I’m a Midwestern transplant to Los Angeles. Honestly? It’s fucking hard to return your cart in Los Angeles. While my past self would call anyone out returning their cart an asshole, I can’t anymore because 90% of stores here just refuse to put out any cart corrals.

What the fuck is a “point?” This sounds like some Windows bullshit.

This is exactly how I feel using anything made by Atlassian at work. Its UI is just awful and I can almost feel the JavaScript shitting all over my runtime environment.

You don’t need coding experience. You just need to find an OS that’s capable of running on the unique hardware — I personally use Alpine Linux. More broadly speaking it’s tricky to install on ARM but Raspberry Pi is pretty well supported.

Honestly their products are trash. I spent a fortune on a Roomba and Braava jet and while their actual cleaning is marvelous the tracking drives me batshit insane — if it weren’t for me working from home they’d never get anything done.

I’ve regretted not buying from Roborock so much. iRobot’s customer service is outsourced with lots of “fuck you” energy too. So yeah, they’re basically like any other American brand that either sells out and/or enshittifies everything.

This reminds me of a legacy Rails 3.2 app that used a fork of the official Ruby on Rails only for one commit that backported some one-liner bug fix. This was at an old job in the Rails 6 days, getting it on the latest official version was definitely an adventure (no unit tests + tons of spaghetti code + a dash of currency conversions stored as Postgres floats).

This is incredible! I just feel like I’ve seen this headline a trillion times and yet the biodegradable stuff is never used (at least in the US, I’ve seen biodegradable packaging being used in Mexico quite a bit).

Between the creepy handwriting, the floor that seriously needs its grout cleaned and the overall aesthetics of the photo it’s going to be a “no thank you” from me.

I use them while working from home because the thing needs a fucking babysitter. I was conned into buying iRobot trash (owned by Amazon and guess which cloud they use?).

If I remember correctly it’s third tone so writing it as Loong actually makes sense in my head.

As an American the only time I’ve ever seen it is when I’m on my Swiss VPN

I’m a programmer myself but my wife isn’t a programmer, that was my motivation for questioning.

Can programmers only be with other programmers or am I missing something?

I mean, blocking all of YouTube blocks all the shorts and it also blocks their disgusting tracking spyware littered across the web (not just Google properties).

It’s worth it.

I block all their domains using my DNS server and won’t ever be tracked by them again.

But what about the small blogger, the local restaurant, or the indie developer? For them, it’s another technical and legal headache, forcing them to install clunky, site-slowing plugins just to avoid a potential lawsuit.

As a small time developer, just no. Why would I be installing spyware on my small websites and importing a ton of third-party shit instead of doing things the right way from the beginning? Imagine tracking people to the extreme that you’ve legally got to resort to fucking popup <div>s and having that kind of web property tied to your name — yikes.

The Reject All button is only there for users detected to be within jurisdictions that require it be shown.

I hate Microsoft with all my heart but I think it’s smart to have some sort of general computer skills.

I grew up having to take keyboarding and learning about office software (Apple’s suite at the time but later Office in community college).

From what I hear the kids can’t even type, never mind actually navigate a filesystem or troubleshooting basic issues.

It won’t because I have Google completely blocked on my network.