New - The things that really annoy you

[Templeton Peck]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1968698888660852800

40%!! The fuck! These people should be publicly executed.

 

[Wolftone]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1968698888660852800

40%!! The fuck! These people should be publicly executed.

Is it partly a result of clueless bar staff? Minimum wage in england behind the bars. Service is rubbish/non existent.

 

[Sniffer]

Palestine, Ukraine, £150bn of investment so what will the BBC lead the news with regards to the Trump state visit ?

Immigration by small boats and Sadiq Khan. Do such editorial decisions have to be approved by the Daily Heil and Farage?

 

[Jack Regan]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1968698888660852800

40%!! The fuck! These people should be publicly executed.

I was in the Euston Tap last Friday (before heading back to Wolves) and the queue was out the door despite there being plenty of room at the bar. It was also pissing it down with rain outside which made it even more stupid.

They've changed the bar in there and only had two staff on but there was no reason for a practically single file queue.

 

[Alan]

Going against my principles by pre-ordering the Airpods Pro 3 so they'd get here today... Only for the estimated ship date to get pushed all the way into mid-October.

Why the fuck did I pre-order them, then? I could probably pick some up from an Apple Store today but nooooo, I had to give my money to Amazon. Shameful.

 

[Stan Hullis]

I need to find somewhere with stock so I can pick them up this week.

 

[BillyDee]

Fuck Apple

 

[Alan]

Fuck Apple

Believe me, of the big tech oligarchs they're not close to the worst. Still a soulless corporation but at least they don't give the cops a backdoor into iPhone data (not yet, anyway) and they aren't involved in helping the IDF bomb Gaza.

Low bars but I'll take it. No ethical consumption and all that.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

iPhones are fucking waaaaaaank.

 

[BillyDee]

Low bars but I'll take it

Change your network then..?

 

[Alan]

iPhones are fucking waaaaaaank.

Name a phone that isn't!

All smartphones fucking suck and are awful, but here we are.

 

[Langers]

Fucking depressing that we keep looking at the things we subscribe to (Amazon, Spotify, Samsung phones, YouTube etc etc) and trying to find a brand that ISN'T morally corrupt is like trying to find a positive post from Jinky in a matchday thread

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Name a phone that isn't!

All smartphones fucking suck and are awful, but here we are.

Personally I don't like having the equivalent of a parental lock on technology that as an adult, I spent my own money on. It's my phone, don't wall access off to chunks of it.

It's been a long time since I had one in fairness but I'd never go back. ITunes is shocking software and always has been, and using Spotify on it was a nightmare as the cache constantly got clogged after a few hours of listening and guess what, Apple don't let you clear it (or didn't back then). Constantly uninstalling the app and re-installing it was the only "fix".

 

[Alan]

They've loosened up on a lot of that stuff, though I can't imagine they did so out of the kindness of their hearts (more that people are finally realizing that their walled garden and the bullshit that goea along with it are pretty monopolistic).

I swapped from Android five-ish years ago, so the proper "Jobs' way or no way" era passed me by. Still, as a developer, I can appreciate some of those locks in the name of the ecosystem; there are capabilities that you're just never realistically going to implement if a third party controls the API you're integrating with.

I'd still absolutely rather give my money to Apple than Google or Samsung, but it's all lipstick on pigs.