A lot of airlines have videos on the larger planes. I like the BA one. Although I couldn't figure out if the old version with Gillian Anderson speaking in a stoic british accent was supposed to be a joke. It was all confusing.
― Yerac, Thursday, 15 August 2019 19:25 (four years ago) link
Virgin had a decently entertaining video a few years back, with robots and ninjas in it. They have since replaced it.
― Rumspringsteen (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 15 August 2019 19:27 (four years ago) link
The Air France one still uses that Glass Candy song
― L'assie (Euler), Thursday, 15 August 2019 19:34 (four years ago) link
couldn't figure out if the old version with Gillian Anderson speaking in a stoic british accent was supposed to be a joke
haven't seen this video so dunno about the stoicism, but Gillian Anderson's "natural" accent is English & she has lived in England nearly all her life, apart from term-time high school and during X-Files active production
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Thursday, 15 August 2019 19:38 (four years ago) link
Most airlines from English speaking countries have a novelty safety video now, not necessarily with celebs. The BA one with Chabuddy-G was/is the absolute nadir of the genre.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Thursday, 15 August 2019 19:38 (four years ago) link
The Qantas one cycles through some ‘typical Australian tropes’ like sitting in the front of a cab and being a boorish prick abroad.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Thursday, 15 August 2019 19:40 (four years ago) link
xpost I was researching about her accent before and knew she had lived in england but for some reason I assumed she usually speaks with a non-english accent.
― Yerac, Thursday, 15 August 2019 19:41 (four years ago) link
I just doublechecked, in interviews she doesn't speak with a british accent. The stoic'ism is that she is very serious and placid in the video.
― Yerac, Thursday, 15 August 2019 19:45 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrQ-RlPDPFo
― Number None, Thursday, 15 August 2019 19:51 (four years ago) link
― Yerac, Thursday, August 15, 2019 12:45 PM (six minutes ago)
she can speak in either accent. i think she might do the american one for american media and vice versa?
― bookmarkflaglink (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 15 August 2019 19:53 (four years ago) link
yeah, see above
― Number None, Thursday, 15 August 2019 19:53 (four years ago) link
yeah i just learned about being 'bidialecta'.
― Yerac, Thursday, 15 August 2019 19:54 (four years ago) link
whoops left off the 'l'. bidialectal.
― Yerac, Thursday, 15 August 2019 19:55 (four years ago) link
a truly wild backwards technological step:
for the first fifteen years of podcasts, if you wanted to sample a podcast you were interested in, you could just download the episode from the podcast's website.
now, to follow a recommendation, you can't click on a link, because that will take you to a third-party company's redirect to an app.
so you have to google the podcastthen click on itthen click & read a couple of pages of the website to get an idea of whether you want to try more than one episode. then, you have to google the podcast plus "rss" to find an aggregator servicethen click on thatthen find the rss link on the pagethen click on it to see if it's set up to render in-browserthen click into the URL bar when it turns out not to bethen ctrl+x to copy itthen open a separate plugin or program that you had to install because Firefox took away rss supportthen click "add a new feed," then click ctrl+vthen click "preview," then click "cancel"and now you finally have a list of episodes you can download from to sample this thing that was recommended and sound intersting
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Thursday, 15 August 2019 20:08 (four years ago) link
^^ why I have never listened to a podcast, part LXXVII
― sleeve, Thursday, 15 August 2019 20:10 (four years ago) link
If you think that's weird, watch Kristin Scott Thomas switch back and forth between (British) English and French sometime.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Thursday, 15 August 2019 20:12 (four years ago) link
That seems awfully complicated I just go to my podcast app search for the podcast, hit subscribe and away I go, if I don’t like it I unsubscribe.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Thursday, 15 August 2019 20:13 (four years ago) link
Spotify is great for pods.
― frustration and wonky passion (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 15 August 2019 20:17 (four years ago) link
I don't even subscribe, bc for some reason giving Google Podcasts permission to 'access my web activity and data' is the line in the sand I've drawn. I just go to the app, search for it, and download whatever episode.
― change display name (Jordan), Thursday, 15 August 2019 20:18 (four years ago) link
When I try to type about denim jeans, my phone always corrects it to Jean's.― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Thursday, August 15, 2019 2:03 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink
dril's ilx account doxxed
― global tetrahedron, Thursday, 15 August 2019 20:19 (four years ago) link
seems awfully complicated I just go to my podcast app
the podcast app costs a thousand dollars and then you have to buy new headphones for a couple of hundred just to use it, which don't work with any of your other audio devices
In Australia, the iPhone range starts at A$749 for an iPhone 7 – making it the cheapest entry level model. The new iPhone XS range starts at A$1,629 and A$1,799 for the iPhone XS Max. The iPhone XR will begin at A$1,229.
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Thursday, 15 August 2019 20:26 (four years ago) link
my phone was free with my contract and my headphones cost $7 canadian
― bookmarkflaglink (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 15 August 2019 20:27 (four years ago) link
and i only listen to podcasts on my phone because if I'm at home i have better things to do (watch ds9)
― bookmarkflaglink (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 15 August 2019 20:28 (four years ago) link
Not the Apple podcast app, just a podcast app, I use Castro, no idea if it’s available for Android but there are undoubtedly a bunch.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Thursday, 15 August 2019 20:28 (four years ago) link
I got my Samsung Galaxy off craigslist for $240 but maybe they don't have used non-Apple products there, idk
― change display name (Jordan), Thursday, 15 August 2019 20:29 (four years ago) link
guess sic is listening on his free computer
― na (NA), Thursday, 15 August 2019 20:39 (four years ago) link
yeah, even on the shittiest smart phone it's pretty easy to listen to any podcast. This is part of the reason why I listen to a lot more podcasts on my phone than spotify (which is terrible on low end android phones)
― silverfish, Thursday, 15 August 2019 20:39 (four years ago) link
ipods don't have apps guys
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Thursday, 15 August 2019 20:58 (four years ago) link
Pretty sure iPod Touches have apps. My iPhone app (Downcast) lets me quickskip 30 seconds by swiping right, which is the best feature.
― DJI, Thursday, 15 August 2019 21:23 (four years ago) link
the problem is the main aggregators are where people are encouraged to push their podcast feeds and all the links go directly to those, I think
iPods were the first main target for podcasts and iTunes has one of the largest podcast directories, though. I mean, assuming you're still using iTunes for synching and not something third party
― untuned mass damper (mh), Thursday, 15 August 2019 21:30 (four years ago) link
fwiw this site seems pretty good and seems to have rss links directly: https://www.listennotes.com/
― untuned mass damper (mh), Thursday, 15 August 2019 21:31 (four years ago) link
Pretty sure iPod Touches have appsCame out 12 years ago.
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Thursday, 15 August 2019 21:47 (four years ago) link
you mean greengrocer's apostrophes?
― Number None
i did that on purpose
― Abigail, Wife of Preserved Fish (rushomancy), Thursday, 15 August 2019 21:53 (four years ago) link
the clickwheel one had apps too! there were like these trivia games you could download. helped me kill time on a long flight
― frogbs, Thursday, 15 August 2019 21:53 (four years ago) link
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed)
as opposed to be the 'typical american trope' of being a racist prick fucking everywhere
yesterday after great pestering from windows i consented to install their latest "upgrade", which first took 24 hours, second didn't work, and third managed to turn back on my touchscreen, which i turned off because it had broken for some reason and was constantly registering presses rendering the computer unusable. which is an extreme case but the constant stream of "you have an update! better install it or some hacker will exploit a 0-day and hold all of your files for bitcoin ransom!" is pretty strongly backward progress imo
― Abigail, Wife of Preserved Fish (rushomancy), Thursday, 15 August 2019 21:57 (four years ago) link
sic, while I sympathize as a fellow iPod Classic-owner and stubborn ass-dragger when it comes to progress, I think the podcast issues you face are relatively unique to your situation.
― Amply Drizzled with Pure Luxury (Old Lunch), Thursday, 15 August 2019 22:01 (four years ago) link
I saw the BA safety video a week ago - the one bright spot is how pissed off the makers must have been when Olivia Coleman won an Oscar.
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 15 August 2019 23:26 (four years ago) link
I think because I hate flying so much, I like the BA video due to the easy distraction (obviously as seen by my Gillian Anderson confusion (she is not in the new one) and trying to dissect a lot of people's involvement and because I super like the curly haired woman in the older one).
― Yerac, Thursday, 15 August 2019 23:37 (four years ago) link
just because many ppl have very happily accepted being herded into third-party data-harvesters does not mean that it is not a technological/practical step backwards to change a plurality of podcast websites such that you cannot download podcasts from them
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Friday, 16 August 2019 00:12 (four years ago) link
I paid for my podcast app and it is not a data harvester.
https://support.downcast.fm/article/84WhiJ1BFT-privacy-policy
― DJI, Friday, 16 August 2019 00:15 (four years ago) link
podcast.. websites?
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 16 August 2019 00:44 (four years ago) link
hmm podcasts.. cool technological/practical "backward step" bro
― cheese canopy (map), Friday, 16 August 2019 00:49 (four years ago) link
for real though all software is garbage now
― cheese canopy (map), Friday, 16 August 2019 00:54 (four years ago) link
zing is great
― El Tomboto, Friday, 16 August 2019 01:02 (four years ago) link
Seconded
― TS: “8:05” vs. “905” (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 16 August 2019 01:05 (four years ago) link
Tracer I download programmes from BBC radio websites! it's weird how as of this year or thereabouts they always announce "this programme is supported by advertising outside the UK" but then no ad is included. like someone coded a thing that will serve you a special version of the file depending on IP, and somebody coded a script that inserts the announcement into a version of each of the file-size options that BBC radio websites offer, but nobody got around to coding the bit that inserts the advertisement after the warning about the advertisement.
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Friday, 16 August 2019 01:07 (four years ago) link
So Spirit airlines is using self boarding pass scan to speed things up
It is moving at a snail's pace aa the average idiot on this flight barely knows how to use them
― i'd rather zing like a man, than FP like a coward (Neanderthal), Friday, 16 August 2019 01:39 (four years ago) link
Employee is having to help everyone...just like THE OLD WAY
Oh and they're having all zones go at the same time.
WHAT'S THE POINT OF ZONES THEN
― i'd rather zing like a man, than FP like a coward (Neanderthal), Friday, 16 August 2019 01:43 (four years ago) link
I had to look up AA boarding groups for my wife recently and they had ten boarding groups plus an extra non-group that went before the rest, she had priority which got he into group 4. In Australia we have two lines premium and everyone else but in practice everyone just joins whichever line looks shorter and they board simultaneously. It's a lot quicker (but less monetised).
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Friday, 16 August 2019 02:02 (four years ago) link