ThrowawayOnLemmy

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Any idea how to use a tiled wallpaper on modern smartphones? Android doesn’t let you choose, it just stretches the image to the display size.

Ah yes. Because that one Reddit users option holds equal weight to the thousands of professionals in the eyes of an LLM.

This is gonna get worse before it gets better.

A good project manager can make all the difference. I’ve worked with shitty ones and great ones. Great ones are on top of the project, fielding questions and wrangling together key players. Shit ones don’t do any of that then get surprised on their own call when they are behind schedule.

Anyone have any idea what any of this actually means?

I think the point I was more getting at is that the bullshit that companies do is extremely subjective, and everyone has their own different things that they feel are important issues. But you’re not wrong. There is a lot of BS to keep track of.

And I’m thinking that if it’s related to something you do actually care about, you should be digging into it. Plenty of people are trying to mislead people all the time, and it’s so easy to get swept up in fake outrage if you don’t actually stop to question things.

That’s why a bunch of people are angry at a consulting firm for a bunch of different game studios right now. Because somebody literally just made a list of things for people to be mad at.

Do you really need a list to tell you what to buy and not buy?

I mean it really doesn’t take that much effort to avoid those companies you don’t like.

Keeping a community list seems stupid, everyone has different things they like and don’t like, and the gaming community isn’t a personal army, despite what others might think.

Same boat here. My God it’s unbearable how bad YouTube premium is.

I don’t trust Google not to sneak in an unwanted payment. (Or a game fritzing out and doing a payment for me)

This doesn’t happen. You can just admit you don’t trust yourself not to spend more money.

I paid for it years ago when it was like $50 mostly because the interface was simple enough for my non tech savvy family to use.

Thank you for keeping things in perspective.

Well, fuck.

It was the firmware, you don’t need that. But you still need keys.

Dark patterns are the bane of my existence.

My job has them for when people try to cancel services and I’ve been fighting like hell to get rid of them. But business is worried if people can cancel super easy, they’ll do it. It’s like they forget we have an actual quality product that people want to have. It ends up looking like an abusive relationship when a customer tries to leave. It takes one click to add service, but it takes a phone call and a transfer and a sales pitch, and then finally a scheduled deactivation at the start of your next bill cycle because God forbid we give you some money back.

I’m the exact type of customer who avoids businesses that do shit like this. And I’m not alone. If you make it 10 times harder to drop a service than you do to add a service, you should go fuck yourself. Gym memberships, monthly subscriptions, recurring monthly shipments with auto billing. Never sign up to this stuff without knowing what you need to do to deactivate. Or sign up with a preloaded visa gift card and a 10 minute email so you can just shut everything off when you leave and they can keep their bullshit account.

I guess I misunderstanding delivery optimization, I thought that was only with your local network?

Arizona ice tea is now $1.39 where I’m at in the midwest.

Even Cigarello’s, which were always 99 cents as long as I can remember are now listed at $1.39 where I’m at.

I typically don’t concern myself with fake screenshots.