I understand the app is great
It’s not even that great anymore. In the recent years the app got bigger and bigger, the UI more confusing, it got intrusive features that are impossible to disable while not adding anything of value.
For example, it started playing distracting, ugly. looped videos by default with no clear way to disable this. At the same time it became impossible to say “don’t play this song even again”.
You think Trump is still doing taxes? 😂
Time for corporations to create “premium” brands with same quality as before but at 10x the price. Once those get popular lower quality again and pocket the profits. When people start complaining about lower quality create new premium brands…
He didn’t lose money. He’s using Truth social to manipulate stocks. This $238m was an investment that let him make billions.
Shit didn’t really hit the fan yet. Some boomers are dead already and those that aren’t enjoy their retirements now. They don’t have to worry about the future so they can take advantage of the last livable decades but will be gone before things get really bad.
I think the idea is that the data is encrypted on the phone and password is needed to decrypt it. If Apple can load (decrypt) data without your password then they can decrypt it anytime they want, even you don’t want them to.
A lot of work was done to exterminate screwworms in North America so I think it it was a big problem in the past.
It’s actually interesting topic. I think Spotify worked fine and now that they are starting to behave like every evil corporation out there we’re getting alternatives like Qobuz. Music is different because you have many publishers and platforms like Spotify are just another distribution channel. You can still buy discs or use iTunes or whatever but you also get streaming. Spotify doesn’t make music themselves but artists are getting pennies from them. They make more money from other channels.
With TV it’s different because IP is so incredibly valuable here. Everyone is trying to control their content. Netflix used to be kind of the default streaming distribution channel like Spotify but then Disney decided that since they have Star Wars they can just split and monetize it themselves (Disney probably wasn’t first but you get my point). So now all the streaming platform produce their own content and since it’s the thing that gives them value they don’t want to share it.
So the real solution here would be to follow the music industry model: separate content producers from streaming platforms. The streaming platform would compete on features (remember when Netflix had perfectly functioning ‘skip intro’ and ‘next episode’ features but Amazon didn’t?) and producers would compete on content. Mixing those two jobs is what’s killing the experience. No idea if it’s economically viable but I think that would be the model that would give us best user experience.
It’s not as bad as it sounds, right?
RIGHT???
Another proof that boomers hit the sweet stop when it comes for the best time to be alive. Were alive when the biggest progress was made and died right before all of it was reversed.
Yes, answering some questions is the punishment he deserves here. Hurray for justice!
Shitty content is definitely not just Netlix issue. A lot of content from many different providers is simply bland now. The issue is that production companies rely on algorithms to decide what will sell. “People liked this show about ghosts and this show about pirates so let’s make a show about ghost pirates”. That being said, many original shows are still huge success so they still try to branch out and try new things. So yes, there’s more and more mediocre, bland content but it affects all platform and all content, not just Netflix.
For me personally fragmentation is the big issue. If someone made “Spotify for movies”, where I could watch literally all the shows on a single subscription, without ads, with good UI and interoperability between platforms I would pay for it. I will not pay for 10 subscriptions to watch one show from each one of them. I think Netflix as a platform is fine, it’s the market that shitty.
If you hate how shitty modern Netflix i
I don’t have a Netlifx subscription but it worked fine couple of years ago. What’s so shitty about it now? Do they have availability issues? Ads? Bugs? Less content? Or is the only issue that they don’t let people share accounts anymore?
Ratatouille is just pisto with slightly different spices.
I remember using pine on some occasions but I mostly used mutt which was using $EDITOR to write emails. Which for me was vi.
I can’t imagine anyone doing serious work using nano but it’s totally possible the problem is with my imagination, not nano itself.
Yes, Japanese workers have only 10 days of guaranteed paid vacations per year while Americans get… 0.
For anyone not familiar with current celebrities like me, this is Tom Holland:
I would upload encrypt file somewhere and download it when needed. If you’re worried someone will actually access your USB stick looking for encrypted data, why carry it at all? It’s cool if you want to pretend you’re a spy or something but it’s not very practical.