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Youtube Rant from a paying customer

I used to use NewPipe back in the days of yore. Then I got Youtube Premium since it bundled in Youtube Music as well which I used. But the former’s app on mobile is a shit show. Even after paying, you are asked to tip random creators, purchase merchandise[ which are shown as actual ads below videos] and join channels to access...

Ilandar ,

Save the money you spend on Premium, put it towards direct donations instead. Better for Youtubers, better for community-built FOSS alternatives.

Ilandar OP ,

That’s strange. It behaves normally for me and I’m also using Firefox.

Ilandar OP ,

I think it’s trying to say that DivestOS has removed more proprietary blobs than the others. Poor wording, I agree.

Ilandar ,

That is a very cute blue.

Ilandar ,

Mediatek devices generally have really bad custom ROM support. Historically their chipsets had a reputation for being less efficient, too.

Ilandar ,

I’m confused what’s in the new phones that make them cost $1700 more…

Nothing. Like obviously they may be using higher quality/more expensive/licensed components and are superior in some areas, but in terms of actually getting what you paid for the really expensive ones are not value for money in the slightest. These manufacturers are 100% taking advantage of consumers when they price their phones so high. There are some examples like Fairphone where you can see how the cost has been inflated (smaller company, more expensive supply chain, paying workers a higher wage, etc) but in the case of a massive company like Samsung the markup will be insanely high.

Ilandar ,

I think the extra space at the top and bottom actually looks nicer, too (as long as it’s close to symmetrical).

Ilandar ,

Sad news if true. Subscene had a few very consistent and committed uploaders for Korean subtitles that would share community subtitles from Cineaste, in addition to the retail stuff. For that reason I always found it to be one of the best overall subtitle sites. Rarely did I need to go elsewhere.

Torrenting exposes your public IP. In a country where government doesn't care, does that pose a risk?

I honestly don’t believe I will have any legal trouble because I don’t do anything like cp or worse, I just pirate media I like, not even porn. But across users of communities, or on public trackers, is IP exposure something to be concerned about?

Ilandar ,

What do you mean by “the government doesn’t care”? Do you mean that they are not enforcing copyright protection laws to your knowledge? Or that copyright protection laws don’t actually exist in your country at all? If the laws exist but are not being enforced, there is always a possibility that they will be enforced in the future or that a change in government will lead to a change in approach. Your government could also potentially pass new laws in the future that make it easier for foreign entities to go after yourself and other pirates through your local courts.

You need to work out exactly what the law in your country says, what the government’s attitude towards piracy is and whether there is a legal precedent in your country for the prosecution of pirates. For example, in Australia we have copyright laws and a government that is at least somewhat committed to upholding them, but we also had a significant court case a little over a decade ago in which it was ruled that the ISP being sued was not responsible for the piracy its users were allegedly engaging in. This essentially set a legal precedent within Australia that allows ISPs to turn a blind eye to piracy and makes it more difficult for foreign entities to prosecute Australian pirates. This is why most court-ordered anti-piracy action within Australia is limited to DNS blocks on websites. As a result, many Australians feel safe torrenting without a VPN because they believe it is very unlikely their ISP could be compelled in court to hand over their information or that there is even the will to attempt this following that high profile defeat in 2012.

Ilandar ,

Sorry, I misunderstood what you were asking then since IP monitoring is a commonly used by copyright trolls.

Ilandar ,

there are still quite a few people unfamiliar with the proper English punctuation.

The irony of this coming from an American. You guys are so clueless.

Ilandar ,

Actually my point was that Americans don’t always use “proper English punctuation” since they co-opted the language and then randomly changed a bunch of things for absolutely no reason.

Ilandar OP ,

I’m not sure about that. The only examples given in the article of this actually “working” were from people directly advertising the product. The women in the videos are quite likely to be associates or paid actors, as is the case with most of this stuff on social media. The whole concept of the product relies on the misogynistic myth that women only care about money and/or fame, so to assume the app itself is actually working is kind of implying that you believe there is some truth to that myth.

Ilandar ,

That would break the terms and conditions listed on Deezer’s website, giving it the right to terminate your account at any time without notice. Personally I don’t really get why you would give your money to a company in this scenario. Pay for it properly or pirate.

Ilandar ,

It depends how experienced you are and whether you have a system in place that works for you. I would say piracy is very convenient if you know what you’re doing.

Ilandar ,

The refresh rate is a noticeable omission from the marketing material. I’m guessing 60Hz.

EDIT: NotebookCheck has since reported that it has a 60Hz display.

Ilandar ,

I wouldn’t define the A series as “budget”, but yes - the cameras are very good for the price. I briefly used a 7a last year and the only other phone I’ve seen that was comparable in that price range was the A54.

Ilandar ,

Operation Animes

lol

Ilandar ,

I don’t listen to music away from my desktop very often these days, as that experience has mostly been replaced by audiobooks and podcasts. So in a purely selfish sense, the disappearance of the 3.5 mm jack doesn’t really affect me. I am content with Bluetooth for the majority of my use cases. However, I am still not convinced that the 3.5 mm jack had to disappear as early as it did or that engineers and designers can’t find a way to include it on a modern, high end smartphone, so in that sense its disappearance annoys me. Until recently I have also been using a variety of 2017-18 era phones, all of which have a 3.5 mm jack, and it is very satisfying to have the occasional music listening session in a cosy setting like my bed with studio headphones plugged in.

The problem I have with Bluetooth vs wired, is the same problem I have with lossy vs lossless music and low vs high bitrate video. What frustrates me is not that I can immediately discern a difference (though depending on the material and comparison, sometimes it’s quite obvious) but rather that if I think I hear an imperfection my immediate thought is “would this sound better through my wired headphones?”. And as soon as that thought pops into my head I find myself actively listening for further imperfections to prove my theory, instead of just relaxing and enjoying the music like I intended to. With wired headphones I know that it’s very unlikely there will be any quality problems and I can just get completely immersed in the experience.

Ilandar ,

I have had a similar experience to you. My earliest pair was bought in 2019 and their battery life is still really good. Perhaps I just don’t listen as often or at the same level of volume as others. However, they are still objectively worse for the environment than wired earphones by virtue of the battery - there is no escaping that.

Ilandar ,

I think there’s probably a pretty big crossover between those two groups as well. So yeah, not really “pointless” for the intended market.

Ilandar , (edited )

It’s a welcomed feature, but there is really no excuse for struggling with notification spam on modern versions of Android. There are enough controls available, both at a system level and within apps themselves, that it’s more a case of user error at this point. If you have an app that is just completely out of control then I would question why you actually need something so intrusive installed on your device in the first place.

Ilandar ,

Translation error? Reminds me of the slogan for No Brand Burger in Korea: ‘Why Pay More? It’s Good Enough’. You can see what they were trying to say but it doesn’t actually make the product sound particularly enticing lol

Ilandar ,

I’ve only used DuckDuckGo’s implementations of GPT and Claude. I haven’t really found a use case yet. I don’t trust it enough to for queries related to things I don’t understand (gaps in my knowledge) and would rather solve these problems or learn these skills through exisiting sources of information that I know have had at least some level of human refinement/vetting. Personally I enjoy the challenge of problem solving in life, particularly when the solution involves learning a new skill that I can utilise again in the future. I find it interesting that AI is advertised as being able to maximise our capabilities as humans, because it appears to be used for the complete opposite in most cases. People want to use their brains less and just be spoonfed the answers.

Ilandar OP ,

As far as I know you still don’t actually need an email address to create a reddit account. They try to make users think it’s compulsory but there are workarounds during sign up.

Ilandar OP ,

You don’t even have to enter an email address. Just click next and you skip straight to username/password confirmation.

Ilandar ,

Read the article before commenting. It’s not the same feature…

Ilandar ,

If it’s different then it’s not the same. Certainly nowhere near enough to claim that it already exists on a device running Android 13 or 14 (it doesn’t).

Ilandar ,

I like the way Samsung and, to a lesser extent, Google have incorporated multiple cameras into their design language recently. I think Samsung’s cameras look quite stylish now, though not as good as the LG Velvet’s (which I’m sure they took inspiration from). Apple and Chinese manufacturers are still just lazily dumping them all in some gigantic camera module, which looks absolutely awful. It’s so funny to me that Apple phones are still seen as a high end status symbol in society, particularly by younger people, because they have looked ugly for years now. It’s like one of these celebrities who everyone thinks is cool because their clothing is expensive, despite the fact it looks like it was assembled by a 3 year old.

Ilandar ,

Basically, Epic doesn’t want Google to be able to offer anything that other competing app marketplaces can’t. That includes exclusive apps

Kinda funny considering Epic has its own history of releasing games that are exclusive to its store.

Ilandar ,

I always assumed it was a real person,

The person they have charged in this instance is called “Ana”.

Maria Dolores Anasztasia Matienzo

Ilandar ,

Oh don’t get me wrong, I wasn’t suggesting your theory was incorrect. It could absolutely be both, or one or neither. It’s just an interesting coincedence.

Ilandar ,

Interesting, I guess we will have to see how quickly and widely this is enforced. I haven’t used the official YouTube app for a very long time and have relied heavily on third party alternatives (Vanced/ReVanced, NewPipe, LibreTube, Grayjay). There is absolutely no way I am paying $17 a month for YouTube so I think a family plan would probably be the best option, though at this point I think I’d be more likely to just abandon the platform altogether.

Ilandar ,

I use ProtonVPN with Ubuntu 23.10 and it works fine. I also use it with Windows and the only difference I’ve noticed between the two is that port forwarding is a lot more fiddly to setup in the Linux client, whereas it just works out-of-the-box with the Windows client. For that reason, if you’re doing a lot of torrenting you may wish to look at alternatives, though as I understand ProtonVPN is one or the few remaining good VPNs with port forwarding.

Ilandar ,

Some people, like myself, prefer small phones because they are easily pocketable. I don’t have any problems operating a larger screen but I don’t like carrying around a larger device all the time, especially since I’ve cut back on usage significantly and it spends a lot more time in my pocket. Flip phones are the modern solution to this problem.

Ilandar ,

“Nice” is subjective, but the 7a is objectively not a small phone. It is very thick and heavy, and much larger than true small phones.

Wikipedia is gauging interest for an extension that uses AI to see if any claim is cited on Wikipedia (meta.wikimedia.org)

A prototype is available, though it's Chrome-only and English-only at the moment. How this'll work is you select some text and then click on the extension, which will try to "return the relevant quote and inference for the user, along with links to article and quality signals"....

Ilandar ,

Obviously Wikipedia is not a definitive or 100% accurate source but this sounds like a genuinely positive use of AI to combat misinformation. The people it really needs to reach likely won’t use it but it’s still a good idea.

Ilandar ,

No matter how many times people claim “X search engine” is universally better than Google, it has just never been true in my experience. And this is coming from someone who puts up with the frustrations of other search engines to avoid Google’s data harvesting. Like Google’s search engine can have rapidly deteriorated and still be miles better than the competition. Both can be true, but people always seem to act like the SEO spam has made it unusable and that is just not reality at all.

Ilandar ,

As long as it has footnoting so I can see where each piece of information was sourced from, AI chat has its use cases. Without that I genuinely do not see the point at all. It’s like when people “ask Google” something and just blindly trust the highlighted “answer” as infallible truth. It’s just a really, really bad habit to develop and I wish more people understood this.

Ilandar ,

All of those questions you asked it return authoritative answers which you take on face value, unless you spend extra time fact checking them yourself.

Ilandar ,

I’m sorry, but citing other examples of bad research practices does not magically make AI reliable. That is a whataboutism.

Ilandar ,

My only Motorola phone is a razr 40 which I’ve had for 4 months now, so not a ton of experience but I’ll share it anyway. The quality of the sofrware has been pretty good. It’s close to what reviewers used to call “stock” Android, in that it hasn’t received any significant UI modifications and doesn’t come with many proprietary apps. There are very few bugs or performance issues. You also don’t need a Motorola account to access any important software features.

However the software support is absolutely awful considering the RRP of the phone, its age and the promises made by Motorola. It was supposed to receive at least bi-monthly security updates but by January had already fallen behind that. The most recent update had been the November security patch, so I expected an update in January. Instead I received a February security update towards the end of March - nearly a 5 month update gap on a mid-range phone still less than a year old. Personally I think that is an absolute joke and I’m now considering selling it and either going back to an older phone with LineageOS or buying a Samsung flip since I know that will actually receive updates.

Ilandar ,

It’s also just cheaper to use an SD card for some of that stuff rather than paying for more internal storage on the device itself.

Ilandar ,

4 years of security on a mid-range phone is okay, Bare minimum but it wouldn’t put me off buying one.

Ilandar ,

If anyone is a troll here, it is you. Dropped into the thread, ignored the topic and every reply and instead went straight to the one that triggered you to begin a completely off-topic argument before rage-quitting when you encountered push-back

You’ve contributed absolutely nothing of value to the thread and can’t even spell “delusional” correctly. Pathetic effort.

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