I started to watch him as he never pulled punches and picked some great match ups of guests and hot topics.
I stopped because his insufferable ego kept compelling him to continuously talk over everyone with his non-stop opinionated smug. Once I noticed I was just watching one man listening to the sound of his own voice while guests that I wanted to hear from get repeatedly cut off at every third word by his desire to manufacture Jerry Springer type drama, I realised how punchable I truely found him to be.
I don't think that's the full story.
How often do you think people ask Google a question, either to the assistant or just in the search bar and get served the answer scraped directly into the search results, and never need to actually click into the article at all?
Facebook does this too.
Between that and needing to adjust ones journalism style to appease click throughs and the algorithm just to get eyes on ads, dilutes the quality of the write ups as an added problem.
I think making social media pay might be misguided, but there is definitely a problem, maybe even a form of plagiarism committed by alot of these social media giants by taking other people's work and serving it up directly, and summarized on their own sites next to a link that many people won't click on. It is after all in their best interest to get you to stay on the feed feeding.
Reddit is absolutely guilty of this too. It's just that we happily do it for them and create TLDR bots and the like.
It's absolutely fair if Google is populating their feeds with weather, news and other content from other peoples hard work, and then having the balls to serve up ads, that these websites should have a right to claim a cut of the advertising or not have the information shown.
Coincidentally Ive gotten back in to Star Craft 2. Still a banger of a game! I hope that the franchise survives.
Haha! I think I've convinced her that the colour doesn't matter as much as she thinks.
Yeah. I imagine the Global's are less of a hassle. The Chinese ROM was horrific. Got most of it to work eventually but could never get the assistant to work at all pretty much. MIUI in general I found to be a bit of a hack experience.
Good shout. Yeah I'm struggling to comprehend that people pay top tier laptop / second hand car prices for a phone. The 8 pro is basically perfect otherwise. 7 or maybe 8 vanilla could be the way to go.
High Midrange or old Top Range. £450 - £850 ish.
I went from a LG G3 to OnePlus 3T to a Xiaomi K30 Ultra (variant of a Poco F2 Pro, Chinese ROM). My partner went from and old iPhone to the same. Loved the phone and the pop up camera, but the Chinese ROM, and in many aspects, Xiaomi bloatware drove us batty. Awful user experience. Is their Global ROM also rubbish?
Now it's time for a new phone, I liked Xiaomi bang for buck but I'm wary of its software experience on their global devices (does Google assistant work out the box? Does clicking on a link in a browser route you to their horrible GetApps store? Does G maps locations work? Do they lock out custom launchers? Do notifications and syncing get pushed correctly or does the battery Optimizer aggressively shut all things down in the background?)
Our priority list as follows:
- AMOLED 6.5 - 6.7 inch
- Great camera, ideally with a telephoto
- Waterproof
- Not too plasticy a build
- A smooth android experience with minimal bloatware
- Not flagship prices but mid tier, to mid upper tier.
- She wants a pretty colour like purple
So my question is, what phones should be on my radar?
Current list:
Pixel 7 / pro (8 I think is too pricey, but that phone is my personal benchmark)
OPPO Reno 10+ (also a bit steep but she wants the purple)
OnePlus 12 (how's the camera? I loved my 3T but have heard they aren't as good as they used to be)
S22+ or S22 Ultra refurbed (cons a year old but has purple an IP68 is it a better pick than the OPPO?)
Xiaomi 12T or similar, suggestions?
Realme GT5 pro looks sick, but I have Chinese ROM ptsd
Thanks for advice. My phone knowledge is a bit rusty and their must be a bunch out there that I would never think to look at.
Holy shit what a bunch of blistering thunder cunts. I hope Microsoft guts them.
It's much easier to bug test and build for a PS5 as they are all the same. To get a resource intensive game working on PC means a lot more resources going into tweaking texture packs etc for a myriad of combinations of graphics cards processors and drivers and drives. Running on similar architecture is only part of the problem.
Great list! Saved.
The fact that it's missing Noita is criminal though.
Late reply, sorry just going though my messages here. But I get all the Linux love, however I assume you're a developer or a writer. Linux is incredibly niche and basically a non option for a vast load of industries.
Im a professional video editor and animator. Adobe is my bread and butter. I can't use another option realistically either as it mostly doesn't exist or I have to send out my projects to other creators and need to be able to talk to other PCs.
Linux doesn't support Adobe, it doesn't support about 80% of my other creative softwares, it won't play nice. Windows, for my use case runs like a dream.
Until Linux gets broader adoption of actual pro level applications for the film industry (and many others), it will always be a niche OS for coders and web devs sadly. I'd sooner roll back to windows XP than use Linux.
The best I can find is to use clip-paths to mask out the shape.
Over what prices exactly?
Games are expensive in general, especially AAA new titles. But to say they are stealing from customers seems a bit disengenuous. Game prices have barely changed in 20 years, if anything they've gotten cheaper. PS games are often less than Nintendo, and if you aren't fussed with waiting they tend to drop in price dramatically after a year.
Most polished titles can take many years and huge teams to make and provide 20+ hours of entertainment. Which is a lot more bang than a 2 hour film.
The only problem I have is with digital titles charging the same as a physical title. Theoretically the cut in brick and mortar, printing and 3rd party mark ups should be shared with the customer who no longer has a physical copy to hold or resell and needs and account and internet to enjoy.
This article seems to be missing an article. The content is pretty much the headline turned into the length of a tweet.
I just noticed their instance pop up in the feddit browser and they are huge and established. Who are they? Whats the vig? Should I join some of their communities or do they have a particular agenda they're pushing?
The black out is ending, and a few subs are having discussions on whether to open up again. Why not use your old account and hop over and paste the direct link to your community in the replies to people that are supporting continuing the black out so that they know where to find alternatives.
Don't forget to check https://browse.feddit.de/ for the full list in case there already is a growing community that is a better alternative.
Let people know there is a home elsewhere if they want it.
I've noticed in the explosion that we are getting duplicate communities in multiple instances. This is ultimately gonna hinder community growth as eventually communities like 'cats' will exist in hundreds of places all with their own micro groups, and some users will end up subscribing to duplicates in their list.
A: could we figure out a system to let our communities know about the duplicates as a sticky so that users can better find each other?
B: I think this is the best solution, could a 'super community' method be developed under which communities can join or be parented to under that umbrella and allow us to subscribe to the super community under which the smaller ones nest as subs? This would allow the communities to stay somewhat fractured across multiple instances which can in turn protect a community from going dark if a server dies, while still keeping the broader audience together withing a syndicated feed?