danhakimi

Meh. The mobile reddit apps and new reddit are truly trash. A lot of lemmy apps could still use work, especially kbin, and a lot of communities could use a cleaner UI, but ultimately, I think people are using Reddit due to inertia and positive network effects.

I found, ages ago, that I never used the google app for something I couldn't do in my browser. Like, this was back in the days just after Google Now died—all the features that almost worked just got scrapped because they really didn't work. It allowed me to keep up with one college sports team, but other than that, opening the app was just a slower version of opening up my firefox and searching there.

So that's what I do now. I disabled the Google app, and I don't miss it at all.

I disabled the google app years ago. I use my browser for search, and then when I get the results, the results actually show in my browser, and I don't have to switch apps or anything to get to my browser.

Plus, I don't have to look at the vestiges of all the features the app used to have, which now just feel like they've left the UI cluttered and pointless.

Plus, every time I open the app, I feel like I'm being spied on, because I am.

Plus, Google Assistant sucks ass. The voice commands are super unreliable, and as for search, I don't want AI to guess what I'm trying to search for, deterministic imperative searches are actually better.

Not specifically, but some people aren't going to do their research to find the best value. They know Canada Goose makes quality parkas with good hoods, and they know where they can try them on. They're often significantly warmer and lighter than products from The North Face and others. Eddie Bauer's are kind of insider information and harder to find. Uniqlo and Abercrombie make less premium products with polyfill instead of down, with fake fur hoods, etc. There are plenty of practical reasons to go for the more expensive jackets.

or that you don't like freezing your ass off, but sometimes need to leave the house when it snows.

Nobody actually using bitcoin bitches and whines because there are only six of them and they're all neck-deep in the cult mentality promoted by the hundred thousand other guys who pump the culture to maximize their returns.

OP already has a bank. OP has a problem to solve and instead of trying to help OP, you decided to act like a dick and just whine about how easy you think crypto is and how everybody else should think it's just as easy as you think it is.

By the way—you don't have to store your credit card number anywhere. If you lose your card, or it gets stolen, or somebody else manages to guess it, or any other form of loss or fraud happens to your credit card, the company will keep you safe. The concern with crypto wallets is that most of them are actual scams, if you install one from the wrong place you will lose every penny as soon as you add it to the wallet. If you store your key in the wrong place, you'll lose your money, and if you don't store it in enough places, you'll lose it and lose your money, but storing it in three secure places is basically its own fucking job.

And that's not even to mention stuff like death—death is a hard problem for most crypto wallets, because it requires you to trust other human beings with your payment info, and the only wallets that can handle that are social recovery wallets, which aren't even EOAs.

You have to be a fucking idiot to think crypto is anywhere near as convenient or straightforward or safe as traditional banking and credit cards.

next time... a sprinkle of salt and a hint of balsamic make tomatoes sing. I'd say throw in olive oil, but maybe the mozz is enough fat to do the job.

You do realize that you've skipped about 70 steps, right? OP needs to figure out what currency the recipient wants, pick a wallet app (most of the ones people recommend are god-awful), install it, create a wallet, figure out how to store keys for the wallet safely (which is really not possible), figure out how to add funds to the wallet in the right currency, pay attention to the transaction to make sure the right amount of funds are being transacted... and each of those steps has a dozen substeps, and requires research in an industry that is constantly lying to people.

... plus, OP did not say that there was a QR code involved at all, that's a very odd assumption on your part.

I really think this show was super overrated, and treats horrible, empty characters as three-dimensional and sympathetic. But oh well, have fun.

FWIW, the product recommendations on Mr. Porter articles don't actually come from the author of the article, Mr. Porter just wants to sell its expensive stuff. Just read the words.

it's still going to be a distraction, especially if it's the rare type of meeting you actually need to listen to or engage with.