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Midnight Wolf
Midnight Wolf @ wreckedcarzz @lemmy.world
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YouTube's new ad strategy is bound to upset users: YouTube Peak Points utilise Gemini to identify moments where users will be most engaged, so advertisers can place ads at the point.

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  • "pirate YouTube" lmfao

    bet you're one of those people that pirate oxygen

    • "Baby on Board" is a terrible sticker for your car

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  • Skill issue

    • "Baby on Board" is a terrible sticker for your car

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  • Combine the two, let the baby take the wheel

    • "Baby on Board" is a terrible sticker for your car

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  • But I like a little struggle, you're taking all the fun out of it!

    • Is it normal for people to ask where you are from online?

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  • So are you from the east coast, or the west? Statistically you aren't in the middle, and you are more likely from the east as that is the most densely populated. So you are likely in one of ~10 states on the east.

    Still not great for pinpointing, but a toooooooon of the US is a whole lotta nothing. Similar to Aus.

    • Plex staff leaving review on Play Store for Plex

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  • You didn't read anything I said, I see

    • Plex staff leaving review on Play Store for Plex

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  • I see this so often and nobody ever seems to realize that local/home VPNs use upload bandwidth, which for some is in dire low supply. I can't have 4 full-time users using my upload connection routing through wireguard, when all 4 stream videos throughout the day. And that's just 3rd party services like YouTube and Twitch, not plex. Then you add in two additional, off-site users who want to watch something with me on plex, and we are all given ~1.5 megabits a piece of a 10meg upload pipe over here. Mmmm, crispy pixels. 'you can just use some IPs in wg so you don't need to tunnel all data, just what you need', they say, and I rebuke by showing them my dynamic IP address. 'ask for a static one' and they haven't offered that for years besides enterprise customers.

    And that's before I ask everyone 'so everyone download wireguard and scan your individual qr code, or I will send you the config file' and everyone but a single user just hears the ocean. Then I need to teach them about VPNs, why we use it, why plex doesn't work when the little lock isn't showing on their phones, why 'I had the lock in the corner but I couldn't make a call or get online, so we are all getting [thing you don't like] for dinner since I couldn't ask'. Then I have to troubleshoot and tell them to toggle it off and on again...

    The we get to the bit where they try to cast to the TV, and the chromecast is like 'lol wtf is a VPN' and we are back at square one, everyone hates me, I hate everyone right back, all changes from this experiment get reverted, and I lose credibility.

    VPNs are useful, but I rage at people who assume they are a blanket solution for all situations and use-cases. And often, the people suggesting them are smug, like they have found something that nobody knows about and are superior because their situation doesn't color outside of the lines.

    Damn that was nice to vent. Been bothering me for way too damn long.

    • Nvidia reportedly raises GPU prices by 10-15% as manufacturing costs surge — tariffs and TSMC price hikes filter down to retailers

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  • Oh won't someone please think of poor Nvidia?!

    • HMD, Lava to launch feature phones with direct-to-mobile technology, Developed in collaboration with Tejas Networks and powered by Saankhya's chipset, these phones can stream content without internet

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  • "so it's like TV, but on a much smaller screen, low resolution, with crappy speakers, a short battery life, all the advertisements of TV..."

    "I know, it's so revolutionary!"

    • What was she thinking when she did this?

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  • Now what she order (what she order)

    Filet-O-Fish

    • Another essential book in your library

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    • Come to say thank you. Time to move from proprietary to Open Source

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  • So what's the threshold for 'mini' vs 'you need to stop'...? Number of hosts, or number of containers, or number of public services, or...

    • Come to say thank you. Time to move from proprietary to Open Source

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  • And being able to manage multiple hosts in one UI is the absolute tits. There are a few features I miss from portainer but none strong enough to pull me back. And no bs SaaS licensing and costs...

    • I remember a time when 1986 was only a few selections down.

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  • ❗ 🐺

    • I remember a time when 1986 was only a few selections down.

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  • Or a molotov cocktail on the server farm! A few of those babies and this is a thing of the past.

    Oh hi fbi, what brings you by? Need some snacks for your stakeout van? Boy do I know the feeli... actually I should stop talking and grab those snacks

    • I remember a time when 1986 was only a few selections down.

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  • Wait until you find out that you can type the first letter and it will jump to that position in the list. Then - check this shit out - you can keep pressing that letter to jump through each item in the list. It takes me like 3 seconds.

    Now, hold onto your hats, because you won't believe what you can do when picking your state...

    • I remember a time when 1986 was only a few selections down.

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  • Memory loss: it's not all bad!

    • Android updates: thanks I hate it.

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  • third-party android modifications*

    my family's pixel devices, and mine running gos, don't have this. nor the cell bar style, nor the 'we have to advertise the wifi version so people feel good that bigger number = better' wifi icon style...

    the default is just a battery icon, though I have it set on my phone to also show the percent alongside it. this hasn't changed in many years. blame your manufacturer and their skinning and modding.

    • what are girls

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  • Be cheap, make them pay for everything + be gay

    Big brain

    • AMERICAN POPE LETS GO

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