One helpful thing I found is that it can skip “non music sections”, ie those cringey silent scenes they put in YouTube videos. If that’d existed a couple of years ago, I probably wouldn’t have switched to Spotify. I mainly switched because I was sick of random 10 second pauses for dramatic effect in the middle of songs, often right before the chorus

Apparently movie 43 is the only movie I’ve ever saved onto my google watchlist. But I don’t generally save my movies onto watch lists

'tis the highest honour

Now I kinda want to write a full license, complete with all the legal jargon, that takes up 43 pages of space to say you can do whatever the fuck you want with this software

Thank you for your thought provoking question, “AI has use”. I’m sure this is a legitimate question coming from a real human.

Recently I’ve been falling asleep to ThioJoe. They do occasionally have minor sound effects, but I can ignore those. He maintains a consistent tone throughout

I go to sleep wearing noise cancelling headphones and playing YouTube videos from a handful of creators with nice monotone voices that I’ve seen before. If I don’t, then my mind gets too preoccupied with thinking about things that aren’t important, and on top of that every single little noise gives me an adrenaline rush and I feel the need to get out of bed and go investigate

Vulve is my favourite company. Can’t wait for their new game store, stamp, to come out!

Did you check the book

Not to be dismissive, but if you deconstruct every website like this, won’t they all look horrible? I mean how long would Google’s list be if you detailed every single controversy and dodgy thing they’ve done in/to/from their search engine?

Btw you double posted this

Embedded (and non Discord) link:

I’m always worried about inadvertently doing this, so I’ve been trying to make a conscious effort to ask people if they need more context rather than assuming they do or don’t. It’s actually a good approach I think. Although it does depend on whether the person you’re talking to is likely to just say “oh yeah, I know what that is” when they really don’t

Why’s it a static gif

They do in certain cases. If you sign up through a VPN or Tor, they require you to provide a recovery email. They don’t accept temporary email addresses, and even if you don’t sign up work a VPN, they’ll still collect and be obligated to hand over your IP

Seriously. In Australia, you have to “activate” your Sim card with your full name, email, bank details (depending on the carrier), and a copy of your driver’s license. Hell, I bought my last phone directly from a carrier, completely outright, with cash, prepaid with no plan, and they took a photocopy of my drivers license. Buying phones elsewhere they’ve never done that to me, as long as it’s prepaid and bought outright, but for some reason the major telcos do it for all purchases

Even worse: when you have to call to cancel a subscription.

I subscribed online, I should be able to cancel online.

Of course, it’s also hidden deep in the terms of service that you can’t cancel online. They know what they’re doing.

Oh. I didn’t get it either. The red circle made me completely overlook the rest of the image

It wouldn’t be that time consuming. All you’d have to do is paint over the old text with white, and type in the translated text

Damn. Stuff like this makes me thankful for the consumer protections we have in Australia. They’re not the best, and certainly don’t measure up to EU level protections, but if there’s a fault you can return your product to where you bought it from, or do a warranty request. Warranty requests are usually faster because if you return it to the store and it isn’t a major fault, they will most likely just send it back to the manufacturer anyway, but the option is still there.

I had my laptop hard drive die on me once and I went down the warranty route. It was quite easy. I just went to the warranty page, entered the serial number, described the problem and uploaded a photo of the receipt and they emailed the next day to say a courtier had been booked for 2 days later. I did have to provide my own box (I just reused the box it came in), but that was pretty much it. Repaired in 3 days and delivered a few days after that. It wasn’t even a high end laptop, it was a fairly cheap Asus crapbook