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YouTube Music is so bad. Comically bad. I had an amazing indie music discovery service in Google Play Music. I found so many fantastic underplayed artists, and it helped me explore all the small music venues in my city. I've got a wall full of signed albums from artists I discovered with Google Play Music. YouTube music recommends Britney Spears . It's so awfully wrong about my tastes. It also randomly inserts YouTub…
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It feels like a trope to even say it but it amazes me how badly Google have handled the transition from Google Play Music to YT Music. For me YT Music is an inferior experience in every single way.
I dislike it too, but I can't put a finger on why YTMusic sucks compared to Google Play music. Mind sharing your reasons?
My fucking Google Home can't even figure out how to play the auto playlist "My Likes" on YouTube Music. Previously, I could say "Play my Thumbs Up" and it could do so on Google Play Music. It keeps playing a song called "My Likes". Jesus fucking Christ, Google. If I say "Play my My Likes playlist" something random happens. Do these guys even use their product? I'm just glad this album didn't come out before the force…
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Think of the assistants as young children. As a reference, someone I know spent some time in Miami with his wife and 2 young kids. After some time, the young son told his dad that he wanted to go back to "yourhammy". The dad eventually decoded "yourhammy" was the kid's interpretation of Miami as My-hammy. Your Likes => My Likes reminded me of that story.
You shouldn't have to treat a Smart assistant like a child.
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when i was a working chef, i used this NON-STOP. it is actually the first real “tech” i’ve ever brought into a (real working) kitchen that provided real value instead of gimmick
You worked as a chef and used a single timer in Siri and were happy with that? How?! (Siri doesn't support more than one concurrent timer)
I can't speak for the chef, but it does on HomePod. Each gets its own name and that name is announced when the alarm goes off.
"bleep bloop bleepity boop! Eggs timer. bleep bloop bleepity boop!
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It keeps playing a song called "My Likes" Meanwhile, here in Siri Land... Me: Hey, Siri, add "tomatoes" to my Groceries list. Siri: OK, Reapreducer. Which list should I add it to? Me: Groceries. Siri: OK, Reapreducer. Which list should I add it to? Me: Groceries. Siri: OK, Reapreducer. Which list should I add it to? Me: Groceries. Siri: OK, Reapreducer. Which list should I add it to? Me: Groceries. Siri: OK, Reapredu…
I don’t use Siri for much, and I certainly don’t have it always listening. But I did hack out a useful Shortcut to record my blood pressure and heart rate to Apple Health. I say, “Add blood pressure 120 over 80 plus 60.” Then I use the shortcut to parse the string on the / and +, and record it to Health. The hard part was finding delimiters that Siri would consistently record as a single character. That and realizing…
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It keeps playing a song called "My Likes" Meanwhile, here in Siri Land... Me: Hey, Siri, add "tomatoes" to my Groceries list. Siri: OK, Reapreducer. Which list should I add it to? Me: Groceries. Siri: OK, Reapreducer. Which list should I add it to? Me: Groceries. Siri: OK, Reapreducer. Which list should I add it to? Me: Groceries. Siri: OK, Reapreducer. Which list should I add it to? Me: Groceries. Siri: OK, Reapredu…
I've been wondering whether I should re-enable siri and give it an other shot. I use the todos app for that and from time to time it would be convenient to do it handsfree. I see that I still have no reason to bother, it's going to frustrate me more than anything else (especially with how downhill voiceover has gone in 12).
My fucking Google Home can't even figure out how to play the auto playlist "My Likes" on YouTube Music. Previously, I could say "Play my Thumbs Up" and it could do so on Google Play Music. It keeps playing a song called "My Likes". Jesus fucking Christ, Google. If I say "Play my My Likes playlist" something random happens. Do these guys even use their product? I'm just glad this album didn't come out before the force…
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I coined "Brogdon's Law" (probably not original to me by any stretch) several years ago: The answer to any technical problem will present itself within 30 seconds (sometimes minutes) of asking "Hey, can you take a look at this?"
I find that usually having a second set of eyes when you do it again usually forces the person to focus, whereas when it wasn't working before they probably had something else on the brain or were on autopilot. I like to call it the IT magic touch or job security.
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what would the correct command be on windows?
Instead of "C:\ del .mp3", it should be "del C:\ .mp3". Edit: lol, I didn't know that we could format text with asterisks on HN. There should be an asterisk before each ".mp3", but as you can see, if I put them in it just italicizes the text in between them.