rodneylives
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- Comment on A TikTok alternative called Loops is coming for the fediverse | Users own their content, and Loops doesn’t sell or provide videos to third-party advertisers or train AI on them. It will be open source 3 weeks ago:
I signed up for Loops the first day. I didn’t get an email confirmation until two days after, and I still haven’t been given a way to sign in.
- Comment on YouTube confirms your pause screen is now fair game for ads 1 month ago:
Google constantly puts Youtube ads at the top of searches for information! Countless people put their information on Youtube in the form of videos! Tutorials get put on Youtube as a matter of course! There’s a trove of old media on Youtube that can’t be accessed any other way! Congratulations, you’ve won the award for the most thoughtless dismissive person on the internet today.
- Comment on What are some game series you would like to see revived? And if possible, which entry should the new game follow from? 2 months ago:
Strange Adventures in Infinite Space
- Comment on What are some game series you would like to see revived? And if possible, which entry should the new game follow from? 2 months ago:
Zork
- Comment on What are some game series you would like to see revived? And if possible, which entry should the new game follow from? 2 months ago:
Ultima
- Comment on Bird law is not governed by reason 3 months ago:
I saw pigeons at the Washington DC Amtrak station last year. Birds will bird.
- Comment on Most consumers hate the idea of AI-generated customer service 4 months ago:
Even 20 minutes seems like too long, but that would still be wonderful.
- Comment on Most consumers hate the idea of AI-generated customer service 4 months ago:
They also hate the idea of phone trees. Companies don’t care unless we make them not care.
- Comment on Google Kneecaps Loads Of Very Big Websites After SEO Change 6 months ago:
What the heck is Dexerto?
- Comment on Google Search is getting even worse for independent sites 6 months ago:
Ed Zitron has a scathing piece about that (in the podcast version he’s seething) entitled “The Man Who Killed Google Search.” Worth checking out, it contains some quality righteous anger.
- Comment on Windows 11 just isn't enticing Windows 10 users to upgrade, and its market share is actually falling 6 months ago:
This isn’t the worst timeline. It was always destined to end up this way. Corporations consider themselves ethically mandated to squeeze as much profit out of customers as they can, to find the exactly monetary line where the number of customers they drive off is balanced by the money they can gain by the things that drove them off. They actually believe that, and that basically means any profit-seeking corporation is going to ruin their user experience in the long run.
- Comment on Windows 11 just isn't enticing Windows 10 users to upgrade, and its market share is actually falling 6 months ago:
Once, I was asked if I wanted a special offer on Microsoft Office on boot up. Explorer freezes so often for me when I right-click a file and select Open With that it’s made me twitchy. Frequently image icons stop displaying. For a long while, every time I’ve installed Windows on a computer, I’ve had to go through and disable all the awful misfeatures Windows tries to put in the taskbar. I also always have to set OneDrive so it doesn’t redirect folders like Desktop and Documents into its cloud storage area. Now Windows 11 is threatening to put CoPilot on my desktop, and I’ll have to disable it too.
I’m positively longing for Linux now.
- Comment on With two Boeing whistleblowers dead in one month, either Boeing is actively killing them, or there are enough whistleblowers that this rate of death is not statistically significant 6 months ago:
It’s still easily possible that it’s just a coincidence.
B-U-T
The fact that people are going to be very suspicious if whistleblowers die, even if it is purely accidental, is yet another reason not to do terrible corporate things. People will always wonder, and Boeing’s management deserves the dark cloud that will now hang over their heads.
- Comment on Windows 10 reaches 70% market share as Windows 11 keeps declining 6 months ago:
It has. For the first time, it’s risen to over 4% of market share of desktops: arstechnica.com/…/linux-continues-growing-market-…
Of course this doesn’t count Android or Chromebooks, both of which run Linux on some level.
- Comment on What web services do you subscribe to? 7 months ago:
I contribute $5 a month to Metafilter, and I use a paid VPN.
- Comment on Best Buy Geek Squad Agents ‘Going Sleeper’ After Mass Layoffs 7 months ago:
Note: article puts a rectangle in front of the article when you’ve read half of it.
- Comment on Microsoft is blocking Windows Customization Tools 7 months ago:
Why is Microsoft even deciding what programs I can run on my computer in the first place? They’re not malware, they shouldn’t be doing this at all.
- Comment on You can’t get rid of it, you can only hide it: Microsoft imposes controversial Windows Backup on users 1 year ago:
Yes, it’s worth noting that some companies will do A/B tests, where one user is offered one choice, and another gets a different one. It’s possible for the two of you to have had a different experience.
- Comment on Netflix is planning to raise prices… again 1 year ago:
I unironically love that fmhy.net’s site would work well in Gopher.
- Comment on Are American tv shows stuck in Act 2 for their entire runtime between season 1 and final season? 1 year ago:
Showrunnners are never absolutely sure how many more seasons they’ll get. If a show is popular, they could end up having to continue it after a conclusion. Or the show could be popular but corporate priority could be elsewhere, and they’ll be forced to wrap up promising storylines quickly. Even for shows that announce they have plans for a beginning, middle and end, it’s possible that they’ll be cancelled before end planned ending, or else have to stretch after the ending has been reached. Safer is to try to just coast along, being non-committal about major plot elements, until something happens that pushes the show to resolve things.
- Comment on What more need be said about it? 1 year ago:
There has always been a market for telling people what they want to hear.