Google makes everything worse

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

Post by Dantes » Fri Nov 18, 2022 3:18 am

Luna wrote: Fri Nov 18, 2022 3:10 am
Dantes wrote:
Interesting.

Honestly, I'm a huge fan of interop, standards, and choice. It's worked really well with Browsers. I have no idea why it wouldn't work with something like Twitter.
the federated universe / fediverse is more than just twitter / mastadon. it's actually what web 3.0 is supposed to be, sort of. but that got hijacked by the crypto guys. i guess technically it was going to have something to do with the blockchain, so ok, and this stuff isn't truly decentralized now because you still have guys on top hosting / controlling the server itself. but it's sort of whatever because if those admins do suck you just surf on the splinters
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXB26d8qcN4
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Post by Luna » Fri Nov 18, 2022 3:23 am

you could argue web 2.0 was a marketing phrase but it was also a real thing that changed the internet forever

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Post by Dantes » Fri Nov 18, 2022 3:30 am

Luna wrote: Fri Nov 18, 2022 3:23 am you could argue web 2.0 was a marketing phrase but it was also a real thing that changed the internet forever
Both statements can be true at the same time. They can also be true and false at different times. :shrug:
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Post by haplo » Fri Nov 18, 2022 3:45 am

Luna wrote:four chan lost old, man. get over it >:3
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Post by Jeb Bush 2012 » Fri Nov 18, 2022 4:33 pm

all of these ideas seem much worse than twitter-as-it-is and I hope it either survives or something broadly similar replaces it

I don't think mastodon is going to be that thing but if it is, I expect it will be by some individual mastodon instance taking over and all the "decentralised" stuff becoming vestigial

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Re: Google makes everything worse

Post by Jeb Bush 2012 » Fri Nov 18, 2022 4:33 pm

ideally it would survive in a way that involves elon musk losing tens of billions of dollars though

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Post by Ashenai » Sun Nov 20, 2022 11:24 am

Trump's been reinstated on Twitter (there was a vote, apparently!) I dunno if he's gonna start posting again, but I assume yes, because attention.

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Post by Blissful » Sun Nov 20, 2022 2:13 pm

refusing to post there after musk has gone to the trouble of this whole dog and pony show would be a pretty epic flex though
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Post by Hyphen-ated » Mon Nov 21, 2022 3:52 am

original web 3.0 was "the semantic web" where you would publish rdf triples or whatever the fuck and this would somehow be useful

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Post by Crunchums » Mon Nov 21, 2022 6:16 pm

i updated to ios16 and they removed the volume slider from the lock screen!?!?!
what kind of idiot company thinks that's a good idea
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Post by Skeletor » Mon Nov 21, 2022 6:53 pm

Crunchums wrote: Mon Nov 21, 2022 6:16 pm i updated to ios16 and they removed the volume slider from the lock screen!?!?!
what kind of idiot company thinks that's a good idea
according to the thread title, google
wow, [you]. that all sounds terrible. i hope it gets better for you

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Post by Crunchums » Mon Nov 21, 2022 6:58 pm

i hate it when google makes my apple devices worse :clopsrage:
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Post by Dantes » Mon Nov 21, 2022 7:10 pm

Crunchums wrote: Mon Nov 21, 2022 6:58 pm i hate it when google makes my apple devices worse :clopsrage:
You know my position on this: Your life is made immeasurably better when you don't use Google services.
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Post by Skeletor » Mon Nov 21, 2022 9:07 pm

the one thing google makes better is wifi. couldn't believe how good the google mesh wifi was however many years ago when i got it. but it did get outdated as internet speeds got better and wifi became the limiting factor. just upgraded to their new nest pro and my wifi is so much better, both for the above reason, but also better coverage through the house with fewer devices in the mesh
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Post by Rylinks » Mon Nov 21, 2022 9:09 pm

i liked the old days where you could illegaly increasy your router's power by downloading custom firmware

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Post by Jeb Bush 2012 » Mon Nov 21, 2022 9:27 pm

Skeletor wrote: Mon Nov 21, 2022 6:53 pm according to the thread title, google
you don't have to like google compensating for their inferior hardware by planting sleeper agents to sell apple on bizarre&bad design decisions, but you have to respect the hustle

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Post by Jeb Bush 2012 » Mon Nov 21, 2022 9:28 pm

[guy who played wormtongue in lotr, also he's wearing a google hoodie that everyone inexplicably ignores] a ceo's castle must have the finest doors. pristine and transparent, free of the blemishes that mark the doors of less men

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Post by groff_enthusiast » Mon Nov 21, 2022 9:58 pm

pterrus wrote: 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.
That looks EXACTLY like my space heater, which seems like the opposite of what they may want to do
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Post by Magical » Mon Nov 21, 2022 10:59 pm

Skeletor wrote: Mon Nov 21, 2022 9:07 pm the one thing google makes better is wifi.
What about search?

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Post by Skeletor » Mon Nov 21, 2022 11:01 pm

Magical wrote: Mon Nov 21, 2022 10:59 pm
Skeletor wrote: Mon Nov 21, 2022 9:07 pm the one thing google makes better is wifi.
What about search?
well right now it seems like spam is winning from my view and all search fucking sucks ass
wow, [you]. that all sounds terrible. i hope it gets better for you

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Post by Magical » Mon Nov 21, 2022 11:05 pm

Yeah true. To Google's credit though, I've tried DuckDuckGo and have found the difference in quality noticeable.

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Post by Magical » Wed Nov 23, 2022 3:44 am

Wow, YouTube search got real bad. Serves you results interspersed with a separate chunk of random stuff other people watched, and then a chunk of things "for you" wholly unrelated to what you searched for.

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Post by Dantes » Wed Nov 23, 2022 9:58 am

Magical wrote: Mon Nov 21, 2022 10:59 pm
Skeletor wrote: Mon Nov 21, 2022 9:07 pm the one thing google makes better is wifi.
What about search?
Use Bing. Search is good and ad count is lower.
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Re: Google makes everything worse

Post by Luna » Wed Nov 23, 2022 11:05 am

it's the sound of found

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Post by Doug » Wed Nov 23, 2022 2:35 pm

Use Qwant, and then get back to me about how it was
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Re: Google makes everything worse

Post by Skeletor » Wed Nov 23, 2022 3:45 pm

Crunchums wrote: Mon Nov 21, 2022 6:16 pm i updated to ios16 and they removed the volume slider from the lock screen!?!?!
what kind of idiot company thinks that's a good idea
i just updated today and i have a volume slider, did they fix it or am i seeing something different
wow, [you]. that all sounds terrible. i hope it gets better for you

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Post by Crunchums » Wed Nov 23, 2022 3:47 pm

Skeletor wrote: i just updated today and i have a volume slider, did they fix it or am i seeing something different
ios 16.1.1?
also i think there is maybe still a slider for a few particular apps
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Post by Skeletor » Wed Nov 23, 2022 3:48 pm

yeah. maybe it only shows up because i had been using audible last or something
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Post by Skeletor » Wed Nov 23, 2022 4:36 pm

we're taking about the slider on the right, yea? i don't have any apps open
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Post by Crunchums » Wed Nov 23, 2022 4:46 pm

that's still there. here's a before/after - volume slider on the left, no volume slider on the right:
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