COASTER1921 @ COASTER1921 @lemmy.ml

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Seriously, this platform is far from dead. Lemmy is not quite the same depth of niche content as Reddit was, but it's certainly usable. If you can recognize Reddit's practices are a problem then with a bit of effort there is another option.

On the bright side when the Kansas governor tried pulling this move they ended up voting in a Democrat governor.

As someone who picks a window seat specifically for the view I agree the airline websites need to make this clearer but it's super common to allow for air ducts in the plane. If you check the seat map on Aerolopa this is easily avoided (except when there's an aircraft swap). Avoid SeatGuru, it's often very outdated and even when correct for seats the window positions are incorrect.

I doubt they could get away with banning plex due to its integrated ad-supported streaming service which there are likely a few users of. But for jellyfin that same argument wouldn't work. At least initially I suspect no self-hosted content would be blocked, as there are plenty of apps/viruses out there openly created solely for the purpose of piracy. Jellyfin isn't the same as these as it doesn't include links to any servers nor methods to download pirated content, even on the server side. Also it's nowhere near as widely used as other services so it may just slip under the radar.

Not the case for me, I'll typically spend a solid week or two tweaking things after I initially set it up to get all the hardware working perfectly, then never touch the configuration again even as things slowly start breaking with updates.

Banks have made it really difficult to rent safety deposit boxes lately. It used to be a common account benefit but I can't find any within a reasonable distance of me since 2023, and none which are included as an account benefit. A fireproof safe is good enough and the types of documents I put in it aren't truly irreplaceable anyways, just really hard/annoying to replace. I doubt many people use their fireproof safe for truly valuable items that would be attractive to thieves. My fireproof safe doesn't even have a proper lock.

I use 1.1.1.1 so I don't think it's easily ignored by changing DNS. But interestingly while using Revanced and NewPipe on my phone I don't have any of the same problems. Maybe my computer is ignoring my router's DNS? Maybe mobile YouTube is delivered from a different server? I wish I knew but ultimately using a VPN still works for me and is a very low effort fix.

What I don't get is why it's only YouTube they choose to throttle. I've never noticed any issues on other streaming websites and fast.com which literally uses Netflix servers is also full speed.

They're 5g based, so I suspect it's within the terms of service somewhere that they can limit the streaming quality? Historically I'd only ever noticed deprioritization, never a hard bandwidth limit.

My ISP has started throttling YouTube to ~2mbps when viewed from desktop. Using a VPN gets around this and lets me watch in HD. Luckily I've not encountered this error yet, but if I do I guess it's no more YouTube for me, 480p is just way too blurry to put up with.

And it gets worse the further north you go, by the time you're in Boston winter sunset is already before 5pm so if you work 8am-5pm without a nearby window you can easily go the whole day without seeing the sun.

Same here, I had both COVID vaccine and the flu shot on the same day this year. I ended up with a 102°F fever for ~24hr and had to skip work the next day. But unlike actually getting sick I felt 100% better the second day after getting them.

This comment is both higher effort and funnier than the post itself.

I have one with 65W USB-PD and it's a lifesaver for work travel. But lately I'm hesitant to take it anywhere outside of the US even though it's under 100Wh, airlines are cracking down significantly on power banks particularly in Asia.

Last time I was in China I noticed many power banks have integrated video game systems on one side (a basic NES/GBC emulator). I wonder if that's to get around the difficulty of travelling with them?

There are a few garages with validated parking in downtown Dallas. But ultimately charging for parking in a downtown makes sense, that same space could be used for economically productive purposes rather than holding a car. Mandating we build even more parking would only make traffic worse and lead to an underutilized downtown. If it's too expensive, DART stations have free parking and the train to get downtown is only is $3 ($6 for a day pass).

I do, in Firefox. But to browse Lemmy I prefer a dedicated app (specifically Connect). The app has its own built in browser which is more convenient when switching between an article and comments. Sadly the integrated browser appears to just use the Android system webview.

What a scammy website! I'd love to read the article but amid all the virus warning popups and redirects it's pretty much unusable.

Anyone know if Connect for Lemmy supports ad blocking? Ideally I'd rather not have all links open externally in Firefox.

Although they use milk, they consider egg a meat. They treat their cows like gods, so if you're vegan only for the reasons of animal suffering then I'd argue being vegetarian in India is philosophically identical

The verification is supposedly not linked to play protect at all. Presumably Epic will be a verified developer even without being on Google Play and therefore their apk's will remain installable regardless of distribution method. If Epic were blocked then I imagine they'd absolutely have grounds to sue.

I also always call him Dear Leader. We can't normalize these behaviors from a president, and using the "Dear Leader" title makes it unambiguously clear that his selfish actions are not presidential.

AI companies and investors are absolutely overhyping its capabilities, but if you haven't tried it before I'd strongly recommend doing so. For simple bash scripts and Python it almost always gets something workable first try, genuinely saving time.

AI LLMs are pretty terrible for nearly every other task I've tried. I suspect it's because the same amount of quality training data just doesn't exist for other fields.