DJDarren
@DJDarren@sopuli.xyz
Just a guy standing in front of the internet asking it to please not
- Comment on Why do people hate coldplay? 2 hours ago:
God, I hate Kasabian. Shit thick music for drunks to yell along to after the football.
I saw them back before their first album came out, supporting the Von Bondies. They were fucking dreadful. A bunch of tracksuit wearing Ian Brown wannabies.
- Comment on Why do people hate coldplay? 11 hours ago:
I have a space in my heart for their first four albums. They’re perfectly enjoyable slices of indie that somewhat stood above the landfill shit that was otherwise getting airplay (fuck you Razorlight. Fuck you Kasabian).
Its fair to say that they and I grew apart from then on, as Chris Martin became more about the celebrity than the honest music, but even then, I never had any real problem with them.
They headlined Glastonbury last year and were excellent. Made me go back and listen to some of the records I’d ignored, and found that they were still a perfectly fine band. Considerably more poppy than they were, but not cynically so, I didn’t think.
But I guess Martin comes across as a little too earnest, and his marriage to Paltrow a little too right-on, so the press kept digging in to them, as is their wont. That made people think it was popular to shit on them.
- Comment on Password manager by Amazon 22 hours ago:
My Mum died recently and my step dad is shit with tech, so their password book was invaluable in helping us gain access to her Apple account and her phone. It meant we were able to get to her iCloud passwords, so now we have access to everything.
So yeah, password books are actually pretty handy.
- Comment on Google Keeps Making Smartphones Worse 1 day ago:
On the phone itself? I don’t think it does. The Wallet app doesn’t work at all for NFC payments in GrapheneOS, because Google are shit heads.
- Comment on Emma Watson banned from driving for speeding 2 days ago:
There’s a road going out of Southampton that’s 40, and has a camera about 6m before the point where it becomes 50. The 50 signs seem more prominent than the camera. I’ve always thought that was a bit cunty.
- Comment on Google Keeps Making Smartphones Worse 3 days ago:
I bought a Garmin to accompany my Graphene Pixel, only to discover that my bank doesn’t support Garmin Pay.
So, MagSafe wallet attached my phone it is then.
- Comment on YouTube's Latest Update Shows That Online Monoculture Is Dead 6 days ago:
I do the same with yt-dlp, though mine is still a little more manual. I have my subscriptions in FreeTube, which I use to select what I want to watch. Copy the link, run my script, then trundle to the lounge where I can watch them on my big TV.
There’s a mindfulness to that process that’s helpful to me. A conscious decision, as opposed to mindlessly absorbing content.
- Comment on YouTube's Latest Update Shows That Online Monoculture Is Dead 6 days ago:
There’s a lot to be said for stepping back from online debates and asking whether your voice is actually valuable, or whether you’re just yelling into the void and getting yourself all pissy.
For me, I try to take the view that there’s already enough negativity, so I try to be as positive as I can in my online interactions. If someone gets needlessly arsey with me, I’ll try to sympathise with them. If they don’t react well to that, I’ll leave the thread. I’m not changing anyone’s mind, not even yours.
- Comment on YouTube's Latest Update Shows That Online Monoculture Is Dead 6 days ago:
I don’t use iOS any more, but I found that a combination of Safari + adblocker + Vinegar was the golden setup. No ads, and you get to use the default iOS video player.
- Comment on Study shows a link between obesity and what’s on local restaurant menus 1 week ago:
I for one am shocked by this revelation. Shocked.
- Comment on thinkpad 1 week ago:
Duct tape the Thinkpad to the gennie and you’ve got a lovely, portable all-in-one.
- Comment on BREAKING: X CEO Linda Yaccarino Steps Down One Day After Elon Musk’s Grok AI Bot Went Full Hitler 1 week ago:
Perhaps it’s because I’m old, but I kinda hit a wall a few years back where I stopped giving a shit about what famous people had to say on the internet. So on that basis, the move from Twitter to Mastodon was easy for me. Less easy was leaving behind people who I liked, but life is change, and we leave people behind all the time.
- Comment on ‘You can’t pause the internet’: social media creators hit by burnout 1 week ago:
Yeah man, that shit can be hard and time consuming.
I used to do a podcast. Each episode was around 12 minutes. I’d spend a good eight hours a week on those 12 minutes, around my actual job, and would get about ten people listening. And you know that within half an hour of hearing it, they’ve forgotten it and moved on to the next thing in their queue. It’s hard to maintain enthusiasm for that.
- Comment on Welcome to petty lane 1 week ago:
You, The Master Driver, are amply equipped to decide what the true speed limit should be.
- Comment on Welcome to petty lane 1 week ago:
The beauty of this comment is that it could be in support of either position.
- Comment on PNG has been updated for the first time in 22 years — new spec supports HDR and animation 2 weeks ago:
No no no, it’s pronounced “PNG”
- Comment on [Video] BBC cuts away during pro-Palestine musicians Kneecap. The followup act Bob Vylan invents a new chant on live TV 2 weeks ago:
Thing is, afaik, the BBC has nothing to do with booking the artists. They just broadcast the sets and hold them on the iPlayer for a month after. Kneecap (and Bob Vylan) were booked by the Glastonbury organisers.
- Comment on [Video] BBC cuts away during pro-Palestine musicians Kneecap. The followup act Bob Vylan invents a new chant on live TV 2 weeks ago:
Someone uploaded it to WeTransfer if you’ve not found it elsewhere yet.
It’s a great set. Big Bob spitting facts from top to bottom.
- Comment on Corporations are saving the planet! 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, I know, but that doesn’t lend itself to comments that get upvotes, and I’m a slag for it.
- Comment on Corporations are saving the planet! 2 weeks ago:
I end up dribbling because the lid gets in my way, but it’s fine because I’m helping to offset the pollution caused by a billionaire’s private jet.
- Comment on Worth a try. 3 weeks ago:
You have to keep applying it. It’ll happen.
- Comment on Facebook is asking to use Meta AI on photos in your camera roll you haven’t yet shared 3 weeks ago:
Get thee to messenger.com then. Save it as a PWA and its like having the app but you give Meta as little as possible.
- Comment on Aging is fun 3 weeks ago:
I’m 44 and am really quite sick of having to be aware of drinking enough water.
Until just a few short years ago I could just crack on and not think about it. If my mouth was dry as Gandhi’s flip flops, I’d have a drink, otherwise I wouldn’t think about it.
Now I start to feel like shit, and can’t figure out why, until I remember that i’ve only had a point of water today and could probably stand to drink some more.
It’s bullshit.
- Comment on Have you noticed 4 weeks ago:
I nootice you’re here for the sportsball
- Comment on Trump says UK is protected from tariffs ‘because I like them’ as trade deal is signed off 4 weeks ago:
It’s only because we’ve got a royal family and he likes the golf in Scotland.
- Comment on I Tried Pre-Ordering the Trump Phone. The Page Failed and It Charged My Credit Card the Wrong Amount 4 weeks ago:
Because it’s almost certainly an old, low spec device that they’ve bought a job lot of on clearance.
- Comment on YouTube might slow down your videos if you block ads 4 weeks ago:
As it currently stands, my Plex setup costs me nothing because all I do it stream from my server to my Apple TV. So it works well enough for me.
- Comment on YouTube might slow down your videos if you block ads 4 weeks ago:
Can’t slow down videos I’ve downloaded to my Plex server. 👍🏽
- Comment on Apple’s Craig Federighi on the long road to the iPad’s Mac-like multitasking 5 weeks ago:
As someone who uses and enjoys a MacBook, but who has recently moved away from iOS; one of the biggest problems I have with tech right now is how much ALL of the companies cripple their products so as to not cannibalise another. And I think Apple are the worst for it.
I have a 6th gen iPad mini. It’s form factor is perfect for hand held reading, social media, and the like. If I could plug it into a monitor and use Stage Manager to carry out light computing tasks it would be perfect. But Apple decided it simply wasn’t powerful enough, so didn’t enable it. It absolutely could do that, but that would have been one less selling point for the Airs and Pros. So Apple restricted it.
I’m old enough to remember when you’d buy computing stuff that had no restrictions beyond what it was physically capable of. You could buy a shitty graphics card and you could play a game, but if the card wasn’t up to the task it would run like crap. There are games and apps you literally cannot buy for lower end models of Apple devices. If you’ve already bought it on a device that can run it, it’s not available to another that can’t.
All so they can maintain their air of quality.
Fuck Apple. They make great hardware, but they’re run by cunts.
- Comment on YouTube relaxes moderation rules to allow more controversial content. Videos are allowed if "freedom of expression value may outweigh harm risk" 5 weeks ago:
Personally I don’t use YouTube the website at all at this point. I’m 100℅ Freetube and yt-dlp/Plex for watching the channels I like.