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Valeyard
Mar 30, 2012


Grimey Drawer

PipeRifle posted:

How the gently caress do you even accept an invite to a video hangout, google?! Tell me that! Why is everything hangouts! Why do people tell me they see me online when I turn off LITERALLY EVERY DEVICE WITH A GOOGLE ACCOUNT on it?! FUUUUUUUUUUUCK

using chrome tied to your account will show you online too remember

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Valeyard
Mar 30, 2012


Grimey Drawer
lol at cremnob not saying "gently caress yahoo :mrgw:"

Valeyard
Mar 30, 2012


Grimey Drawer

LP0 ON FIRE posted:

Games >> Yahoo! Pool

still alive afaik

god drat i ussed to love playing that

Valeyard
Mar 30, 2012


Grimey Drawer

Valeyard
Mar 30, 2012


Grimey Drawer
So I just discovered that the YouTube phone app finally supports background play. That is, to be able to keep the audio playing when the screen is off or app drawered. Turned the option on but it wouldn't work.

10 minutes find out you need to pay them £8 a month for the luxury of that feature :negative:

Valeyard
Mar 30, 2012


Grimey Drawer

PleasureKevin posted:

wait what is that a google app



also the first video i clicked on after signing up (they gave 6 month for free) gave me an ear shattering advert

Valeyard
Mar 30, 2012


Grimey Drawer

PleasureKevin posted:

lol who gives our 6 month free trials of anything

stuff that wouldnt last 6 months otherwise

eric posted:

Almost every youtube clone already does that for free and usually works better than the youtube app.

i tried a couple but for bizarre reason none of them work with awful.apk - the video just stops when the app opens up. even the lovely official youtube app does it, everything is a pos

Valeyard
Mar 30, 2012


Grimey Drawer

pagancow posted:

nobody talking about 999$ chromebook pixel II

gas thread

no true yosposters etc

its gorgeous

Valeyard
Mar 30, 2012


Grimey Drawer
you can justify the price by calling it art, people pay a lot more than 1k to look at paintings on their wall which are slightly less useful

Valeyard
Mar 30, 2012


Grimey Drawer
pissed off because my doc in google doc looks fine, but when exported to pdf suddenly all the text looks bold and indistinguishable from the actual bold text

Valeyard
Mar 30, 2012


Grimey Drawer

Nintendo Kid posted:

site that used to publish "x86 macs next month" every month until it finally happened 8 years later.

lol

Valeyard
Mar 30, 2012


Grimey Drawer
get a moto 360 and spend the remaining 400 bucks on massages or whatever

Valeyard
Mar 30, 2012


Grimey Drawer
do any of the smartwatches have sensors on the metal underside of them?

Valeyard
Mar 30, 2012


Grimey Drawer
it would be really cool if your watch could be like "hey dave, i notice we are in mcdonalds at the minute, you are sweating prefously and have a heartbeat of 160bpm - id suggest you put down the burger and go for a jog"

Valeyard
Mar 30, 2012


Grimey Drawer

Blue Train posted:

the huge loving nav bar that is always black and never matches anything is one of the things I hate most about the way android looks. the worst part is it can be semi transparent (or used to be able to) but like no app does that poo poo, not even the google ones. at least they color the top bar now (sometimes)

when you use an app in fullscreen, like watching a video, the navbar dissapears

Valeyard
Mar 30, 2012


Grimey Drawer
willing to bet you could go to any eric schmidt video of him having a discussion/talk and find him talking over people irrespective of gender

Valeyard
Mar 30, 2012


Grimey Drawer

THC posted:

he's like if you took bill gates and removed any trace of compassion and humility

schmidts idea of a philanthropic work is to put wifi in a blimp so poors can use google

they can use google maps to find closer water sources!!!

Valeyard
Mar 30, 2012


Grimey Drawer

you mad that hes rich and getting mad pussy?

Valeyard
Mar 30, 2012


Grimey Drawer
why is Chrome "dropping support for Java" :psyduck:

Valeyard
Mar 30, 2012


Grimey Drawer

anthonypants posted:

they started like a year or two ago? sorry you didn't notice until today

PleasureKevin posted:

hopefully this is obvious, but that's, like, front-end embedded Java in the browser. not support for sites that are served by Java web frameworks.

i honestly haven't seen a java browser app in ages so you can't be that surprised. they're just a huge security risk.

i woke up and browsed all my websites that use wall to wall java embeds telling me the bad news :negative:

Perplx posted:

chrome dropped support for all NPAPI plugins, and if you need a reason more than security the n stands for netscape

so Unity web player is gone too?

Valeyard
Mar 30, 2012


Grimey Drawer
i like that its not a hard number, like "hmmm, maybe 20%? idk"

Valeyard
Mar 30, 2012


Grimey Drawer
my bff jill

Valeyard
Mar 30, 2012


Grimey Drawer

Pinterest Mom posted:

would anyone even notice 15% fewer ads

thats the beauty, you can keep serving people 100% ads and they wont tell

Valeyard
Mar 30, 2012


Grimey Drawer

i just sign into chrome with my goog account and it keeps everything else signed in

theres one feature i really want in youtube and that is the ability to search through my video history, its still not possible and i dont know who to shout at it to make it happen

Valeyard
Mar 30, 2012


Grimey Drawer

HAIL eSATA-n posted:

I just sign into my browser made by an advertising company

when i sign into any chrome browser on any machine, it remembers the plguins i have installed and automatically downloads and runs adblock

why are you so afraid of ads?

Valeyard
Mar 30, 2012


Grimey Drawer

HAIL eSATA-n posted:

I just sign into a browser made by an advertising company on any machine

google owns

Valeyard
Mar 30, 2012


Grimey Drawer

Beeftweeter posted:

its not the ads you should be afraid of, its the company that tracks, analyzes and compiles massive databases of information about literally everything. they even know about your secret preference for bbw hentai

yeah but that posters retort is "google is an advertising company lmfao, not a tech company!! :smug:" and nothing to do with that

Valeyard
Mar 30, 2012


Grimey Drawer

Beeftweeter posted:

they use that information for advertising. hth

yeah but whats the alternative? they are tracking you whether you are signed in or not

be like RMS? maybe, but no thanks

Valeyard
Mar 30, 2012


Grimey Drawer
when i ride the poor bus my 4g reception is at full strength in the particuarly lovely rundown parts of the city

and there is this one place that without fail completely kills ANY phone signal, surounding a highschool, its weird

Valeyard
Mar 30, 2012


Grimey Drawer

Beeftweeter posted:

some schools here used to jam cell signals before it was strictly illegal, maybe thats why

maybe. it definetelty seems too coincidental, but it must affect the houses that are on the other side facing the school. and there are some shops and little cafes and stuff too. so I would imagine someone would have had to kick up a fuss at some point over the years but who knows

Valeyard
Mar 30, 2012


Grimey Drawer
jfc whatever chrome update I just got ruined the bookmark system, it was fine before

now its unusable

Valeyard
Mar 30, 2012


Grimey Drawer
you used to be able to access your mobile bookmarks on the desktop chrome but I cant see it now :argh:

Valeyard
Mar 30, 2012


Grimey Drawer

the fact that their viewership (using strictly desktop computers) is only marginally less than 2 years ago isnt surprising, its likely to be all mobile traffic now -

" YouTube is still holding its own on mobile, which makes up about half of its global viewership." they

Valeyard
Mar 30, 2012


Grimey Drawer
the new google drive is also pants

Valeyard
Mar 30, 2012


Grimey Drawer
you couldnt even get that stick in there unless they were going insanely slow

Valeyard
Mar 30, 2012


Grimey Drawer

graph posted:

hellllll yeahhhhh babbbyyy!! helll yeahhh!!!! :pumps fists: we're entering a collapsing service-based enconomy six figures in debt when real wages havent risen since the 70s!!! :headbangs:

america!!!!!!

Valeyard
Mar 30, 2012


Grimey Drawer
seriously hyped for the oncoming Google retaliation on a massive scale

Valeyard
Mar 30, 2012


Grimey Drawer

cremnob posted:

because google's growth is slowing and they're in "looking for pennies under every cushion" mode now

they are surely hosed

Valeyard
Mar 30, 2012


Grimey Drawer

horse mans posted:

how will that even for a second help the fact that no one even uses google anymore

i think youve spent too much time in the kennels because thats delusional lol

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Valeyard
Mar 30, 2012


Grimey Drawer

horse mans posted:

sorry it's no longer 2004 and the internet is not primarily where online use happens and search is no longer the entry way to online usage. we have these things called 'smartphones' and 'apps' are on them and 90% of the things most people do on them never requires a search engine

if nobody uses search engines then how do you find your bestiality porn?

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