Everything sucks ass

Gargamel

Gargamel

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Everything which could be considered half-decent 10-15 years ago sucks ass now. Well, except maybe Steam.

Windows with it's dumb dumb our way or the highway UI and creepy spyware. Android with it's ever increasing restrictions on what an app can and can't do, and it's garbage faggot-inspired UI. Apple... oh wait, they sucked just as much ass 15 years ago as they do now. Google who's core product simply doesn't work, and who can't figure out how to stop losing data in Drive and subscribers on YouTube. Even Linux is suffering with the Gnome people pushing hard to get people to use shit nobody asked for, and the design-by-tranny-committee display system Wayland which had a chance to be great at least in theory. Not to mention Red Hat turning their back on the free software community.
 
Speaking of which what the fuck is up with Youtube this week? I'm running videos through preserve tube just to be able to watch them since they keep stuttering even when fully buffered.
 
I had this thought recently, and it's so true. I watched an old documentary about Facebook, and they showed the UI in like 2012, and it was a thousand times better than modern UI. For another example, on YouTube, I watched a documentary about report of the week, and YouTube had an email inbox. It had nice square profile pictures. You were allowed to post slurs in comments. What happened to all of that? The only thing left somewhat resembling that UI is old.reddit.com but who knows how long that will last.
 
Youtube has officially stopped cooperating with me and my adblock, I guess I'll just have to paste the URL of whatever I want to see into a downloader. Is anyone else seeing this shit?
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Smigger said:
I had this thought recently, and it's so true. I watched an old documentary about Facebook, and they showed the UI in like 2012, and it was a thousand times better than modern UI. For another example, on YouTube, I watched a documentary about report of the week, and YouTube had an email inbox. It had nice square profile pictures. You were allowed to post slurs in comments. What happened to all of that? The only thing left somewhat resembling that UI is old.reddit.com but who knows how long that will last.
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I remember when YouTube did away with DMs and I thought, how stupid is that? How the fuck should I contact a creator if I don't want to leave a public comment?

The YouTube comments system is beyond worthless anyway.
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Also what's with this war on square corners? All this circle and round corner rectangle shit is so fucking gay, very wasteful and looks like dogshit. One of the first things I did on this site was to turn the avatar corner radius to 0%.
Smigger said:
The only thing left somewhat resembling that UI is old.reddit.com but who knows how long that will last.
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Probably not very. They already figured out they can take away other things nerds love, so it's only a matter of time before the burden of upkeep on old.reddit.com crosses the threshold and the management decides to axe it. A lot of things you click on in reddit already direct you to the new reddit site.

There used to be a pretty based weather site called Weather Underground. It was an extremely fast, lightweight, basic static HTML site that had a lot of unique features, data from a massive network of DIY weather stations, a very popular webcam hosting service so you could actually see what the weather looked like in different places, and the best visualizer for NEXRAD data that I've ever seen. There was nothing wrong with this version of Weather Underground, and it was highly regarded by weather nerds and science teachers all over.

They were bought up by The Weather Company (The Weather Channel) and the new owners decided the site had to be completely scrapped and replaced by a Web 2.0 version that sucks ass and is very slow to load. They moved the original site to classic.weatherundeground.com and it lived on for a while, like a year or two and then they pulled the plug. More recently I think they killed the webcam service, and I think the personal weather station feature as well. The NEXRAD viewer has been gone for a while too. So basically all the things that made Weather Underground special are gone.

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Gargamel said:
I remember when YouTube did away with DMs and I thought, how stupid is that? How the fuck should I contact a creator if I don't want to leave a public comment?

The YouTube comments system is beyond worthless anyway.
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100 percent It's gotten so censored and garbage, even the most normal comments get deleted, yet pornbots and crypto scammers can spam the most obvious spam ever, yet they never get flagged. It's created this problem with YouTube comments, where it's basically Reddit, a total echochamber on every video. Go to a Pro Trump YouTube channel; all the comments are pro Trump. Go to a pro Democrat channel. Same story, any dissent most likely gets deleted.
Gargamel said:
Also what's with this war on square corners? All this circle and round corner rectangle shit is so fucking gay, very wasteful and looks like dogshit. One of the first things I did on this site was to turn the avatar corner radius to 0%.
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I KNOW I hate rounded corners. Rounded corners are the perfect example of awful modern UI design.
Gargamel said:
There used to be a pretty based weather site called Weather Underground. It was an extremely fast, lightweight, basic static HTML site that had a lot of unique features, data from a massive network of DIY weather stations, a very popular webcam hosting service so you could actually see what the weather looked like in different places, and the best visualizer for NEXRAD data that I've ever seen. There was nothing wrong with this version of Weather Underground, and it was highly regarded by weather nerds and science teachers all over.

They were bought up by The Weather Company (The Weather Channel) and the new owners decided the site had to be completely scrapped and replaced by a Web 2.0 version that sucks ass and is very slow to load. They moved the original site to classic.weatherundeground.com and it lived on for a while, like a year or two and then they pulled the plug. More recently I think they killed the webcam service, and I think the personal weather station feature as well. The NEXRAD viewer has been gone for a while too. So basically all the things that made Weather Underground special are gone.
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Oh dude, don't even get me started on weather sites. Weather sites rival even the worst news websites as far as modern web junk, constant ads and trackers, and bloated UI. I used to use a niche HTML weather app. I never heard of weather underground, but it was close to that; it was just HTML and the weather radar. It then broke due to API changes. It really sucks I remember being in a tornado, scared to death, and I couldn't get the stupid weather app to load because of all the trackers.
 
Whatever.webp


I'm just curious if anyone understands what this Cloudflare bullshit that locked me out from visiting a website means. Because I certainly didn't understand it.
 
Helpful.webp

You ever wonder why Cloudflare even has this on the page that completely blocks access to a website, and who would vote yes?
 
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You ever wonder why Cloudflare even has this on the page that completely blocks access to a website, and who would vote yes?
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Well, the page does give you some information as to why the content is blocked. In this case, it's blocked because someone is trying to use multiple Cloudflare accounts to protect a single website. The page may be helpful because it communicates that fact.
 
HaLuigi said:
Even hobos know how to root and flash ROMs.
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Every Android phone I've ever had has been flashed with multiple different ROMs, mostly versions of LOS or it's predecessor CyanogenMod, but others too. I started on Android 2.3 which was a long time ago and a very different OS to what we have today. ROMs, root access, Magisk modules, hacked firmwares, patches, they only get you so far when Google goes out of their way to severely limit what an app can do or what APIs are available going forward. It takes a lot of work to add that stuff back in which is why we largely do without such basic things as a fast, reliable method of moving files to and from a modern Android phone, or first class methods to record phone calls.
 
Bit of a different subject but man I hate trying to use prepaid debit cards. Always seems to be rejected for something or have some issue or the other, then get locked out of using the card for a day. They have these locked down so hard due to fraud and "money laundering".

Like bitch I'm going to spend my own money the way I want to spend it, not the way that you the government or the bank want me to.

Anyway, do not give people these things as a gift.
 
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