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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

The biggest problem I have with having to use Edge at my work is how it pushes bing (obviously) as the default search engine.

I swear it only becomes worse with time. Every query is now answered with that awful AI that is never, never on point. Seriously, it just pulls a bunch of random questions only vaguely related to your request and decides to list answers to those instead.

Of course this shit takes a whole screen before the actual search results show up. And at the bottom, just where all decent search engines put a "next page" button, instead they put a shortcut... to the AI crap again, back at the top of the page.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Podcast Republic is great, one of the few apps I've kept for years on my phone. I removed the ads ages ago, and I've even sent them an extra tip once in a while.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Usually most of my YouTube ads are for bullshit training programs (and I do mean bullshit, like pseudosciencey shit) or gambling.

Both are just at the edge of legality (I am pretty sure some cross it).

Except since last month, because now almost all are for that Scorsese movie. I mean, I don't mind being advertised that, but I've seen these ads so much that all they managed to do is make me hate it despite barely knowing anything about it.

Also, unskippable ads keep being longer. Now it's reached two 20-second ads interrupting even short-ish videos every 5 minutes or so.

So yeah, people, that's what YouTube looks like without an ad blocker now. Gee, I wonder why so many block them.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I've worked for a major international company and I was for a while the only maintainer of a shitty request form in an excel file, sent worldwide to hundreds of people. As they wanted more and more specific functions the stuff grew to thousands of unholy VBA code lines and a huge hidden sheet of data.

That thing even had a fully custom language switch function for all dozens of field labels and their possible values.

I kinda hope they're still using it (that wouldn't surprise me) and that their whole workflow will crash and burn when Microsoft finally kills VBA.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Grow? I only date natural octopod girls.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

Ideally you're not manually typing things like a wannabe hackerman.

i tried, but I couldn't rock that mullet.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You know all the jokes about getting usb's orientation right on first try, failing to push it in and trying the other way? Yeah, it was already worse than 50/50.

Honestly that connector always felt like shit. A tiny, easily identifiable mark/notch/whatever on both plug and port would have made it a lot better, even if it was still non-reversible.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 year ago

Image Credits: Bing Image Creator / Microsoft

Best part of the article.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Please, people, stop betraying your country to argue on the internet.

_ some disillusioned forum moderator

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Not sure he wanted to be a hacker, but saddest excuse for a spy in any case.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Only if by that you mean they're pretending to be a firm. The rest is genuine.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Do you mean that it's enough just to be on a microsoft account? On 10, I didn't technically do anything to exit that and I just have an annoying popup first time I'm using an unverified app. I can just allow them.

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