Not defending Google, but how many employees do they have? Did they all get raises this year? I bet license deals from the music industry probably went up too. (No proof but assuming)

But I agree 100%, they are without a doubt no longer following “don’t be evil”. But it’s disingenuous to believe they’re annual costs are not increasing along with literally everything else.

Speaking for everyone?

I pay because I use yt music and my PRIMARY tv watching is YT, and I use one or the other all day long.

YT has no ads, and I can skip with the press of a button most creator ads so it’s kinda nice and easy. (Yes I know what sponsor block is and it’s installed on Firefox so one less button press on my pc)

Do I pay YouTube FOR the creators? Nope I pay so I can sign in / watch yt or listen to my music anywhere without jumping through hoops.

I also have / sometimes use grayjay on my phone (and I paid futo for it to support it) I have smart tube next on my Nvidia shield too. My wife/son use it mostly.

I sync yt music to my Garmin watch for running, I run about 20 miles a week so add that to feature I’m paying for.

I downloaded a handful of videos before flying to CA earlier this week, but the flights had WiFi so that didn’t really give me anything special ;)

Can I do all this without paying, sure, but I don’t mind paying for stuff I get value from.

Am I happy about $4/mo increase? Absolutely not, but it’s not gonna break me either. $4/30 is .13c a day.

Cincinnati area I actually rode in two Mondays ago, it was a random beautiful day!

More warm days coming here!

And she never released all those files she had on her desk

If you do you’ll be supporting Ticketmaster more than Bruce because… 'Merica

Because every single decision is to maximize profits, not make sense!

Hah, whoops… I blame my phone

Australia is big, but Sydney, when I was there a million years ago had very good public transportation with a single card that got you access to buses, ferries etc…

I look forward to the youtube video detailing how to do this :)

I am interested in seeing Project Hail Mary only because I really enjoyed the book, but you know how that goes…

I clicked in to see what video game/program it was from .

This is a real problem… Like I’m afraid to watch certain things knowing full well I want it to be a one and done, but if I click on it LITERALLY EVERY OTHER RECOMMENDATION IS A DUPLICATE OF THE RANDOM VIDEO for days or until I start interacting with it to stop seeing them.

Like WTAF, I shouldn’t have to manage my feed that hard. Maybe if I watch 3 or 5 videos of the same topic or from the same creator you can start recommending them.

But even then, 3-5 watches of a rabbit hole one random Tuesday does not mean I’m suddenly interested in fishing for the rest of my life !

Wow, I never run across that !

Got me beat 2008 bought new (Toyota Tundra) still love it. It was the first new car I ever bought and it has been great. Also been nice not having a payment since 2011!

winning!

They should move to China

That’s what I’m thinking, been on pretty much straight Google since my Samsung Galaxy Nexus, moto g 2013 Google edition, then all pixels, but I’ve got / love my MacBook Pro and having an iPhone would probably complement that a bit.

I literally did it for a little packet from iron butt saying I’m officially one of those idiots :)

The monotony of staring at the road was getting to me at the end as well. Combined with me getting home in the middle of the night didn’t help things.

I didn’t have my heated grips then but did have a throttle lock. I primarily learned throttle locks suck, and I now have no lock but heated grips :)

October 2016, 1093 miles in around 18h on a 2006 Honda ST 1300

No desire to repeat that, it was pretty miserable.

I combined this into a work trip, The direct route was about 700 miles and it went great, I based this “it went great” I decided to extend the trip home to get my saddle sore 1000 (iron butt). The trip up was my dry run / test trip.

The key factor that made the return trip worse was the weather. It rained for the first few hours, and was about 10°f cooler the combination of these had me uncomfortably cold for a large portion of the ride. I had a two piece gortex suit so I stayed dry but the overcast and temperature was just cool enough to really impact the trip.

I still have the bike, it has about 55k miles on it now and I try to commute on it whenever the weather permits!!