JordanZ
@JordanZ@lemmy.world
- Comment on Spotify caught hosting hundreds of fake podcasts that advertise selling drugs 3 days ago:
Raised the price for podcasts, raised the price for audiobooks. Guys, I just want a music service…
Then as you mentioned…no ability to block artists or songs. I honestly believe that not listening to a particular song by an artist you otherwise like made it shows up even more in radio/shuffle play. Can’t you guys clue into the fact that I skip that track EVERY time you start playing it.
People made alternate desktop clients to customize the homepage cause they were unwilling. The mobile app wasn’t so lucky. Again…my home page doesn’t need to be podcasts, audio books and artists I’ve never listened to but are obviously being boosted but paid promotions.
When they started throwing up full page dialog popups recommending the most ridiculous not even close to what I listen to content multiple times a listening session…I was out. Didn’t just cancel premium, deleted the account and uninstalled the apps. I’m not paying you to actively annoy the shit out of me.
- Comment on Bungie appears to have plagarized an artist's work and style in their extraction shooter "Marathon" according to this Bluesky post 4 days ago:
This just reminds me of this guy…who also has one about the word ‘ass’.
- Comment on demon named racecar 4 days ago:
Racecar? Plenty of short names that people actually use…Anna, Eve, Elle, and Bob.
- Comment on Netflix will show generative AI ads midway through streams in 2026 5 days ago:
If that’s the case then I’m with the guy I responded to…they don’t pay much attention to the main content either and they worded it to suit them.
- Comment on Netflix will show generative AI ads midway through streams in 2026 5 days ago:
I have no idea how they know this unless it’s just…well they didn’t actively close the stream when the ad hit so they must have watched it. There isn’t really any other option but to let it play but that doesn’t mean people stuck around or didn’t mute the TV.
- Comment on Microsoft Teams will soon block screen capture during meetings 1 week ago:
The feature is fine in theory. In practice, especially with work from home, it’s useless to achieve the goal it set out to. The article even points it out.
However, it should be noted that, even if screenshots are blocked, sensitive media and information shared in Teams meetings can still be captured by taking a photo of the conversation.
Taking photos of screens makes a crappy photo but it’s still a photo of whatever they didn’t want you to take a screenshot of. It’s actually probably worse because now that sensitive info likely isn’t even on a company controlled device anymore and might be uploaded to iCloud or Google automatically because of it.
- Comment on Tesla confirms it has given up on its Cybertruck range extender to achieve promised range 1 week ago:
From the article in this post…
Last month, Electrek reported that Tesla has quietly removed the range extender from the Cybertruck online configurator, where buyers could reserve it with a “$2,000 non-refundable deposit.”
- Comment on Tesla confirms it has given up on its Cybertruck range extender to achieve promised range 1 week ago:
Think the end of the article pretty much nails it.
Tesla needed to install and remove it at a service center. Owners couldn’t remove them themselves. I think it was pretty much dead on arrival at $16,000.
But I think it could also be as simple as it’s not worth producing due to demand – both due to insufficient people reserving it and not enough Cybertruck buyers to create a market for the range extender.
Therefore, the range extender is dead for the same reason that the Cybertruck RWD now has the same battery pack as the AWD instead of a smaller pack for less money: the Cybertruck is a commercial flop, and it’s not a high-volume program enough to justify making several battery pack sizes, including a removable one.
- Comment on Spotify says it's fixing the bug that caused Premium users to hear ads 2 months ago:
I gave up Spotify when they just wouldn’t stop trying to shove podcasts down my throat. It’s essentially ads for their own sponsored content they paid millions for that I have zero interest in. It just kept getting worse like the full screen pop ups for ‘recommendations’ based on their interests…not mine. So glad I didn’t have to deal with this too.
- Comment on Jack Daniel’s maker says Canada pulling US alcohol off shelves ‘worse than tariff’ 2 months ago:
Levi’s vintage collection already has pairs in the $300+ range. The $50-60 msrp they’re asking for their thin as paper normal jeans now is robbery. I’m aware they’re available much cheaper but msrp is just a benchmark for comparison. I have some jeans from high school(decades ago) that are still in decent shape. Yes, I still fit in them fine and wear them constantly. Any normal pair I’ve bought in the last couple years are already trash. Their quality is abysmal now.
Not to mention it’s exceedingly difficult to find regular not ‘stretch’ jeans. The 505’s are available in both but the stretch version is everywhere and most online places don’t specify. The stretch are thinner and are even more garbage than the non-stretch. Not to mention I’ve gotten 505’s from multiple countries of origin and the patterns are not the same. The pocket depth being a glaringly obvious one. Phone doesn’t fit in any that come from a particular country but fine from others.
The vintage collection depending on what you buy has some actual heft to it(downside is they’re hot), are generally selvage denim, and come in way more sizes that the normal jeans don’t. On extreme sale they’re worth it…last pair I got for like $80 down from msrp of $267. Those have actually lasted the ~7 years I’ve owned them. Haven’t seen that price again though. Think closest as of late was like $140-160…No thanks.
That became way more ranty than I thought it would…apparently I’ve got some strong feelings about jeans.
- Comment on Post your setup. no matter how uggo 5 months ago:
The LG drive in my photo(looks like the top drive on yours) can take custom firmware that allows them to be region free and add the ability to rip 4K disks. Can’t actually play them as that requires decryption chips to be in the drive but it makes for a MUCH cheaper 4k ripping drive than a true 4k drive.
- Comment on Post your setup. no matter how uggo 5 months ago:
I own over 4k titles in physical copies. So probably closer to 5-6k discs. As the other person said…backups. I’ve already found a few degraded discs as I’ve been working through.
Pretty much everything in the basement is some variant of linux. Couple more boxes(not pictured) higher in the rack that are just recycled desktops in rack mount cases. Some of the other stuff is windows because of the software being used. I use Mac stuff at work cause that’s what they provide. I don’t really care what OS. I just need it to work and the quickest way for me to get whatever it is done. I’ll reformat stuff to whatever when this project is done and I move on to the next.
- Comment on Post your setup. no matter how uggo 5 months ago:
That is what it is. My older CyberPower unit is down below. Was just easier to manage it all from one place. Need to repurpose that or sell it off…
The screens work fine with the stickers on. Never saw the point in peeling them off.
- Comment on Post your setup. no matter how uggo 5 months ago:
- Comment on Microsoft just paused Windows 11 24H2 update for many PCs due to crashes and freezes 6 months ago:
Let’s get this out of the way…I use windows, Mac, and Linux for various things. There is a ‘Select When Quality Updates Are Received’ in group policy editor (sorry home edition users) that allows you to delay the feature updates by a year. You still get the monthly security patches. My win11 box just updated to 23H2 and not 24H2. That gives me plenty of time to figure out how to unfuck what’s coming down the pipe.
- Comment on Crunchyroll just Committed a Federal Crime. 6 months ago:
I buy almost exclusively physical media. I don’t care about streaming so crunchy roll was just a thing I ignored. Then they bought like everything… Funimation and Rightstuf/Nozomi being the largest. I use to have probably a grand on preorder with rightstuf at any point in time. Talking easily 10K+ a year. I haven’t bought a damn thing off crunchy roll’s site. I don’t care for the company and their site sucks. Which is saying something cause rightstuf’s site was slow and clunky but it was simple and got the job done. Crunchy roll’s store site is just a giant ad for their streaming service that they also happen to sell stuff on.
Also despise that I had to talk with customer support multiple times to get off their damn mailing lists that they just signed everybody up for because they converted rightstuf accounts. The ‘unsubscribe’ link in the email was broken…hell it’s probably still broken. Even though that violates laws…clearly they don’t care about those.
- Comment on have you ever been given a warning or suspension for using profane language at work? 6 months ago:
Also work in software. Had people swear on 300+ person meetings, vendors meetings, etc. Nobody has ever been written up to my knowledge.
- Comment on I'm back with another great recipe 6 months ago:
It’s just hard boiled eggs…not as appealing to look at but it’s fine.
- Comment on Cable companies ask 5th Circuit to block FTC’s click-to-cancel rule | Cable companies worry rule will make it hard to talk customers out of canceling 6 months ago:
It’s your internet. Who cancels that without already moving to another ISP? I work from home so not having internet even for short durations is a non-starter. Forcing me to talk to someone is an absolute waste of everyone’s time. They have a zero percent chance of keeping me because I already left. I just want the bills to stop for a service I disconnected from.
I understand the whole ‘game’ for pricing/discounts but when you legitimately are leaving then this is just dumb. I think the whole game around discounts is dumb too but that’s capitalism.
- Comment on Windows Recall is secretly installed on non-Copilot+PCs (Privacy Nightmare) 6 months ago:
Not enough AI PC sales. They need to push it out anyway. Consume all the CPU and power they can and then market AI PC’s as a way to improve performance and lower your power bill.
- Comment on Is this shitpost enough 7 months ago:
I have not reached rich enough to change my toilets by the holiday levels…so neither.
- Comment on Dell Sales team told to return to office 5 days a week 7 months ago:
I know this was a facetious comment but it reminds me of the time Kingston stuck 75 leds in an SSD and it got so hot the computer wouldn’t even boot. There is a video.
