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https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/03/google-is-killing-most-of-fitbits-social-features-today/ It's so blatant how Google bought Fitbit just to take them off the board. Like, their products weren't great to begin with, but probably fitness+very basic phone interface is a good enough market segment if they price against a full blown smartwatch accordingly.
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BAGS FLY AT NOON posted:Don’t buy a Samsung TV. If you already have one I guess turn the TVs WiFi off in the settings and use a Roku/FireTV/whatever to add smart functionality. Samsung TVs are enough of an rear end in a top hat that I’d probably block it at the router just to be sure. Someone did block a smart tv at the router level and the tv basically self destructed because it kept trying to find a wifi that would let it get ads and it made the tv overheat.
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Dick Jones posted:The TCL 4K TV we used to have in our living room had a light at the bottom center of the bezel that would flash intermittently until the TV was connected to a network. Covering the flashing light didn't work because the infrared sensor for the remote was in the exact same spot. TCLs are the worst designed TVs I've ever used. Sounds like they designed it elegantly... just not for us.
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AARD VARKMAN posted:My SmartTV constantly runs out of memory just streaming poo poo and becomes 1% speed until I painfully navigate the menus to clear the cache My Fire stick will only update itself or the apps loaded therein when I want to use it. It's sticking out of my tv with an external power source 24/7, but no, only when I'm trying to use it is when the updates have to be installed. The same thing on my partner's smart tv, have to press Update and sit there watching the progress bar instead of it just doing it at 3am. Like c'mon, I know you have telemetry showing when I'm not using the device, just push the update and leave me alone already.
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We got showtime added to paramount for some reason and not only does the content suck, the app will lag like crazy and eventually just dump you on the main page.
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Dip Viscous posted:Everyone knows that the search built into Windows sucks, but for the past couple of months it's been "they have to be loving this up on purpose to screw with people" bad. No matter what I search for it only ever finds completely unrelated files, even if I search for a character exact file name. Oh, you can't remember where you left that floppy image you know for certain is named "Microsoft Golf 2.0.img"? Okay fucko, have a Witchfinder General album and a 19 year old WinRAR installer! Totally random poo poo every time I try. It wants to show me everything but the sound options panel when I search “sound”. Bing results instead of system options lol
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pencilhands posted:windows 8 existing is funny Let's make our flagship product's UI around a technology the vast majority of the install base doesn't loving have (and even in 2023, largely still doesn't). I am a Microsoft executive, give me all the money.
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Elder Postsman posted:Yup. HL-2270DW crew here. Bought it 12 years ago for $70 and it still works great. I have the same one! Just bought a pickup roller for it
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Saalkin posted:gently caress I love my Anker poo poo. The Bluetooth speaker lasts forever between charges. I had a set of earbuds that went years of being used 8-9 hours a day before finally dying. Now they don't make the same kind and I'm mad as hell Their airpod knock offs kinda sucked and then one of them had a jammed diaphragm. So I ended up getting 1st airpods as a hand me down and they're nice, but the right pod is precarious and falls out if I tilt my head.
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Bad Purchase posted:gaming headphones are like this still, as it's necessary to avoid the high latency of bluetooth. there are some pretty good options, too High latency and how shithouse Bluetooth is on Windows. My ATH-M50 would have to be deleted and paired every time I booted Windows, and usually more than once in a session. Using my Xbox One controller through bluetooth would make every game lag out like crazy when it wanted to issue a warning about the batteries. Luckily both are able to be used wired so I just do that now.
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Jul 6, 2023 23:36
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steinrokkan posted:It's where people subscribed to other services go to count their scrobbles and other pointless statistics GDPR forces Spotify to offer a way to get all your data. I dumped the csv into one big spreadsheet and after two weeks of tinkering I finally managed to get it in a SQL database in Azure so I can throw queries at it.
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Canine Blues Arooo posted:We are actually buying vinyl now. I didn't really think that this would be the physical medium that stands the test of time, but a lot of folks are putting out more vinyl records then CDs it seems - at least in the spaces we buy stuff. Because vinyls have cache as collectibles and subjectively offer a different experience from just pulling the song up on a stream. You can rip a CD into flacs or 192k mp3s if you want but that doesn't really differ from a streamed/downloaded version in any way that's meaningful to most people.
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Jul 10, 2023 23:51
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ProperCoochie posted:My theory is the rise of content creation and social media stars has led to more dog owners. Because it's such a quick and efficient way to make a scroller pause and watch your content, generate engagement. What quicker way to a person's heartstrings? Same simple reason there's so many babies/cats/dogs in TV commercials. No but I bet she got really famous all of a sudden in a way she didn't plan for.
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Also making sure as many people as possible are on the road because fuel retailers and restauranteurs and corporate landlords have to be guaranteed customers.
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Dip Viscous posted:My octogenarian downstairs neighbor had to buy his first ever mobile phone earlier this year and learn how to use it so he could make appointments to do basically anything anymore. I routinely hear things like gently caress YOUR APP coming up through the floor. I’m in my 30s and work in IT and even I say gently caress your app. Sure let me sign in again with a password Bitwarden of course didn’t catch last time, then reset, then two factor, then maybe I might get to order food at some point
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I like how there's a slight drop in profits, while having quite a lot, and immediately the hammer has to come down and prices go up and features get deleted.
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Vampire Panties posted:MS Teams is such a staggering piece of poo poo that is being pushed through solely because of Microsofts complete monopoly on the office workspace. Its good for MS right now, but its going to have the opposite effect because everyone hates teams SO MUCH Hey let’s make multiuser PCs untenable by clogging up everyone’s profile with 1Gb to 4Gb of service worker cache just for an IM program. I get 5 tickets a week just because teams clogged an SSD down to the last kilobyte and I have to delete files remotely enough to be able to log in and run a script. Also Windows is happy to let you use up space to 0KB and then backfill the space you clear with more crap as you delete. Popoto posted:you're gonna lol but: apple maps I’ve been hearing this on the somethingawful.com forums more and more Makes sense. Apple wants features and updates to put in IOS every year, Google notoriously doesn’t give a gently caress about products after release and eventually just sunsets them or lets them stagnate. skooma512 fucked around with this message at 15:04 on Jul 22, 2023 |
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steinrokkan posted:There was a recent poll I think on Discogs asking if people were actually listening to the records they were buying, and even in that self-selected enthusiast community most answered that they weren't, or only very occasionally, and a sizable share didn't even own a record player. I think that goes a long way to explain why publishers wouldn't be very concerned about quality. It’s me. I’ve bought records just to have the album art nice and big and one time for a poster. My fiancé has a player but it’s at her house and it’s not that serious.
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Triikan posted:Isn't it Applebee's or one those lovely chains that tried to make all ordering through a lovely tablet on the table? I remember my wife asking for a drink menu and the waitress saying it was on the tablet. gently caress that. Chili's and Red Robin do. I luckily have never eaten at an Applebee's
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PhazonLink posted:would a real gps device be better? like phones do psudeo gps with celltowers and some other smart things. In 2012 I used a Garmin that my dad put pirated map updates on but it was done wrong, and I only found out halfway through the route because it was missing a tile of map probably and routed me way the hell inland away from I-5 on the way to San Diego. I would have been hosed if I didn't memorize the key points and I think I had the route printed out too.
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You Are A Elf posted:Yard sales (garage sales, tag sales, or whatever you prefer) seem to have all but disappeared for good in my area. I think the Covid lockdown had a huge part in their demise, and now people probably don’t want to set up shop outside their home where strangers can walk about freely on their property and touch stuff. I also think scumbag resellers had a part in it like they’ve ruined thrift stores by buying up all the decent stuff to make a profit while leaving behind the literal junk no one wants, and what homeowner wants to go through disposing of unsellable garbage? We had two yard sale this year and made almost 2000 between them. My MIL happened to have a hoard of happy meal toys and strawberry shortcake merch and people bought out our whole stock right there.
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Impossibly Perfect Sphere posted:Has any human being ever used Onenote? I use it as a catch bin for links and infographics. Half the time though I forget it even exists along with the notes therein.
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Time_pants posted:Childcare is actually insanely loving expensive. Daycare, preschool, whatever. We ended up paying $7,200 for our kid to go to preschool for a year and the place was poo poo and our kid hated it. Naturally, you couldn't withdraw for a partial refund. lol they're making us pay kid rent now. I've heard people say their daycare bill is 1800 a month, my apartment in Los Angeles is less than that a month.
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I just don't wash my denim more than once or twice a year.
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Extra row of tits posted:Console gaming. I’m starting to take older users seriously because UIs really do be just changing all the time for no reason and then you have to figure out the new way and then 6 months later you get another 10gb update to change it again
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Yeah and also give it a few days to catch up, don't disable imessage and then transfer the sim 5 minutes after.
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DrSunshine posted:I've got one: Laptop touchpads. I feel like there was an era sometime during the mid-late 2000s to around like 2015 or something, when touchpads were at least kinda decent. There were actual separate buttons, and the pad was more or less responsive. I could even play some games, like turn based strategy, with a laptop with a touchpad! Nowadays, every laptop I've owned or been handed to me for work has had those buttonless touchpads that are just awful in terms of responsivity, and constantly click when I don't mean to click. I find that having a wireless mouse is essential to using one and having a decent experience. HP touchpads can be disabled if you double tap them on the left upper corner. What the gently caress. At least make it an Fn key or something. Cowslips Warren posted:Why are all computer cords the same color? Why can't mouse cords be always green, and keyboard cords always blue? A mass color of wires is so much nicer than a bunch of white or black cords. It's cheaper to just use the black cladding. Mcdonalds is merely recognizing the coming of a period of high interest rates and austerity, and so is reverting to 1970s styling.
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:my neighbors have a fan remote on the same channel or a compatible one to the fan in our living room so i'll just randomly see it change speed or reverse direction and make a noise, its really annoying and the only thing that works is just turning it off at the switch entirely Can you not change the channel in yours? A lot of systems like that have dip switches you can adjust in the unit. Look in your remote first since it’s the easiest to take apart, if there’s a way to adjust the channel in that then you might be able to do it.
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aniviron posted:The answer seems to be no, weirdly enough. Millennials are getting more liberal with age, if the few surveys on the matter I have seen are accurate. Probably going to turn old and crusty at some point, but buck the trend of Xers & Boomers going hard right. We as a cohort have much less to conserve. The ones who do manage to get on the property ladder still get brainworms because of taxes and then get sucked in to the right from there
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Capitalism is so efficient that it spawns entities that go around intentionally crashing viable businesses so it can feed on the corpse, all perfectly legal of course.
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StrangersInTheNight posted:Uh yeah a whole lot of therapy and sex work happens on Zoom. They're gonna generate the weirdest porn about self-actualization. gang gang. Secure attachment so good
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Is private equity shorting Zoom or something? Doing a stealth layoff and then going "all your data are belong to me", and I'm sure a price hike is coming, can't be good for their growth.
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Modal Auxiliary posted:It's basically a social media/data scraping app at this point. If you can find an old Spotify Lite apk kicking around you can relive the glory days of just listening to some goddamn music without draining 80% of your phone battery and giving yourself a migraine from the world's busiest visual interface (for an audio client). Don't you like have a 5 second gif looping in the background of an album? You actually can get all your Spotify data from them thanks to GDPR. I used the CSVs to load up a SQL database so I can throw queries at it, it's fun.
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Talorat posted:This is from a few pages back, but I’m like 90% sure that “gang gang” is a backronym for the GG emoji which, of course, us gamers knew to mean “good game”, but the zoomers had no idea and had to invent a meaning for. Thanks for bumping I've been meaning to reply but couldn't remember which thread lol. I think the term arose as like, a genericized version of stuff from rap lyrics like GUCCI GANG GUCCI GANG GUCCI GANG GUCCI GANG, and when people like something together and say stuff like "alright! pineapple gang". The reference is from livestreamers acting like NPCs https://www.forbes.com/sites/conorm...sh=40ada2362d05
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Black Noise posted:Update and Restart & Update and Shutdown mean the same thing. What a country Windows 10: We insist on updates Error 8007000E: lol no updates for you, ever.
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DrBouvenstein posted:There was a time when you could be pretty sure any on-screen keyboard would be QWERTY, and maybe failing that, it would be alphabetical; but at least still in a grid format to easily go between the letters. Related: Every streaming and TV app interface ever. Sure lets take 5 minute to type something out on this Ouija board UI with massive input lag.
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I replied a Facebook post in a group and it’s sent me 4 emails in a day to tell me I got a reply. Please engage with this website please please please.
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I've been getting emails from photobucket about them killing their free product. Not that I care about the stuff but still they're adamant about being pay-only in the emails  .Reminds me of when Crashplan killed their personal products and went business only.
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