My life
Cars
Google, this fucking phone, the cesspool of fezbuk, the shittified streaming services I can’t manage to unsubscribe from…
alcohol, im an alcoholic
Illustrator. It's industry standard for graphic design, but has the stability of a toddler on ice
windows. literally the only thing i use it for is valorant. the second they let us play valorant on linux or mac, i’m gone
(inb4 chinese rootkit boogeyman, i don’t care)
capitalism
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.
All my durable medical equipment like CPAP machine, DirecTV, and Walgreens for anything.
Plastic
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.
Reddit.... Google drive....
Adobe "Creative Cloud" thanks to it's monopoly in the design industry (though I am in the process of doing my first smaller client job with Inscape atm).
Fucking Costco. Pay a membership fee to wait in the following lines to buy shit:
Parking, cart, entry, items, pay, receipt check, leave parking. You can't simple stop by for an item, its impossible..
Whatsapp and google classroom
This house, my parents, the government, police, the council, the courts, corporate bought statutory regulations, surgeons, roads, cars, petrol, proprietary hardware and driver blobs, youtube (until tomorrow, when I start notubevember), systemd (from ubuntustudio I hijacked), portrait monitor arrangements and low vertical pixels, single monitor, ptsd/sad/sad/pda, iron supplements, calcium supplements, emf, and doubtless many more things.
But not tobacco. Thanks Allen Carr's easy way (& caryophyllene, cbd, psilocybe microdosing and iboga microdosing).
macOS... I have to use it at work unfortunately. It's truly the worst interface. Plasma is the best, then Windows, then Cinnamon, then Gnome.
Centrally controlled undemocratic fiat. ... Usury.
Planes/Airports... I travel for work and I hate them, uncomfortable, crowded, huge waste of time and lots of problems just waiting to pop out.
Google play services, Discord, and Snapchat.
Kit Kat (Nestle)
A new Google Pixel phone as they have supported GrapheneOS. Super huge, ugly, everything Glass for no reason and no headphone jack...
To that, Bluetooth. I will have to use it with this phone, or suffer from iphone-like Dongles like a cringe applekid.
Windows, ArcGIS, MSOffice, Microsoft services everywhere, for University.
Passwords.
I prefer password-less logins with a hardware key but only a few online services offer it.
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