Gestrid

Gestrid , 2 months ago to Comic Strips in Death by PowerPoint [Work Chronicles]

"Oh, looks like nobody's doing anything during their lunch break, so I'm sure it'll be fine to schedule a meeting during it."

If they're paying for lunch, I'm fine with it. If not, I'm not fine. My lunch is my time to recharge for the rest of the workday.

Gestrid , 2 months ago to Comic Strips in Death by PowerPoint [Work Chronicles]

If somebody did that, I'd disapprove of those rules out of pure spite.

Gestrid , 2 months ago to Memes in was this not allowed before?

Yes, but 99% (give or take) of Android users won't know or care how to install 3rd party apps. So most people would only care about the Google Play Store limitation.

Gestrid , 2 months ago to Memes in was this not allowed before?

That's for manually installing apps, I believe. But developers on Google Play have to follow this.

Gestrid , 2 months ago to Memes in was this not allowed before?

I think you meant to reply to this comment.

Gestrid , 2 months ago to Memes in was this not allowed before?

Technically, Android does that, too, but the limit on that is a few years. If I'm not mistaken, the lowest version of Android that Google will allow a user to install through the Play Store is Android 12 (released in September 2020).

Gestrid , 2 months ago to Memes in was this not allowed before?

I'm a Windows user, but my church uses a Mac to run its projection and video recording. I'll admit it works pretty well for what we typically need it to do, but it recently took me like five minutes to figure out how to crop a picture because you apparently can't do that by simply opening the file and clicking the crop icon.

Mac's filesystem is an absolute mess, too. This might just be my own inexperience, but I've saved things like PowerPoints and videos in order to upload them, and then I'll go to the website to upload them, and I won't be able to find them because they're not in a specific folder or something.

Gestrid , 2 months ago to Memes in was this not allowed before?

This is true. It's an operating system that runs on a computer.

Computers can be good or bad depending on the hardware they use.

Gestrid , 2 months ago to Memes in was this not allowed before?

Fast forward to today, I ended up killing him and am writing this from jail.

That went from 0 to 100 real fast.

Gestrid , 3 months ago to Technology in The Incognito Mode Myth Has Fully Unraveled

To be fair, I don't think the average user would think that Google, the creator of that Incognito Mode, would keep the data.

Incognito Mode warns specifically that websites the user navigates to may still keep records, but I don't think it says anything about the creator of the browser keeping records (unless, of course, you visit their website).

Gestrid , 3 months ago to Technology in Enshittification Continues: Discord to begin showing advertisements on it's free platform

To a degree, yes. But a non-public company doesn't usually have that "obligation" for ever-growing profit. Unfortunately, Discord's goal does seem to be to eventually get an IPO.

Gestrid , 3 months ago to Technology in Enshittification Continues: Discord to begin showing advertisements on it's free platform

It is, but it's not exactly a good subscription service for the average Discord user. In the past, they kept adding and removing features, trying to find stuff that stuck. While I think they've got a decent feature set right now, it's still not great, and I don't think the average Discord user would be very impressed by it.

"Pay $10/ month for increased upload size, custom emojis shared everywhere (and not tied to being used in only one server), and animated profile pics/ banners/ backgrounds!" There are other features, but I don't think most people would use them.

The biggest feature, custom emojis being able to be used in any server, is also part of their $5/ month tier, so most subscribers don't even have a need for the more expensive tier.

Gestrid , 3 months ago to Technology in Enshittification Continues: Discord to begin showing advertisements on it's free platform

I still use it occasionally. It's primarily used for smaller, more private communities, but Wikipedia also hosts official IRC rooms, too. I don't know of any other major companies that use IRC in an official capacity, though.

Gestrid , 3 months ago to Technology in Enshittification Continues: Discord to begin showing advertisements on it's free platform

They tried to do that, but it's difficult to make a decent subscription service for what's essentially a chat app.

Gestrid , 3 months ago to Technology in Enshittification Continues: Discord to begin showing advertisements on it's free platform

If I'm not mistaken, they are a private company.

Granted, they're a private company with a goal of getting an IPO soon, though.