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This is sadly the best photo I’ve seen of him.
Mercuri@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Subscriptions Are Ruining Our Lives. Here's Why They're Everywhere Now. | You'll own nothing and you'll be happy!English0·6 months agoI get what you’re saying but the forgetful customer is explicitly what they said they want, which is dumb any way you look at it. Many times you’re forced into signing up for subscription, or coerced under the guise of a free trial. Now this wouldn’t be as bad if they came back and were like, “hey we see you haven’t used our service in a while, do you still need it?” rather than just leeching money from the user. The system is designed to purposely allow the user to make these errors and that’s wrong any way you want to shape it.
Mercuri@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Subscriptions Are Ruining Our Lives. Here's Why They're Everywhere Now. | You'll own nothing and you'll be happy!English0·6 months ago“If buying isn’t owning, pirating isn’t stealing.”
I heard this before and it is becoming more true each day.
Mercuri@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Subscriptions Are Ruining Our Lives. Here's Why They're Everywhere Now. | You'll own nothing and you'll be happy!English0·6 months agoI worked at Amazon and the head of Ring said their best customers were people who bought a subscription and then put the camera in a drawer and forgot about it. They don’t even want to provide you a service. They want you to absentmindedly give them money every month because you forgot to cancel.
You’re on GUUUUUAAAAAAARRRRD
Any person who chooses to pass through the arches of an approved Catholic church and receive communion will receive plenary indulgence and complete and total inexorable forgiveness of all past sin according to dogmatic law.
Wait, is this for real or did you just also include the plot of Dogma for good measure?
Mercuri@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Entire Mac Lineup Now Finally Starts With at Least 16GB RAM, Ending 8GB EraEnglish0·6 months agoFucking PHONES had more RAM. It was so fucking stupid. And despite their arguments, it was proven time and time again 8GB was not enough.
Mercuri@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•The Magic Keyboard, Trackpad and Mouse now use USB-C!English0·6 months agoI think you’re confusing Thunderbolt with the lightning cable. Hell, even basic USB-C is faster than lightning cable.
Mercuri@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•The Magic Keyboard, Trackpad and Mouse now use USB-C!English0·6 months agoFalse. I was issued that mouse at a previous workplace and it pissed me off so much I brought in my own mouse. And my experience was that when the mouse was fully dead it needed to charge a long time to be usable again.
If it just simply let you use it while it was plugged in there’d be absolutely no issue. It’s a dumb design.
Mercuri@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Guess who’s suing the FTC to stop ‘click to cancel’ | Companies fight back to make subscription services harder to cancelEnglish0·6 months agoIt’s so fucking stupid. If you can sign up with a click, you should be able to cancel with a click. There’s no justifiable argument against that other than corporate greed.
I do remember one of my most satisfying cancelation calls though. I just kept saying, “No.” Just “no”. No added explanation. No added reasoning. It frustrated the retention employee so much. They were like “but WHY?” They couldn’t try to convince me not to quit since I didn’t give them any reasons for why I didn’t want it, just that I didn’t want it.
The fact that it’s Bocchi is amazing
Mercuri@lemmy.worldto Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•Is "disk" just a different spelling of "disc" or are they actually different words?0·8 months agoThe hard disk is made with discs.
Mercuri@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•David Farrier’s TV started telling him it hated him and it’s fascinatingEnglish0·8 months agoNah, seems to be an episode of The Boys with a mute character who uses sign language. So she signs i"I hate you" in a scene and it gets subtitled. But it doesn’t use the normal CC code as it’s a special case. And the code is buggy so it’s really easy for the subtitle to not clear off the screen and since it isn’t the normal subtitle/CC system it can’t be controlled that way. Fun times!
“Your call is very important to us… but not so important that we would actually do anything about it like hiring more representatives. This message will repeat every 5 minutes until you get frustrated and hang up.”
I dug down to get the audio. The girl is saying, “Bentley” in a subuctive voice then tapping or rubbing various parts of the car. Donald says, “Citroën” in duck-speak and then does Donald Duck noises at times.