ultratiem

ultratiem, 27 days ago

Bro is buying the wrong sized bags, then complaining about how the bag companies are stupid. When someone points that out, they call them stupid.

The internet is a magical place.

ultratiem, 28 days ago (edited 24 days ago)

My gym did that. But it’s not really an app, it’s a QR code you pull up to scan, wrapped in some semblance of trying to be an app. Which means I took a screenshot and just pulled that up. Still stupid.

But you can also just print it out and put it on a card 😎

ultratiem, 1 month ago

I think you have it backwards, in that it’s the US that’s trying to stop all the Chinese propaganda coming from that app.

And if TT pull out of the US, it’s pretty telling that their core drive for that thing wasn’t money.

ultratiem, 1 month ago

Google is an American company. Apples and Oranges.

ultratiem, 1 month ago

Yup pretty much. Everything is a laundry list of tracking and “live ops” that’s meant to basically consume your entire life. Games are all gated by time barriers unless you pay.

Everything is a subscription and most are ridiculously priced that if you subbed to 8 of them, you’d be out near $100 a month! For a handful of apps!

Apple never cared about the long game. I guess just like every other company. All Cook cared about was dollars. And since they took 30% of everything, insanely priced subscriptions were like gold to them. They also span off browser extensions into pseudo-apps to further widen their reach.

Integrity and quality is absolute shit. Even in iOS. Every version feels like a beta with either graphical glitches or serious bugs. It’s like we’re regressing.

I haven’t been interested in app for almost a decade because there’s just nothing worth my time.

It’s honestly nice to know that there are others that feel the same. As that’s the only way we can hope to shift away from this shitshow of basic thievery.

ultratiem, 1 month ago

But do you know who has? Sundar Pichai, who previously worked at McKinsey — arguably the most morally abhorrent company that has ever existed, having played roles both in the 2008 financial crisis (where it https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/analysis-and-features/mckinsey-how-does-it-always-get-away-with-it-9113484.html?ref=wheresyoured.at) and the ongoing opioid crisis, where it effectively https://www.attorneygeneral.gov/taking-action/ag-shapiro-puts-a-stop-to-mckinseys-proliferation-of-the-opioid-crisis/?ref=wheresyoured.at. McKinsey has paid nearly $1bn over several settlements due to its work with Purdue. I’m getting sidetracked, but one last point. McKinsey is actively anti-labor. When a company brings in a McKinsey consultant, they’re often there to advise on how to “cut costs,” which http://rchive/2020/02/how-mckinsey-destroyed-middle-class/605878/?ref=wheresyoured.at. McKinsey is to the middle class what flesh-eating bacteria is to healthy tissue.

Damn. That’s a third degree burn if I’ve ever seen one!

ultratiem, 1 month ago

So did almost everyone in the cast lol

ultratiem, 1 month ago

They get to comb thru all your stuff. And if you think “hey but that violates so many regulations”… LMAO

All the email you send through Gmail, all your search terms. Everything Google touches of yours is theirs basically. And if you think that’s some tinfoil hat shit and they’d be caught… LMAO.

ultratiem, 1 month ago

iOS has its own internal backups that can either be done by connecting your device to a Mac or a PC with iTunes for local storage or you can use a part of your iCloud storage and upload it. There is no need to add an extra layer or another provider.

ultratiem, 1 month ago

I draw them up. What plans do you need for such a simple thing. So long as you have rudimentary understanding of construction, wood and grade 3 physics, you’ll do ok.

ultratiem, 1 month ago

They had to. You don’t fuck with China. Whatever they say goes. But yeah, “China forces distributors to pull…” just doesn’t have that incendiary clickbait ring to it.

ultratiem, 1 month ago

One minute, you’re the savior of the rebel cause; next thing you know, you’ll be Cohaagen’s bosom buddy. You’ll even have fantasies about alien civilizations as you requested; but in the end, back on Earth, you’ll be lobotomized!

ultratiem, 1 month ago

We just don’t have the technology for that… sorry.

ultratiem, 1 month ago

It’s who left that matters. We lost a TON of tech people. People with experience and knowledge in the field. I visit there and the tech subs I’m in are just kids who either a) just post edgy jokes or b) have no clue and reply with factually incorrect material. The veracity of Reddit plummeted after the API change.

And that matters. That’s the heart of Reddit. The nerds. The geeks. The tech enthusiasts.

If there aim is to turn it into Twitter or Fb, they can do that, but those two already exist and their platform is much more conducive to socializing.

They fucked up with the API and will never bounce back. Not like they care because all they’re chasing is quick money, but still. It won’t end well for them.

And if you don’t think 1% matters, it most certainly does when the 1% attracts 60% of your visitors.

ultratiem, 1 month ago

Google would murder every single one of these people for that contract get real. I can’t see how anyone expected to keep their jobs after this.

I’m just shocked it went on for like 8h lmao

ultratiem, 1 month ago

Privacy is a fundamental human right. It’s not a luxury or a means to extort or monetize customers. That’s why the EU is getting involved. Because companies like Meta will leverage them against monetization.

It’s like going to your doctor and having them tell you that unless you pay them $50 for the visit, they’ll sell your medical data to whomever.

A company has to build their services on top of privacy and security, not use either as a means to monetize or boost profits. That’s what the EU is fighting for. Because we all know what happens when it’s left up to the companies…

ultratiem, 1 month ago

I’m not doing anything illegal, why do you care if I hide or not???

If we want to meet the original straw man head to head.

ultratiem, 1 month ago

Anything that isn’t mp3. I’m actually stunned people still use that codec. Willingly. AAC is just far superior. ALAC/FLAC for lossless can get quite large. Then there’s the gorilla in the room: do most of these songs even get resampled properly when a new format is released? Atmos is all the rage but a lot of songs from the past that are now available in the codec sound off because the separation of instruments and sound is so far away from the original.

Your current system probably sounds like music from 1998, muddled and drowning in bass.

ultratiem, 1 month ago

No it’s a long standing bug that showed up around 2021 where songs were inexplicably stopping after 15s. Some thought account issues, some thought Apple Music was down, etc. etc.

I have them on select files. Stuff that I added to my library way back when that is matched. Some that are uploaded do the same.

Then there is also the long standing bug where Apple Music just stops playing. For whatever reason it doesn’t load the song. You try and it just won’t, forcing you to skip to the next song. It’s insufferable and shows up in waves now and then.

You can get around some of the stalls by downloading the song to your device. It will play just fine then. It’s not anti-piracy, Apple doesn’t do shit like that. If they had proof of anything, they’d ban your account indefinitely and move on.

AM is not a good service I’m sorry to say. Yes the song quality is amazing and the recommendations are decent, but playing things, it’s always been super super twitchy. Like if you look at it sideways it stops playing. I’ve been on it for 6 years. This is kind of known in the AM community.

ultratiem, 2 months ago

Orrr. Or. Orrr. Hear me out. That’s what they’ll eventually sell it as, but what’s actually going to happen is people who don’t have like 10y behind them will pay more because they’ll be deemed “high risk.”

ultratiem, 2 months ago

This is sort of where I draw the line on ethical piracy. Some countries and people go to great lengths to prohibit the viewing or listening of their movies, shows and songs. Whatever. It’s your right I guess. I just don’t get it personally. To be so restrictive for something is now free. The work was done, so now it’s just about enjoyment and quality of life.

As a basic human being, I think we should all want to make life better. For us. For everyone.

So along those lines, if you’re blacklisting my country because some guy didn’t get what he wanted or whatever government level bullshit you peddle, then yeah, time to unfurl my Jolly Roger!

ultratiem, 1 month ago

You mean by deleting old, totally innocuous posts like a week after they posted it? What rule I broke I don’t know. Don’t much feel “heard” as a user

https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/316fbd15-2c2e-46e7-a648-71f4e8bb215c.jpeg

Good luck with your sub

ultratiem, 2 months ago

I’ve been using it since Tomato died. Transmission chokes on torrents with lots of trackers that fail to connect. If you go in and remove them, its performance and responsive improves greatly.

Outside of those small things, it’s solid and a universal app.

ultratiem, 1 month ago

lol what?