We need to revive the days people write blog posts to help others instead of pushing ads to make money. The content was far better.
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thecodemonk@programming.devto
Technology@beehaw.org•Americans reporting nationwide cellular outages from AT&T, Cricket Wireless and other providers
1·2 years agoRemember the northeast blackout of 2003? My landline still worked fine…
thecodemonk@programming.devto
Technology@beehaw.org•Amazon's Fire TV is Adding Full-Screen Video Ads That Play When You Start Your Fire TV
1·2 years agoI haven’t tried that, but I might.
thecodemonk@programming.devto
Technology@beehaw.org•Amazon's Fire TV is Adding Full-Screen Video Ads That Play When You Start Your Fire TV
12·2 years agoI have a few roku boxes and a Google TV Chromecast. The Samsung TV I bought is a smart TV and it’s slow as crap. I ended up putting a Roku box on it and use it that way. Now when the TV starts I have to hurry up and hit a button on the Roku remote to wake it up otherwise the TV starts auto playing a random channel from their new TV app that you can’t seem to uninstall. I’m really just waiting for the tv to die so I can go find a new TV that isn’t smart. The problem is those seem to be more expensive now.
I like the Google TV Chromecast because it aggregates all the services you sign into and can start showing me things I like and may want to watch next, right from the home screen.
But you are right, the tv itself being the smart device just isn’t worth it for me. I’d rather have a dongle or box I can swap out if it starts going south. I have a Plex server and I need something in order to play that on the TV unless I just start getting a casting device and just cast from a phone.
thecodemonk@programming.devto
Technology@lemmy.world•Goodbye Youtube and thanks for all the fishEnglish
3·3 years agoSo help me out here… I’ve tried to ditch YouTube a couple of times. I currently have a family premium sub. Since it’s now like 22 a month, I’d love to save it for something else.
I watch a ton of electronics repair, ham radio, and car repair channels. Some of these channels have only 2k to 100k subs, some much less, like 10. I also look up a lot of how to repair videos a lot when working on my own broken crap (lawn mower, washer, etc).
I tried peertube twice and it’s just not it. Nebula doesn’t have the content. What else is there? I just can’t seem to find a good replacement. Once I can find something for myself, it might be possible to get my wife and kids switched, but it would have to be a lot of gaming videos, make-up tutorials, and freaking happy planner stuff… I just don’t think any other service is going to have this content.
I do prefer finding blog style articles for the repair stuff, but it seems that ship has sailed now. Everything is a video now.
thecodemonk@programming.devto
Technology@lemmy.world•Goodbye Youtube and thanks for all the fishEnglish
1·3 years agoWhat’s your YouTube link? Your the type of content I subscribe to.
Damn it. Now I might have to try to buy it. In was thinking game pass as I would probably just do the main story and be done… But if the side quests aren’t just some, go pick up this item and bring it back, id love that.
thecodemonk@programming.devto
World News@lemmy.ml•Ukraine tells critics of slow counteroffensive to 'shut up'
11·3 years agoThe comment threads here are weird. Who, in their right mind, would ever support a country like Russia? It’s mind blowing.
Holy crap! I’m glad I didn’t see it… Why can’t people just stop doing that kind of disgusting crap?!
thecodemonk@programming.devto
Fediverse@lemmy.world•Mastodon is Rewinding the Clock on Social Media — in a Good WayEnglish
22·3 years agoPlease, just no. Keep those scum influencers away. It would immediately ruin the platform.
What happened last week?
thecodemonk@programming.devto
World News@lemmy.world•Climate change: Thousands of penguins die in Antarctic ice breakupEnglish
2·3 years agoAnd it really isn’t even on us to do anything. It’s the corporations. They need to provide the alternative fuel sources for transportation. They need to provide the environmentally friendly power generation. They need to clean up their emissions and toxic waste. This isn’t on “us”. This is on them.
How wild that would be. Withdrawal all his campaign donations and just up and go to Russia. He could put a spin on it and make his base extremely upset and violent because the evil left forced him to flee because it’s all rigged.
They should have never allowed a bond to be set. He should have just been kept in jail until the trial. Any of us normies would have had to…
thecodemonk@programming.devto
Technology@beehaw.org•Linus responds to The Problem with LMG
2·3 years agoLol I never saw that episode of South Park. That’s hilarious.
thecodemonk@programming.devto
Technology@beehaw.org•"What do we do now?" - LMG's response to the recent controversies
39·3 years agoAnd the video itself is monetized.
thecodemonk@programming.devto
Technology@beehaw.org•Linus responds to The Problem with LMG
11·3 years agoThis isn’t “something”. This is a “we’re sorry (not really)” video. If you watch it in the context of “I have no favorites in this game” and look it it pretty objectively, it feels like just a bait to try to stop the bleeding.
A week? To refine all the processes in that size of a company? No. I’ve gone through these processes before and it takes months to evaluate, talk to employees, get processes down properly, especially when you need to really start over from the standpoint of “this isn’t working”. They even mentioned they are still having scheduled videos coming out… Did they check those for errors first? I doubt it.
A week to get their inventory control back on track? With the size of their warehouse? No way.
The fact that they let Linus get on there and make the tone deaf statement he did, still backtracking on the billet labs fiasco. He acted like a petulant child who doesn’t have remorse.
They are going to post their updates to their processes on floatplane? What. The. Fuck. So no communication through YouTube. You have to pay in order to see how they will do better.
And. They monetized the apology video. They knew they would get the most views ever out of that one. And they monetized it.
I’ve watched quite a bit of their content and had trusted it in the past… but I have the same feeling about them now that I had when I found out about Jared from adventures with purpose and his whole “I’m just here to make as much cash as I can” attitude, aside from the fact that he’s a child rapist. It just feels scummy to me.
thecodemonk@programming.devto
Technology@beehaw.org•PSA: Intel Graphics Drivers Now Collect Telemetry By Default
3·3 years agoI’m usually ok with some data collection to get stats, like memory CPU usage, etc, especially if they are using it to figure out how to make their software more efficient… But this? Hard pass on this. Especially with collection of other devices on the lan. Wtf Intel?
thecodemonk@programming.devto
Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•As an OG Reddit Sync user of over 10 years, all this arguing really brings a tear to my eye. 🥲
1·3 years agoFreeloader. Enjoy your free stuff off the backs of people doing all the work and paying all the bills.
thecodemonk@programming.devto
Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•You didn't bought it you rented it!
1·3 years agoI hate the make everything a smart appliance trend… Grills, washers and dryers, dishwashers, coffee machines… WHY? No one needs this shit.



Not to defend claude or anything, but I had a junior do something extremely similar to this once. Lol