LainTrain

Email in general is hell. It's meant to be individual letters but has now become the most unholy form of IM.

To normies of course it is, they don't even know what the innernette is, they know WiFi though. I've even seen people call their cellular signal "phone WiFi" or "5G WiFi" and refer to a Cat5 Ethernet cable as a "WiFi cable".

Okay this article is dog shit but Google Drive has absolutely awful search and is missing so many basic features even for things like finding out where a file is so I'm not defending Google there, the author makes a bad critique but it's a thing worth critiquing.

Subjectively, material design in its newest iteration is just also ugly as sin too, android 8 - android 10 was peak android, get these fucking pastels and overly large buttons off my phone and bring back the white/blue simplicity of yesteryear gosh darn it.

Every day the bait gets lower and lower effort

God and I thought the plot of the Fallout TV show was absurd with the "Bud's Buds" shit but it's literally real

You don't need PR for that necessarily but yeah I see your point.

That'll just give more seats to reform.

How am I meant to fuck off from work for an hour to go to the store? Even if grocery stores sold electronics which they don't, everything closes at 6PM latest. On Saturdays it's 3PM, even if I could carry enough to shop for an entire week ahead on my back.

I mean, I don't think my example is an extreme, like I work from home every single day and have always done so, there are no longer stores around me that sells any electronics, and as I don't drive, I get it delivered, which is the primary and most of the time the only way of buying anything that isn't groceries for me these days.

If anything my example is an extremely down to earth grass-touch-core argument built off explicitly literally what my life is in the most literal sense wholly about the basic material realities of it, and it highlights the problems with their their absolutist internet-extremist-silliness-core-ass rhetoric. I don't get in any way how it's "extreme" or "equivalent" to the other user's batshit insane propositions.

Are you one of those "everything is equivalent both sides" type people?

Are you implying I in any way disagree with the actual rhetoric of "let's have less car-centric infrastructure?" Because I don't and I never stated that. Moreover I do agree with you though, I don't drive and I hate cars anyway. I just don't like that user's rhetoric because it smells like degrowth ecofash type rhetoric, which is extremely harmful and leads to NIMBYism and as such worsening material conditions and issues like homelessness and poverty traps and enriches landlords.

Environment good because it makes things for people better, not as a thing unto itself. On that basis and only on that basis with that reasoning as the guiding and completely overriding principle - I agree, fuck cars. 👍

So I guess we're gonna have a far right government next election then when this is inevitably dragged out until the rich can buy the election by drumming up enough hate to make the average Brit spit in their tea if they thought it'd make immigrants/transes/youth sad.

I'm sorry to soapbox about politics in a tech thread, but this charade of "law and order" and endless debate about the actual merits of the actual lawsuit under the actual law are so tiresome when these corpos just bypass this shit anyway.

How are deliveries going to work, exactly? If I order a computer, what, I can't have it anymore because some dumb ecofash said so? And before you go all "hurr durr go 2 ze store" I can't, I WFH, as should everyone who can, in part - to save the environment.

That's the shittiest copper you ever had