mctoasterson

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[–] mctoasterson@reddthat.com 4 points 4 months ago

They need to make an open source version of the Hitster card game that lets you use this to listen to the whole song (if you choose) whether you have a Spotify account or not.

[–] mctoasterson@reddthat.com 5 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Anyone got a good recommendation for an affordable smart watch that works with GadgetBridge?

I'm looking to move on from an ancient Garmin that barely holds charge for 2 days...

[–] mctoasterson@reddthat.com 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

90% of it is idiots reporting deer/coyote sightings or falsely reporting fireworks as "gunshots?!?!" at 1:00am. I have literally been woken up by stupid Ring notifications more than by the fireworks themselves.

[–] mctoasterson@reddthat.com 6 points 5 months ago

I think your theory is plausible. On the YT smart TV app, the ads seem to be increasingly about unpleasant things like dick pills, period pads, and constipation treatments. I think they literally serve up unsavory ad content as a way of punishing you into shelling out for a subscription. Jokes on them, I just switched to SmartTube.

[–] mctoasterson@reddthat.com 35 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Me, still using a site licensed copy of Office 2007 from a job I had over a decade ago.

[–] mctoasterson@reddthat.com 24 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Unfortunately it has been demonstrated through whitehat research that simply deleting your old account is relatively useless. They have shadow profiles of users based on probabilistic data. For example, say your spouse with her decades old account keeps making posts about what you ate on date night, your trip to Cabo, or worse yet she posts a bunch of pictures of her, you, and the kids. Facebook makes a shell profile based on this conception of "you" and begins aggregating all the info it can about this person.

More over, every time an acquaintance of yours gives their FB app permissions to access their contacts (to suggest Friends or whatever) if your contact info is on the list, FB now has your real name, your email, your mobile phone number, etc. You never opted in, but it doesnt matter - other people are opting you into FB data collection all the time, unless you literally don't tell anyone your real phone number or email address.

[–] mctoasterson@reddthat.com 14 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Kinda surprised Japan doesn't already have digital Waifu figurines, to be honest. Seems like a logical progression from plastic figure statues, with decent margins and potential subscription or add-on sales.

[–] mctoasterson@reddthat.com 2 points 6 months ago

And I say to myself... I need exact change...

[–] mctoasterson@reddthat.com 7 points 6 months ago

All they have to do is sell a million copies for $700 each and they break even!

[–] mctoasterson@reddthat.com 9 points 6 months ago

It's not a toy. It makes real cupcakes... with a 40 watt bulb... and there's icing packets. But the secret ingredient is love... Damn it.

[–] mctoasterson@reddthat.com 12 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I just use ViMusic or RiMusic or one of those types of forks. I believe it uses YouTube and other sources. It is ad-free and has the usual stuff you'd expect like suggestions, playlists, genres etc. Occasionally the source platform will make a change that breaks it, an update comes out fixes it.

That and there are still (probably ancient at this point) desktop clients that scrape your Pandora and download local copies of all the tracks. That's another good way to never listen to ads.

[–] mctoasterson@reddthat.com 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Did Tipper Gore get resurrected somehow? I thought she got banished to the shadow realm.

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