Get your news somewhere else than fucking Facebook.
Stop being dependant on a single place, otherwise you are a slave to that place.
Always have multiple options for everything in your life.

And the way things are going with Chinese companies and their supposedly links to the CCP, YouTube really should NOT want to be compared with TikTok.

I'm not complaining because "we always did it this way in the past and the new way is wrong" which you seem to think I'm doing.

Our vision did not evolve to see things vertically, that's why our eyes are side-to-side, in an horizontal configuration. Movies, televisions and computer displays went from having an aspect ratio of 4:3 or 5:4, to a wider 16:9 or 16:10 and now even ultra-wide 21:9 aspect ratios and higher are gaining in popularity. The only thing we've ever done vertically is books and journals.

So to answer your question, everyone should care. Vertical videos are the complete opposite of what we evolved to see and smartphones users can easily rotate their devices to landscape mode.

If they gave us the option to disable Shorts and/or move Shorts to their own website/app, then they would at least have some metrics to show them a lot of their users consider Shorts to be as bad as spam.

Right now, it's like trying to watch action or sci-fi movies and being spammed with dramas and other bullshit.

Exactly. I don't know what fucking idiot at YouTube is pushing for Shorts so much, but I wish he'd stop with this insanity. If they want to push Shorts so much, it should be a totally different website! Stop spamming YouTube with useless vertical videos!!1

If at least we had the option to NEVER have anything to do with this stupidity.

I'm on a desktop/laptop, I DON'T WANT TO EVER WATCH VERTICAL VIDEOS.
Smartphones are killing horizontal videos! Please stop this insanity!

The worst part is, you can easily use a smartphone in landscape mode. People are idiots and we're all paying for it. Both Android and iOS should block people from recording vertical videos!

Either everyone is protected, or nobody is.
There's no in-between.
There's no "good guys" vs "bad guys".

Somebody should really explain encryption to them.

I've just bought some Phillips warm glow bulbs but not yet installed them. Tunable color temperature in general would be great.

Philips does make warm-to-cold-white tunable smart bulbs. Their new models can be controlled by a Hue wall switch/controller/pad, via Zigbee, via a smartphone app via Bluetooth (if the bulb is not Bluetooth then someone's trying to sell you a really old model of bulb) and via a smart home hub (HomeKit, Alexa, etc). Surely there's at least one control option that will fit your requirements.

Finally, someone made the joke. Thank you.

https://www.amd.com/en/corpora...

Tell me about it. If it had been "Nvidia AI image generator fits on a floppy disk and takes 4 minutes to plane", I would've understood immediately!

On the other hand, everyone under 30 is wondering what the fuck a "floppy disk" is.

Would you like fries with that?
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You guys are getting screwed in the U.S.A. Inflation is not that bad in Canada, at least not on groceries.

Netflix Canada has all the good TV series (TOS, NG, DS9, Voyager, Enterprise).

Come on, guys. I dropped Netflix because they were now more expensive than Disney+. And you think YouTube, of all things, is worth more than either of them?

Your stupid ads are fucking annoying and completely off-topic 99.999% of the time. Get better and you'll get more profits.