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Killingyouguy! posted:I used to type exclusively with SwiftKeys thumb mode bc my hands are tiny but then Microsoft hosed up the gap for no good reason I use SwiftKey, too. The decline has been noticeable, but no other Android keyboard comes close. *sigh* I thought monopolies were supposed to "render people complacent and satisfied with mediocrity." The illusion of choice, indeed...
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As of iOS 17 the default keyboard autocorrect has gotten much better so that’s been nice
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What is all this phone posting? I use a desktop PC with my wife (she lives in canada you haven't met her).
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Remember when coupon sites didn't have companies flooding them with garbage? https://www.retailmenot.com/view/brooksrunning.com
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Funka posted:What is all this phone posting? I use a desktop PC with my wife (she lives in canada you haven't met her). I ain't logging into something awful on my work pc. I like being employed
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Big Bowie Bonanza posted:As of iOS 17 the default keyboard autocorrect has gotten much better so that’s been nice Now it keeps the corrected words underlined so that I may feel shaaaaaaaaame
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Speaking of typing, I can't do it as long as I used to. Every year my fingers and back hurt more and hurt longer, for no drat good reason.
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TBLALV posted:Speaking of typing, I can't do it as long as I used to. Every year my fingers and back hurt more and hurt longer, for no drat good reason. If you haven't already switched to an ergo keyboard it's time to pull the trigger. Mine has helped immensely and the learning curve is super accessible, I'm basically back to my former speed after only a week or two. Also shoutout to vertical mice, I was recently able to play a game on my PC for the first time in ages. Everyone should be using this poo poo, it loving owns.
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Today, for the first time, I've had 15, 30, 60 second ads on my TV's YouTube app. It looks different too, a small spinning yellow circle. I still got the typical 5 second ads. Actually not x seconds long, just how long it takes til the Skip button appears
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ProperCauldron posted:Today, for the first time, I've had 15, 30, 60 second ads on my TV's YouTube app. It looks different too, a small spinning yellow circle. I still got the typical 5 second ads. Actually not x seconds long, just how long it takes til the Skip button appears I'll quote a post I made in a different thread. Denim Dude posted:What OS does your TV use? gently caress ads don't deal with that poo poo. Never stop never stopping finding workarounds. Denim Dude fucked around with this message at 20:48 on Dec 7, 2023 |
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Anyone use one of those car insurance services, like Car Shield? I see commercials for them all the time, with at least 3 companies offering the service. I don't recall ever seeing this service offered until like 2 years ago. Feels like a scam, but I don't know.
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Dec 7, 2023 20:57
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Sounds like a dealership service contract but even worse. Just set aside $150 or whatever into a savings account every month instead
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Professor Shark posted:If someone bought a theatre then said we’re only go to show cat videos then tell employees to start ripping poo poo off the wall and put it in his van, then turned off the water and refused to pay the janitors, people would say that guy is loving the theatre up on purpose I write to you from within the mighty WBD, & I wish there was some way I could show this to everyone & shame DZ.
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redshirt posted:Anyone use one of those car insurance services, like Car Shield? I see commercials for them all the time, with at least 3 companies offering the service. There seems to be a growing business sector for ripping off late Millennial / early GenZ adults who have no idea what they're doing with [fill in the blank] ownership but are used to having to pay a monthly service for everything. I know someone from this sub-generation who I recently learned pays a monthly fee for furnace service at their house. I 100% guarantee they are paying for a guy to show up and replace the furnace filter.
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When my roommate joined the Army in 2005 he said somethingawful was one of the websites banned from his work computer and the reason listed was "tasteless"
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I have a raspberry pi sitting around, should I set up a pihole? re: the ads chat
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Funka posted:What is all this phone posting? I use a desktop PC with my wife (she lives in canada you haven't met her). I can’t log on to SA from my work PC because I talk poo poo about my job on here.
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Aardvark Barber posted:I have a raspberry pi sitting around, should I set up a pihole? re: the ads chat A network wide ad blocking setup is never a bad idea but I don't know how far that will get you with youtube since it's still a cat and mouse game and poo poo is changing daily.
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7of7 posted:If you're curious why something got shittier for what appeared to be no good reason check into it and odds are good you'll find the reason is the company was bought by private equity. My local doctors had something like this happen. When the long time physicians retired they sold it to a regional group that must suck because the turnover is constant. The last four visits were all different docs, so I just kind of gave up. Their still send me emails every few months with their latest changes, even all the ones I saw have gone.
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Aardvark Barber posted:I have a raspberry pi sitting around, should I set up a pihole? re: the ads chat Abso-lutely. I set one up last year. It's not a full blockade of ads but it does reduce the numbers of ads and tracking in the house. Some apps I use get their ads blocked at home and I'm surprised when I use them and get served an ad while I'm away.
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credburn posted:When my roommate joined the Army in 2005 he said somethingawful was one of the websites banned from his work computer and the reason listed was "tasteless" Fun fact: VA hospitals allow it on their computers! At least in the psych ward.
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Jaguars! posted:My local doctors had something like this happen. When the long time physicians retired they sold it to a regional group that must suck because the turnover is constant. The last four visits were all different docs, so I just kind of gave up. Their still send me emails every few months with their latest changes, even all the ones I saw have gone. This is happening constantly here too. Local dentists, doctors, and optometrists.
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 Look how they massacred my fortune cookies.
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credburn posted:When my roommate joined the Army in 2005 he said somethingawful was one of the websites banned from his work computer and the reason listed was "tasteless" Several places I've worked banned it because of "Firearms" or "Drugs", so just automatic web filtering software that flagged TFR and/or TCC and blocked the whole forums as a result.
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The last couple of places I've worked have blocked the front page but not the forums.
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Serious_Cyclone posted:I think Imgur has the worst app text posting feature of anything I've ever seen. Anything you type starts to generate seemingly random word fragments in front of the cursor like the cursor is a snow plow. It requires stopping every few words to both check to make sure it didn't autocorrect anything to the left of the cursor into nonsense but also to delete the surplus letters generated to the right of the cursor. I've never seen anything like it. Easy fix, just post a bunch of infuriating political images in a row and you'll get banned from their "community" StrangersInTheNight posted:if you've got a mix of young and old friends, it means you have a melange of apps on your phone that you're always behind checking and responding to Also an easy fix, just get rid of all your "friends"
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erosion posted:Easy fix, just post a bunch of infuriating political images in a row and you'll get banned from their "community" I had an account banned in like 2020 for comparing Trump to Hitler, and now it's basically 70% of their content
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Internet Old One posted:Lawyers have gotten more adept at talking about DRM which creates new and lovely requirements… never mind that the content will be up on piratebay like hours after release no matter what you do. I worked at a spanish streaming startup over ten years ago & the studios (we dealt with all of them, as an aggregator, which is why the company went under, probably) all wanted different bitrates, codecs & DRM systems. we ended up making over thirty instances of each title. all the while, they were fussing over the end-user device functionality, like how much RAM was in the smart tv to support stunt-play (pause, rewind & so on), thinking that this was a possible opportunity for someone to steal the content ("one piece at a time, & it didn't cost me a dime"), seriously. while we were delivering content to playstations that had analogue outputs, one studio tried to ban us from streaming HD to macs because the HDMI didn't have HDCP on it. & this was in madrid, where everybody was torrenting everything already. nothing I said about "actually, what we're doing will be a legit, money-earning alternative to piracy & you won't have to bully people into buying stuff on lovely plastic discs either" did any good, because lawyers had discovered some techy words, exactly that. fuckers. essentially, they were micro-managing the blacksmiths while the stable door banged around in the breeze & the ponies were in the back of someone's van, on their way to the glue factory. sorry if this is old-ish, but I am catching up & this touched a nerve. I work at WBD now. I really wanted the streaming company to succeed.
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Denim Dude posted:A network wide ad blocking setup is never a bad idea but I don't know how far that will get you with youtube since it's still a cat and mouse game and poo poo is changing daily. pihole does nothing for youtube ads because the ads are served from the same place as the content
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Rochallor posted:
I didn't think they could sink any lower than putting kung fu panda 3 ads in fortune cookies but here we are.
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At this point I wonder if they even bothered using food safe ink/paper
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Sentient Data posted:At this point I wonder if they even bothered using food safe ink/paper I'm sure that bitcoin gambling advertisers are among the most careful and diligent observers of government safety regulations.
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duncandisorderly posted:I write to you from within the mighty WBD, & I wish there was some way I could show this to everyone & shame DZ. do it. company-wide email. whats the worst that'll happen
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Fuckin' Google Drive. This is the second time it's done this, the only way to get it to work again seems to be a completely clean install, and it will not let me log in with Firefox. Even with all extensions disabled. It just gives me "something went wrong lol" as an error. I keep my Keepass folders in drive, which despite being tagged "always let me look at these" won't work without the program open. So I have to go into it on my phone, send the password to myself via Discord or something, then log in via Chrome, and then get all the settings set up again, because clean install. What a loving pain in the arse.  I miss Dropbox, but they made that poo poo too, it doesn't let you install it on more than three devices now. (It has read/write permissions. Of course it does. It worked fine before my last reboot.) Nettle Soup fucked around with this message at 13:40 on Dec 8, 2023 |
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Killingyouguy! posted:Anyway Signal fixed a lot of this problem before they loving axed sms support smh This was the worst thing that ever happened in the history of enshittification and im still seething about it.
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800peepee51doodoo posted:This was the worst thing that ever happened in the history of enshittification and im still seething about it. I'm not even sure it counts as enshittification if they're just overly blinded by their ideals, rather than needing to please The Stakeholders or whatever, but I agree it sucks entire rear end I generally believe in paying for good software so I cancelled my recurring donation to the signal foundation when they pulled that poo poo lmao
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Lol I came in to see if anyone was complaining about discord, just a terrible update and it broke uploads so no posting screenshots from the phone game I play to the discord for the phone game fleet I'm in. The youtube weird recs for me are all rec #3 on the right hand side, almost always a video game stream with less than 50 views.
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This isn’t something that has gotten shittier, but if I hear another Chumba Casino commercial I’m going to crack. Do we really need random number generators with different interfaces on our phone to kill time? I’ve seen people at work start to play these games non stop. It seems worse than tik tok. Am I missing something?
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Discord and google chat updated within a 24 hour span on mobile and lord help me
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Tars Tarkas posted:Lol I came in to see if anyone was complaining about discord, just a terrible update and it broke uploads so no posting screenshots from the phone game I play to the discord for the phone game fleet I'm in. The discord update made it so awkward to open the user list for a server that I didn't think it could even be done anymore at first. It makes no sense to me why all these awful changes aren't options that can be selected. Haven't talked to a single person with positive feelings about it.
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