Marketing has a problem with answering “FUCK YES!” to “I mean, we can, but should we?”
I say this as a Marketing Professional™ and I feel confident that someone got a pat on the back for this campaign. Plus, they will probably take your purchase as proof of how good the campaign went! 
I’d have to check…but it’s even odds I got the laptop in my office as a seed unit that I didn’t pay for in the first place.
Something happened in the last 12 - 18 months and I’m pretty sure I’m in their system as both an Enterprise customer and an SMB customer. Every so often I have to tell my sales rep that another sales guy is bothering me.
Our accounts are hard enough to keep straight without someone else monkeying around on their side.
Running like a finely tuned machine over there. (Why yes, I’m feeling extra sarcastic, today.)
When you think of how much money is spent on crap like this worldwide, and you have to wonder how many hundred million people could have been lifted from poverty, and given food and healthcare. Not to mention the people in marketing with these dumb ideas who could get jobs that are more useful to the world. /rant
Instagram.
It just keeps getting worse.
Second day, trying to schedule a taxi for a doctor’s appointment.
They do not have any contact email for technical support.
How exactly are people supposed to contact technical support?
So much link rot. And with almost all sites these days using some kind of CMS that requires ongoing maintenance and will be obsolete in a couple of years, it will only get worse.
Amen. I needed to flash the firmware for my Shapoko CNC and the links I had were dead. The link on the forum was bad, but it at least took me to a page I could click through to the current download location.
After trying and getting more migraines from a conventional tablet, I got a used e-ink tablet to read pdfs without the complex multi-stage pre-processing. Runs Android.
I figure I can use it to read pdfs IF I can get it to reliably show quarter-pages. But … fuck …
I can’t figure out which apps, if any, let readers read pdfs. Orion Viewer comes closest, but it requires several steps to fix settings for each pdf, it’s hard to tweak settings, and it’s impossible to carry some settings like zoom 400% to other pdfs.
Just which ones theoretically open pdfs. I can’t use pinch-to-zoom, and can’t pan about, it triggers my migraines, so apps which rely on these aren’t options.
On that note, the built-in Boyue reader actually works pretty well, once I figure it out.
P.S. Except it crashes when opening files from the OneBookShelf app.
youtube.
“…recorded with a Shure 57 Dynamic microphone” [AD in 5 seconds], and now I’m quiet for a few seconds so you can hear the noise floor of the setup.
[Ad begins]
VERIZON ANNOUNCES ITS 5G ROLLOUT BLAH BLAH BLAH
Oh well.
Bad enough what they do already.
Don’t have the details, but they keep pushing new redesigns, without adequate user input, and they hardly ever resolve the resulting bugs. For example, I can neither scroll about:preferences, due to the sidebars, nor page down in it, due to focus issues.
I just can’t keep up with all my email. I don’t know what to do to try to get through it. I end up taking forrever, often falling days behind, and missing important emails until too late.
I am using Thunderbird with basic accessibility fixes-- enlarge fonts to a readable size, block images, block alerts, etc.
P.S. I am rebuilding my search index and sometimes unsubbing from various lists to try to sort this out. Why am I up at this awful hour though? Because too much email and too much trouble going through it.
I delete thousands from my work email every day without looking at them. Too many autonotifications that I’m autosubscribed to but are totally useless. Lucky my personal email isn’t as bad. ~20-30% is at least relevant.
LET’S DO THE TIME ZONE AGAIN
I believe I have encountered one of the worst time zone pickers. It was so bad, my first time marveling at it took so long that the token for generating my account expired and I had start the account creation again.
So I used a screen grabber to grab the entire drop down list. Mind you, it would only show 4 options at a time.
And then if you wanted a more “usable” format,
| Time Zone | Abbreviation | Offset |
|---|---|---|
| Central Summer Time (Australia) | ACDT | +10:30 |
| Central Standard Time (Australia) | ACST | +09:30 |
| Acre Time | ACT | -05:00 |
| Atlantic Daylight Time | ADT | -03:00 |
| Eastern Summer Time (Australia) | AEDT | +11:00 |
| Australian Eastern Daylight Savings Time | AEDT | +11:00 |
| Australian Eastern Standard Time | AEST | +10:00 |
| Eastern Standard Time (Australia) | AEST | -10:00 |
| Afghanistan Time | AFT | +04:30 |
| Alaska Daylight Time | AKDT | -08:00 |
| Alaska Standard Time | AKST | -09:00 |
| Amazon Summer Time (Brazil) | AMST | -03:00 |
| Armenia Time | AMT | +04:00 |
| Amazon Time (Brazil) | AMT | -04:00 |
| Argentina Time | ART | -03:00 |
| Arabia Standard Time | AST | +03:00 |
| Atlantic Standard Time | AST | -04:00 |
| Australian Western Standard Time | AWST | +08:00 |
| Azores Summer Time | AZOST | -00:00 |
| Azores Standard | AZOT | -01:00 |
| Azerbaijan Time | AZT | +04:00 |
| Brunei Time | BDT | +08:00 |
| British Indian Ocean Time | BIOT | +06:00 |
| Baker Island Time | BIT | -12:00 |
| Bolivia Time | BOT | -04:00 |
| Brasilia Summer Time | BRST | -02:00 |
| Brasilia Time | BRT | -03:00 |
| British Summer Time | BST | +01:00 |
| Bangladesh Standard Time | BST | +06:00 |
| Bougainville Standard Time | BST | +11:00 |
| Bhutan Time | BTT | +06:00 |
| Central Africa Time | CAT | +02:00 |
| Cocos Islands Time | CCT | +06:30 |
| Central Daylight Time (North America) | CDT | -05:00 |
| Cuba Daylight Time | CDT | -04:00 |
| Central European Summer Time(Cf. HAEC) | CEST | +02:00 |
| Central European Time | CET | +01:00 |
| Chaiham Daylight Time | CHADT | +13:45 |
| Chatham StandardTime | CHAST | +12:45 |
| Choibalsan Summer Time | CHOST | +09:00 |
| Choibalsan Standard Time | CHOT | +08:00 |
| Chamorro Standard Time | CHST | +10:00 |
| Chuuk Time | CHUT | +10:00 |
| Clipperton Island Standard Time | CIST | -08:00 |
| Central Indonesia Time | CIT | +08:00 |
| Cook Island Time | CKT | -10:00 |
| Chile Summer Time | CLST | -03:00 |
| Chile Standard Time | CLT | -04:00 |
| Colombia Summer Time | COST | -04:00 |
| Colombia Time | COT | -05:00 |
| Central Standard Time (North America) | CST | -06:00 |
| China Standard Time | CST | +08:00 |
| Cuba Standard Time | CST | -05:00 |
| China time | CT | +08:00 |
| Cape Verde Time | CVT | -01:00 |
| Cental western Standard Trnte (Australian) unofficial | CWST | +08:45 |
| Christmas Island Time | CXT | +07:00 |
| Davis Time | DAVT | +07:00 |
| Dumont d’Urville Time | DDUT | +10:00 |
| AIX specific equivalent of Central European Time | DFT | +01:00 |
| Easter Island Summer Time | EASST | -05:00 |
| Easter Island Standard Time | EAST | -06:00 |
| East Africa Time | EAT | +03:00 |
| Eastern Caribbean Time (does not recognize DST) | ECT | -04:00 |
| Ecuador Time | ECT | -05:00 |
| Eastern Daylight Time (North America) | EDT | -04:00 |
| Eastern European Summer Time | EEST | +03:00 |
| Eastern European Time | EET | +02:00 |
| Eastern Greenland Summer Time | EGST | -00:00 |
| Eastern Greenland Time | EGT | -01:00 |
| Eastern Indonesian Time | EIT | +09:00 |
| Eastern Standard Time (North America) | EST | -05:00 |
| Further-eastern European Time | FET | +03:00 |
| Fiji Time | FJT | +12:00 |
| Falkland Islands Summer Time | FKST | -03:00 |
| Falkland Islands Time | FKT | -04:00 |
| Fernando de Noronha Time | FNT | -02:00 |
| Galapagos Time | GALT | -06:00 |
| Gambier Islands | GAMT | -09:00 |
| Georgia StandardTime | GET | +04:00 |
| French Guiana Time | GFT | -03:00 |
| Gilbert Island Time | GILT | +12:00 |
| Gambier Island Time | GIT | -09 00 |
| Greenwich Mean Time | GMT | -00:00 |
| Gulf Standard Time | GST | +04:00 |
| South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands | GST | -02:00 |
| Guyana Time | GYT | -04:00 |
| Hawaii-Aleutian Daylight Time | HADT | -09:00 |
| Heure AvancÄ—e d’Europe Centrale rancised name for CEST | HAEC | +02:00 |
| Hawaii-Aleutian Standard Time | HAST | -10:00 |
| Hong Kong Time | HKT | +08:00 |
| Heard and McDonald islands Time | HMT | +05:00 |
| Khovd Summer Time | HOVST | +08:00 |
| Khovd Standard Time | HOVT | +07:00 |
| Indochina Time | ICT | +07:00 |
| Israel Daylight Time | IDT | +03:00 |
| Indian Ocean Time | IOT | +03:00 |
| Iran Daylight Time | IRDT | +04:30 |
| Irkutsk Time | IRKT | +08:00 |
| Iran Standard Time | IRST | +03:30 |
| Irish Standard Time | IST | +01:00 |
| Israel Standard Time | IST | +02:00 |
| Indian StandardTime | IST | +05:30 |
| Japan Standard Time | JST | +09:00 |
| Kyrgyzstan time | KGT | +06:00 |
| KosraeTime | KOST | +11:00 |
| Krasnoyarsk Time | KRAT | +07:00 |
| Korea Standard Time | KST | +09:00 |
| Lord Howe Summer Time | LHST | +01:00 |
| Lord Howe Standard Time | LHST | +10:30 |
| Line Islands Time | LINT | +14:00 |
| Magadan Time | MAGT | +12:00 |
| Marquesas Islands Time | MART | -09:30 |
| Mawson Station Time | MAWT | +05:00 |
| Mountain Daylight Time (North America) | MDT | -06:00 |
| Middle European Summer Time Same zone as CEST | MEST | +02:00 |
| Middle European Time Same zone as CET | MET | +01:00 |
| Marshall Islands | MHT | +12:00 |
| Macquarie Island Station Time | MIST | +11:00 |
| Marquesas Islands Time | MIT | -09:30 |
| Myanmar Standard Time | MMT | +06:30 |
| Moscow Time | MSK | +03:00 |
| Malaysia Standard Time | MST | +08:00 |
| Mountain Standard Time (North America) | MST | -07:00 |
| Maldives Time | MVT | +05:00 |
| Malaysia Time | MYT | +08:00 |
| New Caledonia Time | NCT | +11:00 |
| Newfoundland Daylight Time | NDT | -02:30 |
| NorfolkTime | NFT | -11:00 |
| Nepal Time | NPT | +05:45 |
| Newfoundland Standard Time | NST | -03:30 |
| Newfoundland Time | NT | -03:30 |
| Niue Time | NUT | -11:00 |
| New Zealand Daylight Time | NZDT | +13:00 |
| New Zealand Standard Time | NZST | +12:00 |
| Omsk Time | OMST | +06:00 |
| OralTime | ORAT | +05:00 |
| Pacific Daylight Time (North America) | PDT | -07:00 |
| Peru Time | PET | +05:00 |
| Kamchatka Time | PETT | +12:00 |
| Papua New Guinea Time | PGT | +10:00 |
| Phoenix Island Time | PHOT | +13:00 |
| Philippine Time | PHT | +08:00 |
| Pakistan Standard Time | PKT | -05:00 |
| Saint Pierre and Miquelon Daylight time | PMDT | -02:00 |
| Saint P’erre and Miquelon Standard Time | PMDT | -03:00 |
| Pohnpe. StandardTime | PONT | -11:00 |
| Philippine Standard Time | PST | +08:00 |
| Pacific Standard Time (North America) | PST | -08:00 |
| Paraguay Summer Time (South America) | PYST | -03:00 |
| Paraguay Time (South America) | PYT | -04:00 |
| Reunion Time | RET | -4:00 |
| Rothera Research Station Time | ROTT | -03:00 |
| Sakhalinislandtime | SAKT | +11:00 |
| Samara Time | SAMT | +04:00 |
| South African Standard Time | SAST | +02:00 |
| Solomon Islands Time | SBT | +11:00 |
| Seychelles Time | SCT | +04:00 |
| Singapore Time | SGT | +08:00 |
| Sri Lanka Standard Time | SLST | +05:30 |
| Srednekolymsk Time | SRET | +11:00 |
| Suriname Time | SRT | -03:00 |
| Singapore Standard Time | SST | +08:00 |
| Samoa Standard Time | SST | -11:00 |
| Showa Station Time | SYOT | +03:00 |
| Tahiti Time | TAHT | -10:00 |
| Indian/Kerguelen | TFT | +05:00 |
| Thailand Standard Time | THA | +07:00 |
| Tajikistan Time | TJT | +05:00 |
| Tokelau Time | TKT | +13:00 |
| Timor Leste Time | TLT | +09:00 |
| Turkmenistan Time | TMT | +05:00 |
| Tonga Time | TOT | +13:00 |
| Turkey Time | TRT | +03:00 |
| Tuvalu Time | TVT | +12:00 |
| Ulaanbaatar Summer Time | ULAST | +09:00 |
| Ulaanbaatar Standard Time | ULAT | +08:00 |
| Kaliningrad Time | USZ1 | +02:00 |
| Coordinated Universal Time | UTC | -00:00 |
| Uruguay Summer Time | UYST | -02:00 |
| Uruguay Standard Time | UYT | -03:00 |
| UzbekistanTime | UZT | +05:00 |
| Venezuelan Standard Time | VET | -04:00 |
| Vladivostok Time | VLAT | +10:00 |
| Volgograd Time | VOLT | +04:00 |
| Vostok Station Time | VOST | +06:00 |
| Vanuatu Time | VUT | +11:00 |
| Wake Island Time | WAKT | +12:00 |
| West Africa Summer Time | WAST | +02:00 |
| West Africa Time | WAT | +01:00 |
| Western European Summer Time | WEST | +01:00 |
| Western European Time | WET | -00:00 |
| Western Indonesian Time | WIT | +07:00 |
| Western Standard Time | WST | +08:00 |
| Yakutsk Time | YAKT | +09:00 |
It took me quite a while to realize it is alphabetical by the Abbreviation.
You know how if sites include chat options, they don’t let users either (a) expand the chat window so we can see more than a tiny part of the accursed things, or (b) open the chat window in their own tabs so we can see more than a tiny part AND avoid all the scrolling-induced migraines? I’m sick of it.
And, no, the responsibility of a web browser is NOT to display the site as designed. Because very few sites are accessible as designed, so if you’re displaying them as designed, you’re not actually displaying them to all users, so you’re not displaying them as designed after all anyway, it’s a self-contradictory task.
And if I’ve already cancelled the Chat popup, quit opening a new Chat Request on every page I go to during this session.
