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Today I'm donating my streaming sticks. I got a ONN brand 2k one I bought for 15 and I got an Amazon Firestick 4K I got for $3 from a thrift store because they didn't know what it was.

And I love the concept of stream sticks, I really do. Too fucking bad that corporate interests got in the way and now everything has to have a bundle of ads at every damn turn. Not even some of the things I'm subscribed to is free from ads because this is the future apparently, we're here.

Shame because I don't want to let these go and even if I were to subscribe to Netflix's ad-free subscription, that's only one source. Why do that when I can just grab a long HDMI cable, plug it into my desktop and to my TV and I can watch everything that's there, without ads because of the extensions I use to block ads.

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[–] AFC1886VCC@reddthat.com 24 points 1 week ago (6 children)

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.

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[–] Laristal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] TheFunkyMonk@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago

My parents and their endless bigotry.

[–] andrewta@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] TokenEffort@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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. πŸ₯±πŸ”«

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.

[–] Akasazh@feddit.nl 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Hey man/girl/w/e,

I'm repressing the boomer thing to tell you it's going to be all right. I can't promise that.

I can just say that fighting the system is hard, I tried. Try work with it sometimes and see how that works out.

Also don't let anyone tell you thingsa are/aren't suitable. What makes you happy is very important to you. I started playing tf2 when I was in my late 20's and met a lot of people and had a blast.'

I feel, though, that my examples might not mean much to you now, and that's ok. Just know that I felt like what you described here and I managed to get it a bit better (i'm in my 40s now). Not everything is great, but I hop eyou find someone you can share some of your life with, that makes it easier.

Boomer out.

btw your username is great

[–] monovergent@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] Jayb151@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

And your other machine?

'please be arch. Please be arch'

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[–] j4k3@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

Corporate media

[–] lolola@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch 8 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] SweetCitrusBuzz@beehaw.org 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] NeoToasty@kbin.melroy.org 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

My therapist told me that family members can't be replaced. I disagree. They can be replaced. They only become titles but titles also can be ignored.

You don't have to associate with, acknowledge or interact with the biological family members if they've proven to have been a contractual mess of toxicity in your life.

I've replaced members of my 'real' family and I got better people. People who care and support. I recommend it, to anyone.

[–] SweetCitrusBuzz@beehaw.org 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yes, thankfully my therapist doesn't say that but she does seem to say it's all on me to deal with and change since I can't change them, which is fair.

Thankfully I have a few folks helping me escape them, but it's a slow process.

[–] grysbok@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 week ago

I finally blocked my mom's phone number earlier this month. It's only taken me 7 years since she blew up at me in a way she couldn't/wouldn't take back.

It can be a slow journey and you might question it as you go, but it's worthwhile. And more people than you might expect are estranged from their families. I used to worry that my IRL acquaintances and friends would judge me for it, but nope.

[–] QuantumSparkles@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I think my brain shut off because I read this like β€œHas Anyone Really Been Far Even as Decided to Use Even Go Want to do Look More Like”

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[–] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

Caring about my life. Im going to let the rest of this one slip through my fingers like beach sand. No need to hold on tight anymore.

[–] Akasazh@feddit.nl 4 points 1 week ago

Just be aware enough to hold on whenever you encounter a nugget of beauty

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[–] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Those bosses in my game that I keep dying on

[–] pseudonym@monyet.cc 2 points 1 week ago

Goddam traffic in cities skylines

[–] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

You just gotta clear the biter spawners around your factory so pollution doest trigger a ton of waves over and over.

Once you get a car drive really far in each direction because nest you have discovered don't evolve from time passing/pollution/killing spawners. Bring walls if you can and seal up choke points so you get peace of mind and can work on what's important.

Oh, and look into how to make a BUS. My first playthrough was full spaghetti. The BUS saved my life. There are guides on YouTube

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[–] bokherif@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Try appletv, a pirate ship and plex

[–] ClassifiedPancake@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It worked well for me until at some point the audio in Plex was slightly off and there was no way to adjust anything in this damn app. I was not alone with this issue but they never did anything about it.

[–] brygphilomena@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

I hate how corporate Plex has become. Instead of making their apps better, now it's how many "free" services they can try and get you to use.

All I wanted was my hosted media. And to easily share that with family without having to manage user accounts.

I run jellyfin along side it, but Plex still gets the most use.

[–] gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

My willingness to creat things for other people.

Less depressingly: the local pizza shop fucked up my order 1 too many times. Faith in them has been destroyed, which sucks cuz they're a decently priced mom and pop kind of place, but I can only accept a wrong/missing item if I get a refund if it's not literally half or more of the time I go to your place of business!

[–] Akasazh@feddit.nl 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Talk to them man. Faith needs propping up from both sides. So invest in it and say, ideally before your next order, what happened and if they please could try. It may seem as much but it may just make your experience better

[–] gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 week ago

I already tried that, thus my frustration. Only so many times you can have them respond in an annoyed manner with that "of course we won't fuck it up" attitude only for it to be messed up in the same way again

[–] Corno@lemm.ee 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Trying to draw using vector programs such as Illustrator. Prior to settling on my beloved (Paint Tool SAI) I tried to use Illustrator, and despite the benefit of being able to blow up a drawing without losing quality, it just never sat right with me and always felt awkward.

[–] Moonguide@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago

Depends on the style, I think. If it requires any kind of gradient shading or texture, pixel editing software. If you can get away with just lines, colors, and solid shading, vector is good enough but it'll be easier on pixel editing software.

Nowadays I just work on massive files so that I can shrink them to size.

[–] Protoknuckles@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] irreticent@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

It's Walmart's generic brand for electronics.

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