residentmarchant @ residentmarchant @lemmy.world

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Completely agree, I think one great thing that Netflix has done over the other competitors is that they're a tech company at heart, not a content company.

As such, they thought about how to optimize cost and quality of delivery much more than HBO (and others) did/do. This is both a good thing for their bottom line, but also for consumers. I find Netflix loads significantly faster than other competitors, even Prime video which has the backbone of AWS behind it!

Sure, at the end of the day the most compelling content wins, but after that, quality of service is super important.

I'm imagining you grinning ear to ear while bouncing up and down on a shitty road and the only soundtrack is squeak squeak squeak squeak

Correct, right in the old town!

I was recently there and our tour guide kept talking about this awful piece of art and how it ruins the old houses, so on and so on, then I went to check it out for myself and found it wonderful.

It's playful and intricate to me, but I guess the locals don't like it!

Totally fair, cars are more and more like smartphones these days...with all the good and bad that comes with it!

Not trying to tell you how to live your life, I totally understand the mentality, but for me it was a revolutionary jump in technology.

From having to drive in stop and go traffic to just letting the car do it has been magical for me. I can now do a 6+ hour drive and no longer be absolutely wrecked at the end. Not that I do it often, but it's usually for a family thing or a vacation, so both things that I kinda want to be cognisant for.

That plus all the safety stuff like a backup camera, the beeping when getting close to stuff, etc. has made my driving life so much better

There are few things that have changed my life overnight, but a (much, much) newer car with updated tech was totally one of them.

What's the reasoning for this? Surely it's not that difficult to block all traffic pointing to "vpn.protonvpn.com" (simplified url for the sake of argument)

Even if a VPN provider had 100 URLs to tunnel traffic through, they would all be found in a matter of time, no?

Microwave ramen is a godsend in this case

Easy to make, filling, salty as fuck, and comforting

As someone who just built one of these, that is the exact reason we did it.

It would be cool if users just remembered which service they used to sign in, but they often don't, so this is the next best thing. Tell us your email, we look up which service you used, then send you to that service to complete the login.

Oh, I know this one! I hear Yanny

I appreciate that the AI is advanced enough (or your prompting is very good) to include not just 1 type, but 2 types of beans! What a time to be alive!

This is fascinating! I opened it to see 2 women taking pictures of each other twerking in front of the marker.

I would say that it's unexpected...but it is Florida

Kind of glad Marvelous Mrs. Maisel ended when it did, so I don't need to see ads!

Well, that's not supposed to happen

Just re-watched this on a plane recently and I forgot how hilarious it is! I had to try so hard to not wake everyone else in the plane

In some other countries, you only need to fill out the exemption part. If you have nothing, you just click "file" and it does it for you

As someone who's never been in a union job, what happens if your boss is just kind of a dick? Can you go to your union rep to handle it or is that outside the scope?

Sadly it's almost never the case where people say "oh, life is better for you! Cool!"

Oof, how did it end up going?

I did the same. I think the last news I heard was that they didn't want to lose all their assets which is why the sale was taking so long.

I guess they've won back some goodwill by seemingly trading secure jobs for their employees for 3 years in exchange for their assets.

Still not great that it took this long...