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  • What the fuck happened to YouTube!?

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  • I’ve never been impressed with YouTube Music, the UI feels jank and it doesn’t work on half the devices in my home (compared to Spotify which just works on everything)

  • What the fuck happened to YouTube!?

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  • Brave is run by some pretty shady people who do things like automatically adding affiliate links to your URL or collecting donations for content creators without their consent

    As far as an actual browser goes, Brave is based on Chromium so its more likely to work on every site but it has a bunch of crypto nonesense added that you probably would want to uninstall. There are more extensions that will "just work" on Chromium browsers, for example I've had issues with the Postman extension on Firefox before

    Firefox is based on Gecko, its pretty well supported and follows all the standards but there is probably a higher chance that a site might break (usually down to its pretty strict privacy defaults) there isn't really much bloat (other than a Pocket integration that you might want to turn off)

    Mozilla also feel (to me at least) like one of the last groups of Good People on the web, you can reach their manifesto to learn more.

  • What the fuck happened to YouTube!?

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  • This is pretty much it.

    YouTube Premium is only remotely worth it because regular YouTube is an absolute shitshow

  • Google pulls the plug on uBlock Origin, leaving over 30 million Chrome users susceptible to intrusive ads

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  • Tab groups are coming but in the mean time containers work well enough for me with the added benefit that they’ll also block tracking from the sites that are within them.

  • Nights in Las Vegas Are Becoming Dangerously Hot

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  • Interesting article!

    Its pretty US centric though so I think one would have to contrast that against the UK and Europe which generally has homes that are brick and concrete rather than lumber, we also have (I believe) tighter insulation regulations and - just generally - vastly smaller homes.

    I think if US houses were built to European regs and sizes then the numbers would look much different.

  • Nights in Las Vegas Are Becoming Dangerously Hot

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  • It’s easier and more efficient to wrap yourself up with blankets and covers and use minimal heating (with decent home insulation) to warm yourself up than it is to cool down when you are too hot.

  • Nights in Las Vegas Are Becoming Dangerously Hot

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  • I would love to see it!

  • Exceptionally rare Arctic heat wave shatters all-time records - The Weather Network

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  • Nearly 36 degrees (that's 96 Freedom Units) in the Arctic circle?!?

    How is this not bigger news?!

    We're so fucked :(

  • Nights in Las Vegas Are Becoming Dangerously Hot

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  • I think there is a big difference between the passive warming / cooling of clothing vs the huge energy requirement, spent resources and emissions required to basically run your entire home / office / factory / hotel as a giant fridge.

  • Nights in Las Vegas Are Becoming Dangerously Hot

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  • Humans probably shouldn’t be living in these conditions if they can’t survive without AC, no?

  • A Different Way of Measuring Time: Metric Time

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  • Sentiment Around Bungie's Marathon 'Not Great,' Says Jason Schreier

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  • Agreed.

    I would be hyped to play a new version of actual Marathon, it’s a game that existed before my time and was only on Mac before they were cool so basically no one played it.

    This is just a different skin on a genre that has no interest whatsoever to me.

  • Sustainable Aviation Fuels Are Struggling to Take Off Amid Greenwashing Claims

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  • When it’s done right, it’s amazing. The problem is that (here in the UK) it’s just terrible.

    Example, going from London to Edinburgh

    A flight takes 1h30m and costs £33 A train takes 4h26m and costs £178

    Yes there are other monetary costs involved (driving to the airport, parking) and other time costs involved (you need to be at the airport 90 minutes early) but the headline price make a flight seem like much better value for time and money.

    Trains are also often late or cancelled, this seems to happen much less with flights.

    Until flights are taxed to hell people aren’t going change their habits.

  • TitanFall 2 at 3$

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  • Ah yea, my bad :(

  • Sustainable Aviation Fuels Are Struggling to Take Off Amid Greenwashing Claims

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  • TitanFall 2 at 3$

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  • I don't know for sure in this case but some EA games require you to use EA Play as a launcher, even if you buy the game through Steam.

  • TitanFall 2 at 3$

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  • It’s EA Play now, which is actually somehow worse than Origin was.

    Still, Titanfall 2 is actually a great game (probably my favourite of the PS4 era) and is well worth a little suffering for.

  • Why are so many people so fixated on Lemmy's growth?

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  • Yeap, but Digg was still pretty early in it's life and was very much catering for tech nerds.

    Reddit is basically the home of all communities these days, its swallowed what used to be individual forums from around the web and put them into a single place.

    Building those new communities across multiple lemmy instances also adds to the complexity.

  • Why are so many people so fixated on Lemmy's growth?

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  • Reddit also didn’t have Reddit to compete with, which certainly makes things harder.