MurrayL

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[–] MurrayL@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Doesn’t ESPN have exclusive broadcast rights for the next Super Bowl for the first time ever? How convenient that they’d raise their prices…

[–] MurrayL@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

Honestly, some are better than others depending on priorities, but literally anything is a better option than Spotify on most fronts these days.

[–] MurrayL@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

The first link I posted is for Guided Access.

I also mentioned hidden albums because that was the second thing the author requested in the blog post.

[–] MurrayL@lemmy.world 27 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Literally both of these things already exist.

Android example already posted, but for iOS:

[–] MurrayL@lemmy.world 157 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)
[–] MurrayL@lemmy.world 16 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

What’s with the editorialised title? How do these changes make it harder for new creators?

[–] MurrayL@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

DLSS 5 looks horrendous but let’s not pretend gamers haven’t been able to reshade and mod the everloving shit out of games for decades. Saying it’s not a real game because someone decided they wanted to slap on a cel-shade filter or turn the art director’s carefully crafted dragon into Thomas the Tank Engine isn’t really a defensible position.

[–] MurrayL@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

The problem I have with most of these services is that every channel is too hyper-specific, often literally just playing a single show or, at best, 2-3 shows but in multi-hour blocks. Incredibly lazy IMO.

To me, the appeal of linear terrestrial TV is having channels that show a wide variety of things throughout the day. If I wanted to see 24 hours of non-stop Mr. Bean I’d download them and shuffle the folder.

[–] MurrayL@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

That would still work - asterisk isn’t a letter that can be accented, so the popup wouldn’t appear and the key would repeat as normal.

[–] MurrayL@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

In typical Apple fashion, ‘that’s the neat part - it doesn’t’. If you want to be able to hold a letter to type it repeatedly, you have to disable the diacritics popup with a console command.

It’s the sort of stubborn ‘getting in my way’ feature that drives some people nuts when using a Mac, but in my experience it’s far more useful to be able to easily type accented characters than it is to be able to save half a second on the rare occasions I want to type ‘ooooooooooooooh’.

And yeah, if the popup is open you either hit the number displayed under the character you want or use the mouse to click on it.

[–] MurrayL@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (6 children)

On macOS you either use dead keys (option + backtick and then a letter will add a grave accent, like à) or just press and hold down the letter to get a little pop-up diacritics picker.

[–] MurrayL@lemmy.world 80 points 1 month ago (56 children)

There’s a similar incentive to this Windows 11 one, but for macOS. Yikes.

Not sure why that warrants a yikes; macOS is far more usable than Windows 11. I’d go so far as to call it downright pleasant in comparison.

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