Asklemmy

I still like my chromecast a lot and it’s near 6 years old. I stream all my illegal movies and shows through it so I’d say it saved me thousands by now

My job. I resigned earlier this week after 8 1/2 years.

McDonalds. It's the shittiest fast food place and maybe the most unjustifiably expensive.

I hear you on the streaming sticks. 10 years ago, you could throw a Chromecast in your suitcase, plug it into a hotel TV, and cast anything you wanted from your phone. Now, if you try to do that, you have to set the Chromecast up through the Google home app, tell it what "room" it's in, but then you can't cause you arent at your "home", so you have to set up a new "home", and then that doesn't usually work, so you just quit and read a book instead.

My gripe is with the androidTV/roku/etc being built into the TV. Just give me a big monitor that can switch inputs, that's it. I install TVs for work and I can't count the amount of times the TV is just trashed because the software is screwed up and you aren't even able to switch it to HDMI1 and carry on like it doesn't exist. It's hot garbage, keep that shit on little HDMI sticks that you can throw away without throwing away the whole TV. Seriously, your TVs life gets cut in half if you have a whole OS on it. Bring back dumb firmware.

Doordash and other similar services. My order is wrong 9 times out of 10, and the price isn't justifiable. I'd rather save the frustration and money and just make ramen or similar meals when I've been smoking or drinking and shouldn't drive to fulfill the munchies.

DNC

Dealing with people who have a problem with me, but will refuse to tell me why. Either tell me, so we can discuss it or stop wasting my time. I no longer have the patience with the whole "read between the lines" bullshit.

Google. It's been a long process but I've been degoogling little by little for a multitude of reasons.

I think I’m at my wit’s end with “smart” things.

Roomba? It takes less time to just vacuum the place than it does for the fucking vacuum to realize it’s been humping the same chair leg for most of its battery charge.

Assistants?

“Hey Google, open the bedroom blinds”

“Sorry, that device hasn’t been configured yet”

“Hey Google, open the bedroom blinds”

“Sure, turning 2 lights on”

“Hey Google, open the bedroom blinds”

“Sure, opening the blinds”

Slackware Linux. For a while I thought, when it boots up KDE with a browser you're basically done, and it's kinda cool running the oldest surviving Linux distro.
The simplicity under the hood is kinda cool, too.
But every single thing I tried to get working on top of the base install (Flatpak, Steam, Slackbuilds, energy management, etc...) was a fight, and at some point I thought "fuck this, all these issues were solved 15 years ago by others."

The Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk 2077. I just can't get into them at all. I've tried half a dozen times and just got bored after a few hours of gameplay time.

I've accepted that I just don't like them. Games should be fun, not feel like a chore to play.

Keeping in touch with people. I have no idea what causes it but people just stop talking to me. I've lost touch with so many friends and family members over the years that in a lot of ways its just not worth the effort to make new ones. Which gets pretty lonely but I don't see an alternative.

I realize that part of it is my fault as I'm not the best at keeping up with people either, but I at least make the effort with the few friends and family I'm trying to keep so I don't lose absolutely everyone. The only exception is work colleagues and my mother who I have a strained relationship with.

I'm sure the work colleagues will fade if I ever leave the company, as has happened every single time before. I'm sure you can guess why my relationship with my mother isn't something I necessarily want to improve.

I've received multiple reasons that people never message, usually some variant of forgetting to respond due to being too busy. But what's especially frustrating are the people that say, I think of you often and things of that nature, but that never seems to translate into, "let's see how they're doing by reaching out". Adding to this is how I've never had much luck making friends so it's not like I've ever had a large pool to draw from.

Windows. I am tired of the constant enshitification. I was waiting for it's end of support because of games and the extra work needed to make them work on Linux (had to have the support of two friends who know Linux to try and get my steam to actually recognize my games and run them with proton, and it took 3 nights of help to find the issues and then fix them to get it working consistently) but I am so glad I'm doing this now, I'm already enjoying Linux more than windows and the issues I'm having are because of companies like discord not making streaming unnecessarily a pain

Life. I tried several times to make it better and every time it "gets better" it actually gets worse than it was before. I was misdiagnosed as the blue puzzle piece and even though I literally am not that crap I'm still practically stalked by adult protective service even after changing my name and using a ups store as my "address". I never tell anyone about the MISdiagnosis because they never believe it was a mistake. Yet a lot of people still infantilize me and talk to me like I'm minutes old. These people would treat a literal preschooler like they're more mature than me. I can keep running but I can't hide from that damn puzzle piece. And honestly I'm tired of running. 🥱🔫

Everyone can like or dislike anything, but that stupid puzzle piece made me like or dislike stuff. No, lostwave is not a "special interest" it's just a thing I enjoy. I don't play video games because of that stupid puzzle piece, I play games because they're FUN. I made games for a hobby, not because that stupid fucking puzzle piece made me like programming. You don't need to talk to other people about me in front of me like I'm an animal, about why these things "make me so happy".

I hate how I'm perpetually too old AND too young for everything. Everything family friendly is age regression, and everything else is "not suitable" for me. Smash Bros and Overwatch were both, a game for little kids, and a game with too much violence. But if I don't enjoy anything anymore, that stupid puzzle piece is why, and not all the bullshit I got from literally everyone in my life.

I give up on life because I'm sick and tired of living as a puppet controlled by a disorder I don't even have. I'm tired of fighting to be human. I'm done.

America

My parents and their endless bigotry.

Electronics with bad interfaces.

Either make your shit user friendly, or I'm returning it. If I have Google how to do basic things F U. You and your product isn't worth my time.

Same with subscription fees.

Dual-booting, modding, or debloating Windows. And anything but the LTSC edition. It'll all fall apart within a year given the nature of Windows 10 updates. Projects like Ameliorated, while well-intentioned, are a security mess waiting to happen since you have to disable any and all updates.

So I bit the bullet on an extra laptop, exiled any Windows-specific projects, files, etc. to it and slapped on a copy of LTSC. I consider the machine compromised and only use it for what absolutely depends on Windows.

Lemmy.

Z-Wave. I could never get it working quite right despite purchasing highly recommended Aeotec stuff.

The MultiSensor 7s and door sensors would always report a battery level of 100%, fall off the network, and do other crazy stuff. I spent a year with a Z-Stick 7 before finally bailing a buying a fifth generation stick.

Firmware updates would take weeks because they just wouldn’t install. Constantly factory resetting them never fixed anything either.

I really hate to say it, but Zigbee ended up working much better despite living in a 2.4GHz interference hell hole.

Corporate media

Burger King. They've messed up orders, burned food, and drowned stuff in mayonnaise too many times to tolerate.

Now I just cook frozen burger patties on the stove, and tell myself that their sides were never all that great anyway.