they get paid like $2/hr when actually out on a delivery, it’s pathetic and is absolutely no reason to justify the fee

people love acting like they’re perfect and always make perfect decisions in these posts. like, you can easily advise the OP and sympathize but people love to be smug instead

why does everyone have to have “excellent” skills? just logically not everyone can have excellent skills, or there wouldn’t be excellent skills. i very much doubt everyone currently working there also has equally “excellent” skills. you can’t just say you have to be perfect. i fucking hate this shit

geolocking is immoral. if they’re getting it why the fuck shouldn’t we?

I literally watch TV through a capture card right now out of stubbornness and principle. Anything I want to record, I can just hit a button and safely keep. No DRM preventing me from taking screenshots, I can manipulate the picture to hide obnoxious graphics or ads (great for sports); the sense of control is extremely gratifying.

When record companies make a fuss about the danger of “piracy”, they’re not talking about violent attacks on shipping. What they complain about is the sharing of copies of music, an activity in which millions of people participate in a spirit of cooperation. The term “piracy” is used by record companies to demonize sharing and cooperation by equating them to kidnaping, murder and theft.

i tried to get into streaming but i grew increasingly uncomfortable with paying forever as titles appear and disappear at the whim of suits. how could that possibly be a pleasant UX for customers?

i’d take the hassle of having discs or managing a server any day of the week over paying these goons for access to their files which they happily negotiate away for financial reasons. it’s just a disgusting paradigm. when netflix was starting streaming, i thought (i was like 15) we were emerging into a great new age, where every show you could ever want was on one beautiful service.

now they won’t even let you share accounts or screenshot the fucking show (a pig-headed anti-piracy measure which is mind-blowingly stupid given every single show on there is available for free if you know where to look ANYWAY. what are they DOING.)

fuck streaming, fuck netflix, fuck spotify. crash and burn. topple like the house of cards you are.

why is everyone making decisions in tech completely fucking bereft of sense

i really hate how they call it a ‘library’, very disingenuous if it’s all on their servers and predicated on their fucking license agreements

what if real libraries had to throw away books because harpercollins got pissy. would anyone stand for it? (probably yes)

zero reason ever for any piece of technology to know where i live and make my experience worse because of it

is there a ralph’s around here?

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you’re fully capable of leaving a sensibly sympathetic reply, and yet here we are

fuck why can’t i live in europe. almost every day i have the opposite experience where a well meaning midwest person tries to be friendly and my brain just…stalls and does something like this

and where is the office for streaming now? why can’t they at least all have the same shit, like with music streaming, and compete on features and price, rather than this absolute transient hell where it’s ridiculously stark how none of anyone involved cares for art or culture

i miss when people who made websites genuinely wanted what’s best for their users

boy cats hit different

well good thing they’re a professional company with professional engineers, glad they’re taking the easy route

i bought it because i was at the store and thought ‘damn a bedroom tv would be nice’ and it was black friday. it’s only 32" i hope it fits on the table, and if not i can rig something up, but either way, god fucking dammit these new legs are terrible design because now i have to think about this instead of them just having a damn stand in the center like everyone used to

was sort of what i was thinking

TVs were like this for years… https://www.lg.com/us/business/hospital-tvs/lg-26LD360L

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