Not anymore though. They spun kfc, taco bell, and pizza hut years ago and they are under the yum brand now. They still have exclusive contracts regarding fountain. Not sure what other connections are left.

Hey that’s pretty cool. I did see the unbagging area when picking up few items yesterday. Going to give it a shot next time I go to Aldi. It’s not a busy store and I always see an empty register, but maybe that’s because everyone else is doing their shit right.

I did notice the bigger bar codes and that the Aldi registers scanned real well but somehow didn’t put the two things together.

Not for a while, at least not on their flagships.

AppleTV would be my recommendation for people that want a clean interface with no ads and they don’t want to or can’t modify an android TV box to a custom launcher. It’s just about a perfect experience right out of the box. It’s a shame about the shitty remote though.

For people willing to get their hands dirty, androidtv having SmartTubeNext is a killer tool for YouTube and for me gives it the edge.

SmartTubeNext might be the greatest thing about AndroidTV just for the sponsor block. It’s so amazing.

Pihole helps. If you have androidtv you can setup a custom launcher and avoid it on your interface.

I did the exact same thing. Also blocked androidtv updates in case Google starts pulling shit regarding custom launchers.

It’s gross how ads are being crammed in every little nook of our lives. Not like the ShieldTv was a cheap device either.

Pretty sad to see Roku going down the same road. Guess forcing a third of the screen devoted to ads just wasn’t enough.

Oh shit, I just started going to Aldi and sounds like I am one of the idiots doing it wrong. The store I am going to seems to be setup same as a typical SCO though. I don’t know that I have noticed a bagging counter. Will be looking next trip I guess.

You got that right. It’s so great walking right by everyone queued up at the registers.

This is me and Dish. Been over five years and I still get at least one a month. Post office was kind enough to notify them of my new address twice.

Covered in the article. In Norway you are required to signal when exiting a roundabout. It’s a fair concern.

Boogie. Not a favorite of mine and hated the Francis stuff, but I used to watch some of his gaming videos. He did his weight loss surgery about the same time as a relative so found that interesting. But good lord it’s been a descent since then,all of it self inflicted. Be it saying something stupid, firing a gun within city limits while getting into a pissing match with some other YouTube idiot, or losing his money in crypto. It’s hard to imagine someone that’s fallen further than him.

Watched the documentary on him last month and then went through his channel and it was embarrassing.

It’s dated but it still makes me chuckle so I leave it. Mines called Series of Tubes.

Man, that was a very thorough write up! I was familiar with the DND shit but not the Magic stuff. Was a sad read, but glad to know about it.

Perhaps. But it’s almost guaranteed that some sort of worker exploitation was involved.

Microsoft’s search engine is nowhere near as good as Google’s.

I don’t know… Googles search was clearly better five years ago. They clearly still have dominant market share, but they have been shitting up search results the last few years in the name of monetization a lot. I haven’t found their results to be better than bing, at least not by a lot.

Their algorithm is still good, as if I use a search engine that sources from Google, the results are typically what I would expect. But from Google itself, the results have sponsored content barfed all over actual results and it takes a little effort to find what I was searching for.

I have gone on to alternative search engines and been so much happier. I will fallback on Google when I need to, but it’s been extremely rare.

I don’t think that’s what I said? At least it’s not how I meant it.

Microsoft was kind of getting their comeuppance there. They did the exact same billshit when they dominated the market with IE.

They really weren’t that effective with Microsoft then either. The antitrust was far too late for Netscape and allowed Microsoft to hold a dominate market share with IE until they allowed the browser to deprecate and Google came in with a much better browser and took over the browser market (and are now doing the same bullshit).

As long as we keep giving these companies meaningless fines or wait until the damage is irreversible companies are going to always push the limit and look at any repercussions as just a cost of doing business.

So yeah, not much faith in anything changing.

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