SeanSpearo (u/SeanSpearo)

SeanSpearo commented on NewPipe: A lightweight YouTube experience for Android newpipe.net/... · Posted by u/marcodiego

elric · 4 years ago

Some time ago Google made some changes to age verification, and now you can't watch age restricted videos without logging in, which means you can't watch them using NewPipe. It also means you can't watch them without handing over your phone number to Google, because it seems it's no longer possible to create a YT account without a phone number.

This whole thing makes NewPipe a lot less useful than it used to be.

SeanSpearo · 4 years ago

You forgot that invidious still lets you watch videos age blocked fine. Gokunaru for instance just made a q & a a few days ago and I watched it on invidious

SeanSpearo commented on Microsoft gaming chief calls for industry-wide game preservation axios.com/microsoft-old-g... · Posted by u/tosh

fartcannon · 4 years ago

Consoles are inherently flawed because they're locked. Linux PC's with Wine makes all old games playable.

SeanSpearo · 4 years ago

I wouldn't go nearly that far. Wine allows for running of most games, and the rest are usually always online multiplayer games. Even with the ones that work usually have hitches and quirks to figure out. Linux can't even do general windows apps that well, the only reason gaming is at the point it is is because most if not everyone who'd run linux wants to play games. Making Linux out like this miracle system is blind support

SeanSpearo commented on Microsoft gaming chief calls for industry-wide game preservation axios.com/microsoft-old-g... · Posted by u/tosh

hdjjhhvvhga · 4 years ago

I think you can still play SNES games on the Wii, you just need to modify the console.

SeanSpearo · 4 years ago

You can do pretty much anything on the wii. It was so successful and so easy to crack and mod that it's got everything you'd want, including virtual console injections

SeanSpearo commented on Corded headphones are making an unexpected return wsj.com/articles/are-airp... · Posted by u/walterbell

soneca · 4 years ago

I never had a wired in-ear earphone that lasted more than 2 years. My guess is 90% didn’t pass the one year mark. I use it while commuting, going to the supermarket, cleaning the house, etc.

Any recommendation of a wired in-ear earphone that could last a decade?

SeanSpearo · 4 years ago

I got Sennheiser 300 S earphones at least a year and a half ago and they don't show any signs of deteriorating. They cost 50 euro, double what standard throwaway earphones cost here from any old shop. Yes they're not an audiophile's wet dream or anything, but they sound way better than the throwaways. Great amount of bass and top end, with a little more top end than bass but not at all tinny or noticeable in any way. To buy anything good to last nowadays you have to go a bit higher than the standard. That's just the world we live in, and wired are the same.

SeanSpearo commented on Microsoft's new laptops for schools to be repairable gizmodo.com/microsoft-is-... · Posted by u/heresie-dabord

culopatin · 4 years ago

These remind me of the era of Netbooks in mid 2000s. None of those lasted more than a year. Not because they broke, but because people just wouldn’t want to deal with the slowness and fitting 2 paragraphs on the screen all the time. I lived in a third world country at the time doing home computer support on the side and every time someone would call me complaining about their netbooks we’d come to the conclusion that it was just a limitation of the device. Not to mention that back then they would ship full of bloatware.

“But Linux works great!” Yeah well no one wants to have to learn a new office suite or learn how to use Flatpak to install Spotify.

Great that they are repairable and all but no one will want to spend a dime on these things, ever. The moment they break a few times or people get fed up with the limitations they’ll just stop using them.

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SeanSpearo · 4 years ago

This is in clear response to the right of repair movement. That devices should be able to be repaired and schematics to be given to repair centres. Most people don't care, but when repairing is cheaper than a new device the majority of people will support it passively. The only reason it isn't cheaper now is from efforts to reduce repairability. Also, for those who do care and understand about repairing computers, they'll support that company more. Oh and on the computer support thing, they'll always be people who'd rather call someone than to try figure out the problem by theirselves. That's never gonna change no matter what happens in the industry.

SeanSpearo commented on Will the climate crisis force America to reconsider nuclear power? economist.com/united-stat... · Posted by u/pseudolus

rich_sasha · 4 years ago

How many industries are throttled on energy cost/availability and nothing else? Crypto mining for sure. What else? Aluminium smelting perhaps?

For whatever reason, energy production seems to be about meeting demand, rather than finding use for surpluses.

SeanSpearo · 4 years ago

That's because too much power overloads the power wires. You can only get that by making surplus, and when surplus occurs a lot of that power is lost from overload. And before you say to upgrade the wires, that would cost a lot of money and be an infrastructural nightmare.

SeanSpearo commented on Thousands of phone boxes around the UK will be protected from closure ofcom.org.uk/news-centre/... · Posted by u/nixass

SeanSpearo · 4 years ago

In Ireland, old phone boxes are being fitted with defibrillators, especially in more rural towns and villages. I believe it happens in towns in the UK as well. There's plenty boxes here from before the eircom and vodafone days that look very traditional with Fón painted on, these are the main ones being converted. I don't think wifi points happen here.

SeanSpearo commented on Brain implant translates paralyzed man's thoughts into text with 94% accuracy sciencealert.com/brain-im... · Posted by u/wlkr

gonehome · 4 years ago

I’m pretty skeptical of people that make this claim. It’s just surprising to me that a base level feature would work so differently. I’d expect some variation in models (like that old Feynman video about counting), but if you can speak and use language it’s hard for me to accept literally no internal voice is going on.

I’ve always kinda suspected people making this claim are lacking introspection to such an extreme extent that they don’t even recognize the inner voice that’s omnipresent.

SeanSpearo · 4 years ago

Everyone's brains operate the same from a basic view, but have very different details. We all think in different ways, we all experience life differently. We just apply similarly understood terms that make it seem like it's all the same. Who knows how varied our actual consciousness is.

SeanSpearo commented on FreeWater, Inc: The First Free Beverage Company, Powered by Ads freewater.io... · Posted by u/codetrotter

SeanSpearo · 4 years ago

Sounds like an interesting idea, had a little look on the site, but gut feeling is something's fishy here.. and it's not the water. Just something about it rubs me the wrong way.

SeanSpearo commented on The decline of unfettered research (1995) dtc.umn.edu/~odlyzko/doc/... · Posted by u/KKKKkkkk1

SeanSpearo · 4 years ago

I've got to say, that 4th paragraph is, or at least should be, the modus operandi of every scientist in any related field.

>In this style of work, the researcher is allowed, and even required, to select problems for investigation, without having to justify their relevance for the institution, and without negotiating a set of objectives with management. The value of the research is determined by other scientists, again without looking for its immediate effect on the bottom line of the employer. The assumption that justifies such a policy is that "scientific progress on a broad front results from the free play of free intellects, working on subjects of their own choice, in the manner dictated by their curiosity."

It's sad the current state of science doesn't appreciate the work done purely through curiosity, and instead want to milk professionals for other means and agendas. The paragraph sheds a light on what science really is, and what's kept fueling it for millenia, curiosity. Some of the greatest scientific discoveries have come from curiosity in answering burning questions. Yes we still have some great discoveries, but not as much now I would think. Most of what science today seems to be is just proving or disproving agendas with clear incentives. There are some that seem to be born out of organically produced work, but it's hard to know because who knows the incentives and agendas behind the scenes.