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Rant Thread - What really grinds your gears?

I fixed Gmail (and all other of my email accounts) UI redesigns pretty easy. NEVER use the official app. On my Vista machine, It's just Windows Mail in all the glossy skeuo glory. On my Linux laptop, it's 2010 Mozilla Thunderbird. On my tablets, it's the old 2012 Samsung Email app.

I just forward every account to my mail.com account which works no matter how outdated the client is, since it still works via non-SSL protocols. I could use an Amiga for my email if I found one.

I've been sick of the constant UI redesigns (somehow they make them worse each time!) since Android 5.0. I just make sure my devices are too darned old to get any more updates. You can take the Android 2.3 UI from my cold, dead hands Google.

All the futurists be like: "iT's ThE fUtUrE!!!"
 
nickdalzell said:
I fixed Gmail (and all other of my email accounts) UI redesigns pretty easy. NEVER use the official app. On my Vista machine, It's just Windows Mail in all the glossy skeuo glory. On my Linux laptop, it's 2010 Mozilla Thunderbird. On my tablets, it's the old 2012 Samsung Email app.

I just forward every account to my mail.com account which works no matter how outdated the client is, since it still works via non-SSL protocols. I could use an Amiga for my email if I found one.

I've been sick of the constant UI redesigns (somehow they make them worse each time!) since Android 5.0. I just make sure my devices are too darned old to get any more updates. You can take the Android 2.3 UI from my cold, dead hands Google.

All the futurists be like: "iT's ThE fUtUrE!!!"
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I see no problem with mail.com server, been using it for several years if you are looking for an escape since gmail.. I just get into the subconscious habbit of checking it on my comp..
 
I don't have any issues with mail.com. It's the most compatible server for old, outdated email clients. I said I forward all the email from my other accounts to mail.com so I only have to set up one account and I can use however old an app I please. Originally it was to use the old Windows Messaging client on Windows 95 a few years ago.
 
nickdalzell said:
I don't have any issues with mail.com. It's the most compatible server for old, outdated email clients. I said I forward all the email from my other accounts to mail.com so I only have to set up one account and I can use however old an app I please. Originally it was to use the old Windows Messaging client on Windows 95 a few years ago.
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My mail.com account is so old, I got the email register before it become plumping infamous, around in the mid nineties and all I used it these days is just SM messages and a few anime type business, with cracked, but that is about it..
 
I have gotten where email is about as useful as Newsgroups today.

I get more relevant stuff in my postal box vs. email, which is usually spam these days. Part of my attempts to return to the 1950s way of life as far as practicable.
 
If it's in the 'cloud' you need the internet. YouTube allows downloads of content you own on Play Movies and TV (it's accessible in YouTube) and videos you follow if you pay for Premium, but requires you to be online at least once every 30 days or they delete your stuff.

The only way to live offline properly is buy a DVD/Blu-Ray collection. It still surprises me that keeping stuff offline is a foreign concept to younger people. The looks on the faces of cashiers at a vendor mall when I buy a stack of 8-tracks is priceless though! I'm young enough that I shouldn't know what an 8-track is, but thanks to me mostly living with my great grandparents as a kid, I have a fondness for vintage.
 
nickdalzell said:
If it's in the 'cloud' you need the internet. YouTube allows downloads of content you own on Play Movies and TV (it's accessible in YouTube) and videos you follow if you pay for Premium, but requires you to be online at least once every 30 days or they delete your stuff.

The only way to live offline properly is buy a DVD/Blu-Ray collection. It still surprises me that keeping stuff offline is a foreign concept to younger people. The looks on the faces of cashiers at a vendor mall when I buy a stack of 8-tracks is priceless though! I'm young enough that I shouldn't know what an 8-track is, but thanks to me mostly living with my great grandparents as a kid, I have a fondness for vintage.
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It does keep track of all your albums and youtube videos you do download, as well as even you can download your t.v. and movies as well, there is some shining lines in the clouds you just said, and I agree with you about owning DVDS, but sometimes they do get staggering and hate to drive up in town and get a dvd, unless it is a close by market, and sometimes us country folk love to spend time away and get what we really wanted in town, but we also have a clear idea on what we are going to get.
 
I find many of my DVDs (and VHS tapes) at the same vendor malls. I prefer going into those since they give me a bit of that 'trip back in time' feel. There's one that reminds me a lot of a 1970s K-Mart (even has the old Kmart shopping carts).
 
nickdalzell said:
I find many of my DVDs (and VHS tapes) at the same vendor malls. I prefer going into those since they give me a bit of that 'trip back in time' feel. There's one that reminds me a lot of a 1970s K-Mart (even has the old Kmart shopping carts).
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Yeah.. Everything has a nostogic feeling, even when you get some kind of feeling like that.
 
I still find lurking around my own facebook list more and more, the friends button, so I decided to just wing it and add a few of my irl friends to the list, hmm.. Still pondering over and get it electifying on how heavy the lines are though, maybe I am losing more sleep though, at least I am not in the same place I was back then..
 
Panhandling is on the rise in Illinois because a federal district court judge struck down a law that prohibited it, saying asking for money is a protected act under the First Amendment.

I've seen a mother with kids sitting by the grocery store with signs asking for help. It's sad, but hasn't interfered with what I was doing.

Next Panhandlers allowed to stand in the middle of the street on the median, bothers me. People a few cars in front of me will not go on a green light to hand some one some money.

A Panhandler grabbed my wife by the arm as she was going into a store. That got me flying out of the car and confronting the Panhandler. He had a strong smell of booze.

Today while I was getting gas, I saw a guy running straight at me. I didn't know if he was a carjacker. or what he was. Then I heard him say, "Hey Chief, hey chief" I stuck my hand out and loudly said, "NO NO". He then went and bothered other people for money.
 
AugieTN said:
Panhandling is on the rise in Illinois because a federal district court judge struck down a law that prohibited it, saying asking for money is a protected act under the First Amendment.

I've seen a mother with kids sitting by the grocery store with signs asking for help. It's sad, but hasn't interfered with what I was doing.

Next Panhandlers allowed to stand in the middle of the street on the median, bothers me. People a few cars in front of me will not go on a green light to hand some one some money.

A Panhandler grabbed my wife by the arm as she was going into a store. That got me flying out of the car and confronting the Panhandler. He had a strong smell of booze.

Today while I was getting gas, I saw a guy running straight at me. I didn't know if he was a carjacker. or what he was. Then I heard him say, "Hey Chief, hey chief" I stuck my hand out and loudly said, "NO NO". He then went and bothered other people for money.
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In Urbana area it is a huge mob around Campus, that is why I always stay close by my bowling team when we do go bowling.
 
So today I was going through Barstow California and decided to stop and grab a pair of shoes, maybe two. So as I was trying on shoes I overheard a lady say
The store closes in less than 30 days. I didn't pay attention until she said what's ever in the store here is it. I was like wait hold :rolleyes::thinking::oops: I asked if this store was closing and she said yes she just found out from an employee so I asked and it turned out to be true:maddroid::saddroid::thumbsdowndroid::maskeddroid:
This store was one of the few good things about California
 

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-35 degrees outside and it is sunny, we have our power and water on, I have an earache form playing The Past Within, the music is really classical, but there was some parts that damanged it a little bit, I turned down my phonak a bit ago.. yeah I am not a happy camper.
 
Okay..
Now I know how church was a tradition at most houses, but last night went in for an amazing guitar player as well as organist, right? I think she is around twentyish, I also disbanned church ages ago as well, so my grumpy rant is this, how come did I see my sister as a strange sinner in covered in blood as well as the walls were in blood, when holding the Blood of Christ during commion last night?
 
If an auto renew stated that a reminder would be sent before the charge, I would be good with that. The last two times I tried auto renew there was no reminder before the charge.
 
Here is something, I would like all memberships in the world to only have that day of when you do come through into the doors, and only pay a few bucks per time you get into it, and just have emails slowed down instead of whatever the crap it is.. Honestly slow down and only do per that moment when you do come in the doors of it.
 
The wife caught covid 19. She's resting and making a recovery praise God.
She thinks she got it from going into the office about two weeks ago.
 
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