Pechente
@Pechente@feddit.de
- Comment on The Verge shows how Google search is useless 4 days ago:
My DuckDuckGo experience has surprisingly been more useful.
Yeah, right!? I remember that one or two years ago DDG was consistently worse than Google but recently Google’s quality has dropped off a cliff. Now when I don’t get the desired result and switch to Google, the results are usually just as bad or worse.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Possibly bloatware related, unless it’s a clean install of Windows.
- Comment on YouTube now suggests new content *by colour* 2 months ago:
Oh man I needed this! Not the stupid extensions that play it in a normal YouTube window or something. I just wanna remove that crappy short form video stuff altogether.
- Comment on Tesla driver who killed 2 people while using autopilot must pay $23,000 in restitution without having to serve any jail time 4 months ago:
Holy shit, really? Never looked into it but judging by how people drive here (lots of people on their phones while driving, missing red lights all the time) it certainly doesn’t seem like there are severe consequences for any wrongdoings.
- Comment on What's the point on hosting RSS reader's? 4 months ago:
That and sync. I wanna keep track of what I read already. Add to that functionality for saving favorites etc and you got a much better package overall.
- Comment on Google Fiber is offering early access to $250 per month 20-gig service - The Verge 4 months ago:
Every service they offer is offered elsewhere by less evil companies.
And with other companies you usually don’t have to be worried, they will suddenly discontinue the service after running it half-assed in the first place.
- Comment on Google Bard can now watch YouTube videos for you 5 months ago:
You’re joking but that’s possibly how this is gonna be monitized in the future. In the end it might just look like current day news articles with ads interspliced throughout.
- Comment on Could Cruise be the Theranos of AI? And is there a dark secret at the core of the entire driverless car industry? 5 months ago:
But how would I flex my wealth to those peasants then? /s
- Comment on Linux isn't ready for professional work? 6 months ago:
I absolutely agree. For me the most lacking part is media creation software. Neither Adobe nor Affinity apps are available and no, GIMP is not a Photoshop replacement despite many users claiming it. The non-destructive workflow is severely lacking.
- Comment on Facebook and Instagram launch an ad-free subscription model in GDPR countries 6 months ago:
I would have loved this option like 10 years ago – when it wasn’t clear what a toxic company facebook is.
- Comment on Could we use AI to update 4:3 media to 16:9? 6 months ago:
But adding previously unseen stuff would be changing/redirecting the movie/show.
You could see this with The Wire 16:9 remake. They rescanned the original negatives that were shot in 16:9 but framed and cropped to 4:3. As a result the framing felt a bit off and the whole thing felt a bit awkward / amateurish.
- Comment on Microsoft has over a million paying Github Copilot users: CEO Nadella 6 months ago:
One way this plan could fall through is if LLM tech progresses to the extent that free and open source copilots, run locally, can give result that are just as good.
MS might be in trouble then.
Performance is not great but apparently it’s not optimized at all as of right now.
- Comment on There once was a programmer 6 months ago:
And it’s great for boilerplate heavy stuff like writing tests.
- Comment on What the heck, YouTube? 6 months ago:
Wait until you hear that podcasts are gonna come to YouTube Music
- Comment on About half of Bandcamp employees have been laid off 6 months ago:
Funding is drying up due to high interest rates. That’s why these kinda of layoffs happen more frequently right now.
- Comment on Google Podcasts to shut down in 2024 with listeners migrated to YouTube Music 7 months ago:
Why are they forcing users to YouTube Music anyway? They could improve the product before killing all of their other services.
YouTube Music doesn’t even remember where you left off. Switch to your phone? Playlist is gone. Close the tab? Playlist is gone. Anything other than an algorithm curated playlist will make you have a shit experience on YouTube Music.
- Comment on iOS 17 to Launch on September 18, Featuring StandBy Mode, NameDrop, Interactive Widgets 7 months ago:
Yeah it used to be terrible. Now it’s somewhat usable (used it in the beta for a while). It’s still bad if you type in multiple languages though.
- Comment on What is the secret to a happy social-media experience? 8 months ago:
In general phone notifications should only be people directly contacting you and stuff like reminders. No group chats (except mentions), social media, games or any crap like that.
I’m baffled how many notifications people leave on and then they don’t see important stuff or get stressed out by their phone.
- Comment on Is there a game that you've been very patient for, which turned out to be dissappointing when you finally started playing it? 8 months ago:
For me it’s The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. After Breath of the Wild I was super hyped for a successor. When they announced they were gonna reuse the same exact game world I was a bit worried but thought it could work if they do it well.
Well here we are with like 90% of the content being reused. The gameplay is more interesting than Breath of the Wild and the dungeons are better and so is the story. But my main draw for Breath of the Wild was exploring the world. All this fun is missing TOTK. The new parts of the world like the sky and underground are pretty bland and not quite a much fun to explore as an entirely new game world would be.
- Comment on YouTube’s anti-ad blocking test gets even pushier with a new timer 8 months ago:
They already solved it. Premium was way cheaper before they started bundling it with Music which is just utter garbage. I’d pay like 5€ / month for YouTube Premium without Music IF the experience was actually good and they didn’t shove shorts in my face everywhere like that non-dismissable panel that breaks up my subscriptions now.
- Comment on YouTube’s anti-ad blocking test gets even pushier with a new timer 8 months ago:
It’s definitely a TOS violation (as is using any kind of VPN to access their content apparently) but I never heard of anyone having trouble with it. Either way, I moved off of other Google services completely, so it would not be a huge loss for me at least.
- Comment on YouTube’s anti-ad blocking test gets even pushier with a new timer 8 months ago:
Yep! I left another reply with more details. I’m using Turkey and it’s super easy to set up.
- Comment on YouTube’s anti-ad blocking test gets even pushier with a new timer 8 months ago:
Argentina or (in my case) Turkey seem to be popular options. You only need to use a VPN when setting up the first payment. Your credit card can be from your home country, no checks at all. After that it’ll just work and you won’t need a VPN anymore.
- Comment on YouTube’s anti-ad blocking test gets even pushier with a new timer 8 months ago:
You can get Premium cheaper through other countries. It’s super simple. I only pay about 1€ / month and that feels about right to me unlike the 15€ or something I’d have to pay otherwise.
- Comment on What does fedddit mean? 8 months ago:
This is incorrect but I like it more
- Comment on Increasing taxes to solve inequality is based on fundamentally wrong assumptions. 9 months ago:
The difference is that feudalism wasn‘t a democracy. In a democracy you can change what your tax income is spent on and you can decide whether or not you want it to go to welfare programs or whatever else. The money is not in the hands of government workers. Your taxes don’t go to the bank account of the head of state.
This is a bit oversimplified since there can of course be corruption inside of the government but in a functioning democracy, you are in a different position than what you describe here.
- Comment on Are there any dyslexic unfriendly fonts? 9 months ago:
I’m not dyslexic, so I’m just going off assumptions here. Dyslexic fonts often have bold parts that make them easy to tell apart at a glance. So something that’s very homogenous with a bunch of straight vertical lines that create a very even look might perform particularly poor with people with dyslexia. So some kind of geometric sans-serif font.
- Comment on If Lemmy code is written by people who love to code, Lemmy marketing can be made by people who like to market 9 months ago:
I think better UI by default would be much more important. Right now the biggest issue is probably that people look at lemmy and find it intimidating due to its messy UI.
- Comment on I feel like I'm spending less time on social media after switching to Lemmy 9 months ago:
Not my Apollo feed but I remember people complaining about posts from certain subs they didn’t like in their feed, so I’m guessing the official app does that?
- Comment on I feel like I'm spending less time on social media after switching to Lemmy 9 months ago:
The thing with mostodon and lemmy is that the feed is not algorithmicly tailored to you with the goal to get you to spend as much time as possible. That’s why these experiences are usually more relaxed and fulfilling than what the big players offer.