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MonkeMischief , in Oh God, I wasn't ready

I’m not 100% sure I’m getting this one. Is emergency room coffee:

  • Super crazy strong because the staff’s gotta commit to being so inhumanly wired at all times?
  • Heinously putrid because chaos doesn’t allow for regular cleaning and replacement?
chiliedogg , in Look at what they took from you

I mean - they’re just being more honest about it than EA and Activision.

Shady_Shiroe , in Costs Less? When That Happened?
@Shady_Shiroe@lemmy.world avatar

They meant that it costs less for apple, not the customer

MissJinx , in I hate excel so much
@MissJinx@lemmy.world avatar

ohhh nonono You hate it because you either don’t know how to use/don’t use it enough, or you just don’t like your job. Excel is amazing, I could cry talking about it hahaha I had to work with google sheets once and almost had a heart attack, if I had no excel my job would be unberable

Paradachshund , in I hate excel so much

I thought I hated excel, but then I tried Google sheets. Somehow it’s even worse.

Dymonika ,

How? I live off of GS!

AVincentInSpace , in Form a union they said

do you think the US president has control over whether or not a ceasefire happens on the other side of the planet

mathemachristian ,

Yes. The zionist entity is fully dependent on the US empire. Economically, militarily, geopolitically. If Biden said, “stop genocide or we will cut off all your aid and disavow you” they would have to stop either willingly or their neighbours would force them to.

geneva_convenience OP ,

Yes

sub_ubi ,

Yes, ask Reagan or Bush Sr who both controlled this rabid dog. You say you’ll take away their weapons, they stop. It’s a client state, not an ally as the relationship is by all measures entirely one-sided.

It’s best to think of Israel as a 51st US state, and the president of the US ordering the war.

tilefan ,

we’ve sent them something like 700 arms shipments since october? we usually sanction governments that are committing genocide, too.

velox_vulnus , in This makes my brain hurt

The guitar hole seems big enough for a porta-potty.

SpaceNoodle ,

The strings slice it up for better packing

jaybone ,

You taking that shit on a plane?

SpaceNoodle ,

I try to not take a shit on planes, my knees hit the door

KingJalopy ,

One time one of my friends got wasted and pissed in the hole of my guitar. True story. It was leaned on the wall and woke in a drunken stupor and thought it was the toilet. Miraculous part was how he managed to get most of the piss directly in the hole while simultaneously being drunk enough to confuse it for a toilet.

Someonelol , in Youtube is harassing us!
@Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

You don’t get to say “No” to YouTube, Microsoft, or the thousands of websites that ask to you to give them your email. There’s only a “Maybe later”.

traches ,

I fuuuhuhuhucking hate this condescending, pestering dark pattern that apparently every single designer on the planet is required to use

dulce_3t_decorum_3st , in Youtube is harassing us!
@dulce_3t_decorum_3st@lemmy.world avatar

$5 a month and you can share with 5 other users. That’s 90c per person. Why would anyone not have YouTube premium?

davel ,
@davel@lemmy.ml avatar

Because I’m not giving Alphabet any information about me. It’s also why I don’t create a YouTube account and use browsers with common fingerprints.

SnotFlickerman , (edited )
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Trying to avoid fingerprinting often results in easier fingerprinting.

Your browser might have a common fingerprint, but other points of configuration (screen size, window size, webrtc, etc) belie those.

Usually it just gets you put in the “People who don’t like ads” advertising bin. They have specific ways to try to target us.

Relevant Bill Hicks: www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXi-9kA4ERM&t=75s

I know what all the marketing people are thinking right now, too.

“Oh you know what Bill’s doing? He’s going for that ‘anti-marketing dollar.’ That’s a good market, he’s very smart.”

davel ,
@davel@lemmy.ml avatar

ther points of configuration (screen size, window size, webrtc, etc) belie those.

Those are also part of the fingerprinting that I’m talking about, and browsers like Tor and Mullvad take some or all of them into account.

gamermanh ,
@gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Because I can get the same results + more for free

fuckwit_mcbumcrumble ,

Where are you at where it’s $5 a month for the family plan? In the US it’s $15 for the single user, or $23 for the family plan.

dulce_3t_decorum_3st ,
@dulce_3t_decorum_3st@lemmy.world avatar

South Africa

abfarid ,
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I pay ₴150 (Ukrainian hryvnia) for a family plan of 6, which is currently roughly $3.60 (after the currency tanked due to war). hide the pain dab

metaStatic ,

first and foremost you're paying for a worse experience than just installing an adblocker.

Paying for convenience isn't the same as paying to not be inconvenienced.

halcyoncmdr ,
@halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world avatar

I pay for Premium for a few different reasons:

  1. I don’t need to even think about fighting with ad block blockers.
  2. I also get YouTube Music, so I no longer need to pay for Spotify.
  3. Premium views pay creators more than regular views.
henfredemars ,

For me it’s a way to help support content creators, along with donations/merch, although admittedly not having to even try to block the ads is a nice bonus.

I wouldn’t necessarily call myself a YouTube fan, and it will be something I continue to evaluate.

metaStatic ,

There is clearly a value proposition or no one would pay for it.
I personally don't like to reward any company using the pay to not be inconvenienced model

A lot of people would rather fight adblockers (idk, literally never been an issue for me),
use xManager (oh right spotify is free) ,
Pay creators you like through patreon (or buy their shitty amazon links or merch or whatever)

Premium is just rewarding youtube for making their platform worse in order to sell premium and fuck that noise.

fuckwit_mcbumcrumble ,

Youtube premium gives you a higher bitrate option as well.

I think it’s only for lower resolutions (other than 4k) but if the video was uploaded with an absurdly high bitrate you can see a slightly less destroyed version.

zante ,

Because it’s £15 in the uk ?

TheGrandNagus ,

They speak of sharing with others, so they’re talking about the family plan, so it’s actually £20 in the UK.

The_Cunt_of_Monte_Cristo ,
@The_Cunt_of_Monte_Cristo@lemmy.world avatar

It is not about money. Google created a problem and then asked money to solve it. If I were a billionaire I still wouldn’t paid a single penny.

don ,

Because it’s $15 in the us? lol

TheGrandNagus ,

It’s £20 ($26.33) per month here. You are either lying or are in an exceptionally cheap country.

SnotFlickerman , (edited ) in Youtube is harassing us!
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Uhm, that’ s just capitalism in a nutshell.

Everything is just routing around people telling you “no.”

Government regulation is literally the epitome of being told “no” and they spend all the money in the fucking world to force it into a “yes.”

I mean, these people are so far up their own asses, I’ve seen ad industry people say seriously that people avoiding ads is breaking a contract. The genuine attitude that if they paid for the ad, in real life or online, that we owe them our eyes on it because they spent money on it. They’re so far out of touch that they can’t even face small risk.

Is it really a shock that a lot of people in corporate America are actual fucking rapists?

Gates, Weinstein, Musk, Trump, McMahon, I could go on… Plenty of these guys are well documented as not being able to take “no” for an answer, even if there’s no evidence they raped anyone (Gates, for example).

metaStatic , in This makes my brain hurt

you have fingers on optical glass twice. I would have gone with holding a heavy electrical device by the cord.

Linktank ,

Bonus points if it’s a charging cord and the device is holding on by the friction in the port!

ohellidk , in Youtube is harassing us!

Unlock origin + Firefox! The harassment stops. I’d rather donate to the unlock team monthly instead of paying google for a solution to a problem they created.

velox_vulnus ,

You also need to add SponsorBlock to skip in-video advertisements.

ton618 ,
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I don’t know, most creators I watch put a creative spin on those, and it’s fun to watch. ¯⁠\⁠⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠⁠/⁠¯

TheTechnician27 ,
@TheTechnician27@lemmy.world avatar

FYI, SponsorBlock isn’t just for skipping sponsored segments. SB gives you granular control over the sorts of sections you can skip, and it only auto-skips sponsors by default. However:

  • There are several categories of section, including intro animation/intermission (“an interval without actual content”), preview (i.e. where the information already exists later in the video), sponsor (a segment made in return for payment from a third party), unpaid/self-promotion (e.g. “buy my merch”), interaction reminder (e.g. “remember to like and subscribe”), and endcards/credits. (There’s also “filler tangent/jokes”, but I haven’t tried this one.)
  • For each of these categories, you can choose to disable altogether, show in the seek bar, prompt to manually skip, or auto skip.

So even if you would never want to skip a sponsored segment in your life, the extension still saves a ton of time if you have no/limited interest in watching even just one of the above-listed categories.

lolrightythen ,

I got me some new devices recently. Researching and adding privacy/security add ons to Firefox was surprisingly enjoyable.

The idea that I have some measure of control over what I experience - and what I give in return - is novel to me.

The -10 or so extensions work well enough. It’s still the internet, but it’s an earlier version. Better than what currently exists.

SnotFlickerman , (edited )
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Pi-Hole + VPN and you can stop mobile ads as well. (You connect your phone to your VPN, whose traffic passes through your Pi-Hole)

Ublock Origin also works on Firefox mobile for Android, but that only works inside the browser.

You need the Pi-Hole network-level blocking to block ads in apps.

ShinkanTrain , in National Geographic

You and me baby, we ain’t nothing but plastic

So let’s do it like they do on National Geographic

acosmichippo , in This makes my brain hurt
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I get that the beverage, camera, and eyeglasses are all a bit exaggerated from stuff that actually happens, but I’ve been playing guitar for over 20 years and have literally never heard of anyone passing a guitar by holding its strings. That makes no sense even if you’re just being lazy, the neck is a much easier place to handle a guitar from.

cRazi_man ,
acosmichippo ,
@acosmichippo@lemmy.world avatar

I get that the beverage, camera, and eyeglasses are all a bit exaggerated from stuff that actually happens

takeda ,

So is the guitar.

acosmichippo ,
@acosmichippo@lemmy.world avatar

no, that’s my point. it’s not even close to something that actually happens.

proudblond ,

The guitar one made me physically cringe because it felt the most damaging. The camera and eyeglasses can be cleaned; the orange juice could be thrown out and replaced. I suppose you could restring the guitar but it just feels like there’s a potential for further damage somewhere on the bridge or the other parts I forget the names of.

Amanduh ,

That’s like the point man

superkret , in Form a union they said

I legitimately have no idea what point you’re even trying to make.
But don’t bother explaining.

sub_ubi ,

It’s poking fun at how liberals compromise to their right, while punching left.

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