1. Subscribe to what you want to see
2. Bookmark the “your subscriptions” page; don’t visit the home page
2a. Although if you disable watch history, youtube tries to punish you by blanking out the “home” page. I consider that a good thing.
3. Use an ad blocker to hide the comments and side bar (recommended videos)
That’s pretty much what I do. Discoverability happens off-site, which might be a hindrance for you, but I don’t necessarily want more stuff to watch for the sake of more stuff to watch.
Blocking elements with ad block works well, but for convenience I use the extension Unhook. It can redirect the home feed to subscriptions, hide end screen cards, end screen feed, live chat, auto generated mixes, notifications, shorts, etc. I also use a tampermonkey script to auto set theater mode and resolution (necessary for incognito mode).
It would be nice if youtube could include some of these handy features in the settings, but it is not something they want to do it seems.
The idea is that users can circumvent IT policies which explicitly have not enabled or banned such products. Microsoft is hoping to sneak under the tent to enable more subscriptions directly from users if they cannot get companies to pay.
Which is a bold play. At my company, were I to try and smuggle data out to a third party-that is normally an insta-termination level offense.
sites like these make me realize that i’m not all that interested in “news”, which might be a personal fault, but also makes you wonder what all the other “”news”” sites have been doing to capture my attention...
is no one using LLMs to help them read/understand code? reading code is definitely a skill that needs to be acquired, but LLMs can definitely help. we should be pushing that instead of “vibe coding”
Similar experience: I added a folder to my zed project that was too big, causing zed to lock up and eventually crash. But because the default setting was to re-open projects on launch, I was stuck in a loop where I couldn’t remove the folder either. Eventually found a way to clear the recent projects, load an empty editor, and change the setting to avoid it in the future.
You can open large codebases in Jetbrains IDEs and it takes forever to index, but it shouldn't outright crash or completely freeze.
You can open the kernel in CLion. Don't expect the advanced refactoring features to work, but it can deal with a ~40 million lines project folder for example
IntelliJ IDEs are fine with huge files and projects. At certain sizes it'll disable intellisense in active files, but IME stuff like find and replace works fine regardless of size and you can still turn intellisense on if you want.
They'll index for a long time on huge codebases, but I only go through that like once a month max, I just have the editors as always open
Here’s a better response for next time: “I’m embarrassed by our recent failures to demonstrate our latest products. Our customers absolutely deserve better and I’ll be personally making certain that all of these issues are fully resolved before any products ship to paying customers.”
Is that really so hard? If I can write this on the toilet why can’t one of the top tech companies and their massive PR budgets do it?
The Oculus Go was discontinued June 2020, the shop was locked down for any further updates or new games December 2020, that's just six months apart. They did "support" it with security updates until 2022, but it's pretty dead when no new games can be sold.
At least they released an update in 2021 that allows people to "root" the device so it won't rely on the cloud services anymore -- a pretty rare occurrence for abandoned products!
They have menus. Every place I’ve been to (post-Covid) that tries to force the “use-your-phone” thing brought me a menu when I asked and said I didn’t have my phone.
greyscale is a game changer. i wasn’t a believer until i forced myself to use it, but it really turns off the appeal. have you ever seen someone just staring at their phone and flipping through the home screen(s)?
And not just in the US either, they've been threatening Europe with tariffs and sanctions over attempting to regulate American tech companies in Europe.
Agreed. I think when the history of this time is written the failure of the government to spread around the gains of capitalism and free trade will be seen as what led to the end of a political era.
That’s pretty much what I do. Discoverability happens off-site, which might be a hindrance for you, but I don’t necessarily want more stuff to watch for the sake of more stuff to watch.
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