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Google is discontinuing the Chromecast line
  • No? Some of the most popular TV brands like LG and Samsung don't. And if your TV doesn't have Android, buying a Chromecast is a super cheap way to get it.

    I have an amazing 4k oled TV but it doesn't have android so I still had to buy a Chromecast for it because otherwise I had no way to watch TV.

  • YSK Americans, check to see if you can vote. Its real quick.
  • Nothing about the US system is particularly geared to prevent double voting.

    I get that you don't have a federal register (something you should really fix tbh) but requiring manual registration when you could, oh idk, simply register people when they are born and then later automatically provide them a unique ID they can vote with? (I'm not even talking a government ID for the purposes of identifying yourself to law enforcement and stuff, I'm talking even just a voter ID for the sake of voting only)

    Then have part of the number in that ID identify the state you're from if you want to prevent crossing borders to double vote (kinda like how credit card numbers have that info on them).

    It's what they do here anyway, I've had an ID since I was like 4, and it's with that document that I and everyone else votes.

    Though I know the US is probably too anti-democratic for this and none of the parties in power want to change jack.

  • Decentralised YouTube alternative Odysee no longer serving ads
  • Why is it not okay to call it what it is? If you openly allow nazis into your site, you have a nazi site. I'm sorry but there's just no way around it.

    Either you nip that garbage in the bud or your site is overrun by far right nut jobs, which is what happened with odysee.

    Of course nobody wants to use the site. Why would they?

    It's the nazi bar problem. You allow one nazi to enter your bar, then that nazi brings his nazi friends, and before you notice it you have a nazi bar and no one wants to visit.

    Odysee doesn't "appear" to have more right wing content, it objectively does. The majority of people who migrate to it are wackos who got banned in other places for their extremist views.

  • YSK Americans, check to see if you can vote. Its real quick.
  • It is wild to me that in the US you're not automatically registered to vote. The idea that you have to go through a manual process to exert one of your most basic constitutional rights is unfathomable to me.

    Here when you turn 18 you can just vote. It's that simple. No registration, no ticking a checkbox somewhere, you can simply go out there and vote the moment you're 18.

  • Like a pediatrician rounding on cystic fibrosis children in the hospital and smoking at their bedside. That's what the early 1980s were like.
  • Tokyo is the exception not the rule. Go anywhere else and you'll start seeing a lot more smokers.

  • Anon sets the mood
  • I've had a lot of different setups over the years on my TV to see if my family (all "what's a computer?" level of computer illiterate) could get the hang of it, and the one that clicked for all of them was Stremio+torrentio. Pop in a debrid service to avoid downtime/buffering issues and they've never complained since.

  • YouTube's server-side ads resulted in a black screen for ad blocker users
  • Don't interrupt my video with ads. Play before or after. Ideally after, but I can see why that would not be feasible. I guess it is also feasable if the creator marks ad breaks, like the current-day sponsor segments.

    FYI ad placement and type is decided by the creator not youtube. If you see a video full of ads in the middle it's because the creator of that video chose it to be so.

  • Am I "trans enough"
  • Demi gender is certainly a way I could approach my situation. For the most part, at least online (lord knows no one around me irl could even wrap their head around it) I just use any/all pronouns and feel satisfied with that. I guess I'm jus mostly apathetic towards it.

  • Am I "trans enough"
  • Hey OP I'm in a somewhat similar boat so maybe I can chime in to help.

    I've pondered many many times if I'm trans/would like to present as a woman. Every time I come out of those introspection sessions feeling like I wouldn't mind being a woman at all (physically or not), but I also don't feel a strong desire to be one either, nor do I have feelings of dysphoria with regards to my current body (or euphoria at the idea of changing it to be like a woman's for that matter).

    But like you I also think I wish I was more female presenting and I like "traditionally female" things, so to speak (as a silly anectodte, just this past summer I painted my whole room pink and started collecting plushies, even though I still have a thick ass beard).

    I think in the end, if I were to label myself, this lands me somewhere in the non-binary spectrum, because I don't have a strong attachment to the notion of maleness and have never seen myself "fully" as a man, but I also don't think I could go around calling myself a woman either.

    And after several years of this mental back and forth I frankly just now forgo the idea of labeling myself (which I guess could be a label like agender but I've never given it much thought). It's tiring and nothing ever feels like it fits entirely. I feel happier doing what I like and presenting how I like, and that's enough.

    Of course this isn't to say you're the same as me, but I hope this helps broaden your horizons if you don't feel like you're trans but not exactly cis either.

  • Flameshot, an Open Source screenshot software
  • A long time ago I did before I switched to sharex, which does what lightshot does but better.

  • Flameshot, an Open Source screenshot software
  • Regular user of sharex here who tried flameshot. Sharex has it beaten by a mile in terms of both features and customization.

    Only reason to use flameshot is if you're not on windows, since sharex is not available for Linux or MacOS.

  • The sheer arrogance
  • I hope you never meet my family. Literally everyone aside from me just leaves leftover food in the pan/oven instead of putting it in the fridge. Sometimes for more than 24 hours (time depends on when I find it and put it in the fridge, because lord knows they won't)

    Yes I've yelled at them a million times and told them they're ruining the food and risking health problems. No they don't care.

  • Internet Archive is in danger
  • Yes. In most European countries even small parties can get seats. In my country there are 8 parties in parliament, for example, and 2 of them didn't use to be there 2 election cycles ago (they were too small/new 8 years ago but eventually grew in popularity and got enough votes for representation).

    Of course if they only have 1 or 2 members in parliament they typcily tend to form coalitions with other like-minded parties so they can get more voting power.

  • Evolution of the alphabet
  • Japanese Manyogana does not count as a true alphabet because each character represents a mora (several sounds together), not an individual consonant or vowel.

    Hangul is a bit debatable as to whether or not it is a true alphabet because. Although individual components within each jamo (the characters in hangul) do indeed represent individual consonants and vowels, they cannot exist alone and must always be part of a set of 2, 3, or 4 components. So in a sense it works more like a syllabary (the same as hiragana in Japanese) rather than an alphabet. Opinions are varied on this. Though Hangul was also very much artificially created (it wasn't an evolution of an existing system, it was made from scratch), as Korea used Chinese characters up until then, so if we go by naturally evolving Latin/Greek is still the only one.

    This is why in linguistics we typically say that Greek (and by extension the Latin that derived from it) is literally the only time humanity naturally invented a true alphabet, ie a system where consonants and vowels are represented individually and separately. All other alphabets before then were what we call either abjad (alphabet systems with no vowel indicators, like Arabic) or abugida (systems where vowels are only represented with diacritic marks, like Thai).

  • oneteen
  • Indeed. Same rule applies to one hundred (hyaku) and one thousand (sen), but not after ten thousand (ichi-man, ichi-oku, i-cchou, etc.), except in the intervals between every 4th zero like in the first set (juu-man, hyaku-man, sen-man, etc.). I love Japanese.

  • If it works, kill it.
  • This is not true. The app is free and has no listening limits.

    What you can pay for is a web player (for pc), cross device syncing, cloud storage, extra themes, and some other perks.

    Been using pocket casts for like 7 years now with no complaints.

  • Logitech being Logitech
  • I think I know what issue you had and I think it wasn't bricked. I had the same exact problem a few weeks ago on my death adder when I upgraded its firmware and like you said it's well documented, then I discovered an obscure reddit comment saying I should literally unpair it from the dongle, repair, and then unplug the mouse mid pairing to fix the bricking. And yeah, like black voodoo magic, that fixed it for some unknown reason.

    All this to say razer software is utter garbage.

  • YouTube’s ad blocker crackdown now includes third-party apps
  • Way to miss my entire point.

    In this case, a law wouldn't be created, youtube would just be integrated in already existing laws for public TV broadcasts, which is the wrong way to go about it because obviously youtube doesn't work like TV.

  • YouTube’s ad blocker crackdown now includes third-party apps
  • It's a shame that this law still doesn't apply to YouTube

    If Germany is anything like Canada and other countries, applying public broadcast laws to YouTube would be a monkey's paw deal. Sure you might get tighter control over advertising, but youtube would also be forced to do things like show you x% of content made in your country/language, resulting in state mandated control of the content you see online and potentially limiting/warping international audiences for content creators, and potentially other ramifications I'm not considering.

    Now if they made a law specifically for youtube and other online video platforms that dealt with advertising in that context, that would be a different story.

  • Does the Dog Die? - A website for filtering movies by triggers
  • Really really useful for finding horror movies that aren't jumpscare fests. Even if it's tagged as having jumpscares there are usually comments clarifying the amount and/or frequency and when to expect them, which I really appreciate.

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