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- Comment on Sonos CEO apologizes for disastrous rollout of new app 3 months ago:
It’s easier for me to control my Sonos devices through Home Assistant and dashboards I’ve created, rather than using the Sonos app itself. It’s like they hired some McKinsey consultants to make the app as useless as it can be.
- Comment on What do you prefer to selfhost? 4 months ago:
PiHole, Plex and the related “*arr” apps. I also self-host my home automation platform (Home Assistant).
- Comment on Schools in America apparently have their own army recruiter 8 months ago:
Also a huge reason the GOP is so against student debt forgiveness. Can’t give poor people an option beyond joining the military if they want to go to college.
- Comment on Taylor swift got electrolytes too you know 8 months ago:
Reminds me of the movie Inner Space. What a classic.
- Comment on France uncovers a vast Russian disinformation campaign in Europe 9 months ago:
Reason number %large_number% + 1 why support for Ukraine cannot falter. Russia cannot win its offensive there and continue to spread its poison across the world.
- Comment on Why were so many people believers in the conspiracy that 9/11 was an inside job 9 months ago:
And yet, this all powerful government couldn’t even fake finding weapons of mass destruction in Iraq to “validate” their invasion reasons.
- Comment on The Weekly 'What are you playing?' Discussion 9 months ago:
Against the Storm. Really great roguelight (meta progression) city builder-esque. Has some Tropico vibes, but the replayability and mechanics are really good.
- Comment on Spotify paid users hit 236M, but losing money, amid Apple battle 9 months ago:
This is me as well. I haven’t downloaded music since I got Spotify. I just wish the movie industry had similar options. No I will not sign up for 15 different streaming platforms. There are much easier ways to solve that problem.
- Comment on YouTube Premium announces 100 million subscribers 9 months ago:
Just checked out Half as Interesting and realized it’s the same guy as Wendover. Recognized the voice immediately.
- Comment on YouTube Premium announces 100 million subscribers 9 months ago:
Thanks for the list! I actually got nebula because of RealLifeLore and Wendover. I’ve since subscribed to TLDR News and Real Engineering so I’ll have to give the other creators on your list a view.
- Comment on YouTube Premium announces 100 million subscribers 9 months ago:
Not enough content on Nebula. I subscribed because of a couple YouRubers I follow, but there’s just not much there (at least that I watch).
- Comment on How Disney and Warner Bros. Are Causing Internet Piracy to Boom | Platforms like Netflix, Hulu, and Disney+ were supposed to do away with pirated media. Instead, they may make them stronger than ever. 10 months ago:
Or follow the one good thing the music industry does… allow music across different platforms. I can listen to the same songs on YouTube Music, Spotify, Apple, etc. none of this “get the XYZ app to listen to a band, and another app to listen to others”.
- Comment on Microsoft is adding a new key to PC keyboards for the first time since 1994 10 months ago:
I need that for my Roku. I may just write an automation in Home Assistant that will switch to whatever app I programmed if I press the Paramount+ button. Unfortunately that means I need to install that app on the Roku itself.
- Comment on OpenAI leaders warned of abusive behavior before Sam Altman’s ouster 11 months ago:
Yeah, Altman is a complete ass and very full of himself. Not at all surprising.
- Comment on Programmer tries to explain binary search to the police 11 months ago:
Some security camera systems have this built in. They show snapshots of various times where you choose the total period, say 24 hours. Then you glance through the snapshots that are all displayed at once on the screen and click on the last one where you bike was still there. That will then “zoom in” the timeline and show another set of snapshots, though this time within a smaller total time window. Keep clicking on the last panel with the bike, and it will soon show you the clip of the bike being stolen.
Really helpful to find out when something changed.
- Comment on Cruise Self-Driving License Revoked After It Withheld Pedestrian Injury Footage, DMV Says 1 year ago:
Perhaps, but withholding footage is not a good look. Good thing the police never withholds foota… oh
- Comment on Spotify re-invented the radio 1 year ago:
Not sure how this is emptily shilling though. Am I paying for a service? Yes. Will I keep paying for a service if they start “refusing features?” Also yes.
Like I said in another comment, I was happy with Netflix back in the day, but now, nope. I have self hosted alternatives.
If a service is not worth it for me, I stop paying. Different people have that line at different levels, and for me, today’s Spotify Premium is worth it. In the future it may not be.
No need to be so hostile.
- Comment on Spotify re-invented the radio 1 year ago:
To each their own. For me, I really like the Discover Weekly/Daily features to discover new music and I can’t see how I would ever “already have MP3s of all the good music” since that’s an ever changing set. Heck, I still have a ton of old mp3s I used to rip and/or download, but I haven’t listened to them in a while.
I would gladly pay for a similar AYCE movie subscription, but I refuse to sign up for a ton of different services and play the “which service is that movie on again?” game. Instead it’s a very different approach for me.
- Comment on Spotify re-invented the radio 1 year ago:
I have the family premium plan and honestly love it. I haven’t downloaded an mp3 in years because Spotify is so convenient. As far as subscription services go, this one is top tier for me.
Now when we look at movie streaming… well that’s what the music streaming could have been like. What an absolute mess.
- Comment on New Raspberry Pi 5 comes with PCIe 2.0 x1 interface and power button 1 year ago:
FYI, my Pi4 has more than enough cpu and memory to run Home Assistant with a couple hundred devices.
- Comment on Largest Farm to Grow Crops Under Solar Panels Proves To Be A Bumper Crop For Agrivoltaic Land Use 1 year ago:
That’s where a properly functioning government would be able to step in. Parking lot taxes are going up x%, but if you install solar panels, you get an x% tax break.
That and add a steep tax for single purpose solar fields.
- Comment on Do any of you use Raspberry Pi’s ? 1 year ago:
One runs Home Assistant (Pi4), and an older one runs RetroPi (Pi3) for my arcade cabinet.
I have another Pi3 that I used to use as a Steam Streaming device to put my PC games on the projector.
- Comment on Unity backtracks, no runtime fee for <$1mil or for games on current/old versions 1 year ago:
On a related note, I heard somewhere that the reason Bush “messes up” that quote is that he realized mid sentence that he didn’t want a sound bite of him saying “shame on me”.
May just be a rumor though.
- Comment on Uber: EU rules will see us pull out of “hundreds” of European cities — Brussels’ proposal to classify gig workers as de facto employees could slam the breaks on operations across the bloc 1 year ago:
EU please do what California utterly failed to do!