Showroom7561
@Showroom7561@lemmy.ca
- Comment on If you shop by unit prices, double check the math! 7 hours ago:
If it’s a “bug” that they are actively profiting from, likely for years, it’s probably a feature! LOL
- Comment on If you shop by unit prices, double check the math! 15 hours ago:
Second item is 1KG.
- Comment on If you shop by unit prices, double check the math! 15 hours ago:
We usually get 100% peanuts, which can go… Dry.
- Comment on If you shop by unit prices, double check the math! 22 hours ago:
If you’re shopping by weight, you’re probably not getting either of these. You’re getting those massive jars that are like 15lbs, and come in almost mini barrels.
I tend to buy the max size that my family can reasonably eat before the item goes bad. 2kg is the largest size at this store, but I think anything larger would just be impractical, and I KNOW FOR 10000% FACT that my wife would just drop something heavier on the ground. LOL
Also, unrelated, but WHY are you getting creamy when EXTRA CRUNCHY exists?
I was looking for 100% peanuts in the crunchy variety!
- Comment on If you shop by unit prices, double check the math! 22 hours ago:
Top one is 2kg (single unit) and the bottom is sold as a 1 kg single unit, or 2 / $12 (2 x 1kg), which is STILL not a better value than the top one! LOL
- Comment on If you shop by unit prices, double check the math! 22 hours ago:
I was actually looking for 100% peanut butter, but this discrepancy caught my eye, and it really bothered me because I almost always ignore the product price and compare items by unit price. Now I’m second guessing everything they list!
- Comment on If you shop by unit prices, double check the math! 22 hours ago:
Not sure if you’re Canadian, but we have a brand called “President’s Choice”… oh god.
- Submitted 1 day ago to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world | 47 comments
- Comment on The fact that this is a real image is infuriating 1 day ago:
I refuse to believe this is real.
But if it is, here’s to hoping a time traveler from the futures saves us all before things really go Fourth Reich.
- Comment on Hulu quizzing about the ads played 2 days ago:
These companies are insufferable.
- Comment on My main use of ai. 4 days ago:
Man, before “AI” became a marketing gimmick,
Samsung Note devices allowed you to use the S-pen to circle text and extract it.
I remember using this feature at least a decade ago!
- Comment on Google is now forcing gemini in their gmail app 5 days ago:
Gemini: “I can’t help you! I only work here!”
- Comment on "Family Size" has no meaning anymore 6 days ago:
Family sized, if your a single parent with no kids 😂
- Comment on The Top 3 Apps in my Country (Venezuela) are all VPNs... 1 week ago:
I wonder how much of that ‘education’ is from ads and influencers constantly pushing VPNs. LOL
- Comment on The Top 3 Apps in my Country (Venezuela) are all VPNs... 1 week ago:
I wonder if people know why they are downloading and using a VPN. Especially when you’re talking about the more sketchy ones.
- Comment on We got several more inches of snow last night after getting over seven a few days ago. I went to my local newspaper's website to find out if there was anything I should know. This was their top story. 1 week ago:
My local online newspaper constantly has articles (sponsored articles) about casinos and gambling.
The enshittification of news really accelerated over the last several years.
- Comment on U.S. drivers lost 42 hours—a full work week—to traffic in 2023: Congestion 'hinders economic growth,' expert says 1 week ago:
I hate how they frame it as a “full work week lost”.
No, this was “time with family” lost, “time to better your health” lost, “time to focus on mental health” lost…
Also, being in a car for that long (instead of using a more active form of transportation), likely results in time lost off their lifespan, too.
- Comment on Why do AI bros and other staunch AI defenders seem happy about the potential of killing off the creative industries? 1 week ago:
What would be the point of AI replacing people to create art?
The essence of art is that it came from the mind and talent (or skill) from another human being. It’s a thread connecting our humanity through time and space.
No one will be looking back at AI art the same way we look back hundreds or thousands of years at paintings, sculptures, musical compositions, or even real photographs.
We might enjoy some AI generated content for the novelty, but it’s soulless.
- Comment on There's fucking ads in board games now 1 week ago:
Unless that company is operating at a loss, ads in things you pay for are there to further make excess profits.
It’s unethical at best.
- Comment on This message will not go away unless I agree to their spyware. 3 weeks ago:
I had quite a few services with them, and ditched them all. They’ve been giving me plenty of incentive to ditch this one last account, so that’ll be on my 2025 todo list!
- Comment on This message will not go away unless I agree to their spyware. 3 weeks ago:
In the “Manage Preferences” screen, I only get one option “Targeting”, which is already disabled.
This message will come up EVERY TIME I open the app, unless I enable the targeting toggle. Doing so means that my “browsing activity on our apps and websites will be collected by us and by third party companies that we select… This information may also be used to build a profile of your interests, to personalize your content and present you with relevant offers, including on third party sites.”
They literally force me to be annoyed now, or later when my “profile” becomes weaponized against me.
- Submitted 3 weeks ago to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world | 34 comments
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Do all those things, but do a really terrible job. If he wants it done better, he can do them himself!
If and when you can leave, RUN and don’t look back. I’m sorry that you have to live with such an asshole.
- Comment on Not enough people buying Premium, eh? 3 weeks ago:
The funny thing is, I’m nearly certain that it’s opt-in for their benefit (i.e. legal reasons) and not because it benefits the content creator, because it really doesn’t benefit the content creator at all! “Here’s my work. Do what you like with it, and don’t worry about paying.”.
- Comment on Not enough people buying Premium, eh? 3 weeks ago:
And if you’re a content creator, you can opt in to allow your content to be used by AI… Without compensation. 🤡
- Comment on Amazon: The same 31 products you don't want, again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again 4 weeks ago:
As long as you can run the adguard browser extension in a mobile browser, then you can add new elements to block.
But if that’s not an option, you can create those rules on a desktop browser, then add them to Adguard on mobile (the app, not the browser extension).
As long as you have the rules in a filter list, it’ll work anywhere. These amazon specific sanitation rules may already be available on public adblocking lists, and in that case, they could work regardless of the adblocking app being used.
- Comment on Fear of job loss hits its highest point in years—but workers won’t accept less than $81,000 4 weeks ago:
As if sitting at a desk all day doesn’t destroy your body.
It does. Which is why a standing desk is better, if you’re at a screen all day.
And if you can get a standing desk with a treadmill, then it’s peak health.
There are so many ways to make a desk job less terrible.
- Comment on Amazon: The same 31 products you don't want, again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again 4 weeks ago:
I’m using Adguard, but most will have element blocking as a feature.
Basically, I select “block ads on this website”, and I click on the element. A small box comes up where I can fine tune the selected element (I usually do this to get cleaner results), then I preview and confirm the setting.
I’m able to then take that filter, and use it pretty much anywhere else that I use adguard (Android phone, another computer, etc.). It’s awesome.
But like I said, most adblockers will have this feature, including the popular ublock origin. It might just be under a different name.
You can do this for any website :)
- Comment on Amazon: The same 31 products you don't want, again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again 4 weeks ago:
I’ve custom tailored my Amazon experience using my adblocker to delete pretty much any element that doesn’t serve me.
This includes any and all ads, “recommended” items, “customers also bought…” listings, banners for their business account, and anything that isn’t specifically relevant to the item I’m looking at.
I can’t image using it vanilla. They’d lose my business.
- Comment on Fear of job loss hits its highest point in years—but workers won’t accept less than $81,000 4 weeks ago:
I thought a lot of people have to accept a fair amount lower than this.
I mean, they could accept lower, but then they’d be homeless and starving but still employed, so they can’t get any benefits.
Not really a choice they’d willingly want to make.
