restarting computers is for class A legitimate losers

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Sniep: Mar 28, 2004; All I needed was that fatty blunt...

King of Breakfast

Spazmo posted:

note that you double down on calling the user an idiot instead of asking if we can do better than an appliance the user purchased to watch movies and share cat pictures requiring monthly service interruptions, without which we can expect a cybernetic pandemic that could swiftly result in crippling attacks on power grids and other essential systems

again: we spent decades taking away the capabilities of computers and sold people dedicated appliances for pornography and cat pics, but did such a shoddy job of building them that they now present a tangible risk to millions of human lives

all we can think to do about this is to malign our customers as wretched fools, unworthy of our genius, and build ever more elaborate mechanisms to infantilize them and brutalize them into assuming the responsibility for our laziness and greed

I�m not mad at you mr. akadajet and neither are you or your colleagues in any way answerable to me. I�m just savoring the taste of ash in my mouth left over from 10 years of working in this industry

# ? Sep 7, 2020 23:20

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# ? May 9, 2024 10:53

akadajet: Sep 14, 2003

Spazmo posted:

note that you double down on calling the user an idiot instead of asking if we can do better than an appliance the user purchased to watch movies and share cat pictures requiring monthly service interruptions, without which we can expect a cybernetic pandemic that could swiftly result in crippling attacks on power grids and other essential systems

again: we spent decades taking away the capabilities of computers and sold people dedicated appliances for pornography and cat pics, but did such a shoddy job of building them that they now present a tangible risk to millions of human lives

all we can think to do about this is to malign our customers as wretched fools, unworthy of our genius, and build ever more elaborate mechanisms to infantilize them and brutalize them into assuming the responsibility for our laziness and greed

I�m not mad at you mr. akadajet and neither are you or your colleagues in any way answerable to me. I�m just savoring the taste of ash in my mouth left over from 10 years of working in this industry

I don't think that's ash you taste.

# ? Sep 7, 2020 23:23

suffix: Jul 27, 2013; Wheeee!

half the time "bug fixes and improvements" means you found another space to cram ads or you moved some toolbars around to a more inconvenient place

# ? Sep 7, 2020 23:40

President Beep: Apr 30, 2009; i have to have a car because otherwise i cant drive around the country solving mysteries while being doggedly pursued by federal marshals for a crime i did not commit (9/11)

suffix posted:

half the time "bug fixes and improvements" means you found another space to cram ads or you moved some toolbars around to a more inconvenient place

is this also why youtube and netflix just can�t leave their goddamn UIs alone?

# ? Sep 8, 2020 00:17

Workaday Wizard: Oct 23, 2009; by Pragmatica

my favorite youtube innovation is when you pause a video and the screen gets taken over by video recommendation

# ? Sep 8, 2020 00:26

Sagebrush: Feb 26, 2012

Shinku ABOOKEN posted:

my favorite youtube innovation is when you pause a video and the screen gets taken over by video recommendation

add to your ublock filters:

www.youtube.com##.ytp-scroll-min.ytp-pause-overlay

# ? Sep 8, 2020 00:28

akadajet: Sep 14, 2003

i watch youtube on my tv so it's impossible to block ads. I gave in and bought the premium sub to get rid of them

edit: yes, i tried the pi hole. worthless for youtube

# ? Sep 8, 2020 02:36

You Am I: May 20, 2001; Me @ your poasting

akadajet posted:

i watch youtube on my tv so it's impossible to block ads. I gave in and bought the premium sub to get rid of them

edit: yes, i tried the pi hole. worthless for youtube

Yeah that shits me that YouTube bakes in their ads and have upped the amount of times they will interrupt a video for a lovely ad

# ? Sep 8, 2020 03:12

pram: Jun 10, 2001

james:~/ $ uptime
23:43 up 15 days, 16:22, 4 users, load averages: 2.29 1.80 1.64

# ? Sep 8, 2020 05:44

echinopsis: Apr 13, 2004; by Fluffdaddy

akadajet posted:

morons like echi

# ? Sep 8, 2020 23:28

echinopsis: Apr 13, 2004; by Fluffdaddy

so clooooseee

# ? Sep 8, 2020 23:34

Best Bi Geek Squid: Mar 25, 2016

uptime mogging :eyepop:

# ? Sep 8, 2020 23:40

Endless Mike: Aug 13, 2003

still way too many threads going unripped what are you even doing

# ? Sep 9, 2020 00:43

akadajet: Sep 14, 2003

echinopsis posted:

yeah that was too much. you're alright, just need to update that compy

# ? Sep 9, 2020 01:10

echinopsis: Apr 13, 2004; by Fluffdaddy

I just opened up the national tracing app, it must have updated because I was logged out. thankfully ios had the password stored but I can imagine how many older people who had their child set it up in the first place when logged out are just hosed. it�s mind boggling how devs think this is ok at all

something awful is the only website ever that doesn�t log you out for no reason. the app is very good but not perfect. almost everything else sucks hard balls

# ? Sep 9, 2020 01:32

echinopsis: Apr 13, 2004; by Fluffdaddy

Endless Mike posted:

still way too many threads going unripped what are you even doing

I cannot afford to rip my threads. I try to tear them by hand but I can only do a much. and gently caress knows what my computer is even doing.

akadajet posted:

yeah that was too much. you're alright, just need to update that compy

nah it was fine lol. all good

# ? Sep 9, 2020 01:33

President Beep: Apr 30, 2009; i have to have a car because otherwise i cant drive around the country solving mysteries while being doggedly pursued by federal marshals for a crime i did not commit (9/11)

hate that poo poo. yes, when i say �keep me logged in� i mean it.

# ? Sep 9, 2020 01:34

echinopsis: Apr 13, 2004; by Fluffdaddy

I wish we could fine companies for ignoring our wishes. wish the EU could make a mandate

# ? Sep 9, 2020 01:45

Amethyst: Mar 28, 2004; I CANNOT HELP BUT MAKE THE DCSS THREAD A FETID SWAMP OF UNFUN POSTING
plz notice me trunk-senpai

Spazmo posted:

note that you double down on calling the user an idiot instead of asking if we can do better than an appliance the user purchased to watch movies and share cat pictures requiring monthly service interruptions, without which we can expect a cybernetic pandemic that could swiftly result in crippling attacks on power grids and other essential systems

again: we spent decades taking away the capabilities of computers and sold people dedicated appliances for pornography and cat pics, but did such a shoddy job of building them that they now present a tangible risk to millions of human lives

all we can think to do about this is to malign our customers as wretched fools, unworthy of our genius, and build ever more elaborate mechanisms to infantilize them and brutalize them into assuming the responsibility for our laziness and greed

I�m not mad at you mr. akadajet and neither are you or your colleagues in any way answerable to me. I�m just savoring the taste of ash in my mouth left over from 10 years of working in this industry

this post rules

# ? Sep 9, 2020 01:49

Sagebrush: Feb 26, 2012

echinopsis posted:

so clooooseee

woops, over 24 hours???? time to restart!! i can't have my computer getting all clogged up with junk

# ? Sep 9, 2020 04:40

Moo Cowabunga: Jun 15, 2009; [Office Worker.

free echi and free his opinions on buttes :smugmrgw:

# ? Sep 9, 2020 06:48

Moo Cowabunga: Jun 15, 2009; [Office Worker.

and standard computer safety techniques

# ? Sep 9, 2020 06:50

git apologist: Jun 4, 2003

echinopsis posted:

I just opened up the national tracing app, it must have updated because I was logged out. thankfully ios had the password stored but I can imagine how many older people who had their child set it up in the first place when logged out are just hosed. it�s mind boggling how devs think this is ok at all

something awful is the only website ever that doesn�t log you out for no reason. the app is very good but not perfect. almost everything else sucks hard balls

i have been peripherally involved in building this app and the session timeout was argued over a lot. I think it�s 30 days, which was the longest the privacy commission would allow

# ? Sep 9, 2020 07:44

Moo Cowabunga: Jun 15, 2009; [Office Worker.

lowtax don�t give a poo poo about the privacy commission

# ? Sep 9, 2020 08:37

akadajet: Sep 14, 2003

Displeased Moo Cow posted:

lowtax don�t give a poo poo about the privacy commission

nobody should

# ? Sep 9, 2020 14:36

Victory Position: Mar 16, 2004

do computers get tired? do they feel the need to have a rest after months of concurrent tasking and beeping

# ? Sep 9, 2020 16:16

Tankakern: Jul 25, 2007

akadajet posted:

nobody should

lots of dumb opinions lately, are you ok

# ? Sep 9, 2020 16:52

Agile Vector: May 21, 2007; scrum bored

echinopsis posted:

something awful is the only website ever that doesn�t log you out for no reason. the app is very good but not perfect. almost everything else sucks hard balls

the app warns you when the cookie expiration is pending, too, like an enterprise login. awful.iap is probably one of the better apps in terms of user features and consideration

# ? Sep 9, 2020 17:11

Endless Mike: Aug 13, 2003

Victory Position posted:

do computers get tired? do they feel the need to have a rest after months of concurrent tasking and beeping

yeah they need a fresh set of threads to rip every so often or they get them stuck and it slows down the pipes

# ? Sep 9, 2020 18:34

hifi: Jul 25, 2012

just restarted my computer

# ? Sep 9, 2020 20:42

echinopsis: Apr 13, 2004; by Fluffdaddy

loser, perhaps?

# ? Sep 10, 2020 06:24

echinopsis: Apr 13, 2004; by Fluffdaddy

I did it.

unfortunately i'm rendering some poo poo. ill probably restart later. like the loser you all knew I really was

and ya know what? my pc won't act different or better. in fact given the general tendency toward bloat, if anything it'll run worse. tanks steve ballsackmer

# ? Sep 10, 2020 10:35

Moo Cowabunga: Jun 15, 2009; [Office Worker.

you are achiever

goal setter

man

# ? Sep 10, 2020 10:43

pram: Jun 10, 2001

GOOD ON YER

# ? Sep 10, 2020 13:12

President Beep: Apr 30, 2009; i have to have a car because otherwise i cant drive around the country solving mysteries while being doggedly pursued by federal marshals for a crime i did not commit (9/11)

feeling a bit let down ngl.

# ? Sep 10, 2020 13:39