alekwithak
@alekwithak@lemmy.world
- Comment on a challenge appears 5 days ago:
- Comment on I’m planning to teach middle school Spanish, would casually mentioning having a girlfriend cause an uproar? 6 days ago:
Only if you’re in a red state.
- Comment on ‘The tyranny of apps’: those without smartphones are unfairly penalised, say campaigners 1 week ago:
Every service and site had their own malicious toolbar they’d ask you to install and / sneak it into the install for other software. They also came loaded with malware and or siphoned data from you. Older/more tech illiterate people would have browsers looking like the picture above and come to you wondering why their computer is so slow or why they keep getting viruses.
- Comment on ‘The tyranny of apps’: those without smartphones are unfairly penalised, say campaigners 1 week ago:
[youtu.be/0dGqR4ue8dg?si=tA1s-S3jdz2SwEoo](Idk i trust Snowden’s take on this over yours)
- Comment on BlackBerry's iconic keyboard patent has expired 1 week ago:
Yes, the sidekick LX was the perfect phone, it’s too bad they shit the bed when they tried to bring it back with Android.
As far as androids with keyboards, the Moto Droid and the HTC G2 really hit the sweet spot. They are tiny little things though compared to current flagships.
- Comment on The eye-popping amount of money Elon Musk has already slashed from the Education Department as staff melt down 2 weeks ago:
Damn.
Tldr: $500 million worth of food spoiled after USAID freeze.
- Comment on Autoplay videos are cancer to me 3 weeks ago:
Tbf on Tiktok you can seek, pause, and change the speed.
- Comment on Authoritarian regimes around the world cheer on dismantling of USAid 3 weeks ago:
Orange Julius and the Nazi love those guys.
- Comment on Google Pixel 4a’s ruinous “Battery Performance” update is a bewildering mess 4 weeks ago:
Man, are you okay? Is there something you’re taking or not taking that you should be?
- Comment on Google Pixel 4a’s ruinous “Battery Performance” update is a bewildering mess 4 weeks ago:
Bewildering mess is accurate. My daughter has a 4a. They took her perfectly good battery and toasted it, now it fully drains in about 20 minutes. The solution? They’ll pay for a repair… 150 miles from my house, or send me $50… Through Payoneer??? Or give me $100 credit to the Google store where the cheapest phone is $500. The new batteries are all on backorder so even if I replace it myself she has put up with this issue for an indeterminate amount of time.
- Comment on Were Sony and Microsoft Truly Worried About The Google Stadia? 5 weeks ago:
Facts.
- Comment on Were Sony and Microsoft Truly Worried About The Google Stadia? 5 weeks ago:
Stadia was awesome. The only flop involved was in Google’s handling of it.
- Comment on Is there a way to search for specific words on a site? 1 month ago:
You can Google “Site:<URL> <search term>” to have Google search the site specifically for that term
- Comment on Reddit’s getting more popular—and profitable 3 months ago:
That’s lame
- Comment on Hope September doesn’t go by too fast 4 months ago:
201320122011* - Comment on Reddit is making sitewide protests basically impossible 4 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 5 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. 5 months ago:
That seems not good, like a supervillain pair in the making
- Comment on Is your writing skibidi? 5 months ago:
I have a middle schooler. Skibidi means bad.
- Comment on Is your writing skibidi? 5 months ago:
But skibidi means bad.
- Comment on Oh no! I dropped (5£ to) Anna's Archives. Beware the mess, people. 5 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 6 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 6 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 6 months ago:
I’ll check it out, thanks!
- Comment on Google kills Chromecast, replaces it with Apple TV and Roku Ultra competitor 6 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 6 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 6 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 7 months ago:
Good point about Danson.
- Comment on Eric Andre and the millennial experience 7 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 7 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.
