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Cake day: June 26th, 2023

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  • The company I work for had record earnings recently and there were high spirits, long praising newsletter from the CEO. Praise for maintaining a very stable production and higher output with fewer people than competitors.

    Until our closest competitors reported their earnings. Which were higher, not surprising as they are bigger than us. Then it was doom and gloom

    All of a sudden we had to have substantial budget cuts, and couldn’t rehire to fill a position for someone who had left.

    Crazy huh, earned a boatload of money, but someone else earned a bit more. So then we have to cut expenses and optimize.

    They still had the audacity recently to try to push the company “spirit and mindset” to employees. Something something buzzwords…

    They will still discard you as fast as yesteryears iPhone.






  • I’m stunned with how bad it was and why they hell they didn’t use the same strategy that made Windows popular… The apps.

    My work back then gave me a Windows Phone. Very few of the apps I had on my Android phone was available for my work phone.

    On top of that a lot of things simply didn’t work. One thing I still remember was that Alarm volume and Ring tone volume could not be adjusted individually.

    The whole thing felt like they wanted to reinvent the wheel and started from absolute scratch without learning from the innovation in the past decade of mobile phones.

    It’s sad, a third competitor in the smartphone space wouldn’t have been a bad thing.


  • It seems like they are going out of their way to remove good features. Like they removed the option to right click the taskbar and open task manager. They since added it back, but only because of user demand.

    They have removed quick access to disabling the network, seeing and changing ip settings.

    I can’t remember all the annoying issues, but there’s a lot.

    I hate that it has become a general thing to ruin user experience and possibilities of customization. Google is doing the same with android.












  • I rarely see any ads. First thing I do on a clean windows or new phone, is to install adblockers. Simply because they have become so intrusive and takes up a lot of screen realestate. On top of that ads have been attack vectors for zero day exploits into people’s computers several times before.

    One place I still see ads are on Facebook, and they never target anything I’m interested in. I suspect it’s because of greed. Because they are absolutely collecting my data, so they should be able to target me with relevant stuff, but they will allow any ads as long as the advertisers pay up. I have seen explicit ads on Facebook… on Facebook! Where users almost gets banned for saying butt. Ads on the other hand, is fine…

    The result is I’m bombarded with irrelevant ads, that I never click.

    As services gets more aggressive with pushing ads down my throat, the more aggressive methods I’m going use to block ads or find alternative services. They did it to themselves.