Just let me compute in peace.

[jbaty@social.lol]

@neil Great list! It's exhausting. I keep a similar list on my /nope slash page : https://baty.net/nope/

[neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk]

@jbaty Annoying, isn't it!

[djdarren@mendeddrum.org]

@neil > No, I don’t want your app. You have a website. And yes, if you pretend that I can only do something via your app because I’m on a mobile browser, of course I’ll switch to desktop mode.

Then you get firms like Argos, where they've removed any ability to pay off any of your Argos card balance from their website, so you have to use the app. There is literally no other way to do it. And the app is called MyArgos, so for a while there the launcher I used to use wouldn't see it when I searched for 'Ar', meaning I had to remember its stupid, shitty name.

[neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk]

@DJDarren Arrrrr.

[kentenmakto@mastodon.ie]

@paddyduke @neil Grr, you're reminding me of the email from *someone* (don't ask me to remember who, it was an entire month ago - where the unsubscribe link was not, in fact, a link. So off to spam hell it goes.

(And it was from a vendor I was happy with and will probably buy from again.)

[coreysnipes@hachyderm.io]

@neil And ironically, just leaving me alone is often the simpler, easier path from a technical point of view.

[rodolforg@mastodon.online]

@neil this blogpost should be multilanguage…

[datamancer@twoot.site]

No, I don’t want your chatbot. If I can’t find what I want on your website, you’ve screwed up.

Preach it, @neil

[jetlagjen@gts.phillipsuk.org]

@neil @annehargreaves the most ridiculous thing I've been invited to review was a jar of herbs.

No, Asda, I am not spending time or spoons reviewing my grocery shop, and especially not a single 83p purchase that happened to be part of it.

[neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk]

@jetlagjen @annehargreaves

Yeah, no-one has the thyme for that.

[clare_hooley@mastodon.me.uk]

@neil oh heckerty heck; it’s been on my to-do list to change my blog to full-text RSS feeds. Now you’ve prompted me to actually go look up how to do that, and all it was is change one single word in the template. Everything techy is always harder than you think it’ll be… until it’s not.

[neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk]

@clare_hooley Ooh, on behalf of RSS users everywhere, thank you!

[anonymooseguy@mas.to]

@neil I would like to subscribe to your newsletter.

[anonymooseguy@mas.to]

@flangey @neil We could use an Howard Beale right about now.

[anonymooseguy@mas.to]

@jbaty @neil

... disable my ad blocker

[ljwrites@writeout.ink]

@neil That reminded me of this essay. https://www.terrygodier.com/the-last-quiet-thing

[endlessmason@hachyderm.io]

@neil
Dentist: Are you using a manual or electric toothbrush?

Well, I got an electric one as a gift, but the manual told me it has an app, so I haven't even charged it, for fear of it playing me ads for its own brand of toothpaste and mouth wash

Dentist: I'll just put manual then

[endlessmason@hachyderm.io]

@ljwrites @neil
Is there a version that's not animated?

[ag100pct@infosec.exchange]

@neil
Absolutely love this.
This is *so* "spot on".
I scream these things every day.

[neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk]

@EndlessMason @ljwrites

The Last Quiet Thing

Your possessions came alive. Now they won't stop talking.

Terry Godier (www.terrygodier.com)