CmdrShepard49
@CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on This is Android's new 'advanced flow' for sideloading apps without verification, includes one-day waiting period 2 days ago:
Ive heard plenty of examples of elderly people getting conned into buying ITunes gift cards to pay their “delinquent taxes” but I find the thought of trying to explain the process of activating developer mode, navigating to some shady website, downloading an apk, finding the download folder, and then installing some bootleg app to a confused elderly person, over the phone on the very device they want you to do this on to be quite comical. I can’t see many of these people completing even step one of that process.
I’m sure there are malicious apps to sideload out there, but those are also all over the PlayStore too, so I don’t see what this change really fixes.
- Comment on So what's your take on Pokopia? 2 days ago:
I got it last week and it has been taking up all my free time since then. I’ve also never been into casual games like this (Animal Crossing didnt do it for me) nor minecraft, but I’m enjoying the combination of both.
- Comment on This is Android's new 'advanced flow' for sideloading apps without verification, includes one-day waiting period 2 days ago:
What active scams? These scams should be pretty ubiquitous at this point if they’re doing all this to “stop” them, but I’ve never even heard of anyone having security issues from sideloaded apps.
- Comment on This is Android's new 'advanced flow' for sideloading apps without verification, includes one-day waiting period 2 days ago:
In the sales world, this effect is called “price anchoring” and is used by tons of companies. All those sales you see where something is “marked down 50%!” are using a manufacturers price that does exist in real life to get that 50% markdown. In reality, the sale price is just the actual price of the item but people see the “huge discount” and think they’re getting a deal.
- Comment on Spotify playing ads for paid subscribers 2 days ago:
That’s not up to the streaming service but the record company.
That doesn’t really matter for the end user as they’re in a relationship with the streamer not the record companies. I hate this drive to obfuscate responsibility in corporate America.
- Comment on Spotify playing ads for paid subscribers 2 days ago:
I think you can integrate lidarr into SoulSeek too.
- Comment on Spotify playing ads for paid subscribers 2 days ago:
Didn’t the creator also dox a customer for criticizing them?
- Comment on Memory Makers Expect Shortages to End in Late 2028, Could Pause Expansion Plans 4 days ago:
Frequently the attitude towards equipment is that it can be sold once they’re done with it. Particularly specialized equipment might sit a little longer but that’s built in to the calculation.
As someone tangentially related to all this, I’m not so sure how accurate this is. The equipment we have isn’t ever sold until its completely deprecated and the space is needed for new tooling as a lot of this equipment takes years of planning, installation, and qualification before its ever allowed into production (along with strict service term contracts). The market is also relatively small and this would effect everyone equally, so I’m not sure how solid a plan like this would be. I imagine it would be similar to the housing market after the '08 crash where everyone is trying to unload dead weight at the same time which further devalues everything at a time when capital is desperately needed and sales have plunged off a cliff.
- Comment on Memory Makers Expect Shortages to End in Late 2028, Could Pause Expansion Plans 4 days ago:
The whole plan is to make personal computing unaffordable so we have to rent cloud services to do anything.
That’s certainly a byproduct of what they’re doing but I’m not convinced thats the goal as the biggest PC buyers these days are businesses and I don’t see them jumping on board with that since it doesn’t benefit them at all. You could argue it would reduce their IT needs, but it won’t really as they’ll still need physical devices for everyone, networking gear, dedicated PCs for certain tasks/uses (like running equipment), not to mention having to store all IP on third party hardware.
For consumers, I think most people have enough computing power with their phones as it is and most of the rest can be handled by some 10 year old thin office client. Outside of higher prices across the board, this will really hurt gamers and PC enthusiasts the hardest which is probably quite a niche market.
- Comment on Samsung's latest update is a serious gut punch to Galaxy power users 1 week ago:
God their TVs have become so terrible over the last decade. Not only the firmware but the quality of them. I got one to use as an office monitor and it randomly glitches out showing static on the screen until you unplug it. My BIL also buys Samsung TVs and has seemingly gone through half a dozen of them in the last few years because they keep breaking. Same with all the Samsung appliances that he buys too.
For my last TV, I got an LG C3 OLED from Costco and the picture is incredible along with the price and we haven’t had any software issues or annoyances with it either. I have blocked the LG domains on my router though so that it won’t nag me about updating the firmware.
- Comment on Samsung's latest update is a serious gut punch to Galaxy power users 1 week ago:
AFAIK Knox would trip a fuse if you installed custom firmware and would prevent you from using banking apps and the like permanently but you were still able to flash the firmware.
- Comment on Samsung's latest update is a serious gut punch to Galaxy power users 1 week ago:
I dont run custom ROMs anymore either but I have needed Odin a few times over the last few years to flash different OEM firmware to devices. Examples are a couple of work phones the company let me keep after upgrading which had Sprint firmware. I was able to flash Tmobile firmware to them while simultaneously removing all the locked-down work stuff that was preventing me from doing anything with the devices like activating developer mode.
As far as my personal device, an S21 Ultra, I’ll probably need to upgrade it in the next couple of years and I think its finally time to ditch Samsung. I had similar feelings before getting the S21 but compromised since the market was shit for higher-end devices (I typically get a higher end device and then keep it for years and years) and i have no interest in Apple. It sucks because the market is still weak as hell in the US. Every device I’ve come across that looks decent is a EU device that doesn’t support all of Tmobile’s bands.
- Comment on Hisense TVs force owners to watch intrusive ads when switching inputs, visiting the home screen, or even changing channels — practice infuriates consumers, brand denies wrongdoing 1 week ago:
Ive had LG, Vizio, TCL, and Samsung TVs (still have all but Vizio) and haven’t ran into one that requires internet yet, not to say that some manufacturers haven’t/wouldn’t do this at some point.
- Comment on Hisense TVs force owners to watch intrusive ads when switching inputs, visiting the home screen, or even changing channels — practice infuriates consumers, brand denies wrongdoing 1 week ago:
If you don’t connect a smart TV to the internet, it’s functionally the same as a dumb TV.
- Comment on Is *arr stack a real Netflix replacement? 1 week ago:
To help combat this I’ve created numerous collections in Plex based on commonly shared traits like genre, actors, directors, release decade, holidays and placed these collections at the top of my library. You can even find artwork for all this stuff on The Poster DB. I also make sure to put sequels into their own collections and separate animated TV/movies from all the live action stuff (four separate libraries) to further reduce the wall of choices.
- Comment on Is *arr stack a real Netflix replacement? 1 week ago:
I think Jellyseer gives you the ability to watch trailers or see external links (imdb, tvdb, etc) for the show/movie.
Like others have said, this stuff is really about building a collection not streaming something the moment the idea to watch it pops in your mind. It can replace Netflix but you’d want to build it up first (with plenty of HDD space to do so). Mine is also shared with family and friends so it supplements their watching too.
- Comment on Things I've learned about Frigate 1 week ago:
I also have frigate on proxmox with a Google coral but mine has been rock solid. The only difference is that I use an LXC instead of a VM. I recall there being more issues passing hardware to VMs in Proxmox since they don’t like to share.
- Comment on BYD’s Second-Generation Blade Battery Makes Western EV Tech Look Ancient 1 week ago:
They did stop selling garbage which is precisely why they’ve almost completely left the passengar car market in favor of trucks and SUVs, which sell like hot cakes.
Dodge/Chrysler/Jeep is owned by Stellantis which is based in the Netherlands. They haven’t been an American company for quite some time now.
- Comment on BYD’s Second-Generation Blade Battery Makes Western EV Tech Look Ancient 1 week ago:
But what about the majority of cars sold in the US which belong to foreign manufacturers, and what’s your answer for why none of those nations are able to compete with what China is doing?
Apparently no other government in the entire world is “competent” by your standards, or perhaps it’s about one nation leveraging their position and influence in order to build a monopoly and not about competency at all.
- Comment on BYD’s Second-Generation Blade Battery Makes Western EV Tech Look Ancient 1 week ago:
Who’s going to build them though? GM and Ford have almost completely eliminated producing vehicles that aren’t SUVs and trucks because nobody was buying them and Tesla is floundering with a Nazi leading the company. Most people are buying German, Japanese, or South Korean cars and they aren’t able to compete against China either for all the aforementioned reasons.
The fact that nobody else in the entire world can match what they’re doing despite hundreds and hundreds of collective years building and selling cars should clue you in to what’s happening. It’s like saying a city should subsidize their local general store to compete against Walmart and wondering why nobody is doing just that.
- Comment on BYD’s Second-Generation Blade Battery Makes Western EV Tech Look Ancient 1 week ago:
What US companies? Only three remain (GM, Ford, Tesla) and they make up a fraction of sales here in the US. The Chinese government is dumping truckloads of money into subsidies and development, control nearly all rare earth minerals, and don’t shy away from environmental disasters and human rights abuses which is why they’re the only nation on the planet that’s able to develop this rapidly and sell their vehicles for way less than anyone else on the planet. Once they control everything you can kiss those low prices and rapid development goodbye, but you’ll still buy from them because nobody else will be left standing.
- Comment on A wristwatch is like a handcuff to time 2 weeks ago:
Reminding you that you’re late to your business meeting at Red Lobster.
- Comment on BYD Reveals the ‘World’s Longest-Range EV’ as American Auto Industry Struggles to Keep Pace 2 weeks ago:
American companies only make up a small portion of the US auto industry.
- Comment on Belt Holster for USB Power Supply 2 weeks ago:
We’ve got belt clips for those too!
- Comment on Interview: Mary Wiseman On Tilly Settling In As A ‘Starfleet Academy’ Teacher And Dealing With Toxic Fans 3 weeks ago:
the people jumping to conclusions about who I am as a person and as a fan from the one comment.
Like jumping to conclusions about a show you haven’t watched based on one headline?
- Comment on Interview: Mary Wiseman On Tilly Settling In As A ‘Starfleet Academy’ Teacher And Dealing With Toxic Fans 3 weeks ago:
Well it’s a different show with different writers and she isn’t playing the timid and anxious character she was in early Discovery.
- Comment on YSK that treatments for back pain can cost thousands. But some of the best fixes are actually free 3 weeks ago:
I did two rounds at a chiropractor years ago after injuring my upper back trying to remove a fallen tree (also had sciatica issues for a while previously) and after doing his magic told me to pull my shoulders back and down while squeezing my sides at my elbows to help with the upper back pain, and to hold my leg at a 90 with my ankle resting on my opposite knee while pushing down on the knee of the crossed leg for my lower back/hip joints. Previously, I couldn’t stand in place for more than 20 minutes without severe pressure on my lower back and had numbness in my arm from the upper back injury, but both have completely stopped since then.
- Comment on Star Trek Removed From Amazon Prime [TNG & Voyager Refunded] 3 weeks ago:
It’s not that it’s digital media to blame, it just isn’t something you can replicate very easily with physical media.
- Comment on Just Watched the First Episode of Voyager and I Get the Hype, Regarding Janeway, Now 3 weeks ago:
We’re about as far away from the 1995 debut of Voyager as it was from the Equal Credit Opportunity Act of 1974.
You’re missing a decade there. Voyager debut to today is about the same length of time as Kirk and Uhura having the first interracial kiss on television in the 1960s to Voyager’s debut in the '90s.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | 1x07 “Ko’Zeine” 3 weeks ago:
Im so glad they brought her into SFA. We definitely didnt see enough of her in DSC.