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What service do you dislike using but keep using anyway?

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Re: What service do you dislike using but keep using anyway?

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Post by ianmf »

jemoore567 wrote: post #17

Verizon Fios. Their customer service is terrible, my Internet is frequently out, some channels are pixelated. Monopoly in my area.

Fios had the most service outages than the other five ISPs I have used. However, their customer service has always been very good and getting a hold of a human customer representative is very easy. Currently I have Comcast and their customer service is horrendous.

Re: What service do you dislike using but keep using anyway?

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Post by cglong »

mlacks wrote: post #7

iphone dislike because of: Any sort of synching to my PC is made as difficult as possible, i imagine so that I will feel the need to break down and buy a mac. I would switch to android if imessage was cross platform. have seriously considered using mac stadium to use message forwarding in order to keep the damn blue bubbles.

What feature(s) of iMessage are so valuable to prevent you from switching?

Re: What service do you dislike using but keep using anyway?

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Post by eyelidlessness »

Not currently a service but it’s begging me to let it be: Airmail (mac). It pops up an ad for its new version with a subscription payment model and dims every window except the foreground window several times a day*. It’s annoying but I haven’t found a way to make it stop and just let me keep using the old version I already paid for. I imagine it’s how people felt with similar shenanigans when Adobe went subscription.

Re: What service do you dislike using but keep using anyway?

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Post by bzb6 »

eyelidlessness wrote: post #24

Not currently a service but it’s begging me to let it be: Airmail (mac). It pops up an ad for its new version with a subscription payment model and dims every window except the foreground window several times a day*. It’s annoying but I haven’t found a way to make it stop and just let me keep using the old version I already paid for. I imagine it’s how people felt with similar shenanigans when Adobe went subscription…

Maybe it calls home so just blocking a domain with /etc/hosts is enough

Re: What service do you dislike using but keep using anyway?

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Post by eyelidlessness »

bzb6 wrote: post #25
eyelidlessness wrote: post #24

Not currently a service but it’s begging me to let it be: Airmail (mac). It pops up an ad for its new version with a subscription payment model and dims every window except the foreground window several times a day*. It’s annoying but I haven’t found a way to make it stop and just let me keep using the old version I already paid for. I imagine it’s how people felt with similar shenanigans when Adobe went subscription…

Maybe it calls home so just blocking a domain with /etc/hosts is enough

Thought about that but just writing the comment finally motivated me to just give another client a try. So I’m trying out Spark, which seems decent enough. The only thing I think I’ll miss is the ability to compose email with Markdown in-app, but I don’t use it very often and if I want it I can use a zillion other MD renderers.

Re: What service do you dislike using but keep using anyway?

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Post by quickthrower2 »

JIRA. A Jira ticket is way too overloaded. It’s a story, an epic, a support ticket, a bug, an engineering design, a unit of estimation and work allocation, a source code commit tracking number and much more.

This overloading is painful.

Competing with JIRA is hard though as companies have it and it’s embedded and it is good enough.

Something more engineering centric would make me switch but maybe not my boss or the team would be convinced to do a migration with other more pressing concerns.

A more elegant tool that drives JIRA in the background as a kind of no sql DB might be a way forward.

Re: What service do you dislike using but keep using anyway?

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Post by Biba89 »

quickthrower2 wrote: post #27

JIRA. A Jira ticket is way too overloaded. It’s a story, an epic, a support ticket, a bug, an engineering design, a unit of estimation and work allocation, a source code commit tracking number and much more. This overloading is painful. Competing with JIRA is hard though as companies have it and it’s embedded and it is good enough. Something more engineering centric would make me switch but maybe not my boss or the t…

This is why I switched to Infinity, it’s much more organized with old folders structure and it’s never messy.

Re: What service do you dislike using but keep using anyway?

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Post by sloaken »

dalu wrote: post #18

Facebook because of its hypocrisy and censorship but all the contacts are there and some even insist on it. I hate Facebook so much. The rose colored glasses or gtfo policy. I also hate Steam for this reason where you can't voice your opinion or you'll get banned. I've reached a 1 year ban now just for speaking my mind. Valve and its double standards or rather anti consumer mods have absolute power and Valve won't do…

I agree w Facebook issue.

Never voiced an opinion in Steam. Not sure why I would unless I hated a game I bought.

Bank ... oh how I hate them! I use credit unions. This might help you find a credit union in your country: https://www.woccu.org/our_network/membership

As for the EU issue, is that why the UK left?

Who does not hate Google Adsense?

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