alekwithak
@alekwithak@lemmy.world
- Comment on Reddit’s getting more popular—and profitable 1 month ago:
That’s lame
- Comment on Hope September doesn’t go by too fast 2 months ago:
201320122011* - Comment on Reddit is making sitewide protests basically impossible 2 months ago:
Yeah they’re subsidizing the price to get between you and reality.
- Comment on Smart TVs take snapshots of what you watch multiple times per second 2 months ago:
My pi-hole blocks SO MUCH traffic from my Rokus. Never buying another Roku again.
- Comment on To be a fly in the wall of that cell. 2 months ago:
That seems not good, like a supervillain pair in the making
- Comment on Is your writing skibidi? 3 months ago:
I have a middle schooler. Skibidi means bad.
- Comment on Is your writing skibidi? 3 months ago:
But skibidi means bad.
- Comment on Oh no! I dropped (5£ to) Anna's Archives. Beware the mess, people. 3 months ago:
Ripped.guidd is the place to see exactly where you should avoid. :)
- Comment on Google kills Chromecast, replaces it with Apple TV and Roku Ultra competitor 4 months ago:
That’s fantastic for you, but a quick Google search will bring up plenty of articles and reddit threads of people bitching about this and other ways the Chromecast has been broken over the years.
- Comment on Google kills Chromecast, replaces it with Apple TV and Roku Ultra competitor 4 months ago:
When they released Google TV they implemented the full apps into Chromecast so it went from just a video playing client to an extremely underpowered streaming stick, without a Google TV remote a lot of the players were broken and because it’s an out of production out of support device you are stuck with whatever crippled functionality they leave us. I tried to set one up for my wife a couple of weeks ago and she couldn’t cast certain YouTube videos to it because it was prompting her to sign it but the sign-in functionality has been broken for two years now. If your device has somehow avoided any updates you have a gem, that thing would fetch a handsome sum on eBay.
Is it still a cheap dongle that people can use to quickly share media to the screen? Yes, that’s why I have five. I’d like them to support and keep making them.
- Comment on Google kills Chromecast, replaces it with Apple TV and Roku Ultra competitor 4 months ago:
I’ll check it out, thanks!
- Comment on Google kills Chromecast, replaces it with Apple TV and Roku Ultra competitor 4 months ago:
I have five from multiple generations, so I’m very aware. They changed this functionality on all of them. I never said they didn’t still work, and I gave a clear example of how the functionality is being nerfed.
- Comment on Google kills Chromecast, replaces it with Apple TV and Roku Ultra competitor 4 months ago:
Yes but they discontinued them in favor of Google TV, and they also heavily nerfed the capabilities by putting Google TV apps on there. For instance I now often have to pull out the virtual remote in the YouTube app to make a pop-up go away so I can watch the YouTube video I cast.
- Comment on Google kills Chromecast, replaces it with Apple TV and Roku Ultra competitor 4 months ago:
If I wanted a streaming box I’d buy or build a streaming box. If I wanted anyone with my remote control to be able to access my YouTube viewing history and all my streaming accounts I’d make it happen. What I want is a cheap dongle that my family and guests can use to quickly share media to the big screen!
- Comment on Eric Andre and the millennial experience 5 months ago:
Good point about Danson.
- Comment on Eric Andre and the millennial experience 5 months ago:
Maybe. More likely he realized the backlash from his fans was affecting his wallet and career. The conflict isn’t new and Andre isn’t dumb. he was raised in the faith as was I, except he’s a few years older. My family and I have been thrown out of multiple Temples for the mere suggestion that Palestinian lives matter even remotely. I was offered birthright as well, as all white passing and rich Jews are, and turned it down. It’s that easy. What I will never understand is why people rush to defend the rich and powerful. Do you really think he needs, wants, or cares about your help?
- Comment on Eric Andre and the millennial experience 5 months ago:
That’s great that he clarified his personal feelings… After the blowback from signing the open letter to Biden in support of Israel. I’m also a “self loving Jew who supports a full ceasefire” and it hasn’t been difficult at all not to make any public actions contrary to that belief.
- Comment on Eric Andre and the millennial experience 5 months ago:
There’s why he signed the letter to Biden in support of Israel?
- Comment on Eric Andre and the millennial experience 5 months ago:
Ted Danson is a treasure.
Eric Andre is an outspoken Zionist.
- Comment on Underground caves do exist on the Moon, radar observations confirm 5 months ago:
Hear me out…
The Descent but it’s on the moon.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
To change your views through osmosis. Eventually some of the idea will settle in.
- Comment on Why is prostitution called sometimes world's oldest profession? 5 months ago:
- Comment on why isn't anyone calling for Trump to drop out. 5 months ago:
Because not a single Republican has been held accountable for their actions since Nixon. Prove me wrong.
- Comment on why isn't anyone calling for Trump to drop out. 5 months ago:
It takes years to plan a presidential run and the incumbent has a huge advantage. It’s infeasible to change the candidate now and would 100% split an already very polarized party. It’s a fake media controversy and the media companies are the ones causing people to feel that way by editing footage to make Biden look bad, attacking Biden’s stutter or slip up instead of Trump’s lies and gaslighting. The media is controlled by the rich and complicit in treason, but the rich never get their dues and the right is never held accountable.
- Comment on Is there any real physical proof that Jesus christ ever existed? 5 months ago:
The new testament stories were written well over a hundred years after. That would be like someone today writing an account of the civil war based solely on stories.
- Comment on I need to wake up early 7 months ago:
personally I use a tablet as an alarm clock and the vibrate works well enough.
I haven’t used a Fitbit in years but it does this too, as an armband.
- Comment on How rental ‘libraries of things’ have become the new way to save money 7 months ago:
Subscriptions are just as predatory.
- Comment on How rental ‘libraries of things’ have become the new way to save money 7 months ago:
Pretty dumb. I thought this would be about lending libraries -_-
- Comment on Here is what 6 decommissioned servers looks like. My Jellyfin will be very happy 7 months ago:
Yep yep, same. Old droves get destroyed. My word that I’ll wipe the drive is apparently not enough.
- Comment on Here is what 6 decommissioned servers looks like. My Jellyfin will be very happy 7 months ago:
I also work in a data center, I can’t take anything :(