Lifehacker is just click bait shit now. Once upon a time in a far away land it was good.
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Lifehacker got me into everything tech 15 years ago. It is nothing like it used to be, it's very sad.
Unfortunately everything is an ad now. It's the only way these sites are capable of surviving.
I feel like I'm turning into 'that guy' again but cryptocurrency could help this out.
a) connect wallet to lifehacker
b) have fractions of a cent taken out to unlock articles
I know people can bypass it/copy paste, but at the end of the day it would be another source of revenue. They are surviving as is, but barely.
I feel like you'd be interested in the Web Monetization API, if you're not already aware of it.
Very cool thanks for sharing. I need to discover more projects like these.
It used to be pretty good, but that was over ten years ago now.
Gosh, remember TechTV before the G4 merger? Between Call for Help & The Screensavers, I learned SO MUCH.
Every time I drive by Laporte street in my neighborhood, I remember
i remember ZDtv before TechTV.
He revived it on his own
I do! Me too man. Golden ages.
Anything that is, or once was affiliated with Gawker / GMG is, in its current state, a cringe-inducing, shambling husk of whatever it once was. My muscle memory still directs me to a number of those blogs and everyday I recoil at what has become of them.
Hmm, I wasn't around for old Kotaku, but I think Kotaku still posts some good stuff? Or are they not Gawker?
I like most of what Jalopnik has at least.
RIP AV Club
There was a time when Lifehacker was a place you could go for neat little things that could be accomplished with objects at hand to make life easier. There was such a time for many, many places on this great Internet of ours.
It was lit when it was Gina and crew.
It really was, I have a clear recollection of it being one of my top sites for a good year or two. Then the bad times came.
That ship sailed a very long time ago.
I unsubscribed when they had an article about how rimming isn't unsanitary and how to do it properly. I cannot describe how grossed out I was.
I thought you were kidding. What the hell kind of lifehack is this? https://lifehacker.com/how-to-eat-ass-1820805658
I mean butts are great and all, but they tend to REDUCE my ability to get things done.
I enjoy receiving but wouldn't give personally. Nerve endings.
I’m a both absolutely yes. As long as the person is hygienic overall. Not like, just outta shower clean, fuck that. They just have to wipe properly.
It's incredible how low of a bar that is, yet tons of people still don't know how to clean their ass after they shit.
This post reminded me of how much I miss the Consumerist website.
What was that? O:
Like if the consumer protection bureau was a website.
https://web.archive.org/web/20180116152409/https://consumerist.com/
Lifehacker has one good article a week. At the end of the week. It's one where they debunk a bunch of bullshit rumors floating around the internet at the moment.
So I check them once on Fridays.
I'm guessing, with the way G/O media is going, that they'll get rid of that.
I mean, it was a pretty cool website like 20 years ago.
The only good Lifehacker articles are old Lifehacker articles.
The good old days of Lifehacker are long gone. What it is now is an insult to its memory.
There was once a related website called tree hugger. All the articles were about things you could buy with an eco focus of some kind.
It was neat to see stuff about solar powered radios, but pushing consumerism that much for that purpose misses the point
I used to browse it about 15-20 years ago.It used to be a good place to learn tricks about all sorts of electronics. I'm not sure exactly what happened but it was like a switch flipped and they got awful almost overnight. Probably bought out.
would people use a lifehacker community here?
If it had actual life hacks, probably.
If you hack out your butt you can poop out your front I hear
Lets make one but populate it with bots that only repost bs from the other one... (That's my lemme experience in a nutshell)
Any alternatives you recommend?
Heck if I know them. Anyone else? ^^
I feel like someone needs to setup a Netflix-type deal for news sites. I'm not going to pay a news site that I only view an article or two a month from. And there's a bunch of them. So it'd be neat if I can pay one price and access them when I need to.
Apple News+ is kind of like that
Apple does some things well but wraps it all in one of the worst systems designed for people. It's like a slaughterhouse that takes good care of its cattle.
But purposely excludes anyone who hasn't invested $2000 in the apple ecosystem. Anything made by apple is a huge no from me, even if they decide occasionally to support hardware they didn't already profit from directly.
Fuck Lifehacker.