phoneymouse
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- Comment on After announcing increased prices, Spotify to Pay Songwriters About $150 Million Less Next Year 1 week ago:
Wut
- Comment on What Does JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon Mean When He Says "The Consumer Is Doing Well" In 2024? 1 week ago:
They still have excess money from COVID. — They’re still spending it down. Housing prices are up, stock prices are up, jobs are plentiful
How much money do they think people have left over from Covid?
People got like $3200 total in stimulus checks - or a couple months rent in most parts of the country. There is no way most people have this money 3 years later.
Also stocks and home prices being up is good for some people (old) and bad for others (young).
- Comment on Republicans are pulling out all the stops to reverse EV adoption 1 week ago:
What’s the plan if we run out of oil? I mean seriously, it’s gonna happen eventually. Even if you want to ignore the science on climate change, you can’t ignore basic laws of the universe that oil is a finite resource. If we don’t have a plan for when it runs out, there will be utter chaos.
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 1 week ago:
I personally don’t care if people want to be vegan and sometimes I’ll eat vegan food. For me though, on the whole, I find vegan food unappealing. It usually involves compromises and doesn’t taste that great.
Additionally, I did eat in a house of vegetarians for about 10 months once. I ate meat outside the house on occasion, but mostly ate vegetarian. It was really hard on my stomach. After meals, I would usually have crazy gas. It did improve over time, but always was an issue for me.
For these reasons, I don’t prefer veganism or vegetarianism. It’s okay if you do though.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
With the cat next to him, he’s channeling Dr. Claw energy
- Comment on After 16 years, Ecobee is shutting down support for the original smart thermostat 1 week ago:
They don’t build em like they used to
- Comment on After 16 years, Ecobee is shutting down support for the original smart thermostat 1 week ago:
Most thermostats would fail in that timeframe. Our original Nest thermostat failed this year because the connection that turns on the thermostat wore out or became thin. Caused our furnace to click on and off repeatedly and ruined a relay on the furnace’s circuit board. Had to replace the thermostat and the furnace circuit board. Costly repair. Upgrade your thermostat before it wears out.
- Comment on After 16 years, Ecobee is shutting down support for the original smart thermostat 1 week ago:
Yeah, but don’t give the power company control over the temperature in your house. That has gone poorly in Texas with people unable to turn on their AC on super hot days because they opted in to some program that they may not have understood.
The built in features of occupancy detection / geo fencing are cool though.
- Comment on Generative AI could soon decimate the call center industry, says CEO 2 weeks ago:
I always love how they make you go through a labrinythian menu before you get to a human as if I hadn’t already exhausted all options to help myself.
- Comment on Stop Using Your Face or Thumb to Unlock Your Phone 2 weeks ago:
This also encrypts your data.
- Comment on GoToSocial is a new ActivityPub social network server for the Fediverse 2 weeks ago:
The name is very unfortunate, not just because it’s weird, but also because they will likely face a lawsuit from the actual company GoTo.
- Comment on Texas Attracted California Techies. Now It’s Losing Thousands of Them. 2 weeks ago:
Also, property tax is really high in Texas and unlike California, you aren’t shielded from spikes in property value greatly increasing your property tax burden.
- Comment on Independent auditors confirm top VPN doesn't log your data 2 weeks ago:
Does Mullvad let you use a custom DNS?
- Comment on FCC restores net neutrality rules that ban blocking and throttling in 3-2 vote 3 weeks ago:
FCC Chairwoman who made this happen. She was also there voting against Ajit (Shit Pie) Pai when he pushed to overturn Obama era net neutrality back in 2017.
- Comment on Why are SMS messages so expensive? 3 weeks ago:
They fucked themselves. It became more worthwhile to just use data.
- Comment on FCC restores net neutrality rules that ban blocking and throttling in 3-2 vote 3 weeks ago:
Thanks Jessica Rosenworcel.
- Comment on Mercedes becomes the first automaker to sell autonomous cars in the U.S. that don't come with a requirement that drivers watch the road 3 weeks ago:
Fine print will say it’s still your fault though if they crash
- Comment on Your Brain Waves Are Up for Sale. A New Law Wants to Change That. 4 weeks ago:
America will completely fail to regulate this as it always does. Soon enough advertisers and credit agencies will be reading your thoughts.
- Comment on MKBHD - Do Bad Reviews Kill Companies? 4 weeks ago:
For anyone wondering, this is a response to a review Marques posted about Humane’s AI pin, which he called the worst product he’s ever reviewed:
- Comment on So much for free speech on X; Musk confirms new users must soon pay to post 4 weeks ago:
It’s the American way. Aligns with the Supreme Court ruling on Citizen’s United.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Maybe it’s a factor of watching the bands you like become more popular, but 15 years ago I remember being able to get concert tickets for $10-50 bucks a pop after all the fees. $50 was ultra rare and you’d probably be seeing multiple bands in that scenario. Now, I can’t find tickets that don’t end up costing a minimum of $150 for nosebleed seats.
- Comment on this one goes out to the arts & humanities 4 weeks ago:
99% of people in tech leadership are just regurgitating marketing jargon with minimal understanding of the underlying tech.
- Comment on Google One is shutting down its VPN feature later this year 4 weeks ago:
Getting a VPN from Google is like asking the police to safeguard your drugs
- Comment on Putin Orders Russian Tech Companies To Somehow Make Competitive Game Console In 3 Months 4 weeks ago:
Why?
- Comment on Keep This Under Wraps For Now 4 weeks ago:
Also, people were very influenced by religion and superstition. They may have interpreted mummified bodies as some connection to gods/goddesses. They in turn took up mummification based on this understanding, not because it seemed cool.
- Comment on 96% of US Hospital Websites Share Visitor Data with Google, Meta, Data Brokers, and Other Third Parties, Study Finds 5 weeks ago:
This is just a guess, but I would assume the hospitals doing this are unaware. They probably just put Google Analytics and Meta’s SDK on their website, completely oblivious to the fact that that shit vacuums up everything on the page, including text box inputs.
- Comment on Movie industry demands US law requiring ISPs to block piracy websites 5 weeks ago:
Okay, I’ll use my own DNS provider
- Comment on This Woman Will Decide Which Babies Are Born 5 weeks ago:
suck a nice wording
- Comment on I am going to miss the mute and power buttons when they take them away. 5 weeks ago:
You can mute, but the ad will pause until you unmute.
- Comment on Big Tech passkey implementations are a trap | Proton 5 weeks ago:
Not commenting on the merits of the blogpost, but Proton is selling their own product here too