Tech’s broken promises: Streaming is now just as expensive and confusing as cable. Ubers cost as much as taxis. And the cloud is no longer cheap::Some tech is getting pricier and looking a lot like the older services it was supposed to beat. From video streaming to ride-hailing and cloud computing.

  • kabat@programming.dev
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    1 year ago

    When do you look at/watch them?

    Not OP, but same situation. I usually don’t, but my mother who lives far from us does every day. We take a lot of photos and videos, she gets to watch them and she’s up to speed on our kids’ lives, can talk to them about stuff they did today, etc. We feel like it lets her be a part of their lives in a way.

    Then you have that Google Photos feature where you get automatically created mini albums like “they grow up so fast” or “now vs then”, it will compile a couple of photos from 7, 6, 5, … Years ago and we watch those religiously, often coming back to the particular event from which some photo is. We can spend an entire evening going through older photos like that.

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      1 year ago

      My dog died recently, and those freaking memory reels keep messing up my day. I can’t not look at them, and when I do, I’m in tears after a minute.

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        1 year ago

        We had a tragic car accident and kept getting those “memories” every year until I found out how to omit them.

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          1 year ago

          That sucks, sorry for your loss man. Being reminded of that kind of shit is waaaay worse than what I’m whining about, and mine is bad enough.

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      1 year ago

      As a side note, as much as I enjoy the odd “then and now” collage, or “this time 3 years ago” album, I really miss those old “auto awesome” videos Google photos used to make, with a mix of video and stills set to music. Don’t know why they stopped doing them but they were great.