It’s funny how many people have no idea what a podcast is, but will log on to you tube dot com to spend fifteen minutes watching someone in a room talk to their camera about one subject or another.
Yes, this comment is connected to my ranting earlier about audio being treated as a second class citizen by tech firms.
A vlog on YouTube doesn’t need the video element. It adds basically nothing, but makes the format harder to access and takes up significantly more storage space. But people are all like “yeah, I’m going to watch this guy talk about shit for fifteen minutes, but in no way will I listen to him without being able to see him”.
As I was editing this it occurred to me that I forgot to mention that our bedroom door was closed when I recorded that audio. What you can hear is him outside our bedroom, yelling and grumbling because there are no meats in his bowl, and the Door To Out is shut.
Picked up this beautiful game on Steam last week for a grand total of £2, and I'm very glad I did.
It's gone back up to £7, and given that it's quite a simple game that'll take you around 90 minutes to play, that might be a little steep. But Wishlist it and next time it's on the cheap, snap it up.
We have a couple of Alexa speakers, and I hate them enormously. In particular the Show we have in the kitchen.
I use it to listen to music while I’m cooking. I ask it to connect to my phone, and it does. And EVERY TIME it tells me “NOW CONNECTED TO MINIDINGUS*”. Every. Time. But only when I start playing the audio, so it shouts all over whatever I’m listening to.
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We got it because it looked like it could be a good bedside clock / speaker, but it’s a terrible, terrible bedside clock because the clock element is secondary to it pulsing and flashing and showing fucking adverts or fucking hints.
I genuinely wonder whether the people who design this shit actually ever use them. They’re just so, so shit.
I’ll tell you what though; it wasn’t until I was listening back to the recording on Tuesday afternoon that I realised that I had deck 2 faded up while I was cueing the second track. So yeah, just got to hear that little fuck up again 😫