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by Nursie 2y ago
> You're essentially arguing freedom is dangerous because some people aren't smart enough to handle it. When it comes to mobile phone apps, 100%. My mum (77) can just about operate a phone, someone who gained her trust (and sca
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by Nursie 2y ago
> the consumer will decide what they want to buy Except people don't actually buy in a way that's consistent with enlightened self interest, making the free market at best a poor approximation to reality. Consumers buy what&#x2
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by Nursie 2y ago
I'm with you until the fees part. I like the fact I can more or less assume security. I really like the fact that my mum can. Any way of unlocking your phone for sideloading seems almost bound to be an avenue for scammers to talk peo
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by Nursie 2y ago
Holy crap, I knew it was there but didn't think it let you go straight in via a link. Turns out https://www.facebook.com/?filter=friends&sk=h_chr is more or less what I've been looking for for a few years... I
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by Nursie 2y ago
You can also remove yourself from ad topics, and even if you don't want to remove yourself from them it can be interesting to take a look and see what meta has associated you with - https://accountscenter.facebook.com/a
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by Nursie 2y ago
Right, and given this is usually the answer to "why is this being shoved in my face", my initial point stands - it doesn't matter if it's AI slop or not. The article makes the point that a lot of people are easily fooled
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by Nursie 2y ago
That's not really a useful answer. I'm looking for the motive, which (when it's something you're not directly looking for) is usually money. I fully understand that "stop using the service" is an option.
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by Nursie 2y ago
When it comes to images like those in the article, “Is this real?” is not really part of my reaction. Neither is “poor thing” or “wow that’s impressive” or whatever else. My reaction is “why is this useless shit being shoved in my face?”. I
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by Nursie 2y ago
Sorry! I love the AC franchise and have been playing it* since the beginning. I know it was because of the limited power of the platform that you couldn't have the usual crowds of bystanders etc. I'm sure it was a great game in ge
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by Nursie 2y ago
I can, and so can many others. I guess it comes down to preference and personality. I spent so many years in offices, in open plan offices where whole teams would sit with their headphones on loud, trying to ignore the presence of all other
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by Nursie 2y ago
I enjoyed the year I consulted at JPMC, they have some sharp people, and on the surface of it, who am I to criticise the boss of such a successful company? OTOH… I can see the argument that young people aren’t being exposed to older peers t
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by Nursie 2y ago
Some of the games were awesome. I spent a lot of time playing the star wars battlefront game on there. And armored core formula front, wipeout, a few others. You’re not wrong that a lot of them felt hollow. Like that assassin’s creed game t
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by Nursie 2y ago
Which is great for most stuff, but doesn't seem to stop facebook 'reels' from animating. They must do some trickery like loading a short animated image as a 'teaser' before rendering the actual video on click.
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by Nursie 2y ago
Ah man, this guy. After being shaken about, squished up with other garbage and then buried with god knows what for 12 years, I wouldn’t bet on being able to read a single byte from that old drive, even if it could be found. It’s gone mate.
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by Nursie 2y ago
Currently I use Apple because I bundle it with other Apple stuff. Plus on top of those features I can also sync my own mp3 collection and use that from wherever (in theory, in practice the sync is partially successful, which is somewhat fru
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by Nursie 2y ago
Apple, Deezer, Tidal and Spotify are all about the same price (Spotify is £11.99 in the UK, Tidal is 10.99) and they all have all of those features. Tidal claim to distribute more to artists than the other big ones, and Deezer claim to do s
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by Nursie 2y ago
It's not black and white when there are other platforms that do a better job at distribution.
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by Nursie 2y ago
This is useful info, as Google’s AI summaries have frequently been inaccurate. Example from yesterday - I was updating my mum’s kindle fire tablet after it had been in a drawer for three years. It was stepping up fire-os versions one at a t
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by Nursie 2y ago
The UK pays terribly in a lot of areas when compared to the US, Canada and Australia. In software, the only way to keep up is contracting, preferably in London, preferably in finance. But my partner also pretty much doubled her pay in retai
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by Nursie 2y ago
Pretty sure there was some sort of App Store. It didn’t have a hell of a lot in it, but I remember grabbing a cute little game (hex-a-hop) and … maybe an Angry Birds demo on it? — edit - I’m thinking of the N900
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by Nursie 2y ago
I have a friend who teaches at a state funded grammar, and that wikipedia article includes a whole section on Current British grammar schools, which are selective and state funded o_O
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by Nursie 2y ago
The author paints a picture of schools as literal prison, as a place where children are forced to go to waste their time and be tortured. They invite the reader to conclude that the entire exercise is worthless and should be abandoned - &qu
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by Nursie 2y ago
I'm around 11 years older than you. I know my experience isn't especially portable as I went to a public school in the home counties, but not all of my friends did, and while I understand they experienced teachers with varying lev
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by Nursie 2y ago
I think you're right to start by saying this isn't universal worldwide, or even within Britain. You describe hell. But I don't believe that your experience is dominant or even that common in the UK. Which generation are you f
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by Nursie 2y ago
Yep, there was a big update mid last year. They didn't orpahn any players this time, and a lot of people hate the UX but that's pretty subjective and people fear change, so lets ignore that. What they did that's not subjectiv
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by Nursie 2y ago
So your experience is the exact mirror of mine. Old app was flawless and pretty low latency. As soon as the new one came along I had the issues you describe with control latency - volume or track changes would either take a random amount of
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by Nursie 2y ago
Sonos has been great for me for 12 years. The newer products also showed up as airplay targets, which made things even easier. You can do fun stuff like group one that target with other systems to stream the audio around, or group another r
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by Nursie 2y ago
I don't know if it's related to the size of the setup, but (quick calculation...) I have 8 zones, seven with individual speakers and one of them is a Beam+Symfonisk Frame+sub surround thing. We're on starlink, which is great
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by Nursie 2y ago
Go back 13 or so years when I bought in - Speakers with decent sound (sure, your separates system is going to sound better, but pretty decent). They have some really fancy wireless mesh tech in an era where that's unheard of. They pick
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by Nursie 2y ago
If the software wasn't a shitshow, they compete in that bracket now via the Ikea Symfonisk range. They just really need to sort out the damn software.

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