fury

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[–] fury 90 points 11 months ago (27 children)

I got talked into bankruptcy (by a bankruptcy lawyer, surprise surprise). It cleared $12k of credit cards and bank fees but not the then-$50k of student loans and the spending habits that were the real problem. Now I learned my lesson. No credit cards. Save up and pay. Have an emergency fund that can cover your expenses for months and months in the event you lose your job, or your most expensive unplanned repair. That's the real life saver.

[–] fury 5 points 11 months ago (2 children)

It took me a lot of practice. I used to get mad at everything too. Almost violently so (hence the username "fury"). I realized over time I don't want to spend that much effort being mad at anything. It's not worth it. I'm going grey fast enough as it is without willingly adding to it. I'd rather focus my energy on something more enjoyable.

Except Bing Chat. Bing Chat can go take a long walk off a short pier, and I wish everybody who worked on Bing Chat a very "good heavens what were you thinking". Give me back my regular search results, thank you very much.

[–] fury 1 points 11 months ago

I'm gonna keep my Christmas tree up all year and just halfassedly redecorate it for each holiday.

[–] fury 5 points 11 months ago

I wish I had your experience. I can't get Bing Chat to give me good answers. It's almost always bottom-of-the-Stack-Overflow-page stuff (like with 0 votes or less) just packaged into a chat UI so it's like we're on dialup again waiting for it to finish loading. It just gets in the way of the regular search results. I want it to go away, but they keep employing new techniques to make sure I stumble upon it, including now taking over the back button like those scummy news sites "here's more of our crappy articles to read before you go".

[–] fury 4 points 11 months ago

I get something similar to this on Linux all the time and it makes it hard to choose Firefox, as much as I want to try.

I dug around once to try to find out why and how to stop it. The alternative is just straight up crashing, and so they chose to slap up that blank new tab page instead. related bugzilla

Depending on how you've installed it / configured updates, you may just be out of luck whenever an auto update happens and you just have to restart the browser.

It sucks, even if it remembers your tabs, because some of them are inevitably returned in a different state, have to relogin, etc.

[–] fury 8 points 11 months ago (8 children)

I had an 8 digit, lost the password, had to sign up again and got a 9 digit number that time. Felt weird.

[–] fury 7 points 11 months ago (11 children)

How many digits?

[–] fury 8 points 11 months ago

I'm surprised they kept at it for as long as they did.

[–] fury 14 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

I was going to make some smart ass comment about browser version numbers being ridiculous anymore (after Firefox 3.6 I stopped keeping track), but then I saw it

touchpad & touchscreen gestures, swipe-to-nav

Hot diggity damn. This might make me less likely to revert to Chromium every new install, if Firefox works well with touchscreen at last. I'll have to check this out on my Pi 5 on Ubuntu.

[–] fury 29 points 11 months ago (3 children)

https://everynoise.com

Every music genre you can think of, and then some. I finally found out what the stuff I like is called.

[–] fury 16 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Even worse is taking over the back button / back gesture to redirect you to "more to read before you go"

[–] fury 2 points 11 months ago (3 children)

I'm dying to know which letter it is.

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