No problem. When I decided to look for myself, it seems this question has come up on their forum, and the dev gets really salty over it 😂

Looks like good software, though. 👍

It doesn’t look to be open source, or is it?

hockey game between seven and eight-year-olds

If you’re the type of parent who gets into fights at a hockey game for young kids, just stay at home.

I can’t even imagine the hell that those kids go through having to live with parents like that 24/7.

Tell me again why 40lb e-bikes and e-scooters need to be capped at some absurdly slow speed, but we don’t do the same to these multi-ton weapons?

Believe me, Google does enough a/b testing, and has enough experience in psychological manipulation to know where “the line” is for most people.

Sure, some will never use their product(s) again when pushed too far, but they don’t really need everyone to be using their products.

Only the users they can profit from the most are of value. If a terrible UI, awful UX, or even a paid subscription doesn’t scare them away from using a Google Product, then each of those users becomes a cash cow.

Those are mostly operating costs, offset by revenue, but are they actually losing 1.5 billion dollars a year? I mean, I hope so, but are they really?

Source? Where is that money going?

When did it get this bad?

Bad? Google just proved that they can get you to stay on their search page (or come back to get a different answer) for way longer than you need… this is a WIN for them.

The enshittification of the internet + the greed inherent in these mega corps have caused websites to be designed to grab steal your attention for as long as possible. The longer they can keep you on their site, the more money/data/attention/time they can get out of you.

If search was designed to benefit the user, a typical visit would result in maybe 5-10 seconds of someone’s time to enter a search and click on the relevant result. You proved that when you compared it to DDG 😀

That’s frustrating, for sure. I can’t stand devices with built-in batteries for that reason.

I don’t remember the exact model, but I’ve got a Logitech mouse on one of my computers that uses maybe a single AA battery. It lasts like 1-2 years with that battery, so I’d suggest looking for a mouse with AA or AAA batteries to be more future-proof.

Or prison?

Tech companies only care about making money. If people continue to buy their half-effort products, then they’ll keep making it.

On the other hand, open-source (hardware or software) is designed for maximum longevity.

Unfortunately, the wrong people have unlimited resources when it comes to making our tech products.

Keep going. Every failed attempt makes him look like poor leadership material. Not that his words and actions make him out to be good or anything, but still. 😂

Mosquitos have entered the chat.

But really, pollinating insects have been extremely rare this past year. It’s alarming, and nobody seems to care.

It was about blackface, which you know very well. No-one has ever been offended by “whiteface”, because of what fucking happened in history.

Not all white people share the same history, man. If you think that any white person is the same as every white person, then you’re being a real racist.

Nazis brutalized my family, so fuck you for thinking I would ever be ok with som “white lives matter” cunts. You are an asshole.

My dude, I hate racists.

I also have a sense of humour, so stuff like comedy and costumes aren’t places where I tend to judge people. If I did, I’d think that most black and brown comedians were racist, and that most white ones were pedophiles or rapists. But I don’t.

My comment was in response to the question about people using <insert colour> face during that time, and it seemed to be more common than some of us can remember.

I don’t know anything about the guy in question, and it seems silly to judge him based on a basketball player costume he wore on Halloween almost 20 years go. We should use some common sense here.

Well, just a few years earlier than this guy’s black face, a movie called White Chicks came out… two black dudes playing white face in an entire Hollywood movie (coincidently, filmed in B.C).

I don’t ever recall outrage over it, though.

That said, I guess we’re lucky that our politicians are only playing black face during costume parties, rather than wearing white hoods during regular business hours! LOL

I think everyone is misunderstanding the “kids” part.

The daughter is a teacher, meaning she has “kids” (i.e. in her classroom), but not “real kids”, as in, kids of her own. A strange way of saying it, but I’m sure that’s what she meant.

The no real bills part… that could mean anything. If she’s living with her folks and doesn’t have to pay rent, utilities, etc., then I can understand how a request like that could be taken poorly by the mother.

Still, posting it on social media is Karen-like behaviour.

From what I remember, $20 gets you a premium pair! I was getting glasses from Zenni and others for <$10.

If the daughter is looking at Lasik, it’s not out of necessity.

I mean, if you’re an adult with an income and living with anyone else (parents, roommate, etc.), you really should be helping with the upkeep of the place and bills. As well as paying for your own food, phone bill, etc.

“Forcing you to pay” sounds harsh without context. You’d have to pay rent to live anywhere else, right? Perhaps, “expected to pay” seems more logical… assuming you’re an adult with an income.

I was under the impression software engineering, despite the layoffs, was still a pretty liquid market.

I went to pick up an order at Walmart not too long ago (months), and the guy who brought it out was chatting me up. Apparently, he’s a software engineer, but could only find work at Walmart.

These are grim times.