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garretble , 17 days ago

Crypto: “We don’t have or want government oversight.”

Also crypto: “Please, government, help us get back our made up money!”

garretble , 27 days ago

“Man with worst beard no longer on board of social media site.”

garretble , 28 days ago

For me it’s: remember the last user on this device!

If I open Hulu and I have ONE account, why are you making me select the ONE account? I have to select it every time. They should know.

if(accounts.length === 1) {
    setAccount(accounts[0]);
}

There. I fixed it. Give me a job.

garretble , 28 days ago

Other people have answered, but if you’d like to know more it’s a JavaScript thing:

Strict Equality (===)

Vs

Equality (==)

garretble , 1 month ago

I believe it’s a play on him saying that those staying at twitter needed to be “extremely hardcore” to make all of the stupid changes he’s made over the last year and a half.

https://edition.cnn.com/2022/11/16/tech/elon-musk-email-ultimatum-twitter/index.html

garretble , 1 month ago

It’s voice controlled, but also you have to tap it to start up an interaction. Maybe there’s a wake word I didn’t see in any of the reviews I watched, but I don’t know.

So in that regard, it’s less easy to use than saying “Siri, …” to your watch or phone.

garretble , 1 month ago

Is there a consumer tv out there that has display port as an option?

Monitors for sure, but I’m talking 70” OLEDs and whatnot.

garretble , 1 month ago

They are basically magic, but as soon as it takes three seconds to load an app we are all like, “this piece of junk!”

garretble , 2 months ago

I thought Threads was supposed to “suppress” political posts.

Maybe that’s just in the US.

garretble , 2 months ago

Some smart devices.

The $20-30 cheap garbage is exactly what it is: cheap garbage.

Apple charges a premium for their streaming box, but guess what: the 4K AppleTV they released in 2017 is still going strong. I’ve had this thing for seven years, it shows no ads on the main screen, and still gets updates. And it’s still fast as hell.

Maybe the enshittification is just on all these Android streamers? I have a Chromecast with GoogleTV in my bedroom, and it’s fine. But it’s just about two years old and already sluggish (especially compared to the AppleTV), and every time I turn it on it takes longer than it should to update the Home Screen with trash I don’t care about.

garretble , 2 months ago

I know nothing about this guy, but calling anyone a visionary because they thought about making a Facebook clone is a stretch.

garretble , 2 months ago

Here’s a tip that may come in handy. Microsoft makes an app called PowerToys that lets you remap keys without having to dink around in the registry: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/

I’ve used it to put CTRL on that useless capslock key like god intended.

garretble , 2 months ago

Yeah for sure. I have my mechanical keyboard super customized with several layers.

garretble , 2 months ago

The Hulu app runs so much faster on my appleTV than the Disney app, so while the idea of having them bunched together isn’t a terrible one from a user’s perspective, I’ll still just jump to Hulu when I want to watch that content because everything is snappier.

garretble , 2 months ago

Paramount+’s app is also pretty trashy.

garretble , 2 months ago

I was able to follow a friend who uses Threads and probably won’t make a Masto account.

Pretty neat!

garretble , 2 months ago

For gaming probably HDMI 2.1 for higher frame rates, VRR, and/or 40fps with ray tracing and whatnot.

But in general…not really. I just got a new tv for these features plus it having a brighter oled panel than my last one. But at this point I imagine I’ll have this tv for years and years.

garretble , 2 months ago

Not if I want to play on a giant screen in my living room on my couch with proper, nice surround sound.

garretble , 2 months ago

I wasn’t arguing most TVs weren’t ok for that.

But as an answer for if there were any “killer features” in TVs for the last few years, better inputs and panel refresh rates are about the best new things outside of brighter OLEDs.

garretble , 2 months ago

Samsung: We make fun of Apple until we copy them outright.

See also: removing ports, having a notch

garretble , 3 months ago

Costs $.10 to print at the library.

I’m fortunate to have a library just down the street so I go over there.

I also don’t have to print anything very often so I’ve only had to do that a couple of times in as many years.

garretble , 3 months ago

I still can’t believe we haven’t seen a @whitehouse.gov.social or whatever spring up. Why in the world would they not want to control their social media presence in house? Why allow Twitter that luxury?

If they went cold turkey on Twitter and set up @potus the posts would still end up on Twitter because people would cross post them (just like we see Twitter posts on Masto or lemmy).

At least some EU governments have started making their own accounts.

garretble , 3 months ago

Just as an example, really.

A lot of Masto servers I’ve seen have use the .social extension. I feel like it does lend itself to letting people know what to expect when seeing a handle that ends with .social. It’s maybe an easy connection to make that that’s some sort of social media entity.

They certainly don’t have to use that type of url, but I think it’d be cool and it makes sense for what it is.

I’ve thought that news stations should do the same, too. Like an @news would be cool and have built in verification simply because they could lock down its users to only approved people so you’d know that @wolf is definitely Wolf Blitzer. No need for checkmarks.

garretble , 3 months ago

I follow a couple of not stations that have a Masto presence, but I get where you are coming from.

Hopefully the tide will shift more this year.

I know that some people are upset about Threads federating, but I feel like some people may never end up on Masto but could have a Threads account. A local weather station, for example. But if you could simply subscribe to them via Masto without ever making a Threads account that’d be great. And the weather station gets to serve more people (the “normies” — for lack of a better word — on Threads and the nerds on Masto).

garretble , 3 months ago

Oh yeah. Making a subdomain like that also works. And maybe is even easier for existing domains.

garretble , 3 months ago

It took me a while to mute all the furries that kept popping up in random feeds.

And that may just be the feeds’s algorithm. But if I’m in the cats feed or nba feed, I don’t need to see furries.

garretble , 3 months ago

Weird how firing the trust and safety team on day one could come back to bite him.

garretble , 4 months ago

A lot of companies now offer two day shipping for free (if you spend enough of course), and it’s just as good. Hell, I bought some batteries for a UPS that died on Monday from a battery wholesale site, and they arrived today. And that’s with the shipping saying it could be at least a week. The competitive advantage of Amazon doesn’t seem like it’s there any more.

Another thing you realize when you quit Amazon is that you don’t really need to be ordering so much junk. You just don’t. I promise. And when you do need something, I feel like I’m more confident buying the jacket or whatever from the company that makes it instead of sitting through a thousand knock offs and hoping I picked the right one among all the AI written reviews and titles.

garretble , 4 months ago

He makes all these cuts yet still can’t seem to cut that ugly beard.

garretble , 4 months ago

All I know is that basically every IPO I’ve seen has eventually made the product worse. I have no data to back this up, just feelings, but still. As soon as a company starts worrying about shareholders, corners start getting cut or prices start going up for no reason.

garretble , 4 months ago

Maybe one of the features they thought about is how some Android phones install Facebook and other crapware that you may not be able to delete.

garretble , 4 months ago

This is why for the one or two times I need to print something a year I just go to the library and pay them $0.10 a page to print something out.

garretble , 4 months ago

Because of basically ALL printer manufacturers. I know people like Brother printers, generally, but why pay something like $60-100 for a printer when you only need to use one a few times a year?

For me the cost savings are pretty huge.

garretble , 4 months ago

I bought a 2014 Mac Mini for $60 a couple months ago. It still runs just fine, and literally yesterday it got a new security update. That's ten years of support.

People can make fun of Apple for myriad things, but not supporting their devices is not one of them.

garretble , 4 months ago

I’m curious about what their definition of “engaged” is. I imagine most people don’t make comments on YouTube videos, but twitter’s main focus has always been posting and commenting on others’ posts.

garretble , 9 months ago

I personally hate the name, but only because I had a roommate in college who would start every conversation with “sup.”

On text messages, IMs, in person, you name it. It really started to get under my skin.

But I hope the software is good.

garretble , 9 months ago

Yep. That’s what he’d do. So basically he’d always want you to start the conversation.

garretble , 10 months ago

I know I’m not the only one who has been saying that this type of move makes perfect sense for governments and news organizations, but I’m going to go ahead and take credit for this.

You’re welcome, guys!