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Cake day: August 8th, 2025

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  • I mean, big box stores have high rooves with no sound insulation and are blasting music and ads*, the shelves are covered in brightly colored packaging trying to compete for your attention (plus more ads), they usually have terrible bright commercial lighting, there’s a lot of people with large carts (and poor awareness of their surroundings) trying to get through the same spaces, and you have to find all the things you need with that going on around you.

    I don’t believe I’ve been in a Costco (or can’t remember it), but the giant Walmart / Target / Kroger stores are already bad enough.

    *Don’t get me started on the fridges, which at one store I’ve been to were loud enough that I couldn’t hear someone next to me.


  • In that case the user has made a choice is the good thing. They’ve seen what options are there and decided Windows fits their needs best. That’s better in my mind than a world where everyone accepts the OS that comes preinstalled on their machine as permanent and doesn’t consider alternatives.




  • The worst part is, Spectrum call agents will just try to sell you on more stuff. When I signed up (no choice for internet where I was), they offered an introductory rate on their website for internet only, but forced you to call them to sign up. Of course, in calling, they insisted I get a package with internet + cable + streaming, and it took a while to negotiate just internet. I mentioned the offer, and made sure they promised I’d get the promotional rate.

    Lo and behold, my first month bill happens and no promo rate to be seen. It took another phone call to fix that.

    I just recently canceled - they demand your new address (for mail forwarding??), they want to know your internet/cable/phone there, etc. so they can try and convince you to transfer. And, if I know someone else moving in I can transfer to them so they get a promotional rate (I guarantee their new-customer first year rate would be cheaper).

    The only part where they didn’t try upsell me was in returning their modem, which was pretty seamless (unless they try charge me for not returning it, I feel like they’d do that).

    Oh, and of course I still get “hand-picked” “exclusive” offers “just for me” every day in my email.