Google makes everything worse

Probably what *this* should be called.
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Re: Google makes everything worse

Post by Luna » Fri May 13, 2022 4:30 pm

haplo, guinea pig for me:
Click on the lock icon beside the youtube url.

Click "site settings".

Click "Clear Data" (if it doesn't appear, wait a few moments).

Refresh youtube, then set it back to dark theme, refresh it again, and it should stay.

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Re: Google makes everything worse

Post by Luna » Fri May 13, 2022 4:31 pm

i'm guessing thats just deleting the cookie, but i think youtube is looking for your device settings and not settings inside the cookie itself

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Post by Luna » Fri May 13, 2022 4:32 pm

i see another guy saying wiping the thing worked for him, though

"Clear out all YouTube related cookies and local storage. I did that and haven't had a problem since."

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Re: Google makes everything worse

Post by haplo » Fri May 13, 2022 4:50 pm

seems to have worked

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Re: Google makes everything worse

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Post by pterrus » Mon May 23, 2022 1:10 pm

Went to my friend the miner's house yesterday. His rig is significantly larger and more janky than when I last saw it. So many graphics cards.
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Obviously the crash affected him, but he's a long hodl-er and this is literally his retirement plan so it didn't seem like he was emotionally or motivationally affected more than I would be if my retirement account took a big hit. He said it's a good buy opportunity if I wanted to get in and he's probably not wrong.

He did mention that some time before the crash he moved his stuff into 100% bitcoin. He explained that it's the only true decentralized crypto and he has lost faith in how Ethereum is being centrally managed. I didn't ask him for his opinion on NFTs and now I wish I did.

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Re: Google makes everything worse

Post by Luna » Mon May 23, 2022 8:07 pm

how much do they have

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Post by haplo » Mon May 23, 2022 8:22 pm

is that a fan or an air filter

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Post by haplo » Mon May 23, 2022 8:23 pm

either way that does not seem like a great air flow strategy

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Post by pterrus » Mon May 23, 2022 9:15 pm

Luna wrote: Mon May 23, 2022 8:07 pm how much do they have
How much what? BTC, no idea. Cards it looks like 10 running?

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Post by pterrus » Mon May 23, 2022 9:15 pm

haplo wrote: Mon May 23, 2022 8:23 pm either way that does not seem like a great air flow strategy
It is a fan. He says it works great. I am certain his setup is non optimal though, just look at it.

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Post by Khaos » Mon May 23, 2022 9:43 pm

he has the correct shelf but you're supposed to zip tie gfx cards to it and use risers

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Post by pterrus » Mon May 23, 2022 9:49 pm

Can you use pass throughs and put your rig in an actual fridge?

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Post by Khaos » Mon May 23, 2022 10:02 pm

i dont think a fridge compressor is rated to be running 24/7

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Post by Dantes » Tue May 24, 2022 3:21 am

That entire arrangement makes me unreasonably irritated. I want to spam him with cable porn.
Pour like Hemingway's last call.

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Post by Blissful » Tue May 24, 2022 1:37 pm

could you make like, a hardware device for mining bitcoin? like one thats better than a graphics card at it? or does economies of scale make that kind of thing not work

either rylinks or khaos will know this for sure
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Post by pterrus » Tue May 24, 2022 1:39 pm

Blissful wrote: Tue May 24, 2022 1:37 pm could you make like, a hardware device for mining bitcoin? like one thats better than a graphics card at it? or does economies of scale make that kind of thing not work

either rylinks or khaos will know this for sure
Yes, they make ASICs for this that are more efficient than graphics cards but I have no idea whether they make economic sense.

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Post by Khaos » Tue May 24, 2022 3:28 pm

they cost lots of money and are probably even harder to get your hands on

but yeah they've existed for a long time

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Re: Google makes everything worse

Post by Rylinks » Tue May 24, 2022 3:32 pm

graphics cards don't mine bitcoin anymore but that's mostly academic as you could run that rig in a mining pool that determines the most effective thing to mine and then pays in bitcoin

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Post by Skeletor » Tue May 24, 2022 5:53 pm

Ashenai wrote: Tue May 10, 2022 10:24 pm I have gigantic hard drives with obsessively structured directories, but I still find myself interacting with them differently, mostly thanks to Everything. It's a searchability thing. Just like the most efficient way to use the web used to be memorizing URLs and now it's just googling up whatever you need, I used to rely on logically nested, meticulously named directories to find my stuff, and now I just type in whatever I need and it brings it up instantly. It's literally faster to use Everything's search than to navigate to the correct directory, even if I know exactly where it is.
that is how i find files also
wow, [you]. that all sounds terrible. i hope it gets better for you

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Re: Google makes everything worse

Post by pterrus » Tue May 24, 2022 6:17 pm

Rylinks wrote: Tue May 24, 2022 3:32 pm graphics cards don't mine bitcoin anymore but that's mostly academic as you could run that rig in a mining pool that determines the most effective thing to mine and then pays in bitcoin
Interesting! This must be what he does.

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Re: Google makes everything worse

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Re: Google makes everything worse

Post by Luna » Wed Jun 22, 2022 10:28 pm

Amazon demonstrates Alexa mimicking the voice of a deceased relative

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/06/22/amazon- ... ative.html

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Re: Google makes everything worse

Post by rianalnn » Wed Jun 22, 2022 10:35 pm

grossssss

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Bring on the kung-fu amputees - no arms vs. no legs anyone? A bit of high-speed underground ninja-tunneling is always good as well. I wanna see some shit like that. Crazy monks with gnarly special powers can make any film good. FACT.

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Re: Google makes everything worse

Post by seathesee » Wed Jun 22, 2022 11:11 pm

is it time to smash the machines yet?
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Re: Google makes everything worse

Post by seathesee » Wed Jun 22, 2022 11:22 pm

Luna wrote: Fri Jun 17, 2022 1:38 am
i actually legitimately miss internet explorer.

the county i mostly practice in uses a website/program to archive electronic copies of court documents. you need a subscription to access it. it only works in internet explorer. if you use chrome or firefox, at least, to enter a case number, the dashes wont show up and it screws up the search function.

when internet explorer went away, i had to resort to using old computers we randomly had around the office to access the website/program. we recently discovered that microsoft edge has an "internet explorer mode" that i guess dumbs down your browser to avoid issues like the above.
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Re: Google makes everything worse

Post by Crunchums » Thu Jun 23, 2022 1:13 am

spotify why do you only have deluxe versions of certain albums
if i want to listen to Aim and Ignite I want to press play and then listen to the songs that are on the album; i don't want to have to additionally go the the queue and remove deluxe songs
you even used to have functionality that would let you effectively make your own version of an album so that i could do things like press one button to listen to The Infamous without all of the tracks that aren't actually music. then you got rid of it
shame on you >: [
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Re: Google makes everything worse

Post by rianalnn » Thu Jun 23, 2022 3:15 am

we gos to take the power BACK

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Bring on the kung-fu amputees - no arms vs. no legs anyone? A bit of high-speed underground ninja-tunneling is always good as well. I wanna see some shit like that. Crazy monks with gnarly special powers can make any film good. FACT.

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Post by rianalnn » Thu Jun 23, 2022 3:17 am

*puts a record on*

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Bring on the kung-fu amputees - no arms vs. no legs anyone? A bit of high-speed underground ninja-tunneling is always good as well. I wanna see some shit like that. Crazy monks with gnarly special powers can make any film good. FACT.

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Re: Google makes everything worse

Post by Luna » Tue Jul 12, 2022 6:28 pm

Under subscription plans recently rolled out in the United Kingdom, Germany, South Korea and several other markets, BMW owners will have to pay the equivalent of $18 per month to turn on the heated front seats that are already installed in their vehicles.

In South Korea, the UK and other markets, BMW is also selling subscriptions for other vehicle features.

Car owners will have to pay $12 per month to use their heated steering wheels and $42 a month for access to adaptive cruise control.

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