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i fuckin hate that instagram has more robust posting options on mobile than desktop. im editing photos and video on a laptop, i want to just blast out the posts from the same device
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I got my mom a Nordictrack treadmill for Mother's Day. It's a pretty nice one if I say so myself with a big built-in display and control panel for all the things you'd expect from a treadmill. Powering it on for the first time gives you nothing but an activation prompt to connect it to a smart phone or tablet, download the app, make an account and all that nonsense. Once that's done, the treadmill stays connected to the device and the treadmill cannot be controlled by the panel. Instead, you have to do everything, including even starting the thing or adjusting speed in the app. The whole rear end control panel and like 30 buttons do nothing but beep when pressed. Even better, you'd think a bluetooth connection to a thing with speakers built-in would use those speakers for media playback purposes. But no, of course it doesn't do that. Those speakers are only there for beeping unless you plug in an aux cable. Jumping through the hoops to disconnect the treadmill from the device's Bluetooth eventually gets around the control stupidity, but none of this should be necessary in the first place. The hardware is all right there. Just let it do what it does.
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May 13, 2024 17:45
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Holy poo poo. Return that piece of garbage. Honestly that definitely seems like something I'd learn about before purchasing it.
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May 13, 2024 18:17
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I'd normally be 100% with you on both of those points and shame me for not doing my research. In this case I got for cheap enough that I'm willing to overlook annoyances if she is. If not, yes it is going right back.
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May 13, 2024 18:26
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The brewery across from the office changed their pizzas from 12" to 10" for the same price and that's 30% less pizza 
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May 13, 2024 18:47
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WTFBEES posted:I got my mom a Nordictrack treadmill for Mother's Day. It's a pretty nice one if I say so myself with a big built-in display and control panel for all the things you'd expect from a treadmill. lmao so this is a pre-app product that they've showhorned an app into because they probably want to mine info. The thing probably worked perfectly fine as a standalone device for doing the one specific thing it was designed to do but someone in the exec team heard that everything needs an app now and that's why the tech world is hosed.
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May 13, 2024 19:16
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BigHead posted:Those also spawned one of my favorite mspaint threads: Draw things from randomly generated reCAPTCHA text! Hah I remember that. Sometimes "fructose bring" pops into my head
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May 13, 2024 19:24
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still pops up in my brain from time to time.
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Olympic Mathlete posted:lmao so this is a pre-app product that they've showhorned an app into because they probably want to mine info. The thing probably worked perfectly fine as a standalone device for doing the one specific thing it was designed to do but someone in the exec team heard that everything needs an app now and that's why the tech world is hosed. My air purifiers apparently have an app.  A few years ago there was a "oh neat, I wonder if this info would help me" thought I had about apps in poo poo that they weren't in before. That, at record speed, turned into complete insanity and apps are now an immediate and massive red flag for me.
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May 13, 2024 19:51
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I loving hate that everything requires an app. Goddamn Tesco, the biggest supermarket chain in the UK, has made it so you can't get any of the discount prices if you don't have the loving app. Also I get terrible signal in some of the Tesco stores local to me, so if I didn't pre-load the app to bring up the QR code on my phone before I went in, I have to walk outside to get signal to get the loving QR code - holding up the queue - or I am forced to spend up to 50% more for whatever I'm trying to buy. And sometimes the app just crashes for no loving reason. There is literally nothing useful that any retail/food service app can do that a website cannot do. I'm saying this as someone that has developed both. The only reason a company would use an app rather than a website is because it's easier to steal personal data and/or to spam you with notifications. And then conservative 'people' bitch and moan about some refugees having smartphones. Motherfucker have you tried existing in modern society without a smartphone? Good loving luck getting a job or not getting completely ripped off trying to buy food at a reasonable price without one.
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May 13, 2024 22:03
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They don't let you order a physical card anymore? I've been using what's basically a picture of the clubcard via my phone for years now.
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May 13, 2024 22:23
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I just hook my road bike up to a fluid trainer. Not a single transistor in the whole setup.
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May 13, 2024 22:28
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Nettle Soup posted:They don't let you order a physical card anymore? If they do they don't advertise it
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May 13, 2024 22:43
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My extent of shopping apps on my phone are “can you scan QR code? Or add it to Apple wallet?” - that’s fine. My preferred ripoff grocery store has an app but I can put my membership info on my Apple wallet and it works except for the one closest to my apartment. Somehow, QR codes as a concept simply elude them, but it’s also a store that caters to a lot of retirees so  Semi-related update to my transit QR hell: seems to work if I slam my phone a certain way onto the sensor. Do I go through the Chronicles of Riddick VHS meme every time I get on the subway? Possibly 20 Blunts posted:i fuckin hate that instagram has more robust posting options on mobile than desktop. im editing photos and video on a laptop, i want to just blast out the posts from the same device
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May 13, 2024 22:47
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Quote-Unquote posted:I have to walk outside to get signal to get the loving QR code I have the same problem with another supermarket app. Display the QR code on-screen and make a screenshot and use the screenshot picture.
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May 13, 2024 22:51
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Seems like you should be able to order one here: https://www.tesco.com/help/pages/clubcard-faqs/my-clubcard-account/getting-a-replacement-clubcard-or-key-fob
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May 13, 2024 22:56
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cat botherer posted:I just hook my road bike up to a fluid trainer. Not a single transistor in the whole setup. are you sure you don't want to use a computer to shift gears, though? maybe turn your bike into yet another thing you gotta charge? hmmmm?
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May 13, 2024 23:04
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DELETE CASCADE posted:are you sure you don't want to use a computer to shift gears, though? maybe turn your bike into yet another thing you gotta charge? hmmmm? They've had those for years. Haven't used them myself, but they're supposedly very smooth and able to do things like trimming the derailleurs or even doing automatic shifting depending on speed and RPM. I don't know what the app situation is like with them, though. https://bike.shimano.com/en-US/technologies/component/details/di2.html https://www.campagnolo.com/us-en/road/groupsets-for-racing-bicycles/electronic-groupsets/ https://www.sram.com/en/sram/road/collections/etap-axs I'm swimming in spare parts for all my bikes so it's unlikely I'll be trying it myself any time soon. I'd be down with an electronic groupset that charged from a dynamo and used wires instead of a wireless protocol.
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May 13, 2024 23:15
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DELETE CASCADE posted:are you sure you don't want to use a computer to shift gears, though? maybe turn your bike into yet another thing you gotta charge? hmmmm? It's called di2 and it already exists lmao E: mea culpa, this wasn't tgo so I assumed Waste of Breath fucked around with this message at 00:54 on May 14, 2024 |
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Quote-Unquote posted:I loving hate that everything requires an app. Yeah app discounts and store cards should be illegal. If I were emperor for a day I'd ban that poo poo at 9am and then take an early lunch.
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May 14, 2024 01:17
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Salt Fish posted:Yeah app discounts and store cards should be illegal. If I were emperor for a day I'd ban that poo poo at 9am and then take an early lunch. 
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May 14, 2024 01:22
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I took a Kroger card, said I'd fill out the details at home and bring it back, and never did. Going on 15 years as "Customer"
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May 14, 2024 01:40
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Squiggle posted:I took a Kroger card, said I'd fill out the details at home and bring it back, and never did. Going on 15 years as "Customer" Yeah too bad your credit card chip sends them your first name, last name, middle initial and zip code. They take that data and cross reference purchased data from, for example, the secretary of state, bundle it with everything you've ever purchased and then sell it to other companies. The card terms of service still apply even if you don't make those details explicit to them.
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May 14, 2024 01:56
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Oh no!!
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If you don’t have a store card, you can usually use a phone number. 867-5309
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Squiggle posted:Oh no!! mfw im being literally cooked alive by the excesses of capitalism
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May 14, 2024 02:19
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I was wandering a car dealership lot, and had an old man moment when I realized I could not see the prices on any used car (or new cars really - they did show MSRP). You had to scan a QR code to get the price. F that.
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May 14, 2024 03:31
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Did you happen to note if the QR codes were different on each car? Because I have a bad feeling that all of those were links to download an app.
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May 14, 2024 03:33
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Congestion pricing, but for cars.
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May 14, 2024 03:42
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I was in kohls to return an Amazon purchase and realized their in store price scanners were covered up with a piece of paper with a qr code to I assume download their app.
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May 14, 2024 03:47
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Salt Fish posted:Yeah too bad your credit card chip sends them your first name, last name, middle initial and zip code. They take that data and cross reference purchased data from, for example, the secretary of state, bundle it with everything you've ever purchased and then sell it to other companies. The card terms of service still apply even if you don't make those details explicit to them.
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May 14, 2024 07:36
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Every now and again my partners phone sends him a "Welcome to the UK" text message. He's been here four years now.
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May 14, 2024 07:50
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Salt Fish posted:Yeah too bad your credit card chip sends them your first name, last name, middle initial and zip code. They take that data and cross reference purchased data from, for example, the secretary of state, bundle it with everything you've ever purchased and then sell it to other companies. The card terms of service still apply even if you don't make those details explicit to them. If this is true why do I never see any relevant ads or receieve any junk mail in the past year
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May 14, 2024 08:37
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Lest you forget, https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/02/16/how-target-figured-out-a-teen-girl-was-pregnant-before-her-father-did/?sh=61c24f516668 That was over a decade ago
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Sentient Data posted:Lest you forget, https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/02/16/how-target-figured-out-a-teen-girl-was-pregnant-before-her-father-did/?sh=61c24f516668 Halfway through reading this, a full page ad for their subscription newsletter appeared. When I closed that, a full page video ad appeared. That's when I just hit the back button to return here. I guess I'd read enough.
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May 14, 2024 09:39
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Truly we will be blessed if we can return to the era of full screen porn ads, with sound.
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SidneyIsTheKiller posted:If this is true why do I never see any relevant ads or receieve any junk mail in the past year They know how much money you have from equifax.
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May 14, 2024 10:49
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Sentient Data posted:Lest you forget, https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/02/16/how-target-figured-out-a-teen-girl-was-pregnant-before-her-father-did/?sh=61c24f516668 Wasn't this found to be bullshit in order to hype up how good the advertising services, tech and firms they used were? I'm pretty sure the part about being bullshit is accurate at least.
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syntaxfunction posted:Wasn't this found to be bullshit in order to hype up how good the advertising services, tech and firms they used were? I'm pretty sure the part about being bullshit is accurate at least.  “We’ll keep you satisfied” What does the algorithm know hmmm???
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Really tired of those Spotify full page ads that I have to deal with despite spending money on Spotify for the last decade and never listening to anything they have recommended, ever. No I don't want a podcast about real housewives of Jersey or a drake album (or all the Drake albums, like that one time they decided to hijack all the pages with him). Also don't like how every podcast has ads, I'm guessing it has something to do with the way they monetize it. Then again they gave Joe Rogan all of the money yet he still does (or did? I haven't heard him since protect our parks 8) there ad rolls
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