But then I’ll miss out on all the life-enriching ads!

95%?! That makes humans look good.

Good stuff. Best of luck with the hunt. Hope you find something you like!

Consider it a blessing and move on. It may not seem that way now, but it probably is.

Sony. Nope. It can be activated with a press, though never use it.

Tried a bunch and landed on Thunder. It’s minimalist, tucking away all its features nicely. It’s experience is like rif if you ever used that, but lots more going on in the Settings menu to set it up how you like.

It’s like getting into a car you haven’t driven before and you hit the wipers instead of the indicator ×1000. Or playing an FPS and E is now F, C is now Ctrl, X is Shift, and you tap+hold instead of tap. WHY?!?! You can remap, but suddenly there’s conflicting keys for shit the tutorial hasn’t even introduced to you yet, so you don’t know what you can or can’t get away with.

Some designer or dev has a personal opinion they think is better than everything else and now we all gotta live with it on the hopes that’ll be the new standard. And there’s so many of those arseholes and their DVORAK layouts and putting “Cancel” on the left and “Confirm” on the right of a dialogue popup. “I think it’s better this way and the world will thank my big brain!”

YES I’m ranting, lol.

I really don’t care about my OS UI since I’m barely actually using it, especially after a few minutes setting up one-click actions. Less than 1% of my time and effort on the computer.

Applications, on the other hand, is where I live and FUCKING HELL!!!

Sounds like your phone is top priority. Either clear it off the car or move her’s up to the top spot.

I tried to tell the computer to bugger a dataset the other day because apparently I can’t type Table.Buffer()

It’s not Uber, it’s “drivers” using group chats to co-ordinate surges and move from area to area.

Basically, big groups designate a part of town to collectively ignore. This means not enough drivers are there to handle the requests, so the surge kicks in to attract more drivers into the area with bigger fares. When the surge is on, they all come in, grab the inflated fares, drop off, and co-ordinate again for another area.

So when jobs aren’t being backed up, your trip would likely be $9. But if a big group is blocking the area, there’s enough of them in the group chat to influence prices.

Because they all use three or four ride share services, switching won’t help. They won’t risk missing the Uber.surge.when everyone decides it’s time to start pickups.

I use Power Thesaurus lol

The OED has never been free. Go buy a copy and you’ll know why.

A quick emoji can easily shift tone of text or be in place of a text action. But in general, one of my internet rules is; the more someone uses emojis, the dumber they are. Whether that be taking all the additional time to make themselves unintelligible, or trail their comment with two, three, or nineteen emojis, half of which are rofl faces 🤣🤣🤣👍👍🙏🤪🫳🎤✌️🚪

I feel like proprietary software is made by someone that left the company shortly after the project was finished. They never documented in the knowledge management system, so no other employee is able to continue with it.

Go for it. Dutch seems easy. I learned the chorus to Super Max! in like thirty minutes.

Been out of the game a long time. Is Wordpress still used heavily or are people shifting to other platforms? For all the easy power it had, it always required convincing to do what it wasn’t originally intended to do. Dunno if that’s still the case but seems it.

Oh, didn’t know. Guess they realise it’s bad PR. Can’t say I’ve ever had much more than mail drops.

Illegal in Australia. Obviously doesn’t stop scammers though, but most everything else.

That makes total sense else I’d be getting a lifetime Spotify sub for $100 and a $100 device thrown in as an unrelated bonus.