kirk781

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[–] kirk781@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 7 months ago

Skullcandy customer support/warranty sucked for me as well. My left earbuds started keeping barely half the charge of the right ones within couple of months of purchasing them. I had only used both buds simultaneously, so it was weird to have more drain in one. However, the support folks just returned my product as-is saying nothing was wrong.

[–] kirk781@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 7 months ago

HowtoGeek used to be a legitimately good site back in the day but now has a proliferation of low quality articles. Also, uBlock Origin by default blocks it's links sometimes since they redirect via awstrack.me as well.

[–] kirk781@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Your original comment made couple of days ago is visible. It was just duplicated couple of times more in the thread and the mods deleted the duplicates.

[–] kirk781@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 7 months ago

Mobilism also has a huge case of magazines/newspapers updated on its site daily. Not every magazine is available, but most popular ones are.

[–] kirk781@discuss.tchncs.de 50 points 7 months ago (3 children)

The new one is just a web UI with options for streaming music. There were talks of the old original Winamp going open source though, which bought nostalgic memories to many. Eithercase, with so many music players on both Windows and Linux, I doubt Winamp would a niche case to fill.

[–] kirk781@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 7 months ago

It is honestly better than YouTube Premium. Watt Google should offer as part of its paid suite, an open source software does it.

[–] kirk781@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Simple suite of apps used to be good until the dev sold it to some company, I think. The versions on F Droid are still clean, but on Play Store, they are riddled with ads until you pay, I think.

[–] kirk781@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 7 months ago

I have used Termux, even have it installed right now but apart from the odd cron job, I never used it for something heavy. You, sir, are basically running full fledged Linux with it.

[–] kirk781@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 7 months ago

Gone with the Wind was backward looking even for it's time frame. It's depiction of the South as a happy place for everybody wasn't agreeable by many films even then. Meanwhile, Star Wars is just a science fiction film, set in a different universe with little direct connotations.

[–] kirk781@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 7 months ago

I have Prime but mainly for delivery stuff rather than streaming. I did finally download their Prime Video on phone. I still pirate their original content and stuff that's available on the high seas because honestly I would rather see it on my laptop than the smaller screen of my phone(and Amazon won't let me see even in 720p on Linux legally).

[–] kirk781@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

It officially supports 250 variants including many going over a decade back. If one were to include all smartphone models/variants released during the previous decade, it won't even hit the 10 % mark.

[–] kirk781@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Huh. I rented couple of old films and they previewed at full HD. Upon purchasing, they were viewable at 1080p. I was at the worst possible combination from these companies point of view(Firefox on Linux). I could be wrong but is it possible that it has something to do with the company renting out the movies themselves? YouTube Movies just acts as an intermediary, I think, and the main company providing the source is listed in the description.

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