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AARD VARKMAN posted:all the major food delivery apps spent a few years competing to have better UI/features than eachother and the last few years systematically removing those features and making their search less useful  this is like 10+ years ago now, but Amazon did the same thing, probably for the same reason - scammers complained. I quit (cold turkey  ) delivery apps 2+ years ago, but I noticed that a lot of  restaurants were just some random business address. Yes I'm aware of ghost kitchens and marketing ghouls creating competing lines from the same store, but it seems more like the 21st century version of the hotel-pizza-flyer scam. That scam is still running hot and heavy near major resorts, I stayed in a hotel near Sea World 6ish months ago and there was a big  warning in the lobby about ordering food from adverts slid under the door. Ofc there were still a ton of adverts and I still saw people getting 'Little Tonys' delivered.  20 bux for chicken wings!ElectricSheep posted:not tech related but I swear Pizza Hut used to taste better like, when you went to their actual sit down joints  IMO a lot of major suppliers are purposefully using cheaper ingredients as a way to kick up profits. Junk food that I used to think was sorta OK tasting (ofc its literal poison) now tastes like worse. Chipotle and Panera quality took a loving nosedive over the pandemic and never returned, especially Panera. I've had better salads from a display fridge in an airport 
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GolfHole posted:ALL food is worse now. EVERY supplier is using the lovely stuff.  I moved halfway through the pandemic and I thought that the local grocery store just had lovely produce, but it seems like everywhere has lovely produce. Also Vons steaks went from p. decent to super greasy.  Frikken pandemic has made me effectively stop eating beef.
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dr_rat posted:With hold music, yeah there's a Tom Scott video on that, but basically first off all the audio on the phones are badly compressed specifically to retain voice, which screws over music which has far more range, but often now the music is getting compressed in the corporate communication systems at multiple points each time turning more and more garbage. Higher voice compression algorithms don't even use voice, they use a series of tones to approximate voice. If you're on a corporate phone network and you call an extension thats outside your office, your voice stream will be up & downsampled at least twice 
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I'm shopping for a specific kind of used car, which even a few years ago was relatively straightforward, but recently has become excruciating. Regular Google sends me down a hell of adwords and bullshit listings from years ago. Car specific sites like Autotrader are saturated with "sponsored listings" which have literally nothing to do with what I'm looking for. Free sites like Craigslist are out-and-out-liars - the most recent annoyance is scummy used car lots listing good vehicles for good prices, and in the fine print saying that price is the down payment. Who the gently caress are they fooling with an 8k down payment on a 22k vehicle? Simple sorts by things like "less than 100k miles" and "less than 20k dollars" are worthless, because (again) scummy used car lots list the cars by the payment price and not the sale price. Some real shitheels list the vehicle with the mileage off the new engine. Then there's the general internet fuckery of listing cars on the internet that they dont have possession of, photoshopped pics on listings, trying to pass a salvage title off as clean, etc.
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Buce posted:I had a black and white sears television in my bedroom until the year 2000. loved that little guy.  I too had a little 10” black and white sears TV. Apocryphally my parents bought when my dad was stationed in Germany and it survived their shipping container falling in the harbor when they moved back to the states. I can’t begin to fathom any modern TV surviving any of that
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I deleted my Facebook account a few years ago and never looked back, but with of the enshittification of online marketplace sites, I was sorta forced to recreate a Facebook account so I can browse Facebook Marketplace. If you're trying to buy an inexpensive used car, there really isnt anything better than loving Facebook. Although to be clear, Facebook Marketplace has been enshittified as well - generally speaking, I seem to hit some random number of searches where I can no longer sort by lowest price. Once I hit that number, sorting by lowest price brings back 1-2 bullshit 0 dollar items with nothing to do with anything - for example searching for "high top van" brings back tons of vehicles in the Suggested search, lowest price first bring back two ads for people giving away kids shoes.
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I have a Smart TV, but I have used a collective 60ish hours on it within the last 3 years - Exactly long enough to watch Dune once, and beat GoW Ragnarok. My desktop monitor is wayyyyy loving bigger than the TV we had throughout my childhood. Its bigger than the TV I had through college, and its nearly as big as the TV I had in my 30s.  are obviously easier to play natively on a PC, and SmartTvs are still very loving stupid w/r/t streaming and transcoding video files, so I just gave up
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SlimGoodbody posted:I was permabanned from Twitter a month ago for being too funny towards a fascist, and noticed today that I can't follow a link to a tweet using a mobile browser anymore. It just takes me to a landing page that tells me to make an account, which I can't do. Yeah I think Twitter decided to force everyone to log in to view tweets. Its actually sorta amazing, watching the two biggest social networks collapse in real time.
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Head Bee Guy posted:I haven’t looked at it since i made the horrifying discovery. All the clips are very fem coded. ALL the products are pastel pink or beige I used to be heavily addicted to Amazon shopping, but after Marc 2020 when the prices all exploded I quit that poo poo and now use it exclusively as a cheap auto parts store. I went into the Amazon app to go look for what you're talking about, and my Discovery feed is entirely cheap off-road LED lights and pink/rose gold/beige 'car accessories' 
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Jelly posted:As a lifetime chronic sales-shopper, sales at grocery stores are becoming way more predatory and difficult to take advantage of. My local grocery store has taken to repricing everything for holiday weekends. I'll admit I live in a bougie/touristy place, but its a loving Vons charging seven dollars for a jar of jam.
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Jul 3, 2023 19:25
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BigHead posted:The preference exists on mobile, but even if you toggle the preference on mobile it doesn't even apply your selection to PC (or anywhere else you listen to it, like a smart TV).  IMO Pandora was the first online service to poo poo itself up to uselessness. It got to the point where it insisted on playing Modest Mouse in every single one of my playlists, even all instrumental electronica stations I had curated for years and years.
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Yeah literally all the local alternative rock radio stations were bought out - one by ClearChannel, one being sold to another mid-sized conglomerate and the other basically buying itself into a tiny radio commune thing. They all suck now - the tiny radio commune doesnt have any money for licensing, so they play weird 80s b-sides all the time and say its part of their heritage or whatever, the mid sized radio station has very generic DJs who obviously are not live/from here and they play a lot of pop, and the big ClearChannel station stopped playing pink floyd.
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Captain Hotbutt posted:The traffic around my city has gotten shittier. Traffic hit peak awesome at the start of COVID, and its been in a death spiral since then. It seems like drivers are resigned to sit in gridlock now.
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Thesaurus posted:Super easy returns is definitely one of their few remaining positive traits skooma512 posted:I'm sure that's next on the chopping block. I've noticed lately on amazon returns that it lists the price as 0.00 dollars, even for returns to the Amazon Hub. While it may be a legacy in their awful interface from charging for return shipping, I kinda think otherwisePhazonLink posted:i havent gotten burn by amazon yet, but their drop ship problem also makes me extremely against using them for order food or other stuff used for body stuff. its a real Catch 22 with them, because they utterly destroyed all the smaller competitive retail sites. Even a lot of the not-very-small companies are just setting up their own Amazon storefronts instead of messing around with their own website / distribution. but any name brand consumer good is almost certainly counterfeit - cosmetics, soaps, shampoos, any article of clothing on the site, any domestic good (I bought a wool blanket and it reeked of gasoline so badly that you could get a whiff through the packaging.) To further the Catch 22 - Amazons pipeline of Alibaba trash at regular prices has utterly hosed the secondhand market. Trying to find anything authentic, like say a wool blanket, is impossible. A lot of times people dont even know what they're selling is fake.
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Jul 21, 2023 04:56
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MS Teams is such a staggering piece of poo poo that is being pushed through solely because of Microsofts complete monopoly on the office workspace. Its good for MS right now, but its going to have the opposite effect because everyone hates teams SO MUCH
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euphronius posted:Cloud storage is so unintuitive that any benefit it may have is vastly outweighed by the confusion it causes but cloud storage still works right sometimes, as compared to Sharepoint which I have literally never seen work correctly Canine Blues Arooo posted:The problem here is that no one is actually making office communication software worth a drat. The 'best' version of this is arguably Slack, which *just* figured out that maybe more then one window is a pretty cool feature. It's still dogshit. WebRTC should've ripped the doors open on collaboration software, because it had always been held that the mic & camera were the hardest parts, but as it turns out nobody has any idea what a good communication client would look like. Some brainiac figured out that everyone lives in email anyway, so they cribbed the interface (actually for Slack, which MS 100% stole) and made it chat-object focused instead of email focused. It should work, because humans have been using letter style communication for thousands of years, but it somehow doesnt.
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euphronius posted:My work literally took away our landlines and made us use teams for calls this is what I do professionally (migrate phone systems to the cloud) and there's a lot of really which is a real motherfucker, because after auditing a shitload of Business Unit Leader types across numerous business/industries, people need their phones, and they need them to work.
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one of the BU leaders I interviewed was a scientist managing a team of scientists at a manufacturing company. Their office phone had worked when everyone was sent home for COVID. Seemingly the telecom department was going to provision a remote phone/client for them, and instead just deleted the entire line and then stopped responding to the BU leader. Since the BU leader still needed to speak with the outside world & didnt want to give out their personal cell to vendors and poo poo, they created a free Zoom account, and then would create a half hour meeting with two participants, and then would force the conference platform to dial outbound to whomever she wanted to call. They worked that way for months  Executives see IT as a cost center, nothing more. They truly and honestly dont care how the peons work as long as the work gets done. Which is a double  with the entirely-articifial RTO mandate poo poo
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skooma512 posted:Hey let’s make multiuser PCs untenable by clogging up everyone’s profile with 1Gb to 4Gb of service worker cache just for an IM program that runs in a loving web browswer This is the part that kills me. There is no MS Teams Client its just a very lovely web page using WebRTC for the mic and camera. MS Teams is actually a very lovely, very advanced company intranet site with semi-working Sharepoint links circa 2012. skooma512 posted:Makes sense. Apple wants features and updates to put in IOS every year, Google notoriously doesn’t give a gently caress about products after release and eventually just sunsets them or lets them stagnate. Google maps can sorta go gently caress itself. I ran into a (vaguely) life-threatening bug with their dumb app once - I was driving back over the Grapevine last summer and there was a fire so they closed 5. The traffic reroute went out Lancaster and other godawful places, where there isn't very good cell phone coverage. I had Google maps of the entire area saved to my phone. What happened - Google maps with cell reception understood the fire closures and wanted to send me on the proscribed route, but there was shitloads of traffic as a four lane freeway was forced down one lane of traffic on side streets. - Google maps, again with cell reception, kept offering shortcut routes up through the random hills around the Grapevine. I dont know that area at all, but I was in my truck so I figured I could always drive across fire roads or whatever if need be. I turn off from the main traffic and head up the mountain. The loving instant Google maps loses reception, it immediately forgets the route and tries to send me back to the fire-closed freeway WITHOUT ANY NOTIFICATION WHATSOEVER I ended up driving around in an insane circle for the better part of two hours while Google maps flickered between reception and no reception. I didn't realize at first and I obviously didn't know the area, I just kept driving and would look down and see the route went right back to Highway 5, and at first I thought that maybe they got the fire under control? Then my phone would get any sort of reception and it would send me right back. The instant it either got/lost signal, it would just jump to the other route and there was nothing I could do about it. I think it was something to do with Carplay and google maps, but eventually I gave up and took the normal route and had to tell the phone to stfu while it kept pinging me for an hour to turn around  Fwiw I tried Apple Maps and it wanted me to go out to San Bernadino 
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SweetMercifulCrap! posted:I actually used to like Panera every now and then and their food quality has gone up over the years, but these days a half sandwich, half salad and a drink will end up over $20. I stopped going.  I feel like their food quality plateaued about two years ago and has been declining (like eveywhere else). I ate at Panera once a few months ago and the salad was airport-grade at best, plus it was a solid 20 for the Panera lunch - salad, drink, cookie.EDIT for content, and in the same vein - Chipotle. They're all poo poo now. Everything is stale, the portions are pathetic, and its really expensive for what it is now. Also I feel like their chicken is 100x greasier, although maybe related to my Panera quality complaints, I once heard that Panera and Chipotle source their chicken together, and Panera gets the white meat and Chipotle gets the dark?
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GolfHole posted:Hmm maybe it's easier to just get rid of February. No the trick is to add a month, like Kodak did
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Plan R posted:I was clearing out some old stuff and found a receipt from Jack in the Box. the exploding prices of fast food made me finally quit that junk. Nineteen motherfucking dollars for a double western bacon cheeseburger with a chocolate shake the size of a sippy cup. Also had the privilege of being told to park while the workers inside struggled with a 1 person order at 3:15 in the afternoon 
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ryde posted:The original sin was allowing browsers to become environments for hosting JavaScript applications instead of insisting that they remain a way of viewing linked documents and maybe sending a payload of data to a server via a button+post. ehhhhhhhhhhhh using the browser as a hardware abstraction layer for poo poo like WebRTC instead of using ten disparate installed clients (each with their own need for support) is really cool and good capitalism is obsessed with showing moving pictures on every shiny surface possible so most web browsers are wasted on dumb poo poo
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Violet_Sky posted:Lol LinkedIn loving blows now. Half the job offers are crypto/other scams. I get daily messages from randos saying "i am very impressed with your job history, would you be interested in franchise opportunities?" What the gently caress does one have to do with the other, and why in the everloving gently caress would I be looking for franchise opportunities from LinkedIn. Also I'd say that around 90% of the job opportunities on LinkedIn are bullshit. I've spoken with three different internal recruiters/hiring managers for companies about senior pre-sales positions, only to have them bait and switch to a tech position doing installation for 75% of the listed pay. Ofc they're still going to expect you to work with customers and support sales people, they're just desperately trying to overtalent positions because of the market
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My lovely tiny credit union's website has joined the club. They added 2FA, but it wont remember the browser. They added 2FA to their app at the same time, and neither will it remember you, the Apple automagic of the 6 digit code being autofilled doesn't work. Once inside, they changed the layout of the website to make it like Mint or whatever, but its just a checking and savings account. There's two different fields where its repeating the same poo poo. Finally, they refuse access from a privacy VPN Overnight their website went from being relatively decent to completely useless, which now means their entire service is useless to me, and I'll be switching credit unions.
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Fitzy Fitz posted:It's directing you to the side of the school with less traffic  Ticket Closed.
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naem posted:everything since has been a nightmare I didn't have any expectations for The Flash but that entire movie would be significantly better without a word of dialogue.
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euphronius posted:I had that !! And then my credit card lapsed Becuase of the date on the cc and they canceled the unlimited plan immediately hahah. I wonder if anyone is still grandfathered in if they're on ATT they probably are. I'm grandfathered into a (relatively) new ATT plan that had some crazy promotion which included HBO/Max/Whatever for life. They occasionally call to review my plan but nothing is better.
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redshirt posted:Yeah but we got legal weed now (your mileage may vary). Even weed is weird now.
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aniviron posted:Speaking of ads which are blatantly using generative AI to make hosed up cars, have another ad, this time for the Fallout tv show that is coming out apparently: with the creative strike, there is a non-zero chance that the people working on this think thats what LA looks like
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StormDrain posted:Microwaves have an insanely widespread install base with all kinds of different wattages, features and capabilities. They write the instructions so the most people get hot food. Feel free to experiment with lower power for a longer time. The directions used to be easier but the meals were cooked poorly. Hollow out the middle of whatever you're microwaving and it will work 100x better. Even if its just inside the tray, push the food to the outside. If you arrange your burritos or corndogs in a triangle or square they will cook perfectly under 3 minutes.
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Outpost22 posted:Apparently if that other thread is anything to go by, Burning Man. Burning Man late 90s / early 00s was completely legit, according to a bunch of friends and my old landlord. Burning Man in TYOOL 2023 seems to suck though
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What the gently caress is a WebP image, and why can't I google image search for anything and click-drag into Imgur. Getty images can go gently caress itself.
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Someone should figure out a p2p image share platform. A lot of people have enough bandwidth at home that dumb image macros could be entirely decentralized.
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Brain Curry posted:Based on the random waffleimages or random imgur threads this would lead to horrifying images being hosted on everyone’s computer Yes  honestly they could hash images across each user, so everyone seeds rando bits
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StrangersInTheNight posted:She doesn't post here anymore ofc, late 00s/early 10s SA ended up alienating a lot of our coolest creators. Sigh. SA forums circa 09/10' certainly qualified as something that got a lot shittier for no good reason. Forums are good now 
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Sears died because the VC vampires who bought it decided to do a lovely Jack Welsh impersonation and made every department compete against each other. So there was a very big incentive for an associate working in bedding to ring up your tire sale. Thats also why, at the end, there were some departments that still looked sorta OK, and some departments were just sheets hung from the ceiling.
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Armacham posted:Sir, this is a Carl's jr. Would you like some extra big rear end fries with that? I got a double western with crisscut fries and a chocolate shake a month or so ago, and it was over 20 dollars 
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Deep Glove Bruno posted:i just want somebody making a bunch of easily adjusted/converted drivetrain kits of various dimensions you and your idiot friend who has tools could stick in any dumbass car. There's a burgeoning cottage industry of drop-in conversions for Volkswagen stuff. Ya know, if you're cool rolling around with 15kw of lithium batteries in a car without airbags or antilock brakes redshirt posted:What did people do before plastic? When did the majority of products at the grocery store switch over? waxed paper and canvas bags, and I'm pretty sure plastic packaging is what enabled the invention of the modern grocery store. Buying all your foodstuff in one place is an extremely new, extremely North American thing
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