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Am I the only one who finds it hilarious that someone's complaining about UI of the source when the stuff under discussion already cleans up things for you and
by 4a3f35b5a 13y ago
Am I the only one who finds it hilarious that someone's complaining about UI of the source when the stuff under discussion already cleans up things for you and makes it readable?
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- seldo 13y agoAlmost nobody uses feed readers, which is why Google shut down Reader in the first place. You guys are a small but INCREDIBLY vocal minority.
- aclevernickname 13y agowhat kind of geek doesn't have EZRSS and a few other torrent feeds fed into Sickbeard or FlexGet for automatic television/movie/game downloading?
- seldo 13y agoI didn't say I don't use RSS; I just don't use it for news (or any kind of reading). I plumb it into automation quite often, though.
- aclevernickname 13y agoand you use google reader for your plumbing? does that not seem a little robust for such an activity?
- btilly 13y agoMe. I have never watched much TV, skip most movies, and am unable to play any first shooter from Doom onwards without getting motion sick. Plus I think that I should respect copyrights. Let me turn it around. What true nerd would consider consumption of mass market media a defining characteristic of nerdom? As opposed to, say, burying your nose in a math text for fun?
- shrikant 13y ago> [...] am unable to play any first shooter from Doom onwards without getting motion sick. Wow, I thought this was just me! This prevents me from playing even the good stuff like Portal, which is a terrible pity.
- aclevernickname 13y agoThank you for calling me on the No True Scotsman fallacy, then perpetuating the same in your reply. :) Shame about your respect for copyright in the digital age; I'm in full agreement with you otherwise.
- robryan 13y agoI'd say that is a fairly mainstream geek kind of thing, I associate it with the kind of video game playing, reddit frequenting geek. (Yes overly broad stereotypes).
- MostAwesomeDude 13y agoI would never participate in automatic torrenting; I am pretty discerning about what I watch. Additionally, RSS feeds just seem pointless to me; I visit web sites when I want to consume information from them. I dislike the idea of turning my computer into a television.
- aclevernickname 13y agoYou can still be discerning in your automatic torrenting. For instance, Flexget has an option to download S01E01's of television, and the ability to check Metacritic ratings for Games/Movies before downloading (I have a threshold of 75% or above). While I tend to find a bunch of tripe television (the wife enjoys it, and I built her media center out of love), I happily delete the awful stuff, and don't add it to the list of "automatically download this title" shows I've curated.
- gwern 13y ago> You guys are a small but INCREDIBLY vocal minority. 24-36m people is a vocal minority?
- teh_klev 13y ago"Almost nobody uses feed readers" - prove it. I'll read that as "I stopped using it, therefore how could anyone else possibly want to?" "which is why Google shut down Reader in the first place" - nope, Google wants to stuff us all into their walled Google+ crap and feed us ads. Notice the lack of RSS feeds for updates. "You guys are a small but INCREDIBLY vocal minority" - this is a discussion that involves Google's cack handed behaviour with Reader, what do you expect. If you don't use RSS then why the hell do you care, stay out of the discussion.