Annoying yes but at least these days there’s one check box in the settings that turns off the connection between likes in YouTube and YouTube music.

Yes exactly. Google is a big culprit of this, for instance translating descriptions of apps in Google play or giving me results on Google search in Swedish when I specifically wrote it in English. If I had wanted results in Swedish I would have written it in Swedish. Adding quotation marks doesn’t even help. I miss the time when you actually got what you searched for and not what Google believes that you search for… YouTube has an issue in the app when looking at playlist. Since the word “visningar” is so much longer than “views” the rest of the line is cut off. So you for instance can’t see if the video was posted 1 month ago or 1 year. This is more a failure of gui due to translation than the translation it self though.

On the subject of shitty translations: a budget webpage translated “disabled”, as in “this option is turned off”, as “funktionshindrad” which means a person with a disability. I bug reported it and the initial response was:

We do not currently support this functionality, but will pass your feedback on to our product team, who will make a note of it and try to incorporate it into our product as soon as possible.

Two months later they wrote that it would be forwarded to their product team for “whenever there’s an update in our system”. That was 10 months ago and it still isn’t fixed.

In Sweden kids learn English from second grade and a third language from fifth grade.

What really annoys me is how many programmers seem to expect us to only be able to understand one language. I much rather have the program made in English than to read a bad Swedish translation.

You remind me of chatting with a friend from Hong Kong and how surprised she was that I, as a young man, knew how to cook and did it for fun.

Freespace 2 with a force feedback joystick. When you got a bit too close to a capital ship’s beam weapon and the whole joystick started to shake. One of my most immersive experiences in a game.

One theory is that the body doesn’t know if the sweetness is sugar or sweetener. So it produces insulin to take care of it. When the level of insulin gets too high the body tries to compensate by eating more. If that “more” is more sweetener…

Remembering Habe once saying in an interview that valve isn’t a public stock company because they want players as their customers, not stockholders.

As much as I dislike Facebook I really don’t agree with the idea that they should pay for linking to news articles.

One could flip the argument in article and ask if having a post on Facebook is worthless for the newspapers, then why are companies paying Meta for ads on Facebook?

I also feel that this goes against the concept of the internet. If Facebook has to pay then why shouldn’t I when I’m linking to a page from my blog? Why shouldn’t Lemmy?

The problem for the rest of us is that big companies can handle the payment, and they can handle the admin for getting paid. The rest of us won’t get paid but we’ll all have to pay. The barriers for entry will only become bigger and only the big boys will be allowed to play.

Agreed, also people need to know how literal having “poor mental health” is. The margin you have for extra load or bad things happening is so much smaller. Similar to how an unexpected bill will be shoulder shrug for someone with good economy and a disaster for someone with bad economy.

Yepp, or at least a subgroup of it and/or autism.

And if you’re really “lucky” it turns into PDA, “pathological demand avoidance” or as I prefer to call it “pervasive drive for autonomy”. Worst case you enter fight or flight mode due to any demands on you. My feeling is that it’s a understandable reaction to the feelings of anxiety demands have pushed on you over the years.

“I find it kind of funny, I find it kind of sad…”, what actually does people think toxic masculinity is? The one you’re replying to seems to have been tricked into believing that feminists think that all masculine traits are bad. They are actually listening to the enemy of their own self best interests.

I think there might be some overlap causing confusion. Being protective and problem solving are not inherently bad, but combine it with stuff like dominating, controling and not listening to others, and it can be very harmful. So a person might believe that they are just being protective but since they didn’t listen to the other person their actions turns to controling instead.

This, as a general advice, is just as bad as praying unless you actually know the person.

Oh yes, such as “just form good habits”…
Sorry, I’m incapable of making habits.

Or “think how good it will feel when you’re done”.
Sorry, best I can do is feel enough anxiety over not having done the thing that it will outweigh the anxiety I feel regarding doing the thing".

It’s such a joy sometimes…

I’m a Christian but I support the school of thought that says “shit happens”.

Another problem with the thinking “everything happens for a reason” is that it can lead to belief in “the just world”. When one thinks that life is fair you start to believe that bad things only happens to bad people, ie they deserve it.

I wish that I was that optimistic. The data AI:s are trained on can be just as faulty causing them to have “personal beliefs seep in”…

All these companies, including mine, are super profitable for most part but that is apparently not enough

It can never be enough when you’re worshiping Mammon. Anything less than all and even all it self is too little for them.

Oh yes, I got that you knew that. I was speaking about the others, sorry that I didn’t make that clear enough.

That’s great, that’s how it should be done.

Sure, but a good desk or chair can be quite expensive to buy. Sitting badly can really mess you up.

But the transportation of the employee isn’t a problem that an employer care about usually. The costs for office space on the other hand is just a saving that companies pocket and pass over to the employers. That’s why I feel that companies should give a stipend for the office space needed by the employee, including computers and screens of course.

The thing I don’t like is that so much of the cost cutting goes to companies. It’s not just the office space, it’s also furniture, electricity, water and so on.

While the worker save time and costs for transportation they usually don’t get any compensation for the wear and tear of their furniture or the need for extra space for work area.