SpaceCadet

@SpaceCadet@sopuli.xyz

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There was no need to ever improve upon THIS⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Exactly why I had four 1-series since 2008 (E82, E81, F20 pre-facelift, F20 facelift). Switched to a G20 3-series when the 1-series went FWD, and soon it will be all electrical and qualities like “fun”, “light” and “simple” will be a thing of the past. We adapt and move on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There was no need to ever improve upon THIS⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Perhaps even a bit later. My 2014 F20 BMW 1-series was still pretty great. The facelift model of the same car I had after that (2017 or so) is the first one that started to include things that annoyed me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There was no need to ever improve upon THIS⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  There was really no golden period of car controls

  I’m going to say there was and it was around 2010. Like maybe 2005 until 2015.

  The BMWs of the E90/E87 generation that I drove in those years are still the pinnacle of automotive achievement for me. They had all the things I needed and nothign that annoyed me. Anything after that started to include more and more annoying stuff.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Modern Windows in a nutshell⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So why does that need a whole new clock app? That would just be an update to tzdata on a Linux system.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What techniques do bad faith users use online to overwhelm other users in online discussion and arguments?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hey look, we have a live one!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steve Jobs: The difference of stealing yourself vs being stolen from⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago⁩:

  he just died too soon for everyone to see him for the villain he was

  Oh he died soon enough.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pick your Lemmy instance wisely...⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago⁩:

  I earnestly wrote a couple of lines, and then a week later they replied that they don’t have enough information to decide, at which point I just threw my hands up and decided for them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Coming to you soon...⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago⁩:

  WEI is a proposed modification to Chrome/Chromium that doesn’t even exist yet, and that would have the side effect of blocking adblockers on every site that implements WEI.

  This here is an already existing change to the YouTube service that blocks adblockers on YouTube.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Sponsored recommendations": I pay for Spotify Premium, and yet somehow I'm still the product?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago⁩:

  But the point is, for the cost of a single CD per month I was able to listen to any CD from any band whenever I wanted. It was an extremely easy decision to sign up.

  Yeah but my point is, you pay but you don’t actually get those albums. So if after some years Spotify turns to shit you don’t have anything to show for when you cancel the service, and even though you have paid the equivalent of dozens of albums your music collection is gone.

  Also, I don’t buy anyting near an album per month, so even on that level it doesn’t make sense to me. I do have a large collection, but I’m not really digging much current music anymore so if I buy two albums per year, it’s a lot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Coming to you soon...⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago⁩:

  This has nothing to do with WEI. Google can do more than one shitty thing at once you know.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Sponsored recommendations": I pay for Spotify Premium, and yet somehow I'm still the product?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago⁩:

  Never understood why anyone would want to rent their music in the first place. As good as the service may be when you sign up for it, you know it will eventually turn to shit as they’re trying to monetize every last cent out of it, and then your only choices are to endure the shit or to quit the service and be left with nothing.