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credburn
Jun 22, 2016
President, Founder of the Brent Spiner Fan Club
The part where the arm stitching meets the neck tends to be further back than center, too.

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Atopian
Sep 23, 2014

I need a security perimeter with Venetian blinds.
I mean if you can't tell does it matter?

redshirt
Aug 11, 2007

If I was designing the body, I'd upgrade the knees and back.

flesh dance
May 6, 2009



Store hid the remaining 5 ounce boxes of mike&ike candy behind the new blatantly obvious 4.2 ounce ones, I grabbed some from the back but am probably done with it from here on out. I know something stupid like candy is whatever, but this poo poo is endless and exhausting, it's really getting to me

Can't wait until the butter shrinking hits where I am, that's going to make baking a real loving thrill

Internet Old One
Dec 6, 2021

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Canine Blues Arooo posted:

Unity.

But besides that, literally all of MS's consumer-facing software has gone into the toilet. They are just speed-running pissing off everyone at this point and I'd LOVE to hear why they think any of their nonsense is worth it.

Because their licensing and bundling is down to a science. Remember how it practically took a nerd revolution to get everyone off IE.

Complain about Teams a lot. We’ll be stuck with it however long it takes to become a meme + 2 years.

Internet Old One
Dec 6, 2021

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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:

This thread actively gets shittier anytime anyone brings up anything that involves computers

Hey if we could go back in time we’d all be cam stars, mercenaries, and furry porn artists but we were wild, young and foolish with dreams of cubicle life.

anonumos
Jul 14, 2005

Fuck it.

Internet Old One posted:

Because their licensing and bundling is down to a science. Remember how it practically took a nerd revolution to get everyone off IE.

Complain about Teams a lot. We’ll be stuck with it however long it takes to become a meme + 2 years.

Remember when IE's meme-dom hit so hard Microsoft had to rebrand it to Edge?

steinrokkan
Apr 2, 2011



Soiled Meat
The current version of Edge is just a Chromium skin and objectively speaking probably better than Chrome itself

Raged
Jul 21, 2003

A revolution of beats
After living in Australia for almost 22 years and raising a daughter I am going to have to leave the country and not get perm residency. Good times.

erosion
Dec 21, 2002

It's true and I'm tired of pretending it isn't

anonumos posted:

Remember when IE's meme-dom hit so hard Microsoft had to rebrand it to Edge?

They're so committed to the bit that you can install both and use whichever one is more appropriate for a given situation or something idk

redshirt
Aug 11, 2007

Please love me

- Microsoft Edge

Internet Old One
Dec 6, 2021

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steinrokkan posted:

The current version of Edge is just a Chromium skin and objectively speaking probably better than Chrome itself

If you’re a Microsoft product manager with an unpopular product you have no choice but to make it good so maybe people will use it and you can keep your job. If you manage a popular product then all your decisions revolve around exploiting it for maximum profit, vendor lock-in, and promoting barely related but unpopular products.

This is why Bing and Edge must never have any sort of majority share of anything.

Tunicate
May 15, 2012

On the other hand if you are a google project manager with an unpopular product you have no incentive to improve it because it will get cancelled. If the product gets popular, on the other hand, it will still get cancelled.

Dip Viscous
Sep 17, 2019

I just bought a box of the same brand and size trash bags I've been buying for 15 years and now they're ~10% smaller so they won't fit around the top of my kitchen trash can.

ArmedZombie
Jun 6, 2004

Raged posted:

After living in Australia for almost 22 years and raising a daughter I am going to have to leave the country and not get perm residency. Good times.

drat. I think you win the thread. goondolences.

is pepsi ok
Oct 23, 2002

Dip Viscous posted:

I just bought a box of the same brand and size trash bags I've been buying for 15 years and now they're ~10% smaller so they won't fit around the top of my kitchen trash can.

I just got a new box of lawn bags and they are now paper thin. I still had some bags from the last box (same exact brand) and I would say the new ones are maybe 1/3 as thick.

redshirt
Aug 11, 2007

is pepsi ok posted:

I just got a new box of lawn bags and they are now paper thin. I still had some bags from the last box (same exact brand) and I would say the new ones are maybe 1/3 as thick.

"Lawn bags"?..... for leaves?

is pepsi ok
Oct 23, 2002

redshirt posted:

"Lawn bags"?..... for leaves?

I was kinda confused by this at first but I think I know what you mean - those paper bags people fill up with leaves and put at the curb, right?

I live in the tropics so we don't really get leaves like that. I'm talking about those big black trash bags that you fill with yard waste like twigs and bush trimmings. Anything remotely hard pokes right through these lovely new bags I got.

Atopian
Sep 23, 2014

I need a security perimeter with Venetian blinds.

Raged posted:

After living in Australia for almost 22 years and raising a daughter I am going to have to leave the country and not get perm residency. Good times.

drat. Different country, but that'll probably be me in a decade or so.

AARD VARKMAN
May 17, 1993

Atopian posted:

I mean if you can't tell does it matter?

you can tell though, they aren't symmetrical and it's just like putting any other shirt on backwards, the neck tries to choke you

Cerekk
Sep 24, 2004

Oh my god, JC!
I bought a 22mm wrench but it's actually 21.7mm and doesn't fit on the 22mm fitting that I need to use it on.

Outrail
Jan 4, 2009

www.sapphicrobotica.com
:roboluv: :love: :roboluv:

Raged posted:

After living in Australia for almost 22 years and raising a daughter I am going to have to leave the country and not get perm residency. Good times.

Well that sucks. How can you let someone live in your country for two decades and then just gently caress them off?

ArmedZombie
Jun 6, 2004

Cerekk posted:

I bought a 22mm wrench but it's actually 21.7mm and doesn't fit on the 22mm fitting that I need to use it on.

get a blowtorch noob

Deep Glove Bruno
Sep 4, 2015

yung swamp thang

Raged posted:

After living in Australia for almost 22 years and raising a daughter I am going to have to leave the country and not get perm residency. Good times.

Yeah wtf i wanna know more details if you care to give them. They are kicking your rear end out? How'd you stay so long with no route to PR? Why is Aussie always the worst immigration policy in the world?

DrPossum
May 15, 2004

i am not a surgeon

Cerekk posted:

I bought a 22mm wrench but it's actually 21.7mm and doesn't fit on the 22mm fitting that I need to use it on.

:owned:

Dip Viscous
Sep 17, 2019

I have a couple of those but they're actually marked 21.7 and I have no idea what they're for. My first thought was 55/64" plumbing stuff but they're too small to fit that too.

MrQwerty
Apr 15, 2003

LOVE IS BEAUTIFUL
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Dip Viscous posted:

I have a couple of those but they're actually marked 21.7 and I have no idea what they're for. My first thought was 55/64" plumbing stuff but they're too small to fit that too.

evidently they are, indeed, for compression fittings

Outrail
Jan 4, 2009

www.sapphicrobotica.com
:roboluv: :love: :roboluv:

Deep Glove Bruno posted:

Why is Aussie always the worst immigration policy in the world?

If you don't like it you can gently caress off we're full mate.

shazbot
Sep 20, 2004
Ah, hon, ya got arby's all over my acoustic wave machine.

Outrail posted:

If you don't like it you can gently caress off we're full mate.

Just relocate some more natives

Professor Shark
May 22, 2012

Reversal of Shittier!

Superstore brought back their Old Fashioned doughnuts (now as Mini Doughnuts) as well as a few others. While “Donut Time” brand is still available next to them, I’m hoping enough people didn’t buy them that they just go back to using the instore bakeries.

Vampire Panties
Apr 18, 2001
nposter
Nap Ghost
Youtube Ads. Not just Youtube blocking adblockers, but the actual ads are scammy AF. Miracle lasers, :airquote: healing :airquote: clothing, supplements to fight cancer :dafuq:

Its just bullshit scams all the way to the bottom

Biplane
Jul 18, 2005

How long until the ad shell game collapses entirely? Aren't all the numbers made up bullshit?

DrPossum
May 15, 2004

i am not a surgeon

Biplane posted:

How long until the ad shell game collapses entirely? Aren't all the numbers made up bullshit?

*carefully brushes dust away from dig site*

Jamie get over here! It's incredible! This post must be at least 25 years old...

doctorfrog
Mar 14, 2007

Great.

If I'm not mistaken, Walmart.com has slyly adjusted the way it differentiates store stock from random online dropship crap. You used to be able to toggle a box that says "store stock only" or something like that, so you could literally just see which products are half-decent enough to earn shelf space. It took a little doing: picking a store, selecting "pickup," and ticking a box.

Now, there's no way that I can see to filter out the random no-name garbage. Instead, you have to look for the tiny words "Pickup today" under the products, which I think means the same thing as "in stock at the actual store you're looking at."

This being Walmart, there is, of course, no guarantee that what you want can actually be located at that store, but that's been the case for at least the last 25 years.

Honestly, Walmart getting into the "our website is like Amazon, i.e., eBay at its worst" game is a troubling signal all on its own.

doctorfrog fucked around with this message at 00:17 on Nov 5, 2023

euphronius
Feb 18, 2009

What does dropship mean

doctorfrog
Mar 14, 2007

Great.

euphronius posted:

What does dropship mean

to me: lower quality stuff at a lower price with an additional middleman pretending to be a real store, with a real store pretending that it's on the same level of all their other products. So the item is crappier, and marked up by at least two parties standing between you and the item you want.

shopify posted:

Dropshipping is a way of selling products online without needing to keep them in stock. When an order is received, the seller sends it to another company who ships the product straight to the customer. The seller is a middleman between the customer and the company with the product.

This streamlined approach to order fulfillment means you can start a business without having to lease warehouse space, juggle supply chains, or manage inventory.

Ahead, you'll learn everything there is to know about dropshipping, from how it works to benefits, and how to start your own dropshipping business today.

If the above text excites you, you're a terrible person.

doctorfrog fucked around with this message at 00:22 on Nov 5, 2023

Biplane
Jul 18, 2005

Streamlined approach lol

Outrail
Jan 4, 2009

www.sapphicrobotica.com
:roboluv: :love: :roboluv:

doctorfrog posted:

to me: lower quality stuff at a lower price with an additional middleman pretending to be a real store, with a real store pretending that it's on the same level of all their other products. So the item is crappier, and marked up by at least two parties standing between you and the item you want.

If the above text excites you, you're a terrible person.

Similar concept to investment property landlords. Someone else does all the work and I make an almost passive income for being an unnecessary middleman.

wash bucket
Feb 21, 2006

euphronius posted:

What does dropship mean

It's outsourcing for orders. You order the thing from Walmart and then Walmart turns around and orders it from someone else to be shipped to you. Sometimes that someone else is the manufacturer of whatever you ordered but these days it's usually some random 3rd party seller.

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Barudak
May 7, 2007

Biplane posted:

How long until the ad shell game collapses entirely? Aren't all the numbers made up bullshit?

Even if ads did not work, they would still exist to stroke corporate egos and soothe their tummy feels

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