myliltoehurts
@myliltoehurts@lemm.ee
- Comment on I'm pretty sure all of us have given up on any boomer giving us anything anyway 11 hours ago:
I’m sure there is more to it but telling you she had kids so you can take care of her sounds pretty bad - even though I know it’s not uncommon.
I have had to have this talk with my parents as well since I moved to a different country at 19. I’ve told them to prepare for me not to be able to be around all the time, and luckily they have done that. It still feels selfish after so many years and they have been great about it, so I can understand this conversation being extremely difficult when the parents expect to be taken care of.
- Comment on We need a new Amazon 3 days ago:
I’d honestly pay a bit more to buy from better vendors. Price, options, shipping aren’t the things why I end up using Amazon mostly (despite not liking it).
It’s the fact that if I need to return something I just click 2 buttons and no questions asked a guy shows up at my door tomorrow to pick it up and my refund is back in my account by the evening.
If other vendors started doing that without all the caveats and conditions and such, I’d never look back.
- Comment on Microsoft and OpenAI are giving news outlets $10 million to use AI tools 1 month ago:
“If you get sued for the lies our AI pumped onto your website that we paid you for, it’s on you and nothing to do with us gl hf.”
- Comment on Steam's new disclaimer reminds everyone that you don't actually own your games, GOG moves in for the killshot: Its offline installers 'cannot be taken away from you' 2 months ago:
To install a game you have bought on steam you need the steam client, the steam servers, internet and your steam account. If any of those stops being available you can no longer install the games you have bought. So while you can play the games once installed without most of the above, you can lose access to your not currently installed games.
Also, on steam you purchase licenses to the games which they can revoke. I.e. if steam turned evil they could take away games from your library and you couldn’t do anything about it really.
Comparatively on GOG, you get a binary installer you can download and can keep forever without DRM so you don’t need anything else to install the game in the future, even if it disappeared from your GOG account for some reason, you could still install and play the game.
- Comment on I know what I got. No low balls 2 months ago:
Oh you’re right! It looks uh… different than what I’d expect melted cheese to be so I thought it was the bread being discoloured from sauce.
- Comment on I know what I got. No low balls 2 months ago:
Top it with some grated/melted cheese and it’s good to go.
- Comment on Risk of Rain creators Hopoo Games join Valve 3 months ago:
Except there is (of course) a mega thread on Reddit to get invites where people blindly invite anyone.
- Comment on Anon has a sketchy teacher 3 months ago:
Yep - although he definitely should get in trouble for flirting with students.
- Comment on Would you like a receipt? 4 months ago:
English is actually my second language - so thank you!
- Comment on Would you like a receipt? 4 months ago:
Of course this would exist lol
- Comment on Would you like a receipt? 4 months ago:
UK - tesco
- Comment on Would you like a receipt? 4 months ago:
I find this very annoying for groceries. My answer would always be no. But they installed this stupid system where your shopping cart wheels will randomly lock up as you’re walking out the door and the security person has to come unlock them, and it’s a pain if you don’t have a receipt.
So now I always press yes just in case I lose cart roulette…
- Comment on Leaky milk water cheese store bathroom. 4 months ago:
This is what you get when someone asks the question “how can we make the bathroom not only inaccessible to disabled people, but also a means to create more disabled people”?
And they really nailed the answer.
- Comment on McDonald's Experience by non McDonald's patron. 4 months ago:
Not OP but some stores have these hyper-sensitive scales you put your bag/scanned items on. They can be super annoying as tiny differences in the weight will lock up the entire thing and you need someone to unlock it again. E.g. if you didn’t start with all your bags already on it and you try to add a new bag. Or the area is full and you want to remove and already full bag. Or you nudged something with your leg while scanning the next item.
- Comment on McDonald's Experience by non McDonald's patron. 4 months ago:
The best thing is grocery stores where they have handheld scanners you can take with you in the store, you scan the item as you put it into your bag and on the way out you just scan the code on the self-service checkout and pay. Least effort possible, plus the scanner doesn’t have the “oh a speck of dust landed on the scales… obviously this means he’s trying to steal shit” issue.
- Comment on A supermarket trip may soon look different, thanks to electronic shelf labels 5 months ago:
I get the convenience part so the staff doesn’t have to go around do it by hand, but it just seems infeasible to do it for the other examples mentioned.
E.g. you go in, pick up item listed for $10, finish shopping in 20 mins, item now costs $15 at till… probably leave it (so now the staff has to re-shelf it) and start shopping at a place that is not trying to scam you.
For the other example, if there are a few packs of something expiring and they reduce the price for all the items on the shelf, everyone will just take the ones which have a reasonable shelf life left leaving the expiring ones.
Both of these just seem stupid.
- Comment on Name of (sandbox?) game set on space 8 months ago:
X4? Its on steam but for the rest, maybe? (Or previous iterations)
- Comment on Am I the only one who's "shorts" feed is all basically softcore porn? 8 months ago:
For me, there are 2 specific things that annoy me to no end with it. 1 is my guilty pleasure, I love watching hour long videos from Asian channels where they just film restaurants or bakeries making food in large batches. Honestly, youtube seems to actively remove them from my feed. I have to search for them every 2 weeks despite watching this content at least weekly. The second is the opposite. At Christmas I searched for a video of a fireplace with music to put on as ambient background for dinner. My feed is chock full of 8+ hour music playlists now despite never having looked at another one. It’s been 4 months.
I don’t know what it is but i swear they have content they like showing you and content they dont like. If you want the former your experience will be OK. If you want the latter then they just decide you’re wrong and still get the former.
- Comment on Am I the only one who's "shorts" feed is all basically softcore porn? 8 months ago:
Yeah the YouTube algorithm is one of the worst recommendations engines I have seen tbh. It actively removes types of videos I repeatedly search for from my recommendations, and fills it with garbage I never watch.
But in the case of op it looks like a 100% horny content ratio which seems excessive, even for yt.
- Comment on Am I the only one who's "shorts" feed is all basically softcore porn? 8 months ago:
Mine isn’t like that but there can be a few reasons I’d guess at:
- YouTube recommends you things other people in your household watch (which can extend to random people if your isp uses cnat and doesn’t give you an individual ip).
- This one is more of a guess, but I’d assume a lot of people would click on that content, so if you never watch shorts maybe their algorithm just gives you the default recommendations.
- If you watch adult content without protecting your privacy it’s most likely associated with your account in their recommendations.
- Comment on Public satisfaction with NHS falls to lowest level on record 8 months ago:
I’ve started seeing private health insurance on job adverts as a benefit more and more as well recently… Which feels alarmingly US-like as well.
- Comment on Public satisfaction with NHS falls to lowest level on record 8 months ago:
That could be part of the reason, but the NHS has rapidly deteriorated over the course of the last 5ish years. It used to be pretty decent not so long ago, and our taxes didn’t exactly drop. So while most public healthcare systems get strained over time due to the aging population problem, it shouldn’t be this drastic.
The pandemic has surely strained it, but it doesn’t feel like it’s on the path to recovery, more like circling the drain.
The 2 more obvious things (to me) as far as the reasons go: an absolutely malicious government - who would sell us all for meat if they could - with little competition and brexit (courtesy of said government)
- Comment on My RuneScape inspired indie fitness MMORPG WalkScape is looking for more beta testers 9 months ago:
Some are very easy depending on how the game works (at least on android). E.g. when pokemon go came out you could just go to developer settings (in android settings) and change your location to wherever you wanted.
Another super easy one is changing the time to get around timegated games.