BenLeMan @ BenLeMan @lemmy.world

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Ads are a brainwashing technique designed to turn my baser instincts against myself for someone else's gain. And they're unwanted content that disrupts the flow of the content I've chosen to watch.

What is it with those USB dongles? Mine also just died after a while. But yeah, the Xbox controller is great and since it uses regular Bluetooth, the dongle isn't the only way to connect it.

Why do you even need to see that light? I chose a solid metal case, simple as. Noise dampened, protects against electromagnetic interference and isn't prone to spontaneously exploding as many glass cases are.

Only if you do your part.

(is the logic here)

And lots of straight up Latin, yeah.

Of course you realize that English is a Germanic language? Therefore it is you who have strayed from the proper words. 😉

I feel like they've gotten better over time. And some settings you're really only supposed to be changing if you know what you're doing.

You know you're going to be suffering the FOMO until you do it.

Dialogues that don't require clicking OK to apply my selection. What if I change my mind or click the wrong thing?

Here's a past annoyance: help text for BIOS settings that was like

Tronic memory catalyst conversion ratio: Sets the ratio of tronic memory catalyst conversion.

O RLY? 🤔

Blue LEDs are eye piercing, especially when they are always on and you are trying to sleep in the same room.

Users are lazy AF and hate to read. No matter how instructive the error message, some people would rather open a helpdesk ticket because "the computer isn't working again".

It says right there your USB drive is full and suggests deleting some files to free up space, Karen! 🤨

Cries in 4K monitor

Seriously, I love the concept of NewPipe but the low resolution bugs me too much. I'm holding out with Firefox and uBlock as long as I can.

And guess what, if it gave me an ad free experience at an affordable price I actually wouldn't mind paying for YT Premium.

Yeahhh, I mean, it's not terrible once you zoom in but I couldn't resist the opportunity to crack this joke.

There's no gooning like gooning adventures with your friends. 😄

Fun!

Let's not forget the grand daddy of them all: The Lord works in mysterious ways.

Somewhat apropos I recommend watching Adam Curtis' take on what he calls Oh Dearism:

https://thoughtmaybe.com/oh-dearism/

Great "use" of quotation "marks" and I'll have one of each please. 😊

You're reading this wrong.

From my experience, yes. Especially since tabs or a table with invisible grid lines are usually the better tools for this job.

But people still use their computer like a typewriter, 25 years after those went out of fashion.

In fairness, you're right. I just spent a few minutes looking at higher resolution images of the box and it does not make that claim.

That said, the meme captures the spirit of an era pretty perfectly. I still think it hits the nail on the head.