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This is my problem with YouTube’s ads. If it was a 5-15 second video ad at the beginning/between videos, plus a banner ad or ads on the side/page, that could be sufferable. But constantly interrupting videos at random points for long ass ads does not mesh well with a short-video platform.

And I also enjoy reminding people whenever I get the chance that the FBI recommends using an adblocker for security/safety reasons: https://www.ic3.gov/Media/Y2022/PSA221221

Thanks for the reply and the good advice.

I didn’t mention that this house has a giant “Trump, a real American hero” banner on the fence facing their neighbor’s house, who is an elderly Latina woman. So I’ll have to overcome my own pre-conceived assumptions about what kind of people they are and how they treat their dogs. I was hoping to resolve it between me and my dog on our own, because it seems like it would be valuable for her to behave well even in difficult situations like that. I’m also concerned they’ll take any discussion about their dogs badly. But I guess if that’s the best option then I won’t know till I try.

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It is a good day to Balenciaga

I know people like to hate Halo Infinite for a number of reasons, but IMO battle passes are one thing they do fine. MP is free, while the $10 battle passes are optional and you can buy and finish them any time.

I’m still on season 2 while everyone else is on 4 (I think?) I play a few rounds once a week, maybe, but there’s no FOMO because you earn the rewards at whatever pace you want. Once you finish a battle pass you can buy the next one. Or you can buy them out of order or skip any of them.

Voting with democrats to remove the speaker for voting with democrats. Seems like a healthy system.

What was he wearing?

The official Reddit app launched an update that did this to my then-few months old iPhone 12 Pro Max back in early 2021. Switching to Apollo immediately fixed the problem.

And now here we are. No problems since then, but TBF I haven’t used any other terrible apps that sloppily force as many ads through my phone as fast as possible.

Apple might actually have a point here.

Yeah, one thing Siri seems to be oddly good at is isolating your voice from other noise - even when speaking at a normal volume.

For games like this, the touchscreen experience is just inferior to using a controller, and the thought of buying a controller for a phone doesn’t even occur to most users.

That plus the fact that most phone games are so horrible and borderline abusive have really driven home the assumption that phone games are supposed to be cheap and low-quality.

Some decent well-known peripherals and more high-quality games could change that over time, but I think it will be a while before it doesn’t look bizarre to have full-blown console prices for phone games.

And you just know that if it becomes normalized, we’re going to see generic casino and puzzle games jumping on the premium price bandwagon, but still trying to sell gems and shit.

I’m glad to see that someone on Lemmy copies the last two panels of this meme like god intended.

*Even more of a reason to stop eating.