hi!
sheer space can also be an issue def but i dont want to mediocrely (?) splain basic home computer maintenance im sure theres dozens better posters to do it even if mookie doesnt already know it and its the windows 8.1 thats the issue or w/e
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Thursday, 25 April 2024 20:45 (one month ago) link
hi!! <3 I know I was just another annoying voice on the pile but old habits die hard. It really did make a big difference though. to mookie’s original point, yes. I get so irritated by the “just buy a new machine” mentality. I miss buying a bigger stick of RAM (a thing I did once.. but it counts) I’d like to yell at the devs to ensure backwards compatibility but in solidarity I’ll turn my ire toward the PMs and people concerned about shareholders etc forcing feature bloat in the inexhaustible drive for growth
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Saturday, 27 April 2024 16:40 (one month ago) link
this has probably been a thing for years now but today I walked to the corner store to get Gatorade, only to see nobody at the counter. after about five minutes, this guy comes in saying the computers are all down, sorry, you'll have to go elsewhere. used to be they'd manually ring you up and you could pay cash, but nope - they were basically shutting down and forgot to lock the door.
this is a chain obviously so they probably use AI software to analyze the sales metadata and have it make automated store/region product purchase decisions without human input (I never see managers at this location anymore). as a result, instead of telling their employees "just write down what you sold, and take cash if you can", they tell them to close the store. while probably blaming them and insinuating they broke the computer system in the interim.
so the store just becomes a big paperweight until the computers come back on and their employees get mega stressed out as there are never managers on duty to help.
― ain't nothin but a brie thing, baby (Neanderthal), Saturday, 27 April 2024 17:55 (one month ago) link
and the other thing about being a chain is sometimes this happens: https://www.wsj.com/business/retail/walmart-computer-glitch-halts-sales-and-returns-at-stores-02858f45
― ain't nothin but a brie thing, baby (Neanderthal), Saturday, 27 April 2024 17:57 (one month ago) link
Yeah, have had this happen a few times in the past few years, usually at gas station/convenience stores.
Whereas at the Philly coffee shop chain that I frequent? Square goes down, they go cash or CashApp only.
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Saturday, 27 April 2024 17:57 (one month ago) link
Same with the gym where I work: when our POS system is on the fritz or updating, we just write down what people have bought and members sign in their names on paper, like they used to back in the day.
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Saturday, 27 April 2024 17:58 (one month ago) link
at Vue cinemas in the UK the staff can’t change anything about the projection, including the volume. it’s all set remotely. same for other aspects of the theatres, like air conditioning and lighting.
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 27 April 2024 18:04 (one month ago) link
what if the wrong movie gets projected
imagining someone hacking into the theater's mainframe and showing Caligula
― ain't nothin but a brie thing, baby (Neanderthal), Saturday, 27 April 2024 18:08 (one month ago) link
Xp my corner store is a 7-11 and several times I will show up as they are closing and have turned the registers off, and they totally take cash in that window of time before locking the door
― sarahell, Sunday, 28 April 2024 00:54 (one month ago) link
Maybe not all 7-11s are owned by franchisees but the ones around here are… cigarette prices differ significantly
― sarahell, Sunday, 28 April 2024 00:57 (one month ago) link
And maybe this qualifies as a backward step too! So the closest one is the price the yemeni market charges plus tax … as in the total I pay is the same as at the yemeni market… the second closest one actually adds tax to the amount the closest one charges for a pack plus tax … basically they double tax. The one in Berkeley across the street from the good donut shop actually does it as tax inclusive … so it ends up being 10% cheaper than most everywhere else except Walgreens… however I have to drive to el Cerrito to get to a Walgreens that sells cigarettes… Yea smoking is bad and I should quit.
― sarahell, Sunday, 28 April 2024 01:05 (one month ago) link
i see duckduckgo releases updates that breaks their search engine now
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Thursday, 23 May 2024 07:49 (one week ago) link
I was fairly enthusiastic about shifting to duckduckgo for a short while, but it's never really lived up to expectations at all and haven't bothered with it for a while.
― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 23 May 2024 07:57 (one week ago) link
i've been using it pretty unthinkingly for a number of years but it isn't any better than google at finding relevant results afaict and is often worse. i put up with it out of google spite. but yes having your website not work at all not ideal
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 23 May 2024 09:09 (one week ago) link
I've been using duckduckgo the last couple of years, honestly seems pretty much equivalent to google for the kind of searches I do (90% coding related stuff), though not right now obviously
― silverfish, Thursday, 23 May 2024 13:17 (one week ago) link
i like a lot of the built in protections and functionality and probably use these as much or more than i do almost any other similar type of "you'll need to select and configure some stuff here" options in any other technology
but the search results are tbh trash
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Thursday, 23 May 2024 13:46 (one week ago) link
DDG & google seem about the same these days but that’s only because google deliberately broke google a while ago
― subpost master (wins), Thursday, 23 May 2024 13:50 (one week ago) link
I feel like this is completely insane but I'm paying $4/month for kagi for search now because it's the least bad.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 23 May 2024 14:17 (one week ago) link
isn't DDG essentially just a privacy-protecting interface for using Bing? meaning it's not that DDG is a bad search engine, it's that it's not really a search engine at all and Bing sucks (ftr I use DDG)
― rob, Thursday, 23 May 2024 14:32 (one week ago) link
DDG search results used to be good but took a turn for the worse at some point a while back.
Has anyone else been getting weird search results from DuckDuckGo lately? For example, I can enter the name of a website and none of the results will be the website's home page (whereas Google will give me the home page as first result). It's not always doing this but it's been happening enough lately for me to notice it.― visiting, Saturday, January 1, 2022
― visiting, Saturday, January 1, 2022
― Kim Kimberly, Thursday, 23 May 2024 14:38 (one week ago) link
Every time I watch a DVD I remember how much more of a pleasant and user-friendly medium it is, by every conceivable metric, for viewing films (as opposed to streaming)
― Paul Ponzi, Thursday, 23 May 2024 17:26 (one week ago) link
My opinion of DDG has never really shook its adoption by Pizzagate and associated nutters (which was the first and for a long time the last I heard of it)
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 23 May 2024 18:32 (one week ago) link
also using kagi now
― stet, Thursday, 23 May 2024 20:55 (one week ago) link
mmm have been mulling this
and orion, except it doesn't seem like it integrates with keychain
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 23 May 2024 22:40 (one week ago) link
I have heard both good and bad things about Kagi, may check it out.
― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 23 May 2024 23:11 (one week ago) link
just learned that metacrawler still exists lol
― mookieproof, Friday, 24 May 2024 03:10 (six days ago) link
> I have heard both good and bad things about Kagi, may check it out.
i pay 10 bux a month for kagi and at first it felt refreshing but all they talk about is their AI shit now and their results feel less great after the honeymoon period
― paul mccartney and wigs (diamonddave85), Friday, 24 May 2024 03:13 (six days ago) link
I'm not paying for anything called Kagi
― Alba, Friday, 24 May 2024 06:21 (six days ago) link
Same
― z_tbd, Friday, 24 May 2024 06:25 (six days ago) link
iSearch.
Or mySearch
― z_tbd, Friday, 24 May 2024 06:26 (six days ago) link
occurs to me that while Google is terrible, it still may not be possible to go back to anything good, the internet is just so full of shit now that filtering it out seems like a sisyphean task.
― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 24 May 2024 06:40 (six days ago) link
Does One Line Fix Google?
Forget AI. Google just created a version of its search engine free of all the extra junk it has added over the past decade-plus. All you have to do is add "udm=14" to the search URL.
― Kim Kimberly, Friday, 24 May 2024 06:55 (six days ago) link
Every time I watch a DVD I remember how much more of a pleasant and user-friendly medium it is, by every conceivable metric, for viewing films
Not sure I agree? Noisey; need to find it, take it out and put it back; unskippable copyright notice; unskippable trailers; unskippable anti-piracy video…
― Chewshabadoo, Friday, 24 May 2024 12:42 (six days ago) link
scratchable
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Friday, 24 May 2024 12:52 (six days ago) link
You wouldn't SCRATCH a DVD
― kinder, Friday, 24 May 2024 13:05 (six days ago) link
Trailers you can skip over though, I always do.
― henry s, Friday, 24 May 2024 13:20 (six days ago) link
find it out, take it out and put it back vs search every one of your services to see if they have it (or use justwatch, which is only accurate some of the time), fire up vpn to see if it's available in other territories...I'd say it's a toss up, and at least you can make your own dvd library more easy to find stuff in
― Daniel_Rf, Friday, 24 May 2024 13:21 (six days ago) link
Also easier to impress people with the Criterion Collection titles on your shelf.
― henry s, Friday, 24 May 2024 13:36 (six days ago) link
I'm definitely tempted to go back to buying physical media for movies, but the one thing I dislike about physical media is that it takes up physical space.
― silverfish, Friday, 24 May 2024 14:50 (six days ago) link
Friends better appreciate my 4K of Tammy and the T-Rex or they're cut out of my life
― Nhex, Friday, 24 May 2024 15:19 (six days ago) link
I sometimes miss extras and outtakes / blooper reels. Don't miss unskippable anything.
Also using DVD chapters allowed one to watch Memento in forward sequence
― Millennium Falco (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 24 May 2024 15:54 (six days ago) link
physical media idgi
having drives full of the versions you want seems the best approach no?
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Friday, 24 May 2024 15:55 (six days ago) link
are drives not physical media?
― koogs, Friday, 24 May 2024 16:10 (six days ago) link
for whatever reason the "Web" option isn't available to me when i'm logged in, only when i'm logged out. what the fuck google?
― paul mccartney and wigs (diamonddave85), Friday, 24 May 2024 16:13 (six days ago) link
dealing with backing up drives is a pita
― brimstead, Friday, 24 May 2024 16:25 (six days ago) link
I guess it’s the more environmentally responsible approach
self-checkout lanes at stores are a problem, i've had so many instances where the scanner freaks out and freezes up because i supposedly didn't place an item in the bagging area (i always do, because it says PLEASE PLACE ITEM IN THE BAGGING AREA) and i stand there like a chump waiting for a store employee to come and fix it. it happened again the other day and i was told "it got confused because of the item's weight", and i have no idea what that meant.
― omar little, Friday, 24 May 2024 16:42 (six days ago) link
some very light things just don't register. it sometimes help to just press the bagging area with your hand briefly.
(you do realise the bagging area is scales, yes?)
― koogs, Friday, 24 May 2024 17:27 (six days ago) link
i think the confusing part is i'm not under the impression all bagging areas are scales, seems like several chains near me are just "areas" and others are scales. maybe i'll try the hand thing but what if i push too hard, or not hard enough?
https://giffiles.alphacoders.com/114/114236.gif
― omar little, Friday, 24 May 2024 17:36 (six days ago) link