Appliances have terrible design so often that I wonder if its intentional somehow. My parents bought brand new Jenn-Air appliances a few years ago, and the awful LCD menu takes like ≥5 taps (on a bad resistive touchscreen) to do anything, including start the microwave. Their 1994 midrange GE microwave/oven was more usable than luxury appliances from 2015
A music experience where you listen to music industry's preferences instead? That's a step down, even from not curating your spotify preferences at all.
What makes you think spotify isn’t injecting the music industry’s preferences into your playlist? But anyway there are plenty of radio stations that still pay humans to DJ that know more about music then, me with good enough programming skills that even if they play a song I don’t really care about, it is played in a context where I don’t mind listening to it.
> still pay humans to DJ that know more about music then, me with good enough programming skills that even if they play a song I don’t really care about, it is played in a context where I don’t mind listening to it.
Sure, and that's what Spotify IS doing, only they can do it for literally any song/artist/genre, instead of just the mainstream ones. If the RIAA wants to give me some melancholy lofi during my melancholy lofi listening, I don't really mind. I don't have to sit through an Imagine Dragons song, which is the radio alternative
I played through 40 hours of Cyberpunk and I'm about out of content worth doing. Geforce Now is great, but it has a caveat that make it dicey: ≤1080p only, and the window it creates cannot be resized. You're stuck with stretched 1080 if you're on a larger monitor (though it at least preserves aspect ratio when stretching).
Graphics are excellent, I was running on Ultra RTX (remember, 1080p) in most of the city and getting 50 fps, and latency was around 20-30ms. For how most games play, it wasn't really noticeable. $5 a month is a great deal, though I do wonder how Stadia stacks up. I certainly could have used the better resolution.
It also works on iPad/iPhone and Android decently, if you want to play anywhere. I didn't have any issues trying my iPad, though it appears you're stuck with controller input on that.
You can get a pretty good idea from power usage, storage, and internet usage. Unless there's multiple hidden revolutionary breakthroughs in speech transcription or compression, nothing unsavory is happening at scale.
...most didn't know about the Intel ME chip. A designated onboard black-box chip for transcriptions, that doesn't rely on an a server, would seriously benefit tech corps
Would it really be the first time we were lied to/surveilled?
When will we stop giving the hyper-growth oriented Silicon Valley startup world the benefit of the doubt?
I had been getting frustrated with my Oneplus and upgrade to an S10, and every once in awhile I wish that I hadn't. It's death by a thousand cuts, from engineers and management who have no respect for the user. Off the top of my head, within the past week, I've had:
* The wifi slows down to <1mbps every morning. Restarting wifi fixes this.
* The entire bixby button. It can finally be remapped, but occasional double taps (like using volume in the dark) will still open it.
* The weather 'Current temperature' widget updates every two days. Current temperature. Current. Two days.
* Random notifications to sign up for Samsung services that I don't want. You cannot swipe them away. You have to open the app and decline their EULA to get rid of it.
* Disappearing notifications
* Needing to reboot every week, or getting slowdowns
* Only two years of updates (an entire android problem)
Obviously all of these problems can be fixed, and many aren't exclusive to samsung, but dealing with all of them continuously is just grating. I had been planning to buy a Samsung Frame TV before I heard all this stuff about their ads.
Do you have a link or list for services to disable? I went through this list[0] for my S9 and at least I got rid of the Bixby button, the Samsung Share shortcuts, and a few other crapwares. Some Samsung junk still left though, and names are cryptic enough that I'm not sure what would or wouldn't break (for me, obviously depends on what you use).
Don't forget all those bundled spyware and bloatware services/apps of which most can be disabled through arduous labour but then magically get re-enabled every time you update the OS.
> What I'm saying is for young people the opportunities for gig are relatively the same compared to 1991, except its in the different form.
You've explicitly named lotteries and acted as if they're the same as actual gig employment. I have several instagram influencer friends, and a few who make youtube videos on the side. It's their dream to go pro. You want to know their collective income, from a pool of about 10 people, who have been working at this for over a year? It's under $100. That's not a gig, that's a lottery that costs time and energy.
If you want to talk gigs, talk about Wag or Uber. Which, are also definitely not the same gigs that the article was talking about.
>"You too can become an NBA player!". You have the opportunity if you work hard enough
I didn't say that.
Rather to find opportunity that suitable for you.
opportunity are there for everyone but a one particular gig may not be for everyone. Some suitable for being youtuber, some suitable for instagram model, some suitable to be game streamer, etc. These gig doesn't exist back in 1990, old people today shouldn't compare it the gig back in 1990, the economy are always evolving.
The opportunities you talk about are much like the opportunities to be an actor on television, they are few and far between compared to the amount of people who want those jobs. If the market supports 6000 Youtube stars and 100,000 people want to be Youtube stars your pep talk is naive.
