[-] serpineslair@lemmy.world 100 points 1 month ago

I think they are clamping down and trying to force people to watch yt in Google's desired way. They have managed to stop most Piped instances via ip banning and also requesting users to "sign in to confirm you are not a robot". I wish their was a proper alternative at this point. It would be great if something like Peertube took off.

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How have I not listened to this band till now?!

[-] serpineslair@lemmy.world 53 points 2 months ago

Wow, people are still this easily offended?

[-] serpineslair@lemmy.world 44 points 2 months ago

At least in my experience, parents seem to criticise their children playing video games, whilst watching TV themselves. In fact I'd rather my children play video games than binge Netflix or mindlessly scroll TikTok or watch YT etc.

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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by serpineslair@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

If I find myself overplaying certain songs, I sometimes have to force myself to take a break because when I don't, I usually end up ruining/disliking the song. I hate when this happens because perfectly good songs that I love end up irritating me because I have heard it too much. Do you stop listening to those songs or just play it as many times as you like?

EDIT: changed title to be open-ended.

[-] serpineslair@lemmy.world 62 points 3 months ago

The UI that gets progressively worse with each update, ruining what was perfectly fine before. The attempts to create the audio focused equivalent of TikTok.

[-] serpineslair@lemmy.world 44 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Erm... What am I missing about Helldivers 2? I don't own it so I'm not in the loop.

EDIT: nvm, found the answer in a different post. Probably should have looked before asking.

[-] serpineslair@lemmy.world 61 points 5 months ago

Soon it will be "log", then "lo", and finally "l".

[-] serpineslair@lemmy.world 52 points 5 months ago

How much is the subscription for ad-free thinking? Or is it free for non-commercial use?

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Most mobile games nowadays seem to be crap. Got any good mobile games that are open source and fun to play (for more than a few days)?

[-] serpineslair@lemmy.world 34 points 6 months ago

No pressure, then ๐Ÿ˜‚.

[-] serpineslair@lemmy.world 47 points 7 months ago

Looks like a powerpoint transition. ๐Ÿ˜‚

[-] serpineslair@lemmy.world 52 points 7 months ago

That's disgusting. That dude brought to light a serious security issue and is being punished for it. -_-

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The age old question. Coke? Pepsi? Store brand? Any other?

I'm personally a Dr Pepper guy myself.

[-] serpineslair@lemmy.world 35 points 9 months ago
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I was just browsing the Google Play Store and I am getting frustrated seeing games being tagged with the genre, but aren't actually simulating anything. E.g. Idle Miner/Mining Tycoon (can't remember name). Nothing in the game is accurate or even tries to represent real life. It even has cartoon graphics. Now I'm not getting mad about the games themselves, just the fact that they are being labelled as sims. Anyone else annoyed by this?

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In order to get recommendations on your homepage you need to enable your Youtube history in order for videos to be "tailored for you". This is complete BS, as recommendations were perfectly fine before, and I have never had history enabled. This is just a stunt to get people to give their personal data to google. Now I know google has always been bad but this is what really gave me the wake up call, the final straw if you will.

This has prompted me to look for an alternative, specifically an open source alternative. Unfortunately, there are no suitable candidates to my knowledge. However, there is a small, open source alternative which is federated (similarly to Lemmy) called PeerTube. I believe with enough users it could potentially become a viable alternative. Please consider reading more about it. I have not joined yet but I will research more tomorrow. Thanks for hearing me out, just wanted to spread awareness.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by serpineslair@lemmy.world to c/mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world

I'm not sure if this is just me, but it drives me nuts when I see someone answer a question (for example in the questions section on an amazon product page) to just say that they don't know or they give an unrelated answer.

For example:

Q: Do these headphones support bluetooth and wired connections?

A: I'm not sure, but my grandson loves these!

The same goes for posts which ask a question on other sites or reviews complaining about a product, despite it doing exactly as advertised. Idk, maybe I should have posted this on unpopular opinion.

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