Kirk

joined 1 year ago
[–] Kirk@startrek.website 17 points 1 month ago

Love Bandcamp, I just discovered Bandcamp works perfectly with Music Assistant (popular Home Assistant app).

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 2 points 1 month ago

I thought it was just a chromium thing with a big ol delete history button

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 13 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Tidal is better than Spotify for music enjoyers. The quality is clearly labeled on each track and the UX has a focus on well, music. There aren't any podcasts or social features and other crap.

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 8 points 1 month ago

The reporters who pretend perfectly functional alternatives to Google don't exist are the same reporters that call twitter "The Internet" and if they left at all, went to BlueSky.

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I turned to Amazon's chatbot to ask if a particular appliance had a switch or a button because it wasn't obvious from the photos, and well, it got it wrong.

I honestly have no idea what anyone is actually using these things for.

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 81 points 2 months ago

I got the lifetime plan on Black Friday back when it was $0.00 I'm really glad I did that now

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 5 points 2 months ago

on one hand we should not be ascribing personally to next-word-predictors but on the other it can be pretty entertaining when we do

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 28 points 2 months ago (6 children)

...Remind me what this "industry" actually produces?

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

That's true, but only juuuuust enough to keep the advertisers paying. There is no incentive for a monopoly like Google to provide better service for their customers (their customers are the advertisers) than the bare minimum, since they have no meaningful competition.

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 14 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Actually, the advertisers lose too, this is just a way to get people to search more than once so advertisers dollars don't go as far.

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 2 points 2 months ago

lol this is a great example of how humans can post slop too thank you for illustrating

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