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Duck and Cover posted:Pop tarts suck. No, YOU suck! Poptarts may actually suck I haven’t had them in forever.
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so you're saying donuts aren't that bad
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redshirt posted:America, baby! No they sell them in the UK too. I knew they were poo poo but I didn't realise that you could eat three heaping tablespoons of sugar and that would be less sugar than a serving of pop tarts. hawowanlawow posted:so you're saying donuts aren't that bad Donuts are loving great in comparison, because they also taste good. Quote-Unquote fucked around with this message at 19:58 on May 22, 2024 |
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May 22, 2024 19:54
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Only the unfrosted ones are good and last time I checked they somehow don't actually have less sugar in them.
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Big rear end On Fire posted:This was hundreds of pages ago when people were bitching about printers sucking badly but it could help someone - my library has a printer you just email your document to and go by to select what you want printed. Max is something like 100 pages a day. I had a printer delivered still in the box the day I discovered I could print at the library and sent that crap back. It's been perfect for someone who prints like 5 things a year. I plan to donate to them as it's such a valuable perk. Shockingly, I was at a local but large NYPL a few months ago, and they did not have this feature. No email was setup. So I couldn't, like, print from my phone. I had to punch my gmail password into a public computer ughhhhhh. Really blew my mind bc I've done it in other cities. I've recommended library printing for years. It's also much cheaper than printing at a staples or office depot.
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gently caress, I just got hit with the new YouTube UI and whoever said it was horrible wasn't kidding. The thing is, I don't even know what the point is from YouTube's standpoint - I thought these websites wanted engagement, but now they've hidden all the engagement tools like comments and subscription in a tiny panel shoved to the side while the rest of the page is just a giant doom scroll of unsorted videos that make me wanna die. That doesn't seem good for visitor retention
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steinrokkan posted:gently caress, I just got hit with the new YouTube UI and whoever said it was horrible wasn't kidding. The thing is, I don't even know what the point is from YouTube's standpoint - I thought these websites wanted engagement, but now they've hidden all the engagement tools like comments and subscription in a tiny panel shoved to the side while the rest of the page is just a giant doom scroll of unsorted videos that make me wanna die. That doesn't seem good for visitor retention Well you see it matters with what you engage in, specifically the ads. Comment sections are a cheap trick to drive up the number of clicks by baiting people to keep coming back to argue with idiots, but ad companies are savy enough to not rely solely on that. Same with subscriptions, you could be subscribed to unmonetized channels. That's money they're burning. The doom scroll is monetized. Youtube didn't spend 12 years running at a loss to attain a near-monopoly for them to never use it.
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Woolie Wool posted:The only reason the consumer economy still operates is by cost-cutting through the bone and straight into the marrow. If products were well-made they would be eye-wateringly expensive or rather, it would quickly become apparent how poor most people in the "developed world" have become. One of the perverse things about being poor is that in the long run it is more expensive because quality products that last have very high up-front costs. If jeans lasted 12 years and cost $200, many people would not be able to afford clothing at all, even if, over time, it would be less expensive, because for poor people money is perishable and cannot be saved. Then there is the stigma of not participating in consumerism and acquiring lots of stuff (even garbage stuff)--as recently as the 1950s and 60s most people only had a few changes of clothing, but that would be socially unacceptable in America today. All of our social and economic problems feed into one another so trying to tackle one causes you to walk smack into several others. We cannot solve most of the problems facing our society today. Quality jeans don't have to be expensive. IIRC the x-way stretch denim is more expensive than the other stuff. Bernays wrote about advertising in the fashion industry and basically a bunch of guys get together and tell us all that flannel hats or whatever are the coolest thing. Well about the time all the jeans started getting stretch fabric was about the time when it went from hard to find pants to pretty much loving impossible and then skinny jeans were in, stovepipes, tight jeans, whatever the stupid thing is where they have saggy tight jeans. Some guy probably realized that tight stretch fabric "jeans" use less material and wear out super fast and we were all going to like that poo poo from now on. Weirdly enough my favorite slacks, the white producer from express men, switched from fabric with just a touch of spandex that had excellent memory and never wrinkled and about the same time they added it to all the jeans they took it out of the slacks. They looked much worse and of course needed to be ironed after every wash. I bought a bunch of them once and they went straight to goodwill after I washed them and saw they're trash. gently caress you express. On the flip side you can get really high end jeans that will hold together but shrink all the loving time. Like why the gently caress are snooty boutique mens store guys telling me not to wash my jeans with a straight face like that's not disgusting and I didn't go the first 30 years of my life washing my jeans on whatever setting sounded cool and then drying them high heat so the rivets burn you fresh out of the drier. My later 20s were completely in a stack of 10 x $10 jeans I bought at a grocery store and they looked good, fit, and lasted like 6 years. Whats up with that? Why doesn't Joe Biden tell us the truth about the jeans? Internet Old One fucked around with this message at 20:31 on May 22, 2024 |
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Yeah, once you get past a certain price, jeans become lovely again, but thanks to an entirely different reason, namely denim fetishists, who consider things such as "doesn't shrink" to be defects
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steinrokkan posted:Yeah, once you get past a certain price, jeans become lovely again, but thanks to an entirely different reason, namely denim fetishists, who consider things such as "doesn't shrink" to be defects Much like it is declassé for a car to be reliable. Who wants a Lexus? Those start every time, how vulgar, someone might even be able.to use one as their only car! With no loaners!
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What the gently caress is this poo poo, Windows? It has somehow silently installed Microsoft Teams - an application which I would never, ever use on my personal computer (and would be reluctant to work for anyone that made me use it on my work computer) - and also set it to automatically run in the background on boot. That loving 'AI' bullshit they forced on me a few months ago was worse, because all 'AI' poo poo needs to die in a fire along with anyone pushing it. Windows is straight-up malware at this point.
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Duluth ballroom jeans are pretty good. Triple stitching everywhere, thick, very little flex. I'm sure they're incredibly unfashionable but I am too old to know or care.
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anatomi posted:It's pretty hosed up that MS added tabs to Notepad of all things. MS is just sitting on a big pile of products that already do what they're supposed to/people want them to do and a big pile of developers with no way to justify their salaries aside from loving all that poo poo up.
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Quote-Unquote posted:I haven't had pop tarts since I was a child but this made me look up the nutrition information and holy poo poo how do these things exist and get marketed as breakfast food?! The old "sugar gives you zits" thing is mostly an old wives' tale but Pop Tarts have such ludicrous amounts of sugar they absolutely make me break out in freakin' HUGE zits on my goddamn NOSE!
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I turned on my Windows 11 laptop for the first time in a while and the login screen is covered with sports scores, stock tickers, news articles and poo poo. I'm used to just pressing the Start key then typing to bring up programs, but half the time it brings up search results which is so goddamn annoying. I'm finding myself using the ancient T420 I corebooted for fun way more. After trying out a couple desktop environments I've settled on KDE Plasma as being close enough that I don't have to fiddle with things too much to get things the way I like it. The open source firmware isn't necessary, but it was a fun learning experience and it boots up faster than my more modern machine. 
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redshirt posted:Did something happen specifically in 1968 that turned the tide? There are two big European revolution years: 1968 and 1848. We don't celebrate them in the USA for the same reason that we took May Day, the universal day to honor working people, and made our own holiday, Labor Day. Because gently caress you, that's why!
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meriruka posted:Pop tarts. There is only micro thin layer of filling, the rest is crumbly, chalky crust. Pop tarts always sucked. Overly sweet and dry as gently caress. I hated them even as a kid.
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My Android finally forced an update on me, and look, new apps that I will never use and cannot uninstall!
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Cinnamon pop tarts are ftw but hurt your teeth after a single package
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credburn posted:My Android finally forced an update on me, and look, new apps that I will never use and cannot uninstall! Can it do that? Or soft-force by requiring it for something else you needed to use?
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Atopian posted:Can it do that? Security updates probably.
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Atopian posted:Can it do that? It's "Messages" by Google. I have the option to disable it, but not uninstall it like apps I choose to download.  (normally that disable option would say "uninstall") I tried to open it, since at first I thought maybe it was a re-naming of the existing messenger app, but it's not, and it's requiring me to make a new account. Fuuuuck you, Google. credburn fucked around with this message at 04:16 on May 23, 2024 |
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help my phone is displaying the time even though I did not explictly install a clock app!
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I wish my brand new Pixel would display the weather all the time instead of just some of the time.
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Don't rely on defaults. Meteo widget is super customizable and kicks rear end
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JackGeneric posted:The two-factor authentication app I used for work popped up a message asking if I "enjoyed" using it, and it wouldn't let me dismiss the question by tapping outside the pop-up. I resent the terminally metrics-poisoned dipshit who mandated that. I hate the larger trend of every service constantly soliciting feedback that's not in terms of, "What works/doesn't work?" but in terms of "Is ${PRODUCT_NAME} your best friend?"  or  stands by the door and asked the most loving pointless questions, or used them as a scapegoat to blame the store instead of problems caused by their decisions.Were you happy with the speed of your service? or No way to actually tell them that they're hosed in the head for only rostering one Subway worker on during dinner rush while on top of having to do Uber-Eats orders. Or that it's hosed that they only have one person on during Afterschool/Afterwork rush period that also has to make coffee and serve lotto (of course they're on opposite ends of the counter). Just or Why yes, they used these percentages to determine if you got a team bonus or not. Yes kids could just smash random buttons for 2+ minutes and it counts. Croccers fucked around with this message at 06:53 on May 23, 2024 |
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Cerekk posted:help my phone is displaying the time even though I did not explictly install a clock app! It's not about what's installed, it's about what you can't uninstall. Windows 95 has more options than modern Android...
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Cerekk posted:help my phone is displaying the time even though I did not explictly install a clock app! I can tell you haven't used an Android phone because that's just one of eight redundant or abandoned Google messaging apps so it's perfectly understandable to want to ditch it
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Tiny Timbs posted:I can tell you haven't used an Android phone because that's just one of eight redundant or abandoned Google messaging apps so it's perfectly understandable to want to ditch it Messages has been the default android texting app since 2014. If your phone has a third party fork that hides it and makes Samsung Messages or whatever the default, that's Samsung's fault, not Google's.
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DemihumanResources posted:bing is down (and with it duckduckgo). It's got to be AI related because www4.bing.com works which I think is the version that doesn't have that integration and I guess copilot poo poo is down too.
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Hold up. Is there something special about www variations? Like, I know that sometimes I just put ww instead of old and reddit doesn't load a bunch of bullshit on my phone but is there any standardization that could help avoid garbage? Also thanks thread for convincing me that, no, I don't need a laptop after all. I hate this pervasive idea that you own nothing so can be hosed with at all times. Surprised there's no tech bro landlords who don't get creative with laws and feature cheaper rent for the right to go in your house and randomly replace your pictures with adverts. Given the absolute disaster of renting given the comodification of what ought to be a basic human right, I'm surprised there's no "and tier rent services" where you let the landlord just gently caress around with your stuff like all your electronics already so.
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Houle posted:Hold up. Is there something special about www variations? Like, I know that sometimes I just put ww instead of old and reddit doesn't load a bunch of bullshit on my phone but is there any standardization that could help avoid garbage? edit: That was long winded. no, there's no convention. I found www4.bing.com in some article about the outage DemihumanResources fucked around with this message at 14:00 on May 23, 2024 |
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Houle posted:Hold up. Is there something special about www variations? Like, I know that sometimes I just put ww instead of old and reddit doesn't load a bunch of bullshit on my phone but is there any standardization that could help avoid garbage? it's just a subdomain in essence, the bit before the TLD can be anything, eg news.bbc.co.uk goes direct to the BBC news page, it's all configured bespoke by who has setup the webserver.
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