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Did I ever mention that I fucking hate the fucking web

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Re: Did I ever mention that I fucking hate the fucking web

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10 years ago, you would have to pay a photographer to develop the photos and go to a fucking post office, then your mom would wait a week to receive them.

Nope. you're wrong. 10 years ago you could do all of this from your fucking home, just like you can do it now. The only difference is - you did not have to deal with all that Javascript bs.

Re: Did I ever mention that I fucking hate the fucking web

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post #2

10 years ago, you would have to pay a photographer to develop the photos and go to a fucking post office, then your mom would wait a week to receive them.

Nope. you're wrong. 10 years ago you could do all of this from your fucking home, just like you can do it now. The only difference is - you did not have to deal with all that Javascript bs.

Ah yes, I'll just develop my own photos at home - seems like a good idea for everyone in the world to do.

Re: Did I ever mention that I fucking hate the fucking web

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"Sometimes I wish that I was like an air-cooled Porsche mechanic or something very stable and non-computer related, so I could just work away in my shop and not have to ever touch this fucking demon box."

What was nice about working in scientific research back in undergrad in that whenever you got tired of coding the demon box, you could do some good physical labor in the lab.

Re: Did I ever mention that I fucking hate the fucking web

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"I don't keep any cookies or browse history"

Why not?

"I get the numeric code sent to me. I go to Google Voice on my computer"

This seems like it defeats the purpose of 2FA. Am I wrong? Isn't 2FA supposed to work by proving that you own a device for which it was set up on?

"always download all the images made by Google Charts because that service will die at some point"

Probably. If it matters to you, learn some JavaScript and build stuff in highcharts. And next time, never rely on a service that you don't pay for.

Also, it's clear by this post you hate Google, especially its suite of exceptionally shitty products, and not the Web.

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