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7/7 I am not against "one app" : simplifying the delivery, interface, content, and billing is good (though you _know_ the price is going to go up... :( ) but I sincerely hope that the Hulu development team is allowed share some improvements, because the Disney+ app team needs help.
6/x Instead, you _must_ enter your PIN with left-right controls which are displayed on screen. Anyone watching the TV now knows your PIN, even if you enter it from the remote app. Once again, completely unlike _every other streaming service_.
5/x Rather than presenting a keyboard interface (such as the one Hulu uses, or Netflix, or even the half-assed Paramount+ app uses), you are presented with a GUI interface that _looks_ like a keyboard but is not, in fact, a keyboard interface. You _cannot_ enter your PIN privately.
4/x But that's not the one that bothers me the most. The one that bothers me the most is that I have some very inquisitive children and the password prompt (where you enter your profile PIN) on the Disney+ Apple TV app was implemented by monsters.
3/x Contrarily, Hulu's interface is much more user friendly: rather than pushing solely brands at you, it seems to focus more on content categorization. Sure you can find the newest brand-specific content, but you can also browser for varied anime content you might have missed.
2/x Disney+ divides all of the content up based on branding. You want Star Wars? Go to the Star Wars hub. You want Marvel? Here you go. You want to see comedies about murders in an apartment building that you haven't watched? Too bad, you will _never_ find Only Murders in the Building.
1/x With Disney+ set to consume Hulu (and with two pre-teen kids in the house so I can't escape), I want to mention something: - The Disney+ user interface is absolutely awful. It is clear that the people who worked on this were given very strict definitions of what they were allowed to do
Re-upping this again, please spread far and wide:
Maybe only indirectly an answer, but this is how I feel: When we hear things that are clearly nonsensical or irrational [i.e. that exporting countries pay tariffs], how are we supposed to react? What are the things we can do to secure our micro-economy when the macro-economic world has gone crazy?
100% : this is for "extra" money not "i am still underwater and failing to survive because the minimum wage doesn't meet the cost to stay alive"
The number one financial advice you can give (as an older/more experienced adult) to a young adult new in the workforce: - If you ever get a raise, take 100% of the raise and put it in savings. 401k/RRSP/whatever your country has: live off the salary to which you have already adapted.
@jasonkoebler.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy I was listening to the podcast and the Orioles situation surely leads back to "baseball has more stats than any other sport" but the NBA is also seeing some significant changes too, due to analytics: www.thesportsbank.net/nba/the-rise...
It's important to note, @georgetakei.bsky.social, that it is not a pause, but rather a reduction of the initially proposed rates to a baseline 10%, which, on average, is 3-4x their previous values. I don't think anyone should get credit for a "pause" when they have increased a tax rate by 300%.
This little game is the new wordle for me, but it’s totally got me in 99% invisible territory with that rank :) [Bracket City] April 6, 2025 www.theatlantic.com/games/bracke... Rank: 💼 (Power Broker) ❌ Wrong guesses: 1 Total Score: 98.0 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
Hey @hbomax.bsky.social , whomever is doing the sound mix for the USWNT soccer match has the music turned up WAY too high. every time an infographic comes on screen you can barely hear the commentators.
@espn.com How come men's hockey scores are in the ESPN app but women's @thepwhl.com scores are not?
I have seen this SO MANY TIMES over the years, and AFAICT you can't do anything about it because the metadata is prepared not by Apple but by the group that uploads the media in the first place :(
The reason I do not fall for scams as an adult is because I was innoculated with a weak strain of scam as a child.
"their cancel culture"? I can 100% assure you that "the Youths" are not the ones who invented or own "cancel culture".
"Attorney General Gaetz, do you have a friend named Beavis?"
OMG IT IS SO ANNOYING I don't know why apps do this. Why add to your QA load by calling a library to display external content in a sub-par way? In the google apps on iOS, it even adds a step: first it asks you which browser to use THEN it opens the in-app version of that browser.... WTF?)
Since i plan to use this account more and more, i might as well repost this picture here. Unfortunately, it's still very relevant in Europe, and in france particularly. Long & happy life to anyone who rather be a flying pig.
I believe that Trump doesn't care either way about Ukraine, but rather that he sees Ukraine as weak and Russia as strong and he only likes strength. But what Russia signed (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapes...) is clear and the implication is that Trump doesn't consider past treaties binding at all :(
(as a Canadian now living in the US I didn't have to go through this) Does this all go back to the low flow toilet thing and how they actually pulled all the "toilets that work" off the shelves 25 years ago and you could only get "toilets that you have to flush 5 times to get it to work properly"?
I think one of the hardest things to accept is that fascism and fascists don't need to be smart to be successful, do huge amounts of damage to institutions, and end lives. German intellectuals thought the Nazi party was too chaotic and stupid to ever come into and hold power.
So, Internet, I look for advice: Microsoft has completely lost it when it comes to design (see "CoPilot button" or try to use Teams). Google has completely abandoned all attempts to be human and is trying to turn into an AI. What should an org (corporation/small business/family) use instead?
The student hadn't clicked on or entered anything: Google had no info and had decided that this six year old student (who uses their district-provided account to access resources via the teacher's Google Classroom) was interested in random trending content. Google doesn't understand humanity.
I showed the teacher how to turn off the setting (very convoluted process, done on each chromebook, because the district IT said this wasn't a priority). Turns out it was a movie that won an award at a film festival.
My 7yo offspring has a chromebook through school. Teacher asked me (as I know this kind of thing) why one of the students was looking up slasher pics (the student in question _cannot read_). Turns out that the google profile was turned on for a six year old to show "trending topics" in search.
Can we go back and ask Obama WRT Syria and gas attacks? ("Red Line" has no meaning and hasn't for a long time and yes that sucks giant donkey balls)
A great (albeit depressing) read www.takahe.org.nz/heat-death-o...
My pleasure. My view is that we have a dog’s breakfast of (1) speech that’s critical of Israel that people portray as anti-Semitic for bad faith reasons, (2) intentional employment of anti-Semitic tropes and rhetoric, and (3) ignorant employment of anti-Semitic tropes and rhetoric.
Just a week left to vote for "How We Survive" for a Webby People's Voice Award. We've got some formidable competition, so we could use your support! #HowWeSurvive #Marketplace #climatejournalism
/4 My position on the verdict has gone from “he did it” to “he did it but also if you run a brutal Kafkaesque system dominated by bigot shitbird cops then sometimes juries are gonna say nah fuck that, so FAAFO.”
:sad-nod: Having to explain to my mom (several years ago, maybe 2015 or 2016?) why she shouldn't be reposting a quasi-acceptable post (it wasn't great, but not truly objectionable) from "the proud boys" was a really difficult conversation.
OK, I like Mastodon and I like Blue Sky but the Blue Sky app on iPad is garbage: is there a better app available? (I am using Ivory for Mastodon, for example, and it is awesome)
I have given up on that, though: I have now deleted all the content and removed my three accounts. I have bluesky and mastodon and see no reason to continue supporting that site or its awful owner in any way, shape, or form.
I had previously "parked" my birdsite accounts: I figured that I wasn't using them but I didn't want someone to take the IDs and pretend to be me. I wasn't active (hadn't been for years) so just parking seemed reasonable.
Oh yeah...... (I usually give up on different wordle variants after a few weeks but this is only the third time I have played tradle and I already have an in-one guess!) #Tradle #550 1/6 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 oec.world/en/tradle