Hello everybody,
What is the company and corporation that is the object of your hate? What did/do they do to get that spot for you?
Mine is Facebook/Meta for their egregious data collection policies, psychological manipulation of its users, and more recently, them not seeding content.
Thanks in advance for your time! Have a good one!
Hard to top Meta right now. Propaganda enables all the other bullshit from the likes of Nestle, fossil fuel companies, certain car makers, surveillance companies etc., and people don’t even get that Facebook and Instagram are even an issue beyond “social media is inherently bad”-sentiments (in contrast to x/twitter, which saw a large exodus recently).
Though if I’m honest, it’s not just social media - even “respectable” print and tv publications have been pushing the “brown people are violent criminals”-narrative, which is pretty much entirely a fabrication according to statistics (at least here in Germany).
“brown people are violent criminals”-narrative, which is pretty much entirely a fabrication
I’d love to see a source on that to have something to send to xenophobes
facebook/meta deliberately sows misinformation with the help with russia to drive up revenue sources , turns out conservatives are very easy pickings for advertisements. Ive seen youtber run to Facebooks, because they whining how a sub was making them look bad.
As a hard rule, it’s Nestle, but I fucking despise Elon Musk so much that I refuse to use anything he’s involved with.
Tesla by a country mile.
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Apple.
They take advantage of their uncharacteristically loyal customer base unapologetically.
They are no longer innovative they haven’t come out with a new product at least one thats good in decades and the only thing keeping them afloat is the iPhone. Their computers are overpriced trash and aside for those two products they have literally nothing else to offer. Apple TV has no purpose and is completely pointless and the VR headset they make has almost no applications that are useful.
Albeit they make a really good USB c to USB c cable that being said it’s ridiculously overpriced.
I’m not an apple fanboy- in fact I own Android and mostly use windows and Linux. However,
Apple single-handedly pushed the computer market away from x86 processors. Face ID changed the way people use their devices.
Their computers, while no longer use upgradable, still last much longer and have higher overall quality than their competition.
The OS pushes you toward using iCloud, but doesn’t mandate it or advertise everywhere like windows 11.
The HomePod introduced room-equalizing to the masses and sounds way better than it should for the size.
The integration between all their products continues to get better. Using an iPad as a second monitor, local processing rather than cloud, actual E2E encryption, while locked inside their bubble, was developed and released 10 years before it became in vogue.
The list goes on
Yea, no new devices but I think they are pushing tech forward still. Hard to say they aren’t innovating.
I get where you’re coming from, but most of these points don’t actually prove Apple is pushing tech forward in a meaningful way.
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Apple moving away from x86. Sure, switching to ARM-based chips is impressive, but it’s not innovation; it’s adaptation. ARM processors were already gaining traction, and Apple just executed well. They didn’t invent ARM chips, they just used their massive resources to optimize for their closed ecosystem.
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Face ID changed device usage. Did it, though? Biometric authentication wasn’t new when Face ID launched, and plenty of people still prefer fingerprint sensors for speed and convenience. Apple also took years to implement under-display Touch ID, something others had already done.
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Longevity of Apple computers. Their hardware is solid, but at what cost? Non-upgradable, non-repairable, and absurdly expensive. A MacBook lasting longer is irrelevant when a PC can be upgraded for half the cost over the same period. Apple deliberately makes self-repairs difficult, which contradicts the claim of “higher quality.”
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Integration between devices. It’s good, but only if you’re 100% in the Apple ecosystem. Outside of it, their products lose functionality. “Local processing” and “E2E encryption” aren’t Apple innovations—they just market them better. Google and others had secure encryption and local AI processing long before Apple made it a selling point.
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No new devices but still “pushing tech forward”. You can’t claim innovation while admitting they haven’t released new groundbreaking products. Apple refines, but they rarely disrupt anymore. The Vision Pro is a niche luxury toy, not an industry-changing device.
Apple’s business model is to extract as much money as possible from its captive audience while making sure everything outside their walled garden is inconvenient. That’s not innovation thats control.
A MacBook lasting longer is irrelevant when a PC can be upgraded for half the cost over the same period.
I’m using the same PC I had in 1998. Sort of.
I’ve been upgrading things as needed. Around 2000 I put it in a 4 unit rack mount server case - which will pretty much hold anything I need. The motherboard and CPU have been upgraded 5-6 times. New power supply here and there. Old drives are moved to storage drives and I install faster newer drives for OS from time to time.
I have no idea how much I’ve saved just upgrading things as needed or if something fails.
I just upgraded a nvidia 8400 in my streaming (by streaming I mean like Netflix and stuff) PC… It worked for 18 years. There’s nothing wrong with it now… Just no driver support.
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Apple TV the devices or the streaming service? Because the streaming service has pretty good content, especially compared to the other streaming services. Pretty stupid to have named those two the same, though, so many people dont know that it’s just a regular streaming service that works on every device.
everything else Apple sucks though
Oh, I have my favorites.
Nestle is up in the list, as is Monsanto.
For years I hated Microsoft with a passion for all the scummy things they did. They killed a lot of good companies and products by shady business practices rather than competing with quality software.
Then there’s Nvidia. These bastards will just not play ball with open source, so every gamer kid that somehow decides to try Linux and fails thanks to their shitty drivers end up in reddit screaming “Linux sucks”. AMD and Intel are fine to open source their drivers or at least publish the specs so others may do it for them. I suspect the true reason is that there’s a lot of benchmark rigging code inside Nvidia’s drivers.
Nestle - check out some of why https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nestlé Its Jame Bond level villainy
Its Jame Bond level villainy
Quantum of Solace is about monopolizing a freshwater supply.
There are only two points for me (baby formula, child labor) :o.
Microsoft.
And it’s almost entirely because of excel.
We have a program that automatically outputs an excel document every month. I then have to go into this document and unfuck all the data that excel decided to turn into dates. There is no way to format the file before the program spits out the excel doc. There is now way to reverse the change and have it go back to the original data correctly.
I have spent countless hours on the phone with Microsoft support and digging around forums trying to make it stop breaking our data, but I have been told by multiple Microsoft support employees that it is impossible.
I did find out that there used to be a beta version of excel back in like 2017 where you could change a setting that forced your excel to leave all day alone until told to do something with it, but they never finished it and it was eventually removed as a setting.
WHY WOULD YOU TAKE AWAY THAT ABILITY MICROSOFT. WHY.
There is definitely a way to automate that process. Even if you can’t somehow sanitize the input before Excel reads it as dates, unfucking the data can definitely be reduced to a single button-push. I’ve based my entire career on my ability to do that.
I have had an untold number of coders and Microsoft experts look at this problem. There is nothing that can be done.
Program 1 cannot be changed as the job requires it and it will only automatically spit out into excel. Excel immediately breaks several numbers across the spreadsheet by turning them into dates. Nobody at Microsoft can get the sheets to revert back into the original data correctly. Nothing can be done to preemptively format excel not to fuck the dates.
What do you mean “spit out”? Is it being put into a new open workbook, an existing open workbook, or is it being saved as a file?
And I don’t mean to suggest I know better than the person actually dealing with the situation (I hate when people do that), but if you can do it manually, it can be automated.
The program generates a report for us once a month. It can be generated as an excel file or as another file type which we cannot use. When it generates the excel file it breaks a bunch of numbers that are used often and all throughout our data as excel thinks they are dates. When we try and reverse any of those numbers in all the many ways people have recommended the data never goes back all correctly. So I have to manually replace the data cell by cell afterwards.
We are unable to preemptively format any settings in excel to prevent this from happening.
There once was a beta version of excel that had the exact feature we need (excel leaves all data untouched unless told otherwise), but for some godforsaken reason Microsoft got rid of that setting.
It can be generated as an excel file or as another file type which we cannot use.
This is probably a dumb question, and there’s likely a very good reason why this can’t be done, but can you not generate an Excel file from one of the other formats yourself? E.g. have the program output a CSV and write a python script that parses it into an excel file. That way you might have more control over the generated Excel and maybe be able to do it automatically.
Yep, export to CSV, format as desired, save in Excel format?
Might be annoying to format it but I would guess it is easier than having to change data?He can also use an alternative to excel like OpenOffice or libreoffice, I don’t know why would they would use excel when it causes issues.
Maybe the output to managers needs to be Excel for some reason, e.g. there’s some processing afterwards with another closed tool.
Must be the export into an Excel file that breaks it. By that point, an alternative reader won’t help.
I suggest making a script to fix it, rather than fix it manually. It is very easy to use, so basically program then export to excel then run officescript. Also don’t tell anyone you made a script, tell them you are doing it manually.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/dev/scripts/overview/excel
The data is different every month. It’s not consistent month to month so it can’t be automated in any way.
But you use the same column correct? and the data that is messed up is the same type? Unless the data that is messed up is very hard to detect using a script, it should be possible.
Starbucks. They moved into my neighborhood and put a bunch of small business owners (cafes) out of business including one owned by a very good friend.
Nestle. obvs
Unilever for polluting tonnes of plastic waste back in my home country, Indonesia. They can do better with single use plastic but they choose not to, pure greed and evil!
Amazon. Fuck Amazon and bezos.
Tyson foods. They raise, torture, and kill 40 million animals per week. There’s probably no other entity in the history of our planet that’s responsible for more total suffering.
all multi-billion dollar companies. pretty much not compatible with (quote mode) democracy (end quote mode)
Most hated? PostNL.
Those fuckers just drop your packages wherever the fuck they want.
I’ve had to contact neighbors and search for my packages on the street.
really? wow, that’s DHL/UPS for me - PostNL keeps my packages intact and delivers them just fine. DHL literally throws packages on the street here.
Might be the Belgian PostNL.
yeah, should’ve been PostBE if they were really serious about it anyway!
Agreed on Meta. I quit Facebook years ago and refused to touch anything owned by them.
Everything new I hear about them bothers me, because I know it will eventually affect all of us.
Just picking an example: I really hate their “loss leader” approach to flooding the world with cheap VR headsets, which bullies everyone else out of the market because they don’t have a data-siphoning proprietary ecosystem to make convenient profit from.
VR was getting really exciting until Facebook started screwing with it.
