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Cake day: August 16th, 2024

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  • Right?! I love the people giving ‘help’ on how to launch the terminal in other ways, lol, but, this was the worst of them.

    This isn’t OOP saying “OMG! For terminal specifically, Windows is making it so difficult for me! Please, someone, show me another way to get to the terminal! Bonus points if you can be a jerk while doing so!” It’s them saying “Windows start menu search is fucking broke as hell and here is an example”

    Saying that people are ‘cringe’ for expecting the search to work isn’t helpful at all (people giving tips on other ways to get to programs though, yeah, that can be helpful to try and help others work around MS breaking basic functionality). This is functionality that has been in Windows since Windows 7 and has been in every OS with a GUI that I’ve used for a really long time … expecting it to work isn’t absurd in the least.

    Can’t we all just join together in our disappointment/hatred of the Start Menu Search functionality and the enshittification of the OS in general rather than having to try and make it into a “I’m so much better than you because I do this in a power user way”? Especially when that power user way isn’t even useful for a lot of applications!


  • It’s like on my old Nvidia SHIELD, an update rolled in and all of a sudden there are ads on the homepage. Some people were ok with TV/movie ads being on a TV/movie device, but, why the hell would I want ads for content only available on services that I don’t have? If they’d at least only given me ads for the services it knew I was subscribed to, I would have at least been less pissed off since it could have been useful.

    Reached out to Nvidia and they say there isn’t anything they can do, it’s built that way by Google. By no means do I just blindly accept that that was accurate, but, it’s still bullshit that with a basic update all of a sudden the nature of my device was completely changed (imo) and I’m expected to just suck it up or work around it with 3rd party launchers that weren’t as polished.

    Dunno if it’s gotten better/worse in the last couple years, mine died and I elected to not replace it with another Android device.









  • Yeah, but MP was very obviously a “designed for Enshittification” company when they were charging like $20 for unlimited movies in a month and paying out full price for movie tickets that in my area were around $16 … if I used it twice they lost a lot of money. Hell, if I used it 3x in 2 months they still lost money.

    For my family, it was very much a “this isn’t going to last, enjoy it while you can” program…

    It did definitely show that people not going to movies isn’t a shift in people’s enjoyment at theaters and is instead very clearly a cost issue. Price it appropriately and people will be back in the seats. Price it too high and they’ll just wait the 3 months until it comes out on streaming/disc or just completely forget about it altogether

    Just my $.02

    ETA: You’re willing to overlook sticky floors or whatever at a $5 matinee, you’re not going to overlook it paying nearly $20 and the nicer chairs are now an expectation and not just a ‘value add’, so that’s not enough!




  • It’s supposed to be a place to showcase art, not a free place to advertise for your store.

    The dude(ette) didn’t even post a link though from what I can see, so, the reaction is insane.

    Print on demand is easy, so, I’d think any artist who’s showing off their work online should have a printer that they’ve run off a few test prints with already ready to go, in case people are interested enough to ask about purchases, but, I’m not trying to moderate a magazine/community and prevent it from being a giant advertisement, so, ::shrug::




  • Yeah, I had a overall bad experience with everything being buggy and then even devices that weren’t connected to tailscale would start trying to ping the tailnet address instead of the local (wasn’t using their funky bridge subnets feature or whatever it’s called, so I don’t know why it would happen).

    Their magicDNS is cool in theory but caused me nothing but problems. Once I turned off their DNS and set up my own DNS server for it though, it’s gotten to basically be as seamless as they claim it’s supposed to be from the start. I’m no longer having any issues with it at all.