The Google/YouTube thing is 50x the clusterfuck the Yahoo/Flickr thing was.
― pplains, Thursday, 20 June 2013 13:49 (ten years ago) link
My main problem with the Yahoo/Flickr thing was that I could never remember my Yahoo ID or password because it's fucking Yahoo and I hadn't used it since 2002.
― carl agatha, Thursday, 20 June 2013 14:50 (ten years ago) link
The company i work for switched all corporate e-mail accounts to gmail so half the time i don't even know if i'm using my work ID or my personal ID for stuff that isn't e-mail. Not that i'd ever use it, but my Google circles / Google + stuff is half music journalists / Serbian popstars and half managing directors of language schools all mixed up together.
― О боже, какой мужчина (ShariVari), Thursday, 20 June 2013 15:02 (ten years ago) link
My main problem with the Yahoo/Flickr thing was that I could never remember my Yahoo ID or password because it's fucking Yahoo and I hadn't used it since 2002.― carl agatha, Thursday, June 20, 2013 7:50 AM (57 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― carl agatha, Thursday, June 20, 2013 7:50 AM (57 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
^^
― schwantz, Thursday, 20 June 2013 15:49 (ten years ago) link
yeah that was super confusing and annoying for a short period during the switch over.
― educate yourself to this reality (sunny successor), Thursday, 20 June 2013 15:59 (ten years ago) link
Google/YouTube thing is the worst but the most awful part is that it puts your google profile pic under the video, at the top of the comments, so at a glance it looks like you wrote all that stupid shit
― kinder, Thursday, 20 June 2013 16:46 (ten years ago) link
Jeff managed to disconnect the YouTube account from my name, thankfully.
The time will soon come when I ditch Gmail altogether and it will be a glorious day.
― carl agatha, Thursday, 20 June 2013 16:51 (ten years ago) link
i got totally locked out of my YT account when the google thing happened
― ty based gay dead computer god (zachlyon), Thursday, 20 June 2013 18:38 (ten years ago) link
one one hand google is downranking pages that throw up a 'DOWNLOAD OUR APP' doorslam, on the other it's doing this wretched youtube doorslam that doesn't even have a close button
― Autumn Almanac, Thursday, 20 June 2013 22:39 (ten years ago) link
white goods that lie about their cycles
i started a 30-minute quick wash 25 minutes ago, and it's saying it's got 17 minutes to go
This very much. I was hand-washing some clothes the other day in the laundry and saw the countdown timer on the washing machine (on an 15-minute wash) jump from 4 minutes left back upto 11 minutes.
― ornamental cabbage (James Morrison), Thursday, 20 June 2013 23:52 (ten years ago) link
that one guy who beats you to the atm by half a second and farts around for four hours
― Autumn Almanac, Friday, 21 June 2013 04:16 (ten years ago) link
also see: the TAP machines in the l.a. metro
― dunham checks in (get bent), Friday, 21 June 2013 04:26 (ten years ago) link
and it's always retirement-age tourists who are terrified, nay, THREATENED by technology.
― dunham checks in (get bent), Friday, 21 June 2013 04:27 (ten years ago) link
if retirement-age.tourists are trying to ride the metro you should fuckin cherish them imo
― mookieproof, Friday, 21 June 2013 04:43 (ten years ago) link
tv torrents that keep the "previously on" but cut off the end credits. idgi
― ty based gay dead computer god (zachlyon), Friday, 21 June 2013 05:44 (ten years ago) link
i like end credits darnit
There's this place called imdb, ya know.
But I'm the same way, especially with this trend of squeezing the credits to half the screen and scrolling them twice as fast.
― pplains, Friday, 21 June 2013 05:46 (ten years ago) link
ugh I hate that
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 21 June 2013 05:48 (ten years ago) link
i don't care about reading the credits, i just don't like things ending so abruptly. also i have a tiny attention span when i'm watching on the computer and i'm always aware of exactly how far into the ep i am (and in movies, i hate doing this) and i spend like the last two minutes with this weird anticipation thing going on where subconsciously my brain's like "when's it gonna end, how many shots are left how long is this one gonna be" cause i'm weird and it makes me anxious and isn't an issue when credits are involved
but really it's like, you did this thing where you personally spliced off the credits at just the right moment as, i guess, a favor, but what's the point, what purpose does that serve
― ty based gay dead computer god (zachlyon), Friday, 21 June 2013 05:59 (ten years ago) link
haha any complaint that begins with 'torrents' is automatically ia
― Autumn Almanac, Friday, 21 June 2013 07:10 (ten years ago) link
the carafe for our coffee maker. the lid has a little dot on it, and you need to position that dot over the center of the spout for it to pour. but if you are even 1/8th of an inch off alignment, it will dribble coffee everywhere.
i can't be expected to be THAT precise first thing in the morning, goddammit
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 21 June 2013 15:19 (ten years ago) link
otm. appliances that expect you to work around their lazy design choices are the worst.
the dishwasher in this place has four washing modes (1, 2, 3, 4), but they're not increasing in time or rigour, they're just arbitrary numbers, e.g. 2 is eco wash and 3 is pots or something. it's also got a load of indicator lights that mean the following:
- a broom sort of thing: the cycle hasn't started yet- an arrow pointing to a line: the cycle has finished- a sun: we have no idea what that means- a big S made of bendy arrows: again, absolutely no idea
meanwhile the rest of the universe can make a dishwasher that isn't baffling. idgi.
― Autumn Almanac, Friday, 21 June 2013 22:27 (ten years ago) link
Sun = air drying the dishes? (as with laundry)
― nickn, Friday, 21 June 2013 23:11 (ten years ago) link
My work kitchen got this thing and everytime I see it, I'm alll aw for fucks sake what the shitl
http://i.imgur.com/gpwnA5l.jpg
― pplains, Friday, 21 June 2013 23:16 (ten years ago) link
"Tearing paper towels off the roll used to be so hard."
― pplains, Friday, 21 June 2013 23:24 (ten years ago) link
lol is it electric
― ty based gay dead computer god (zachlyon), Friday, 21 June 2013 23:33 (ten years ago) link
Solar powered.
― pplains, Friday, 21 June 2013 23:35 (ten years ago) link
I kid, but excellent question.
my grandmother bought an electric one for my mother and she has to trot it out every time she visits
― ty based gay dead computer god (zachlyon), Friday, 21 June 2013 23:37 (ten years ago) link
― nickn, Saturday, 22 June 2013 09:11 (28 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i just downloaded a manual (incidentally the company slogan is in COMIC SANS): the sun thing is a rinse aid indicator
― Autumn Almanac, Friday, 21 June 2013 23:41 (ten years ago) link
nothing says 'rinse aid' like a sun
What is the S w/ bendy arrows?
― Je55e, Saturday, 22 June 2013 01:08 (ten years ago) link
― Autumn Almanac, Friday, 21 June 2013 22:27 (Yesterday) Permalink
My dishwasher has a "Normal Wash" and "Speed Wash" setting. The speed wash takes half the time. Why the fuck is there a normal wash setting if it can clean the dishes in half the time? Unless the speed wash is half-assed, in which case, why have it?
― i don't even have an internet (Hurting 2), Saturday, 22 June 2013 01:15 (ten years ago) link
ikr? bizarre
a salt indicator, apparently
― Autumn Almanac, Saturday, 22 June 2013 01:17 (ten years ago) link
i don't even know what salt is doing near a dishwasher
"time to salt the dishes, luv"
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 22 June 2013 01:19 (ten years ago) link
xpHardness of the water maybe?
And speed wash is probably for recently used/not very dirty dishes where normal is for dried-on food/extra greasy dishes.
― nickn, Saturday, 22 June 2013 01:20 (ten years ago) link
it's for washing yr meth
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 22 June 2013 01:20 (ten years ago) link
As in, add salt to your water softener.
ah right
― Autumn Almanac, Saturday, 22 June 2013 01:24 (ten years ago) link
AA's dishwasher is cracking me up.
― carl agatha, Saturday, 22 June 2013 01:55 (ten years ago) link
I'm surprised it doesn't have a diesel indicator lol
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 22 June 2013 01:57 (ten years ago) link
it has an on/off button
― Autumn Almanac, Saturday, 22 June 2013 02:01 (ten years ago) link
so its available states are:
- washing- not washing- not washing and also switched off
― Autumn Almanac, Saturday, 22 June 2013 02:02 (ten years ago) link
the only difference between on and off is that the broom light lights up
― Autumn Almanac, Saturday, 22 June 2013 02:03 (ten years ago) link
and watch out for salt
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 22 June 2013 02:07 (ten years ago) link
on that, i don't know whether the salt light means there is salt or there isn't salt
― Autumn Almanac, Saturday, 22 June 2013 02:08 (ten years ago) link
or too much salt, or a salt accident
― Autumn Almanac, Saturday, 22 June 2013 02:09 (ten years ago) link
Mine has a "normal" button. Wouldn't it be great if everything had one of those? ACK!
― pplains, Saturday, 22 June 2013 02:24 (ten years ago) link
lolol
― Je55e, Saturday, 22 June 2013 02:32 (ten years ago) link