spaghettiwestern
@spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Missouri voters expanded paid sick leave. The Missouri Legislature undid it, and the repeal just took effect 4 weeks ago:
No matter where it appears to be on a map, Missouri is in the deep south.
- Comment on Anon tries running live USB Linux on his dad's computer 1 month ago:
This happened to me when I booted a friend’s computer from a live USB Mint stick. It took well an hour to find the correct password for her account and get Windows running again.
Not too long ago Microsoft deleted my Linux ext2 directory when I booted to Windows and ran Windows Update.
At this point I’m convinced Microsoft primary business is selling malware.
- Comment on Elon Musk’s Legacy Is Disease, Starvation and Death 4 months ago:
No post about the Nazi is complete without this.
- Comment on Canon requires an account to transfer images from your camera. Forces you to sign up using Chrome. 4 months ago:
So Chrome is sharing way more than the user agent with Canon? That’s just ridiculous. I hope someone with the time will take a good look about what information is being sent.
- Comment on Canon requires an account to transfer images from your camera. Forces you to sign up using Chrome. 4 months ago:
I’ve been running across sites that demand I use Chrome on PC too, a non-starter since Google “upgraded” Chrome to prevent adblock use. I’ve occasionally used User Agent Switcher for Firefox: addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/…/uaswitcher/. Works on both PC and phone.
- Comment on When I tell people I don't know the answer but where they can find it and they don't go and read where I told them to read. 4 months ago:
It was and I should have probably done the same.
- Comment on When I tell people I don't know the answer but where they can find it and they don't go and read where I told them to read. 4 months ago:
Who said anything about a debate?
- Comment on When I tell people I don't know the answer but where they can find it and they don't go and read where I told them to read. 4 months ago:
A few months ago a Lemmy user demanded sources for a comment I made. Since they literally could have found the information with less effort by a Google search I refused to do it for them. Other Lemmy users argued that I should be this lazy dope’s reference librarian, and another idiot actually did the Google search and posted the results.
People are astoundingly lazy and even Lemmy users want to be spoon-fed.
- Comment on When will all the folks complaining about loss of Snap and health insurance realize the GOP wants us to die and has ZERO empathy for fellow Americans? 4 months ago:
The lack of empathy is a conservative hallmark.
Elon Musk , “The fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy,”
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
The company used to have it set up so in order to set of an audio alert using “Find My Device”, you had to have that device in your hand and respond to a security prompt.
It is my firm belief that Google employees never use their own products.
- Comment on No more Bosch for me.. 6 months ago:
They must have changed the location demand it because of the complaints they were getting.
Mine has some features that aren’t available without the app, but I only really cared about the end of cycle signal and the refrigerator temperature. Zigbee sensors provide the same function without requiring an Internet connection.
- Comment on No more Bosch for me.. 6 months ago:
LG pulls some of this BS too. When I tried it a few years ago, the LG app required always-on precise location permission to function at all. The smart features on my washer and refrigerator also require them to always be connected to the Internet but those features were more limited that what Jeff describes. I was willing to allow the appliances Internet access from an isolated subnet, but there is no way I’m going to allow LG access to all of my phone’s location data just so I can run their crappy, barely functional app.
In Mexico Bosch is even more customer hostile. My Bosch water heater had to be replaced because Bosch discontinued the repair parts needed to fix it. It’s only 3 years old.
- Comment on Tried to watch The French Connection... 😠 7 months ago:
Even more infuriating, Amazon charges the same price for ad-free premium channels as stand-alone subscriptions. They then insert ads into that 3rd party content if you haven’t paid Amazon’s additional fee to remove ads from Amazon’s content. I’ll never again subscribe to anything through Amazon.
- Comment on Spotify Premium "Ad Free" plan 7 months ago:
It looks like Jellyfin + Mopidy will do the same thing as Spotify Connect which is my most used app/service. Will take a closer look. Thanks for the list.
- Comment on Spotify Premium "Ad Free" plan 7 months ago:
Looked at that and I think it will be an option in the near future, but right now Raspotify and Connect are hard to replace.
- Comment on Spotify Premium "Ad Free" plan 7 months ago:
Would have left Spotify a couple years ago if I could find an app with something Spotify Connect type functionality.
- Comment on Spotify Premium "Ad Free" plan 7 months ago:
Every other day.
- Submitted 7 months ago to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world | 69 comments
- Comment on This message will not go away unless I agree to their spyware. 8 months ago:
The Shelter app allows you to sandbox other apps:
www.makeuseof.com/shelter-sandbox-android-apps/
It’s no longer on Google Play (likely because it makes it a bit more difficult to track people) but can be found on Fdroid:
- Comment on How is this Amazon ad anything BUT a trick to get a 7 year old child to get their mitts on dad's phone and charge his credit card $13K in two clicks? 9 months ago:
I don’t think us mere mortals can hope to understand the mysteries of Amazon marketing services.
- Comment on So that's when I deleted my account 9 months ago:
Some problems with that:
- Companies routinely use more than one source address meaning I’m required to play whack-a-mole to maintain my filters.
- Setting up a content filter means wanted emails from other sources can be filtered out.
- The majority of users have absolutely no idea what a filter is.
- Comment on So that's when I deleted my account 9 months ago:
I had 2 of these just this week. Disney+ sent an ESPN ad with no way to unsubscribe, despite my having all marketing emails turned off. Their chat rep absurdly and laughably insisted it was not a marketing email, just a way to help people use their services.
Best Buy sent me a marketing ad with a $5 coupon (lol) attached and again no way to unsubscribe. All marketing emails were disabled with them too.
Both problems were easily solved by deleting my accounts.
- Comment on How is this Amazon ad anything BUT a trick to get a 7 year old child to get their mitts on dad's phone and charge his credit card $13K in two clicks? 9 months ago:
13K pesos, or about 650 dollars.
- Comment on Reddit Undeleted all my posts and comments 1 year ago:
I just checked and Reddit did the same with my account. I spent hours editing and ultimately deleting my posts and comments, and the Spez Gestapo just undeleted years worth of content… I’m going to go through them again and this time I’ll leave the gibberish.
- Comment on Artificial price increase so that you can post “discounts” on Prime Day 1 year ago:
80% of the items I considered had either jacked up the price prior to prime days, or advertised a large discount when the actual discount was tiny - a few percent. I ended up buying nothing. Amazon sucks.
- Comment on I’ve been locked out of PayPal for years because of their mistake 1 year ago:
Paypal locked my account after years of use for absolutely no reason. I never had a invalid charge, dispute, or any other kind of problem with it, just one day they decided to shut it down. They flatly refused to explain what was going on. With all the decent alternatives out there now there is no longer a reason to use their crappy service.
- Comment on Why do we have to do the health insurance company's job for them? 1 year ago:
It’s beyond belief, but insurance companies do the same thing to amputees.
- Comment on Why do we have to do the health insurance company's job for them? 1 year ago:
This is a feature, not a bug. We have all become unwilling, unpaid employees of every company in their pursuit of higher profits.
Corporations have discovered that there is no real downside (for them) when they don’t function. Customer satisfaction no longer has much of an impact on their profits because the few companies left in each sector are doing the exact same thing.
IMO this is yet another side effect of unchecked corporate power. It’s the same reason prices have risen so rapidly and corporate profits have reached 70 year highs. We are dealing with near monopolies and the billionaire class who created them. Until our government addresses the problem it’s not going to get any better.
In other words it’s not going to get better in our lifetimes.
- Comment on If you work for a gig app in the US they make you go thru this charade when doing taxes where you're treated and taxed as an independent business owner. joke country 1 year ago:
- Comment on I have to pay extra to remove ads from Prime Video 1 year ago:
True, we must all make sacrifices so Amazon’s profits can grow. Maybe their marketing department should call the increases a “Mandatory Donation for the Good of the World” to help us keep things in perspective.
