DV8

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can’t stand it when they do that⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I tend to avoid grocery stores who do that. But in Belgium at least it’s a known strategy that half the grocery stores use to make you spend more time looking for stuff.

  Luckily there’s also a store that avoids it because they want to save time of their employees and customers. So if use their app to make your list and select the location you’re going to, the app will arrange your list to be in the order you encounter everything if you follow the lines on the floor.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Introducing Sudo for Windows⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks, will check that out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Introducing Sudo for Windows⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Command line stuff on Windows (server) is in a pretty decent state now, imo. It’s not perfect but more and more is manageable with powershell. It took some time to really grok that you’re basically always working with objects but I’m a big fan and now quite dislike having to deal with just “text” output when I do something in Linux. (Probably also because I need to do a lot less in it so I’m not used to it as much)

  Personally again I also like the naming scheme much more than how it’s done in bash. If I need to do something I don’t know I can search the command by using logical words. E.g. I want to change the properties of a service but don’t know the command by heart I can use

  Get-Command service

  And I’ll get a list of all commands that contain the word service.

  When it comes to admin privileges you simply have the privileges of the account you used to start the session, which has its’ own dangers I suppose since it requires you to maintain account hygiene yourself.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does the permanent timestamp in CCTV footage sometimes change color?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yellow with blue line us even better for CCTV use imo.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube is deliberately crippling Firefox on ARM systems⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s premium light, they tried and killed it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla Cybertruck's stiff structure, sharp design raise safety concerns - experts⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a difference between a shattered pelvis and being impaled because someone thought sharp corners are cool and safety standards are oppression.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Open extensions on Firefox for Android will be available from December 14⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Consentomatic. Automatic rejection of all unnecessary cookies. It’s not perfect but works often enough to be worth it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Signal tests usernames to avoid using phone numbers.' Great move?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  As in use phone number to sign up but only share unique username. I’d still dislike having to use a phone number but being able to use such an app with family would be enough of a plus to finally get over it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Signal tests usernames to avoid using phone numbers.' Great move?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Seems I’m in the minority but having to use my phone number as identier is exactly why I don’t use apps like this, including WhatsApp. I don’t care if my username gets shared, but I do not want my phone number to be shared with a bunch of randoms.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube's plan backfires, people are installing better ad blockers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for the feedback, my most recent car does have a native YT music app so if I can keep a decent music library along with no ads it would be worth considering.

  And Spotify shuffle in large playlist was plain broken for years indeed. I could have 1000+ songs in a list and shuffle would loop 20 of them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube's plan backfires, people are installing better ad blockers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Options are of course great. What makes YT music a better option than Spotify Premium for you if I might ask? I found when I was trying it years ago it didn’t seem to have an all encompassing music library. (It not having 10 years of playlists and recommendations that I do actually enjoy for new music is something I missed but couldn’t count against it as a product ofcourse)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube's plan backfires, people are installing better ad blockers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I had the light subscription for over a year, not planning on paying for useless stuff like the music stuff though. Had it through a family plan years before and it was laughably bad compared to Spotify.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube's plan backfires, people are installing better ad blockers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  They literally had that experiment with Premium Light. €6 for ad free watching, it was all I needed. But they literally sent out a mail they were stopping this tier right before they started implementing more anti-ad blocking measures.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you feel, as I do, that this adblocker ban by Youtube will harm all of Alphabet's companies? [discussion]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, but last time I checked they weren’t looking for new creators, though I’ll admit I know nearly nothing about this platform. But it is the platform I meant with the select few creators that made their own thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you feel, as I do, that this adblocker ban by Youtube will harm all of Alphabet's companies? [discussion]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Niche hobby content creators have very few other methods of distributing their media content if it’s longer than 60 seconds. Look at Technology connections for example. Maybe now the larger of those niche creators could build a small platform for theiyown, but there’s no way new creators could rise up. And I watch 10 times as much of that type of content than I do of Netflix/Disney and Prime combined.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you feel, as I do, that this adblocker ban by Youtube will harm all of Alphabet's companies? [discussion]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  They explicitly slashed that plan before they started going hard against adblocking. They were running tests with premium light which costed about €6 a month. It was basically all I wanted. But they sent a mail this tier was going away at literally the same time I read they started hard locking anyone using uBlock. (Which I still used with Premium Light to block out all the shorts bullshit)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weezer straight up writing ads for audible.com⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Blind Guardian still performs live and there’s still many great shows with great artists in many different genres.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 12 May Require a Subscription⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  While I don’t think this in particular would cause people or businesses to switch away from Windows, more and more applications work from browsers so they depend less and less on apps you can install. ( Where I work we already put many people on M365 basic because they do just fine with accessing their mail and spreadsheets from the browser. No point in paying extra for options they’ll never need)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Firefox browser now has a built-in page translator that works even without the Internet⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I don’t doubt it. Still would have preferred if it wouldn’t have been turned on by default.

  It’s a first world problem but I seriously dislike how random everything with language(and region) settings is. Half the time they follow my system defaults (UK English and Belgian datetime notation), 25% of the time the region settings are ignored and time is displayed weird and backwards with month first and the 12 hour format(MS is really bad with that). And the rest of the time bad geolocalisation people think everyone in Belgium speaks French even when that’s a minority language. So Firefox piling up on that with an unwanted request to translate languages I speak fluently is just annoying when I boot up my pc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Firefox browser now has a built-in page translator that works even without the Internet⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  For me it’s popping up all the time and although I guess I understand why they did it, I absolutely hate it. I don’t want translations since I speak the different languages of the sites I visit fluently. Getting popups because I speak different languages is intrusive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Some veteran YouTube staff think Shorts might ruin YouTube⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  None of those apps are the original and official app. Which is pretty obviously what this was about. I used to use Vanced and it never worked as easily as everyone seems to imply, and I never could get it to cast. Vanced is no longer available on the PlayStore btw, and the same can be expected for every app that tries to offer YouTube content, modified.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Some veteran YouTube staff think Shorts might ruin YouTube⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Blocking with uBlock really isn’t the same as disabling. Disabling implies you’re using the app and it’s a setting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm looking for games that make me feel small and insignificant⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Literally my first thought too. Such a great unique game.