A_Random_Idiot
@A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world
- Comment on Samsung's latest update is a serious gut punch to Galaxy power users 1 day ago:
if you’re paying more than what most people make a month for a fuckin phone, then you should be able to do what the fuck ever you damn well fuckin please with the phone.
- Comment on Hisense TVs force owners to watch intrusive ads when switching inputs, visiting the home screen, or even changing channels — practice infuriates consumers, brand denies wrongdoing 1 day ago:
And the kids were hyped over it, like i said.
- Comment on What does the acronym MAGA stand for? (wrong answers only) 1 day ago:
Molesting Adolescent Girls Anywhere
- Comment on YouTube ads are about to get even longer and they’ll be unskippable - Dexerto 2 days ago:
never know, you’d be surprised the assumptions youtube makes about you based on what you watch.
I watch a couple fishing channels, and it seems that anything outdoorsy youtube automatically registers as conservative republican, and increases the right wing/pragu u propaganda significantly during the times I dont have adblock (When I used to use xbox to watch youtube on the big TV, I replaced it with an old laptop entirely to get adblocking running)
- Comment on YouTube ads are about to get even longer and they’ll be unskippable - Dexerto 2 days ago:
and a mutli-hour ad. Who the fuck would watch that, who the fuck would pay to put a multi-hour ad on an 8m video that nobody is going to watch?
People who are hoping to get a captured audience that cant get up and click the skip button for whatever reason.
- Comment on From millions of dollars to under a grand: The dramatic fall of the NFT 2 days ago:
but like, man, like… its totally new, like, and like, totally amazing man. you just, like, cant comprehend, man!
- Comment on From millions of dollars to under a grand: The dramatic fall of the NFT 2 days ago:
the 1% is the one the people who say “well, sure, 99% is a scam, but theres a legit 1% thats totally real!”
- Comment on Hisense TVs force owners to watch intrusive ads when switching inputs, visiting the home screen, or even changing channels — practice infuriates consumers, brand denies wrongdoing 3 days ago:
“the ads help us make more money above and beyond all the apps who’ve paid us to pre-load their shit on our product”
- Comment on Hisense TVs force owners to watch intrusive ads when switching inputs, visiting the home screen, or even changing channels — practice infuriates consumers, brand denies wrongdoing 3 days ago:
i dont have an LG, but I’ve only had to firmware update 1 TV in like… the past 13 years, and that was because it had a horrible issue with the image vertically splitting in half and green corruption across the bottom. Which makes you think hardware failure, but it wasnt, the firmware update 100% fixed it for the rest of its life.
So unless you are facing a major, catastrophic issue like that, I’d say fuck updates.
- Comment on Hisense TVs force owners to watch intrusive ads when switching inputs, visiting the home screen, or even changing channels — practice infuriates consumers, brand denies wrongdoing 3 days ago:
For now. That can change at any time with an update.
- Comment on Hisense TVs force owners to watch intrusive ads when switching inputs, visiting the home screen, or even changing channels — practice infuriates consumers, brand denies wrongdoing 3 days ago:
Exactly this.
“Smart” TVs never go online, never connect to anything but power and an HDMI, and quite frankly…if it didnt risk causing warranty headaches, I’d open teh fucker up and unplug its wifi antenna too.
Always use an old PC/Laptop/Raspberry Pi/whatever to get them online/on youtube/streaming/etc. You have full control over those devices, and can update them as desired and modify them at a whim.
Fuckin hate smart TVs. a bunch of fucking spyware and adware that just makes the device run hotter and die sooner.
- Comment on Hisense TVs force owners to watch intrusive ads when switching inputs, visiting the home screen, or even changing channels — practice infuriates consumers, brand denies wrongdoing 3 days ago:
This is the cyberpunk future that the 80s kids were so hyped for.
- Comment on YouTube ads are about to get even longer and they’ll be unskippable - Dexerto 3 days ago:
Youtube: “People are blocking are ads and costing us money, what should we do?!”
The People: “Police your platform and stop advertising scams, hate speech, pornography, and all the other shit.”
Youtube: “I just have no idea what to do, so I guess I’ll just invest millions/billions into making ads harder to block, and make the ads longer and unskippable.”
The People: “YOU KNOW WHAT TO DO, JUST POLICE YOUR FUCKING PLATFORM ALREADY. IF YOU DID YOU WOULDNT NEED TO DO ALL THIS SHIT”
Youtube: “Oh, btw, heres another PragerU video thats 3 hours long and talks about how the black man should be grateful for the white man uplifting them via slavery, followed by a ad thats basically a woman fingering herself to advertise chinese AI girlfriends”
The People: " adblocking intensifies "
- Comment on Valve Sued By The Performing Rights Society Over Music Rights in Games Valve Doesn’t Make or Own 3 days ago:
Sure, Buddy.
- Comment on Valve Sued By The Performing Rights Society Over Music Rights in Games Valve Doesn’t Make or Own 3 days ago:
Sure buddy.
Keep it up, maybe you’l get to pay a license fee for repeatedly posting, too.
- Comment on Valve Sued By The Performing Rights Society Over Music Rights in Games Valve Doesn’t Make or Own 4 days ago:
- Comment on Valve Sued By The Performing Rights Society Over Music Rights in Games Valve Doesn’t Make or Own 4 days ago:
Sure buddy.
- Comment on Valve Sued By The Performing Rights Society Over Music Rights in Games Valve Doesn’t Make or Own 4 days ago:
nope. Just a frustrated, blueballed gamer sick and tired of shit ending in clifhangers with no finish.
- Comment on Valve Sued By The Performing Rights Society Over Music Rights in Games Valve Doesn’t Make or Own 4 days ago:
Really?
I don’t recall having to pay a fee every time I redownload or reinstall my game…ever
- Comment on Valve Sued By The Performing Rights Society Over Music Rights in Games Valve Doesn’t Make or Own 4 days ago:
real disappointed all that HL3 hype a month or 3 back ultimately ended up being a big fat fart of nothing.
- Comment on YSK you can fold fitted sheets neatly (guide by ratfactor) 4 days ago:
The only way to fold a fitted sheet is to roll it into a ball and throw it onto the back corner of a shelf where no one can see it.
- Comment on Valve Sued By The Performing Rights Society Over Music Rights in Games Valve Doesn’t Make or Own 4 days ago:
“The litigation will progress until Valve obeys” sounds an awful lot like extortion.
They are clearly trying to double/triple dip on shit that already been paid for and licensed.
Whats next?
Make us individual game owners pay license every time we download and install the game?
- Comment on If you are rich, white, male and say "Jesus" enough, you can get away with anything. 5 days ago:
its just disgusting how short time ago it was legal, accepted and even encouraged.
My grandmother was sold off at like 13 to a man 4x her age to marry. and she, to this day, sees nothing wrong with it.
- Comment on If you are rich, white, male and say "Jesus" enough, you can get away with anything. 5 days ago:
Reminds me of the story of the father/pastor who raped his daughter, and was given a slap on the wrist 60 day jail sentence for, according to the judge, being a “good christian man”.
Which, like… what part of raping a child makes you a good christian man? Smells like to me the judges home PC probably has sexual images of children on it.
- Comment on Seagate just unleashed 44TB hard drives 6 days ago:
Shit like this aint meant for you and me.
Its meant for big data whores, like Palantir, and youtube, and CIA.
- Comment on Artist whose work was used in Marathon without permission now has a credit in the game 6 days ago:
They better be getting a fuckin paycheck too.
Don’t get to steal peoples work, then go “oopsie”, slap their name in credits, and think alls well.
- Comment on Avocado. Is it really so untasty or I am doing something wrong? 6 days ago:
are you not even putting salt and pepper on it?
Cause thats the most barebones way to eat it… Its okay just by itself, but it really needs at least salt and pepper, if its not part of a larger recipe or something.
- Comment on I was on social media before web browsers existed. I am Legion. 1 week ago:
and every forum had rules against bumping, typically only once in 24 hours, and only like once or twice. It was never a problem, much less as egregious as you try to paint it to be.
and I’d still take that any day, over the toxic miasma of gamification, advertising, and multibillionaire control we have now.
Honestly, I dont know how anyone can say that the days before gamification, before adpocalypse, before billionaire hijacking of the internet for their own personal ends, is worse than what we have today. It borders on either lunacy, or propaganda.
- Comment on How did internet viruses spread before the internet was invented! 1 week ago:
You would get a floppy disk that had a virus buried in it in addition to the game/software.
It’d infect your computer, then embed itself on every floppy you’d make, some of which you’d inevitably trade with friends or whatever, thus infecting all their systems, so all floppies they’d write were infected, and they’d eventually trade with others, and so on and so on and so on.
- Comment on I was on social media before web browsers existed. I am Legion. 1 week ago:
I am one of the few people, it seems, that can not for the life of me remember my ICQ number… but I was there, using it.
Anyone remember Trillian? Having your Yahoo, AIM, ICQ, Messenger, etc all in one program…