Mildly Infuriating
- I was explaining to my daughter about the differences between Gimp and Photoshop and saw that Adobe had a page that claimed to compare the two. It never compares the two. It barely mentions Gimp.www.adobe.com Photoshop vs. Gimp - Adobe
Learn what makes Adobe Photoshop the industry-standard photo editing workspace and how it differs from open source editing tools like Gimp.
I expected ridiculous propaganda from Adobe, but they give absolutely no reasons why Photoshop is better than Gimp and list a bunch of things that Gimp can do too.
They only mention Gimp a few times at the top and they never mention it again after:
> How is Photoshop different from Gimp?
They ask a question they literally never answer.
They could have lied, they could have stretched the truth, they could have brought up the paltry number of things Photoshop does that Gimp can't. They never do. They never say what Gimp can or can't do.
Like I said, I expected ridiculous propaganda. I didn't expect them to just pretend Gimp doesn't exist in their article about Gimp.
- I’ve been locked out of PayPal for years because of their mistake
About 3 or 4 years ago PayPal added the option to buy cryptocurrency, which I thought I’d try. (Dumb idea 🙄)
Part of the sign up process was glitched. I retried and clicked submit one too many times, I guess. Now I’ve been unable to use PayPal for years. They blocked me because THEIR SITE was broken, but the web page essentially accuses me of being a criminal and asks for my bank records. No way in hell.
This was just for me to pay others. I can only imagine how awful PayPal is if you are a vendor.
Fuck PayPal.
- Trying to buy right size bicycle wheel online
Needed a replacement 700C front wheel for my commuter bike after the old aluminum rim exploded like a looney tunes cannon. It's hard enough to find the right size when there are 3 competing tire/rim sizing systems currently in use, it doesn't help when the people selling the wheels have no idea what the numbers mean either! All of these examples are from separate storefronts at the big online store. Ended up buying the wheel identical to mine from my local bicycle shop at the same price as online and with no shipping fee or delivery time.
The 3 systems in use are the American customary inch fraction notation like
26x1+3⁄4
(which is NOT interchangeable with American customary inch decimal notation like26x1.75
), the French metric notation like650x45C
, and the ISO 5775 metric notation like47-571
. I found the wikipedia conversion tables and Sheldon Brown's tire size chart invaluable. - So I got hit with Microsoft's Windows 11 nag screen...
... as explained here.
Basically Microsoft presents this "incredible" product, and then says in the same breath: "Oops, not for your current setup. Maybe you should consider buying a new PC?"
Really!? 😠
If only Linux were ready for mainstream use...
- I don't appreciate that.
I also don't appreciate that apparently my opinion doesn't matter, since "I'm not a resident of the EU" is a required field.
Which it of course is because they want to get past common sense EU regulations restricting their ability to infest people's devices with malware.
- Has Anyone Ever?
ETA:
I do mine through dns @router, and I won't be arsed to kludge that for the privilege....
- A fresh install of Signal takes up 410MB, blowing both Firefox and Chromium out of the water
... and I can't even continue the chat from my phone.
- I cannot make any post/comment containing the string [slash]etc[slash]passwd on lemmy.world
When I try to submit a post or comment containing the string [slash]etc[slash] passwd, the submit button goes into a loading state and spins indefinitely. The request is blocked by Cloudflare with status code 403. I can't even search for the forbidden string. You have to check dev tools to find out what went wrong, this error is not handled in the UI at all.
So, if you've ever tried to reply to a tech issue and the UI just won't let you, maybe this is why.
- Nightly build downloads officially only available in discord - New Vegas Reloaded
https://dlpnd.github.io/nvr-wiki/docs/Installation/
```Downloads
New Vegas Reloaded is officially available for download via Discord.
There are many other versions floating around the interwebs but it's HIGHLY recommended you use the latest nightly build, downloaded from the TES Reloaded Discord. ```
I'll point out, this site is hosted on GitHub, which distributes builds, and has build infrastructure....
Why are builds going through discord???!?! Insane
- I signed up to get deals via text message. What I got was a text to check out a message on social media?
What the heck Sticker Mule
- Windows just changed my desktop wallpaper and re-added the search bar without my permission after an update
In my view, this is unacceptable...
They changed my background (previously there was a default blue window), placed an icon in the bottom corner of the screen that read "Learn more about this photo", and re-added the search bar that I had previously removed.
Fortunately, I don't have to deal with this on a daily basis.
- Anyone else have this happen after grabbing a coffee?
I grab a cup coffee from a shop and it's ruined because the barista is wearing cologne or perfume that inevitably has gotten on the cup and it's all I can smell when I take a sip. I guess 2 things, this means 1 they haven't thoroughly washed their hands, and 2 I can't drink the coffee because it smells so bad and I have to throw it out. Not sure why, but I haven't had this happen with any other type of food/drink, just coffee.
- "Optimizing"
Just because a 3060ti is technically capable of ray tracing doesn't mean I want you to keep turning it on every time the driver gets an update.
- "Select a size" when it's just standard paper towel roll. Literally the same way it's always been.
Wow! New feature! Now you can CHOOSE how many paper towels you grab from the roll!
- Discord: Have you lost access to your email? no worries, just regain access to it!
I would have expected them to ask me to message them, in order to resolve the issue of not having access to my old email. Instead, they assume that I still have access to it, by simply contacting my email provider!
If I could do that, I wouldn't have lost access to it through would I?
- trying to log it to a homework website.
if i search on the internet, nothing seems to help for error code 600010. though its the last real day.
edit: brave for some reason fixed it.
- No, I don't want to design a logo for a coffee shop in fucking skype.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/16043675
> No, I don't want to design a logo for a coffee shop in fucking skype. > > Every app has to have fucking AI now for some reason.
- Best Buy Membership "discount"
So I was shopping with my wife today and I said "oh let's see if my membership helps out." So we went and added the same item to each of our carts, and to our surprise, the total was the same! So what is it exactly that I'm paying for in this membership if the items "original price" is higher for me than it is for regular shoppers?
- Jefferson Davis birthday is a state holiday in Alabama, Florida, and Mississippi.www.timeanddate.com Jefferson Davis' Birthday 2024 in the United States
Jefferson Davis’ Birthday, also known as Jefferson Davis Day, commemorates the birthday of Jefferson Davis, Confederate leader during the American Civil War and the president of the Confederacy.
GREAT JOB EVERYONE ELSE!
- Usernames in the Fedivers 😫
Why can you never change your username in Mastodon, Lemmy or Peertube? Is it a condition introduced by ActivityPub or a forgotten feature?
- I'm really annoyed by how much Brave Search is pushing AI
I've been using Brave Search supplemented by Startpage for the past 2+ years. When I search for something, I want to get results for credible webpages, not a summary of unknown quality. I liked the previous AI inclusion because it was instant, didn't take up much space, and I could quickly navigate to the websites referenced in it, but with the new feature it takes up more space, is slower, and not really what I want out of a search engine.
As soon as the feature was rolled out I disabled it in settings, but the AI button stays visible, I get autocomplete specifically for Answer with AI and I get frequent notifications to try out the new AI feature. An opt-out toggle should not mean that I still am pestered to use the feature I opted out of.
This is really annoying, and I'm probably going to end up switching to Startpage or SearXNG or something.
- McDonald's is getting rid of self-serve drinks and some locations may charge for refillswww.cbsnews.com McDonald's is getting rid of self-serve drinks and some locations may charge for refills
McDonald's is transitioning away from self-serve beverage stations and some locations may start to charge for refills that were once free.
- It's incredibly ironic that ChatGPT constantly asks me to verify that I'm not a bot
Literally every single time I try open their app, I get asked to click the button again to verify that I am indeed human.
On top of that, it doesn't always work for some mysterious reason, occasionally it ends up short circuiting and looping for a while before showing me the prompt again, and only lets me in on the second or third attempt.
I do realize that since I AM using a VPN to access it, I might be seeing this prompt more frequently than others, but many other sites use the same CloudFlare protection mechanism and I have yet to see one that shows me the prompt as frequently as OpenAI does.
Just thought it's funny because it's literally a bot asking me to verify that I'm not a bot.
- Corporate astroturfing is the norm
Went to Google Play to complain about Hulu. I noticed Google advertising that over 300 reviews had the verbatim quote "watch and movies that you love". It's always confusing that buggy corporate apps have >95% 5 star reviews until you see that the majority are just completely fake, and no one cares or is doing anything about it.
- When you have to use multiple browsers because one place doesn't work
I use ProtonMail as my primary e-mail client. For some reason, I cannot get to ProtonMail to verify an e-mail that I used to register elsewhere. I keep getting the hourglass on Firefox. So I go a try Chrome and it's the same deal.
Of all of the browsers, Microsoft Edge immediately got me there whereas before hand, Firefox didn't have a problem. But it seems like today, it decided to shit the bed as well as Chrome on getting me to a place I regularly log into every day of the week.
I don't get it and it's stupidly frustrating at times. This is applicable for when things you've used for so long just stop working.
- Nature Valley: 10 bars in 5 packs
I was in a rush and I needed to pick up a quick snack that I could eat during class. I chose these Nature Valley bars which said they had ten bars inside. What I failed to notice is the tiny print at the bottom where it says 5 x 2, i.e., 5 packets with two bars.
Lo and behold when I open a pack during a break, I find two bars inside. I didn't want to eat two bars, just one. You can't even just leave the other fucking bar inside because they create so MANY crumbs. How the fuck are you supposed to seal it???
Stupid-ass deceptive printing got the better of me. It's not the end of the world, just mildly infuriating.