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  1. I like the service on YouTube TV Costs $50 Per Month After Another Price Hike (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm a fan of this service. It's the only one that has all my local channels and it works well on all my devices. They are getting close to the maximum price I'd consider paying, and they'll be closer to the front of the line to get cut next time I get around to cancelling services at this new price.

  2. Re:Yay! More drugs for the masses... on Startup Sells Pot 'Grow Fridges' That Are Tended By Robots (nj.com) · · Score: 1

    YMMV but I have lower back pain from a spinal issue and marijuana doesn't help even a little bit with the pain. Alcohol is somewhat helpful since it relaxes the muscles a bit, but I'm not interested in using it as a normal form of treatment. I'd rather deal with the pain than use opiates, so that's what I'm doing. It's definitely an impressive drug, but it doesn't help in every case.

  3. If you want truly wireless headphones just get some much cheaper ones on Amazon. The pricing on Airpods is absurd.

  4. Enough with the "Literally" on AT&T CEO Interrupted By a Robocall During a Live Interview (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    It's literally a robocall.

    Really? So you mean it's not figuratively a robocall? The pervasive unnecessary use of the word "literally" needs to stop.

  5. I'd rather watch paint dry than another dolled up rip of of the same movie for the 100'th time. I don't care about the gender aspect or anything else, I would just like it if the adult audience would grow up and stop going to these pointless children's movies.

  6. No Thanks on What It's Like To Smoke Salvia For Science (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    I watched some friends of mine use it and decided it's not for me.

  7. Re:I made my own internet in college on Vladimir Putin Wants His Own Internet (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    So ignoring the time and labor needed to insert and then write to these devices and then remove and load them into the plane, then finally do the same in reverse in order to read them it will come down to either the maximum load of the airplane or maximum volume. I have no idea about the volume, so I'm going to assume that this payload will fit.

    I chose pre-order 1TB Sandisk "Extreme" cards from Amazon for $404 each since the release is only 10 days away, and we can double our bandwidth over 512GB cards. For the cargo plane, we'll use a Boeing 747-8 which has a cargo capacity of 140 tons. Each card weighs .5g so each pound of capacity is enough for ~900 cards. Multiply that by 2000 and we have 1,800,000 sd cards per ton, multiply that by 140 and we end up at 252M sd card capacity for a 747. So we're talking about 252 EB (exabyte) per 747. The cost of the SD cards is $102B USD.

  8. Old people who don't understand tech on More People Bought Physical CDs and Vinyl Than Songs on iTunes Last Year (bgr.com) · · Score: 1

    Spotify (and I assume all the other streaming services) gives you the ability to add your own local music files so you can enjoy the best of both the streaming and playing local files. You can also download the tracks to your device for playback without any streaming, so you don't need to rely on the network in order to enjoy your music. You can even purpose an older device or cheap "burner" model and only come online once in awhile to update the library. It's ridiculous how many people here criticize the tech without having any knowledge whatsoever of what it's capabilities are. You have become as useless as my grandparents.

  9. facebook really doesn't offer anything that can't be easily replicated with a low investment

    How do you propose to get the user base with "low investment"? A FB clone with no users is worthless.

  10. Re:Keylogger would be easier on Severe Vulnerabilities Uncovered In Popular Password Managers (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    The user is usually copying and pasting in the case of using a password manager, so the keyboard buffer will not have what you are looking for.

  11. All they require is an email address, so just use a throwaway and mail it to them from a public mail box.

  12. How does a "bug" like this make it to a supposedly stable app?

  13. Samsung is not user friendly on Samsung Phone Users Perturbed To Find They Can't Delete Facebook (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    I switched to a Pixel 2 from my Samsung Galaxy S7 mostly because Samsung was so hostile to unlocking the bootloader and rooting the phone. It was possible to modify, but it didn't perform as well as it did on stock. At least with the Pixel 2 I can unlock the bootloader and root the device with only a stern warning about the integrity of the OS not being verified.

  14. Re:Why do people do this on How YouTube's Domination of Streaming Clips the Market's Wings (wordpress.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Because everything is there for free. I made a playlist recently and had to download some of the songs from youtube because I couldn't find them anywhere else.

  15. Like talking to my grandfather on Album Sales Are Dying as Fast as Streaming Services Are Rising (rollingstone.com) · · Score: 1

    You guys seem totally unaware that every major streaming service offers offline listening. Maybe the reason you don't like streaming services is because you haven't given them a fair chance.

  16. I charge my BT headphones when I am done using them and pair them only with my phone. Took me almost no time or effort to solve your problems. I think this article is just complaining for the sake of it.

  17. Not watching those shows on Hulu, AT&T To Test 'Pause Ads' In 2019, Automatically Playing Commercials When You Hit Pause (macrumors.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This is really easy, if there are forced ads I will attempt to block or skip them. If that's not possible I will skip the content. I've been spoiled by DVR, downloads, ad-free streaming, and other methods of viewing shows without ads. I'm not going back to watching ads ever.

  18. Re:Oversimplification of telemarketers on The Story of Lenny, the Internet's Favorite Telemarketing Troll (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    About 15 years ago I was a bit desperate in between jobs and took a job at a call center. It was immediately clear that the people I was calling did not want to speak to me at all. I made it through two calls before I walked out.

  19. I'm running Ubuntu in WSL and it's nice to have for an rsync or a find/replace since I'm much more comfortable with bash than I am powerscript or dos. The advantages over a full VM are that it's got direct access to the Windows FS and that it runs instantly without having to run a (memory and processor intensive) VM.

  20. Didn't upgrade on Android Pie Has a Battery Life Problem (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 2

    I have a Pixel 2 and am sticking with 8.1 Oreo. It runs great and I didn't see anything in 9.x that I have any need for.

  21. This is a good workaround to using rented devices.

  22. Re:Can they do that? on FBI Forced Suspect To Unlock His iPhone X Through Face ID (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Most people here use Apple, because it "just works" and those on Android don't bother to root and setup titanium backup. All this talk about security and being nerds is overblown.

  23. See this less often on Twitter Is Reviving the Chronological Timeline (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    I always click on see this less often, yet it's always there regardless. It trained me to stop going there. Maybe I'll be less annoyed with future visits.

  24. Re:Because we're suckers for good marketing on Why Is American Mass Transit So Bad? It's a Long Story. (citylab.com) · · Score: 1

    I bought after being forced out of a half dozen or so apartments for various reasons. One was leveled to build a larger apartment complex, a few were private landlords who decided to sell or occupy it themselves. That is what pushed me into home ownership.

  25. Re:"I just send the rockets up" on Open Source Devs Reverse Decision to Block ICE Contractors From Using Software (vice.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    It's because you're buying into the strawman argument about the D's wanting to have totally open borders. That's not anywhere near the policy Obama had, and not the policy Democrats in office or their voters want. What should be common sense is to treat immigrants and refugees humanely regardless of whether or not they are ultimately allowed entry.