_pete_

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[–] _pete_@lemmy.world 22 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

Because the “you wouldn’t steal a car” nonsense scares a lot of people off

Because some people want to support the creators of content but digital downloads from iTunes or whatever are more expensive than getting a month of a streaming service

Because there is a level of convenience of having thousands of hours of content at your fingertips without having to store content locally or finding it on a “dodgy” website. Setting up torrents / usenet is more work than giving someone your credit card number

Because a lot of people don’t know where to find content and if they did they don’t know the difference between a 480p avi vs a 2160p HDR DV MKV and get confused with torrents and file formats and how to get them on their TV.

Because - at the moment - the ads aren’t that bad, I got one ad at the start and one episode in the middle of an episode of Gen V - obviously they’ll add more until it’s as bad as cable but they’re not there yet.

[–] _pete_@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

I guess YMMV, I just tried a few places around me (UK) and it found them all. You can also defiantly tap on a place to select it.

Did you try it recently or a while ago? I know it was pretty woeful when it came out but it’s improved a whole lot over the years.

[–] _pete_@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I wish Kagi wasn’t as expensive as it is.

If it was $5 a month for unlimited searches I would be all over it but 300 searches is too few and $10 is too much money.

[–] _pete_@lemmy.world 16 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Pfttt… at least with DDG you can turn any of that stuff off with a button in a UI rather than having to make a new bookmark or fuck around with your browsers search engine.

You can even turn the ads off if you want.

Also, Apple Maps is totally fine, it’s not overloaded with ads like Google Maps is and it basically always finds the place I search for.

[–] _pete_@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Yea, thats fucking nuts…

[–] _pete_@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Ngl, this is basically what we do :(

[–] _pete_@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

We had some from Lidl that broke on the way out of the shop! I wouldn’t trust most of them for 3 trips, let alone a lifetime of them.

[–] _pete_@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I don’t drive every time I go to the shops, plus I also have to remember to put them back once I get my shopping inside.

[–] _pete_@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago (10 children)

The plastic ones (here in the UK at least) also split and fall apart, they’re better than the “standard” ones but they don’t usually last that much longer.

Also I have a million of them because I always forget to bring them.

[–] _pete_@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (12 children)

Nice! With the best will in the world I always forget my standard shopping bags and I feel that the “bags for life” just replace one thin and crap lump of plastic for an overly engineered one.

[–] _pete_@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago

Yes but if you don’t cause a bunch of poor people conflict and pain how will your wife know that you love her? /s

[–] _pete_@lemmy.world 22 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Wtf did I just read…

 

I’m having a hell of a time with my current ISP (sitting at 18 days now without a connection) and I’m having to bite my tongue every time I’m talking to them (Remember The Human and all that)

Whilst the front line support are nice people and answer the phones quickly they are honestly pretty useless and they never really sound like they know what they’re talking about, also seemingly none of the departments seem particularly good about communicating what’s going on so it’s hard to get a straight and useful answer out of them.

Have you ever lost it with a rep? What happened? and did it ever help push things along?

 

Never again.

 

Just checking I’ve got them all?

 

I’m enjoying Yuzu with my PC hooked up to my TV via HDMI, however there are times I want to back out and get back into Steam Big Picture.

Is there a way to quit yuzu with just some esoteric button combination?

At the moment I’m having to Remote Desktop in to hit the Esc button and going from there, which isn’t really ideal.

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