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armpit_enjoyer posted:CS6 still works on Windows 10, if you find a copy, unless you're on Mac in which case godspeed I'm still using Photoshop 7. On Windows 11 (don't Windows 11).
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Funka posted:I'm still using Photoshop 7. On Windows 11 (don't Windows 11). Yeah, newer photoshops have some nice features but nothing I regularly use isn't in 7. gently caress as a service software.
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I'm sure it's been mentioned, but I've lost all control over my computer since upgrading to the latest windows. I can't control when it turns out the screen or when it locks itself. I can't control the behavior of task bar icons (gently caress combine similar, spread that poo poo out!). I can't change the start menu. I can't tweak poo poo anymore because the user interface is always-online advert driven garbage. On my own computer! Fffffgggggggdduck!
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anonumos posted:I'm sure it's been mentioned, but I've lost all control over my computer since upgrading to the latest windows. I can't control when it turns out the screen or when it locks itself. I can't control the behavior of task bar icons (gently caress combine similar, spread that poo poo out!). I can't change the start menu. I can't tweak poo poo anymore because the user interface is always-online advert driven garbage. On my own computer! Fffffgggggggdduck! A friend hooked me up with Windows 10 LTSC back in the day and I keep using it even though you're "not supposed" to use it as a daily driver OS for whatever reason. It's Windows 10 with all of the ads stripped out, alongisde things like the Microsoft Store and Cortana. Until 2021 it didn't even come with Edge. The only downside I've encountered thus far is that you can't install Whatsapp on it anymore, because that requires Microsoft Store. I hope that by the time Windows 10 LTSC stops being a thing (this version will be supported until at least 2026), they'll either release a similarly stripped down version of Windows 11 or they somehow release Photoshop for Linux, because that and games are the big reason why I'm still on Windows (and Steam is making great strides wrt gaming on Windows)
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Aug 14, 2023 11:30
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Paint.net is the way to go. I have some students who prefer Photopea, but it’s way less intuitive imo We should make a How to Less lovely recommendation thread or make lists up here
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Professor Shark posted:Paint.net is the way to go. I have some students who prefer Photopea, but it’s way less intuitive imo step 1. Turn off your computer
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Aug 14, 2023 14:07
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Professor Shark posted:The last couple years I’ve definitely noticed a conditioning of customers to not expect value for their money. It feels a lot like the old warnings and criticisms about Communism that Capitalism made Capitalism loves projection, every accusation is an admission of guilt etc
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Aug 14, 2023 14:12
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Hammerite posted:step 1. Turn off your computer Weird, normally people tell me to turn my monitor on when I start complaining about how terrible everything is.
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Hammerite posted:step 1. Turn off your computer More and more becoming the correct answer
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Improbable Lobster posted:Capitalism loves projection, every accusation is an admission of guilt etc I'm reminded of the flood of tweets just post-quarantine with pics of empty store shelves and commentary like "life under communist Biden" when the cause was capitalism, and the President was Trump.
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Aug 14, 2023 15:08
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I've got to go through a private company to get a copy of my loving birth certificate, it's expensive as hell, and I have to wait 6 months. This used to be a basic government service.
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Aug 14, 2023 15:41
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Actual Satan posted:I've got to go through a private company to get a copy of my loving birth certificate, it's expensive as hell, and I have to wait 6 months. This used to be a basic government service. Yeah but nobody made any money doing it the old way.
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Actual Satan posted:I've got to go through a private company to get a copy of my loving birth certificate, it's expensive as hell, and I have to wait 6 months. This used to be a basic government service. I just got a copy of mine from the City of Lowell, MA for 12 bucks and they sent it in a handwritten envelope scotch taped shut. Still doing it old school in the Commonwealth.
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dr_rat posted:gently caress as a service software. Seems like that should be hardware but sign me up regardless.
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Aug 14, 2023 16:22
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There's these hearing aids that are "powered by Bose" and you use an app to adjust them, and it's a monthly subscription. Kinda blew my mind that hearing aids have become a subscription service. What's next? Pay weekly for glasses?
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Aug 14, 2023 16:28
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hearing aids got really really really really really really really really really really good over the last 30 years
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Aug 14, 2023 16:38
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dentistry, being a scam, has not
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I keep hearing that dentist chains like Sage are awful and constantly try to upsell you.
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love my immigrant coworkers explaining that dentistry in their home country costs like $15 and uses medically-standard painkillers that western medicine has pretty much outright banned because of the opioid crisis and here it costs $1500 and still leaves you in pain no idea where the truth is but gently caress dentists
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wash bucket posted:I signed up for Linkedin recently and hoo boy is that a desperate app. Notifications for everything. Notifications for people looking at you. Mr Lanternfly posted:Did the thread already cover how every single thing is now a subscription service? LinkedIn has added a paywall to job listings, it used to be post a job or apply to a job as a reason to use Linkedin at all. Like, hey use our platform Now, there is a tiered subscription and I think you can only post three openings, for like $10k? and then another $10k a year to “promote” the listing aka they limit who can see if you don’t pay, and then there is an additional search bar thing that is like another $10k it’s nuts they are counting on their userbase remaining large and they trying to monetize, not sure what happens when less people use for $$ reasons
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is pepsi ok posted:I keep hearing that dentist chains like Sage are awful and constantly try to upsell you. I wrote a mini tirade about this before, but yes - Most dentists are more concerned about upselling you crap then they are anything medical.
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is pepsi ok posted:I keep hearing that dentist chains like Sage are awful and constantly try to upsell you. My dentist predates them becoming sage, so he’s not into upselling me. He has changed Sage offices twice. They never notified me and scheduled me for a new dr each time who immediately had a list of expensive bullshit to sell me. I have followed my dr to the new locations and everything is fine. gently caress sage they are greedy assholes exploiting our lack of expertise
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Ugh, you're all reminding me I need to go to the dentist, I haven't been in almost two years. My company was bought out, and our dental insurance changed and it's not accepted at my old dentist; who I actually liked. As far as I could tell, no big upsells on anything. It's a local dentist, not any big chain like Aspen or Sage (wait...why are they all plant/tree named? Even my old dentist was called Timberlane...curious) but now I have to either just go and pay for things out of pocket, or try to find one in the area that does accept my insurance. I guess cleanings without insurance aren't usually TOO pricey, right? At least not if I don't get X-rays?
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PhazonLink posted:somewhat related to the letter thing. 100% on everything. input forms are like 3 fields to a page where you used to fit 12 perfectly fine. also it does network requests for drop-down autocomplete etc so the input fields are slow and laggy because of that too, and sometimes display spinners. e: gently caress workday mawarannahr fucked around with this message at 17:50 on Aug 14, 2023 |
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GolfHole posted:dentistry, being a scam, has not When I was living in podunk Thailand I went to the local dentist because I hadn't had a checkup in a while. He poked around, checked for cavities, told me my hygiene was good and then invited me to leave. When I asked him how much it cost he laughed and said "I didn't do anything, come back if you have any big issues" and sent me on my way. This was the same city where I spent 36 hours in in the emergency department and my bill was less than $4 US. Our entire medical system is hosed, my dudes.
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GolfHole posted:love my immigrant coworkers explaining that dentistry in their home country costs like $15 and uses medically-standard painkillers that western medicine has pretty much outright banned because of the opioid crisis Dentists here in Norway are so loving insanely expensive, it's way cheaper to just fly to Poland to get your chompers fixed. For some reason dentistry isn't classed as healthcare here so dentists just go hog wild and will bankrupt you. A lil taste of America
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Biplane posted:Dentists here in Norway are so loving insanely expensive, it's way cheaper to just fly to Poland to get your chompers fixed. For some reason dentistry isn't classed as healthcare here so dentists just go hog wild and will bankrupt you. It's the same in Canada and no one can really explain why. Half your benefits are insurance coverage for dental care. The government just announced some quasi nationalized dental care plan that will see low income families get a portion of it covered if they don't already have insurance, but the opposition will likely instantly scrap that when they're inevitably elected in a couple years. On the positive side, I don't feel like dentists constantly upsell me here so that's nice.
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Biplane posted:Dentists here in Norway are so loving insanely expensive, it's way cheaper to just fly to Poland to get your chompers fixed. For some reason dentistry isn't classed as healthcare here so dentists just go hog wild and will bankrupt you. A lil taste of America It's so crazy dental care is often not considered medical care. People die from tooth infections. It's not all teeth whitening strips.
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Same in Sweden for the most part. I had to white lie and say I was prescribed from a doctor a weak muscle relaxer for my TMJ and I managed to get a prescription from a doctor, otherwise it would be 1000kr+ for a dentist. Not sure why we’re loving doing this
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Evergreen meme Although my mom currently has no teeth on the upper right side of her mouth, she had to pull them due to complications with her osteoporosis and it literally would cost north of 200k NOK to get it fixed. She does have a house at least.
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Biplane posted:Evergreen meme Tell her to fly to Turkey. PS if you have any hair loss it can come along and get both taken care of for probably well under 200 kilonoks (> $19K) all included
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My teeth may be in danger of imploding at any moment, but I have fuckin fantastic hair
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Medicare for All was gonna include dental and vision for everyone in the country.
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Actual Satan posted:I've got to go through a private company to get a copy of my loving birth certificate, it's expensive as hell, and I have to wait 6 months. This used to be a basic government service. I bet a lot of people would view getting something important with distrust because of Capitalism-poisoning and could not imagine a government service that made life better
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For optometry, per-patient insurance payments have not nearly kept up with inflation. Owning your own practice is really expensive (as is optometry school), so a lot of optometrists have effectively had to see way more patients, meaning they spend less time with each patient. They also are incentivized to sell / upsell glasses to cover the gap. An optometrist who doesn't do the above has taken a pretty big paycut in the last couple decades, and doesn't make very good money anymore, especially given their level of education. And of course, this effective pay cut comes suspiciously right as optometry has become much less white and male. So, as always, the issue is largely not with the doctors (who would mostly love to spend more time per patient and to focus more on helping people), but instead is with the parasites at the insurance companies (and in corporate optometry like LensCrafters, but that's a whole 'nother post). Also systemic racism and sexism. Anyways, I kind of suspect something similar is happening with dentists. Source: talking to my wife and her family, the majority of whom are optometrists.
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VikingofRock posted:Source: talking to my wife and her family, the majority of whom are optometrists. Yeah, the same is true for pharmacy (at least in Canada). The billable amounts for dispensing drugs has plummeted over the past couple decades and dispensing fees have been capped. That means that pharmaceutical chains are incentivized to push other services like home Healthcare products or (most significantly) medschecks. Medschecks are often beneficial to a patient if they're given enough time but chains like Shopper's Drug Mart and Rexall have super high quotas so pharmacists have to rush through them. So that means that tons of services are billed to the province or insurance companies for half completed medical reviews that are frequently wholly unnecessary. Sadly, the solution so far hasn't been "this is silly and clearly gaming the public system for profit" it's been "public Healthcare, even the limited pharmaceutical coverage in Canada, is expensive. Let's give up and privatize wherever we can." That's definitely things getting shittier for no reason (except for making Galen Weston and Daryl Katz a lot richer).
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Application titlebars are friggin huge these days, even on phones, and the bottom of apps like Gmail are taken up with a half inch of buttons I don't want and can't get rid of. Then, there's orienting your screen horizontally and those screen elements don't resize or disaappear to accomodate the very clear lack of vertical space. Then the keyboard slides up when you need to type, and it includes a gutter with a single button on it for hiding the keyboard, yes, taking up vertical space. doctorfrog fucked around with this message at 20:17 on Aug 14, 2023 |
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ThinkTank posted:It's the same in Canada and no one can really explain why. Half your benefits are insurance coverage for dental care. The government just announced some quasi nationalized dental care plan that will see low income families get a portion of it covered if they don't already have insurance, but the opposition will likely instantly scrap that when they're inevitably elected in a couple years. No lie, Liberals propped up by an NDP alliance is really awesome and it’s good to see things like Dental and Daycare becoming real issues
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Professor Shark posted:No lie, Liberals propped up by an NDP alliance is really awesome and it’s good to see things like Dental and Daycare becoming real issues Absolutely, I have no idea why universal pharmacare and dentalcare aren't already a thing and more popular than they are. It makes no sense that I have to have private insurance pretty much only to go to the dentist. The move to privatize sections of our healthcare system should be causing far more outrage than it has. Sadly, short of a miracle reversal in trends the conservatives under Pollievre are going to sweep to power and undo all the gains of the most recent government by calling it freeing hardworking Canadians from the yoke of Trudeau/Singh tyranny.
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