NP. Good luck.

I just got an iPhone yesterday, so I checked the iPhone and my Pixel Pro and I don’t have that app on either OS.

Nope.

Maybe that’s a country or carrier specific thing? I don’t have that on my phone, not with T-Mobile nor Verizon.

I haven’t experienced this with a Pixel nor an iPhone. I buy straight from Google and Apple though, because I don’t want the bloatware that carriers install. Did you buy from the carrier? Is it a Samsung? They do all kinds of crappy things with their TouchUI.

“Man, this bitch be blowing up my beeper!” Has a whole new meaning now. Doesn’t it?

Ha! Thanks for sharing that. I got a real laugh out of it. It starts off pretty tame and just gets worse and worse until it’s completely unusable. As a former blogger, I’m very familiar with some of the shit that money driven bloggers pulled. I always avoided anything other than non-intrusive ads and still made a living off of it, which really goes to show that usually the webmaster is just an asshole.

Saying that it’s better than FOSS programs isn’t saying much. Software built over 40 years by a trillion dollar company is better than free stuff built by volunteers in their free time? Well that’s not surprising. What is surprising is how awful Microsoft software is considering the resources they’ve thrown at it. It’s not good software. But, no company is going to invest the resources in a competing suite of programs because of the market dominance that Microsoft has. That very same dominance is why they’re fine with releasing things that are just good enough, rather than actually good.

But look at programs where Microsoft wasn’t thoroughly entrenched already. Software like Zoom or Slack is a billion times better than Teams. Teams is the worst piece of shit I’ve ever used. We switched to it a few months ago and it has negatively impacted everyone’s productivity and collaboration. Everyone that has to use it hates it. But C suites make the decisions about what we use, not the people who actually use it, so we’re stuck with this garbage for who knows how long.

Point taken. I can be a jaded asshole sometimes. I’m usually fairly emphatic, but being jaded seeps through every now and then.

Yes, that’s what I’m talking about.

I guess that’s understandable. The ones we have use a metal chain that’s in a loop, but secured to the wall. You just pull one side or the other to raise or lower the blinds. It works okay. We do have one of those old-school ones in the kitchen though, and I like how rapidly I can raise the blinds.

Have you ever used Outlook, or Word, or Teams, or anything by Microsoft that isn’t Excel?

It’s fine now, but getting CUPS installed, configured, and getting proper drivers for your printer used to be incredibly difficult, especially if you were new to Linux and didn’t know how to do any of that stuff.

Two attempts after being a walking bag of human refuse for 84 years isn’t very surprising. It’s actually surprising that there haven’t been more.

Well, duh!

Don’t make the two strings into a loop. Problem solved. Or secure the loop to the wall. Problem solved. But really what I meant is that it’s depressing that people have managed to strangle themselves in a contraption that’s pretty benign by design.

Because “fuck you” that’s why!

So make it two chords instead of a loop. Problem solved.

Selling plastic straws is not permitted in the EU anymore

For real? Because plastic straws, and not the bajillion tons of packaging materials are the bane of our existence. Right?

Fuckin-a roit buddy! Built back when people knew how to party!