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  • My muscle memory is to hit power-right-ok to open youtube when I turn the tv on, most of the time without looking at it. The other day, it ended up still sitting on the default menu item after I did that. This must have popped up then. Something that can be dismissed without ever actually seeing it is certainly not enforceable.

  • Stop using Opera Browser and Opera GX
  • I used Opera way back in high school over 2 decades ago. The name has been around for a long time, but I don't know how related the current company is to back then... The product certainly isn't related anymore since it's just another chromium clone.

  • bash.org is gone
  • Hmm, it still resolves for me, but nothing ever responds. The domain doesn't expire for over a year still. Perhaps it's just a transient issue?

  • Voyager 1 stops communicating with Earth
  • RTGs are still used for outer solar system missions. Not enough light for solar panels. Hell, even the Perseverance Mars rover, which was launched in 2020, has an RTG.

  • Discord users are cancelling their Nitro after new mobile layout update
  • proprietary Chinese company

    Gonna need a citation for this. Pretty sure they're a privately-held US company.

  • Youtube's Anti-adblock is illegal in the EU
  • Huh. 98% of my youtube consumption is on either TV or phone apps at this point, though, so they really wouldn't have a place to put something like that. Or maybe they would and I just haven't watched anything that would have it. Who knows.

    Paramount Plus definitely likes shoving a 30 second ad before your show even on the ad-free plan, though...

  • Youtube's Anti-adblock is illegal in the EU
  • I've had Premium since whenever it was first introduced (a decade at this point?) and I've never seen a youtube-provided ad during that time, assuming I'm logged into the appropriate account.

  • Linux way way slower than Windows?
  • AIOs typically pretend to be a fan and you would only need to use that with a custom loop.

  • Some Walmart employees say customers are getting hostile at self-checkout — and they blame anti-theft tech
  • most places have a gate at the exit that only lets you leave by scamming your receipt

    That would be unlawful detention here. Also, what about people that go in and decide they don't actually want to buy anything after all?

    Fun fact: You can ignore the receipt checkers at wal-mart in the states. They have no legal authority to require you to stop. Costco, on the other hand, since it's a membership club, can.

  • The FTC wants to ban hidden 'junk fees' that jack up the price of your purchases
  • that would very much wreak havoc with caching since you basically can't cache pricing including sales tax as it depends on your very specific location.

    of course, for things like event tickets, it's the venue's location that matters for tax, so it works out to be a non-issue.

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  • A driver may only participate in the race if they participated in at least one practice session.

  • Leaked Zoom all-hands: CEO says employees must return to offices because they can't be as innovative or get to know each other on Zoom
  • I don't know, the fact that 4 of the 5 other members on my team live at least 2 time zones away from me keeps me from socializing with them after work ends.

    (I do not want to leave this job, fwiw.)

  • Leaked Zoom all-hands: CEO says employees must return to offices because they can't be as innovative or get to know each other on Zoom
  • Ya know, I'm not super happy with my salary (they're really bad at keeping up with inflation), but ... the promise of permanent WFH (we are actively getting rid of our last office, and hiring fully remote) with ability to live in ~half of the states without salary adjustment is basically keeping me complacent for now.

  • New Covid wave has begun and masks should be worn again, scientists warn
  • I've been doing this and still somehow managed to catch it about a year ago. One of the few people at that event that was wearing a mask and somehow I'm the one that gets it...

    Don't know if I'm ever going to stop wearing a mask.

  • Mitch McConnell freezes during GOP news conference, escorted away | LiveNOW from FOX
  • So by that logic we should repeal the 22nd Amendment?

  • Reddit seems all doom and gloom on the topic but what about Lemmy? And the future of Star Trek?
  • I don't want to see SNW on TV. I don't think they'll have to change the content directly, but they'd have to fit to the 42-odd minute runtime. We've had several episodes near and over an hour long. It's very refreshing to see them making episodes as long as they need to be to tell the story.

  • Into which pocket do you place your phone?
  • I've basically always used the same pocket as my keys and I've never had problems with scratches. Admittedly, I have my phone in my pocket a lot less these days than I did several years ago, but that's still almost a decade of experience...

  • Cancel Amazon Prime [2021]
  • You can still buy from Amazon as needed without Prime. The free shipping is still usually relatively fast, and they'll give you a free or heavily discounted Prime trial fairly often. I try to avoid buying stuff on Amazon these days, but a lot of things simply aren't available elsewhere or would be significantly more difficult to acquire. I haven't had a steady Prime sub in at least a couple years, but they end up offering me a trial probably every few months. Hell, they gave me a full month for free a week ago (probably to try to drive up Prime Day sales).

  • Companies knew the mandated return to the office would cause some attrition, however, they were not prepared for the serious problems that would present.
  • We haven't gotten rid of our main office quite yet (we just signed a 5 year lease in October '19, talk about timing), but we got rid of the satellite office and are absolutely recruiting in remote-first fashion. I fully expect us to just not have an office (or, at least, significantly downsize) once that lease is up.

    It's a pity. That office was such a huge upgrade from the old one, but given the events of the last 3.25 years, I'm not going to miss it that much.

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