me

but I choose not to pay for it anymore because the product is less convenient than alternative methods

why not? they’re beholden to the shareholders. what do the shareholders care about safety?

but some of us are willing to take the hit, and you sure as fuck shouldn’t shame them for that, just like people who can’t swing it shouldn’t be shamed for buying what they can afford

thank you for your service

I’m disappointed by how some grocery stores are still giving so much frontage to US products

what what term do people use for tweets on shitter now? just “posts”?

what the fuck? I had no idea about this. I never opted into this.

Golf with Friends, maybe?

also Screencheat

one of the programs that we use everyday at work recently added an AI coding tool. I was going to announce it to the team when I noticed with the usual disclaimers about ensuring you know what the macros are doing, but then just deleted my message.

we’re not a team of programmers, and there’s only one or two people on my team that I would trust to write code that could potentially cause us days of rework and tons of thousands of dollars lost to the company.

those other people don’t need an AI coding tool, because they can’t code in the first place, and those aren’t the people that I want modifying thousands of files at once when I know that they barely review the work they’re doing manually already and I have tools in place to semi-automate that review for them.

that’s fine, I’ll just stop flying. plenty for me to do that doesn’t require it.

okay so I guess I’m not flying Delta

well duh

so quit

oh god yeah that’s annoying af

a surprisingly low amount of people are recognizing it

sure, recall the ban. let the market decide.

hopefully Canadians will continue not buying american stuff, and there won’t be a business case to stock it

it’s disappointing seeing conservatives complain about him being too liberal while he does a bunch of conservative shit and then they say he stole conservative ideas and complain about that, then go back to complaining about him being a liberal

what brand is that?

good to acknowledge when companies actually improve products rather than just enshittifying them

to be fair, the scale of pretty much any global industry is incomprehensible to most people

you forgot the $10K in labour to handle the backups

changes everything on that $19M budget!

I haven’t used other streaming boxes lately, but I find this hard to believe, mainly because of the shitty AppleTV remote with the godawful touchpad that everybody decided to implement different gestures for and which is notoriously difficult to gesture properly with and only when intended to

otherwise, I do agree that the AppleTV itself is quite polished. I use it for any streaming services that I may have, which is not many lately but was quite a few in the past, Plex, and YouTube primarily. also used to do some Zwift on it before I changed to using an iPad.

besides the absolutely horrible remote that for some reason doesn’t have actual buttons for arrows and confirm, the rest of the experience actually is quite good and generally anything that is not is to do with the apps themselves. for example, Sportsnet is just a fucking terrible app no matter what platform you’re on.

makes total sense short term. makes little sense long term.

it’s not just google

for the past year or so I’ve been telling people that DDG is so much better as it actually returns the results you’re looking for, which Google stopped doing. except in the past few months, the same thing is happening there now too.

I don’t know if it’s fuckery with the search engines, people gaming SEO, ads, or if it’s just the sheer quantity of shit that’s on the internet now, but it’s at least half of the time now that I go to search something and it’s not in the top half dozen results. and sometimes I can’t even find it at all, despite knowing that it definitely exists out there.