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.

  • Jomn
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    • Cars, even if I use public transports and my bike as much as possible, I still have to use it sometimes
    • Supermarkets, I try to buy things elsewhere but it’s not always possible…
  • Metal Zealot
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    Illustrator. It’s industry standard for graphic design, but has the stability of a toddler on ice

    • @intensely_human@lemm.ee
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      I’ve built plugins for Illustrator and other adobe projects and their internal API is trash.

      This is the company that re-deployed their entire history of support forums accumulated over decades, into a new forum software, without realizing they were breaking twenty years’ worth of links.

      Those forum posts, which took the place of their nonexistent documentation, were the community’s collective work product and the company just said “fuck it” and broke every link and bookmark anyone ever had to any obscure topic about adobe tech.

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        Fucking… Wow. I personally never had any luck on their shite forums, but that’s terrible.

        I wish Astute Graphics would just make their own vector design program, their plugins are what make illustrator tolerable

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    iPhone. I travel a lot and I had my bags lost three times. Well no more thanks to AirTags.

    We don’t know where your bag is, come back tomorrow and try . I understand you overworked and underpaid but my bag right behind that wall. Oh look it was.

    This is only thing reason why I keep using it. I am not going to be hater . For some people it is a great phone but gods on high the limits all over the place.

    Here is app drawer. Great can I change Categories? Nope have fun if an app is wrong category. At least I can change what icon gets big? Nope.

    The keyboard? Where is the bloody , or ? Button? On android I can have button that lets me pick any of those. But not here I have to go into an under keyboard. But you can have auto prediction on! Not once have it given me a question mark during this whole rant.

    The spellcheck. This is probably me being dumb but god, how do I correct? It doesn’t seem to work if I click the word it doesn’t work if I use spacebar to guide it to end of a word. Only seems to work if I somehow managed to click at the end of the word.

    The first party cable missing the basic thing pretty much every 3 party cable using to prevent the cable from breaking but no need to 3d print option for it.

    The lockdown. Now this maybe obsidian but I will blame Apple. I love lockdown and I probably should not use it yada yada. But why can’t I just a bloody list of all apps and white lists what I want? No instead I have do a big song and dance with sync on obsidian for over 3 hour’s then just one day it works and shows up.

    • Google is rolling out their own find device network soon™ with third party trackers that are rechargeable. They’re pushing it through play services too so every android phone in the world will be in the network too, so it’s a much more global network if you are traveling off the beaten path.

      • @Player2@sopuli.xyz
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        Some people especially with older devices might not like the constant telemetry in the background…

        • Polar
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          That’s an extremely small minority, and you can turn it off if you want.

        • You have full control of the level of opt in. You can go always listening, only in high traffic areas, or completely opt out of the network. But if you want to use the network, you have to contribute to it.

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            I’m sure, and it’s great for the usability of the products, I’m just always wary about updates changing settings in the background and not necessarily informing the user. Google is pulling this same thing with their ‘ad personalization’ tracking nonsense. Most users won’t know how to or won’t bother to opt out of something that was automatically turned on in the background, even if they would prefer it to be off if they had been asked.

    • @arcrust@lemmy.ml
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      I’ve used ios quite a bit and have many, many complaints. But you just reminded me of one. My work has two ipads for us to use in the field. One is the biggest sized model, the other is a mini. The password has an exclamation point. For one iPad, the exclamation point is in the first page of symbols. The other is two pages back. Like what the fuck

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    Condoms. Those things are the worst, with only kids being more annoying.

    • Bob
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      I know this is odd, unsolicited advice that may seem a bit braggy, but if you have the problem with them that I suspect you may have, there are websites you can open on your phone that you can use to measure yourself by what size you should be wearing. Game changer for me!

  • @sunbrrnslapper@lemmy.world
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    Google Workspace. I have several clients who insist on using it for unknown reasons. It creates unprofessional looking work products. And in some cases, it is just plain kludgy (slicers randomly shoot themselves over the Sheet, page numbers randomly renumber when the footer is updated, etc). The part that gets me the most is that it is similar in price to other productivity suites, but often our clients opt to buy Zoom and Slack on top of that - basically doubling the price.

    • @stealth_cookies@lemmy.ca
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      I’m forced to use Google Workspace and I absolutely hate it. The document suite is so horrible when trying to do anything that isn’t a basic document or spreadsheet. Gmail sucks for long email threads and anything with attachments and the search is useless. Google Chat is a barebones piece of shit compared to Slack.

      Luckily I’ve been able to get Microsoft Office for the things that require it, including Outlook using the GWSMO tool.

    • @lichtmetzger@feddit.de
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      Exporting a Google Doc to HTML creates the worst structure I’ve seen in a long time. They can’t even export lists correctly.

      It feels like they built this in the IE6 days and never touched it again.

      My employer wanted to use it to manage privacy policies, site notices and other legal documents of our clients. Greeeeat fun when it’s time to embed this stuff on a client’s website.

      Either it looks like shit or I spend 1-2 hours to fix the formatting manually…

  • @Jourei@lemm.ee
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    My vote goes to Google, to whom I am tightly married. It’s ecosystem and interconnectivity between apps as well as devices is unbeatable. It’s super reliant.

    It’s the one entity that can wreck my online and offline presence. I mean, I use android and Google to login everywhere. If Mr. Google so decrees, my phone could wipe and google account be gone tomorrow. Same applies to Apple and Microsoft, but I don’t use their systems as much. The poison I picked is Google and I hate it.

    • @stealth_cookies@lemmy.ca
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      I feel like I don’t use that many Google services (mostly because I’m not convinced they won’t shut down), but the ones I do use are the ones that would really suck to lose access to. I realized this a few months ago and have at least been working on moving my email away from Gmail to my own domain since that is the critical one that could screw everything up.

      • @joel@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        I moved to protonmail years ago for this reason, but then my friend gave me a free paid YouTube account so I created a new Gmail account and found a new love for heavy metal. Since then the algorithm has learnt my tastes so well I would be devastated to lose my account, but I made a pact with myself that if my friend ever decided to ditch her account that I wouldn’t pay for my own. So I’m totally at the mercy of her whims, and she doesn’t even know!

    • @pathief@lemmy.world
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      In the last months I tried to cut as many Google services as I could. I use the Proton suite now, it’s nice.

      Unfortunately I still heavily rely on them for Android phone and TVs… Not to mention YouTube, which is yet to have a good competitor.

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        I doubt we’ll ever see competition to Youtube. It has reached the point where they will basically have to be antitrusted like AT&T to see a competitor.

        • Obinice
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          I don’t even know if YouTube will be around in 30 years, let alone not have competitors.

          All gigantic businesses think they’re too big and entrenched and used every day to fail, until they do. Just look at Yahoo! as one example from recent memory.

          So, we’ll see, I suppose!

          • @Tak@lemmy.ml
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            In the end I am just a dummy on the internet speculating. For all I know climate change will be coming down from the top rope and take Google with it.

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            I mean…you’re probably right. But there’s a little part of me that thinks…they said the same thing about Facebook, that it wouldn’t last five years, that it would go the way of MySpace and something else would jump in, but… it’s been just a few months shy of 20 years now, and even though it’s not the juggernaut it used to be, it’s entrenched in a way I never expected.

            And then there’s, like, GE, which is 130 years old…or Cigna, Remington, Citi, or Chase, which are older. Some others, like AT&T, do a little dance and come back…I dunno. Some companies just have staying power (in the case of Cigna, I think it might be a pact with some unholy abomination). And they’re all still dominating or at least leading their respective markets.

            Even your example, Yahoo, while certainly not the cultural force it once was, is still around in a slightly different incarnation. Nothing ever really dies, it seems.

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    Credit cards

    Just a slimy middleman taking a cut of every transaction and trapping people in debt. But a bit of a tragedy of the commons because merchants raise prices to accommodate CC fees and the rewards are hard to pass up.

    • @TheGalacticVoid@lemm.ee
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      Credit cards also incentivizes more spending than other forms of payment, so the merchants that are lobbying for legislation want to have their cake and eat it too. In fact, retailers did not lower prices after the Durbin Amendment capped debit card fees. Also, you’re kinda ignoring the insane amount of protections that credit cards have that debit cards and cash don’t, and those come at a cost. If we’re talking about mom and pop shops, sure they’re evil. But for a lot of consumers, they’re just another tool that they shouldn’t be guilty for using effectively.

    • @TheGalacticVoid@lemm.ee
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      Credit cards also incentivizes more spending than other forms of payment, so the merchants that are lobbying for legislation want to have their cake and eat it too. In fact, retailers did not lower prices after the Durbin Amendment capped debit card fees. Also, you’re kinda ignoring the insane amount of protections that credit cards have that debit cards and cash don’t, and those come at a cost. If we’re talking about mom and pop shops, sure they’re evil. But for a lot of consumers, they’re just another tool that they shouldn’t be guilty for using effectively.

  • oscardejarjayes [comrade/them]
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    your mother /s. The google productive suite is something I have to use, but I do not like it. I’ve cordoned it off to a separate Firefox profile with no personal stuff on it, but still.

  • @vis4valentine@lemmy.ml
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    Button shirts.

    The day on fully out as trans ill never touch a button shirt again. I wanna have all black blouses.