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I hate reactions in outlook. It’s fine when it’s a chat program like Teams. But when I’m deal with emails that pertains to my work, kind of unprofessional to reply back with a thumbs up.
I've had the displeasure of working with that. I would migrate it to ECS. The biggest PITA is you have to ensure the healthcheck passes when doing a CDK deploy.
I've had the displeasure of working with that. I would migrate it to ECS. The biggest PITA is you have to ensure the healthcheck passes when doing a CDK deploy.
I tried. And succeeded. I'm not allowed to use it because corporate doesn't want "infrastructure", they want a "platform". This is literally, unironically, their actual argument.
I'm not convinced Elastic Beanstalk health checks even work anyway, considering I've deployed images I knew were bad that reported as healthy.
I'm not allowed to use it because corporate doesn't want "infrastructure", they want a "platform". This is literally, unironically, their actual argument.
So this is one I just noticed, but oftentimes when I'm on a shopping website [clothes, tools, parts, whatever the fuck] that isn't Amazon, I like to middle-click different products to open them up in new tabs so I can, you know, compare different items to determine which one I might like, or which one suits my purposes more, however, nowadays whenever I do this, the very second I have more than 3-4 tabs open, the fucking website apparently assumes that I am [by opening three tabs] obviously trying to DoS attack their storefront and therefore I must be a malicious actor. Ergo, any tabs I open up after the fourth one are ACCESS DENIED, do this gay captcha/press-and-hold/match the shapes/prove that you are human bullshit for EACH individual tab you opened, or we won't let you view these products. Worse yet, with most sites after you do one of the captchas or 'challenges', you can just CTRL + R any further tabs you have open and it'll go back to the product page, but some of them actually make you do the fucking 'challenge' for each individual tab.
So at that point, I pretty much just say fuck it, I guess you don't want my money then, I'll go order shit elsewhere. And whenever they have the audacity to prompt me for feedback after that, I'll usually bitch about it, but it never gets addressed. Online shopping really has become a fucking pain in the ass now, with the ten different dialogue boxes opening every time "here's this one-time discount code!", "hey do you wanna subscribe to COMPANY+ monthly for [X] perks?", "hey we use cookies, do you want cookies? actually, do you want ALL cookies, or just some of the NECESSARY cookies, or do you want no cookies?", "enter your e-mail for our newsletter and we'll send you discount codes!", "[X] website is requesting access to your location", "will you allow us to send notifications???", "make an account for faster checkout next time ", "will you send us feedback or rate us five stars on Google pwease?", and it has gotten to the point where, before you can search for a product and actually use the fucking site, you basically just have to sit there and mash ESC for a minute before the site is actually useable.
And if you do make the mistake of giving them your e-mail address, you'll get "hey you left stuff in your cart! :*(" e-mails or whatever. And don't get me fucking started on trying to order food online - one thing that really gives me a case of the red ass is when you go to a restaurant's order page, and if the restaurant isn't CURRENTLY open, they won't even let you look at the fucking menu at all, or they force you to make a fucking account to see the menu like they're protecting the Krabby Patty secret formula from Spongebob SquarePants or some shit. Or you can't see their fucking full menu because it's currently time for the breakfast menu - having never considered that perhaps you're looking at the menu because you want to figure out what you'd like to order for lunch or supper later. Pretty much all of them do this now, and you frequently can't view the menu without acting like you're actually making an order, even if the restaurant is closed. One place local to me will let you go through the entire ordering process only for you to click the 'checkout' button and say "we're sorry but this location is not currently accepting online orders, plz try calling instead!", motherfucker if I wanted to order over the phone, I would just have fucking called you in the first place.
Website development has gotten so fucking ridiculous over the past decade or so, and none of it actually looks good or is easily navigable anymore, not to mention most typically a tab that's sitting there doing nothing is eating up like 600MB of RAM for some reason even when it's inactive, because it's loaded down with so much Javascript and React or Node.js shit.
Whoever at Microsoft or Google thought that reaction emojis to emails is a good idea i want them publicly lynched.
Not only everyone at enterprise is using those gay ass HTML signature but now they passively aggressively react to me, which if you use a NORMAL email host, they just keep spamming you with emails like
Whoever at Microsoft or Google thought that reaction emojis to emails is a good idea i want them publicly lynched.
Not only everyone at enterprise is using those gay ass HTML signature but now they passively aggressively react to me, which if you use a NORMAL email host, they just keep spamming you with emails like
It fucking clogs the discussion, makes everything unreadable and you have no clue where to reply to.
I need to stop using this at work, I put heart emojis everywhere, even this morning on the mail of the indian guy who finally pushed an update to my lab.
I miss when I didn't have to download an app or scan a QR code to do basic stuff.
Wanna pay for parking at the beach? You'll have to pay through an app..
Need to see the menu at a restaurant? Scan this QR code..
I miss when I didn't have to download an app or scan a QR code to do basic stuff.
Wanna pay for parking at the beach? You'll have to pay through an app..
Need to see the menu at a restaurant? Scan this QR code..
I do everything I can to avoid that kind of nonsense. I won’t park in any car park that I can’t pay for with cash. If I go to a restaurant or cafe that has QR only menu I will just leave and go somewhere else. I refuse to do online check in for airlines as well as any attractions that require an e-ticket.
I've almost clicked on the reaction emojis when using the webmail version at the day job and it drives me nuts. It's bad enough when clients use emojis in email because it feels unprofessional, so I cringe at the fact they are available as reactions for corporate users.
I miss when I didn't have to download an app or scan a QR code to do basic stuff.
Wanna pay for parking at the beach? You'll have to pay through an app..
Need to see the menu at a restaurant? Scan this QR code..
I hate how there is the expectation anyone with a smartphone must either scan QR codes or download an app to do basic tasks when scanning the QR code or using the app takes more time than it would to do it manually.
I do everything I can to avoid that kind of nonsense. I won’t park in any car park that I can’t pay for with cash. If I go to a restaurant or cafe that has QR only menu I will just leave and go somewhere else.
I also try to avoid all of that as much as possible. I'd rather park int he parking decks that don't require an app and walk a few blocks to the destination than use an app - especially when at least one local city has changed its parking system 2-3 times in recent years with each version requiring its own proprietary app to pay for parking. No thanks, especially if and when it's later revealed these apps either leak personal information or have gaping security flaws (or both).
It's related to the trend to require an internet connection for the most basic of functions without taking into consideration that outages of any sort will effectively leave people cut off from doing anything productive during the downtime.
I hate how there is the expectation anyone with a smartphone must either scan QR codes or download an app to do basic tasks when scanning the QR code or using the app takes more time than it would to do it manually.
Sometimes I'll take my old flip phone with me and whenever an employee asks me to scan/use my phone I'll pull out the old one and they'll look so confused
I once wanted to buy something in an online shop, I selected stuff into my cart, got to the checkout, entered my e-mail, but had to leave for something. I came back, tab still open, but a new e-mail. I checked the e-mail, and it was one of these "you forgot" cattle prods. I sent them a reply, stating this as a reason I will not be finishing that order, or indeed, ever buy anything from them. And I'm fine! Didn't need that item after all! I just don't give people who treat me like niggercattle money (apart from the government, unfortunately), I just mentally can't do it anymore, feels too disgusting.
I really wish that Sony didn't go on a colossal moral hazard bender throughout the 2000s that caused their entire consumer electornics division barring PlayStation and Ericsson phones to go tits-up during the 2008 financial crisis. I was digging through old crates from a decade plus ago in a utility closet for a spare extension lead when I came across laptop chargers for now-defunct Sony Vaio laptops, a miniDV Sony camcorder, stuff along those lines. Fuck Panasonic, JVC, and Sharp: they were always the cheapo plasticky brands that we used because we had no better options. You shell out the premium for Sony back then, you were gonna get quality... at least once upon a time that was the case.
account with some tech giant, accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy, scan your face for age verification, pay the monthly subscription and you will be ready to unlock the cup and imbibe your beverage hot like it was meant to be."
", "will you send us feedback or rate us five stars on Google pwease?", and it has gotten to the point where, before you can search for a product and actually use the fucking site, you basically just have to sit there and mash ESC for a minute before the site is actually useable. 
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