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Tarkus posted:Why listen to a song when I can quickly glance at the sheet music and lyrics?!?!? Why watch a movie when I can just read the synopsis?!?! jfc lol Fair enough when it's a podcast with quality scripting, sound production, and editing. But when it's some jabroni going "Uhhhm" multiple times a sentence and nose-breath laughing into the microphone at his own jokes etc., gently caress that noise. Ditto for videos that stretch two paragraphs and three jpegs worth of useful information into ten-plus minutes of bullshit.
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Just lol if you're not bioluminescing Fake edit: I could get behind banning those eye-destroying bright blue LEDs they put in everything.
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Re: Firefox talk, it really is the best major (though its market share is pretty dismal) browser available for desktops and Android. The worst things they've done in recent memory were 1) They hosed up tabs; turned them into floating buttons and worsened various little visual indicators such as the way to tell when a tab was playing sound. Same update deprecated compact view and made even now-unsupported compact view significantly less dense; non-compact now looks like a drat baby toy in comparison. Luckily fixable because at least Firefox still has customizability, but it was worrying in that it showed the Firefox team to be infected with designer brainworms and an urge to ape Chrome against users' wishes. and 2) They also took a big old poo poo on download behavior for no goddamn reason. At least an option emerged to fix that, but still. Troubling. Re: adblockers, uBlock Origin is great (and also works in Firefox on Android), but let me also shill for Blokada 5 as a system-wide blocker on Android. (6 appears to be some kind of subscription service so gently caress that; 4 is also great on devices as outdated as Android 4.2.) My apps are almost all fully ad-free. Also alsø, sideloaded NewPipe on Android mitigates many of the annoyances of YouTube. Can download anything as video or audio only, too.
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Dec 1, 2023 03:21
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How dare that obvious poor have rolls of fifties? Probably picked them right out of the pocket of an honest hardworking upper-class cocaine enthusiast
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Dec 14, 2023 15:25
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My household got a DIY carbonation kit that connects right to a big CO2 tank and standard 2L bottle, which is great because we don't have to replace or refill proprietary canisters all the time and also we aren't giving money to zionists. I do miss the SodaStream's diet Dr. Pepper knockoff flavor, though. I have yet to find a decent substitute.
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Seth Pecksniff posted:Hm. Odd choice of words here. Care to elaborate? SodaStream is subject to BDS boycott. I guess their super-zionist CEO Birnbaum is now a former CEO and I'm not in a position to research exactly how bad their current leadership is but yeah it's a company that has profited off of the illegal occupation and I am not on board with that.
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Dec 27, 2023 00:05
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I am personally sorry to have started such a derail with a passing side-gripe I wanted to make about finding out a product I had been consuming was associated with a right-wing genocidal movement. It was a way in which I had noticed something being shittier, but I did not intend to poo poo up the thread.
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Competing/overlapping extensions in Firefox can be an issue, yeah. "Enhancer for YouTube" has a checkbox to block ads, which is what was triggering YouTube nags for me until I unchecked it and restarted the browser.
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Just a note to fellow AVClub mourners: there's a post-Kinjapocalypse (the first big enshittification event) diaspora of sorts at the-avocado.org. Volunteers write reviews and stuff and a lot of the old commentariat still posts. It's slower than the AVClub was but the vibes are good.
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I'm a middle millennial with above-average but not expert computer-touching. I have two zoomer siblings and once watched the two of them sitting in front of the family computer. The older one typed "google.com" into the search bar, then typed "youtube" into the search bar on google. (You could definitely search from address bars by then.) I about had an aneurysm.
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I wasn't brave enough to say it first, but me too, pretty much. I was more like 10, but had moved around a lot and never had typing taught at school until after it was too late for me to unlearn my way. Now neurological bullshit has been lowering the accuracy of my technique. It's too late for me to learn the "right" way and it probably wouldn't help even if I could. I've thought about dictation but computers don't understand me and I can't not feel like a jackass talking to a machine. I typed this on Gboard on my phone, which used to work great and was one of those little things that made me feel like I was living in the future, but has gotten way less accurate and seems much more weighted toward things it expects a normal person to type. I suspect the decline is thanks to  AI.Anyway, text entry. Getting shittier.
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I carbonate water in 2L bottles from a big tank of CO2 and mix custom flavors for them  E christ, what a snipe Getting shittier: sourcing those flavors. Gonna start growing my own lemon balm this year, though, which is one of my favorites to use.
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kiwid posted:This sounds like so much work. It's super easy. Screw the bottle into the adapter, open valve, shake it a bit, detach, and pour into glass with flavor (or none). Bottle goes back into the fridge with five or six more glasses worth before it needs refilling and carbonating again. Beats the hell out of dragging cases of cans home from the store. Way less expensive than store brand, too.
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Feb 13, 2024 21:07
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Yeep posted:Shame you can't turn off their garbage, touch-first UI any more. On desktop, you can, with https://github.com/black7375/Firefox-UI-Fix I got my compactness back, my tabs are real tabs and not floating buttons, and lots of other little fixes for the baby toy-ification of the UI.
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Have you tried the "Always Right" extension yet?
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Feb 15, 2024 15:33
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dreezy posted:as far as i can tell it doesnt work, exact same behavior Bummer. I reckon there's a lot of little annoyances like that in Firefox, where someone spins up a bespoke fix that may or may not be a fix for others.
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Feb 15, 2024 18:11
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Vending machines can be deadly.
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Feb 24, 2024 03:08
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Getting pounded in the butt by Dr Bronner's Menthol Elemental is just about the only way I can feel alive anymore.
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Fitness tracker/smartwatch chat: I have a Galaxy Watch 6 Classic that I got a nice deal on. I don't use it for fitness—with my MS fatigue, caring full time for my toddler is anyway more exercise than I can handle—but I do keep an eye on the sleep tracking and occasionally use the heart rate monitor while doing deep breathing exercises. It's kind of rad to watch the rate go down and be able to say to myself, this poo poo works. This is my third WearOS watch (first two, I bought secondhand for extremely cheap) and by far the most capable and feature-rich. My initial use case was actually just to compensate for cognitive fog and broken brain stuff: my watch vibrates on the hour and half hour with different patterns, which helps keep me aware of the passage of time. I can set reminders and tasks and timers more conveniently than with my phone. And I've aggressively pared down the notifications I get so it's just the essentials. Also, this one has a rotating bezel with a really satisfying tactile feel. It's especially handy sometimes for controlling volume levels. WearOS itself kind of goes against the thread; none of the available hardware had enough power until pretty recently, so things would stutter and lag. Marketshare was painfully low. Every year there'd be a new essay from some tech reviewer about how google was definitely going to discontinue it by the end of the year. It's still not particularly great, but it helps me in my daily life in little ways.
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My little Sansa Clip has been going strong for about a decade now. The wheel of the old iPods was a fantastic interface but at least the clip has tactile buttons so you can control it without looking at the screen. I used to have one of those nanos with the wheel until there was a recall. Sent it in and got one of those loving squares that was all touchscreen back. Heartbreaking. That's something that got lovely over a decade ago but I'm still mad about it.
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Taear posted:cheques Well first of all, we would rather die than spell it like that
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I simply use Firefox ...and have to fix the custom CSS after every goddamn update because the UI team is apparently staffed entirely by braindead zoomers who exclusively use iPads or some poo poo EDIT: also an infuriating number of sites are more or less borked and I have to hold my nose and launch loving edge instead ChthonicMasturbatr fucked around with this message at 21:51 on Jan 2, 2025 |
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PhazonLink posted:seems like goons and other nerds cant get over their decades long grudge against FF. Don't get me wrong, I love Firefox and don't willingly use other browsers because they are so much worse. But it really has kept getting shittier for no reason. I kvetch because I'm stuck with it and I remember when I liked it better.
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Among many lovely neighbors I have, one in particular likes to violate the city noise ordinance (and it's not ambiguous; this is permanent hearing damage levels) for five hours at a time, two or three times a week, from mid spring to mid autumn. I can hear it clearly through earplugs in every room of the house, and going outside during it is out of the question. I'm pretty close to homebound and caring full time for a three year old; I don't have anywhere to escape to. I did my best to deal with it for two years (ETA: tried talking to them about it multiple times, which of course doesn't work with this kind of rear end in a top hat) until one morning with a deadly migraine I finally suspended my moral objections and called the cops. They showed up an hour later, while it was still going, but obviously didn't know the city ordinance at all and just sort of shrugged at me. As soon as they'd left, the rear end in a top hat next door turned it up even louder in retaliation. It's a misdemeanor violation after fifteen minutes of duration. I would have thought the pigs would jump at the chance to be writing those tickets, but nope. I loving hate living near people. ChthonicMasturbatr fucked around with this message at 16:51 on Jan 7, 2025 |
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poo poo Fuckasaurus posted:This post brought to you by the light pollution gang? Inside my house at night it's so dark you can't reliably orient yourself on getting out of bed. It's such a problem that we have built in night lights in the bathrooms and hallways. Outside of cities and suburbs it's not normal to be able to navigate a house at night with no lights. I have blackout curtains upon blackout curtains. If a device has one of those motherfucking blue LEDs I open it up and paint it black inside the case. I live in a world of darkness because I am hypersensitive to light. And I navigate in the dark because I have memorized the environs. I know which side of the bed I sleep on and every step after that. I can do it with my eyes closed, too. These things are possible.
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Blindsight fuckin rules and everyone ought to read it. I might go read it again right now.
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Phy posted:Peter Watts can be a real dick to his characters (verging on edgelordism) Yeah, Blindsight is intense but not torture porny. The Rifters trilogy has really interesting ideas and worldbuilding but some of the poo poo the characters go through was described in excessively lavish detail for my taste.
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Can't find it but I read an essay some years ago arguing that (as near as I can recall) capital had characteristics of a living thing, seeking its own interests and acting in ways irrelevant to, including to the detriment of, the humans and human systems that believe they control it. I thought it was compelling. But I got a D in Econ 101, so I was not qualified to evaluate the claims.
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Owlbear Camus posted:lol your brain synthesizes its own Prisencolinensinainciusol Every song has always been about 90% this for me until I look up the lyrics, because I have auditory processing disorder.
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credburn posted:These forums are the "off the grid" of social media No, I literally hope all advertisers and marketers die as soon as possible
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That article, while not overtly hateful like so much the publication produces, is a pile of bleached dogshit.
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Woolie Wool posted:Not a joke, my main PC's keyboard is a Model M made in 1987 Mine's a '91. Beat to hell and unkillable. Love that thing. Wish I could buy hardware like that in the present day.
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I have some pretty gnarly auditory processing disorder and can barely understand normal phone conversations on a good day. Voicemails are utterly incomprehensible every time, but the medical world loves to call me and leave voicemails all the time. So I recorded a very lengthy explanation of the above, plus a list of accessible ways to contact me, that they have to listen to in full before leaving a message. I think it's long enough that robocalls give up and even medical staff eventually get the message; I haven't gotten a voicemail in over a year.
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WILDTURKEY101 posted:Teaching high school, I can tell you that there is an immense split between kids. There are some who are sharp, know how to talk, have interests, have a sense of humor, etc. they’re not necessarily the smartest kids, but theyre still, like, present human beings. I’m not even talking about teachers pets or kids that I necessarily like. I just mean kids that have personalities. These kids will either try hard, do average to lovely work, or just not turn things in because they don’t give a gently caress. gently caress. This made me feel exactly the same way as the ending of Blindsight.
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Wii Spawn Camper posted:Buy a new laptop every year and throw the old one in the
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Borscht posted:I unironically think that if you made an ad like the ones in Detroiters you would get instant differentiation from the market. Fund a dozen more seasons of Detroiters by making all the ads in the show real ads but Cramblin Duvet gets total creative control. Bing bong so simple
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Captain Hygiene posted:It took a bit to notice the secret worst thing about Windows 11: you can't right-click on an icon and press 'r' to list its properties any more, now it's some two-key combo. It was very important that we changed the shortcut you've used for twenty years to something completely different, and didn't leave it as a secondary option even though that key has no other assignment, because poo poo like this is why I went into my goddamn registry to keep windows from doing a "we know you said you didn't want 11 but gently caress you lol"
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Strategic Tea posted:There's a Gibson novel where they meet a gig worker whose job is literally to look like a high flier, flirt with people in bars, and slip [your product here] into the conversation. I wouldn't be surprised at all if it's now real! It also made for two really good episodes of Community
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