It’s just every thread man, every one of them devolves into it and I’m so tired. It’s quite literally like the Good Place where even the act of buying a tomato will get people raging in the comments about how apparently you support climate change, slavery, and every other bad thing involved in the growing of it. Or, hear me out, I just bought a tomato. I’m just so tired of it here

Your take is more nuanced than most I see here and I appreciate that, see the other comment as a prime example.

God you hit the nail on the head, and why I’m getting very annoyed here on Lemmy. People refuse to have nuanced takes and just comment incessantly about how people are evil and doing anything makes you a bad person. Turns out people are nuance, and we can judge them as such. You can say he did some terrible things to make Microsoft successful while also saying he has done some very good things with his fortune. It is not black and white.

Setting aside all the consumerism comments I’m sure my fellow Lemmy users will fill us in about - you don’t want any black Friday deals. I worked electronics retail for almost a decade and saw it.

Black Friday “deals” aren’t percentages off products you want. For the most part they are shittier models with a letter different from their normal model number. These special black Friday models are made with parts that failed qa or just all around are cheaper. The companies don’t just magically take 20% off, they plan for it.

That $100 dollar 48" flat screen? Yeah it’s worth $100. Hope it was worth giving up time in your holidays to buy, because there’s a decent chance you’ll be returning it when it breaks.

(Tip for those buying tvs. Super bowl is the best time of year to buy a TV. They’re the actual good models and it’s the best sales of the year. Stores are in the post holiday slump and eager to move them.)

Zoey Deschanel 's she and him album. On repeat. All month. I was there, man

Lawyers and marketers who refuse to see nuance and view everything as a potential threat

Not offended. Annoyed that on every thread here it devol es into politics and becomes a depressing place. I know the world is depressing and the everything is politics GM but goddamn I found this comic sweet, I followed xkcd through the cancer years, and someone saying “must be nice to have money” really feels disrespectful to them. Yeah, it probably did help, and yeah, our country sucks, but can we just have a nice comic for once that celebrates them making it through cancer? Why does every comment section on Lemmy have to have someone saying “Hey look! The system is fucked!”. I know it is! That’s why I was here trying to enjoy something for a few seconds!

Jfc this is exactly why people run to the right, because so many people on the left can’t let anything be a nice moment without making sure everyone knows that they’re the most moral person in the room. We all already know the problems.

Stop virtue signalling. It’s transparent, annoying, and hurts the causes more than helps.

Ah sweet ai slop!

Great, other companies have thought the same and they’re sheepishly realizing that’s not realistic. Let us know how it goes

SEO ruined the Internet

Oh, oh no no no it wasn’t

The reason he wants it is he doesn’t want secrets to setup auth

Yes I’d like auth without the auth please

That really sucks, I’m sorry :/ yet I’m not surprised at all. Airlines, while absolutely terrible, can see if you booked through them and if you’re a loyal flyer, and they’ll help you out. Priceline just don’t care at all about you, you’re a single transaction, and they already got their money

above my paygrade that last question. As for the first, we did automatically pull it out of the email, but it was sent to us manually

Rules I’ve learned from software engineering for almost 2 decades.

• Never roll your own ORM
• Never roll your own Auth

No matter what you think, someone else did it better. Trying to do either of those outside of a hobby environment is pure hubris. “But I can do it better” - no you fucking can’t. I have wasted much much more time debugging shitty “home grown” ORM solutions that clearly some dev just was bored and did than I have spent figuring out the quirks of whatever one I’m using. Same goes for auth. Just learn it.

I worked for a mid-sized government entity where we handled PII data. Underneath us were local municipalities who were in charge of sending us that PII so that it could be registered at our level. For PII think licenses, IDs, sensitive stuff for sure.

Most of the municipalities were easy to work with, they did an SFTP drop or used a VPN or something.

A couple though were rural. Very rural, and didn’t have IT departments. They had Martha who works the counter from 1-4pm. Those places were… horrid. We had a special email where they would email us whatever formats they had. Unencrypted, completely open, we couldn’t do anything about it because it was their data and their rules, it was our job to simply accept what they had. We could of course make serious suggestions, point out how horrid this was, but at the end of the day it was their decision. So we had a job to log into an email account every day, check for an email from Martha’s hotmail account, and parse the excel file she used to read out private IDs and license numbers which she manually typed into it.

This was 20 years ago now so dear god I hope their laws improved.

Okay so years and years ago I worked for… let’s say smexpedia.com. These third party booking platforms are just notoriously awful all around. They’re bad to you the consumer, they’re bad to the hotels, they’re bad to the hotel staff, they should be the last resort of booking. Hotels put their worst inventory up for sale on these sites that they know isn’t worth much. Then, these third party sites take those rates and do everything they can to squeeze every penny out of it. You are completely at the mercy of these two booking systems talking to each other, and bets are if something goes wrong you’ll end up at the hotel thinking you have a confirmed booking when in reality it’s gone missing.

If you booked via the hotel, if you get to the frontdesk they’ll help you. So most hotels do go empty, and front desk is happy to help, but if you booked via a third party you have to get it resolved through them. So front desk will have no ability to help you, and you’ll call the third party booking site and they’ll have you sit on hold for 40 minutes, then you’ll get someone who’s job it is to get you off the phone, and they’ll eventually call the hotel and try to blame the poor front desk person, and eventually maybe you get something worked out. This was the common story. We knew we were selling rooms that weren’t available, but the error rate was “manageable”.

And don’t think the bundles are saving you any money. Airlines operate on razor thin margins already, so they’re not wanting to give you a deal and remember now the third party wants a cut too. Rental cars are less and less bundle-able, and again, third party wants a cut.

Book directly through the hotel. Do research, pick a chain you like, and join their loyalty program. If you book third party you will get dick when you get to the hotel. Join the loyalty program and they’ll sometimes hook you up. Remember, many hotels go pretty empty regularly. If you’re nice to the front desk agent and they have the corner room open, they may give it to you, they have to me quite a bit. You’ll get nothing if you book third party, that was all decided well before you arrived.

I’m mostly venting to the abyss, but I hope someone sees this and it helps them

That’s all 100% a slippery slope argument. Fact is is that they’re already trying to do that. Saying no is only going to be ignored, as it already is. It’s better to provide a solution that works that also respects our privacy and allows us to maintain control over our devices, otherwise they’ll mandate the exact thing you’re worried about.