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doctorfrog posted:https://news.yahoo.com/amazons-prime-video-will-start-serving-ads-on-january-29-unless-you-pay-extra-040529534.html We have Max, Netflix, and Prime subscriptions. Pirating their content and accessing it from Plex is so much better than watching through the respective platforms, and it’s only getting more so.
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Big Bowie Bonanza posted:American jew here. is the active genocide of Palestinians really “political”? I for one had no idea that sodastream was Israeli and it chased me off buying one? I think it’s worth pointing out and nobody was getting out of control Mumpy Puffinz posted:A white American here. I think we should be able to talk about the Palestinian genocide. Just because it happened to you does not mean you can do it to someone else. im the mod that made the palestine donation thread and i'm far from the average GBS politics stance here, a lot of the politics posters in this here forum would hate my guts if they heard em i don't want to go over it because lots of people have horrible opinions on poo poo they don't put actual thought in to. gbs is not the forum to expect people to have put in actual thought on their political opinions. cspam and d&d both exist and you can post your thoughts there, this thread is for every day poo poo. AARD VARKMAN fucked around with this message at 07:15 on Dec 27, 2023 |
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AARD VARKMAN posted:im the mod that made the palestine donation thread and i'm far from the average GBS politics stance here, a lot of the politics posters in this here forum would hate my guts if they heard em I do get what your saying, but, DND and C-SPAM are for everdayers and zealots. Why can't we have a regular conversation about things that are political in GBS? I know you aren't paid, but it is your job to MODerate those things. Kicking down the line isn't moderating
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I am personally sorry to have started such a derail with a passing side-gripe I wanted to make about finding out a product I had been consuming was associated with a right-wing genocidal movement. It was a way in which I had noticed something being shittier, but I did not intend to poo poo up the thread.
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doctorfrog posted:https://news.yahoo.com/amazons-prime-video-will-start-serving-ads-on-january-29-unless-you-pay-extra-040529534.html Uhg gently caress this I'm gonna delete all my streaming apps and start a hobby like gardening or painting or an onlyfans
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ChthonicMasturbatr posted:I am personally sorry to have started such a derail with a passing side-gripe I wanted to make about finding out a product I had been consuming was associated with a right-wing genocidal movement. It was a way in which I had noticed something being shittier, but I did not intend to poo poo up the thread. Unfortunately the moderation of Internet forums is another thing that has become full of shittiness
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Armacham posted:Unfortunately the moderation of Internet forums is another thing that has become full of shittiness There is a weird place, over 20 years old, that has bucked this trend, generally. However one must understand that moderation of any discussion, especially one as charged as an occupation that has lasted almost a century, is going to be difficult and moderators are just regular people with extra buttons to push.
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The problem is that anyone who does that job for free is either power hungry, or an idiot.
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Armacham posted:Soda stream is Israeli so that's enough for me to boycott them anyway. Aww gently caress didn't know that.
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Don't worry though, they closed the sweatshops and fired all of the Palestinians.
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Mahatma-Squid posted:The new ones are so poorly made we've had two break themselves just pressing the lever against the pressure in the bottle. The little CO2 cylinders are so expensive compared to even small cylinders for home brewing, so that's what I use instead now. I'm gonna have to look into this. Already looking into ways to refill the cartridges myself, so at least I don't give more money to Sodastream. I have a big CO2 bottle for welding but apparently this works on liquid co2 and needs a siphon tube. Looks like an extinguisher can do as a cheaper CO2 source.
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You do want food grade gas. You don't want traces of whatever process chemicals to be squirted into your soda. I wouldn't use a welding cylinder tbh.
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His Divine Shadow posted:I'm gonna have to look into this. Already looking into ways to refill the cartridges myself, so at least I don't give more money to Sodastream. I have a big CO2 bottle for welding but apparently this works on liquid co2 and needs a siphon tube. Looks like an extinguisher can do as a cheaper CO2 source. AGA has cartridges but the issue is for here is when you get the discounted refills from the supermarket, they’re SodaStream branded. Which is bonkers because AGA was Swedish owned, now German, why the gently caress are we not using those for refills instead? I do wonder if it’s particular to where I get them refilled and my local ICA is just going with what may be easier, because I know I’ve gotten AGA refills in the past. Anyhow, there are alternatives that are food safe, just gotta look for em. Coincidentally SodaStream is how I learned about BDS initially.
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As for lovely thing: Meta I’m glad you have threads, but showing me intentionally ragebait posts on IG to entice me to use Threads is a massive deterrent. The problem with Twitter wasn’t that it was not owned by Meta, it’s the whole “all engagement is good engagement even if it’s calling for genocide” bit.
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teen witch posted:AGA has cartridges but the issue is for here is when you get the discounted refills from the supermarket, they’re SodaStream branded. Which is bonkers because AGA was Swedish owned, now German, why the gently caress are we not using those for refills instead? I found there are bottles of another brand called Wassermaxx for sale locally, which are sodastream compatible and a refill of those is 4.90€ which feel pretty acceptable, though I bet if I calculated the price / kg compared to my 6kg welding gas bottle it'd be more expensive. But at least then I won't be giving more money to Sodastream.
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And speaking of enshittification, having to use an app to park. I just got reminded of that because I got an SMS from EasyPark saying they've had a data intrusion and my personal information got stolen. It suure is a sensible and good idea to have to use a loving app to park your car. It makes me long for cash back.
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poo poo Fuckasaurus posted:God I hate saying this but we need QCS back. It's been back since February.
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His Divine Shadow posted:I'm gonna have to look into this. Already looking into ways to refill the cartridges myself, so at least I don't give more money to Sodastream. I have a big CO2 bottle for welding but apparently this works on liquid co2 and needs a siphon tube. Looks like an extinguisher can do as a cheaper CO2 source. Definitely go for food grade CO2 as mentioned. I tried refilling canisters and personally thought it wasn't worth it, it was fairly time consuming and pretty easy to mess up and accidentally waste a bunch of CO2. Check out local home brew stores, last I checked here roughly $30aud for a refill of a 2.6kg cylinder was pretty common, but obviously your own market may be completely different. You can also get adaptor hoses to connect standard size gas bottles to soda stream machines, but I haven't tried them personally.
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Welp, getting rid of Prime is gunna be my new years resolution I think.
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doctorfrog posted:https://news.yahoo.com/amazons-prime-video-will-start-serving-ads-on-january-29-unless-you-pay-extra-040529534.html After my last post about how bad Hulu has gotten, I got a VPN and canceled all my streaming subscriptions except for Prime (I order a lot from Amazon) and HBO (it comes with my ISP for some reason). It's wild that if I want to watch something on Amazon, I'm incentivized not to use their service. Free and fast shipping isn't even much of a differentiator for Amazon any more. I should probably just cancel my Prime account
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We have YoutubeTV because my wife demands some sort of cabletv access. I sat down and tried watching it live over the holidays. Every 8m:30s of programming they would show 4m:45s of commercials. 14 commercials per break. An hour and a half movie took two and a half hours to air. What the christ. You don't even get ad free Youtube with YoutubeTV! Edit: I think this breaks FCC rules! quote:Cable operators may transmit no more than 10.5 minutes of commercial matter per hour during children's programming on weekends and no more than 12 minutes of commercial matter per hour on weekdays. Cable systems must maintain records available for public inspection which document compliance with the rule. Philthy fucked around with this message at 15:56 on Dec 27, 2023 |
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It feels like Spotifys shuffling has continually gotten worse or they added some stupid ai poo poo to it. I’ve got a couple of playlists of a few hundred songs and while it’s never been great lately I feel like it always shuffles the same songs into the top of the order. Please stop playing Juicy Spotify I beg you there’s like 300 other songs in this list
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teen witch posted:As for lovely thing: Meta I’m glad you have threads, but showing me intentionally ragebait posts on IG to entice me to use Threads is a massive deterrent. I like instagram because I can follow a lot of cool homesteading accounts and the update to try and push threads just made me delete my threads account. Every single linked threads post was either super racist or extremely transphobic, or in many cases some unhinged Zionist take
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I'd get rid of prime but their cloud storage for photography is still really cheap, presumably because so few people use it that it's not worth Amazon's time to get rid of. Does anybody know of an alternative cloud storage provider that allows 50+ TB of .cr2s for $10/mo?
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Cerekk posted:I'd get rid of prime but their cloud storage for photography is still really cheap, presumably because so few people use it that it's not worth Amazon's time to get rid of. Does anybody know of an alternative cloud storage provider that allows 50+ TB of .cr2s for $10/mo? Good luck migrating 50Tb of anything between 2 cloud providers.
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Salt Fish posted:Good luck migrating 50Tb of anything between 2 cloud providers. I have it all in local storage too, it's just emergency storage. (Amazon *has* made sure to make their interface clunky enough that it's not useful to professionals that need to access their photos in a timely manner).
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His Divine Shadow posted:I found there are bottles of another brand called Wassermaxx for sale locally, which are sodastream compatible and a refill of those is 4.90€ which feel pretty acceptable, though I bet if I calculated the price / kg compared to my 6kg welding gas bottle it'd be more expensive. Yes! That’s the brand name! We bought bottles compatible with our machine and they’ve worked like a charm. Big Bowie Bonanza posted:I like instagram because I can follow a lot of cool homesteading accounts and the update to try and push threads just made me delete my threads account. Every single linked threads post was either super racist or extremely transphobic, or in many cases some unhinged Zionist take Likewise, IG is my main social media platform and that’s fine! But gee posts saying everything but explicit 14 words is not a great way to advertise a social media platform. I really don’t understand who thinks that seeing this poo poo makes anyone want to engage. Hell, any of the Twitter-a-like platforms seem uniquely lovely. So IG it is, and IG it shall remain.
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ubereats used to be the best app for finding a place that serves a specific dish because the "restaurants" tab shows dishes matching words directly. it still does that but now it's sorted by Algorithm with no regard for your search term, so you can scroll for 45 seconds before seeing a place a mile away with your exact thing on the menu.
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Welp, just got hit with "Adblockers are not allowed on YouTube!!!" popup for the first time ever. And, of course, for an ad-free experience, I can pay them money. You know, like I've been doing with Prime and Max. Let me just open up these "change of service" emails and see how thats goin...hmmm
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teen witch posted:Likewise, IG is my main social media platform and that’s fine! But gee posts saying everything but explicit 14 words is not a great way to advertise a social media platform. I really don’t understand who thinks that seeing this poo poo makes anyone want to engage. Hell, any of the Twitter-a-like platforms seem uniquely lovely. Yeah I got another dumb “white men are the most oppressed class in America” threads suggestion today and of course all the other ones in the carousel were bigotry. Are there Safari extensions that I can use to clean up instagram, the same way there are some that clean up YouTube? I think I’m gonna ditch the IG app entirely except for when I check messages. It’s just….way too crappy to use the app nowadays.
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Professor Shark posted:It was nuts, describing how each department competed with one another, to the point they sabotaged each other at the expense of the store, and there were meetings where department heads refused to share laptops or projectors during tech hiccups. It sounded like Rapture but the CEO thought it was perfection. Not sure if this is the same article, but the whole thing is pretty crazy. quote:He radically restructured operations, splitting the company into thirty, and later forty, different units that were to compete against each other. Instead of cooperating, as in a normal firm, divisions such as apparel, tools, appliances, human resources, IT and branding were now in essence to operate as autonomous businesses, each with their own president, board of directors, chief marketing officer and statement of profit or loss. https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/4385-failing-to-plan-how-ayn-rand-destroyed-sears
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800peepee51doodoo posted:Welp, just got hit with "Adblockers are not allowed on YouTube!!!" popup for the first time ever. And, of course, for an ad-free experience, I can pay them money. You know, like I've been doing with Prime and Max. Let me just open up these "change of service" emails and see how thats goin...hmmm For you and anyone else getting this messhae ublock origin blocks it perfectly. You just got to go into the settings and hit 'clear.cache' and 'update' (moght not be the exact terms) when you start getting messages. The two buttons are right at the top of the settings page. I've only had to do that twice so far and haven't neen bothered in about a month.
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buglord posted:Are there Safari extensions that I can use to clean up instagram, the same way there are some that clean up YouTube? same place that has blinker fluid based on what I’m seeing among my friends and Reddit, everyone’s pretty disgusted at this method of advertising a new platform which I suppose is good?
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SlurredSpeech609 posted:Not sure if this is the same article, but the whole thing is pretty crazy. That is batshit insane.
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Pennywise the Frown posted:That is batshit insane. First time hearing about libertarians, huh?
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Pennywise the Frown posted:That is batshit insane.
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MrTargetPractice posted:For you and anyone else getting this messhae ublock origin blocks it perfectly. You just got to go into the settings and hit 'clear.cache' and 'update' (moght not be the exact terms) when you start getting messages. The two buttons are right at the top of the settings page. This doesn't work for me, it worked for a day, now it never works. I have to use FreeTube (Windows app only AFAIK), which works 100%.
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Silicon Valley has always had a strong affinity for Ayn Rand. That sorta explains this whole thread.
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