I was considering buying a switch 2 for a couple of the exclusives, despite my prior beliefs, but this confirms that I shouldn’t have even considered it

fuck you Nintendo, stop disrespecting me as a customer

I’ve gotten this shit from all sorts of people (note: I am not in software dev)

I just repeat my question until they either answer it or fuck off without me doing whatever they wanted me to do, because no I’m not going to waste my time with your half finished work

yeah, so don’t quit. just do the bare minimum and collect a paycheque. it’s just treating them how they’re treating you, it’s fair

it must be entirely coincidental that employee performance dropped by 10% across the board

plain firefox and an outdated pihole

site is dead with adblock, before anyone bothers to visit it

shitty website = downvote

I’m both quiet and loud about it

I was pleasantly surprised to learn recently that a bunch of my friends have also removed most american products from their lives. one friend just buys whatever suits his needs, and moves on. but most of the rest of us in that group have made a conscious choice to not buy american products and/or choose Canadian products instead, without it impacting our lives in any noticeable negative way (cost, availability, quality, etc)

I think the largest impact this has had on me is that the closest grocery store to me has a shitty selection of pickles, it’s still half Bick’s and I’d rather not have pickles than buy american pickles

I’m gonna ride this one out because how much is it going to matter to me in ten years, but if I had time and were more prepared I’d probably be rebalancing and then taking like half my funds that would hold this and selling to buy the major underlying holdings directly. even if just to make a point with what comparatively little money I have.

and not just for microslop products, but all megacorp products.

what one of them does reflects on the rest of them. if they wanted to, they could have lobbied for fair regulation. they didn’t, or didn’t succeed.

why would I care to?

bye

true, I always forget that

scales back?

I just got an update that puts a persistent copilot overlay in the corner of Excel, blocking my cells. and the same update seems to have added a context menu that shows up on left click on a squiggle word in Word, which again blocks my document unnecessarily. I use neither of these features. I want neither of these features. I want to use the fucking program to do my goddamn work

only the porn that republican politicians were caught looking at, though

except for the CP, obviously

disagree. I have an expectation of not having my dick being recorded when I’m pissing in a urinal in a public washroom

that’s probably why they put an actual value in the title preceding it

I cannot upvote a paywalled source

yes, blurring the article if you don’t disable ad blocking is a paywall

just like headlights that are so bright that they blind everybody in front of them

I never feel safer than when I’m approaching the crest of a hill on a corner with a 15-ft deep rocky ditch to either side at 80 km/h on a narrow road with almost no shoulder and I can see the night sky lit up in front of me like it’s a football stadium because the car on the other side of the hill has LED high beams on. Then we reach the point where we can see each other’s headlights, and I am flash banged from the intensity going directly into my squinting eyes. I see a barely discernible flash as their auto-highbeams recognize that I am a vehicle and it switches to low beams, which are the exact same intensity and still going directly into my eyeballs, except now it’s not lighting up the night sky as well as the treetops.

I turn my own LED highbeams* on in response in an attempt to see some of the road in front of me so that I can avoid the ditch, and I steer towards the middle of the road where there is only a chance of danger instead of guaranteed danger from driving off the road. Hopefully the other driver sees me well enough to avoid me if I get too close to center or even go over the line.

We complete the pass, my night vision returns over the next 30 seconds, and I start saying a small prayer thanking God for how safe I was kept during that interaction, but I am interrupted by the exact same scenario happening on the next hill.

• I installed LED highbeams bulbs just for this reason, trying to see when somebody is blinding me. I only use them in this situation because my halogen low beams are enough for all other driving conditions that I find myself in. I disabled the DRL module so that the LED bulbs don’t come on unless high beams are on.

spell check probably “helped” them

it does that shit to me all the fucking time nowadays. I’ll write a perfectly fine and appropriate word for the context, and spell check will just change it out for the wrong spelling or just completely the wrong fucking word. it sucks now. probably driven by AI or something.

yep. hate and despise are accurate words for this

and tbf, I hate and despise a good number of my own countryfolk as well. it’s disgusting how many don’t give a fuck about other people

lane keep isn’t exactly self driving