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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Like the other guy said, it's not always true.

For example, even when you're physically in the store, a T-Mobile employee may require you to read back a code that their system texted to you for certain transactions like buying a new phone for someone on your account or something like that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

No, I think the point here is that the kids never learned the material, not that AI taught them the wrong material (though there is a high possibility of that).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

In general, yeah. Private torrent trackers tend to focus on specific types of content. Some might focus on cartoons. Some might focus on anime. Some focus on books. Some focus on video games. Public trackers, on the other hand, generally focus on everything, which, of course, means they won't have a lot of the older or more niche stuff, and they might be lacking in one or more categories (music, anime, books, TV, etc.).

It's also much less likely that a torrent on a private tracker will die because most private trackers enforce certain rules about seeding and because the people there are generally much more into seeding than most people on a public tracker. (Probably most people on public trackers simply download what they need and stop before seeding anything back.)

Private trackers are also typically the first (and sometimes only) places to get scene releases. Scene releases, which are done by private groups, are usually higher quality than stuff on public trackers. Sometimes, they leak onto a public tracker, but not usually.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Eh, Aniwave was a pretty big one for the anime community. From what I understand, it's the one most people fled to after KissAnime was taken down. Aside from that, I've never heard of any of the other sites they mentioned.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Me waiting for the next "mothership" to pop up so I can use it:

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Aniwave (formerly known as 9anime) was, from what I understand, the site most people fled to after KissAnime bit the dust.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

They didn't show full episodes from the show. Rather, it was clips from the show organized around specific characters, themes, or moments from the show. Sometimes (not often, but sometimes), they would use voice lines from the show as well.

For example, (Avatar: The Last Airbender spoilers)

spoilerthey had clips and music about Iroh. It included, of course, Leaves From the Vine with audio and clips of Iroh singing it. I cried through that whole segment. I don't think there was a dry eye in that theater.

For the encore they made an entire song out of

spoilerthe Secret Tunnel song
.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

Tickets to Avatar: The Last Airbender in Concert and the merch I bought at it. I spent something like $200 in total, but it was WORTH. EVERY. PENNY.

[–] [email protected] 67 points 2 months ago

I mean, just schedule the appointment, put it on your work schedule, and ask that doctor (or whatever you call them) for a note for work. That's what I do.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

On the flip side, this is what makes Windows generally very good at backwards compatibility. They do update the codebase for stuff, but still generally very backwards compatible with software and games designed to run on previous versions of Windows.

Fun Fact: Backwards compatibility is the reason you can't name a file or folder CON.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

High switching cost compared to finding another extension (e.g. uBO Lite), even if the resulting experience is worse.

You're not wrong about the high switching cost.

Switching from Chrome to Vivaldi (because of Chrome's whole FLoC thing) to Brave (because I didn't like Vivaldi's layout) to Firefox (because of Brave's whole thing) was a pain.

And I don't mean as a whole. Taking the time each time to change from one browser to another was always a pain. Transferring bookmarks and passwords was easy (Chrome and Firefox are at least compatible in that regard), but transferring extension settings was a whole different beast.

Some extensions had cloud sync support. Others had local export support. Some didn't have either kind, and I'd have to manually copy the settings from one browser over to the other. And that's not even getting into finding replacements for the Chrome-exclusive extensions (of which there were only a few, thankfully).

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