Posts by A. Coatsworth 870 publicly visible posts • joined 29 May 2008
Luckily Spotify has not done any of that to me... yet. But the moment they start annoying me, out of the window they will go.
Yup, I am also rebuilding my collection of physical (and backed-up) music to prepare for the moment when the inevitable happens. It is a streaming service, after all: It seems that enshitification is hardcoded into all of them.
>> I'd be willing to pay a little extra for content
I was willing to pay, but that was not enough for Netflix with their heel turn on account sharing, nor to Amazon with their ads on Prime, nor to Youtube with their everything really...
So far Spotify is the only one behaving decently enough[1] for me to keep a subscription.
[1] From the point of view of an user. Their interaction with artists is a whole different can of worms
Well, there is the tiny little difference between US/Mexico and US/China relationships (bad hombres notwithstanding)
If a country has been flagged as a danger by the US goverment for decades[1] then it shirley should have been a bad idea for US companies to send billions of dollars and tonnes of IP to that same country.
There is some real dissonance there between what policy and economics are doing. Not that this surprises anyone.
[1] I am not getting into the argument of whether US accusations are true. For the sake of this argument I am just going with what the goverment itself says.
>> it relies on a nearby PS5 console to render games. In effect, it's really more of a remote, Wi-Fi-connected monitor
So, it is for when you are at home but don't want the convenience of using a real controller and a real TV screen?
Other than "continuing your game while on the toilet" I can't comprehend the use case for this... or perhaps Sony completely misunderstood what made the Switch a sales successs...
Yeah I don't think your point was not to start a pissing contest.
On the other hand it was berating the people who, like me, doesn't want or need to conmute to perform their duties.
If your conditions mean that you work better at the office, you should be free to do so. If my conditions mean I am more productive at home, I'd like to be able to WFH without being called an anti-social shut-in.
Horses for courses... in the end the problem is not the people who likes the office or the people who likes WFH, but these bullsh*t blanket mandates that benefit basically no-one and are being pushed for spurious or at least very hidden reasons.
To speak again of my particular case again, I'd like my employer to at least treat me like an adult and tell me the true reasons for RTO, instead of comig with half-baked kumbayah excuses for making me conmute for 2 hours to use Zoom all day anyway, because my coworkers are not even in the same continent as me.
>>And, my house is tiny and filled with the distractions, both pleasant and unpleasant, of my personal life.
It sucks to be you, I guess. But I don't see why others should suffer because of it.
My home office has big windows, natural light and a lovely view to the surrounding mountains... it is slightly better in my particular case than spending 8 hours under a fluorescent light looking at a blank wall
Sarusa raises a few interesting use cases, and I am not one of the downvoters, but there is one point that got me thinking:
I find the fitness tracking to be endlessly useful when I go for my walks, hikes, or bike rides. Turns out my pulse rate tells me a lot. And of course actual distance traveled, speed, steps, and altitude changes are really useful.
This fetishization of the information is rather baffling.
Why is it necessary to track, measure and aggregate such minutiae of the day to day life? Besides Apple, its partners and Cthulhu knows who else, getting all the data, now people is also building their little big-data repositories about themselves... what for?
I recognize it can be useful for proffessional atletes, and perhaps for peeople with specific medical conditions. But what is there for the average joe?
This is an honest question, not simply a critique on Apple or the commentard above
It is honestly amazing they can say that without a trace of irony.
Self-awareness is truly dead and buried at MS... probably laid to rest in the same casket used in Microsoft's iPhone funeral
It is hard to understand the massive downvotes. I want to defend FF, we need an alternative that is not tied to Chrome or Apple, but it is a fact that Firefox's quality has steadily declined during the last years. The sheer number of forks made by people trying to revert the most idiotic decisions taken by Mozilla is a testament to this.
The decline in marketshare can't be explained only by the predatory tactics of Google or MS: many people -like myself- used Firefox for years, but grew more and more annoyed by the bloat and UI changes and ultimately jumped ship. In my case, I used Palemoon for as long as I could, until banking sites started flagging it as a security concern.
Thanks! Brave on mobile also includes it in the list of default engines. I just changed it and will be test driving it for the rest of the week.
I've been a DuckDuckGo user for a long time, despite some doubts about its income sources. I must say that their results in languages other than English are really dissappointing
>>"However, many forget to test different scenarios where behavior is not normal, such as inputting invalid data into the system
If there only was a branch of Computer Science focused on tackling this kind of scenarios... I know: perhaps I can take some programmers aside and task them with testing, or assuring if you will, the quality of the software products.
I am so clever, no one ever thought of this before!
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