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  1. Comment on Amazon Prime Video will start showing ads on January 29th in ~tech

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    Its always been really buggy for me and for a really long time the "X" to leave X-Ray was right over the "X" to leave the video and they looked identical. The ambiguity made me uncomfortable and...

    Its always been really buggy for me and for a really long time the "X" to leave X-Ray was right over the "X" to leave the video and they looked identical. The ambiguity made me uncomfortable and half the time I would close out of the video.

    But I'll usually hide it unless I'm trying to remember an actor I can barely recall. It destroys the immersion for me like when you're engrossed in some dramatic moment and then you accidentally jiggle your mouse and it's like "oh here's 5 actors that were on screen a scene ago".

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  2. Comment on Amazon Prime Video will start showing ads on January 29th in ~tech

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    I'll be honest, I'm surprised it took Amazon this long to start serving ads along with their own (i.e., not Freevee) content. I might just be a bit cynical, but it always seemed a bit...

    I'll be honest, I'm surprised it took Amazon this long to start serving ads along with their own (i.e., not Freevee) content. I might just be a bit cynical, but it always seemed a bit "too-good-to-be-true" that hours of content (and popular content at that) would be available with a base Prime subscription. It always seemed like a loss-leader to me to bring new customers to Prime.

    That said, I'm sure Prime video has been great at getting people to shop on Amazon. It's always been my understanding that everything they do (in re UX) is to keep you on their website, thus making it a one-stop-shop for "essentials" and entertainment.

    Quite frankly, I fully expect Amazon to turn X-Ray into a sort-of shopping assistant, like "click here to buy Crowley's glasses!" This is anecdotal, but they already seem to do that with merchandise -- I think I noticed that watching The Boys. And now that I think about, I'm a little surprised there isn't more product placement in the media itself... though that would be a bit ironic in shows like Upload and The Boys.

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  3. Comment on Weekly thread for casual chat and photos of pets in ~life.pets

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    My two boys Monty (left) and Biscuit (right). They can be a handful sometimes, but at the end of the day, they make me so so happy.

    My two boys Monty (left) and Biscuit (right).

    They can be a handful sometimes, but at the end of the day, they make me so so happy.

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  4. Comment on What password management solution do you use and why? in ~tech

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    I'm lucky enough to get Keeper free through my work and it manages TOTP for me (which I really like). Though the user experience requires a lot of work. The primary use case is in-browser, so just...

    I'm lucky enough to get Keeper free through my work and it manages TOTP for me (which I really like). Though the user experience requires a lot of work. The primary use case is in-browser, so just as an extension, though there is a desktop application. That said, I have quite a few problems with it, some of which, in no particular order are:

    • The UX is slow and unresponsive,
    • The browser extension populates webpages with all sorts of ugly little lock icons,
    • If I don't have a matching URL associated with one of my password entries, then Keeper will assume I don't have an entry at all,
    • Their desktop app is even worse than the browser extension — as far as being unresponsive goes — and I believe the only way to keep a local version of your password DB... see following point,
    • And one time their servers broke, so for about half a day I couldn't access any account for which I didn't remember the password or had the password stored somewhere else.

    I previously used KeePass, but keeping my database synched between devices and having a different app for TOPT was a bit too much of a hassle for me, so in that regard Keeper has been a step up. And credit where it's due, their iOS app is pretty nice.

  5. Comment on Spotify’s podcast plan is going off the rails in ~tech

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    fwiw Apple now has their own Windows app in the Microsoft store... It's very buggy but works about as well as Cider ever did for me.

    fwiw Apple now has their own Windows app in the Microsoft store... It's very buggy but works about as well as Cider ever did for me.

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  6. Comment on Movies that everyone likes (e.g. Shawshank redemption)? in ~movies

  7. Comment on Movies that everyone likes (e.g. Shawshank redemption)? in ~movies

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    My favorite day in French was when we got to watch that movie. I found it incredibly moving and it sparked my interest in foreign films.

    My favorite day in French was when we got to watch that movie. I found it incredibly moving and it sparked my interest in foreign films.

  8. Comment on Games you're excited about? in ~games

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    I must say, what's got me very much excited from this year's E3 is the Elder Scrolls 6 and Halo Infinite. I think 343i kind of dropped the ball with Halo 5 (though it did have its moments), so I'm...

    I must say, what's got me very much excited from this year's E3 is the Elder Scrolls 6 and Halo Infinite. I think 343i kind of dropped the ball with Halo 5 (though it did have its moments), so I'm hoping they make up for it with this next game; from the trailer, it definitely looks like a step up.

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