darreninthenet

@darreninthenet@lemmy.sdf.org

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple’s first Mac mini redesign in 14 years looks like a big aluminum Apple TV⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I bought my iMac in March 2020… since then it’s been powered down maybe half a dozen times (a couple of those were power cuts) and rebooted (outside of macOS updates) maybe ten times.

  It just sits there reliably doing its thing and sucks little juice in power saving so 🤷🏻‍♂️

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Studios are cracking down on some of the internet’s most popular pirating sites⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Any good guides out there please on getting started with these…?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube Seems to Be Cracking Down on a VPN-Powered Discount⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I suppose the argument would be, yes that’s fine as long as you only use it in India…? 🤷🏻‍♂️

  Again, not saying I agree but it’s hard to make a comparison like that I think.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube Seems to Be Cracking Down on a VPN-Powered Discount⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not approving of any corporate behaviours here, but extracting the maximum price a market will bear has been the basis of pricing and supply/demand since such concepts existed which is at least 250 years.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Prime Video subs will soon see ads for Amazon products when they hit pause⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m surprised they think this is useful… if I’ve paused a video it’s because I’m answering the phone or front door, making a coffee, going for a shit etc… I’m almost never going to see these ads 🤷🏻‍♂️

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kagi silently removed all references to Google's index from their website⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thing is how do you differentiate between a bunch of people who genuinely like a product and are happy to say so because it’s solved a problem for them that they see other people having, and “subtle spam”?

  For instance, I’m a Kagi subscriber and have been for some months now as it’s doing a good job for me, and I’ve had the odd person leap down my throat accusing me of being a corporate shill etc, and I am absolutely not (but that’s what a shill would say!!!)

  How does anyone get a product recommendation from a product that’s genuinely growing in popularity so people are recommending it? I get there needs to be a healthy dose of cynicism but where does the line get drawn to the point where that cynicism is no longer “healthy” and simply means everyone distrusts everything that’s made by a company if somebody on the internet says it’s good?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has anybody played music on their disc-based systems?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  CD32 was my first CD player, was all cassette for me until then