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Wild EEPROM posted:I wonder how all the common podcast advertised products actually are. I use NordVPN and it's alright as far as I can tell.
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The Grumbles posted:I know he probably gets hate in this thread because he's on the influencer side of the tech spectrum - and all the algorithm chasing in his vids do annoy me, the overediting, the English guy americanizing the prices and narrative for that bigger audience slice, the strange forced RP accent masking a real Nottingham accent, etc etc... but I was surprised by how much enjoyed Arun's latest video! A lotta fun seeing all these weird cheap India knockoff gadgets nah gently caress that https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jiNy2ZDiHQ
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Wild EEPROM posted:I wonder how all the common podcast advertised products actually are. My mom got me a Ridge wallet for a birthday/Christmas gift this year. I like it more than a normal wallet because of how much smaller and more compact it is. It's not as stylish as a traditional leather wallet, though.
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Wild EEPROM posted:I wonder how all the common podcast advertised products actually are. it also doesn't do super well compared against other vpn's with a bunch of trackers and other things they also block torrenting last i saw
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Wild EEPROM posted:I wonder how all the common podcast advertised products actually are. I suspect the answer to all is "basically fine but overpriced so they can afford to do youtuber discount codes"
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Squarespace is fine and pretty much the standard for what they offer Raycons used to be overpriced garbage but they have a pretty rapid and stealthy update cycle, and now they’re just fine. They’re not better than what you can get from a lot of <$100 earbuds from more reputable brands or even Anker, etc, and they’re definitely not better than Beats or Apple or Sony/Senn/etc. I wouldn’t get their $80 buds over other, more name-brand, buds in the same price range and I super wouldn’t pay Beats Fit Pro or AirPods Pro 2 money for their flagship stuff Athletic Greens is a scam. Eat more vegetables, make green smoothies, take a multivitamin, and/or drink some Metamucil for any/all of the benefits they claim. Vessi shoes: the Invicta Watches of shoes Ridge Wallet: seems good for what it does, a bit to Tacticlol for my tastes Manscaped: not sure about their proprietary skin-protecting tech, but I doubt it’s any better than what Norelco/etc have for their body grooming products. The one time I held a manscaped trimmer the chintzy plastic and build reminded me of the no-name trimmers they used to sell in gift grooming kits at Macy’s.
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I was skeptical of Vessi, but ended up really liking them. They are indeed waterproof but also quite comfy. They're my go to beater shoes and I wear them most days. But they're impossible to clean once they're stained. I used Squarespace for my wedding website and it was great. It's not the cheapest but anyone can make something that looks great. Kind of a no brainer for a business to justify the cost, given how easy they make updating it so it stays relevant.
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The Vessi store in a mall here is insanely busy they seem like actually quite popular shoes. I thought about a ridge wallet but then decided nah.
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Feb 28, 2024 20:40
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I loving love my Vessi's. Super comfortable, waterproof etc. Totally worth it.
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I’ve almost bought a pair of those shoes a few times but I really wanted to see them in person. I didn’t know they had stores now so I’ll have to check them out.
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Feb 28, 2024 21:44
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That anti-gravity pen thing Better Health mental health counselling, although I hear that more on podcasts than youtube vids, but it seems to be *everywhere* on podcasts.
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The shaving gear from Manscaped is hot garbage. Surprisingly, their boxer briefs are incredibly comfortable. I had a neighbor that relied on Factor meals because they were so busy with their job they literally never had time to cook for themselves. They had no complaints, but they also had the spare cash to throw at them. They spent something like $650/month on those meals alone. I've been thinking about getting a pair of Vessi's for when I need to walk my dog when it's raining but have been hesitant since I haven't seen many people around here actually using them (vs, say, Allbirds). I might take the plunge. NordVPN has been involved in a bunch of scandals over the years, including a data breach and some debates around if they actually follow their claim around not logging VPN usage or not. Can't say I'd use them after that.
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slidebite posted:That anti-gravity pen thing I’ll have to reconsider my prejudice against Vessi, but BetterHelp is awful for a myriad of known reasons and it’s been covered to death recently, including as fallout from recent controversy involving Kyle Hill
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So many YouTubers shill Manscaped that it makes me wonder if it would be more economical to just get shitfaced and self-wax my balls instead.
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Kazinsal posted:So many YouTubers shill Manscaped that it makes me wonder if it would be more economical to just get shitfaced and self-wax my balls instead. It's just shilling basic personal grooming to the sort of people who watch a poo poo ton of tech youtube. Trimming your junk isn't rocket science and you don't need a bespoke balls kit to do it.
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trilobite terror posted:I’ll have to reconsider my prejudice against Vessi, but BetterHelp is awful for a myriad of known reasons and it’s been covered to death recently, including as fallout from recent controversy involving Kyle Hill Better help, not health. Ugh. Never heard anything about that, I'll check into it for curiosity (Not that I'd checked or ever sign up for mental health care from podcast advertising anyhow)
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Cyrano4747 posted:It's just shilling basic personal grooming to the sort of people who watch a poo poo ton of tech youtube. Trimming your junk isn't rocket science and you don't need a bespoke balls kit to do it. Yeah, like many products they just create a problem that doesn’t exist. “You don’t use the same shaver on your face that you do your balls, do you?” Manscape asks, as they eat with the same hands they wipe their rear end with.
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slidebite posted:Better help, not health. Ugh. There's a lengthy video that covers BetterHelp sponsorships. One thing it touches on is a person requesting an LGBTQ counselor to talk about being gay, and instead they get a counselor who told them "uh have you tried not being gay". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdUOit_UHEM
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Betterhelp seems particularly egregious in every way, as scummy as the various crypto ones
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Well for starters they have a ton of ties to the IDF and are an IDF contractor. They operate on an Uber model wrt therapists, with all of the positives and negatives that it brings. Therapists have flexibility and access to quick, immediate work. They get paid much less than industry average. Clients who cannot get “regular” therapy or who live in places or conditions where therapy is inaccessible can get therapy remotely and easily. The company is byzantine and deeply impersonal by design so problems, such as misbehavior between therapists and clients, are handled the way Uber handles disputes. Therapists don’t have guidance or support from the company. Therapists are not vetted particularly stringently, meaning that the likelihood of having a bad/incompetent/poor-track-record/pariah in their local professional scene/etc therapist increases dramatically. BetterHelp has placed LGBTQ clients with bigoted therapists in spite of clients specifying their identities. BetterHelp doesn’t let therapists establish standard professional relationships, follow-ups, etc with their clients. Therapists have reported meeting with clients in evidently dangerous or abusive circumstances and been unable to get help for the client, etc. Oh also apropos of the IDF thing, they recently rolled out an initiative to offer free therapy to any IDF personnel working in Gaza. trilobite terror fucked around with this message at 19:32 on Feb 29, 2024 |
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betterhelp is kinda the type of thing that's about as bad as the pitch makes it sound like: it's not a huge surprise than you can't scale up remote therapy to arbitrary user numbers (which makes it all the more irresponsible to accept a sponsorship for it)
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Dieting Hippo posted:There's a lengthy video that covers BetterHelp sponsorships. One thing it touches on is a person requesting an LGBTQ counselor to talk about being gay, and instead they get a counselor who told them "uh have you tried not being gay".
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Therapists usually charge way more than what better help charges the users so it’s not surprising they have a pretty lovely product. Took one look at that and was like yeah that’s not gonna work. It’s unfortunate that some folks will use it and get a really bad therapy experience.
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trilobite terror posted:The one time I held a manscaped trimmer the chintzy plastic and build reminded me of the no-name trimmers they used to sell in gift grooming kits at Macy’s. I'm convinced that's what they actually are, except there's a sticker on them and advertising that says you should use them on your balls.
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The YouTube app on the iPad does this fun thing now where the comments flash under the video. It’s basically doing a comments scroll but it’s super loving distracting.
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repiv posted:youtube should adopt the niconico comment system imo Instead of WWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW it's just all slurs and telegram scam links
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Bloopsy posted:Yeah, like many products they just create a problem that doesn’t exist. consumerism.txt
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Apparently Air Up is horrible: https://youtu.be/BokoBv_D_HM?si=ZUPyMrr9PQ8SofEj
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Kerbtree posted:Apparently Air Up is horrible: gotta admire a professional who goes to the trouble of censoring his cat’s butthole edit: he missed one Tiny Timbs fucked around with this message at 19:29 on Mar 2, 2024 |
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Sorry if this is too off-topic but idk where else to put it https://vm.tiktok.com/ZSFUCb42m/ There's this whole series of videos like this showing off artisanal craftsmanship, but one day I noticed that there's this strobing effect where it's like every other frame is dimming. It's incredibly distracting, but also it doesn't happen to most other videos on the platform? Does anyone know what's going on? I know that sometimes people apply filters when they're posting footage of movies so they don't get copyright struck but that doesn't feel like it in this case.
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gradenko_2000 posted:Sorry if this is too off-topic but idk where else to put it Not an expert, but I’d assume it’s some artifact from frame rate conversion or AI upscaling of some kind where frames are getting interpolated. EDIT: Or maybe it’s a recording of an LED screen and the video camera’s shutter speed isn’t quite in sync with the screen? Quality looks too high to me for that, though. Blue Moonlight fucked around with this message at 02:01 on Mar 7, 2024 |
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tiktok is hell so my immediate assumption is that someone figured out making your video strobe slightly increases viewer retention by 1% so that's the meta now
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Tiny Timbs posted:TikTok implemented HDR videos so now I randomly get my retinas blown out flipping through That's not how HDR works. HDR merely lets you see a broader range of colors, without the brights overpowering the darks, and vice versa, not just BRIGHT++. Generally when you view HDR content on a non-HDR screen, it'll mostly just have a strong purple tone to the image.
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HDR videos on iPhone absolutely have much higher brightness wtf are you smoking Like iPhones specifically have a feature that cranks up the brightness of HDR content on the screen while keeping the brightness of the other elements low Tiny Timbs fucked around with this message at 02:58 on Mar 7, 2024 |
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gradenko_2000 posted:Sorry if this is too off-topic but idk where else to put it My guess is that’s not their video and they’re fooling the algorithm into not copyright striking them or something. Or that account is owned by the company that makes carbamazepine, either or
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Tiny Timbs posted:HDR videos on iPhone absolutely have much higher brightness wtf are you smoking They do but it's not just because of the HDR content, but also the maximum brightness the screen on the device can display. The latest iPhone can display a peak of between 1600 nits (indoor) or 2000 nits (outdoor). It'll display brighter ends of the HDR spectrum eye searingly bright at times, especially compared to most other screens that support HDR, while still being able to display the darker parts of the image. gradenko_2000 posted:Sorry if this is too off-topic but idk where else to put it I was originally going to speculate there was something wrong with the lighting used in the video (cheap LED lighting can cause a similar effect when recorded) but now I'm wondering if it's just a camera issue after watching the video and seeing it was mostly outdoors in semi-direct sunlight and even the sky was flickering?
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