16 years as of August, my account is old enough to drive.
15 years as of tomorrow, though I think I was lurking for a bit before I signed up.
And quite a bit afterwards; my tag is only 9 years old...
I've got about 19 1/2 years here. That's a long I've spent being a general nuisance.
I started posting here over 11 years ago with this account. But I began listening to the podcast over 15 years ago and lurking here soon after.
I started posting here over 11 years ago with this account. But I began listening to the podcast over 15 years ago and lurking here soon after.
I started on the podcast 12 years ago and started lurking at the same time. Wish it hadn’t taken me so long to actually make an account.
I'll be legal drinking age in March ;P
About 2 weeks back YouTube offered me a 2 month free trial of YouTube Premium. The bliss of watching YouTube without ads is very nearly an emotional experience.
When it’s up in 6 weeks time I’m probably going to end up just paying the subscription. I am very annoyed about this.
I’ve had a sub since it started. It’s great. Plus I don’t feel guilty about not contributing to everyone’s Patreon since some of my subscription money goes to people I watch
I started paying for YouTube when I realized my baby liked to watch music performances and a lot of the ones she likes are on there. I didn't want her exposed to the ads. Now that I've experienced the difference, I don't want me exposed to the ads either. And I do make use of the expanded iOS features that come with a sub, even though it still annoys me that those are core features of video on the platform that Google has arbitrarily locked behind a paywall.
I need to figure out how to move all my playlists and such to a personal email from the university-managed alumni account I'm on. Organizational accounts can't participate in family subscription plans with the reduced rates.
Me too. It makes wind-down in the evenings a lot less frustrating. I still use uBlock Origin, however.
When Google removed their old music server service where you could upload your own MP3s, I tried using youtube music (which transferred all the uploads), but it kept popping up a "try a week's free subscription" thing in the app, which I kept cancelling, but eventually it got me and popped the button up under where I was about to press.
It was impossible for me to cancel the subscription before paying for a month (despite them claiming otherwise and me googling assiduously to try to work out how to do it). Now they don't get my money ever again. If firefox + uBlock Origin stops working, I guess I won't watch my carpet cleaning videos any more.
I hear you on the payment annoyances. I couldn't use my credit card to subscribe. Google wanted to put a pending charge on my card, which included an 8 digit code in the description that I would use to verify the card was mine. The description I saw on my bank statement only included the first 6 digits of that code. It turns out my bank truncates descriptions for pending charges. The real aggravation is they truncate it to like the first 36 characters, which ought to be more than enough space, but Google insisted on putting the code in characters 31-38. The bank's customer service rep could only see the same web-based information I could, and Google just doesn't have in-person support. So now my sub is routed through PayPal to the exact same card I tried to use initially.
Now that it's set up it's worth keeping, but man was it a pain.
When I see myself in the mirror without a shirt these days, I don't hate what I see. I don't love it, but I don't hate it either.
Progress!
When Google removed their old music server service where you could upload your own MP3s, I tried using youtube music (which transferred all the uploads), but it kept popping up a "try a week's free subscription" thing in the app, which I kept cancelling, but eventually it got me and popped the button up under where I was about to press.
Google Play Music was the best music streaming service ever created.
YouTube Music is an abomination of a replacement.
This was one of the catalysts to me significantly de-Googling. Eventually, I plan to get it down to the point where my Google account really is just a YouTube account.
DudleySmith wrote:When Google removed their old music server service where you could upload your own MP3s, I tried using youtube music (which transferred all the uploads), but it kept popping up a "try a week's free subscription" thing in the app, which I kept cancelling, but eventually it got me and popped the button up under where I was about to press.
Google Play Music was the best music streaming service ever created.
YouTube Music is an abomination of a replacement.
This was one of the catalysts to me significantly de-Googling. Eventually, I plan to get it down to the point where my Google account really is just a YouTube account.
Remember Rdio? That was another fave of mine that Google bought and then killed.
The only Google thing I still use now is YouTube and I would quit it in a heartbeat if there was competition in that space. I also have a Gmail account that I’m slowly transitioning away from. I can’t ever see myself using another app or service of theirs.
I have Nebula, but a lot of my ASMR type videos of watching other people do physical labour (carpet cleaning, painting restoration, typewriter restoration, lawn mowing, furniture restoration, hoof restoration, dog grooming, German kitchen applicances from the early 20th Century restoration) are only on youtube. I guess I could pay for James and Maso's thing and not watch them on youtube.
I still use Youtube music but I am too lazy to upload my MP3s to something else.
Inertia, it's a Female Doggo, man.
Here is some crazy tech:
Why scientists are making transparent wood
The material is being exploited for smartphone screens, insulated windows, and more.
The material the scientists worked with is thin—typically less than a millimeter to around a centimeter thick. But the cells create a sturdy honeycomb structure, and the tiny wood fibers are stronger than the best carbon fibers […]. And with the resin added, transparent wood outperforms plastic and glass: In tests measuring how easily materials fracture or break under pressure, transparent wood came out around three times stronger than transparent plastics like Plexiglass and about 10 times tougher than glass.
Sounds like it will have a good use case for bullet proof glass too.
Answer: Because NileRed published a few videos showing how to do it, and now the big companies want to get in on the action.
Fidelity finally supports scheduled recurring auto-investments in ETFs.
Last work day before a six week vacation (which includes 3 weeks in Japan).
This is going to be a long day.
My two favourite cards so far this year. Both have clearly had thought put into them. One of them is from Australia. Can you guess which one?
My cousin won Guy's Grocery Games the other night. (well, technically she won it a while back but couldn't say anything about it until the episode aired).
Awesome Clumber!
This could also go in the loathe page but it would be the ultimate moan about something I am very lucky to have. This week my wedding anniversary was on Wednesday, my eldest turned 9 on Thursday which was also my dad’s birthday and it’s my mums birthday tomorrow so we are all out for lunch tomorrow. Also my father in law arrived till Christmas on Tuesday, I am knackered and won’t get to play a game for weeks but I am right now realising how lucky I am.
Well you chose the dates for three of those five so no one to blame but yourself! 
After 2 weeks with a heart monitor taped to my chest, Thanksgiving holiday travel, and a week of a cold sweeping its way through the household, I've finally made it back to the gym. Just finished my first real workout in a month and I feel great.
Past me for being organised for once. I live in a close of 8 houses. I can never remember the names of most of the people in those houses but this year I found an entry in my iPad’s address book (under Christmas cards local) with the numbers of the houses and the names of the occupants.
Gawd bless you past me.
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