The scummyness of this company knows no bounds.

I haven’t eaten there in nearly 15 years after a period where every time I ate food at a McDingle’s location I got massive food poisoning.

Sounds like I haven’t been missing much.

Giant anteater

“Somebody That I Used to Know” by Gotye.

Was played seemingly every hour back when I worked retail. Both in the store I worked in and many others. So incredibly overplayed.

2nd place would be any of Queen’s absurdly overplayed songs. I don’t even hear them as music anymore; they’re just annoying noise.

For the kind of work I have been doing I have not needed to hand over any psd files. Photoshop is(was) only a small step in my workflow and the main thing I get hired for is 3D modelling services. Regardless, I still work with NDA’d content and Adobe’s terms are invasive as hell.

Just cancelled my Adobe sub. Even if I was comfortable with how they use my data (and I am most assuredly fucking not) I’m also uncomfortable with them helping themselves to the NDA’d projects I do for clients. I trialed Affinity Photo and it meets 98% of my needs and is on sale 50% off right now. Bite my ass, Adobe.

Deezer, Tidal, Qobuz, Apple Music

This is just flatout theft. This is stealing of customer property. Incredible.

Round #451 of telling people to stop using Spotify and consider one of the many, better alternatives.

On the plus side, the industry is rapidly moving towards locally-run AI models specifically because they don’t want to purchase and run fleets of these absurd things or any other expensive hardware.

With all the studio buyouts, closures, layoffs, etc to pile on top of all the usual greedy macrotransaction crap - it’s really hard to give a shit about games right now. Seriously, the only upcoming game I’m even remotely interested in is Tiny Glade.

Welp, there goes my morning. Now I have to spend a few hours unfucking everything.

Never trusting this app ever again.

Not surprising. They archive information that powerful people would rather we forget.

They have to. They, along with every other tech megacorp right now, have invested unfathomable amounts of money into AI and have their investors and shareholders creaming their pants as they ride high on the fumes of their own farts. They’d be drawn and quartered if they suddenly did a 180 or in any way admitted their product is massively overvalued and nearly useless.

Lack of proper disposal facilities and/or fees for using said facilities. Easier to dump something in a lake or in the bushes than driving 40 minutes across town to a special facility and paying $30+ to dispose of it properly.

This is disabled if you turn off telemetry in the settings, which users should already be doing anyway. I don’t see this as any worse than what they already do.

Just what the cash-strapped people of the world want - more monthly fees.

I wish I could make useless trash and be given unfathomable amounts of money by infinitely gullible investors.

In this day and age, a bunch of processor and camera specs does nothing for me. I want to see what they plan to do with the UI and OS as a whole. Will it just be a lazy Android skin or will they go the extra mile and make it look and feel like a Windows phone of old?

Cilantro toothpaste. I like the other flavours this company has but this one is awful.