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Professor Shark posted:Our local vet now has a voicemail message saying they are no longer accepting cancellations due to weather. Snow storm for the appointment you booked last week? Too bad, pay up! I was 45 minutes late to a vet appointment to get some non-critical vaccines (lepto & canine influenza) and they wanted to charge a twelve dollar "urgent care" fee while the lobby was empty. not to go full rant mode, but I have literally spent THOUSANDS of dollars with that vet. THOUSANDS. I told them that was totally ridiculous, there was no way I was paying a fee for being 45 minutes late, and got up and walked out. I got a really urgent message from the manager saying "oh we're so sorry, we value your business  " but the damage was doneRandom rear end fees being enforced by low level employees has enshittified everywhere. redshirt posted:Apologies, Apple, I now realize those blank gray screens are time I can focus on breathing meditation. Its amazing that Apple could literally dictate the end-user experience for smartphone users, but they just can't get out of their own way w/r/t deprecating existing functionality to chase the next golden widget. I switched over to Apple products about five years ago because I was tired of Samsung's crappy build quality, but having my phone/watch/tablet interface change without notice (sometimes wildly) is a complete deal breaker for me. real PED enshittification - the Fitbit Ionic was a terrible smart watch but a fantastic fitness tracker. Then Google bought them and.... 
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Vampire Panties posted:I was 45 minutes late to a vet appointment to get some non-critical vaccines (lepto & canine influenza) and they wanted to charge a twelve dollar "urgent care" fee while the lobby was empty. With the latest update to the Apple Watch, they changed the functionality of one of the physical buttons on the watch. It used to be a way to bring up your custom shortcuts. Now it just brings up the Watch control pad - which use to be easily accessible by swiping up on the watch face. Everyone has complained, for whatever good that does. You can now go through an extra 5 or so frustrating steps to try and get a couple of shortcuts to frequently used apps by swiping up on the watch face. A change for no apparent purpose that reduced functionality. Good stuff.
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I’ve had several netgear routers over the last two decades starting with the classic WRT54G back at the dawn of home WiFi. I’ve never had one I wasn’t satisfied with. Need to enter the settings menu? Easy, just punch 192.168.1.1 into your browser. But times have changed I guess. My newest router starts by hounding you to download their app. As if that wasn’t enough, it makes you create and log into a netgear account before it will take you to the web based UI if you refuse the app. The app also makes you log into your account naturally. It pissed me off so much that went out and downloaded openwrt and switched the firmware so that I never have to deal with their poo poo again. I was only digging around in the settings to try and fix a game that started losing connection to the host every five minutes after a recent update. To be fair that’s the games fault because every other game I play works just fine and so did this one until the developers broke it, but swapping the firmware resolved the issue so I’m going to also blame netgear.
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Cosmik Debris posted:I know we're not supposed to publicly talk about how to do piracy or whatever, but, there are cracked youtube apps for android and anything that runs android. I run a pihole on my network so there's no ads in our browsers, and ublock origin and sponsorblock for firefox, ditto for me and my wife's phones. Ads should be illegal
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redshirt posted:A change for no apparent purpose that reduced functionality. Good stuff. “Why do we have all these UI designers if they’re not changing the UI?”
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everything wants you to make an account. i've had it up to here with these drat accounts! I needed to help someone with their computer yesterday, and tried using TeamViewer. It forced me to make an account, then their desktop app kept flipping me to a web page to complete the sign-in, where it wouldn't work, and the desktop app kept hanging, waiting for ethereal permission from my browser to continue working. the colonel is breakdancing. give me a break! buglord posted:I finally got instagram to stop putting anything but cat videos on my main feed. The more I interacted with posts in order to block them, the more instagram would think I was wanting to see that content. So when I cat vid came up, I interacted with it and trained it to only serve me that. They’re also incredibly inoffensive and occasionally cute so whatever. "training" an algorithm to coax it into giving you the stuff you like is a fool's game. It's like completing captchas voluntarily, hoping that Google Maps and self-driving cars get better. It's like carefully sacrificing individual ants to Baal.
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fat bossy gerbil posted:I’ve had several netgear routers over the last two decades starting with the classic WRT54G back at the dawn of home WiFi. I’ve never had one I wasn’t satisfied with. Need to enter the settings menu? Easy, just punch 192.168.1.1 into your browser. But times have changed I guess. My newest router starts by hounding you to download their app. As if that wasn’t enough, it makes you create and log into a netgear account before it will take you to the web based UI if you refuse the app. The app also makes you log into your account naturally. It pissed me off so much that went out and downloaded openwrt and switched the firmware so that I never have to deal with their poo poo again. I was only digging around in the settings to try and fix a game that started losing connection to the host every five minutes after a recent update. To be fair that’s the games fault because every other game I play works just fine and so did this one until the developers broke it, but swapping the firmware resolved the issue so I’m going to also blame netgear.  The WRT54g is Linksys, not netgear. Also they were the absolute gold-tier standard for home routers until Cisco bought them out and enshittified them. OpenWRT on a 54G is probably peak 2.4ghz wifi experience, although I have the TP-Link Archer7 router now and its pretty decent.  that i had to go through several different iterations of wifi router to find one that actually does what it says on the boxredshirt posted:A change for no apparent purpose that reduced functionality. Good stuff.  I didn't necessarily like the interface on the Apple Watch to begin with, but its total loving trash now, and I'm completely disinterested in learning the new interface so they can change it in a year. Maybe the newer ones are good, but the Apple Watch 6 is a piece of poo poo. I bought it for one very, very specific use case - playing spotify at the gym so I dont have to bring my phone inside  - but its a big pain in the rear end to get to work right and it fucks up frequently.
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deep dish peat moss posted:Something to highlight just how bad the job market/ghost job phenomenon is right now is that There were 9.6 million "open job postings" in September but only 150,000 were actually filled by the end of October per the BLS Yeah most places that are "hiring" aren't
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I keep My Apple Watch in a drawer and only use it to find my phone. It’s such garbage. Why do the settings constantly reset ? Why do the watch faces constantly reset ? Why does a watch have to update its firmware ever month ? God I hate it
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euphronius posted:I keep My Apple Watch in a drawer and only use it to find my phone. It’s such garbage. Why do the settings constantly reset ? Why do the watch faces constantly reset ? Why does a watch have to update its firmware ever month ? Are you sure it’s not your ability to interact at even a basic level with technology that got shittier?
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rafikki posted:Are you sure it’s not your ability to interact at even a basic level with technology that got shittier? Why should they have to change, Apple's the one who sucks.
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Vampire Panties posted:I was 45 minutes late to a vet appointment to get some non-critical vaccines (lepto & canine influenza) and they wanted to charge a twelve dollar "urgent care" fee while the lobby was empty. are you really arguing that you werent in the wrong for being nearly an hour late to something
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Feb 1, 2024 21:20
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yea 15 minutes is one thing but almost an hour late I wouldn't have been surprised if they made you reschedule and charged a fee on top of that
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pencilhands posted:are you really arguing that you werent in the wrong for being nearly an hour late to something lol and then on top of that the "ive spent THOUSANDS OF DOLALRS HERE!!!!! DO YOU KNOW HOW IMPORTANT I AM?!" love to spot a earnest karen post in the wild
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drat pencilhands lands another one. now post a stupid af take to balance it out lmfoa
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hot cocoa on the couch posted:drat pencilhands lands another one. now post a stupid af take to balance it out lmfoa I’ve never posted anything stupid in my life.
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pencilhands posted:I’ve never posted anything stupid in my life. I beg to differ, you just did in another thread
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MrQwerty posted:I beg to differ, you just did in another thread No I didn’t
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pencilhands posted:No I didn’t 
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Excuse me I paid to have a 5 post argument, this is abuse
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pencilhands posted:are you really arguing that you werent in the wrong for being nearly an hour late to something Even a broken clock... For real though, chronic lateness is the newest pandemic. My practice just started charging late cancellation fees for everything-- including medical emergencies and COVID-- because no one seems to be able to keep a goddamn appointment/give a reasonable amount of notice lately. I just had a couple quit therapy because I billed them for a session that they cancelled less than an hour before it started. While I don't particularly like it, our policy is super clear; I discuss it during intake and my clients sign paperwork explaining the late-cancellation fee. And yet somehow everyone turns into a shocked Pikachu when I hold them accountable. Just show up to your poo poo or give me 24 hours notice, it's not that hard.
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Except im nothing like a broken clock. Im right all the time. Like an atomic clock or the clock on a cell phone.
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The cancellation fees are kind of bogus for shops that don’t really schedule and book as many people as possible
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Modal Auxiliary posted:Even a broken clock... TBH you might not be wrong. I remember one of the big things that was talked about a while ago with Long COVID was persistent brain fog, and one of the big results of that tends to be poor time management or time blindness (see: anyone with unmedicated ADHD). So people are legitimately probably shittier at keeping to schedules than they used to be pre-COVID.
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a clock that's 43 minutes fast
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hot cocoa on the couch posted:lol and then on top of that the "ive spent THOUSANDS OF DOLALRS HERE!!!!! DO YOU KNOW HOW IMPORTANT I AM?!" I especially enjoyed the conspicuous absence of an apology or any attempt to call and give a courtesy heads up that they were running late. "Can you believe these people had the temerity to charge me thirty entire cents per minute for completely wasting their time for no reason?!?" lmao get hosed
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ishikabibble posted:time blindness (see: anyone with unmedicated ADHD). I know people who almost cannot function now without Adderall. And they've got to remember to take their Adderall!
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An empty lobby at a vets office means literally nothing because vets try to keep them clear as possible because animals easily spread some pretty horrific diseases back and forth very easily. They could have had every room booked and you just dont see it. or all the extra poo poo going on in back. Like when I was working for a vets office there were regularly times when we didn't book certain things because the vet was doing surgerys so they were stuck in the back and only things that could be fully done by techs happened out front. lol what an incredible loving karen. I was an hour late and they charged me!!!!
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Animal-Mother posted:I know people who almost cannot function now without Adderall. And they've got to remember to take their Adderall! Not being able to function without Adderall is a side effect of Adderall addiction more than an ADHD thing and it also causes the poor memory stuff that leads to forgetting to take your Adderall, because when you're not on it you're in withdrawal and can't do poo poo. Being on it can also cause tunnel vision issues which are responsible for a lot of the time blindness and forgetting to take meds. Like you get time blindness without meds sure but it's way worse when you're on Adderall. I did the Adderall thing for 5 years before getting off and switching to less disruptive meds and yeah I miss Adderall making me feel like I'm in that movie Limitless but I feel like overall I'm way more productive and better off being on other things since I'm not doing that whole seesaw between hyperacuity and complete agonizing uselessness constantly!! It's hard to recognize how much it fucks you up while you're taking it because it makes you feel euphoric. Basically people should just stop taking amphetamines as medicine IMO, it's like an ouroboros that eventually eats itself deep dish peat moss fucked around with this message at 23:46 on Feb 1, 2024 |
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being unmedicated means i dont even get the false euphoria i ONLY get to experience being a time-blind airheaded worthless idiot whom everyone else considers lazy while i sit there screaming internally at myself to get up and do things and my failed executive function just makes little whistly sounds, it's great having adhd
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you've probably heard this all before but wearing a watch at all times and occasionally listening to the beat of the balance wheel pressed against my ear helps tons
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Get yourself some of the good, affordable and readily available meds  I get strattera+clonidine for under $30/mo total without insurance and I couldn't imagine going back to life before them.
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deep dish peat moss posted:Not being able to function without Adderall is a side effect of Adderall addiction more than an ADHD thing and it also causes the poor memory stuff that leads to forgetting to take your Adderall, because when you're not on it you're in withdrawal and can't do poo poo. Being on it can also cause tunnel vision issues which are responsible for a lot of the time blindness and forgetting to take meds. Like you get time blindness without meds sure but it's way worse when you're on Adderall. My first instinct was to argue with you, but yeah this tracks, as someone who is on year 5 themselves with adderall. The tunnel vision is real, and so is getting locked in and becoming more time blind than you otherwise would be. It's been a very double edge sword and I'm gonna switch to something else this year. So far the drug mostly makes me post on the forums most of all, not work.
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I rely on reminders and alarms quite a bit and recommend it, especially for appointments and such. Just get in the habit of setting the reminders/alarms ASAP, so you can then just forget about it and trust in the alarm. It's liberating.
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skooma512 posted:My first instinct was to argue with you, but yeah this tracks, as someone who is on year 5 themselves with adderall. The tunnel vision is real, and so is getting locked in and becoming more time blind than you otherwise would be. It's been a very double edge sword and I'm gonna switch to something else this year. Okay but have you considered that your posts (and especially your avatar) make our lives better?
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It's not like being hyper-aware of time is any better. I have an internal clock that is so correct I can always guess the current time to within a ten min window of the actual time. And all it does is mean I'm so aware of the passing of time I'm constantly overwhelmed by it, and the only time I can actually get poo poo done is if I get so invested in something I can forget the beat of the clock for a moment and just flow. If I have an appointment, well gently caress now I have an upcoming time commitment to hook all of my anxiety onto and obsess over and be aware that it's now 20 hrs away....19 hrs away....18 hrs away...until Im at the drat thing. I still manage to get stuff done in the interim but it's like I'm distracted the whole time, never really present in what I'm doing - because I am always, always paying attention to the internal tick of the clock.
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The clock, she haunts me. But the only time the clock will stop, is when I die. So, as much as I hate that my brain is this way, at least it's validation of life. Like dishes, or laundry - as awful as they are, they prove you are alive - dead people don't have these things waiting for them at home. They no longer sully clothes with daily living, or dirty dishes with meals. Or hear clocks ticking.
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Being stuck in waiting mode is the worst part of ADHD. No I can't do this 15 minute task right now because I have an appointment in 6 hours.
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loving at the pedantry on this loving site   I could've written a novel. I could have started with the parking lot was also empty, and that the vet is a converted 2bd house. I could have added the  lobby is a living room from which you can see 80% of the clinic. I could have talked about the multi-year relationship I've had with them or the various issues and treatment plans we've worked through with my dog, or why specifically I was late, or how I wasn't sure that leptospirosis or canine influenza were necessarily important vaccines to get (neither are required by any government agency, boarding house, or grooming service). I could provide pictures from the loving Google reviews, or receipts, or emails. but apparently y'all are super cool with a business you've known and trusted charging you a random fee, and expect everyone to be perfect 100% of the time, and  I'm a Karen for not being a doormat, so I guess gently caress me right?  jfc talk about enshittification
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