_pete_ 2w ago • 100%
Because the “you wouldn’t steal a car” nonsense scares a lot of people off
Because some people want to support the creators of content but digital downloads from iTunes or whatever are more expensive than getting a month of a streaming service
Because there is a level of convenience of having thousands of hours of content at your fingertips without having to store content locally or finding it on a “dodgy” website. Setting up torrents / usenet is more work than giving someone your credit card number
Because a lot of people don’t know where to find content and if they did they don’t know the difference between a 480p avi vs a 2160p HDR DV MKV and get confused with torrents and file formats and how to get them on their TV.
Because - at the moment - the ads aren’t that bad, I got one ad at the start and one episode in the middle of an episode of Gen V - obviously they’ll add more until it’s as bad as cable but they’re not there yet.
_pete_ 2mo ago • 100%
I guess YMMV, I just tried a few places around me (UK) and it found them all. You can also defiantly tap on a place to select it.
Did you try it recently or a while ago? I know it was pretty woeful when it came out but it’s improved a whole lot over the years.
_pete_ 2mo ago • 100%
I wish Kagi wasn’t as expensive as it is.
If it was $5 a month for unlimited searches I would be all over it but 300 searches is too few and $10 is too much money.
_pete_ 2mo ago • 100%
Pfttt… at least with DDG you can turn any of that stuff off with a button in a UI rather than having to make a new bookmark or fuck around with your browsers search engine.
You can even turn the ads off if you want.
Also, Apple Maps is totally fine, it’s not overloaded with ads like Google Maps is and it basically always finds the place I search for.
_pete_ 2mo ago • 100%
Yea, thats fucking nuts…
_pete_ 2mo ago • 100%
Ngl, this is basically what we do :(
_pete_ 2mo ago • 100%
We had some from Lidl that broke on the way out of the shop! I wouldn’t trust most of them for 3 trips, let alone a lifetime of them.
_pete_ 2mo ago • 100%
I don’t drive every time I go to the shops, plus I also have to remember to put them back once I get my shopping inside.
_pete_ 2mo ago • 100%
The plastic ones (here in the UK at least) also split and fall apart, they’re better than the “standard” ones but they don’t usually last that much longer.
Also I have a million of them because I always forget to bring them.
_pete_ 2mo ago • 75%
Nice! With the best will in the world I always forget my standard shopping bags and I feel that the “bags for life” just replace one thin and crap lump of plastic for an overly engineered one.
_pete_ 2mo ago • 100%
Yes but if you don’t cause a bunch of poor people conflict and pain how will your wife know that you love her? /s
_pete_ 2mo ago • 100%
Wtf did I just read…
_pete_ 2mo ago • 100%
Phones and PCs are fine, I’m talking more smart speakers like Amazon Echo or consoles like the PS5.
_pete_ 2mo ago • 100%
I’ve never been impressed with YouTube Music, the UI feels jank and it doesn’t work on half the devices in my home (compared to Spotify which just works on everything)
_pete_ 2mo ago • 100%
Brave is run by some pretty shady people who do things like automatically adding affiliate links to your URL or collecting donations for content creators without their consent
As far as an actual browser goes, Brave is based on Chromium so its more likely to work on every site but it has a bunch of crypto nonesense added that you probably would want to uninstall. There are more extensions that will "just work" on Chromium browsers, for example I've had issues with the Postman extension on Firefox before
Firefox is based on Gecko, its pretty well supported and follows all the standards but there is probably a higher chance that a site might break (usually down to its pretty strict privacy defaults) there isn't really much bloat (other than a Pocket integration that you might want to turn off)
Mozilla also feel (to me at least) like one of the last groups of Good People on the web, you can reach their manifesto to learn more.
_pete_ 2mo ago • 83%
This is pretty much it.
YouTube Premium is only remotely worth it because regular YouTube is an absolute shitshow
_pete_ 2mo ago • 87%
Tab groups are coming but in the mean time containers work well enough for me with the added benefit that they’ll also block tracking from the sites that are within them.
_pete_ 2mo ago • 100%
Interesting article!
Its pretty US centric though so I think one would have to contrast that against the UK and Europe which generally has homes that are brick and concrete rather than lumber, we also have (I believe) tighter insulation regulations and - just generally - vastly smaller homes.
I think if US houses were built to European regs and sizes then the numbers would look much different.
_pete_ 2mo ago • 100%
It’s easier and more efficient to wrap yourself up with blankets and covers and use minimal heating (with decent home insulation) to warm yourself up than it is to cool down when you are too hot.
_pete_ 2mo ago • 100%
I would love to see it!
I posted this on Reddit a year or so ago but some may have missed it so I figured I’ll drop it here too :)
I’m having a hell of a time with my current ISP (sitting at 18 days now without a connection) and I’m having to bite my tongue every time I’m talking to them (Remember The Human and all that) Whilst the front line support are nice people and answer the phones quickly they are honestly pretty useless and they never really sound like they know what they’re talking about, also seemingly none of the departments seem particularly good about communicating what’s going on so it’s hard to get a straight and useful answer out of them. Have you ever lost it with a rep? What happened? and did it ever help push things along?
I’m not going to buy an Apple TV or a HomePod just for this.
Never again.
I’ve not had a good day today. The kids have been shits, my wife has winged at me for not doing something I have already done, I’m hot, tired and stressed from work and fed up of not having a good nights sleep due to my 3 year old waking us up in the middle of the night constantly. I want to rage at something but I can’t leave the house. I have access to a gaming PC, PS5 and all the movies the streaming services have to offer, my wife isn’t home so it’s just me and a couple of kids who should be asleep in the next hour or two. I need some catharsis, what would you do?
I’m enjoying Yuzu with my PC hooked up to my TV via HDMI, however there are times I want to back out and get back into Steam Big Picture. Is there a way to quit yuzu with just some esoteric button combination? At the moment I’m having to Remote Desktop in to hit the Esc button and going from there, which isn’t really ideal.
This is a test for multiple links in an unordered list: - [https://lemmy.world](https://lemmy.world) - [https://lemmy.ml](https://lemmy.ml)
I just checked IMDB and it has Cricket as the last episode of the season. Does anyone know if there are more episodes on the horizon or are we all done for now?
I’m in the very fortunate position of being made a senior at my new job and have the task of helping recruit a new Django dev to help us out. I have never had to do this before so I was wondering: 1. Does anyone have any tips for making a candidate feel comfortable? 2. What sort of questions you feel would be appropriate for a junior django dev to be able to answer?