NightOwl
@NightOwl@lemmy.one
- Comment on DoorDash, delivery apps remove tipping prompt at checkout in NYC 11 months ago:
Current system seems like capitalists dream of underpaying employees as much as possible and having the narrative pass the blame to be between customers and workers.
And even better that workers will argue against actually being guaranteed a higher salary in favor of this system on the off chance they might get more. Sort of like gamblers who get off the high of that one big win. Either way, the shift away from having to pay full salaries and benefits is cause for celebration for owners, since they love that it’s more likely they don’t get blamed and instead the customer when the owner has enough money to take home profits and live well instead of struggling like their employees being paid the bare minimum.
It’s pretty much the absolute ideal situation for them. No blame and lower expenses.
- Comment on PlayStation To Delete A Ton Of TV Shows Users Already Paid For 11 months ago:
People this doesn’t affect are pirates. People who get to enjoy their media without worry are pirates. When pirates are getting the better experience and it’s customers who are getting affected what incentive is there to not pirate other than personal morals. Because it sure isn’t for a better product.
- Comment on Car dealers say they can’t sell EVs, tell Biden to slow their rollout 11 months ago:
Yeah, hate haggling. Never know if it is actually a good deal, and tracking prices and deals is so unreliable compared other goods with the way those have historic price tracking recorded on sites like camelcamelcamel or keepa. Keeps consumers in the dark with only a broad idea of what isn’t a scam price and making the experience as exhausting as possible to extract money from them.
- Comment on YouTube warns it might make your viewing experience worse if you don't turn off your ad-blocker 11 months ago:
Their algorithm certainly made videos worse the moment they started priorizing the promotion of longer videos over shorter ones leading to an increase in incredibly long winded videos that waste everyones time.
- Comment on YouTube warns it might make your viewing experience worse if you don't turn off your ad-blocker 11 months ago:
Freetube I found to be easier since I haven’t needed to do any tinkering since I got it, and plus side has been not needing an account to have a personal subscription feed.
- Comment on YouTube warns it might make your viewing experience worse if you don't turn off your ad-blocker 11 months ago:
Pirates aren’t most people. Piracy finds a way among pirates.
- Comment on YouTube warns it might make your viewing experience worse if you don't turn off your ad-blocker 11 months ago:
Even without ads it’s shit without sponsorblock for me. Not even for the sponsor spots, but the absolutely annoying copy paste of please like, subscribe, hit the notification icon, blah blah blah blah blah.
- Comment on [deleted] 11 months ago:
I’ve had to block off entire instances too which I use the Connect app for.
- Comment on [deleted] 11 months ago:
I never found “all” browsable for any platform whether it be lemmy, YouTube, or reddit. It’s why subscribing has been so important to me, and filtering. Like on YouTube which I access through freetube I’ve disabled “trending” and “popular” since even the thumbnails were obnoxious for majority of the videos. And on reddit what even made /r/all viewable was a reddit enhancement suite filter lists that was in the hundreds for constant blocking of communities, and even then was a wack a mole that required keyword filtering.
- Comment on Only You Can Prevent The Game Awards Hype Cycle - Aftermath 11 months ago:
I’ve never watched game awards. I don’t even know if there is even a main one. Watches speeches is boring which is why I don’t watch award shows in general.
Only goty I care about is the goty edition where the game releases with all the DLCs bundled at a discount.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
Preorder bonuses and microtransaction purchases that provide xp boosts and items that make the game easier.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
Having rich family versus none provides a safety net that lessens the consequences of risk taking, and sets a baseline of how bad your life can get.
It’s like playing a game with check points versus one that has you start at the beginning if you die. You still have to do all the hard work to reach your goal yourself, but those retro style non check point games are incredibly hard compared to games with check points, saves, or cheating with save states.
- Comment on Epic lays out Google’s alleged “bribe and block” monopoly strategy in trial opening 1 year ago:
I don’t see a problem with warnings though as someone who does side load and use F-droid to install Foss apps.
You even got on the Apple side people thinking side loading on iOS is not something they want, since they think it’s easy to end up with a malware app when there’s plenty of warnings and a function that needs to be enabled on Android.
I don’t see it any differently really than warnings for when installing a program on Windows if it wants admin access at the start. I think Android with the terrible security updates and eol period shorter than iOS devices is hitting a nice balance of warning users of risks of installing unknown apps, but providing the flexibility for people to install whatever they want.
Most users are idiots.
- Comment on Epic lays out Google’s alleged “bribe and block” monopoly strategy in trial opening 1 year ago:
Side loading is potentially dangerous though, so warnings are good. Especially for average person who will attempt side loading not knowing the permissions they are giving to the app. I don’t see a problem with the current set up, since even with it people install sketchy apks.
- Comment on YouTube tries to kill ad blockers in push for ad dollars, Premium subs 1 year ago:
I figured people using ad blockers are in the minority and most don’t even know how to install it, so mainstream users are either fine with ads or pay for premium.
And then those who installed Adblocker themselves trend towards being more willing to tinker, so using ublock and updating or pushed to accountless options like freetube and newpipe.
- Comment on YouTube Wants to Stop Sending Kids Down the Rabbit Hole of Eating Disorder Videos. 1 year ago:
Could just demonitize those type of videos, which would have an impact on submissions. That goes for lot of platforms that have a monetizing incentive to get views. And they so many don’t bother deactivating the accounts either when videos cross the line as if they want to encourage emulation among the population.
- Comment on YouTube's plan backfires, people are installing better ad blockers 1 year ago:
I really can’t stand requests for likes, subscribes, notification bell at all. I actually hate it more than ads, and have backed out of many a video that didn’t happen to have the segment flagged at the beginning.
- Comment on YouTube's plan backfires, people are installing better ad blockers 1 year ago:
Look I hate YouTube ads too, and ads in general, but let’s say every user of a service is like you.
I understand the message about needing to fund services to exist, but that stance I feel doesn’t always really work too well. Since if other users were like them then it’d also mean there might be a lot of stuff that doesn’t exist anymore which could be a pro like microtransactions ceasing to exist and move to subscription model failing.
And for YouTube might be completely different where depending on their taste maybe click baits turned people away if the person hated them, so those don’t exist. And long winded videos attempting to take advantage of the algorithm failed if they were someone who didn’t like videos that wasted their time, and everyone is like them.
Reddit might still support third party apps if everyone was like them, and lemmy bigger. That’s why if everyone was like them argument is just a weird one, since it turns minority actions into a majority and changes way too many things to focus on one singular thing.
- Comment on YouTube's plan backfires, people are installing better ad blockers 1 year ago:
My favorite aspect of sponsorblock is blocking the incredibly repetitive ubiquitous script that every single channel copies of like, subscribe, ring the notification bell.
- Comment on YouTube's plan backfires, people are installing better ad blockers 1 year ago:
Thank you me for using Adblock. You are welcome me. Couldn’t have done it without me. I am my hero. Thanks me.
- Comment on YouTube's plan backfires, people are installing better ad blockers 1 year ago:
I really like freetube on desktop, since I have liked the move towards less dependency on accounts. And freetube let’s me have a custom feed without needing an account.
And I love the built in sponsorblock and channel blocking feature too.
- Comment on DoorDash now warns you that your food might get cold if you don’t tip 1 year ago:
Seems like a company that shouldn’t exist if they can’t stay in business by actually charging what is necessary to remain solvent because customers will be scared off as you claim.
Seems more an excuse for door dash to justify why they don’t set a proper delivery fee to draw customers and underpay drivers and just sit back and have the blame game being played between customers and and workers.
- Comment on DoorDash now warns you that your food might get cold if you don’t tip 1 year ago:
It seems like ticket master with the fees at the end and then have people go well I’m already this far into the cart so I might as well check out, or computers where the starting price is low then few upgrades and price is more than double the initial eye catching low base price.
It’s all pricing tricks expect in this one they shift the blame to customers and workers while upper management watches them fight.
- Comment on DoorDash now warns you that your food might get cold if you don’t tip 1 year ago:
That is the business justification for it. I’m saying set the price themselves and if it’s door dash than actually set a high enough fixed price as opposed a system worse than ticket master where it’s a guess game of begging and charity.
You try to make it out to be so complex but really is as simple as an online company not being the one to do the delivery but providing different delivery options from various different companies that have set a clear and upfront cost to deliver the package.
Instead of a weird paying the cost of the product and being charged cost of shipping but then that actually not being enough, since delivery companies can be bothered and having to start tipping hoping x delivery company eventually delivers it since they don’t know how to set prices themselves.
- Comment on DoorDash now warns you that your food might get cold if you don’t tip 1 year ago:
Why not actually price it into the cost of the food. Like any delivery x distance will cost x amount. Like actually charge what they want instead of this arbitrary guessing game.
Like you know… Like how online orders will provide the shipping cost to the consumer and then not expect tips, since the shipping cost is already accounted.
Charge what they want…
- Comment on DoorDash now warns you that your food might get cold if you don’t tip 1 year ago:
Tipping is weird to me. Since every other business doesn’t have tips because they already price their services or products correctly to account for their employees salary, since it is 100% their responsibility as the employer.
This shifting of responsibility and blame to the client by underpaying staff and pushing a system of begging and guilty tripping is incredibly weird.
This all signifies a pricing problem. Well I guess not one for the employers who are cheapskates raking in profits in a system where they shift attention of blame away from themselves.
- Comment on DoorDash now warns you that your food might get cold if you don’t tip 1 year ago:
Yeah, if tipping is introduced then I’d rather just cook or even pay for those overpriced prepackaged ingredient packages to cook at home.
Probably healthier too, and lot of stuff at restaurants is prepackaged microwaved stuff anyways.
- Comment on How do you moderate yourself? 1 year ago:
Short attention span leading to doing gaming in short bursts. Sometimes I lose interest in games for months and get more into the mood to watch TV shows and movies. Then lose interest in that and move to reading then lose interest in that and going back to gaming. Rinse and repeat. Has helped me avoid the whole not having fun with games anymore threads that I’d see a lot, since my focus just naturally shifts back and forth to keep things feeling fresh.
- Comment on Petition demands that Microsoft extends Windows 10 support 1 year ago:
I watch lot of HDR content on my PC with the HDR signal being sent to my display TV instead of having to fall back to tone mapping. Last I checked HDR wasn’t working on Linux. Been checking in on it for several years, but it always seems to be being worked on but not ready for release.
- Comment on An unofficial PC port of Nintendo 64's Perfect Dark is available for download, featuring mouselook, widescreen, FOV & 60fps support 1 year ago:
That’s awesome news. I love these old games getting pc ports and quality of life features.