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The new Google Home is truly awful. I can no longer use any of the widgets I had set up in its predecessor. D-
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Serious_Cyclone posted:I made the mistake of updating the Google Home app on my phone and they managed to replace 99% of the screen space with one of those Google clipart drawings of a person, and hide all of the functions behind a tiny strip of inscrutable hieroglyph buttons along the bottom edge. I moved into a place with a google nest thermostat and yeah this stupid app didn’t need to be made stupider, but clearly it did because some project manager wanted to justify a promotion or some stupid crap. I really hate how even simple utility apps cannot be simply fine, they must be ever-changing. I feel like a luddite saying it, but I have no idea what these UI changes are in service of.
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Jun 28, 2023 23:07
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I only ever use Google Home to put a virtual pillow over the face of one of my chromecasts when it starts bugging out. There is a message on the app's front page that says "Add your favorite devices and actions for quick access." Alright! So at least I understand why they created this clipart filled void in the middle of the app. I just have to now manually add all of my chromecasts to a favorite list so they will populate the space. I never had to do this before, but seems simple enough. Click "+ Add favorites" Nothing. The Google Home app is unaware of the existence of the chromecasts. I can reach them if I thumb-sniper the excruciatingly tiny "Devices" button at the bottom. Can I add them to favorites from there? Also no. gently caress you Google, goddamn.
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Jun 28, 2023 23:25
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Serious_Cyclone posted:I made the mistake of updating the Google Home app on my phone and they managed to replace 99% of the screen space with one of those Google clipart drawings of a person, and hide all of the functions behind a tiny strip of inscrutable hieroglyph buttons along the bottom edge. I also have noticed the search on GitHub has gotten terrible. I don't understand how it is so loving bad. It may be the only code online worse than my own.
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Jun 28, 2023 23:43
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Github is a Microsoft product and therefore is doomed to permanent regression.
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Jun 29, 2023 01:42
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If I ever become the head of an international tech congolmerate I swear on Christ's mother I will never change the UI once.
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Jun 29, 2023 03:08
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That loving Sned posted:I hope there’s still backups of Seanbaby’s articles. His Sims 3 one was incredible. Just in case you didn't know, https://1900hotdog.com has Seanbaby writing for it to this day.
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Jun 29, 2023 04:05
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Google shopping does not respect the - operator
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Jun 29, 2023 05:13
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Neither does maps. Go search for "coffee -starbucks" and you get only Starbucks.
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Jun 29, 2023 06:06
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Operators are difficult https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat
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Jun 29, 2023 06:10
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Arrhythmia posted:If I ever become the head of an international tech congolmerate I swear on Christ's mother I will never change the UI once. you can, but please understand the difference between, 'we've improved workflow and added features' and 'what if we design this exclusively for a touch on a 3" phone...?"
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Jun 29, 2023 07:07
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Don't worry, things will get even more simplified and zoomed in as soon as execs get their Apple AR headsets
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Jun 29, 2023 07:11
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we have made the menus as confusing as possible to increase engagement time.
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Jun 29, 2023 07:13
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I've been noticing metallica getting shittier for most of my life. Does that count?
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Jun 29, 2023 07:22
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frosted mini wheats are fuckin trash now
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Jun 29, 2023 07:49
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Frosted Mini Wheats are playground mulch these days, it's dire when you gently caress up a food even boomers like.
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Jun 29, 2023 08:20
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Google keeps loving with the search categories that show up on search pages. It was bad enough when they'd just show them in random order instead of a consistent Images/Videos/News/Whatever order, but now they're also shoehorning in related search terms, sometimes. Then if you click on one, they all change. I wish the final step of any Google frontend code deploy would include a greasemonkey script I could use to unfuck their nonsense.
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Jun 29, 2023 08:33
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Quaker Oatmeal Squares > Frosted Mini Wheats
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Jun 29, 2023 09:24
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YouTube is loving with cytube's API access, which is annoying as gently caress since my internet friend and I use it to group watch stuff all the time. we tried using some alternatives, including discord search together thing. it sucks! awful interface, ads, desynchronization, random pausing etc. even has a watch limit. this is the difference between a project made by users for use and one made by two corps agreeing to work together for money. smdh. thankfully there are other similar sites that still work for now. but quit loving over APIs, websites!
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Jun 29, 2023 09:47
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Canine Blues Arooo posted:you can, but please understand the difference between, 'we've improved workflow and added features' and 'what if we design this exclusively for a touch on a 3" phone...?" I won't though.
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Tried to use the Zoom app on an iPad, and the option to view gallery mode either simply doesn't exist anymore or it is buried in some secret haptic spell. Googled around and found instructions for the desktop, and then for the app, but it turns out the phone app has a completely different configuration from the iPad app so after exhausting all options on the original search I had to search again but specifically for iPad, which revealed new instructions which also didn't work.
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Jun 29, 2023 17:39
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I was permabanned from Twitter a month ago for being too funny towards a fascist, and noticed today that I can't follow a link to a tweet using a mobile browser anymore. It just takes me to a landing page that tells me to make an account, which I can't do. 😀👍
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Computer viking posted:Yes they do? It's the little slider to the left of the subtitle button, under the progress bar. that isn't there. the youtube interface does not in fact look like that picture you posted.
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SlimGoodbody posted:I was permabanned from Twitter a month ago for being too funny towards a fascist, and noticed today that I can't follow a link to a tweet using a mobile browser anymore. It just takes me to a landing page that tells me to make an account, which I can't do. Yeah I think Twitter decided to force everyone to log in to view tweets. Its actually sorta amazing, watching the two biggest  social networks collapse in real time.
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Hammerite posted:that isn't there. the youtube interface does not in fact look like that picture you posted. Mine has the icon on desktop.
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Yeah this Twitter thing today I think is some kind of Camel-breaking back straw. I quit Twitter when Musk took over, but I click links and watch embeds sometimes. I really hope this inspires a backlash and/or accelerates the burning to the ground.
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Jun 30, 2023 16:40
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All my favorite communities moving to discord and then becoming a mega clique. 
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Light Gun Man posted:YouTube is loving with cytube's API access, which is annoying as gently caress since my internet friend and I use it to group watch stuff all the time. we tried using some alternatives, including discord search together thing. it sucks! awful interface, ads, desynchronization, random pausing etc. even has a watch limit. this is the difference between a project made by users for use and one made by two corps agreeing to work together for money. smdh.
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Zeg posted:All my favorite communities moving to discord and then becoming a mega clique. As much as I love discord, yeah. It makes discoverability of these communities awful, search engines can’t really lead you there, it almost feels harder to break into that community that has been tightly integrated by the time you find it. The positive is that a fair number of these discord communities have meme channels so that gives me more opportunities to remain master memer in my friends group. But yeah it blows. I can only see negative long term effects.
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Jun 30, 2023 17:28
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The amazon app has a tiktok clone tab so you can watch short clips of someone using a fridge or something netflix app has d tier mobile games to juice app usage metrics for investors truly bottom barrel stuff
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Head Bee Guy posted:The amazon app has a tiktok clone tab so you can watch short clips of someone using a fridge or something Are you for real right now lmao
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Lol I used to think that amazon was evil, but knew what it was doing. So this is far better.
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Combos used to be my favorite road trip snack. Going on a car ride over an hour long? Grab some Combos! Flying out to Oregon to see my family? Grab some Combos! A few years ago, the tube packed full of flavor paste got reduced to the diameter of a urethra. Less flavor paste, more dry, dusty, flavorless pretzel. Every so often I grab a small bag hoping some hero has fixed this problem, but no. Nothing ever gets better. Only worse.
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dr_rat posted:Lol I used to think that amazon was evil, but knew what it was doing. I haven’t looked at it since i made the horrifying discovery. All the clips are very fem coded. ALL the products are pastel pink or beige I’d embed a video but it seems like you can’t do that on the Awful IOS app anymore? Another bullshit change that sucks poo poo!
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everything has gotten so goddamn expensive
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Head Bee Guy posted:I haven’t looked at it since i made the horrifying discovery. All the clips are very fem coded. ALL the products are pastel pink or beige  I used to be heavily addicted to Amazon shopping, but after Marc 2020 when the prices all exploded I quit that poo poo and now use it exclusively as a cheap auto parts store. I went into the Amazon app to go look for what you're talking about, and my Discovery feed is entirely cheap off-road LED lights and pink/rose gold/beige 'car accessories' 
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Endorph posted:Cytube lets you use google drive, so you can download a video and upload it to your google drive. There's plenty of sites and extensions to download youtube videos with. Of course if you and your friends are doing something more spur of the moment that won't work, but it should be fine if the stuff you watch together is planned. yeah we have alternatives for stuff planned ahead, we mostly just use it for late night impromptu. synctube seems to still be working at least. thanks, tho.
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Zeg posted:All my favorite communities moving to discord and then becoming a mega clique.
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Nothing allows loving boolean searching anymore. You can still use boolean commands on actual Google, but basically nowhere else. Facebook has been on an irrecoverable slide since they removed the ability to see a true chronological, all Friends feed, but it is now completely unusable. 40% ads, 40% suggested posts, 15% pages or groups, 5% friends' posts (and only the same 3-5 people unless you snooze them for 30 days). Instagram lets you snooze recommended posts for 30 days but I'm sure it's only a matter of time before they take that away like FB. You can't look at porn online in UT, AR, LA, or VA anymore, which seems like a very normal and "free" thing in a country with constitutionally protected free speech (allegedly).
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13Pandora13 posted:Nothing allows loving boolean searching anymore. You can still use boolean commands on actual Google, but basically nowhere else. Oh yeah. Plus a lot of searches just flat out won't respect things like quote marks and give you no opportunity to search for the literal thing you want to search for. Google has also gotten bad about giving you the search result it thinks you want instead of what you actually ask for.
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