@DrBob@lemmy.ca
Dr. Bob
Recovering academic now in public safety. You’ll find me kibitzing on brains (my academic expertise) to critical infrastructure and resilience (current worklife). Also hockey, games, music just because.
member since 5 Jul 2023 15:03
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- on Trump working on deal to buy potash from Belarus for lower price than Canada in c/europe@feddit.org · 3d ago
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on YouTube Premium is getting yet another price hike for users across the globe in c/technology@lemmy.world · 25 Aug 2026
But I don’t want random bandcamp samplings. I mean I like new music and go to a lot of Indy shows, but I want the ability to hear a song I like and then do a deep listen to the artist without committing to CDs or a trip to the library if it’s available.
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on YouTube Premium is getting yet another price hike for users across the globe in c/technology@lemmy.world · 25 Aug 2026
I don’t disagree with you. But I have a lot of CDs already :) The rationale for me is that it’s all available. I watched a Billy Joel documentary recently (I know 🙄) but it made do a listen through his discography. I’m glad I didn’t buy those. It turns out I already knew the songs I liked and discovered 0 enjoyable deep cuts. But even at $15 a disc that would have been a $200 play through. And yes I’m aware of the high seas and the library.
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on YouTube Premium is getting yet another price hike for users across the globe in c/technology@lemmy.world · 25 Aug 2026
I pay for YouTube Music and premium gets thrown in for free. Why? It’s mostly momentum.
I used Groove back when that was a thing, and when it folded I could migrate my playlists to YouTube so it was easy and than $10 a month. Now it’s $30 but it’s still like buying a cd a month. I am slowly de-googling and some month will stop using the service. It just hasn’t been a top priority.
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on One In Five Drivers Switches Off The Safety Tech Meant To Save Their Lives in c/technology@lemmy.world · 23 Aug 2026
Lane assist is an absolute menace. It gets turned off in any rental I get in.
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on When AI art has no author: Study finds generated images often can’t be traced to training data in c/technology@lemmy.world · 20 Aug 2026
The colors are muddy.
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on Behold, "the whole story of Steam's economy in one picture": the top 1% of games earn 84.5% of estimated revenue, and most games barely make anything in c/games@lemmy.world · 19 Aug 2026
Podcasts, music, film, paintings, novels…Linux distributions, ice cream flavor sales…literally everything.
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on Windows 11 PCs are about to get more expensive, and Windows 10 holdouts have one more reason to stay in c/technology@piefed.social · 16 Aug 2026
I think the saying is older than CTOs. I remember my dad using it in the early 1970s. I didn’t hear of a CTO until…the 90s? I may just be sheltered though.
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on Windows 11 PCs are about to get more expensive, and Windows 10 holdouts have one more reason to stay in c/technology@piefed.social · 15 Aug 2026
The original line is no one ever got fired for going with IBM.
Bravo! Great way to introduce vulnerabilities into a critical supply chain. /s