YouTube is but one, and as I said while the story is about yt I was talking Mir in general. How do you pay for content/services in general?

Right now with via ads or a subscription.

How’s that work on tvs?

So, steal everything or something else? Content isn’t free. The ad model exists, but only works if people see the ads.

If everyone blocks all ads, and doesn’t pay a subscription, how’s that work for those providing the service?

I’m not defending YouTube here, just curious what your solution is to have a service and not pay for it.

I do pay for YT family Premium in the US. I watch mostly YT, and it is my music streaming service. I definitely​ liked it more when it was costing me $15/mo for that and was mad when that went to $23. I even tried switching to Spotify and using ad blocking on YT. I didn’t jive with Spotify, and while ad blockers work for YT, it’s a bit of a pain installing them on TV boxes and managing subscriptions across devices, asking with which videos you’ve seen etc.

“Alpha male” victim

I’ve had a handful of their watches in this line but this is the first time I was waiting for/excited about the new model and jumped at launch.

Like, out of the box no audio apps I use were available because apparently Garmin doesn’t release the SDK unti launch day. Just crazy… Live and learn I guess.

I’m gonna say they need to circle the wagons and get the ALREADY RELEASED Fenix 8 out of Beta.

Pretty lousy launch/unboxing experience from someone that’s been relying on Garmin watches since 2013 (910xt)

Yes, I’m a bit salty right now…

I’m here, but not doing much with Arduino’s ATM… most of the new devices I’ve been playing with are ESP32’s connected to my Home Assistant. Much easier for me as a non programmer to edit/modify a yaml file :)

It’s annoying as hell. I can hide shorts on my shield TV YT app from desktop at 30 day increments. It sucks you can’t just turn them off

I’ll continue to not watch shorts, tik toks, reels or any other ADHD inducing short form content.

I don’t care about any game stats for my phone but it is annoying that my P9P XL lags when it’s connected to AA and I want to grab it fast, double click the power button to open the camera and snap a quick picture.

I’ve experienced the same lag with previous Pixels. Assumed it was a RAM issue and maybe it is, but it’s annoying nonetheless.

Ya, I’m not sure that has ever been true as a blanket statement.

*to women

The pay bill button on my capital one CC account doesn’t work on Firefox. Once a month I have to use a chromium based browser.

Something something shocked Pikachu something

My 9 pro did this last Friday when sitting on the AC vent in my car which I too have never seen before.

My 8 pro sat in the same place many times.

AccuBattery. It was some door security app my company uses . I just took away background access.

I’m happy with my choice to upgrade…

The AI stuff is gimmicky of course but for basically questions Gemini is doing ok (quickly getting torque specs for bolts) will out in the garage seems improved over “assistant”.

Battery life has been good after finding a stupid app that was running in the background killing it!!

It was too hot this week… Missed my run today because of errands that ran long: (

Got a new watch though! Fenix 8 51mm amoled. Wanted to use it today, but guess it’ll be tomorrow it gets it’s first run:)

Must get used to walking up hills on trails for long runs unless you’re not human :)

Easiest thing to do would likely be join a local running group that has various training distances/pace groups

The one I ran with had two annual sessions for half and full training (a long with 5k/10k ).

When I was training for my first ultra (Yamacraw 50k) I just did the full plan with the training group + 4 miles extra on the long Saturday run. Typically I could find a fool to run them with me :)

At least some of Garmin watches have workout suggestions for daily motivation as well as actual training plans you can do. (Found in the connect app) I don’t think the suggestions are always great but what you can do is see your training loads in the different zones and decide if you want/should do some intervals or not. My experience with suggested workouts is I can get multiple days of high intensity in a row which I know makes no sense but the watch is trying to get time in that zone in the “range”