AugustWest

@AugustWest@lemm.ee

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Welcome to the web we lost⁩ ⁨⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  For the first time strangers were meeting other than face to face, and without any of the social context clues that would have previously guided us in person.

  The suggest this was the 90’s? More like the 80’s. BBS were doing this for quite a while.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google confirms more ads on your paid YouTube Premium Lite soon⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, this will work for a while but I think the days have gotta be numbered.

  Best long term solution? Leave YouTube.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If we replace most plastic with a non plastic alternative and would that really be better?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I get your point, but I gotta say: I do want to buy my ketchup in a plastic bottle. And I do, mostly because the ketchup is 10 times better than then generic crap that is Heinz or whatever major name.

  But I don’t mind shaking the bottle, it’s not hard.

  Most things I don’t want plastics for, and in the case of viscous fluids, why not jars?

  It would be nice to drop off the jar with the local mustard maker and get a fresh one. Standardizing on glass sizes would help a lot, but then of course we gave water issues for cleaning all of them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Samsung teams up with Glance to use your face in AI-generated lock screen ads⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Never heard of glance. It’s an ai shopping tool? I couldn’t make sense of it, but I didn’t spend much time either.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plex now will SELL your personal data⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  So assuming you are traveling, what do you bring with you if it isn’t a mobile streaming device, a laptop, or a mobile device that you are going to stream to?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plex now will SELL your personal data⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You saying you wouldn’t have those things away from home? Or a firestick.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plex now will SELL your personal data⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Tailscale makes this easy if you are only user.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plex now will SELL your personal data⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  “install this app on your tv and log in”, which is exactly what Plex does

  Yes, but that person has to create an account. Everyone has to create an account. With Plex. Some people I know immediately say no, others are annoyed that plex would try and shake them down for money.

  If you configure Jellyfin, all that goes away. THEN they can simply download the app and login.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plex now will SELL your personal data⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I got concerned when people started buying Plex hats. And being excited about that purchase.

  I noticed that Logo on Hats people are willing to pay for is often a bit concerning.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube tops Disney and Netflix in TV viewing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh boy it’s kind of hard to explain. A comedian gets actors to practice things,like a rehearsal for an event. In this case he wants to improve airline safety because most accidents are because co-pilots don’t speak up when there is a problem. So he invents ways to recreate those scenarios with actors and complete airport, real pilots and co pilots.

  We see a real former aviation safety cobsultant and former safety board worker who has been trying to improve airline safety, a congressman, doctors and more, while we discover the pressure of pilots to never talk about their feelings for fear of losing their jobs. Pilots and copilots sit in silence before flights, it’s crazy.

  The series escalates with more elaborate and surprising reveals including a real contest and deals with rejection, autism, and the themes of dealing with a dovorce and being alone.

  Its a comedy, its somewhat shocking, and it is entertaining while being a bit disturbing in many ways.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube tops Disney and Netflix in TV viewing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not emotional, I am calm, lol. I think you took that too seriously. But seriously I kid you not the rehearsal this season really was that good.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube tops Disney and Netflix in TV viewing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Those are all two to 4 minutes long…

  And branch out to what exactly? You shaming my shows I like to watch? Or at least a lot of people like to watch?

  Do you really call the rehearsal a pop show? You ever seen it? This season was amazing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube tops Disney and Netflix in TV viewing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  No. None of those things are on YouTube.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube tops Disney and Netflix in TV viewing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Really? Does it have the latest episodes of Doctor who, the rehearsal, or last of us? How about old shows like star trek Voyager?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube tops Disney and Netflix in TV viewing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Most of what I would want to watch is definitely not on youtube. Although most of what I want to watch that is on YouTube is not on a pay channel. They seem apples to oranges to me, which is what I was driving at.

  I wonder if they count listening to music with still image as “watching”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube tops Disney and Netflix in TV viewing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I am not sure why I got downvoted: your use case is exactly what I was thinking. And the other person who responded to me as well: you tube is watched a lot, but the content is largely like apples to oranges compared to say HBO or even Tubi.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube tops Disney and Netflix in TV viewing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Conversely what is there to watch on YouTube? I mean I obviously have seen video on you tube of one kind or another, but it’s never been a place to go to watch a TV show or movie.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Copilot Delusion⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Particularly code. B Gates grabbed code out of the trashcan to learn, then actively tried to kill open source.

  Math, and code in particular, is something you have to work with to learn. The concepts cannot be stolen, the only thing you could is if you copied the whole program excatly and AI does not learn (or at least retain) that way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Copilot Delusion⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You lose me at stolen. If we are talking code anyway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Researchers Scrape 2 Billion Discord Messages and Publish Them Online⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For projects I am involved with all irc chats are archived and searchable. There is nothing private, no registration needed and searchable.

  Quite a bit different.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It only is if you want it to be. Subscribe to what you like and that isn’t your will see if you only view those things.

  Use scaled as a sort occasionally to see other posts in your subscriptions. I switch back and forth.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are We All Becoming More Hostile Online?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah the block and ban thing these days is really weird.

  If someone is harassing you, then I guess it makes sense. But otherwise why do people do that?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are We All Becoming More Hostile Online?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Back in the day I just assumed everyone was lying. Or trying to get people worked up, and we called them trolls.

  Learning how to ignore the trolls, and not having trust for strangers on the internet, coupled with the ability to basically not care what random people said is a lost art.

  Somehow people forgot to give other the people this memo, including the “you don’t fucking join social networks as your self”. Anonymity makes this all work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This word-game roguelike looks unique and has one of the longest names I've ever seen⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So anyone play it yet?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows Is Adding AI Agents That Can Change Your Settings⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There is no problem. Yes, they pretty much are consistent distro to distro. Desktop to Desktop is a bit different but not by much.

  My grandparents have had a much easier time with Linux than Windows. Both environments would be confusing to look up if something goes wrong. Fortunately since linux packages are updated together, not much goes wrong. Cant say that for windows. Stuff is always popping up and asking questions and changing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows Is Adding AI Agents That Can Change Your Settings⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Why is this repeated over and over on Lemmy? It is nonsense.

  There is a button. You don’t need the terminal any more or less than any other OS. Yes people give advice with commands. They are not magic nor arcane, but it is so much easier to tell you to do a command than 20 pages of diagrams and drawings on how to use the gui to do the same thing.

• My shower thought these days: Black hole sun, won't you come? Wash away... everythingwww.youtube.com ↗
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pinterest users left confused by mass account suspensions⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Its all worth it if Pinterest goes away.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨That's all folks, Plex is starting to charge for sharing⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not anymore. They changed the prices and discounts by quite a bit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨That's all folks, Plex is starting to charge for sharing⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I run them side by side too. I also have plexpass from ahes ago.

  But I actually like the jellyfin ui better. It’s simple, to the point and most importantly fast. Sit. Down click jellyfin click show, go.

  Plex just feels laggy and sloppy in comparison.