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ashok36 ,

A preference cascade by consumers leading to a death spiral.

Watch for tesla to spin off the vehicle business soon and refocus on batteries / energy going forward.

ashok36 ,

I've been getting this on the YouTube app on shield TV and fire TV stick lately. It's as you said; just click dismiss on the ad and it goes back to full screen.

ashok36 ,

Pausing just brings up a sidebar with a static image ad. Maybe they change that to audio amd/or video in the future but right now you just seem uninformed and reflexively hostile. Maybe like, experience what they're doing before judging? Or at least before commenting...

ashok36 ,

Why would you even assume? The info is in the linked article. Point being, if you'd read the article you wouldn't need to make assumptions.

YouTube started testing pause ads last year, as reported by Adweek. These ads will pop up as banners around the video and can be removed by hitting the “dismiss” button. They’re going to be pretty similar to the pause ads that Hulu introduced back in 2019.

ashok36 ,

The back pedaling has reached the "it was a joke. I was only pretending to be wrong" stage. What comes next?

Just admit you spoke without knowledge and try to do better in the future. It's not that hard.

ashok36 ,

How does it feel, to ruin a life?

ashok36 ,

That's why you run a couple rounds of preclear to stress them and then run a fresh smart report.

ashok36 ,

I've done the tape thing before. It was a little bit of a pain but not that hard.

ashok36 ,

Make yourself open source.

ashok36 ,

This is the correct answer.

It's like destroying a barracks full of elite soldiers and then going, "Don't worry. We have plenty more barracks."

ashok36 ,

I'm using a bunch of wyze cam 3 cameras with the wzmini custom firmware installed and outside connections turned off. They took a while to figure out how to set up since I'd never had to deal with ssh keys before but after set up they are pretty bulletproof.

ashok36 , (edited )

I was trying to think how Plex thinks this is going to play out, knowing that this move will piss off their customer base. Then I realized, this isn't a play for Plex's existing customer base. This is a play for their customer's "friends and family" that are enjoying shared libraries already.

Their 'customer' base has for many many years been developing a large user base of technologically naive people with Plex apps installed who could never run their own server. If Plex knows, for example, that for every paying customer there's three other users pulling from someone's library, that's a huge opportunity for them to convert those users to paying customers.

Everyone that set up a Plex server and then shared it with your tech-phobic parents, cousins, friends, etc... We made this possible.

I don't like it but I can't argue with the logic from Plex here.

-edit- Tightened up the grammar.

ashok36 ,

I wouldn't be so sure if that. It's possible, yeah, but if my theory is right they see the library sharing as the carrot to get normies to download the plex app onto their roku or apple TV.

Pivoting to a streaming only app would close off that avenue for user acquisition permanently.

ashok36 ,

I can get back to doing what I love, shitposting maps.

Nature is so strange and beautiful.

ashok36 ,

Lawmaker: "If these flurries think they're animals, we're gonna treat them like animals! "

Furries: "Yes, that's exactly what we want."

ashok36 ,

I have gamepass and it's fine. Large library, no penalty for choosing a stinker means I can experiment with games I wouldn't have before, and I can still buy games if I want. I think that's a reasonable middle ground that benefits everyone to some degree.

ashok36 ,

They've removed plenty of games. At least so far, there's always been notice a few weeks before they leave and the game remains in the store for purchase.

I've actually bought a few games on steam because I could try them on gamepass. No man's sky, last call bbs, and Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night come immediately to mind.

ashok36 ,

The cheapest rpi that isn't a zero or pico started at $35. You can buy a Pi 4 Model B 1GB for $35 on pishop.us right now.

The pi 5 won't ever be $35 because that's not the price point it was designed to hit. That's why they have a range of products, so you can buy the one that fits your budget.

ashok36 , (edited )

Of course the pi 4 is still part of the product range. It's still being actively manufactured and sold. Same for the pi3.

As far as memory size, that wasn't part of your original complaint. You want a $35 computer, that's how much you get. The original pi was $35 and had 256mb of ram.

-edit also, $35 in 2012 is $47 today with inflation. The pi 4 is a crazy good deal and readily available. This complaint just has no merit.

ashok36 ,

The pi 4 is literally $35 right now. The original pi, adjusted for inflation, was $47.

ashok36 ,

This is just goal moving at this point. And stating just plain incorrect facts. I'm out.

ashok36 ,

I didn't ignore anything. You edited your reply to make it look like I did.

I replied at 7:31GMT. You replied to that at 7:34GMT. You edited your original post at 7:44GMT for some reason.

This isn't reddit where you can't see when or if someone edited their comment.

ashok36 ,

Preforms enhancing drugs.

ashok36 ,

They could literally relaunch as “The ADL”.

ashok36 ,

It’s not just that. If the Pi Foundation has to make a choice between fulfilling an order for 100 pis for a company so that the company can keep making products and meeting payroll vs. 100 hobbyists that want to make their own one-off project, which is the more moral use of resources?

Yeah, those companies should probably not have chosen a pi board to power their products but that’s only noticeable in hindsight.

ashok36 ,

The HA android app just passed one million active devices. Saying “Ha is already not working today.” might be true for you but it’s obviously not true across the board.

ashok36 ,

You spent four paragraphs describing your unusual and unique set up and then asserted that your setup isn’t actual either of those things. I think you just don’t realize how out of the norm your requirements are.

ashok36 ,

Great name! Matters of taste aside, I think the old name would have painted the project into a corner in lots of ways. I will definitely be watching this with interest. Is there a /c I can sub to yet for news?

ashok36 ,

There’s lots of EA games in particular that can’t be bought on PC anymore. The old Tony Hawk Underground and Tiger Woods Golf games are probably the best examples I can think of.

ashok36 ,

I’ve been using it for maybe a year now and it’s been rock solid. Highly recommended.

Game of Thrones was nearly "destroyed" by pirates illegally streaming HBO content ( www.forevergeek.com )

At first this article reads like your typical anti-piracy screed. It rants about how 10x more people watched GoT illegally (confusing them with lost sales) and ends with how downloading movies can get your credit card stolen....

ashok36 ,

This is the case still with Spotify, apple music, deezer, etc… Multiple services with few if any exclusives means almost all music piracy has stopped. Somehow, the record companies continue to survive.

Why is Linux so frustrating for some people?

Don’t get me wrong. I love Linux and FOSS. I have been using and installing distros on my own since I was 12. Now that I’m working in tech-related positions, after the Reddit migration happened, etc. I recovered my interest in all the Linux environment. I use Ubuntu as my main operating system in my Desktop, but I always end...

ashok36 ,

This. I get a wild hair every couple years to daily drive Linux and there’s always something small but crucial that breaks within a day or so and there’s no way for me, a relative novice, to fix it.

Example: I picked up a old ThinkPad on ebay last year. I put Ubuntu on it and after a day or two the wifi just stops working. No error messages. Nothing. I tried digging into the settings via ui with no luck. Googling didn’t help because I couldn’t tell what was helpful, unhelpful, or would have been helpful but is five years out of date.

After a few days of trying to make it work, I just threw on windows and haven’t had any issues since.

ashok36 ,

I can’t speak for Slackware itself but Unraid is based on Slackware and has been very successful. I’ve been running it for several years now with few hiccups.

ashok36 ,

It seems a bit like:

“You hired a cop!”

“Ok, So?”

“Fire them!”

“No…?”

“FASCISTS!”

I’m not a fan of cops either but this just seems really silly.

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