SkippingRelax
@SkippingRelax@lemmy.world
- Comment on Can you un-smart a smart tv? 8 months ago:
I have a 12 years old TV if not older. Turns on instant.
How have consumers got to accept something like this as normal?
- Comment on Can you un-smart a smart tv? 8 months ago:
Some of the eu regulations, you can’t just waive them by accepting an unreasonable EULA.
- Comment on Can you un-smart a smart tv? 8 months ago:
I have a Linux pc hooked to the TV and it’s very convenient to use while lying in the sofa. In fact that’s all I use the TV for. And the reason I am interested in this post, as my 12 years old dumb TV will kick the bucket on day it the other.
The pc is my server/nas and runs kodi in a container that outputs to the TV. It has no keyboard nor mouse, but I do have a remote controller that I had lying around from an old android TV box. Basically you turn the TV on and kodi is there waiting with all my movies, series, and iptv to choose from. With a great remote controller that works beautifully with kodi.
The remote is a minix neo a2 I have had for years. Highly recommend it. If it dies I’ll do a quick research to see if there is something better this days, but I’d be keen to buy another one straight away.
- Comment on Can you un-smart a smart tv? 8 months ago:
I’ll build a Faraday cage
- Comment on Can you un-smart a smart tv? 8 months ago:
Look I don’t care for lemmy trends and I use Apple laptops as I get them from work.
That said it’s hardly a superior ecosystem, and particularly for this specific use. As a million people have said already, kodi on Linux is a pretty good start. Look at libreelec that is an os wrapped around kodi.
- Comment on CFCs 8 months ago:
a whole lot of programmers would have had to go out of their way to be really, really bad at their jobs.
You don’t spend much time around them, do you?
- Comment on Not hiding it 8 months ago:
Wtf dude
- Comment on As a precaution, houses of worship in New Jersey are getting bleeding control kits 8 months ago:
Because you don’t want a mass mass shooting
- Comment on Reddit wants to raise $748M with IPO, sets value at $6.4B 8 months ago:
Disagree, there were, possibly still are, good ones. A handful around mushrooms cultivation, food preserving, food fermentation and personal finance specific to my country come to mind, lots of high quality content.
But I know what you mean. I think it mainly happens once specific subreddits started going mainstream, often with an influxnl from facebook people. Out of all the fermented stuff, the kombucha one made my eyes bleed due to its popularity. Half the posts where new people asking if they had a mold problem, the other half was existing members posting “read this before posting, this is what mold looks like”, but they were obviously ignored lol
- Comment on Schools in America apparently have their own army recruiter 8 months ago:
I think you give pro choice and religious nuts too much credit.
- Comment on Just doing my part 🤡 8 months ago:
All the other pre-teens out there are protesting that we only have one planet and all you have to complain about is that you have to carry disposable straws for your milkshake or your very cold slushie, or you won’t be able to enjoy them? Those are going to hurt your teeth and your tum-tum anyway, you should probably stop
- Comment on Just doing my part 🤡 8 months ago:
You know you could just learn to drink like grown ups so you don’t need to carry around special implements? My babies could pretty much drink straight from a cup or a glass before they had turned two, you can do it too
- Comment on For those thinking of going back to reddit. Gaze upon this comment section and reconsider. 8 months ago:
We did it reddit
- Comment on Zionists doing a rave to block aid trucks at Ker Shalom crossing while Palestinians are starving 8 months ago:
So its okay for you to do it? Must be confusing to be you mate. I won’t even touch the second part, someone posted a few links before, since you keep mentioning ‘history’ it might be time to start reading about it instead if just making things up
- Comment on Zionists doing a rave to block aid trucks at Ker Shalom crossing while Palestinians are starving 8 months ago:
Wow, the other guy already addressed the history books part but I wanted to stop for a second and focus on
It’s an age-old tactic for Arabs to […]
Wonder how people would take it if we were addressing the other party in this conflict, and someone like you would throw in a gross generalisation, pointing out that it goes back a long time.
- Comment on Apple is officially dropping iPhone support for web apps in the EU - The Verge 8 months ago:
Gotcha, sorry misunderstood
- Comment on Why Charging Your Gadgets Over 80% Is Such a Bad Idea | iFixit News 8 months ago:
100% agree. Mate, there’s an another ongoing post on lemmy about autosaving documents, and how everyone seems to think that saving files with their fingers pressing keys on a keyboard is the best approach possible in 2024 because software just can’t do this reliably.
Of course everyone also knows better than their charger, battery and device.
- Comment on Apple is officially dropping iPhone support for web apps in the EU - The Verge 8 months ago:
Are you implying that the average user doesn’t know how to install an app? My 80 yo parents do that on their samsung tablet.
No need to trust any higher authorities, whatever that means
- Comment on Apple is officially dropping iPhone support for web apps in the EU - The Verge 8 months ago:
Is that your biggest concern about a tech company? Id be happy for marketing departments to he shut down and the money redirected to make better/cheaper products.
While Google sucks now and has for a while, in their early days they have demonstrated that marketing is not all it takes to make innovative, successful products.
On the opposite end of the spectrum, Apple obsession with marketing has created fanboys that spend the night queuing up to be the first to get the latest iPhone, and that don’t question the technology or ethics (or anything) behind the flashing toy that they crave. Good for the executives and the shareholder but as a customer?
- Comment on Tipping culture npcs 9 months ago:
I know you weren’t, which is even more frustraring because we want the same things and the only reason I’m engaging :)
Most of the rest of the western countries absolutely are oligarchies designed to maximise profits for a handful of people, some more than others, sometimes a good government happens for a cycle or two and then bad ones for a while. Doesn’t mean people can’t demand change and sometimes, not always, obtain it.
- Comment on Tipping culture npcs 9 months ago:
Don’t be sorry, its all good I’ll go to sleep knowing that it’s pretty unlikely I’ll get shot when out shopping, and if it happens my hospital fees are free. And while away from work, my employer keeps paying my wages because I’m on sick leave, which doesn’t impact my holidays balance because PTO and sick leave are separate.
Unfortunately what worked everywhere else in the Western world for a vast amount of issues clearly can’t work in the US because reasons. OK.
- Comment on Tipping culture npcs 9 months ago:
Mentioned her before in this thread,before we went down another rabbit hole of impossible / not realistic to change tour constitution. Wasn’t my intention to discuss constitution amendments, we ended up there after I pointed out that discussions about tipping (and universal healthcare, gun control etc etc) always end up in someone bringing up some reasons why bUT that workeD everywhere eLSe oN thE PlaNet but It Can’t worK Here becAuse blah blah.
I mentioned her not in relation to constitution amendments nor gun control (nor tipping, which ia where we started) just because she didn’t make up excuses about, too hard, unrealistic all the other blah blah I keep hearing here about all the issues the US have
- Comment on Tipping culture npcs 9 months ago:
You are right, maybe it’s impossible to solve any problems, we should stop bothering. If only someone had told Rosa back then she probably wouldn’t have wasted her time for nothing :)
- Comment on Tipping culture npcs 9 months ago:
Wrong Australia was able to get rid of guns because everyone was shocked about what happened with a mass shooting, had the right to bear firearms been enshrined in the constitution there would have been a discussion about making a change to it, hasn’t the American constitution ever been amended? Any more reasons why changes can’t happen there? You guys fucking overcame slavery and black people managed to get equal rights (I am sure a few naysayers in the sixties were sceptical about that). Give yourselves more credit
- Comment on Tipping culture npcs 9 months ago:
Got it, it sucks. Really 35 million people need to fight to abolish tips, and get this mess fixed including having minimum wage indexed to inflation or at least reviewed periodically and adjusted. We all love to bash the capitalist here and blame the employer, but really tha change needs to be demanded by the people affected, the workers, or it will never happen.
- Comment on Can you manage your house with a local, no-cloud voice assistant? Mostly, yes. 9 months ago:
I don’t use voice control since I’m against all cloud based services but am definitely interested and waiting for a good local option, paired with some decent devices that I can disseminate around the house.
I have been using ha for a very long time but am the opposite, haven’t gone down the rabbit hole and have only half a dozen automations. With the exception of living room lights that come on 39 minutes before sunset, I don’t control lights. I have absolutely no problem using a switch as I enter a room, and see no point overcomplicating things in trying to guess what should happen when someone enters a room.
Being able to look for a recipe, set a timer, choose a youtube video, a song or a playlist while I am kneading dough and my hands are caked? Id love voice control while I’m in the kitchen and can’t touch a phone without having to clean wash and dry my hands
- Comment on Tipping culture npcs 9 months ago:
Is it fair for the servers not to be paid by their employers?
I’m at a loss mate. I’m having these conversations here on lemmy about us-unique problems that have pretty straightforward solutions (and note that I am not saying easy, but pretty obvious how there is one way to fix them, and pretty much one way only). All I hear back is weird stuff, of course it’s not fair to be paid different by locals than non locals but how did we even get down this rabbit hole? Everyone here seems to agree that tipping is stupid, that servers should unionise or at least ask for better treatment. Wtf, did Rosa Parker spend time arguing about how black people in some state had it worse than other states?
The same seems to happen when discussing about gun control. Not easy, what worked in other countries like Australia wouldn’t work here. But we need guns to defend ourselves from gun nuts. What about trans women that need to defend themselves (a real convo I had with someone, probably still in my comments history).
You know what? In other countries waiters are paid minimum wages, we barely suffer from tips issues, have universal healthcare, guns are pretty hard to obtain, mass shooting are a once in a century issue, our kids don’t do drills at school or have to go through metal detectors, white collar jobs have paid sick leave on top of 20-35 holidays days a year and if you need to fight nazis you can hit them with a reo bar. I’m not bragging, it’s sad to see how bad the US has it and even when discussing with people that agree in general with you (you seem to be in favour of unions etc) there’s always an obstacle or something that “non Americans don’t understand”, as i said in other comments you can wait for politicians or your employer to give you more rights or money but that rarely (never?) works.
- Comment on Tipping culture npcs 9 months ago:
Well it seems like everyone else in the US calls it 15%, if not 25 or 30% now acfording to this thread, so yeah ill stand by charity
- Comment on Tipping culture npcs 9 months ago:
Pints of Guinness? /s
- Comment on Tipping culture npcs 9 months ago:
How would people remember what or whether to tip in each state?
Maybe not in each state but maybe in the one they reside, where it’s most likely they’ll go out eating? I’m not familiar with at will employment in the us but you seem to imply it’s inly in some states. What about the others.
And in the end, doesnt really matter how difficult it is for service workers to fight for those rights, no one else is going to do it for them which was my original point. What i do know is that the US has a history of people standing up and fighting for rights, it being difficult hasnt stopped others before.