There’s another thing I don’t see people talking about. In the YouTube app itself, they have hovering “Products” link, that covers a portion of a video (might just be shorts) and there doesn’t appear to be any way to remove it. I currently have YouTube Premium and it shows up.

1 bedroom has a TV. Living room has at TV. Was going to put one in the guest room, but I’m not buying a smart TV.

You’re still paying for the components, so an out-of-box dumb TV would be cheaper (we saw this when smart TV’s first launched, they were ~$30-40 more then the dumb versions). You still are at the mercy of whatever board/OS gets installed. And Microsoft is constantly trying to force users to make an online account to use the PC, it’s only a matter of time before TV makers require WIFI to do initial setup. Plus there’s ways to still get online, like if they partner with Xfinity who use customer routers (the ones that get rented) for others to use… stuff like that would eb all to easy to do. Or heck, partner with Amazon. They deliver everywhere, so the trucks are driving around, there’s ways they could auto join you to a network.

The “just don’t” doesn’t send a message other than “we need to try harder because we need to steal that data”. Stop buying TVs is the only message that might work.

Seven Pounds

Watching how a single person, a single life, could positively impact the lives of so many people got me to be a registered organ donor.

Well it was nice knowing the crew… If they’re running windows they’re doomed.

This is an idea that should be shelved for a good 20-30 years, honestly.

We’d need global collaboration to come up with a universal standard applied to all cars (regardless of price). If it can’t be a standard, then it’s a bullshit idea. Competing standards and companies simply means abandoned tech everywhere and everything, thinking their tech is best, nothing works together, issues across the board, and high cost to customers.

No you just rebrand it a built-in crematorium.

The number of times I’ve seen people get out of the shitter and just head back to work, is disgustingly too damn high. I used to bring sanitary wipes with to clean every door handle. Now I work from home thankfully.

Things can always get worse!

Of course!

There’s that, but I’d also like to point out, that as a paying customer, you’re still force fed that bottom tier slop with no way to filter it other than hoping some combination of reporting/not interested/don’t show me this channel again works.

But even if you say, not to recommend a channel, it can still show up. So you get to pay for low grade AI slop videos. Or “content farms” that take 2 videos and just splice them together for some reason (both horizontal and vertical). Or the “I’m just going to stare at the camera and do nothing while I play a video that’s from another platform”. Like it’s endless.

The “shorts” platform is pure garbage. Can I turn shorts off? No I can “show fewer shorts”.

So you pay, to not get ads. They sell ALL your data to double dip (since they selling your data anywho) and there’s no benefit for the content. They have all this data, all this tech, and the platform is rot with shit.

Yeah, trying to work my way through DoS1 right now… I can see some of the DNA for sure, but I really need the NPC’s to just shut up half the time. Some of the combat isn’t as well-balanced. I’ve been told DoS2 is way better. But if I draw a regression line from DoS1 to BG3 and use that for expectations for the upcoming game… really hopeful!

Right, quick, alert all the pirates downloading software! Alert all the people doing password sharing on streaming services! …

These companies don’t get rich by wasting money. If they’re seeing the change is costing them sales and potential sales, they revert. Fuck, Cracker Barrel last year tried to change its logo. Here are a few other examples https://time.com/3735718/consumer-pressure-business/. Hell, the biggest example of all, when New Coke was introduced and walked back 79 days later.

Nearly every place. Apparently we lived in a place for a few months when I was first born.

Freaked out part of my family when I drew a map of the first house I remember. I think they finally figured out that children do remember things… And a lot of the shit I was put through I might remember

High traffic area, common product that sees a lot of people. You could get 2-3 in a trip without much worry. Do it every few visits. Get a few additional people to do it with the same plan. If you notice more security, just move on, force them to give up or water a bunch of money. Leave reviews of the store how you don’t like the extra security/cameras. Your a customer not a criminal! Call out the management…

You don’t have to win in a day, but an expensive, annoying, psychological warfare approach… That and going after them on social media.

Oh goodie! I mean, Windows 11 was hand-coded. Disgusting! Windows 12 will bring the vibes! It’ll be the most vibe coded OS! (And probably the last when it tanks.) Think about it, AI is monitoring every action you do! Reporting to all it’s masters and their business partners everything you do! Oh all the ads they’ll send you, all the subscriptions they’ll sell! Of course, it’ll be always online else it can’t fully use the datacenters.

I’m being mostly sarcastic (any “excitement” for it). I mean, it’s probably going to have the worst performance since AI will be monitoring EVERYTHING and I really do expect it to be coded via prompts instead of talent. Microsoft and NVIDIA are already having massive issues with everything due to “AI” being used and they started with a working based code. 11 adoption was already bad and they made sure people knew 10 was dying so they could push the numbers… I don’t recall any previous version of Windows getting that treatment.

The problem is there’s not going to be one universal answer and that’s what a lot of people are trying to give.

No one here has enough information to truly give feedback. No one here knows you, no one here knows your boyfriend, and no one here knows your male friend.

Everyone here, and everyone anywhere else, is giving advice based on their own personal anecdotes or fiction.

The problem that you will face is navigating all of this until all players’ faces/intentions are revealed. And that includes your own.

I think I personally seen every possible combination this could play out. I don’t think there’s any statistic I could give you, I don’t think there’s any advice I could give you. Because until everyone plays their cards, you really just don’t know. What little advice I can give, don’t try to figure out everyone else’s hand and play your own how you want it to play out. If you want your boyfriend your boyfriend and your male friend to be just a friend, play towards that, make sure those boundaries are very distinct. Be truthful to yourself, and be truthful to others.

BG3. Never played the first two, and I find some games like that have bad writing (like every bit of dialog feeling like it’s overstaying it’s welcome, being way to chatty and/or dull). I think I saw Cohh playing it (pretty sure that was my introduction to him) and I was blown away by the early access writing and mechanics. I bought the early access right away and was enthralled in it’s writing, the plot, the dynamic choices based on class, race, or deity choice, and the music. There used to be a lady sitting next to the waterfall in the grove that had a whole sob story and a music box. Seeing the thralls on the nautiloid and the implications of what it all meant… I was really sad the release was so different. Still very good, but wasn’t as good. But as it stands it is one of the few games I’ve actually completed, and I think it’s the only game I’ve actually completed multiple times. Needless to say I’m very looking forward to Divinity.

Then Expedition 33. When I first saw gameplay I really thought it was just another Persona clone. I thought that due to the menu layout in combat. Day it released, saw some gameplay and decided to take a risk and bought it. Before I even left for the expedition… I already told my friends it was GOTY, it just dethroned KCD2.

My guess for the only difference is that it’s locked to Azure

Yep, just looking at it screams thin client. This will have just enough for networking (wifi/bluetooth), running three monitors (no gaming), some 3.5mm audio, and usb 2.0. If it’s business focues, probably some remote mgmt stuff, and maybe a default VPN client.