• Call me Lenny/Leni@lemm.eeMEnglish
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    1 month ago

    There used to be an app that was a Dragon Ball Z scouter. You could point it at anything with a face and it would tell you a random power level. Apparently mine is 10,550 (I can barely lift a jug of milk).

          • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social
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            1 month ago

            “Power levels” was/is a white supremacist dogwhistle for cryptofascists, as in “Don’t forget to hide your (white) power level.”

            You’d see it referenced on their meme communities on Reddit fairly frequently. At least it was when I still had an eye on what cryptofascists were doing, which I have to say is the best part of Lemmy, not constantly seeing cryptofascist things.

            With that app, and that in mind, there’s a (completely and mostly jokingly speculative) possibility that it was measuring albedo instead of just randomly assigning numbers. I’m mostly being a miserable cynic bringing it up without evidence tbh.

  • Venicone@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Not useless as such but a wallpaper app or something that expects you to pay £5.99 a month to use. Fuck all the way off with that

    • Graphy@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

      Didn’t MKBHD launch some wallpaper app for $12 a month? I heard about it and just figured he was another tech YouTuber who lost touch

    • superkret@feddit.orgOP
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      1 month ago

      I was legit baffled by how such a shit peace of software could become so ubiquitous – until I got to know SAP and realized that Teams isn’t even in the bottom half of enterprise software quality.

  • morrowind@lemmy.ml
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    1 month ago

    90% of b2b software. They literally charge thousands of dollars while giving the worse piece of shit software you’ve ever used.

    • lectricleopard@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

      Sometimes the value add is security, sometimes scaling or uptime. Enterprise considerations aren’t necessarily the same as for individual consumers.

      Sometimes it’s just a dogshit product though, and the sales team pulled the wool over some execs eyes.

      • swab148@lemm.ee
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        1 month ago

        Same, it shows ads, but they’re pretty easy to block. I paid for it just to help support the dev, he seems pretty cool.

          • Nibodhika@lemmy.world
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            1 month ago

            If you’re really the dev, please add support for spoilers, it’s the only thing that makes me consider a different app. I’ve also been using Boost since Reddit, and I have a feeling spoiler tags worked there, but that was long ago and my memory is not that good.

  • kalkulat@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    For me, any office apps. Never worked in an office, never wanted to. None of that stuff. Even if it’s free, if it gets installed with the distro, it’s the first thing that gets tossed.

  • SuperSpruce@lemmy.zip
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    1 month ago

    Full price EA games with F2P-style microtransactions and ads

    And this isn’t useless, but I can’t believe that to rent Photoshop for $20/mo, your creative projects are not your IP…