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Hippie Hedgehog posted:Things that got shittier for no good reason: You can no longer find technology reviews in writing, because everyone for no reason started posting video reviews instead. Probably because it's harder to block their ads that way? I'm sure there's some way in which there's money in it, despite production costs being higher than for written text. https://housefresh.com/david-vs-digital-goliaths/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnA08Wwh9v4 There are too many bad product reviewers that flood google's search engines. And people pay to have their bad products review well, so the same thing keep popping up. The reviews are so bad that it doesn't even seem like a person touched the product. The good product reviewers get squeezed out because it is less profitable to make written reviews.
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I generally don't suggest going to Reddit, but for getting reviews on consumer goods it's absolutely worth adding that to your search string. It's not perfect, but it's a hell of a lot better than sitting through 15 minutes of sponsored Youtube content, or sifting through the hundreds of AI written reviews that are utterly meaningless.
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I love telling my teenage son to fix the TVs / games systems
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Desert Bus posted:Someone should make a website where you put in a YouTube link and it spits out a transcript in plain text. Open a youtube video, open the description, scroll down, click "show transcript." Ok it's not plain text I guess, but it at least exists somewhat for most videos.
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euphronius posted:I love telling my teenage son to fix the TVs / games systems The nintendos
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MikeJF posted:My parents tried to have me hook up their sound system and we wanted to make it so that we could have it so that things went to the sound outside but amps these days being designed to stop splitting and encrypted audio streams and all that made it near impossible and all this digital lockdown of audio just making it impossible to have a slightly custom sound system without spending a billion dollars made me so angry. It's blatantly these days more about wanting to lock you into buying all compatible systems since nobody is going to be pirating things like this. What kind of poo poo are you using? Schiit for one still makes dumb power amps in the three figure range and I am sure there are others too.
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GABA ghoul posted:All you older posters itt could ask your kids or nephews to help you with your TVs. Young people are really good with tech No they aren't.
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Woolie Wool posted:What kind of poo poo are you using? Schiit for one still makes dumb power amps in the three figure range and I am sure there are others too. I was working mostly with what I had.
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Shooting Blanks posted:I generally don't suggest going to Reddit, but for getting reviews on consumer goods it's absolutely worth adding that to your search string. It's not perfect, but it's a hell of a lot better than sitting through 15 minutes of sponsored Youtube content, or sifting through the hundreds of AI written reviews that are utterly meaningless. Have you seen how hard the SEO poo poo has latched onto that? Last time I did that the reddit thread was the third result.
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Things that suck that isn't tech -- summers have gotten humid, hot, and mosquito filled. I never see any dragonflies or fireflies or butterflies or any of the cool bugs. Just mosquitos, flies, fruit flies, and ants. -- because of a crap ton of construction and essentially no shits given to air quality or waste there is a smog that blackens your snot in the Kleenex. -- so many cereals cut back on oat flower and been throwing more cornflour in their recipes. I like having cereal instead of a desert wje. I am having a sweet craving.
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carrionman posted:Have you seen how hard the SEO poo poo has latched onto that? Last time I did that the reddit thread was the third result. "Name of thing I want to know" site:https://www.reddit.com then click the result you want and then replace www with old in the URL.
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Pennywise the Frown posted:No they aren't.
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yeah gen z is really bad at tech too and its a sign that we just shouldnt have software anymore
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thathonkey posted:yeah gen z is really bad at tech too and its a sign that we just shouldnt have software anymore RETURN TO WINDOWS 95
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Croccers posted:Actually I swear I've noticed the younger gens while pretty ace with phone tech and such, aren't as savvy with IoT or just a plain computer in general. They are terrible (on average) with anything that isn't an app on a phone they already spend time in.
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Those of us who grew up on DOS/ early Windows/dial up Internet had to go through a lot more bullshit to get our poo poo to work.
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software and the internet are so different from what i grew up with in the 90s and early 00s. totally different ball game. its not the kids' fault
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One day you're going to be starting your first day at a new job and when they show you your desk it's just going to have a touchscreen tablet with no keyboard or mouse.
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wash bucket posted:One day you're going to be starting your first day at a new job and when they show you your desk it's just going to have a touchscreen tablet with no keyboard or mouse. that's already happened if you work retail or fast food
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Canine Blues Arooo posted:They are terrible (on average) with anything that isn't an app on a phone they already spend time in. They don't even know how to bypass school web filters anymore, since they all carry 5G hotspots everywhere now. That was the one last redeeming computer trait of the teens ten years ago and it's gone.
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thathonkey posted:software and the internet are so different from what i grew up with in the 90s and early 00s. totally different ball game. its not the kids' fault Yeah I can't really blame the kids. Companies like Apple have made their products like bumper bowling and cut off access to the nuts and bolts of everything. If something goes wrong you have to take it to them to fix it. The enshitification of tech might even have a long term effect on critical thinking and problem solving skills. 
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If something goes wrong on a windows machine you have to google it to find out how to do how you fixed it last time! Windows poo poo!
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ninjoatse.cx posted:If something goes wrong on a windows machine you have to google it to find out how to do how you fixed it last time! Windows poo poo! But on a Linux Machine you just....
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no idea. nothing ever goes wrong on linux machines
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carrionman posted:Have you seen how hard the SEO poo poo has latched onto that? Last time I did that the reddit thread was the third result. It is amusing that any search algorithm allows (not the specifically searched well-known site) to rank above (the specifically searched well-known site) regardless of SEO, unless they're directly paying for the top spot.
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thathonkey posted:no idea. nothing ever goes wrong on linux machines I've seen the boys in the lab put them through their paces I tell you what.
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found this article mildly interesting. Google's algorithm was updated to actually try and rank useful reviews higher, based on actually testing the product. so the content mills (little known brands like Better Home & Garden and Popular Science) overnight started mentioning they'd tested 67 air purifiers hands on at their "labs" but then they just list the same copy paste list of lovely air purifiers they get the most affiliate money for. SEO is evil poo poo lol
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yeah google basically ruined their own (and also everyone elses) ability to create a useful internet search by incentivizing the use of SEO tactics for so long. now the signal is so faint through all the noise it cannot arguably google has been the best and worst thing for the web
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There is no way it’s the best arguably
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euphronius posted:There is no way it’s the best arguably thats fair i guess i was considering a relatively brief period in their history when search was actually good at finding information and fostered the mainstreaming of the internet as a result ... for a few years, before the inherent forces of capitalism really set in (you could also argue - successfully - that was only possible due to the mainstreaming that came first)
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Google wasn’t even good in terms of accuracy it was easy to use, looked nice and had no or minor ads (lol) The past 20 years is an excellent example of capitalism killing a public good
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Abandon modernity, return to personally-curated website lists
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Windows 7 was my favorite OS. My new personal laptop has Windows 11 and it just gave me "Finish setting up your computer" screen but it was just to try to sell me products lol
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thathonkey posted:yeah google basically ruined their own (and also everyone elses) ability to create a useful internet search by incentivizing the use of SEO tactics for so long. now the signal is so faint through all the noise it cannot if you want a good example, do a google search for say, grubhub, and watch uber eats come up as your first search result lol
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McSpanky posted:Abandon modernity, return to personally-curated website lists would you like to join my blogroll
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It's not just Google. Go to any porn hub site and try a search for "Big Booty Latina Gets Chased by a Lesbian-Loving T-Rex on a Hoverboard and then hosed" and you'll just get a bunch of MILF and not stepson porn, smh
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