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    1 year ago 100%

    Makes me wonder if a fork will happen in the future. Wonder if offerings will be much different a year from now, and if options like kbin will be more polished by then.

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  • technology Technology "What do we do now?" - LMG's response to the recent controversies
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    They chose to financially put themselves in a situation where they are forced to release content at that frequency because they chose to expand operations and drastically increase expenses compared to other channels. It's their decisions that created the work cycle that is needed in pursuit of exponential growth over a more financially sustainable model that affords the luxury for a less hectic release schedule.

    It's getting old seeing people keep making they have to do it this way when it is the situation they created for themselves.

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    technology Technology The Problem with LMG
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    He's another tech bro. Wan show always seemed more like a soap box for him to try to make him seem like an aww shucks type of guy, but there was the whole discussing wages issue at LTT too that broke the illusion of the image he tries to depict of himself.

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  • chat Chat Does Beehaw benefit from federation?
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    I think people who visit here have been pretty cool. Not any worse or inferior to people with accounts here.

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    news World News Hamburg: Climate activists let air out of tyres of 33 cars (mainly SUVs!) again
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    I wonder how many people on the receiving end even change their mind. I feel like if anything they'd completely reject the cause that is trying to be pushed, and the end result is a circle jerk between people who were already in agreement.

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    It depends on what the goal of the protest is and an assessment of whether the act is going to actually be successful in bringing about the change they want.

    If that isn't taken into account it'll just make people more ingrained in their beliefs, and possibly increase hatred towards the groups and the cause overall. Which can just lead to increased conflict and increase extremists on both spectrums.

    Sometimes then the cause just devolves into people on both sides just reveling in getting to act out their primal desires.

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  • animeandmanga Anime & Manga Uzumaki Anime First Look
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    animeandmanga Anime & Manga What are your experiences with anime conventions?
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    Never got around to it because of the travel required. Maybe some day but have settled for seeing some videos instead.

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    technology Technology Google raising price of YouTube Premium to $13.99 per month
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    It'll probably be a 4k tv then? LG, Samsung, Sony, TCL, and Vizio seem to all have airplay support for TVs released recently these days. If Android TV it's easy to side load smarttubenext, but never bothered due to finding airplay convent enough.

    Until then it might be worth checking out to see if you can get smarttubenext installed on your chromecast

    https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/apk-smarttubenext-android-tv.3949377/

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    1 year ago 100%

    Looks like it is up to only 720p. Never been bothered by it myself for the type of content I've air played. Not ideal for movies or TV shows though.

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    Absolute golden resource. This will save me so much time when I'm searching through random videos.

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    What brand do you have? If they have Android TV they seem to usually have airplay support too, but you need to go into settings and then get your Apple device paired with the TV to get airplay to start working.

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    I don't think they are uploading expecting anything back, or an expectation that their channel will get big. Which is what makes their content feel more old school to begin with.

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    I wish some of that money found its way to small youtubers who don't qualify for monetization and are just uploading for the fun of it. Those youtubers are my favorite since it feels more like the old YouTube or stuff like lemmy or whatever where people share without expectation of anything back other than just being excited.

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    I think they know people who aren't paying already won't buy it, so they are raising prices on those that found enough value in it to use it. There is YouTube music bundled with it that some like, so seems like smart strategy to me.

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    My TV has airplay support built into it so I haven't needed to get an Apple TV. But you do need an Apple device to use Airplay.

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    1 year ago 100%

    I use safari with adguard + sponsor block which lets me airplay videos to the TV. I don't even have the YouTube app installed. No need to try and set up smarttubenext or whatever on the TV.

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  • technology Technology Reddit on iOS has an ugly new icon – and you have to pay to change it
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    sponsored posts, suggested posts

    I had hated that aspect of Twitter which is what chased me away to stopping use of an actual account altogether and settling for nitter instead to keep track of accounts but no longer participating. But, it was so much better with how clean it was with apps like Fritter or RSS done through nitter instances so I only saw what I wanted. Now that's looking like method is reaching its end.

    The clutter they tried to push on me wasn't worth consuming the material the official way anymore.

    It was what killed Instagram for me years back too when they killed chronological feeds. Then I deleted the account and moved to using barnista to follow accounts without an account. Then that died and I just dropped Instagram altogether and didn't look back, since I wasn't going to make an account again and consume things the official way.

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    Text messaging apps for one on one or group chats. Lot of my friends use discord and set up a channel for us when playing games or watching shows together.

    I don't use any type social media where people are actively encouraged to associate their real identity with and share personal photos or videos on a public feed. Those always made me uncomfortable, so I was very resistant to them from the start.

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    I wonder what percentage of the ones who were protesting the api but chose to stay and be active on reddit ended up downloading the official app.

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  • technology Technology We must end the tyranny of printers in American life
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    1 year ago 100%

    Here is an archive link https://archive.li/CYIkm

    I've never got a prompt for a firmware update and just used whatever generic drivers was automatically supplied. Might be in luck with being an older model.

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    Is the firmware update something that needs to be manually done or do I have to live in fear of my brother updating on its own?

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    1 year ago 100%

    One by one dominoes that made reddit awesome are falling. Wonder if Spez has the courage to require being signed in to view reddit content.

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    Life is Strange GhostMagician 1 year ago 100%
    Any good fanfic recommendations focused on Max and Chloe?

    I read [Better Then](https://archiveofourown.org/works/6164365) on a recommendation and really enjoyed it. Now I want to read more.

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    I don't even know what is going on in there since you need to app to even see anything , and there's no way I'm downloading threads on my phone.

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    Has anyone tried the Underwood Ranches siracha? I think they were the original supplier. Wondered if it is spicier like how I imagined Siaracha to be like long ago.

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    chat Chat Another reason to leave Reddit: I forgot how hostile it can be
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    Voting is also public, so when people do use them they need to be prepared to stand by it a opposed to using it with anonymity.

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  • askbeehaw AskBeehaw What Item have you purchased for less than $100, that has made a large difference in your life?
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    1 year ago 100%

    Long fiber optic hdmi cord to hook up PC to TV and a wireless keyboard to navigate the desktop from the couch.

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    I tried a lot, but what felt best was emulating Nintendo DS games that could be played entirely with a stylus. Touch friendly so feels native, but also has benefit of not having ads or attempts to up sell you on a bunch of items that has come to plague a lot of mobile games.

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    In search of communities due to some on here not having a high level of activity on the fediverse I ended up with coming across a bunch of forums. So they seem very much alive stil.

    https://beehaw.org/post/677237

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    Aside from the fediverse what are some alternatives you found to reddit communities you used to rely on or frequent?

    For anime there's not really activity for episode or Manga chapter discussions, and found that the My Anime List forums ended up filling that void. https://myanimelist.net/forum/ For buildapc checked out pcpartpicker and found they had a forum with people to help and being pcpartpicker the layout of parts is really nice when people suggest them to you https://pcpartpicker.com/forums/forum/27-create-a-part-list-for-me/ For more casual stuff like pics and memes found squabbles has pretty good activity https://squabbles.io/ For NBA stuff found realgm forums with lot more activity for individual team boards https://forums.realgm.com/boards/ For video game deals found this forum https://www.cheapassgamer.com/forum/10-video-game-deals/ It was nice that forums are still alive once I finally tried to seek out communities outside of reddit after all these years

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    With the recent decision to defed. It got me wondering is there an RSS of sorts to get a feed of activity on different communities across different instances in a fed/defed agnostic way?

    It's inconvenient to have to hop between different instances to see what is going on, and it would be nice to just be able to aggregate it all in someway like the equivalent of multisubreddits in events where defed happens. One hypothetical being lemmy/c/PatientGamers@sh.itjust.works+technology@beehaw.org+Futurama @lemmy.world+Android@lemmy.world+RetroGaming@lemmy.world+PC Gaming@lemmy.ca+Movies and TV Shows@lemmy.film/.rss Being able to customize the feed you see regardless of where you are signed in or not signed in would make it so much easier to juggle different accounts depending on the policies of each, and stay connected with the communities you want. Would also make it easier for instances to be able to defed without worrying as much on impact on users to create the space they want.

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    Any beginner guides for modding Skyrim Special Edition?

    Last time I modded Skyrim was on the original one with mod organizer and using the STEP site as a guide. How much has changed since then? Is STEP still a good resource to get started and is mod organizer 2 still a good go to?

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    What are some communities that aren't here yet that you hope to see in the future?

    For me it's been communities like /r/buildapc, /r/buildapcforme, /r/buildapcsales, /r/gamedeals, and /r/consoledeals have been useful throughout the years.

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