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ByteDance prefers TikTok shutdown in US if legal options fail, sources say in c/technology

Americans’ new TV habit: Subscribe. Watch. Cancel. Repeat. in c/news

Mercedes becomes the first automaker to sell autonomous cars in the U.S. that don't come with a requirement that drivers watch the road in c/technology

YouTube’s ad blocker crackdown now includes third-party apps in c/technology

[–] piskertariot 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Television shows are 22-24 minutes, because cable TV should show 6-8 minutes of ads every half hour. 30 second ads in blocks of 3 or 4, multiple times per show.

15 seonds ads are almost too short for a trip to the kitchen. I'm not saying they're good, but if you want to compare to cable TV, you need to remember the dark times.

Roku explores taking over HDMI feeds with ads in c/technology

[–] piskertariot 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Do not look away from screen while ad is playing, or playback will be paused for 5 minutes for first offense.

Population tipping point could arrive by 2030: global fertility will drop below replacement level years earlier than expected. in c/world

[–] piskertariot 11 points 11 months ago

Sounds like a problem for governments to figure out

Immigration was always an outsourced bandaid for solving population decline.

Microsoft opens a "high priority" bug ticket in ffmpeg, attempting to leech the free labour of the maintainers in c/[email protected]

[–] piskertariot 7 points 11 months ago

Meanwhile Google has always just forced you to go to Google Groups to log bugs in production software.

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[–] piskertariot 4 points 11 months ago

To not meme is divine

Quest 1 becomes near-E-waste Apr 30 in c/games

[–] piskertariot 7 points 11 months ago

I have used my pi-hole to blacklist all the oculus, meta and facebook domains, so I don't get firmware update pushes on my Q1.

BUT, I did have a weird out-of-sync issue with Virtual Desktop a few months ago when I thought I had properly version locked.

All I ever wanted my Quest to be was a monitor. The fact that they could brick a monitor because they feel like it's obsolete, is asinine.

No Man's Sky Orbital Update brings full ship customisation and a complete space station overhaul in c/games

[–] piskertariot 4 points 11 months ago

I waited to get involved until after the Echoes update last summer, and I truly enjoyed 100+ hours of the game.

It still does suffer from inevitably feeling really empty, with billions of copies of the same 4 different coloured/temperatured planets and 8 creature types, but it was still a heck of an experience.

*Permanently Deleted* in c/space

[–] piskertariot 4 points 1 year ago

Thanks. I'm bad at Lemmy, and thought I had included it.

Kentucky senate passes bill granting right to collect child support for fetuses in c/news