stealth_cookies

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[–] stealth_cookies@lemmy.ca 24 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

This is pretty minor on the scale of enshittification that it happening in pretty much every tech product, but stuff like this is just an example of features being added so someone at the company can point to "improving" the product (so they can point to it during raise or promotion time), because it is safer for kids ignoring that it degrades user experience for a large portion of the customer base.

Unfortunately we've lost our attitude that parents should actually parent and supervise their children. So instead they force everyone to deal with it.

[–] stealth_cookies@lemmy.ca 19 points 5 days ago

This isn't new though, I landed after a long flight last year and had a notification asking me to confirm rebooking to another flight because mine was delayed.

Turns out that no the flight wasn't delayed and luckily I mentioned it when dropping my bag because a person had to sort it out for me and rebooked me back on my original flight that was on time. So now I don't trust the technology at all.

[–] stealth_cookies@lemmy.ca 34 points 1 week ago

Nope, I've long worked in designing for North American electronics manufacturing, it's still manual. We just outsource as many of those sub assemblies as possible to cheaper countries and design things with as few fasteners as possible.

That really is the least of the worries, there just isn't the manufacturing infrastructure for all the raw material and individual parts, manufacturing those parts just isn't feasible to do at a reasonable cost or schedule outside of Asia. China is still popular not due to cost, they are no longer cheapest, but because they have the infrastructure in place.

[–] stealth_cookies@lemmy.ca 25 points 2 weeks ago

Obsessive apologizing makes a person appear not confident in themselves. If it is a person I care about I want them to be confident in themselves.

Additionally the more you repeat something the less meaning it has. So if someone apologizes too much for things that really don't necessitate an apology when they have something they genuinely need to show remorse for and apologize for the apology holds less meaning.

[–] stealth_cookies@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 weeks ago

Some crappy product manager found some agreeable "tech enthusiasts" and/or worded their research questions in such a way that made it seem like this would be a net positive to the sales/profit of the product.

The engineers who had to design this terrible product were probably making jokes about it all the time.

[–] stealth_cookies@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I don't see how this could be worse than the current Gmail search. I have to use the sync tool to Outlook for my work email because outlook's search is so much better.

[–] stealth_cookies@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Vivaldi if you really need a Chromium based browser.

[–] stealth_cookies@lemmy.ca 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Much business oriented software just hasn't had the work done on it to work on Wine. Really the only reason I have to run Windows now is the 3D CAD software I use and my best option at this point is running it in a Windows VM on my server. And no Freecad and Fusion360 aren't suitable options, they both suck.

[–] stealth_cookies@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Spotify Connect is a feature I use extensively that nobody else even comes close to doing as well (even though the Spotify implementation leaves much to be desired). Why does nobody else support controlling the player on my PC from another computer?