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youtube still recommends loving blippi videos despite having cleared my history and never even having watched one. one autoplayed for one second before i stopped it. it's going to make me quit the internet entirely. just seeing the thumbnails makes me want to rip everything in the room apart like an ape. i made the special effort to clear the poo poo and it's still there. i've read the "enshittification" article, and understanding why everything sucks doesn't help matters. i'm calling it now. the internet is over. email to your relatives and friends is on thin ice but the internet is cooked
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So what do we learn from this? With everything online being slowly degraded. Will there, or can there, be a regression to less profit-seeking domination of internet functionality? Like eventually the whole internet will be hosed, right, and people won't want to wade into the sewer of AI SEO hell anymore. What comes up instead? I think the one kind of good thing that still happens online is when there IS a good thing, people can all start using it if they want. Or is that me mistaking "good things on the internet" for "addictive, habit-forming things on the internet"? Like couldn't some old fuckers or idealistic nerds create some workable alternatives to this stuff that focuses entirely on giving the people what they want, meaning human interaction and human-made content?
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saw some white dog poo the other day. maybe really cheap kibble still has way too much calcium or bone meal or whatever
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bossy lady posted:Do any of you use bandcamp? I basically stopped using spotify, amazon, apple music, etc and just discover / buy / download / stream all my music there. yeah i do. i mentioned it in the "what of worth is left on the internet" thread and found out it's now owned by epic game store or some poo poo so am waiting to see it go to poo poo too. no sign yet though
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i browse around bandcamp for new stuff sometimes, discovery is fine if not SUPER AI DJ'd. I do use and stream from the app just for convenience but the yeah main purpose is having my own local collection. i've even bought physical media direct from artists via bandcamp which is its own fun. sometimes they throw in a sticker or email you surprised that they have a fan in another country, or whatever. as an example, here's something weird you can only find on bandcamp, the genre is apparently "mallsoft" (? like vaporwave but for actual worldized audio of actual elevator music, i guess?). they made 30 tapes and each comes with a little keychain and some polaroids of the quebec mall (?) it seems based on https://malltalkcollective.bandcamp.com/album/woolcowave i wouldn't know something like that exists any other way than bandcamp. i didn't buy it but i'm glad i found out something like that exists
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Volcott posted:
I know no specifics but I wonder if this could be something good actually. If supermarket bread is going bad quicker then maybe they're not using as many preservatives because the old ones have been banned. Bread is not made to sit at room temperature for weeks. We've all been raised with that abominable delusion. Keep it in the fridge or even freeze it. If you freeze homemade bread with no preservatives in it it lasts longer than you'd ever need anyway.
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Jul 14, 2023 11:25
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Beartaco posted:The strip mall near me has signs up saying that if I want to use the parking there to visit any of the shops, I have to download their app and register my plate whenever I park up. This includes if I'm using their generous 30 minutes of free parking. it's especially galling how totally informal and one-time purchases require registering an "account". think about the definition of that word - there's no ongoing arrears or loaning or business relationship at all here, i'm paying for a god drat PVC pipe cause my sink is leaking and i'll never buy anything else you sell. this is not an "account" relationship. i feel a lot of issues would be solved by making it illegal to require an account for a purchase, or at least a requirement to have guest checkout as an option
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Boogaloo Shrimp posted:I work in e-commerce and have mountains and mountains of data that shows a store will make mounds more money having guest checkout versus whatever benefit they think forcing account creation provides. It’s about 50/50 on if the decision-maker at the company will actually listen. not surprising in the least. people just signed onto the "data is power" myth.
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Here's one related to Amazon being a loving BLDG 19 rummage sale - Amazon wishlists have clamped down like Twitter banning people sharing their mastodons or whatever. I can't add freetext ideas anymore, and I can't use some weird browser plugin to add external links, and god damnit is there some other place I can put a wishlist that will work like that? Just a bunch of shopping links that somebody can check off if they buy it? Almost none of what I put on that goddam thing was from Amazon for obvious reasons, and it's how a lot of far-flung family from across the world see what I'm into these days. What are my options?
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Captain Hotbutt posted:Fan culture and stan culture has gotten shittier and people just seem to put up with it. I know many fine academic anthropology studies have been done on "fan communities", the cute and isolated Trekkies inventing fan fiction in the 60s and so on, and I'm a media consumer like everyone else, but I've come around to the idea that "fan culture" or communities - that is, of media properties, not like hobbyists or whatever - might be enough of an overall social negative that I wish such things didn't exist. It's not that you shouldn't love a creative work on that interior personal level, but that surrounding yourself with others who feel the same creates some really nasty social dynamics within and without those groups. Obviously I'm talking about the worst cases and not everybody who ever posted somewhere about Star Wars, but would our lives be that much less rich if we mostly just experience these things on a personal level? I'm conflicted about it. When I find a community of people who love something as much as me I end up put off by the kinds of personalities who dominate that kind of community. I don't know. One day there'll be a ruthless paramilitary force dedicated to bringing about "Scatman's World" and we'll all see the light.
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Also there's a whole scene of dudes recording and mastering on magnetic analog tape and finishing to vinyl and those types of guys do give a poo poo if CZ or Rainbo or whatever ancient pressing plant press it like poo poo. Everybody gets sent test pressings by the plant, but I don't think the corporate goons pressing 50,000 Adele LPs for supermarket racks are listening real hard to see if it sounds good. Then there's lacquers versus direct metal mastering and blah blah blah who cares vinyl's just a luxury item anyway. But yeah it sucks when it's pressed or mastered with no care. Just don't buy major releases on that format maybe, I dunno.
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Further Reading posted:Windows is obsessed with One Drive. It keeps trying to activate it, reminding me it's there, giving me error pop ups about it being disabled, telling me how useful cloud storage is. I have that tendency, not just with software either. Not always, but sometimes people gush about something so earnestly I instinctively go "you know what the funnier option is? if I make a VOW at this very instant NEVER to listen to 'nujabes'/watch Godfather I even though I'm a film major/etc." I did see the Godfather eventually (at age 30, years after pissed off film nerds stopped recommending it). Was fine. But I'll expose my ears to nujabes only in some kind of Abu Ghraib situation
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StrangersInTheNight posted:you've already heard nujabes if you've heard any lo-fi hip hop. people rec him bc of his work on Samurai Champloo which led to popularizing the entire musical genre. now i have a valid reason to avoid it! thanks!
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Jul 23, 2023 13:10
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all american passenger vehicles are fat and huge now like the fat ferrari http://images.buyyourcar.co.uk/photos/caaa3b15-7c60-4997-8baf-2c1b5935b1a0/2546/2546_1_m.jpg and they're all in an arms race to be as huge as possible, thus negating the safety advantage of being huge in a collision and making them all into pedestrian terminators
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Jul 28, 2023 23:41
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Those hand dryers also sound like a loving jet engine and freak out my kid to the point where it's hard to find a public toilet he'll use. And they don't even work as well as the actual warm slow ones did for decades before all being replaced. I don't need a fuckin ram air turbine to dry my hands by spraying all the water off them onto my shoes and the floor with 8000 pounds of thrust. I can shake it onto the floor myself if that's what we're supposed to do now
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Jul 29, 2023 07:02
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but... a bear?
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i don't know poo poo about dns's and "pi hole" i just downloaded the ios brave browser and it blocks ads for me
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Defenistrator posted:I know this is a joke, but what's a good alternative? I'm thinking of doing either Sirius XM or just buying off bandcamp. If you care about artists being able to exist as artists I reckon bandcamp is the only option for you.
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Aug 12, 2023 06:42
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there's hitlertunes, nothinbutskrewdriver, gregnoise, pissfest, the music subsection of hutjunction, buttfartingwavexchange, apple music, myass, literallyananus, polpot, and the cover of electriclarryland
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Hammerite posted:I can confim gregnoise premium is really good. noises from every greg under the sun and hardly any sneezing. would recommend it's worth the $5 a month just for the gregs gargling playlist. and the algorithm is amazing, i've discovered so much new greg noise i'm into
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armpit_enjoyer posted:I have someone with very new, very fancy hearing aids in my immediate circle and I dread the day the company behind them goes out of business and they just break and nobody can fix them because they're all some patented, proprietary bullshit hasn't that happened with like, pacemaker manufacturers before?
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oh well it's nicely literary that the general trend in product development now is to make stuff unrepairable that just has to be replaced in full since that's what we're doing with human civilization in general too
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all you idiots hanging onto your old tvs aren't getting the latest image enhancement tech you can't turn off like - Sony TruRection, which superimposes an unzipped fly with an erect dick sticking out on every human figure displayed onscreen, male or female - LG MammyTech, which renders everyone in vaudeville era blackface makeup. - Samsung Oops! All "John Carter"!
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here's something that hasn't gotten shittier: big-rear end beyerdynamic headphones. DT700s and DT100s are the best, have been for years, and to my knowledge haven't been sold off to some private equity consortium to strip mine a sustainable business of making and selling good products. if everything was like that it'd at least make pro-capitalist arguments look less like total self-delusion. they'd still be wrong but at least they wouldn't be entirely based on fiction
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i print like once or twice a month, never in color, and i'm constantly replacing all four cartridges. this is a brother printer. they're all just as bad. i bought brother cause they don't try and force you to subscribe to their ink, but it's no better. wanted to print a package return label in BW but the yellow cartridge is empty and it refuses. i have never printed a color document and they are constantly doing this. i now have to go buy all four cause you can't just buy yellow. generics can't be trusted. it's so horrible a scam i can't believe no one is in jail for this. it's clear collusion between the four companies to all do this. i just need to print like 30 pages a year at home. the worst thing is it was a solved problem for many decades. I owned an inkjet in the 00s that cost about 90 bucks and changed cartridge like twice in 10 years. it's insane nobody can break this cartel
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Professor Shark posted:My motto when it comes to printers is that printers are a thing that you use at work and that work fixes when they inevitably break believe me i would if i worked in an office job
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i believe the rule should be if you want me to install an app to give you money i will gladly do it if I also get to cut your CEO and take some measure of blood from them. not a lot of blood, just like 75 ml. then i'll install an app
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Shithouse Dave posted:Not that I’ve ever heard someone playing good music on their phone speaker in public, but even great tunes I really like sound lovely through phone speakers yesterday a guy slowly pulled his ancient bmw 3-series convertible around a corner in front of me. i stood there while he crawled by blasting junior murvin "police and thieves" and it felt remarkable to hear somebody public-blasting a song i like. but not on a phone loudspeaker so maybe it doesn't count
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i do screen off play on youtube all the time on ios by full screening it and then swiping home so it's playing picture in picture, then i can turn off the screen and it keeps playing
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i just want somebody making a bunch of easily adjusted/converted drivetrain kits of various dimensions you and your idiot friend who has tools could stick in any dumbass car. i want an electric leyland mini. electric saab sonett III. electric fuckin... 1978 toyota hilux long bed. all that poo poo without having to pay some conversion specialist a year's worth of labor cost.
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MrQwerty posted:"I want drop-in ICE to EV conversions for every car that a couple dudes can do in a day" is on the same level of demand as "I wanna fuckin ride a unicorn through a cloud while both me and the unicorn poo poo rainbows and then a pegasus flies in front of us" i'm not talking a weekend thing, but doable at home like the medium term projects my dumb friends did (engine swaps, summer rebuilds of old cars) instead of the only option being a pro garage 100 thousand dollars job basically, humpthewind posted:Not with that attitude
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steinrokkan posted:That sounds like the opposite of reality. Everything that I access through browser is desperately trying to get me to install an app through incessant pop-ups and enshittification of their own website. But they'll put me in the cold, cold ground before I install an app i posted my solution earlier, i'd love for some forward-thinking companies to onboard this Deep Glove Bruno posted:i believe the rule should be if you want me to install an app to give you money i will gladly do it if I also get to cut your CEO and take some measure of blood from them. not a lot of blood, just like 75 ml. then i'll install an app
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Bad Purchase posted:anyone know if there are any good ad blockers still functioning on ios? i currently use adguard and previously 1blocker, and both used to work great but i see ads all over now. i don’t even mind paying 2 bucks per month now or whatever if there’s actually a blocker that’s still worth a drat for mobile devices. i don't have a universal one for all apps but for browsers, Brave works. people seem to have trouble doing screen-off youtube streaming so i'll mention i also use brave to do screen-off youtube. go full screen on the video, then swipe to home so it goes picture in picture, then screen off.
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wash bucket posted:Is Brave still a secret cryptocurrency miner? afaik it never was. but their hands are dirty with crypto in other ways, namely trying to serve you first party ads in exchange for their own shitcoin, but just don't turn that poo poo on. i am open to other ios browsers that block the gently caress out of everything and let me stream youtube audio if someone knows others
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Raged posted:After living in Australia for almost 22 years and raising a daughter I am going to have to leave the country and not get perm residency. Good times. Yeah wtf i wanna know more details if you care to give them. They are kicking your rear end out? How'd you stay so long with no route to PR? Why is Aussie always the worst immigration policy in the world?
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doctorfrog posted:It's this more than anything that permanently put me off this kind of television. These shows can never relax. Or, there's only 5 minutes of content, and 23 minutes of airtime to fill. I edit TV (not in this genre thankfully) and there's an industry term they use, "signposting". Generally, you spend a month or more on your own with the director (or edit producer) making a show that flows nicely and everything story wise that you're trying to communicate is clear, then you send it to the channel where the commissioner who paid for the show watches this first cut. Commissioners do vary but generally speaking they are one of two things: almost comically dumb and/or delusional about the idea they themselves liked and decided to commission of normal intelligence but assume the audience for their channel to be slope-skulled cro-magnons Either way, your feedback/changes to make will look like this: - some matters of taste like voiceover script word choice and nuance, or music choice - 800 requests for "signposting" aka "wait, why did this scene start after the other one finished? can we explain in VO that it's a different place and time now?" "how can we be sure the audience understands he's dead after he falls in the industrial chum grinder? can we cut to a stock shot of a gravestone?" and then depending on the clout and will of the executive producer or director (who don't work for the channel, but for the production company, so are at a disadvantage), you do some of the requested changes and for the others, patiently explain that editing is when you move in time and space between camera shots and it will not disorient the audience. Similar discussions will happen about story points. After many years in this job I've concluded that they just assume anything made for TV is going to be consumed while making dinner, wrangling children or in some kind of submental haze. That M&W sketch's final joke is another industry term - the production company credit is "False Jeopardy Productions". "False jeopardy" is the term for the "and time's running out!!" or "will they get the door closed?!" poo poo to try and increase drama. It's another constant demand (again there are exceptions) from channels. Like poo poo you commissioned a show about portrait painting, what the gently caress jeopardy do you expect? That's where you get *gasp! dramatic music sting* He's smudged his cadmium yellow into his pthalo blue! False jeopardy has been so overused that of course it doesn't loving work if it ever did, and it's now at the point where I was making a show recently where there WAS actual, real time pressure over the 6+ weeks of shooting, but every time we mentioned it in VO it felt fake because it's been so abused that we all as viewers instantly understand it to be false.
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Outrail posted:But is this an unreasonable assumption? the worst i would phrase it is "it depends on the show/platform" but even then, people aren't stupid in the way that channels like to assume. if you don't understand something specific you don't lose your poo poo and rage quit the TV, you use context just like you did when you were a kid and didn't get something. you act like you get it and it smooths over. you can't make a show that panders to every ignorance that your audience could possibly have anyway
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EoinCannon posted:They're a good way to support local artists. Those gift shops that sell local type stuff always seem to have a rack of them and they usually just have some art on the front and no trite message inside so you use them for anything. Yeah this old lady I garden with makes them and sells them at street markets and stuff as a hobby/income and they're really well done. She has no other income except I assume some pension or superannuation and is not able to do much else. That's not to say supermarket hallmark cards hold any benefit though
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the amount of discord posts in this thread since the update makes me think you should all hit da bricks. gently caress a platform
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eat like a player though student loan's due i'll pay it later though i'm at the whole foods, shopping cart fulla poo poo holdin the line up with a grip of WIC checks everybody else is shopping smart, i'm shopping reckless cage free brown eggs bitch - hold up my toast says texas - hold up doing the most and i ain't even done with breakfast https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62V0mEjXFBE i'm talkin oranges and peaches cantaloupes and mangoes the size of a fetus
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