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The Spotify spam _is_ already atrocious and unmanageable. If anything, it might get a little bit more creative instead of people just publishing the same samples from Splice everywhere.

I think that's just GDPR?

> The requirement to offer a 'Reject All' button next to an 'Accept All' button follows indirectly from the consent requirements in the GDPR; consent must be as easy to revoke as it is to give.

https://www.dataguidance.com/opinion/eu-cookie-banners-and-u...

It is a good startup idea, a great one even... if the year was 1998 and PayPal and similar didn't exist.

> And the model where some patrons receive a reward encourages transactionalism and disappointed patrons when they don't get the reward they expected.

More than that, I don't think Patreons will ever be able to compete in a world where Netflix/Max/Disney exists just by making content. For example, if you consider the $10 tier of The Command Zone[1], you'd have to weight that in against something like the Disney+ catalog, which I think is even cheaper and definitely has a lot more content?

[1] https://www.patreon.com/commandzone

My anecdata is that my late-twenties felt way slower than my early-twenties, mostly because I switched from a 9-5 office job to a remote job that allowed me to slow travel. I spent a month in Rome and I remember most days and definitely remember all weekends, but I would have to really dig deep for a memory from 2019.

It's a bit ironic how you answer your own "question", but yeah. It's not glued to your face, you can choose to wear it only when you feel like you need it. If you only use it for 1 hour a day that's good for you. I'm sure there's lots of gadgets that get way less use than that.

Now, you should probably ask yourself why you care so much about what other people do with their money. I won't get one, but I see why people would. If you are also not considering buying it, why do you even care ?

Do you work non-stop for 8h/day? no video calls ? no lunch?

You'd probably only use it for focused work, i.e. when you actually need more than one screen.

> to the beach

I think it's pretty clear that "the beach" here means your hotel room/airbnb. You wouldn't usually travel with your monitors, so you'd be stuck with your 14" screen. That's the use case this is addressing.

> The major industries don't just pollute for the sake of it, they respond to demand for which we individually share a part of the blame.

It seems to me like one could use the same argument regarding slave labor, but somehow we manage to force companies to comply there.

There's also hexo [1]. I saw that on Matt Klein's website [2] and the theme looked pretty clean.

[1] https://hexo.io

[2] https://mattklein123.dev/2020/03/08/2020-03-07-new-website/

Have you considered monitor arms to just kinda chuck your monitors out of the way after you are done using them ?

I'm on the same boat as you, but ended up just getting a long table so I can move to the empty side when I need it.

"Yeah, the best content is on twitter, you have everything from links to Medium to links to personal websites, sometimes there's even screenshots of them!"

Unrelated, but I just realized the horse is not in fact called "horse" like it is in Italian/Spanish.

> The app could bypass your phone's privacy protections

iOS != App Store

> which is an outlier's outlier relative to the history of the species

So is living in houses

I feel like you have to start dropping names here. Which creator does actually produce quality content AND uses clickbait thumbnails/titles ?

And don't you dare saying "Linus Tech Tips"

Right click, "Don't recommend channel"

After a week of doing that you can pretty easily get rid of the trash content.

On the competition aspect, I think it's also important to look at the consumer side. For me it was wild knowing Mission Impossible struggled at the box office because of Barbie/Oppenheimer, especially because it was such a big budget film and it was actually my favorite of the three. The reality is that most people would maybe go once a month to the cinema, so they have to prioritize what to watch.

To make matters worse, you are also competing with all of history. If you want to read 12 books this year, when are you going to get to the small creators with years-worth of classics to go through?

That's only been true for the past few months, and it's been very well documented how complicated the cancelation process used to be [0].

It's funny because I use PayPal for any unknown-to-me site where I don't want to give out my card, but the only site where I've needed their help to cancel something was the New York Times.

[0] https://www.nirandfar.com/cancel-new-york-times/

I've been using iCloud[0] with a custom domain for over a year now and it's been pretty great. It's included with Apple One, so it may be "free" for you already.

I think the most important part is having your own domain so you can switch whenever you want, but that's also the most difficult part.

What I did is to keep both emails and slowly migrate service by service. Nowadays, my Gmail is mostly spam and all the important things are in my custom domain, so I just check my old email once or twice per month in case there's something I've missed.

[0] https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT212514

Just like Futurama predicted, Hail Science!

https://youtu.be/-tVuxZCwXos?si=4AJ6rPMEa8hPyaaG

> have to be careful not to spoil the "I am your father" reveal

I'd never thought about it before, but the prevalence of star wars in pop culture made it so basically my whole generation had that reveal spoiled in cartoons and different parodies way before any of us actually watched the movie.

Ah yes, the past years have been only incremental upgrades like the Airpods, Vision Pro or the completely boring M1 chips that literally no one bought because intel was just as good.

Why are you pretending like flexibility is something you cannot give freely ?

That's like saying all junior-level employees MUST carry a book on top of their heads all the time, and only C-Level executives get to skip that. If you give someone flexibility, you are not taking anything away from other people, so not giving it is only an unnecessary punishment for junior level employees.

“I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

> he's the guy who started companies aiming to make satellite internet that doesn't suck

He started SpaceX because he wanted human missions to mars, he's as "progressive" as every American was in the 70s.

> popularize electric cars when every manufacturer had given up on them

Eh... "The company was incorporated as Tesla Motors, Inc. on July 1, 2003, by Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning."

And the worst you can do is to buy all of Walmart's stock of cards, while digital stuff has no upper limit

> Just give me back old reliable 3.5mm jack

https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MNHF2AM/A/earpods-with-35...

> What can be done about it? Also, any headphones that let you replace batteries?

One thing you can do is getting something like the UTWS1 from FiiO [1], which is then connected to any IEM that has an MMCX connector. This is not cheap, and is probably not going to give you the best battery life and/or sound quality, but when the battery dies or you get tired of it you still have a perfectly functional set of headphones.

[1] https://www.fiio.com/utws1

> 99.9% of content is garbage and / or not relevant to

Then don't use it ? That's like saying you only like one show on netflix so they should give it to you for free

You don't have to watch YouTube videos, you choose to.