dmtalon
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- Comment on Strava closes the gates to sharing fitness data with other apps 18 hours ago:
I left Strava when they adjusted their ‘freemium’ model and hid a number of things behind a paywall. Now I just use Garmin Connect, for tracking my stuff and an ‘athletic’ social circle of friends via connections/news feed.
- Comment on YouTube Shorts can now run up to three minutes 1 month ago:
Doesn’t help on my Nvidia shield
- Comment on YouTube Shorts can now run up to three minutes 1 month ago:
I primarily watch on a Nvidia shield. We have smarttubenext or something on there but I watch so much I want all the history/subs synced through to all devices. So for my TV it’s a pain.
I can hide them 30 days at a time from the browser but I’d live for them to not ever show up or show up under the subscriptions tab
- Comment on YouTube Shorts can now run up to three minutes 1 month ago:
Top on my premium wish list is a way to disable them completely
- Comment on YouTube Premium is getting a huge price hike in over a dozen countries, sparking user backlash. Some countries are experiencing hikes between 30% and 50% 1 month ago:
YouTube is but one, and as I said while the story is about yt I was talking Mir in general. How do you pay for content/services in general?
Right now with via ads or a subscription.
- Comment on YouTube Premium is getting a huge price hike in over a dozen countries, sparking user backlash. Some countries are experiencing hikes between 30% and 50% 1 month ago:
How’s that work on tvs?
- Comment on YouTube Premium is getting a huge price hike in over a dozen countries, sparking user backlash. Some countries are experiencing hikes between 30% and 50% 1 month ago:
So, steal everything or something else? Content isn’t free. The ad model exists, but only works if people see the ads.
If everyone blocks all ads, and doesn’t pay a subscription, how’s that work for those providing the service?
I’m not defending YouTube here, just curious what your solution is to have a service and not pay for it.
I do pay for YT family Premium in the US. I watch mostly YT, and it is my music streaming service. I definitely liked it more when it was costing me $15/mo for that and was mad when that went to $23. I even tried switching to Spotify and using ad blocking on YT. I didn’t jive with Spotify, and while ad blockers work for YT, it’s a bit of a pain installing them on TV boxes and managing subscriptions across devices, asking with which videos you’ve seen etc.
- Comment on MAGA World’s Belief In Their Made Up Claim That Biden Is ‘Censoring’ Conservatives On Social Media May Kill KOSA 1 month ago:
“Alpha male” victim
- Comment on An Avalanche of Generative AI Videos Is Coming to YouTube Shorts 2 months ago:
It’s annoying as hell. I can hide shorts on my shield TV YT app from desktop at 30 day increments. It sucks you can’t just turn them off
- Comment on An Avalanche of Generative AI Videos Is Coming to YouTube Shorts 2 months ago:
I’ll continue to not watch shorts, tik toks, reels or any other ADHD inducing short form content.
- Comment on In memory of the Chromecast 3 months ago:
ebay a few now before the prices go up and put them in a closet.
I am actively using 11 Chromecast Audios (long since EOL) in my house to send music to multi channel amps feeding speakers in my house. I ordered 5 of them within the last 6mo from Japan (ebay) at an inflated cost, but they are still available.
- Comment on Google Pixel 9 Pro XL Packs a Punch with New Specs Unveiled in Latest Leak 3 months ago:
The odd bit here is that Pixel phones were not necessarily considered flagship phones. And accordingly we’re priced not as flagship phones but if rumors are correct they are trying to get a flagship phone price for non flagship phone.
- Comment on Google Pixel 9 Pro XL Packs a Punch with New Specs Unveiled in Latest Leak 3 months ago:
Next up, one of the most important updates for this new release from Google would be its dedicated chipset, with Pixel 9 to get the Tensor G4 SoC. However, early leaks of the Tensor G4 regarded that **its benchmark test only delivered slight improvements compared to the old Tensor G3 from the Pixel **8 series, but was said to feature a new ARMv9-A core.
Where’s the punch?
- Comment on FUTO Keyboard: The Discussion Behind A Cool Product 3 months ago:
I both use, and bought this keyboard right after it was announced. I’d say it is not as good as gboard yet. I miss GIFs access and flip back and forth as required. I’ve had zero crashes on my Pixel 8P
It is my primary keyboard, and hopefully still learning, but word suggestion isn’t as good (yet). FUTO voice integrated in which I was already using can be quite good. I’m using the slower version which is a little less convenient but tends to work better.
- Comment on YouTube Seems to Be Cracking Down on a VPN-Powered Discount 4 months ago:
I was more aminable when I was paying $14.99 for YT Red Family plan. At $23/mo it’s pretty expensive and I want new features/controls for that money
- Comment on YouTube Seems to Be Cracking Down on a VPN-Powered Discount 4 months ago:
Ya, just an infrastructure where their ads have to go into blocks within the video (inserted wherever but tagged as such)
- Comment on YouTube Seems to Be Cracking Down on a VPN-Powered Discount 4 months ago:
Generally an Unpopular opinion, but I think this should include creator ads (or at least an option per creator to support them by turning on their own ads).
Defaulted to off , I don’t want to watch a random videos AG1 ad. That said there are a couple creators I watch I would be willing to enable theirs strictly to support them. Because if I’m paying for ad removal it should be complete ad removal.
- Comment on Deactivating Facebook for just a few weeks reduces belief in fake news 6 months ago:
I just ‘deactivate’ people that share news on facebook. I use FB to give my family (who don’t live near me) and friends a small slice of what’s going on in my world. I don’t post daily/weekly but I only post stuff I create. I also use it for groups/market place since most forums went to FB groups.
I expect the same from my connections, and unfollow anyone that just forwards things (news, memes, other posts). This little bit of management has made my FB feed ‘ok’
- Comment on Prime Video subs will soon see ads for Amazon products when they hit pause 6 months ago:
Did it this last cycle. Didn’t renew, don’t miss it.
- Comment on Just used spray foam for the first time... 6 months ago:
Probably too late for now but if you ever have a big spray foam job in the future :)
Best thing I found for spray foam is the reusable sprayer that you screw larger cans on.
It’s soooo much better. I was sealing up everything I could in the basement before drywall went up.
We had a radon mitigation system installed after discovering ours was quite high. The guy that came had one of these guns to seal up all the cracks in the floor
Great stuff Pro 14. It’s $60 bux but is a game changer. You can store the connected can on it for 30 days it says. They have a spray can of cleaner to clean it after your done.
- Comment on Can we all agree that whatever version of predictive text we have nowadays is crap, and has been for a long time? 6 months ago:
Disabling autocorrect showcased how bad I am at phone typing. But I have to be very mindful of what is actually corrected and corrected to. Especially in sms where there’s no easy edit
- Comment on Can we all agree that whatever version of predictive text we have nowadays is crap, and has been for a long time? 6 months ago:
It was totally to give you content to share today on Lemmy /s
- Comment on 30% of Children Ages 5-7 Are on TikTok 6 months ago:
Well humans are making them. Vine and other early adopter places (Lemmy) are nice until the “masses” find it.
It’s awful, but people eat it up. Add in profit margins and companies jump on smelling that sweet sweet profit.
Tik Tok is blocked in my house but unfortunately reels/yt shorts have no easy way to block without affecting the rest of the service.
- Comment on What web services do you subscribe to? 7 months ago:
I pay for yt premium family ($23/mo) now. Was also a yt red subscriber.
- Comment on Roku has patented a way to show ads over anything you plug into your TV 7 months ago:
Or GrayJay for Android
- Comment on What web services do you subscribe to? 7 months ago:
Was Google one (including yt premium) a limited time deal? I don’t see them connected right now.
- Comment on [deleted] 7 months ago:
Ok, ya I’ve seen those… I love the idea and am excited to see them become mature.
I am, unfortunately tied to Google right now with our “whole house audio”. Using old Chromecast audios. When those are EOL it is going to create a real headache here.
We use minis to initiate the CCAs by making their (minis) default speaker the CCA running through a centralized amp for that room (to ceiling speakers)
It works quite well
- Comment on [deleted] 7 months ago:
Which gizmos, do you have them? How well do they work?
- Comment on This was the first result on Google 8 months ago:
I specifically looked at the available specs at the local auto parts stores and couldn’t find Ah details. This was about 2y ago, so maybe this value is becoming more commonplace. I know on the RV/Sailing works Ah is used pretty exclusively. My deep cycle AGM only lists CCA and reserve capacity
- Comment on This was the first result on Google 8 months ago:
Good catch… It was early and I was on my phone (my excuses) :)