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There used to be a way to clear all cache on android through the files app and now there isn't/I can't find it
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# ? Aug 29, 2023 19:16 |
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# ? May 27, 2024 02:49 |
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I don’t know how old people are dealing with all this garbage. It’s overwhelming
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# ? Aug 29, 2023 19:20 |
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They get angry and vote Conservative to punish people
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# ? Aug 29, 2023 19:29 |
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euphronius posted:I don’t know how old people are dealing with all this garbage. It’s overwhelming they yell at anyone younger to "fix it". I have at least two people in my life that watch a lot of TV and absolutely cannot or will not learn the concept of inputs. totally mystified by the concept. despite using the drat things hours a day for ages. I figured out inputs when I was like 5, shits been around since at least the 80s, what's the problem?? why do I have to fix the thing you use all the time and I use never?? shouldn't you know it better than me?
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# ? Aug 29, 2023 19:42 |
euphronius posted:I don’t know how old people are dealing with all this garbage. It’s overwhelming Bruh I literally work in IT and was raised by a computer () and even I just get exhausted dealing with it all. I turn into an old(er) person when encountering TVs now because every UI and remote is totally different from all the others and the menus lag like crazy no matter what, and then having to type in that Ouija board interface. Soon as you learn something, it shuffles around. Light Gun Man posted:they yell at anyone younger to "fix it". Learned helplessness. Any obstacle, either ask for help or better yet get very angry and loud and then people will come to soothe you and do the thing for you.
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# ? Aug 29, 2023 19:46 |
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You Are A Elf posted:My book copy of Watership Down is my older sister’s from 1978 and was passed down to me since I saw the movie several times before reading the book. Across the top it says, “America’s beloved #1 bestseller, now an enchanting motion picture!” That's right, it's enchanting! Don't ask where anybody is, we never asked where another rabbit is....
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# ? Aug 29, 2023 19:49 |
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The lagging menus are really the worst becuase there is no feedback !! You have to have faith it’s going to work
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# ? Aug 29, 2023 19:50 |
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euphronius posted:The lagging menus are really the worst becuase there is no feedback !! You have to have faith it’s going to work I shop at Tom Thumb regularly and when my tank has some room I check if I have fuel rewards at the gas station. You have to hit the YES button for it to prompt you to enter your phone number, but it takes long enough for the screen to do anything that you will probably press it again, so when the screen does change and you go to start entering digits, the 2nd YES registers and you get punted back out for invalid input I don't do it often enough to remember it, so it happens every drat time.
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# ? Aug 29, 2023 19:53 |
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I have a Phillips smart TV that I like, but I don't use any of the smart features other than to turn it on and off with my voice. Everything else is through my ps5 or Kodi box, since I don't watch broadcast TV (because gently caress paying for Tory propaganda). But the Netflix/prime apps on PlayStation are getting shittier, and the Disney app was always poo poo. Remember how stuff like iTunes/apple music and Spotify pretty much eliminated music piracy because they gave us usable interfaces* and great content selection at reasonable prices? I feel like the film industry looked at that model and then decided to make it as loving horrible as possible. You have to have at least half a dozen services to get even half of what you want to see, and they're all determined to make the experience as annoying as possible, making piracy once again far quicker - and often in better quality - with no loving ads or dumbass algorithms trying to push garbage that I'm not interested in. *Okay they also have increasingly poo poo UIs too. It's like they WANT us to pirate poo poo.
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# ? Aug 29, 2023 19:59 |
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Iirc Jobs was fighting the music industry every day to keep old iTunes functional
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# ? Aug 29, 2023 20:13 |
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euphronius posted:Iirc Jobs was fighting the music industry every day to keep old iTunes functional Remember when the first iPhone came with an unlimited data plan because Jobs insisted that was the only way anyone would feel comfortable using the internet on their phone?
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# ? Aug 29, 2023 20:23 |
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Ooo fun. Youtube is managing to sneak ads by uBlock Origin somehow. Only a couple have made it through though, it's not the ad infested fest that the normal experience is. I wonder what's happening.
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# ? Aug 29, 2023 20:27 |
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paramount plus doesn’t work with a vpn, and crashes constantly I can’t get through an entire episode of any of the new star tracts
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# ? Aug 29, 2023 20:29 |
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naem posted:paramount plus doesn’t work with a vpn, and crashes constantly I ran into an issue with Paramount once where it would play more than 30 minutes of commercials for a 20 minute show. I honestly don't know if it was the intended behavior.
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# ? Aug 29, 2023 20:40 |
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wash bucket posted:Remember when the first iPhone came with an unlimited data plan because Jobs insisted that was the only way anyone would feel comfortable using the internet on their phone? I had that !! And then my credit card lapsed Becuase of the date on the cc and they canceled the unlimited plan immediately hahah. I wonder if anyone is still grandfathered in
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# ? Aug 29, 2023 20:42 |
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euphronius posted:I had that !! And then my credit card lapsed Becuase of the date on the cc and they canceled the unlimited plan immediately hahah. I wonder if anyone is still grandfathered in if they're on ATT they probably are. I'm grandfathered into a (relatively) new ATT plan that had some crazy promotion which included HBO/Max/Whatever for life. They occasionally call to review my plan but nothing is better.
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# ? Aug 29, 2023 21:01 |
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hazardousmouse posted:Ooo fun. Youtube is managing to sneak ads by uBlock Origin somehow. Only a couple have made it through though, it's not the ad infested fest that the normal experience is. I wonder what's happening. It happens every now and then, usually ublock updates within a day to sort it out.
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# ? Aug 29, 2023 21:31 |
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hazardousmouse posted:Ooo fun. Youtube is managing to sneak ads by uBlock Origin somehow. Only a couple have made it through though, it's not the ad infested fest that the normal experience is. I wonder what's happening. Try these steps:
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# ? Aug 29, 2023 21:51 |
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Well thanks! Gonna get right on that, gently caress those ads
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# ? Aug 29, 2023 22:04 |
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You Are A Elf posted:My book copy of Watership Down is my older sister’s from 1978 and was passed down to me since I saw the movie several times before reading the book. Across the top it says, “America’s beloved #1 bestseller, now an enchanting motion picture!” somewhat related to this, I like how some new books say "has a neflix adaptation " or even more lol, a streaming service that isnt the Big 3(4?). that a book will survive David Zaslav tax holing the video adaptation also since we're on dumb tv chat again. is there a different between commercial displays or commercial tvs?
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# ? Aug 29, 2023 22:17 |
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Coming in hot with a new one: I've noticed that in recent years an increasing number of websites with search filters refresh the entire page every time you add a single filter. It makes me furious in a visceral way that I do not fully understand.
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# ? Aug 29, 2023 22:34 |
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Between food being far too expensive and entertainment not only going downhill, but basically stopping now with the actors strike, it feels like a bad omen. When you cant provide the people with bread and circuses they start getting pissed.
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# ? Aug 29, 2023 22:45 |
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All this poo poo with music and movies is because in 1998 some executive spent 5 minutes with their grandson who showed him how easy it was to mass burn CDs. That's it, boom, death of a form factor. Nightmares about profits and free rides, and entire industries changed.
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# ? Aug 29, 2023 23:10 |
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Microwave meals have gotten shittier. For awhile they graduated up from packaged sadness to actual decent food but have recently started to plummet right back down. I especially love that allot of them now no longer use a simple plastic film, but a plastic baggy, meaning the bottom of the tray gets covered in crap and extricating it from the baggy is unpleasant. Double so for the ones that want you to stir it half-way through, meaning you've got to negotiate the drat thing back into the wet plastic baggy.
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# ? Aug 29, 2023 23:13 |
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WILDTURKEY101 posted:Between food being far too expensive and entertainment not only going downhill, but basically stopping now with the actors strike, it feels like a bad omen. When you cant provide the people with bread and circuses they start getting pissed. Yeah but we got legal weed now (your mileage may vary).
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# ? Aug 29, 2023 23:13 |
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redshirt posted:Yeah but we got legal weed now (your mileage may vary). Even weed is weird now.
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# ? Aug 29, 2023 23:20 |
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In my state we just have fake weed sprayed with chemicals
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# ? Aug 29, 2023 23:43 |
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Fitzy Fitz posted:In my state we just have fake weed sprayed with chemicals That's the worst. They know we can taste it...
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# ? Aug 30, 2023 03:57 |
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armpit_enjoyer posted:I have a Philips flatscreen from 2006 and I dread the day it stops working because it's got a surprisingly decent RGB upscaler built into it for some reason? It makes my Dreamcast games look all sexy and crisp and it's the primary reason I refuse to replace it. That's actually just how Dreamcast games look.
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# ? Aug 30, 2023 04:29 |
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redshirt posted:Can you use a "smart tv" without internet? Never connect it. Yeah, just skip the Wifi step. My mom needed a new monitor for her PC recently and the prices for 26" LCD monitors and 48" 4K TVs were literally the same, so guess what we got. Works like a dream. (especially for anyone with aging parents. Giant screen and 300% scaling. holy poo poo man. my folks are so happy)
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# ? Aug 30, 2023 05:36 |
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Local broadcast TV. 20 some years ago you could turn on local TV programming and you'd have some decent variety in late night/weekend content to make it a bit worth keeping an eye on. Today, even with all the subchannels on antenna, it all feels far more bland in selection.
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# ? Aug 30, 2023 05:52 |
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skooma512 posted:Learned helplessness. Any obstacle, either ask for help or better yet get very angry and loud and then people will come to soothe you and do the thing for you. I miss the days of being able to "fix" computers, TVs, and other electronics for people by reading the words on the screen out loud to them. These day if a grandparent asks for help with Facebook or voice controlled microwave oven or toilet that needs an app to flush it I have no idea what the gently caress is going on.
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# ? Aug 30, 2023 07:09 |
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Old people must love 2FA
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# ? Aug 30, 2023 07:26 |
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Armacham posted:Old people must love 2FA Oh. My. GOD. I was part of a 2FA rollout for biometric Windows login to a law firm comprised in no small part of individuals 50 and up. The way they bitched, you'd have thought we were kneeling during the national anthem while telling them to get vaccinated.
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# ? Aug 30, 2023 08:28 |
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bing home page just showed me a headline that PM Sunak had resigned Incredible
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# ? Aug 30, 2023 13:58 |
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JediTalentAgent posted:Local broadcast TV. Perhaps one exception: Comet TV. I get it over the air, and its daily lineup is Stargate/Grimm/Buffy/X-Files. They have frequent Godzilla marathons on the weekend. Outer Limits, Tales from The Crypt, etc. It's great.
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# ? Aug 30, 2023 14:08 |
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Who the gently caress does this poo poo benefit? Does Hyundai want their products marketed as a hosed up Kronenburg Mini Coupe?
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# ? Aug 30, 2023 14:15 |
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What is that website supposed to be ?
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# ? Aug 30, 2023 14:16 |
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euphronius posted:What is that website supposed to be ? Houston Chronicle I know lovely AI generated ads have been a thing for a minute but I’m just now starting to see them
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# ? Aug 30, 2023 14:18 |
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# ? May 27, 2024 02:49 |
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I bought a french door refrigerator from Best Buy about a year ago, and today I still get promotional emails from them about french door refrigerators. As if I would not only be in the market for another french door refrigerator in less than a year, but if I were in the market again I would somehow be willing to buy another one from the people who sold me a poo poo french door refrigerator that crapped out after a year.
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# ? Aug 30, 2023 15:55 |