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- Comment on Google To Subscribe To Your Emails To Find Content For Your Search Listings. 11 hours ago:
100% agree. Should be opt-in per email.
- Comment on Google To Subscribe To Your Emails To Find Content For Your Search Listings. 1 day ago:
I assume its more of it subscribes to your newsletter same as a user would, so when you send out the newsletter to “group 1”, the google thing is also on that mailing list.
And yes, should absolutely be opt-in, per mailing list, per email.
- Comment on Google To Subscribe To Your Emails To Find Content For Your Search Listings. 1 day ago:
So this is another headline designed to get a kneejerk reaction outta people.
Basically if I’m a store that sends out a weekly email to subscribers, Google will “read” that email for SEO purposes.
- Comment on Based on a true story 2 days ago:
You take that 10k you were going to drop on a crap used car, use that as down payment on a new car. Get a longer loan with lower interest and keep monthly payment lower. The larger the down payment, the lower the monthly will be, and now you have 10 years to set aside money for the next new car or “out of warranty” repairs.
There are still new cars that have a sticker less than 30k, after warranties and any desired upgrades, probably closer to 35k-40k for anything not a truck, EV, or sport car.
There’s also people who lease, they pay lots of money to rent a car for around 3 year, after that they trade in for a new car and the old car gets sold as used.
- Comment on Based on a true story 2 days ago:
You can do school loans if you start paying bigger. Not sure what your debt is or how large your financial cushion needs to be, but if extra cash is sitting in checking not earning interest, its loosing value while your student loan interest keeps ticking up.
For me after setting aside money for savings, I kept what I needed + plus a small amount for whatever and the rest got dumped into loans, had that shit payed off in a few years. Think my total interest payed was around 3k, I know some people basically end up doubling their debt over the 10 years with some crazy interest rates. (Went to state school, so loans were about 50k for everything, I know some private schools are triple that)
(Also open a saving account or something, your checking account shouldn’t have access to all your funds in the event of debit card theft, especially if you use that online)
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
Someone trying to get more add revenue, spread malware or just super dedicated to educating the population of lithium batteries. Or all three.
- Comment on YSK: Here's a list of browser extensions to un-shittify Youtube 5 days ago:
Enhanser for YouTube is another good one. Set things like speed and video size as defaults.
Add buttons, like speed, and volume boost to the player bar (a few settings to change, out of the box it makes its own floating toolbar).
Enable a mini-player as you scroll comments. Tons of other things too.
- Comment on YSK: Here's a list of browser extensions to un-shittify Youtube 5 days ago:
It works really good.
Any channel with constant 10k views typically get submission with in a day, channels with 1mil views typically get submissions with the hour.
Its not hard to submit times your self, its all built in to the player bar.
Multiple categories that you can choose what get automatically skipped or not.
Some categories are; sponser, self-promotion, into/recap, credits, filler/tangents, non-music (for music videos) and highlight, which is a marker showing where the “point” of the video is.
- Comment on I present my girlfriend's daughter. 1 week ago:
It’s the only time you will, even auto correct will work flawlessly for you when your intentionally trying to mistakes by typing large and complicated words.
- Comment on I've never said "I love you" to my sister 1 week ago:
Go to her, take her by the hand, get on one knee, stare into her eyes, wait for her to blush, and say “my dearest sister, pull my finger”.
- Comment on Terrorists 1 week ago:
Its an objective that is causing a major fucking problem for the people who want to sell their tesla but can’t without going bankrupt. You’re hurting thousands (hundred of thousands?) of people to stick it to one man.
People setting fire to a car forces fire fighters to have to put that out. That’s a waste of resources, possibly delaying other calls, and its a fucking fire. It doesn’t take much for the situation to become dangerous
Not hard to imagine the risk of something exploding or “sorry we couldn’t get to your hose 5 minutes earlier to save your baby because were scrambling around town dealing with arson”.
It’s not worth the risk.
- Comment on Terrorists 1 week ago:
The problem with selling a Tesla is the greatly reduced sell value, who wants to buy a car with such a shit reputation they’re getting set on fire? Either the crazy Musk/trump idolizers or someone who lives under a rocks and will gladly a buy an extremely expensive sedan for cheap. Unfortunately, unless their dumb enough to put a giant maga sticker on the car (but then how do you know someone isn’t vandalizing cars with stickers like that to watch other people harass the owner), there’s no way to know anything about the person driving it. They could be renting it because their’s broke down and that’s the car that was available, we simply do not know.
Tesla owners are basically being forced into loosing around 20k. Even selling it, they still have to pay off the rest of their loan. If they still have 30k to pay, and only sell for 20k, there’s still 10k on loan. then another 5k for a down payment on a new car. Do you have 15-20k sitting in the bank your able to spend and loose 20k in assets without it being a financially stupid idea? Not many do.
Only if the loan is payed off the loan or almost done could it make some since to sell the car at a 50% loss. It sucks, and should be done to get rid of the Tesla, but I still feel bad for the folks who wanted the EV for the environment/at home charging/no gas and got sold into the Tesla marketing.
And okay, my UHC example is easily broke on an individual level, but companies still choose the provider. Do we go set fire to random businesses that picked United Healthcare? That’s not gonna hurt UHC, it’ll just hurt the families of the workers who no longer have a job.
If you want a different example, insert Nestle or something, same idea applies.
And I’m going to emphasize this again, nothing musk does is justification for risking anyone’s life with burning cars.
- Comment on Terrorists 1 week ago:
It’s regular people who are stuck with a Tesla. They got sold in to the EV crowd, and until the last 5 years Tesla’s were pretty much the only major fully electric option do the charging network. They were lied to by Musk with promises that never came. One thing they did get is a nifty video security system, I bet the cops are loving all the video evidence. Not everyone can just sell their car at a major loss to get something different, life ain’t that easy.
I’m gonna say it; if an Arab man set someone’s car on fire, or started attacking dealerships they’d be charged with terrorism with out a second thought. 5 years ago if a white man in a red marvel hat keyed a Tesla or set it ablaze, the same crowd keying/lighting cars today would be calling for blood. Sick of the “rules for you, none for me” bullshit.
Destruction of property is not a protest against Tesla, its a crime against the people who own the car, a burden on taxpayers, fire fighters are risking their lives to put out those Tesla fires because “protesters” got upset at 1 dude they can’t reach and decided to take it out on the closest person they could.
Should we start stabbing people with United Healthcare now?
- Comment on Good morning. What's wrong honey? Part III 2 weeks ago:
Please look here for a reminder to never post your children’s pictures online. If they’re too young to have a social media account, they’re too young to be on social media.
- Comment on Good morning. What's wrong honey? Part III 2 weeks ago:
Looks like an adult gave her an oversized scarf, kid doesn’t look happy to be there, probably cold too.
- Comment on Check your DVDs for disc rot — Warner Bros. says it’s replacing them 3 weeks ago:
Well, those online copy’s either originate from someone sharing their backed up collection or a camera pointed at the TV.
- Comment on Brazilian court gives Apple 90 days to allow sideloading on iOS. 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, and last I heard (a few years ago) anything running apple M# chips is not jailbreakable.
- Comment on Brazilian court gives Apple 90 days to allow sideloading on iOS. 4 weeks ago:
That’s the whole point, to force iPhone to also have freedom.
Android is becoming less free every year; the more Apple gets away with, the closer Android/Google will drift towards it.
- Comment on Apple reveals M3 Ultra, taking Apple silicon to a new extreme 4 weeks ago:
The storage prices are insane. It’s over 9 thousand to get the 512GB model, and it still only has 1TB of probably non removable internal storage.
2TB is +$400 4TB is +$1000 8TB is +$2200 16TB + $4600
They’re saying 8TB is worth more than the entire base model Mac Studio at 2k.
For those prices I expect a RAID 5 or 6 system built in, god knows they have the processor for it.
- Comment on Look at me, I'm the Admiral now. 4 weeks ago:
And when it tries hide, Process Explorer will hunt it down.
- Comment on Thunderbird does not fall under the new terms frommmozilla 4 weeks ago:
Lol my dyslexic brain read it as adopt anyways.
- Comment on In a thousand years, will historians regard today as the digital dark ages? 5 weeks ago:
Well, with the amount they are attempting to rewrite, if Archive.org goes down, the dark ages shall begin.
- Comment on The New York City Subway Is Using Google Pixels to Listen for Track Defects 5 weeks ago:
If they really need, they could plug in an external mic.
There’s a surprising amount of sensors in our phones that 30 years ago would have been expensive dedicated equipment. If a phone is enough for the tests, great.
- Comment on Amazon will remove the option to download/transfer Kindle e-books via USB by February 2025 1 month ago:
Yeah, some of us made that miskate years ago. I can transfer mp3 just fine, why can’t I transfer a book file too? Lots of people entire book libraries are being held hostage by Amazon.
DRM ripping was a pain, I used some sketch program that had only worked with a specific old version of Kindle for PC to turn all my books into ebubs.
I love my kindle, but not buying books from Amazon anymore and next ereader won’t be kindle.
Fun unrelated fact, kindle unlimited books could also be downloaded for USB transfer.
- Comment on Little know fact 1 month ago:
Owner of couch; “hey do you want to model for an animated movie character?”
- Comment on The internet is bad ux, everybody. There's too many choices. 1 month ago:
Then I guess you need the $100 teir option
- Comment on LibreOffice goes collaborative and Wasm as ZetaOffice • The Register 1 month ago:
Yes MS office can do it natively in the apps now. but that does use one drive sync.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Not having removable storage stinks.
If you do make the switch (or not) I highly recommend setting a up a backup for your contacts, photos and whatever else is important.
I started backing up apps “export settings” files too. Makes switching phones so much easier.
(I use syncthing to pick the folders I want)
- Comment on 2025, still no flying cars! 2 months ago:
Its 2025, are most drivers ready for a 3rd dimension to keep track of?
- Comment on TURKEY POWER 4 months ago:
if they claim a 15lb Turkey feeds 12, how am I supposed trust any of the other numbers?