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Especially when you live in a roughly compass oriented grid city

I would imagine most of us Europeans would have difficulties with that. "compass oriented grid city" hasn't really been a thing here since Roman times.

Lol, yeah, the fucking building at work kills me.

It's well off the road and is not congruent with it, It has two viable fronts and since not quite 45° to the compass rose but not far enough off to use it to the description.

Can't say north south east west can't say roadside can't say front so I can't say left or right.

Labeling where IT equipment is is such a fucking pain in the ass.

There are fire stairs on either side of the building and they do not differentiate them.

I could probably do NE and SW But it just feel so fucking dirty.

I just called the sides East and West in the end even though they're nowhere near.

At least the rest of the IT staff could figure out east and west if we were compass oriented I would totally not feel bad about using it

QR codes are great. Make a website that pays money to your bank account when people enter their credit card details and leave the QR code on top of other QR codes like the ones to pay for parking.

Its a crazy simple scam. Sure you might not fall for it but someone will.

Also, web pages that keep trying to force you to use the app if you access them on a smartphone, but then the app only has half the functionality of the web page

This is me. I grew up "choose between bills and food" poor, and found alternate solutions to enjoy things. Figured that once I had the disposable income I'd stop. Sure, I did pay my way for a long time too. The thing that fucked me off the most was Netflix telling me that I couldn't share my account with a student friend of mine. I'm paying to be able to watch on 4 screens simultaneously, who the fuck is Netflix to dictate where those screens are located?

I still pay for stuff, if I feel that the service, software, what have you, deserves my money. I've paid enough for Netflix through the years so anything there is just me collecting my due.

: Side eyes Adobe CS6 Suite and Ableton:

Yeah. The subscription model really only took off during GenZ.

The latest season of Black Mirror had an Episode just like this.

This is my fear with dish and clothes washers manufacturers wanting to have wifi built into them. They've already gotten people used to using clothes and dish detergent in the form of little pods. I think appliance manufacturers look at printer companies and their ink prices and want a piece of that action. They want to play the same game. I'm sure Whirlpool would love it if you could only buy laundry detergent from them.

But in order to do that, they need to have their devices be internet-enabled. The printer companies figured this out. Third party ink manufacturers figure out ways to get past manufacturer lock-outs. So printers need to be internet enabled to allow patches that will disable new third party ink cartridges.

In my opinion, this is the real reason we see so many manufacturers trying to shove IoT and wifi connections into home appliances. Sure, selling your data to data brokers is a nice minor revenue stream. But the real prize is using that wifi to lock you in to buying obscenely expensive consumables for your dish washer, clothes washer, etc. Even fridges are at risk of this due to the water filters that many fridges have built in to them. Same with dryers.

The manufacturers of major appliances are pushing like crazy to connect these things to the net. Their official line is that they want this for consumer-friendly reasons. Most cynics say it's just a way to sell your data. I however think the real goal is to turn every home appliance into a vendor-locked piece of garbage that requires consumables priced like printer ink.

All kids think anyone older than them is a boomer. Actual boomers think all kids are millennials. Millennials can't catch a fucking break at either end.