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It doesn’t really make it any better, but at least they let you opt out of data collection after creating the account (you know, when they have already collected your email, first and last name as well as camera serial no.) 🙄

While I love the content on Youtube, I’d like to pay for no ads and I’d like to support the creators, I just can’t bring myself to pay for a service where the UX is so catastrophically bad.

Search is basically non functional at this point. Video quality has to be adjusted manually for each video to not get pixelated mess. Even at 1080p the quality is barely better than DVD. The app caches so little ahead that the slightest network interruption pauses playback. Forced auto rotation makes you grab the device each time you return from full screen to the video list. Subtitles have completely gone to shit and it’s wild that in the age of forcing AI on everyone, that auto generated subtitles are still as bad as they are.

To name just a few…

Sorry for the rant

Oof, that is new, the camera connect app used to work without an account before.

Too bad, it makes me think “wow this is horrible, if they are this bad at developing a simple app I don’t want to find out how bad they would be at developing and maintaining a whole OS…”

How hard can it be to produce a simple battery pack, for a company that is in the business of designing and producing battery packs no less…

While that is true with humans, I’m not sure if that applies to Giraffes with such long windpipes

Honestly as big of a piece of shit as bezos is, he’s ten times better then musk

While I don’t disagree on character level, I think what bezos has done with amazon is probably much worse for the climate than anything Musk has done.

Amazon really enabled consumerism on steroids, where people buy tons and tons of goods often not because of real needs but because corporations through ads and influencers have talked them into wanting the new shiny stuff. These goods are produced cheaply and with little regard for the environment (or for the people producing them), in some poor asian country and then shipped half way around the planet, often even sent by air mail just because people lack self control and “need” to have their order in the mail immediately. And then, be it because it was an impulse purchase or because of cheap construction or the thing not being hip and new anymore, the stuff goes to a landfill after only months or a few years of use, wasting tons of resourses and energy consumed in prodiction and turning into a burden on the environment again.

All that is not to say Musk is somehow not as bad, but to say they are both equally very bad people, just for different reasons

I mean, apart from the whole “shouldn’t have taken the car in the first place” thing, if you are stuck in a traffic jam for 7 hours, surely it’s moving slow enough that you can get out of the car and look for water & a restroom somewhere in walking distance, as long as one person stays to move the car if necessary?