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Cake day: June 19th, 2023

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  • They are all doing these offensive bundles of crap. It is worse than the days of Cable.

    We are subscribed to Apple One Family Premier. I need the large data for my family to backup their devices, but none of us want Fitness+ or News+. It is cheaper to get this extra crap we don’t want, than to just get Data.

    I just need a way to disable Fitness+ without disabling the Workout features. This is the same as disabling Shorts, Music and Games in YouTube.



  • I usually get bombarded with Right-Wing content after I watch Juice Media videos. Also, if a watch a feminist video, it is usually followed by recommendations of “AnTi-WoKe” mansplaining videos. it is if they want to show “Both Sides” after I watch something about maintaining democracy and contributing to society in a positive way.

    The YouTube Games are just another banner of unwanted “content” like Shorts.

    The T&A shorts are usually of young women in jeggings and crop-tops doing risqué actions; if your mouse passes over the Shorts for a millisecond , YouTube autoplays them and registers as a view, creating a negative feedback loop of more and more scantily clad young women doing mundane things in a risqué way.


  • Jailbait is probably the wrong word, but every single short has a scantily clad young lady. It isn’t the Algorithm because all I watch are Machining Videos, DIY and Restoration Videos and the occasional Science and Natural History video.

    The most risqué channel subscribe to is VanWives.

    Speaking of which, the Algorithm never serves anything that I subscribe to. I would better off going straight to my Subscriptions page.

    I will maintain my observation that the Algorithm is shit.


  • This is ridiculous.

    • their algorithms are crap and keep ramming right-wing bullshit down my throat
    • they keep trying to get me to play YouTube games
    • they list YouTube Shorts multiple times in the Home Screen and most of the time it is just over-sexualised jailbait.
    • using anonymous Google to find a video on YouTube is more effective than using YouTube search

    I am seriously thinking of getting an Apple Vision Pro just so I can use Juno and bypass all the bullshit.

    Time I planned an exit strategy.










  • They all do. Google search is one big primitive Digital Assistant. Apple’s Siri is less functional than its predecessor Voice Control. Amazon’s product recommendation algorithm and Alexa are also successful digital assistants.

    Meanwhile the YouTube algorithm, Netflix, and Metas recommendations are notoriously frustrating, pumping out irrelevant recommendations and obfuscating constant that you actually want to consume.

    Microsoft haven’t had any effective Digital Assistants to date and must they feel like they are being left behind. Their attempts to emulate successful product from other companies are either unnoticeably irrelevant or laughably bad. Even the terrible content recommendations of Netflix and YouTube keep people hooked.





  • ‘Data Detectors’ in MacOS are just as bad. Just like how sometimes a cigar is just a cigar, sometimes a string of numerals is just a string of numerals.

    It is not a phone number or a flight number or a ticket number, it is just a string of text that happen to all be numerals.

    I asked Apple Support how to disable data detectors in Preview (MacOS’s native PDF and image viewer) so I could highlight some part numbers without MacOS trying to make a FaceTime call and they told me to use Adobe Acrobat instead! The problem is that Acrobat is worse.