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Weatherman posted:On the other hand, Apple managed to go from Classic Mac OS to OS X, and also to do three CPU-architecture changes. For good or ill, Apple is willing to break backwards compatibility and legacy support every decade or so and just tell their customers to get with it. Microsoft is too beholden to business customers to do that.
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I think Windows 11 should keep shilling Xbox Live to my 70 year old parents, sure they've said no thanks the first 30 times you tried to force it on them but who knows maybe the the 31st time they'll think differently.
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Oh, speaking of Apple, I set foot in one of their Apple stores for the first time in like 5 years and they layout is just silly now. There aren't any registers or a front counter or anything. Just a bunch of tables full of demo units. I guess you're just supposed to mill around and wait for one of the employees to get done showing Dad how to use his phone? Made it kind of awkward to figure out who had been there waiting longer. I can already hear the middle manager sales pitch about how that's supposed to work but in real life it's just frustrating for a customer walking into a busy store.
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Denim Dude posted:speaking of screen fuckery bullshit did anyone else's youtube layout go from 4 to 5 videos depending on screen scale to 3 videos per row with huge thumbnails. I didn't change my display settings. This has been driving me mad for the past week or so, yeah
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Weatherman posted:On the other hand, Apple managed to go from Classic Mac OS to OS X, and also to do three CPU-architecture changes. OS X was heavy on technologies they already had in hand, particularly BSD (open source) + Mach kernel (from academia) + NeXTSTEP (operating system acquired from failed startup founded by Jobs), so it's not fair to call that a complete rewrite. The open stuff is particularly important because you had an existing base of excellent and proven UNIX software, utilities, and philosophy and didn't have to do stuff like port drivers to a completely unknown universe. The Mac universe was also small/dying so it also had much less inertia. They had no place to go but up. Microsoft has had a habit of doing everything in-house under heavy secrecy to enable their strategy of lock-in. The stuff they acquire is always "embrace, extend, extinguish" (Skype being the latest victim). .NET has been their best effort into the openness arena, but they still gently caress with the spirit of that when they have friction (GUI libraries are still closed, rewriting open source projects themselves to own the base, edging in other closed features). It's hard for me to envision them doing something similar since porting the existing ecosystem and the impact it would have would be disastrous unless they embraced common standards (lol) DemihumanResources fucked around with this message at 11:43 on Apr 23, 2025 |
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flesh dance posted:It's been doing that to me on and off for months if not years; I zoom out when I need to. Listen, I am not the smartest person in any room and have never worked in business or marketing, but I have never understood how making everything shittier gains anyone more revenue. More clicking around annoying bullshit equals more "engagement"?
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DontMockMySmock posted:This has been driving me mad for the past week or so, yeah welp i found a solution that works for me. I use tamper monkey anyways, https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/533648-youtube-3-video-grid-fix created less than a day ago. I changed a couple things in the "code" even though I don't know what i'm doing. I changed --ytd-rich-grid-items-per-row: 5 !important; to --ytd-rich-grid-items-per-row: 4 !important; and then i changed rid-template-columns: repeat(5, minmax(0, 1fr)) !important; to rid-template-columns: repeat(4, minmax(0, 1fr)) !important; and now it's cool. this is my life now. SUPPOSEDLY there is a way to do it in a plugin called enhancer for youtube, which i also have installed and have running anyways but I couldn't figure it out. here is a screen shot  by default the 4 is a 5. but you can change it to 10 if you wan't i guess. edit: before  after  edit 2: it's a pretty small script so if someone can tell me a better way to optimize it that would be sweet. i have no idea what i'm doing but i got it from 5 videos per row (too small) to 4 (just right.) i'm just not sure I did it right. Denim Dude fucked around with this message at 12:46 on Apr 23, 2025 |
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Apr 23, 2025 12:03
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I hate pausing anything now. Can’t even pause a show without instant ads
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ive started moving stuff that is available on streaming services i still pay for onto my plex server just so i dont have to deal with any of that bullshit or their terrible video players. plus i know it'll always be there.
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Gomez Chamberlain posted:Rewriting windows? lol lmao They need to rewrite the entire stack
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https://www.levernews.com/zuckerberg-admits-enshittification-is-the-point/ I'm sure this article's been posted here. Maybe. But you can't read it without an account. Self Explanatory. Phat Phingers fucked around with this message at 13:55 on Apr 23, 2025 |
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Phat Phingers posted:https://www.levernews.com/zuckerberg-admits-enshittification-is-the-point/ I'm never sure when it's irony. Is it irony when the article reporting on purposeful enshittification is hidden behind a subscription wall? 
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Canine Blues Arooo posted:Electron is a framework that basically wraps a browser renderer in a view that isn't your browser. You write in JS, CSS, etc. because you are just targeting a browser underneath the hood. The benefits of this are your get cross platform for free (with a couple load-bearing asterisks here), and you can sic all your web developers onto a project like this and they can technically write a desktop app if you squint enough. 
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Qt is loving garbage just for their abusive licensing
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YouTube site is garbage. Give the Freetube desktop app a try if you don't mind jumping through the hoop of importing your channel subscriptions. Or just take the opportunity to purge it and start from a clean slate.
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Discord appoints former Activision Blizzard exec Humam Sakhnini as CEOquote:Amid rumors that the company is eyeing an IPO, Discord appointed former Activision Blizzard Vice Chairman Humam Sakhnini as CEO. Discord co-founder Jason Citron will leave his CEO role after 13 years at the company. Well, I guess that's that.
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Good it’s a terrible application
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euphronius posted:Good it’s a terrible application Its really good. My group was using loving skype calls before discord. Can you even imagine? You just hop into voice and it has great quality and good hotkey support plus you can drop counterstrike memes into the text chat. What more could you want.
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If what you want to say can't be communicated via emotes/sprays then it does not need to be said.
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Denim Dude posted:welp i found a solution that works for me. I use tamper monkey anyways, https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/533648-youtube-3-video-grid-fix created less than a day ago. Your algo is cursed and almost 100% men.
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Borscht posted:Your algo is cursed and almost 100% men. Kitboga is an 80 year old grandma.
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for the last week, the "find my" app has been frequently giving me false positive alerts that i left my airpods behind. watch it not alert me the next time i definitely will lose them.
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Olympic Mathlete posted:I've been saying Samsung is trash for years. They're probably the worst of all the big technology companies simply because of the sheer amount of different SKUs they produce meaning support for the majority of them is terrible.
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Remulak posted:I've been told that the culture of Samsung is such that they rotate execs/pms/"decision makers" between projects/lines every couple of years so there's a lot of pressure to change things for no reason other than to prove you put your stamp on it. And of course good luck with any institutional memory. This happens at a lot of companies. Speaking from my own experience, I've had new directors who came in and told my manager 'Your team is now called XYZ'. Why? Oh, because it relates the purpose of the blah blah blah whatever. Changing the names of all your teams is a super easy, very visible way to show you're making decisions, so you do it. It must be something that's taught in MBA courses.
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They do it because if they did not their unimportance would become obvious. See also: return to office
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Denim Dude posted:speaking of screen fuckery bullshit did anyone else's youtube layout go from 4 to 5 videos depending on screen scale to 3 videos per row with huge thumbnails. I didn't change my display settings. If you put your mouse cursor between two of the thumbnails in the lower rows, and scroll down with the mouse wheel or pg up pg down on the keyboard, you'll find that some thumbnails are wider than others
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wash bucket posted:Discord appoints former Activision Blizzard exec Humam Sakhnini as CEO yep, beginning of the end. preemptive rip to the only actually decent social platform to achieve ubiquity among gamers and internet nerds.
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wash bucket posted:Discord appoints former Activision Blizzard exec Humam Sakhnini as CEO drat that sucks rear end
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That sucks. I've used Discord for almost ten years now and really like it. Only lovely thing that's going on with it right now is they show you what's basically an ad on the bottom of your server list. It's pretty easy to make it go away at least. I'm paying you fuckers for Nitro, I should be able to opt out of them (it would be understandable but still lovely if they only did it to users who weren't Nitro subscribers).
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I like how the Nitro advertisement app comes with a chat feature so you can talk to your friends through it
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Snapchat started spamming me with several ads every day. Everything sure gets suckier!
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I didn't even know they were still around tbh, last time I used snapchat would've been circa 2018 and it was very ad-y back then
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haha what the gently caress is up with YouTube's thumbnails? I read earlier in the thread someone was having issues but it didn't happen to me until just now. I went to YouTube, watched part of some video, went back to the main page and now everything is zoomed in edit: but I'm seeing this is because of a change that happened two years ago 
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It is easy to fix youtube as long as you're not the sort of addict who has to stay signed in for eternity and knows how to use the browser bookmark function to create handy shortcuts to your creators of choice. Install uBlock Origin and add these filters: code: A poo poo-free search results page:  And a poo poo-free video player page:  with nary a clickbait suggestion or :-O face to be seen (unless searching for those is your thing).
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This is a really sad story about a man who needed help on a plane and didn't get it and then loving died. https://www.yahoo.com/news/american-airlines-flight-attendants-let-195049251.html But here's a part that really stuck out to me quote:“Next thing he knows, EMS pulls up and they’re pulling John off,” he told The Independent. “It was business as usual until they could get all the passengers away, and then, all of a sudden, it became an emergency… It seems like it’s become a persistent issue, where these flight crews are ‘event averse.’ Like, if you downplay things and attempt to sweep them under the rug, that’s the go-to play these days.” Everyone, everywhere, in America, in all situations, seems to have become more 'event averse'. Except, of course, for the people who are the root cause of this phenomenon. There seems to be a whole class of people who are ready to snap at a moment's notice, and everyone around them is too tired or underpaid or full of anxiety to deal with that. And with everything being constantly recorded there are too many opportunities for tough talk to be taken out of context. Also the entire substrate of the economy is customer satisfaction surveys. I believe this leads to an endless avoidance of any kind of conflict whenever possible. Which leads to bad things! Sometimes there needs to be conflict and sometimes you cannot speak politely. This sentiment is not an endorsement of police putting people's faces on concrete or some Karen screeching at a customer service rep. Sometimes there has to be a firm but polite enforcement of rules or norms. Or, sorry, you can't get off the plane right this second, this guy is having a heart attack. Teriyaki Hairpiece fucked around with this message at 02:58 on Apr 24, 2025 |
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:This is a really sad story about a man who needed help on a plane and didn't get it and then loving died. quote:In an email, an American Airlines spokesperson said simply, “We are reviewing the complaint.” 
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dreezy posted:for the last week, the "find my" app has been frequently giving me false positive alerts that i left my airpods behind. watch it not alert me the next time i definitely will lose them. I moved to a house in the city a few years back, and decided to by my dog a GPS collar. We had been in a more rural place and a 4 year old leaving the door open meant I’d just have to go get him instead of risking him getting splattered in a 40mph zone with no sidewalks. Literally the first time I left the house it told me “Dog is out of the house!”. Sped home to find him asleep on the couch. It started happening like three times a day so I just never used it again. As an added lovely bonus, it was like $5 a month and it wouldn’t let me cancel it online or by phone (no idea how I was actually supposed to do it) so I literally shut down my PayPal account to stop the charges. Still don’t have a PayPal account 4 years later.
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Weatherman posted:A poo poo-free search results page: sorry to nitpick because your post seems very helpful, but YouTube search has become absolute dogpoo these past few years and I doubt there's anything we can actually do about it
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Here's something annoying. When you go to the playlists page of a youtube channel there are two ways you can sort them: in the order they were created (newest at the top) or in order of how recently they have had videos added to them (most recently at the top.) The latter is more useful because a lot of channels tend to have a few useful older playlists for their most popular and long-running series and then many newer, shorter playlists for shorter series. Unfortunately youtube defaults to the "newest playlist first" sorting method. So fine, whatever, just change it, right? Well no, because whenever I try to do that via mobile web browser (which is almost always how I access youtube) it takes me to a "something went wrong" error page. It just doesn't work. This has been the case for like two or three years now, they just broke this functionality at some point and never fixed it.
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