Lfrith
@Lfrith@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Google says adblockers caused YouTube views count to drop - this is what adblockers told us really happened 17 hours ago:
I personally wouldn’t care that much if youtube went back to how it was back in the day of people sharing for the sale of sharing instead of it being filled with bunch of aspiring infomercial hosts trying to get the bag.
Have to blocklist so many channels because they monopolize the top search results before I see videos from normal folks just uploading to upload because they thought a video would be helpful.
- Comment on 23 hours ago:
Still important for console gaming depending on the game, so there are console gamers who will opt for a monitor over the TV. PVP games and rhythm games being one. I got taiko and that felt off until I hooked up my switch to the monitor.
Its more that people will use and adapt to what they have as opposed to not being relevant. Even TVs gamers will try to get ones that have lower input lag in game mode. But, monitor is still the preferred route.
- Comment on 23 hours ago:
Emulator users seem to like oleds for giving off the CRT look with shaders.
- Comment on Google just broke *all* third-party web clients, including yt-dlp; a full JS implementation is now required. 1 day ago:
Why are you overusing emojis? Anyways, its been nice feeling less tied to Google services since I switched away from Gmail and moving to another email provider, and moving to foss options for services I used to use Google for.
So having less dependency on Google, and not even having to sign into Google anymore to get benefit of subscription feed, playlists, and history has been cool through freetube on desktop and other third party apps like newpipe.
You are on lemmy which is a very niche more tech leaning social media that is more liking to degoogle. What is so bizzare about the concept of someone wanting to reduce their account dependency from a large corporate platform?
- Comment on Google just broke *all* third-party web clients, including yt-dlp; a full JS implementation is now required. 1 day ago:
Yep FreeTube is the only one I found not working, which is what I use on the desktop.
- Comment on Google just broke *all* third-party web clients, including yt-dlp; a full JS implementation is now required. 1 day ago:
It would be. Its been nice moving away from using a Google account.
- Comment on I get texting and driving being a danger. But back in my day you could eat drink change radio stations etc. Why weren't laws implemented back then? 1 day ago:
They didn’t have seat belts either. So simplest explanation is that people were still figuring out what safety features were necessary for a new invention that started gaining traction. Lot of safety regulations that came into play happened afrer disasters like building codes. People learn from tragedy.
- Comment on 2 days ago:
Like VR, meta’s will probably be the best priced and have the best tech on top of it for the price, so end up getting the most market share too.
- Comment on 2 days ago:
Average people will have it phone home for convenience. Just how things play out. I think the tech is cool, but not looking forward to how it’ll be utilized in the end.
- Comment on 2 days ago:
Its meta so they’ll their hands on that data the way peoples numbers end up in metas hands despite not having a Facebook account because people gave the app permission to contacts.
- Comment on Beware, another "wonderful" conservative instance to "free us" has appeared 3 days ago:
Isn’t the point of fediverse to provide an alternative to big tech where anyone can create an instance with their own rules? Its not really about having to be subject to everyones voice. Otherwise instances wouldn’t have the ability to defederate.
And people as they got more familiar to the fediverse started either running their own or choosing instances that aligned with what they’d like to see and not see. So I see this thread more as people expressing what they’d like their instance to do when it comes to defederating or federating.
And if values don’t align then people can switch to an instance that more closely does. So its less about voice, but having options to turn to compared to centralized sites where if you dislike the CEO, algorithm, or moderation policies there isn’t much you can do other than leaving, but in the process lose access to all content and interaction.
- Comment on ‘I’m a modern-day luddite’: Meet the students who don’t use laptops 5 days ago:
Math I put more on the side of not having to even need notes, but just understand the formula and it involves practice by doing different problems over and over so you can solve problems on exams.
So I don’t put in the same category of classes that are less problem solving or less abstract concepts like philosophy.
Ones that are specific things that need to be recalled with little room for reinterpretation are ones where handwriting things isn’t enough, since the answer is either right or wrong. So memorization outside of class is heavy requirement. There’s just no shortcut to those type of classes and too much info to retain unless someone has a naturally great memory.
- Comment on ‘I’m a modern-day luddite’: Meet the students who don’t use laptops 6 days ago:
Yeah, and just handwriting notes in class and expecting to not have to study and remember everything is only going to work for classes that aren’t information dense. Expecting to do that for classes like physiology or anatomy isn’t going to work unless someone has amazing memory.
Not many people who would be able to list all the proper nerve and muscle locations and body mechanisms just because they sat and handwrote their notes or whatever. At a certain point few remember and it comes heavily down to studying outside of classes, and having good notes that can be referenced to make study material off of is what makes the difference.
- Comment on ‘I’m a modern-day luddite’: Meet the students who don’t use laptops 6 days ago:
I don’t remember anything either whether i write or type. So it became important that I at least take good notes I can then study off of outside of class and make flash cards or more condensed shorter notes of.
For me class wasn’t for remembering or learning. Just being exposed to material that I could later start studying and understanding outside of class.
- Comment on ‘I’m a modern-day luddite’: Meet the students who don’t use laptops 6 days ago:
I love digital because it is so easy to go back and reference old notes too. I use obsidian, and being able to go back and recall something I need a more detailed refresher on is so convenient.
My handwritten stuff got trashed because I’m not digging through all that and was just taking up space.
- Comment on ‘I’m a modern-day luddite’: Meet the students who don’t use laptops 6 days ago:
Wasn’t the case for me for information dense subjects like biology related subjects. Found I didn’t retain anything, but worst of all my notes were so messy I couldn’t even use them, so ended up wasting time having to go back and listen to the lecture again to create notes I could study off of and make short summaries of to start memorizing.
Some exceptions to typing has been problem solving basic subjects like math where there’s no rush to try to get down bunch of information, so for that I definitely go handwriting. But, for really information dense subjects its typing all the way.
- Comment on ‘I’m a modern-day luddite’: Meet the students who don’t use laptops 6 days ago:
Getting an old thinkpad is probably better, way cheaper, and fits into the reuse to keep something from going yo the landfill.
- Comment on Microsoft announces it will automatically install the Copilot AI app alongside desktop versions of 365 products like Word, Excel and PowerPoint this October 1 week ago:
Yeah I got a t480s and I love it. I got Linux and Windows dual booting on it. It’s a solid feeling laptop with the best laptop keyboard I’ve used. If willing to splurge more could get a newer ThinkPad with a Ryzen CPU, but t480s is enough for me.
- Comment on 'My Advice to Users Is to Accept Reality and Tune, or to Not Play' — Randy Pitchford Is at the 'Get a Refund From Steam' Stage of the Borderlands 4 PC Performance Backlash 1 week ago:
The game already charted high on steam before he said anything. The game didn’t need customers to be direcrly insulted to get attention, and there’s so many better ways to get attention if controversy is the intent like saying people can’t see over 60 fps and that over 1080 is something most people don’t notice.
Telling people to redund if they don’t like it is jusr bizzare.
- Comment on 'My Advice to Users Is to Accept Reality and Tune, or to Not Play' — Randy Pitchford Is at the 'Get a Refund From Steam' Stage of the Borderlands 4 PC Performance Backlash 1 week ago:
Those people buy games regardless. But this feels like a personal challenge of being called out. Like the face popping out and going “yeah I knew you couldn’t resist bitch”. Usually there isn’t that psychological push back being put out there. It’s not needed.
- Comment on 'My Advice to Users Is to Accept Reality and Tune, or to Not Play' — Randy Pitchford Is at the 'Get a Refund From Steam' Stage of the Borderlands 4 PC Performance Backlash 1 week ago:
I don’t think there’s anything that well thought out, and it’s just someone who takes things personally and cant resist blurting out their thoughts.
Since after what he said my thinking was even if my friends beg me to get the game on discount I wont because of how personally irritated the comments have made me.
- Comment on 'My Advice to Users Is to Accept Reality and Tune, or to Not Play' — Randy Pitchford Is at the 'Get a Refund From Steam' Stage of the Borderlands 4 PC Performance Backlash 1 week ago:
It’s the year of the billionaire who dont keep their mouth shut because they believe they are right and everyone will agree with their points and love them.
Happening right now with Mark Cuban on the NBA side.
- Comment on "Very dramatic shift" - Linus Tech Tips opens up about the channel's declining viewership 2 weeks ago:
I cut my sub list down over the years to like 20.
I think I just don’t typically like YouTube type content to for entertainment compared to the average viewer.
It’s use to me is more as a resource for when I need a video guide.
- Comment on "Very dramatic shift" - Linus Tech Tips opens up about the channel's declining viewership 2 weeks ago:
I guess I’m not that into that so wouldn’t find something to interest me on youtube. I probably don’t bother watching 99% of my feed, and just use YouTube when I need to reference something these days.
Like finding out a location from a video game or looking up a recipe to cook. I don’t find myself liking majority of the “big YouTube as a job” type channels, and videos I tend to view when searching has been more “this is my only upload because it seemed interesting” type videos.
- Comment on "Very dramatic shift" - Linus Tech Tips opens up about the channel's declining viewership 2 weeks ago:
10 hour long videos!? What the hell. What can be that interesting for 10 hours from YouTube? Is it actual full written tv shows or documentary tv series?
- Comment on "Very dramatic shift" - Linus Tech Tips opens up about the channel's declining viewership 2 weeks ago:
I’ve wondered who had the attention span for hour long videos on youtube or even 10 minute long ones once the algorithm started prioritizing those over short form. Most youtubers just aren’t that good enough to be able to deliver something compelling for a long length of time, which was why short and to the point videos is what I miss about old YouTube.
- Comment on (Rant) Don't buy Rockstar games. 3 weeks ago:
–launcher-skip
And I’m talking about launcher the type you have to log in again.
Example being Ubisoft games where you get it from Steam or Epic and then have to install UPlay and then log into UPlay.
I’ll even use Finals as an example which isn’t DRM free. You install on Steam and go on playing with no login or separate launcher. Or you install from Gamepass with no login or separate launcher.
- Comment on (Rant) Don't buy Rockstar games. 3 weeks ago:
Think It’s the complaint is where a launcher is required on top of a launcher. Like if you buy Cyberpunk 2077 from Steam, GOG, or Epic it doesn’t required another launcher on top of the launcher you bought it from.
Good thing is that it does seem like majority of games don’t do that. Even EA is moving away from it.
- Comment on The US government could get even more Intel stock if the company ends up losing control of its chip manufacturing business 3 weeks ago:
I left intel once Ryzen came out and reviewed well, since their motherboards were going to be supported for multiple generations. It paid off since after a CPU upgrade I don’t see myself upgrading until the next gen consoles come out and drive up system requirements. Which won’t be for a few years.
- Comment on Let Google know what you think about their proposed restrictions on sideloading Android apps. - Android developer verification requirements [Feedback Form] 3 weeks ago:
Small minority of people who about this and end up affected will just leave for something else if custom ROMs stops being an option and dev scene dies out.
Not every Dev on F-Droid wants to hand over their info to Google.
You can argue that Google doesn’t care because they are a minority and custom ROM users provide no benefit to them, which is true. But to act like people are stuck with Google if the feature they care about affects apps that interest them are stuck with Google isn’t true either. They are already doing stuff that is unusual from regular users.