celerate 9mo ago • 100%
This is the first I'm hearing about the content creators getting paid out of the deal. YouTube needs to do a better job of letting people know this.
celerate 9mo ago • 80%
I looked at it. The features aren't worth the price at all.
celerate 9mo ago • 97%
Yeah, I am very likely autistic. I wonder when the lawsuits will start.
celerate 11mo ago • 100%
People used to tell me that I reminded them of Sheldon from tbbt as though that was a compliment.
celerate 11mo ago • 100%
I agree, yet for some reason celebrities who are not qualified to comment on these things have their voices amplified by the media.
celerate 1y ago • 99%
Dear YouTube, if anyone there ever reads this.
I tried not to block ads, I would let the preroll go and usually not skip it.
I started skipping ads when they started getting long. I recall some were several minutes long at times.
I started leaving videos part way through when there were mid-roll ads, and those got long enough that I'd often forget what I was even watching.
I started blocking the ads outright when I would be watching a relaxing video, and a very loud mid-roll ad would blow out my goddamn eardrums.
Fuck you YouTube. You abused your users, you chased off good content creators, and now you're offering people no carrot and all stick. How about you offer to match the volume of the ads to the videos, limit the length of ads to something reasonable, and nicely tell viewers that you are making ads less annoying and that unblocking the ads helps pay the content creators.
celerate 1y ago • 100%
Someone please explain to me how 3D printing vegetables could be cheaper or more efficient than just growing them?
celerate 1y ago • 93%
A fellow RiFugee
celerate 1y ago • 100%
That seems rather shitty. Can I not blame Samsung for making and selling a phone my carrier can push unwanted software on without my consent?
celerate 1y ago • 100%
Who makes it so the carrier can do this? Samsung, or Android (Google)?
celerate 1y ago • 70%
Not cool, Samsung.
celerate 1y ago • 50%
Years ago I heard a joke, I am pretty sure it was on Royal Canadian Air Farce (the chicken cannon was the best part). The joke went "Canadians don't vote for who they want, they vote against who they don't want."
You are living up to that joke.
celerate 1y ago • 100%
This one doesn't surprise me. I remember a recording of a guy in India doing a job interview over the phone. He had a friend on a other phone giving him the answers to the test questions. The person giving the interview heard enough in the background to figure this out, and gave the cheater tips on how to be less obvious next time.
celerate 1y ago • 100%
My impression is that being an MSP is a turn-key solution. A bigger company sells you the tools, training and support staff so you can cosplay as an IT company. The companies providing the tools, training and staff are making you dependent on them too, as well as making bank referring you to their partner solution providers.
celerate 1y ago • 100%
The ISP here does exactly that.
celerate 1y ago • 100%
My boss paid for contacts from a lead generation company. Said company provided us with a bunch of names and phone numbers, and said they had called to make sure the clients were interested before providing us the list.
When I called, I would get told off and the prospective clients would tell me they had never heard of us and didn't get any calls prior. I reported this to my boss. He went back to the leads company with this and they told him "oh, we definitely called these people" and that was good enough for my boss.
Thank God he scrapped that lead generation plan. I don't know how much he paid the lead generation company, but I'd wager they wrote a web scraper for school and ISP contacts and just sent him that list.
celerate 1y ago • 100%
I worked for a company that was also a small ISP. If the internet service for our clients went down we were not allowed to tell them the truth. We either had to blame the upstream provider, or act like we had just heard about it and were looking into it.
celerate 1y ago • 100%
My parents raised me with unfortunate views, as did the churches they forced me to attend. It was only through life experience that I came to realize they were wrong.
Violence didn't help me, it made me feel isolated and more inclined to think that those using violence against me didn't have rational arguments against my views.
Violence doesn't win arguments, and it should be a last resort, using it for instant gratification is a sure strategy to prolong conflict.
Can I use any windshield washer fluid I want for my car, or do I have to match it to whatever remains in the resevoir?