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Post by Ben Grimm on Nov 7, 2023 9:56:53 GMT -5
ELI5:
What's the business case for making things harder to download? Referring specifically to file storage platforms here. Every time Google Drive updates its UI, the download function gets nested deeper and is harder to find or less convenient to use. Bruhs, this is why Drive exists!
I just spent more than two minutes in a shared Google Drive folder looking for a way to download a file without opening it. It's not in the top toolbar, it's not in the right-click menu. Now it's only available as an option on mouse-hover, waaaaaaay over to the right of my screen nowhere near the file name.
Why?!
Business case is probably the force people to acclimate to using the cloud as their primary storage, rather than overflow deep storage/emergency back-up, because that will force people to keep their subscription forever. Plus, if it's hard to download, you need to make sure you maintain that space for anything important. I could easily see limiting downloads on some sort of nonsense premise, either to force you to upgrade for unlimited downloads, or make it impossible to leave the environment without losing data, or (more likely) both. |
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Post by 🔪 silly buns on Nov 16, 2023 16:13:51 GMT -5
If anyone was looking for a meatless option for Turkey Day /cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/pmn/TM6RX3TUPFAATFDEJTKLULR54Q.jpg) |
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Post by Lurky McLurk on Nov 27, 2023 6:19:51 GMT -5
Do USAans use the phrase "turkeys voting for Christmas"? Or do you relate it to Thanksgiving instead, as that's your turkey day? Or do you just not have an equivalent at all and have no idea what I'm talking about and why would turkeys get to vote?
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Post by Lurky McLurk on Nov 27, 2023 6:21:34 GMT -5
I got a spam email today from "Arthur Brown". Turns out that Arthur Brown is still alive. Though I doubt the email was really from him.
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Post by Ben Grimm on Nov 27, 2023 6:46:32 GMT -5
Do USAans use the phrase "turkeys voting for Christmas"? Or do you relate it to Thanksgiving instead, as that's your turkey day? Or do you just not have an equivalent at all and have no idea what I'm talking about and why would turkeys get to vote?This one. |
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Post by Ben Grimm on Nov 27, 2023 6:47:06 GMT -5
I got a spam email today from "Arthur Brown". Turns out that Arthur Brown is still alive. Though I doubt the email was really from him. He is the god of hellfire, after all. |
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Post by William T. Goat, Esq. on Nov 27, 2023 21:57:14 GMT -5
Weeks ago, I got a survey in the mail from the Neilsen ratings people. I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS MOMENT SINCE I WAS A CHILD
...Then I promptly misplaced it.
It came with two actual dollar bills, and told me I would receive an additional five dollars if I sent it in before November 21.
I dropped it in the mail today.
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Post by ganews on Nov 29, 2023 17:42:20 GMT -5
How did we end up with six active "headlines" threads on this page?
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Post by Dr. Rumak on Nov 29, 2023 21:38:01 GMT -5
How did we end up with six active "headlines" threads on this page? Because seven would obviously be ridiculous. |
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Post by Desert Dweller on Dec 1, 2023 17:31:32 GMT -5
Weeks ago, I got a survey in the mail from the Neilsen ratings people. I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS MOMENT SINCE I WAS A CHILD ...Then I promptly misplaced it. It came with two actual dollar bills, and told me I would receive an additional five dollars if I sent it in before November 21. I dropped it in the mail today. Congratulations! This happened to me last year! I did actually get the $5, too. Crazy world. |
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Post by ganews on Dec 4, 2023 16:13:43 GMT -5
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Post by Dr. Rumak on Dec 15, 2023 17:56:44 GMT -5
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Post by ganews on Dec 27, 2023 14:50:51 GMT -5
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Post by Rainbow Rosa on Dec 28, 2023 15:32:35 GMT -5
It literally has never occurred to me that I could purchase a weighted stuffed animal of a semi-realistic spider, and now I'm worried my bank account will never recover.
THANK YOU!!! But also DAMN YOU!!!
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Post by Mrs David Tennant on Jan 1, 2024 15:03:32 GMT -5
I was watching The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe last night and I realized something I hadn't thought of before. As you know, Lucy enters Narnia first and when she returns the other three don't believe her. Then Edmund gets in and meets Lucy there, but when Lucy runs to Peter and Susan when she and Edmund get back, he lies and says they were just playing. So then finally all four of them get in to Narnia, and in the book Peter immediately says to Lucy "I apologize for not believing you. I'm sorry. Will you shake hands?". Which is great! But in the movie, he looks at Lucy and says while kind of laughing, I don't suppose apologizing would be any good (or words to that effect). Lucy throws a snowball at him, and they move on.
He never actually apologized in the movie! It was a non-apology. And I remember when I was a child thinking that Peter was so awesome for immediately apologizing to Lucy for not believing her. What would it have hurt to have that line stay in the movie?
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Post by Mrs David Tennant on Jan 13, 2024 17:51:50 GMT -5
Heh, I'm watching the last bit of The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, and I'm mad about another thing! Why are wolves bad guys in Narnia? That's a bit rude!
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Post by WKRP Jimmy Drop on Jan 26, 2024 0:46:01 GMT -5
As I unloaded my cart, the cashier at WinCo asked if “it would be okay” if he started. o_0
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Post by Chicanery on Jan 31, 2024 9:00:20 GMT -5
So I haven't logged on in 6 years... What's changed in that time?
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Post by Ben Grimm on Jan 31, 2024 9:51:28 GMT -5
So I haven't logged on in 6 years... What's changed in that time? Not much. 2018-2024 has been a pretty uneventful period everywhere. It's like no time has passed at all. |
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Post by chalkdevil 😈 on Jan 31, 2024 16:52:52 GMT -5
So I haven't logged on in 6 years... What's changed in that time? That new Star Wars trilogy finished up and we're primarily a Qanon forum now, but with a strong Marxist bend. Eating babies in pizza shops shouldn't just be for the political elite. The people* should rise up and seize the means of adrenal gland extraction! *We look forward to you weighing in on our threads on what should legal constitute a "person" |
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Post by William T. Goat, Esq. on Jan 31, 2024 22:00:17 GMT -5
So I haven't logged on in 6 years... What's changed in that time? We have all been replaced by A.I. beep boop |
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Post by WKRP Jimmy Drop on Feb 5, 2024 19:04:41 GMT -5
If anyone needs me I’ll be in the corner sobbing over Tracy Chapman at the Grammys for the foreseeable future.
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Post by Pedantic Editor Type on Feb 6, 2024 16:19:55 GMT -5
If anyone needs me I’ll be in the corner sobbing over Tracy Chapman at the Grammys for the foreseeable future. I mean, same, I'm not even sure why that made me cry so much but it sure did. |
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Post by WKRP Jimmy Drop on Feb 6, 2024 17:41:01 GMT -5
If anyone needs me I’ll be in the corner sobbing over Tracy Chapman at the Grammys for the foreseeable future. I mean, same, I'm not even sure why that made me cry so much but it sure did. Then, like a moron, I watched Joni Mitchell and Annie Lennox, so it was a very soggy night in the Jimmy house. |
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Post by LazBro on Feb 7, 2024 12:10:24 GMT -5
I know they are very different people, and I know that one=good and the other=bad, but whenever either comes up in an article I can never, in the moment, remember which is which:
Carla Gugino Gina Carano
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Post by Some Kind of Munster on Feb 7, 2024 12:21:48 GMT -5
I know they are very different people, and I know that one=good and the other=bad, but whenever either comes up in an article I can never, in the moment, remember which is which:
Carla Gugino Gina Carano
For years I thought Carla Gugino was the lady from Hot Shots! and Hot Shots! Part Deux so when I read this I assumed Gina Carano was the Hot Shots! lady but nope, that's yet another *t*l**n actress, Valerie Golino |
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Post by Jean-Luc Lemur on Feb 7, 2024 14:19:32 GMT -5
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Post by ganews on Feb 8, 2024 16:31:41 GMT -5
I just completed a Captcha that required me to pick pictures with motorcycles, and Captcha apparently includes a moped under that term.
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Post by Rainbow Rosa on Feb 9, 2024 12:01:28 GMT -5
This is not even close to the point, of course, but... are Bert and Ernie "Disney-owned" ?? No, right? Like, if Disney owned Elmo, we would know, right? |
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Post by Pedantic Editor Type on Feb 9, 2024 12:04:23 GMT -5
This is not even close to the point, of course, but... are Bert and Ernie "Disney-owned" ?? No, right? Like, if Disney owned Elmo, we would know, right? No, Disney owns the Muppet Show muppets (Kermit, Miss Piggy, Gonzo, etc), but not Sesame Street. Sesame Street is owned by nonprofit Sesame Workshop (formerly Children's Television Workshop). |
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