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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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Post by junto »

Lancey wrote: post #50

There's tons of problems with Google's services. They make radical changes that bloat them and slow them down. They cut services that people find useful because they're not as big as something like Maps or Gmail, or even for no reason at all. But no matter how much you complain, either on a blog post or to Google themselves, if you just come back to them at the end of the day you've changed nothing at all. Not liking…

Photo provider switching is hard these days because many people have 100's of GB of photos and video.

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Post by hudo »

hudo wrote: post #55

One of the best blogs ever! Quote: "I have a pretty strict rule about not using computers in the evening time. (because computers inevitably make me furious and want to smash things and then I can't sleep)." Can't stop reading posts ...

http://cbloomrants.blogspot.co.uk/2015/02/02-01-15-fucking-f...

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Post by madaxe_again »

spapin wrote: 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.

Fucking bullshit, 100 years ago you would have got off your ass and SHOWN the baby to your mom.

Little by little, we abstract ourselves away.

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Post by edem »

I think that for some time now Google's services are mostly crap. For example when I upgraded KitKat to Lollipop they fucked up my calendar. No month view? Seriously?

Plus it always vibrates since silent mode is gone. I found this out the hard way. My phone is always in silent mode and after the upgrade one day it just vibrated off the desk and the display broke. I should sue Google for this.

Anyway back to your issue with picture downloads: I had the same problem and after 20 minues of searching I managed to find where can I download my FUCKING pictures:

- go to Google Drive

- Click "Apps"

- Click "More"

- Click "Photos"

- Click "All photos"

And here comes the tricky part:

- At the top left corner hold your left mouse button and drag a box around all your photos

- Unselect the ones you dont't want to download

- Click "More"

- Click "Download"

That's it just 9 easy steps.......no comment

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Post by harperlee »

tomphoolery wrote: post #10

"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 Java…

Upvote for "never rely on a service that you don't pay for"; I think that idea needs to be said out loud more often.

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Post by VLM »

tomphoolery wrote: post #10

"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 Java…

"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?"

The bug is in the design of 2FA. Sooner or later Google will get rid of GV and I'll just move to another provider to front-end my SMS spam instead of sending it to my phone. The other failure mode is best displayed by my bank not realizing their site is accessible via mobile, so my two factors when customers log in on their phones are the phone people log in with and the code they're sending to the customer's phone, oh wait that's only one factor. Although in the second example the bank wins by security theater.

The bank does offer a phone app that demands access to pretty much everything on my phone presumably for marketing / spam purposes or just being weirdo creeps, so needless to say I won't leave it installed, although I did try it for a short period of time. However the bank phone app sucks so I didn't lose much by uninstalling that creep-app. Also the creep-app doesn't do 2FA and seems to be permanently logged in, so I've downgraded my account access to merely the phone lock screen level of security, which isn't very good.

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Post by ebbv »

edem wrote: post #65

I think that for some time now Google's services are mostly crap. For example when I upgraded KitKat to Lollipop they fucked up my calendar. No month view? Seriously? Plus it always vibrates since silent mode is gone. I found this out the hard way. My phone is always in silent mode and after the upgrade one day it just vibrated off the desk and the display broke. I should sue Google for this. Anyway back to your issu…

Yep. For me Google+ was the turning point. It started before that, but if you drew a line graph of Quality of Products for Google I think you'd see the Google+ rollout event on that line without it being pointed out.

I don't work there, and never have, so I have no idea what the cause is. My guess is just the fact that the company has grown so much that maintaining the quality of people and thus products that they put out is impossible beyond a certain size.

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Post by austenallred »

RankingMember wrote: post #54

This reminds me of Bill Gates' email documenting his experiencing trying to install and run Windows MovieMaker (read from the bottom): http://blog.seattlepi.com/microsoft/files/library/2003Jangat...

I got inexplicably angry just reading that
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