Modern Web Woes - I'm mad at the internet

[HRT Heisenberg]

This drives me fucking MATI. I am constantly having to look up how to use certain frameworks and tools for work and about 80% of these sites use some form of medium.com and they block access to more than the first paragraph without signing up.. for a fucking tutorial. I don't get it, is medium doing this or do these faggots seriously believe their work solely intended for educating others is precious enough to gatekeep or in some cases outright paywall. Using anything other than Kiwifarms drives me insane at this point.

 

[prollyanotherlurker]

Some more faggotry.

 

[Testament]

There is this new AI Rufus crap Amazon has added to their site that became a pest after seeing it thrice. I may not use Amazon a lot, but it sure was annoying the few times I was looking stuff up for some relatives. I ended up blocking the element since it pops up every time you click on a product and feels like a popup in the way.. No clue how it does on mobile. A lot of it is merely dumbed-down answers towards things I could have looked up myself, or what was blatantly in the information and reviews of the product. Are people becoming that lazy? Am I just too annoyed by this? I feel like sites are beginning to do this in-general.

 

[GNU Abyss]

This drives me fucking MATI. I am constantly having to look up how to use certain frameworks and tools for work and about 80% of these sites use some form of medium.com and they block access to more than the first paragraph without signing up.. for a fucking tutorial. I don't get it, is medium doing this or do these faggots seriously believe their work solely intended for educating others is precious enough to gatekeep or in some cases outright paywall. Using anything other than Kiwifarms drives me insane at this point.

Try alternative Medium frontends like https://scribe.rip/. Libredirect has Medium as an option, but I find that the instances get rate limited a lot so it's best to do manual URL modification.

 

[Squishie PP]

There is this new AI Rufus crap Amazon has added to their site that became a pest after seeing it thrice. I may not use Amazon a lot, but it sure was annoying the few times I was looking stuff up for some relatives. I ended up blocking the element since it pops up every time you click on a product and feels like a popup in the way.. No clue how it does on mobile. A lot of it is merely dumbed-down answers towards things I could have looked up myself, or what was blatantly in the information and reviews of the product. Are people becoming that lazy? Am I just too annoyed by this? I feel like sites are beginning to do this in-general.

Companies saw how Apple became a huge success due to dumbing their devices down as much as possible in order to sell them to sub-zero IQ niggercattle and women. AI will enable companies to do this even further. The divide between powerusers and normie users is going to be a 300km-long chasm in the future.

 

[Spergles]

The divide between powerusers and normie users is going to be a 300km-long chasm in the future.

Maybe that can be used to the average power-user's benefit. Keeping cattle at bay makes room for more interesting conversations. A small but active community of inquisitive power-users will always be more interesting than the repetitive slop that cattle digest three or four times through their corporate sponsored feeding tubes - I mean user-feeds.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

Seems net is getting ever more non-functional, unless you use the latest browsers (maybe with crap privacy settings and no adblock).

 

[ZMOT]

semi-related, but what the fuck is it with buying music these days? wasn't even that old or niche, but getting a simple flac or even MP3 was borderline impossible, and no I'm not gonna sign up to apple music or spotify to stream that shit, I wanna OWN it.

unironically cheapest and easiest was to simply look up where to buy the CD (thanks discogs) and rip that shit myself a few days later. however that only works if there even is a physical release, some stuff is literally only available as stream in a fucking subscription. thankfully it was available on the high seas, but wtf...

 

[foam rolla]

I'm sick of retards insisting everyone has to have a microphone when 9/10 times its never even used for communication. Just being as obnoxious or annoying as possible to complete strangers.

Not gaming related, but tired of people insisting you have a web cam turned on for any sort of online meeting.

"Oh hey! can't see you. Must be a problem with your webcam. I can't see you!"

"I don't have one. We don't need it for a call"

"Oh jeez, that's weird. I mean I guess we can do the meeting but I can't see you"

 

[DeadwastePrime]

semi-related, but what the fuck is it with buying music these days? wasn't even that old or niche, but getting a simple flac or even MP3 was borderline impossible, and no I'm not gonna sign up to apple music or spotify to stream that shit, I wanna OWN it.

unironically cheapest and easiest was to simply look up where to buy the CD (thanks discogs) and rip that shit myself a few days later. however that only works if there even is a physical release, some stuff is literally only available as stream in a fucking subscription. thankfully it was available on the high seas, but wtf...

use bandcamp. or just use a youtube video downloader to get your music. either works and i dont get stingy over sound quality that badly unless its like jpeg compressed to fuck

 

[ToroidalBoat]

I wanna OWN it.

[that meme about living in pods and eating bugs]

 

[foam rolla]

use bandcamp. or just use a youtube video downloader to get your music. either works and i dont get stingy over sound quality that badly unless its like jpeg compressed to fuck

Or Soulseek

 

[alpha889boba]

semi-related, but what the fuck is it with buying music these days? wasn't even that old or niche, but getting a simple flac or even MP3 was borderline impossible, and no I'm not gonna sign up to apple music or spotify to stream that shit, I wanna OWN it.

unironically cheapest and easiest was to simply look up where to buy the CD (thanks discogs) and rip that shit myself a few days later. however that only works if there even is a physical release, some stuff is literally only available as stream in a fucking subscription. thankfully it was available on the high seas, but wtf...

If you want to pirate, just use soulseek or rutracker. If you want to support the artists, use bandcamp. It has mp3, flac, and WAV downloads for whatever you buy, and you don't need an account.

 

[Demonslayer1776]

Not gaming related, but tired of people insisting you have a web cam turned on for any sort of online meeting.

"Oh hey! can't see you. Must be a problem with your webcam. I can't see you!"

"I don't have one. We don't need it for a call"

"Oh jeez, that's weird. I mean I guess we can do the meeting but I can't see you"

Record yourself in a fairly static position while doing something like drinking a glass of water. Set it to the background and cover the camera. If it loops well people won't even notice. I've successfully gotten through some bullshit calls this way while working on something else. More of a solution for large meetings without alot of actual input though.

 

[foam rolla]

Record yourself in a fairly static position while doing something like drinking a glass of water. Set it to the background and cover the camera. If it loops well people won't even notice. I've successfully gotten through some bullshit calls this way while working on something else. More of a solution for large meetings without alot of actual input though.

Like this?

 

[GeorgeFloydFentanylStash]

On Google you can set your search results to a date range, try 1980-2009 and bookmark that page, return later for high quality searching of the old internet.

Use https://search.marginalia.nu/ for an independent search of blogs and personal internet pages

Haven’t tried the date range trick for google. But Marginalia seems like a higher quality Wiby. Big thanks for that link.

 

[Kiwi Lime Pie]

Most of these "apps" are a wrapper around a web browser.

Agreed, which is why I prefer accessing certain sites in my mobile browser over downloading a bloated app that likely sees security and useless updates being pushed nearly every other day.

And why is it that just about every scam call comes from India?

I'm not 100% sure, but I thought I saw something claiming many of India's phone scammers are from the lower caste(s) and they're willing to do anything for money no matter how illegal or immoral. With lower costs over there compared to the US, it's easier for them to profit from ripping off gullible and vulnerable Americans.

Not gaming related, but tired of people insisting you have a web cam turned on for any sort of online meeting.

Tangentially related to this, I had an antivirus program try to upsell me its premium version by showing a popup stating my webcam could be hacked. However, there's no cam on that particular computer. I suppose this is part of a larger woesome trend: companies using popups and other technological nuisances in their efforts to scare you into buying products/services you neither want nor need.

 

[Gender: Xenomorph]

'00s memes best memes

Current Year "memes" seem to be just "Wojak", "woke" propaganda, and short and abrupt "TikTok" clips.

I miss ragefaces

They were genuine creations and not just "Wojak this wojak that", or the forced "Isn't the meme from this movie so relatable?"

Yea bro I'm sure that people spam the snapshots from the latest capeshit movie "naturally"

Thread tax: I hate minimalist design. Is that line decorative, or a button. 3 parallel lines? 9 dots?

What is that square button with a circle supposed to mean? Where do buttons begin and end? What do 3 lines mean? Square? Circle? Nobody else uses that design and "minimizing" a notepad to a square and a dash does NOT help!

 

[HRT Heisenberg]

Thread tax: I hate minimalist design. Is that line decorative, or a button. 3 parallel lines? 9 dots?

What is that square button with a circle supposed to mean? Where do buttons begin and end? What do 3 lines mean? Square? Circle? Nobody else uses that design and "minimizing" a notepad to a square and a dash does NOT help!

More generally it's like UI designers have stopped having fun. I've seen genuine UI related blog posts where they argue anything that isn't flat is bad because muh ergonomics or <insert speculative psychological term here>. I understand that maybe having a few extra gradients to make an icon or button pop or putting in extra effort to make a it look unique may not scientifically be the "best choice" but come on, everything looks the same with no indication anything will ever change. I miss the days where each website or app was unique or memorable in some way. But now look at any modern website, UI or OS and they've had the same soulless design for well over a decade and a half by now. Does anyone have any examples where this isn't the case in current year?

 

[ZMOT]

If you want to pirate, just use soulseek or rutracker. If you want to support the artists, use bandcamp. It has mp3, flac, and WAV downloads for whatever you buy, and you don't need an account.

not everything's on bandcamp (that specific album wasn't for example), and it belonged to epic for a while.

still there is some stuff that doesn't get a physical release at all and the only legal option is fucking streaming, that's where shit gets really idiotic.

Tangentially related to this, I had an antivirus program try to upsell me its premium version by showing a popup stating my webcam could be hacked. However, there's no cam on that particular computer. I suppose this is part of a larger woesome trend: companies using popups and other technological nuisances in their efforts to scare you into buying products/services you neither want nor need.

that shit is so fucking cancer, checked a notebook of a mate a few days ago for something unrelated, the pop-up spam shilling itself how good a job it does finding yet another tracker (just use umatrix ffs) was off the charts.