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Wilkins Micawber posted:Speaking of Amazon, they have some kind of new shipping boxes which are terrible. The boxes are bad and I suspect they were crafted by evil wizards. The pull tabs only work sometimes and your box will arrive smashed, but smashed in new and interesting ways. Exciting! The ants provide extra protein for the cats, RMA not issued. 
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Zelthar posted:How much dose youtube save by burying old videos on a slower server/drives? On top of forcing/encouraging channels to pay for a boost to even get listed now. Seems like an accounting decision. YouTube doesn't have a viable business model and never will. Longform HD video hosting is about the most expensive internet thing there is, eventually it will have to restrict itself to uploaders who can pay big money or go away.
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Bad Purchase posted:the smiths are good and the algorithm WILL have you acknowledge it I don't use Spotify that much anymore but when I did I rarely took its recommendations and I never used playlists. I would add and listen to music pretty much exclusively by album.
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steinrokkan posted:Probably because records from the 60s were produced for vinyl. And digital just is better, there's no way around it so you won't find a magical modern release that sounds better on vinyl. There are a few that sound better on vinyl, but only because they have dedicated vinyl mixes. For instance, Stratovarius Elysium sounds much better on vinyl than the standard version (though one of the songs' vinyl mixes got released as a B side on digital and sounds better still  ). Just dumping a standard lovely brickwalled modern mix onto vinyl will only make it shittier.
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sebmojo posted:doctorow on cars getting shittier "coupe rooflines" on sedans are another form of car enshittification. Most sedans now do not have enough head and shoulder room to accommodate an adult human without the adult bowing their head. Meanwhile, actual coupes have disappeared. I have heard the excuse of aerodynamics, but the Mercedes W124 had a drag coefficient of 0.28 with a formal roofline in the 1980s. Some might say style but nobody really seems to like the way new cars look. Who are these cars for? They're not for families, because families don't fit in them, but if they're for atomized individuals they could have two doors and look like real coupes and not like a frog taking a poo poo. The worst offender might be Mazda because they have decided to make their front wheel drive cars look like rear wheel drive cars by pushing the dash and A-pillar back, giving you the cramped leg-crushing back seat of a BMW 2 Series without any of the fun up front. Another worst of both worlds comes from the fact that every FWD car is built to also be AWD which means they have big transmission tunnels like an RWD car, sacrificing another one of the advantages that made transverse FWD so practical and successful. Progress! And it doesn't stop there. Modern rear seats have these huge, HARD non-bolster bolsters that poke into your elbows and upper arms and pinch the seats towards the middle of the car, and on cheaper models there is no upholstery at all on them. Soft touch plastics and upholstered door cards are disappearing from moderately priced cars. Small crossovers often have insane floor heights so the extra body height is wasted and they're just as cramped as sedans. Getting a Lyft ride in a 20 year old car is often a relief. Woolie Wool fucked around with this message at 14:49 on Jul 27, 2023 |
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sebmojo posted:if you want to find an email then having a bunch of columns you can sort by is infinitely superior to whatever the gently caress gmail does. Use a real email client and set up IMAP with your account. 
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Jul 28, 2023 16:28
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VikingofRock posted:IIRC big car collision safety is a lie, since small cars are much less likely to be in a collision in the first place (as they are much more maneuverable, have shorter stopping distances, etc) Those benefits of small cars are negated by the fact that driver training and licensing is considered a cost center for the state. Let's just let people drive without knowing what the hell they're doing and up-armor the cars to compensate.
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Jul 29, 2023 05:16
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wizard2 posted:the Boomers and Xers are coming from inside this very thread, gasping and weezing over the moral decline of today's misguided youth, what with their illicit Dungeons & Dragons video games and their "Japanimation" Millenials are like 40 now, we're old and we do what old people do. It was never about generations, all generations start out as young people and turn into old people. In 2050, if there still is an internet, zoomers will be using dead gay social media platforms to complain about the perverted, decadent sexuality of the youth.
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Canine Blues Arooo posted:This is something I'm unironically curious about - will we see this happen? Will the millennial generation get weird and conservative about social policy and the 'kids these days', especially around sexuality et al? In 2000 we had a porn forum. In 2023 even the mildest "hornyposting" is effectively forbidden under pain of sixer. It has already happened.
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skooma512 posted: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 The modern hard-right isn't really very "conservative" in the literal sense. The people all about conserving things are centrist Democrats who love Joe Biden and want American politics to be like The West Wing. Modern American reactionaries are counterrevolutionaries who basically want to throw out the traditional idea of America and replace it with something more like an interwar European nationalist society.
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Aug 5, 2023 19:08
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Biplane posted:Didn't the dried strawberry guy give himself actual brain damage from sleeping next to all his miners? How would that even work? They're just blinking space heaters.
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How the gently caress do you even try to sleep when your room is 110°? I recently lost air conditioning for almost two weeks and the temperature inside my house reached 90°, I had to sleep on the couch under the living room fan because my room was intolerable, and trying to use my desktop (with only one GPU) was absolute torture. Buce posted:this been said before but it's infuriating how youtube recommends rightwing/fascist bullshit no matter how often you block the channels and try in vain to coach the algorithm. just a loving joke I haven't seen any overtly fashy content in years, the closest I've gotten was a sci-fi analysis channel run by a '90s style libertarian who wasn't even all that interested in converting people to smol gubmint and goldbuggery, and a few sketchy Linux/FOSS channels. It's certainly nothing like 2015-2018 when I was bombarded with recs for alt-right videos. Most of the political content I get recommended is from queer channels like Caelan Conrad, Jessie Gender, Sophie from Mars, etc. Woolie Wool fucked around with this message at 06:24 on Aug 8, 2023 |
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Aug 8, 2023 06:18
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Thought his brain herniated after he turned his room into a toaster oven and baked himself.
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Internet Old One posted:You can set dns to adguard or a pihole in your clients. Or you can get a second router but this will introduce issues with double nat. If you get a real fancy one you can have it filter dhcp from your ISPs modem but otherwise act as a bridge and dhcp server. How long until ISPs start attempting to DRM internet connections to stop this? As a bonus, you'll have no choice but to buy their marked up lovely routers too.
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Aug 10, 2023 17:51
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Tokelau All Star posted:The Charmin is worth the extra few bucks. This is coming from a guy who, less than five years ago, was exclusively using industrial brand TP that I took home from work. Kroger sells knockoff Charmin that is perfectly fine.
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It would make sense for Apple to sell smart TVs that solve many of the probkems of regular smart TVs but cost $10,000. Selling de-enshittified tech to rich people for absurd markups has been a pillar of their business for a long time.
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Aug 17, 2023 14:49
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Canine Blues Arooo posted:Apple de-enshittifies tech, and then proceeds to re-enshittify it, just with Apple branded shittification. I don't really use Apple stuff but from my casual acquaintance Apple enshittifies the internals of their products rather than the UX amd their rich customers are happy to throw their Apple products away and buy new ones. It's an enshittification you don't notice if you make $400k and don't give a gently caress about the environment.
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Mumpy Puffinz posted:not with that attitude. What happened to the Punks? gently caress the man! The punks now exist as an industry to sell ugly black clothes and music that sounds like music from 50 years ago.
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Americans are a conquered people, they will go into the recycling and processing centers going "it's god's will, nothing can be done about it"  as they await dissection
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SRQ posted:I like to remind people that the first settlement you see in Fallout 1, the literal stage setting, is mud-brick. Not garbage, but a primitive agrarian commune. Fallout 1 and 2 were video games, Fallout 3+ are an "IP". One set of games had visuals designed to make sense in their own context, the other to be a toyetic and easily reproducible aesthetic signature.
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doctorfrog posted:*Taps the sign* There's a part of me that just wants the VC money tap to turn off already so the tech industry can just collapse and we can go back to living in an analog world. MrQwerty posted:earbuds have never worked for me, poo poo just does not stay in my ear regardless of the shape and I gotta wear cans I am picky about sound quality and my ears are gross wax fountains so for me cans (Sennheiser HD 650) are the only way to go.
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MrQwerty posted:also lol that analog world poo poo ain't the way it's gonna go No, instead we'll likely have pretty much no culture aside from a dribble of schlock dispensed through our dumb terminals at pathetic bandwidths while the bulk of computer technology is repurposed for war, surveillance, policing, and administration 
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Outpost22 posted:The thing that gets me is not knowing what's a good brand and what's just coasting off of a good brand name. Like you have to keep track of when a company inevitably turns to poo poo and predict what the next good company is going to take its place. Then that company will inevitably turn to poo poo. It's all too exhausting. The solution is to be rich. The economy is slowly retreating upmarket and eventually poors won't have much of anything to buy at all and will be effectively locked out of consumerism and forced to subsist any way they can, or die. Welcome to the collapse of industrial civilization, it is a long, long, long way down.
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I run three ad blockers and ignore social media, TV, movies, and most of my email so I don't see ads at all.
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soupdragon posted:Without trying to sound like the Colonel from Monty Python, I enjoy a good joke but I personally found this one a bit tiresome. tbh the whole idea of edgy ironic comedy is an artifact of the '90s when everything had very low stakes. The unraveling of American society into communal violence will be extremely unfunny and nobody is going to have a sense of humor about it.
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The entire internet was a scam and now it's getting a gigantic slow motion rugpull
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Nelson Mandingo posted:I'm not sure how the bastards at the deep state pulled this off but radio waves, a non-ionizing radiation which, in general, doesn't have enough energy to affect atoms, cells, negatively affect chemical processes, and so on...Is now able to significantly affect cells and transfer even biological viruses now. Generations of entertainment have used science as magic, so to people whose education is mostly entertainment media, science is magic. Science fiction cliches become real in conspiracy theory.
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Fitzy Fitz posted:This drives me crazy because you can't dependably Google words for the definition anymore. You'll get some dumb tech start-up instead. and replace it with what? Even DuckDuckGo is little different from Google, often worse.
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haldolium posted:what really got worse are status LEDs. Monitors now can have their super bright (why???) led turned off when on, but then start blinking or some other poo poo when off. Where are the chill amber lights... I hate blue LEDs so much, my retro computer has one of the last beige cases ever made so they put a newfangled blue LED on it that is searingly bright and harsh Reverse example: My Samsung Galaxy A50 broke so I recently got a Google Pixel 5 which has one of the old style rear fingerprint readers and it is vastly better than the "modern" in-screen reader of the Samsung
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Microbrew IPAs are beer enshittifcation, I used to be able to get things like Paulaner Salvator or Maredsous 8 in liquor stores all over Memphis, now you get beers as strong as those in gas stations but they're all IPAs that taste like Pine-Sol and come from fly-by-night microbreweries from the south and midwest. There are a million different IPAs with garish labels and stupid meme lol names, jacked-up ABVs and a fuckload of hops to conceal their grain flavors (probably a bunch of them are partly or mostly corn). Each one has a hazy version and a juicy version and an even stronger version, and they all taste roughly the same. "It's local!" It's poo poo, it's pretentious malt liquor that tastes even worse than actual malt liquor and doesn't have the honesty to admit it's cheap garbage to get drunk to like malt liquor does, so I just drink Mexican beer now because nothing is better within 10 miles of here 
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euphronius posted:Just move to wine my fiend gently caress that, a drinkable bottle of Chardonnay is like $18 and it only goes up from there, bad wine is torture and I would rather drink cheap liquor because at least I would have to taste a whole lot less of it
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Virigoth posted:SUPER DOUBLE 24 HOUR IPA RASPUTIN BOMB WITH HABANERO or whatever. Old Rasputin is a good beer though That I haven't seen around here in years
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Sentient Data posted:Every single fall of a civilization has had a civilian population watch it happen from the sidelines. We're no more special or immune than them, the only question is if the shoe has begun to drop The shoe dropped 40 years ago and will not hit the floor for another 150 or so years of slow, steady enshittification of everything, including the earth Likewise capitalism will not collapse all at once but retreat both geographically and economically, until commodities are traded only by small urban populations surrounded by desperate people left to rediscover peasant agriculture the hard way. The last cars will be Rolls-Royces and the last computers will be military equipment to protect the rich and their Rolls-Royces Woolie Wool fucked around with this message at 22:09 on Oct 14, 2023 |
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GolfHole posted:Amazing to think that the previous ~15 years were actually some of the best years on Earth, possibly forever. If you are a white guy from North America or Europe, but the rest of the world has been enshittifying for 500 years.
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Didn't they vastly reduce the strength of warheads because kids were hurting themselves binging on them?
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Montague Tigg posted:why is everything remastered, definitive edition, etc.? just do it right the first time idiots They did do it right the first time, but how can they make you buy it again if they admit that? 
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VikingofRock posted:Wall street looks at the second derivative of your profit. So it's not enough to make money, and it's not enough to make more money than you did before. You have to make more money than you did before, and do so by more than the last (year-over-year) increase in your profit. I remember when I was a kid my parents would have  running and I would watch the endless stock market reports and wonder even at that tender age why the august owners of our economy seemed like a bunch of stupid herd animals that panic at the slightest provocation and sabotage their own wealth with emotional reasoning--"I heard profits might be slightly less than predicted, time to tank my own portfolio  "
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bradzilla posted:The only recent car safety feature that's actually worth a poo poo is the rear camera and possibly blind spot monitor. All the other features are just annoying and never work when they're actually supposed to. They're there because cars have lost their outward visibility to swoopy fast rooflines to scrape 0.05 mpg when they could instead save 5+ mpg by making an actual car and not a fake SUV.
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