I didn't hit Reddit until Digg's problems started up, but those, like these now here, where the good 'ol days :)
It 100% brought me here. Didn't know what Lemmy was until the chaos over there. ultimately deleted my account never looked back. And that was a lot of eyeball time they lost from me.
We're missing the overall mass of people that both generate new, and answer questions on the content that was there, but I'm OK with that and I actually get better engagement here with those missing mass of people. I'm sure there's a point of more is not better when it comes to users.
Not every single day, but quite often, I'm reminded of how much I hate the general public and continue to be amazed at the new and exciting ways it's shown off.
Certainly not a priority, but Ford still has to meet certain standards that as I understand it keeps getting tougher.
Nasty was probably strong word. I mostly expressed my disappointment and that I would steer clear going forward. And that would have a stronger economic impact on their bottom dollar.
I sent them a nasty gram from their contacts page. I don't own anything from them right now but you can damn well bet I will avoid them if when/if it comes up.
I pointed them to Louis' video also
I assume a zero chance of any purchases is a larger economic hit than allowing a small diy community to interact with their PURCHASED and OWNED product.
I agree if your diy an esp32 and a dht11 could easily handle those duties.
I use one with 2 DHT11s and two DS18B20s to monitor my HVAC temps.
Ya, but it's hard to use logic for a company that realistically has too much money and power if they decide they want to 'win' against ad-blockers.
That said, I do use adblock(Ublock Origin), Sponsorblock, and I even have / use pihole in the house, and I guess being a 'premium' subscriber overrides their messing with ad blockers. With my TV(nvidia shield) or Browser (Firefox) I do not get any delays / problems. So at least that's good for now.
I mean, perhaps, but it the infrastructure, creators and user base are pretty big hurdles to overcome. I keep my head up watching Odyssey, peertube etc... but they seem mostly fringe creators so far.
Competition is good no doubt
That's a bold statement since they own the stream we're watching from
If they embed the ads, and block things like sponsoblock from working, it'll get pretty hard to filter them.
I pay for premium, but I watch a LOT of YT and listen to a lot YT music so I don't mind paying ATM.
I only ever owned 600cc sport bikes. I started on a 1997 Honda CBR 600 F3, and put 17k miles on it the first year I owned it!! Started doing track days with it also. I did ride a number of same/larger cc ones just never owned (GSX-R 750, GSX-R 1000, Ducati 748R, various Honda 600s, Kawasaki 636)
Bought a brand new 2004 GSX-R 600, and laid it down before making my first payment on it. (Sigh). I hit some gravel while going around a corner that had been washed out of a driveway. Insurance totaled it, so I bought it back and turned it into a full track bike, and bought a 2005 GSX-R 600. I got my race license with Wera and raced the 2004 for a couple seasons. Super expensive, especially if you crash :). So after that ran it's course I ended up trading my track bike with someone for a Honda CRF 450R dirt bike, and got into riding off-road. That bike was silly fast but it was not very good for riding in the woods. It was made for motocross not trails. Eventually I bought a new 2011 KTM 450 XCW which was a fantastic woods riding bike and sold the CRF.
I had the GSX-R and KTM for a while but had stopped riding regularly in the street, mostly just to work which was a bit of a pain on a sport bike. After a few years I sold the GSX-R.
That lasted for a year or so before I bought a 2006 Honda ST-1300 in 2013. Had 20k on it. I still have it and it has right at 50k on it now. I even got my "iron butt" with this bike. Road from NY, to Michigan, down to Indiana (1077 miles) in about 17h straight. Glad I did it, got all the official paperwork but would never do it again!!!
I sold my KTM just this year to a buddy I used to ride with for his son, so I'm back to just one bike (ST-1300).
That's my riding history :)
And you would be surprised what you can get used to speed/power wise !
Buddy of mine turned me on to them probably 4-5 years ago and I never looked back. Been an overall much better and more affordable experience.
I don't miss playing games trying to get discounts to do my taxes.