punks? gently caress the man! The punks now exist as an industry to sell ugly black clothes and music that sounds like music from 50 years ago.
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Aug 26, 2023 17:24
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Punks are all parents in the suburbs now.
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Aug 26, 2023 17:25
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Americans are a conquered people, they will go into the recycling and processing centers going "it's god's will, nothing can be done about it"  as they await dissection
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Aug 26, 2023 17:26
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average americans having some money to spend on some stuff has been THE economic engine for most of a century and it’s been decided that we just aren’t doing that any more
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Aug 26, 2023 17:39
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Why should you be able to afford stuff? Just buy it.
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Aug 26, 2023 17:42
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Just got a new router from Rogers Communications in Canada and holy poo poo they moved all the basic network settings* into a loving app? An app? For your own home router?!? *port forwarding, and changing the ACTUAL WIFI PASSWORD And I just saw that episode of IASIP today too Isentropy fucked around with this message at 20:26 on Aug 26, 2023 |
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Aug 26, 2023 20:21
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Fitzy Fitz posted:Everyone gets your kids Slice & Dice It's still not on iOS from the look of it. The dev was asking for beta testers so I got excited but it's been like.. a year+ I think? 
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Aug 26, 2023 20:26
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Woolie Wool posted:The punks now exist as an industry to sell ugly black clothes and music that sounds like music from 50 years ago. withak posted:Punks are all parents in the suburbs now. So SLC Punk was real, except no one is trying to take the system down from the inside
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Aug 26, 2023 20:27
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Isentropy posted:Just got a new router from Rogers Communications in Canada and holy poo poo they moved all the basic network settings* into a loving app? An app? For your own home router?!? I bought a mesh router system from Motorola, and it has an app as well, but none of those settings are even available. You can set the SSID, password, and wifi bands, that's it. You can't change subnets, dns server settings, restrict IP ranges or anything. And you can't tell the router to turn off DHCP at all. These things are completely useless to me.
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Aug 26, 2023 20:33
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ATT provides us with a lovely modem+router that doesn't even have Quality of Service. I asked for a new one and they gave us one that has 5g Wi-Fi!!! But is the same lovely brand and still doesn't have QoS. My router in 2004 had QoS, what the gently caress. Maybe if their service didn't suck dick we wouldn't bog down so easily but with the pittance of bandwidth we are allotted, it doesn't take much. Pretty awesome. They're finally installing fiber in the neighborhood so we can upgrade to that but I'm not counting on it being that much better..
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Aug 26, 2023 20:36
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Mumpy Puffinz posted:So SLC Punk was real, except no one is trying to take the system down from the inside there's a line in that talking about something like "we were all so sure the world was gonna end" and like, it didn't, so wtf do we do now? and I kind of think about that a lot
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Aug 26, 2023 20:41
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Light Gun Man posted:there's a line in that talking about something like "we were all so sure the world was gonna end" and like, it didn't, so wtf do we do now? and I kind of think about that a lot See, thats why I like that REM called their song "The End of the World as We Know it"
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Aug 26, 2023 20:44
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Netflix recommendations make YouTube recommendations look like mind reading. Yo, I said "Not for me," I never want to see Adam Sandler's goddamn face again
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Aug 27, 2023 00:23
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Grocery store poo poo-tier bread loaves now come with an odd number of slices. The total weight didn't even change, they are just willingly slicing it wrong.
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Aug 27, 2023 10:53
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Tewdrig posted:My kid has a phone now and asked for a game to play while on the bus. We put angry birds on there, but it's now a complete mess of ads and ate up 127mb of data the very first bus ride. i think you used to be able to get the old version that was just a game, but they took that off the app store lmao
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Aug 27, 2023 11:05
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doctorfrog posted:Netflix recommendations make YouTube recommendations look like mind reading. Yeah I wish there was a "gently caress off I never want to see this poo poo again" button. I don't give a toss if Young Sheldon is in the top 10 this week, I don't want to watch it, I will never watch it, I don't even want to acknowledge it's existence, stop showing it to me.
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Aug 27, 2023 11:54
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doctorfrog posted:Netflix recommendations make YouTube recommendations look like mind reading. It's hard to make good recommendations when everything on your platform is putrid garbage
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Aug 27, 2023 12:04
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When Plex inevitably gets shittier for no good reason it's all over. I give up on tv
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Aug 27, 2023 15:08
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Fitzy Fitz posted:When Plex inevitably gets shittier for no good reason it's all over. I give up on tv Buddy I got a lot of MKVs that refuse to convert correctly I’d like to show you (why can’t it just work why we gotta do this song and dance)
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Aug 27, 2023 15:11
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Fitzy Fitz posted:When Plex inevitably gets shittier for no good reason it's all over. I give up on tv Plex was giving me the business last night so I crammed an HDMI cable into my laptop and finished my movie on a sketchy streaming site. Still preferable to the smart tv/streaming experience. Speaking of which, I babysat for a neighbor last night and have two specific bones to pick vis a vis streaming services. HBO/Max/Whatever this year's branding is: did you fuckers seriously have the audacity to hardcode ads into your actual video files? Like did you seriously weld garbage-rear end advertisements for your lovely superhero IPs to the front of every TV show I want to watch? gently caress you with a pineapple. Netflix: Why can I only scrub forward/backward in ten second increments? This movie is 7,200 seconds long and you assholes forgot my progress in the last twenty minutes, now I have to spend literally ten minutes holding down the FF button which, wouldn't you know it, totally breaks the loving app after about forty seconds. Also, while I'm at it, why don't any streaming platforms offer search filtering in their UI? I'd love to filter poo poo so I can find movies or shows that fit my genre, runtime, release date, and review preferences instead of just being told to watch another new dumpster fire docuseries every time I search for anything.
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Aug 27, 2023 15:32
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I want to go back to getting dvds by mail
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Aug 27, 2023 15:35
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euphronius posted:I want to go back to getting dvds by mail If we lived in a bizarro timeline where someone didn't think of the discs-by-mail model until 2023 they would be burning custom discs with commercials in them and the skip/ff feature disabled. Modal Auxiliary posted:Also, while I'm at it, why don't any streaming platforms offer search filtering in their UI? I'd love to filter poo poo so I can find movies or shows that fit my genre, runtime, release date, and review preferences instead of just being told to watch another new dumpster fire docuseries every time I search for anything. "No need. The algorithm will just show you what you want to watch." wash bucket fucked around with this message at 15:50 on Aug 27, 2023 |
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Aug 27, 2023 15:41
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They sort of had that with the region locks . Not quite but you can the similar thinking
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Aug 27, 2023 15:43
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wash bucket posted:"No need. The algorithm will just show you what you want to watch." But what if the thing I want to watch is the algorithm catastrophically collapsing into itself like a supermassive dying star?
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Aug 27, 2023 15:55
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The algorithm cannot fail, my friend, only be failed.
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Aug 27, 2023 15:56
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euphronius posted:I want to go back to getting dvds by mail Wish granted. They're all DIVX discs now with embedded ads.
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Aug 27, 2023 16:05
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Modal Auxiliary posted:But what if the thing I want to watch is the algorithm catastrophically collapsing into itself like a supermassive dying star? I think that's scheduled for 2029
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Aug 27, 2023 16:15
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Modal Auxiliary posted:Also, while I'm at it, why don't any streaming platforms offer search filtering in their UI? I'd love to filter poo poo so I can find movies or shows that fit my genre, runtime, release date, and review preferences instead of just being told to watch another new dumpster fire docuseries every time I search for anything. You'd see how pitifully small their selection is, and the whole model is about passive consumption of whatever they've bought the rights to this month (that will be gone next month).
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Aug 27, 2023 16:22
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wash bucket posted:If we lived in a bizarro timeline where someone didn't think of the discs-by-mail model until 2023 they would be burning custom discs with commercials in them and the skip/ff feature disabled. I don’t know how common it is anymore given the state of the rental market, but by the end-days of Blockbuster movie rental stores, studios were actively producing “rental” discs that were often just the film and a closed caption track, and maybe subtitles/dubs for a second language.  Realistically, this was probably fine - if you’re just renting a movie, chances are you don’t care too much about all the other stuff they’d pack onto retail discs. But it just always kind of blew my mind that the market had reached the point where such discs even made economic sense.
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Aug 27, 2023 16:31
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I see those kinds of DVDs at the library, and sometimes the quality is pretty crappy too, to boot. The DVD of Dune looked like a grainy mess, such that the end credits were completely unreadable.
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Aug 27, 2023 16:46
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That is hilariously Capitalism.tm
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Aug 27, 2023 17:39
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is there a technical term for it when someone is driving, you are shotgun, and every single radio station is playing ads, so the driver just keeps flashing through each programmed station after 2 seconds until a good song is found? Because turning OFF the radio is never an option. Or turning it down low enough you can barely hear anything. poo poo thing in basic: radio stations who coordinate so they all play similar ads but they're all about 5 seconds off each other.
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Aug 27, 2023 17:48
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Cowslips Warren posted:is there a technical term for it when someone is driving, you are shotgun, and every single radio station is playing ads, so the driver just keeps flashing through each programmed station after 2 seconds until a good song is found? This was my experience every time I drove anywhere with my ex-fiance. From the moment we got in the car until we got to our destination it was 2 seconds of every single station over and over and over.
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Aug 27, 2023 17:51
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libraries have physical media that isnt just books, they have dvds, and theres a decent argument that they killed the private biz model of renting movies. also those red box movie rents also still exist.
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Aug 27, 2023 17:53
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Cowslips Warren posted:is there a technical term for it when someone is driving, you are shotgun, and every single radio station is playing ads, so the driver just keeps flashing through each programmed station after 2 seconds until a good song is found? I call it "drive time purgatory." 60% of my motivation for buying a new (used) car was the auxiliary input.
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Aug 27, 2023 17:55
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Only cave men listen to radio in the year 2023.
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Aug 27, 2023 17:58
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Fitzy Fitz posted:When Plex inevitably gets shittier for no good reason it's all over. I give up on tv I've been using Jellyfin and Swiftfin for iOS to replace Plex and it's been great, I'm running the server in a docker container on my NAS. Navigating the apps is a bit different and I've encountered an annoying bug with the AppleTV app where it won't automatically play the next episode in the season but other than that, I'm very happy with the apps. https://jellyfin.org/ https://github.com/jellyfin/Swiftfin e: I was playing around with it and I think my issue with autoplaying was the experimental player, doesn't seem to be happening when I select the regular one now. digitalist fucked around with this message at 15:10 on Aug 28, 2023 |
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Aug 27, 2023 18:02
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withak posted:Only cave men listen to radio in the year 2023. i don't have to drive very much (like 5-10 minutes at a time) so i don't gently caress with pulling out my phone and getting the Bluetooth connected and opening Spotify and selecting something when I had a real commute of course I bothered but now I hear 15 minutes of radio a week instead. 2 sets of 6 presets and I only have to go to the second set to find a single station playing music about half the time 
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PhazonLink posted:libraries have physical media that isnt just books, they have dvds, and theres a decent argument that they killed the private biz model of renting movies. How could libraries do this to us
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