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What is something you dislike but still begrudgingly use?

https://lemmy.ml/post/7140880

What is something you dislike but still begrudgingly use? - Lemmy

This question was inspired by my hatred of Temporal Anti-Aliasing which, in many games nowadays, is poorly used as a performance bandaid. On lower resolutions it will smudge and blur the image and certain bad cases of TAA will cause visible ghosting. Yet in spite of all this, certain games won’t let you turn it off or have hair/fur/foliage look like dogshit without it so sometimes I still use it.

Oct 28, 2023 at 10:26amWeb
Show threaddotslashmeOct 28, 2023
The internet
Show threadLvxferreOct 28, 2023
Socks. If I’m at home you’ll never see me wearing socks, not even if it’s -5°C out there. But got to use them while wearing shoes, I guess.
Show threadestutwehOct 28, 2023
I hate socks and shoes. Something to do with being on the spectrum. I go barefoot, or wear thongs (flip flops) or crocs if I have to wear something. I pretty much only wear shoes/boots when mowing the lawn.
Show threaddingusOct 28, 2023
Really? I’m the opposite. My feet are usually always freezing even if it’s warm outside! So I wear socks.
Show threadDamageOct 28, 2023
Not OP, I don’t hate socks but they actually make my feet cold indoor sometimes
Show threadMouselemmingOct 28, 2023
I don’t mind socks but I hate shoes and I don’t like dirty socks. The sandals I wear all the time have a toe thong so no “socks with sandals” for me.
Show threadmattrebOct 28, 2023
Windows
Show threadbestusernameOct 28, 2023
I like Windows, it’s MS that I hate and the bullshit they add to Windows.
Show threadzzzzOct 28, 2023
I hate to break it to you, but the stuff MS added to Windows comprises literally all of Windows.
Show threadTexMexBazookaOct 28, 2023

Ehhh not really. On consumer devices yes, but when you start dealing with automated deployment and group policy and things like that, you can automate disabling telemetry services.

Now if you’re using something like azure or intune, you just have control of the spyware.

Show threadnetburnrOct 28, 2023
If you’re on M365 you get the added bills hit of them renaming portals, moving or downright removing settings. God forbid ymthe setting you need is powershell only and not ocumented online, cause support doesn’t even know their own products.
Show threadTexMexBazookaOct 28, 2023

Yeah…. The double edged sword of cloud infrastructure is that you have to rely on them not to fuck it up.

Less of an issue with AWS

Show threadmindbleachOct 28, 2023

‘I hate dirt in my burrito.’

‘There’s lots of stuff in a burrito.’

Show threadTheGalacticVoidNov 1, 2023
This analogy doesn’t work because you cannot cleanly separate things in a burrito, whereas you can in Windows to some extent.
Show threadmindbleachNov 1, 2023
My burritos never reboot by surprise to force updates that break decisions I mad about what’s in them.
Show threadTheGalacticVoidNov 1, 2023
How often does this even happen? In the past 3 years I’ve not met a single person who’s had a Windows update trigger randomly or had Windows make breaking changes.
Show threadmindbleachNov 1, 2023
If you expect me to prove Microsoft’s still doing what they’ve been infamous for doing for twenty straight years, the answer is no. Even if they magically stopped fucking people over this way - this doesn’t justify your dismissal of someone’s complaints about those stupid problems Microsoft created. It still happened to them, and they hated it, and you had to pipe up and say ‘well what about the parts where it didn’t fuck you.’
Show threadTheGalacticVoidNov 1, 2023
I’m not dismissing whether they ever happened. I’m questioning whether they still happen. I’m not going to hold a grudge against someone who stole an eraser from me in the 1st grade. I’m similarly not going to hold a grudge with Microsoft for one or two forced updates back when Windows 10 launched. If you wanted to talk about the issues with Windows Modern Standby or with Xbox’s treatment of the Minecraft community, then fine. Those issues still don’t ruin the other 90% of Windows, especially when considering the alternatives.
Show threadmindbleachNov 1, 2023
Neat, did you read past the first sentence?
Show threadTheGalacticVoidNov 1, 2023
Did you read past my 2nd?
Show threadmindbleachNov 1, 2023

Yeah. And I answered them before you wrote them. You know damn well Microsoft constantly includes infuriating bullshit - whether or not it’s the example I gave, dismissing your ridiculous hair-splitting. An example we have not established is even wrong. I just don’t fucking care whether it’s still a thing, because regardless, it’s part of a pattern.

The root of this pointless bickering is that someone said there’s parts of Windows they fucking despise, and you countered by saying Windows has many parts. Which is not a fucking counter.

Show threademptyotherOct 28, 2023
I’ve always felt theres multiple sides to Microsoft. Theres devs making a damn good and simple product. Then comes the enterprise devs that over-engineer the product. Then theres the marketing coming in and try to buy up competition or bundle the product with other products to force it on people (MS way of advertising). And THEN the suits either ruin the product for money or shutting it down for not either making enough money or for not helping their enterprise products make money (like for example VSCode is a product that helps MS make money on Azure).
Show threadEmpricornOct 28, 2023
Stockholm Syndrome…
Show threadmindbleachOct 28, 2023

Windows 7 was a fantastic operating system.

Windows 7 was fourteen years ago.

Show threadChrisOct 28, 2023
Secret Server (Thycotic/Delinea). What a crock of shite that is. I was trying to replace it but people at work who have more influence than I do actually like it. I guess they’ve never used a decent password manager. If we ever actually get to the point where we have to pay for it maybe they’ll change their mind.
Show threadnetburnrOct 28, 2023

What are you trying to replace it with? What are the features the business will get with the new product? What are some of the pain points and features missing from SS that your business needs.

A lot of time it’s just about how you go about the discussion on replacing tools.

Show threadurquellOct 28, 2023
WhatsApp
Show threadAzureDiamondOct 28, 2023
Surprisingly hard for people to accept.
Show threadThelsimOct 28, 2023
I really wish I could get out of using WhatsApp, but it’s all everyone ever uses.
And there just isn’t any good enough argument you can use to convince the average user from doing otherwise. Unless it literally makes the phone explode in your hands, people will not change.
Show threadBig POct 28, 2023
I didn’t have it for ages but it just resulted in people “texting” me and me never getting it because they actually sent me a WhatsApp
Show threadxmunkOct 28, 2023
Absolutely, it’s essentially required in Europe… but also, fuck Facebook.
Show threadlichtmetzgerOct 29, 2023
They will fall, the enshittification has already begun with the integration of influencer-related groups.
Show threadZippyOct 29, 2023
I think WhatsApp is still fantastic. Just a matter of time till Facebook incorporates it fully in. That is what worries me.
Show threadurquellOct 29, 2023
I won’t deny it is working very well. It is the Facebook part for me too
Show threaddumpster_dove [he/him]Oct 28, 2023
Facebook messenger for work
Show threadJK1348 [he/him]Oct 28, 2023
Sameeee
Show threadOhaOct 28, 2023
Youtube.
Show threadnobodyOct 28, 2023
Any plans to stop using it?
Show threadOhaOct 28, 2023
Nope. Lots of good content on there
Show threadpromitheasOct 28, 2023
Check out one the 3rd party frontends for it. I personally use piped.kavin.rocks on desktop. Same content but you dont visit the YT site for it
Show threadhungryphrogOct 28, 2023
You should try Piped.
Show threadjlow (he/him)Oct 28, 2023
And Freetube!
Show thread0x2dOct 28, 2023
and Invidious
Show threadanameOct 29, 2023
How’s the recommendations algorithm on piped?
Show threadhungryphrogOct 29, 2023
It simply shows videos from channels you subscribe to on your feed. In the settings, you can make it show you either “feed” ore “trending” as default. This of course makes it harder to discover new channels.
Show threadwatsonOct 28, 2023
Microsoft Office
Show threadtwistedtxbOct 28, 2023
Libre Office then?
Show threadestutwehOct 28, 2023
WordPerfect?
Show threadbrown567Oct 28, 2023
LaTeX?
Show threadstarmanOct 28, 2023
Markdown?
Show threadbrown567Oct 28, 2023
Rapidly becoming my preferred format for lab notes XD
Show threadstarmanOct 28, 2023
Ideal solution for me is markdown, with math written in embedded LaTeX
Show threadbrown567Oct 28, 2023
Yup!
Show threadwatsonOct 28, 2023
I use it also, but MS Office is standard at my company so when I create a report it’s in one of their formats. Maybe once I get comfortable with LibreBasic I’ll try to migrate.
Show threadMelonpolyOct 28, 2023
Cars
Show threadZerlynaOct 28, 2023
Facebook because my family is on it.
Show threadtwistedtxbOct 28, 2023
I can manage to skip FB altogether, but 99% of my friends and family are on Messenger
Show threadMrMamiyaOct 28, 2023
We have a group chat going that’s been pretty successful. My brother left Facebook first and that made it easier for me.
Show threadDigitJan 1

Fuck 'em.

Someone’s gotta leave.

Otherwise you’re the family they stay on it for too.

Show threadFizzOct 28, 2023
Safety bars on my power rack. I hate when the bar goes low and clanks on it and I’m always hyper aware about hitting it. But I have a home gym and I don’t want to die doing anything less than a 3 plate bench.