Didn’t this stupid website used to help you, you know, hack life or something?
There was once a related website called tree hugger. All the articles were about things you could buy with an eco focus of some kind.
It was neat to see stuff about solar powered radios, but pushing consumerism that much for that purpose misses the pointFuck Lifehacker.
Unfortunately everything is an ad now. It’s the only way these sites are capable of surviving.
would people use a lifehacker community here?
If it had actual life hacks, probably.
Lets make one but populate it with bots that only repost bs from the other one… (That’s my lemme experience in a nutshell)
This post reminded me of how much I miss the Consumerist website.
What was that? O:
It was a public site associated with consumer reports. They occasionally released some product research in various areas, but mainly they wrote stories about shitty anti consumer practices that companies did. They also ran the worst company in America competition and sent the winner a golden poo trophy.
Oh wow. Totally forgot about them. The internet is such a shit hole now. (Except for lemmy and tildes of course =P)
I feel like someone needs to setup a Netflix-type deal for news sites. I’m not going to pay a news site that I only view an article or two a month from. And there’s a bunch of them. So it’d be neat if I can pay one price and access them when I need to.
Apple News+ is kind of like that
Apple does some things well but wraps it all in one of the worst systems designed for people. It’s like a slaughterhouse that takes good care of its cattle.
But purposely excludes anyone who hasn’t invested $2000 in the apple ecosystem. Anything made by apple is a huge no from me, even if they decide occasionally to support hardware they didn’t already profit from directly.
I used to browse it about 15-20 years ago.It used to be a good place to learn tricks about all sorts of electronics. I’m not sure exactly what happened but it was like a switch flipped and they got awful almost overnight. Probably bought out.
There was a time when Lifehacker was a place you could go for neat little things that could be accomplished with objects at hand to make life easier. There was such a time for many, many places on this great Internet of ours.
It was lit when it was Gina and crew.
It really was, I have a clear recollection of it being one of my top sites for a good year or two. Then the bad times came.
Any alternatives you recommend?
Heck if I know them. Anyone else? ^^
Lifehacker has one good article a week. At the end of the week. It’s one where they debunk a bunch of bullshit rumors floating around the internet at the moment.
So I check them once on Fridays.
I’m guessing, with the way G/O media is going, that they’ll get rid of that.
I unsubscribed when they had an article about how rimming isn’t unsanitary and how to do it properly. I cannot describe how grossed out I was.
I thought you were kidding. What the hell kind of lifehack is this? https://lifehacker.com/how-to-eat-ass-1820805658
I mean butts are great and all, but they tend to REDUCE my ability to get things done.
Anything that is, or once was affiliated with Gawker / GMG is, in its current state, a cringe-inducing, shambling husk of whatever it once was. My muscle memory still directs me to a number of those blogs and everyday I recoil at what has become of them.
I like most of what Jalopnik has at least.
RIP AV Club
Hmm, I wasn’t around for old Kotaku, but I think Kotaku still posts some good stuff? Or are they not Gawker?
Kotaku is close enough to gaming “journalism” that it’s never really been good.
It used to be pretty good, but that was over ten years ago now.
Gosh, remember TechTV before the G4 merger? Between Call for Help & The Screensavers, I learned SO MUCH.
G4 tv 🤯
i remember ZDtv before TechTV.
Lifehacker is just click bait shit now. Once upon a time in a far away land it was good.
Lifehacker got me into everything tech 15 years ago. It is nothing like it used to be, it’s very sad.
That ship sailed a very long time ago.
