Observer1199

@Observer1199@lemmy.ml
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I wouldn't view India as a world leader in any field but may be ignorant of some specialities? I know there is innovation but nothing major springs to mind. I'm being lazy though - that can likely be looked up and verified with stats.

Technology wise, it appears to depend on western countries outsourcing work, which isn't necessarily a bad thing but isn't a good thing either since the draw to using India isn't skill but cost. If the cost goes up, the west will stop outsourcing there and go to some other low cost base. (I'm not saying Indians aren't skilled, just that's not the primary reason why outsourcing there is happening, it's all about exploitation from the west in search of more profit).

Politically it seems to have been a dumpster fire for some time and looks like it's trending towards more national extremism. Though that doesn't seem to be unique at all - feels like the world is shifting to more fascist tendencies.

The caste system is especially cruel and I regularly read stories that it's going strong with no signs of stopping. I find that morally repugnant.

The amount of scams against innocent people that originate from India is shocking, and it really appears as though corruption is so high that it's not going to get better any time soon.

Professionally, I deal with Indians semi regularly and it's overall positive. Personally, I've come across a few assholes but the majority have been decent people and none of the issues above ever come up.

If you don't care then accept you're the reason we can't have nice things.

It's like saying I don't care about freedom of speech because I have nothing important to say.

It is extremely irritating - admittedly I used to do the same many moons ago but then I grew up.

I think with experience/perspective people can see that windows is needed. There's just no way all the computer illiterate people (most people) will be able for Linux, not unless it's simplified to be exactly like windows... (I don't want to hear about how your 120 year old grandma learned arch at 100 having never touched a computer before and now teaches software dev - exceptions prove the rule)

I also grow tired of every year hearing it's going to be the year of Linux desktop.

What I'm hearing is that marketing is the problem - if so much money wasn't wasted on it then the world would be a better place.

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The solution to write your own application that does what you want because your workflow is not a use case that browsers are designed for. It's not bad to wish for features but your workflow is never going to be catered for in a browser and it's both unreasonable and unrealistic to expect otherwise - hence you need to do it yourself.

If you can't or don't know how to do that yourself, I suggest you listen to the advice everyone else is giving you. Organisation does require ongoing work and given your comments it will likely require a lot of upfront effort to change your browser hygiene habits but once you are more organised it becomes a lot easier and a lot less work to stay on top of things.

It's none of my business but I wonder why you feel it's so important to open 500+ tabs just to buy something small online. Doing research and being informed is good but it seems disproportionate and perhaps talking to a professional might help you with that.

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You used that term, and frankly I recoil a bit a this term because of the implication that it's not a deficiency of the software but that it's the users who are wrong.

I wouldn't say FF is deficient in this case - not being designed for your exact use case doesn't mean there's anything wrong with it.

As for opening 500+ tabs to buy a thing.

You do know that sellers now use algorithmic pricing and often there will be hundreds of sellers for the same thing.

Plus the price will be obfuscated with various artifices that all have to be overcome to find the best seller with the best price.

Defeating all of that means openning a shit-ton of tabs.

I usually only buy things if I agree with the price it's being sold at. If I don't I will look elsewhere but ultimately I value my time more than money. Extra money can be earned, time cannot 🤷‍♂️ If you have to drive 100 miles to a fuel station to save 2 cent per gallon, are you actually saving money?

Here's an example of the process I've designed for aliexpress

https://github.com/igorlogius/gather-from-tabs/discussions/8

So it's a script generating all the tabs?

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People think brown eyed girl by Van Morrison is about anal sex?? People that have heard the song or read the lyrics??

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Wow. That's does not give me any hope for humanity.

Some people are just too fast for common sense to catch up with.

That's an asinine statement to make and suggests a lack of common sense.

Any website can be compromised, even if only for a short time and zero click zero-day vulnerabilites exist. Companies are not the only ones at risk from this or the only ones with something to lose if their system gets compromised.

Common sense is important but not enough (and evidently not common enough).

Yeah, somewhat, because I'm not some entitled ass when thinks I'm better than you, I'm not a military officer in charge of you, and I'm not so old that you need to be deferential because I come from another time and expect it.

Yeah, even more than 10 years really - maybe OP was in a coma 😅 or just didn't notice until someone made a comment and then couldn't stop seeing them. Kind of like when you a buy a certain car you suddenly start seeing them everywhere because you're more familiar.

I'm sure it can easily be proven development has been ongoing for years. Make a press release saying how your company is proud to announce the culmination of years of research, development, and hard work... And/Or phase out the old boards in batches. Just stop buying as many, have both versions for a while.

Fwiw, nothing to do with gender but I hate being addressed as sir/ma'am, especially by people I don't know. It's unnecessarily formal and I know most people think it's a respectfl thing but to me it's somewhat insulting and makes me uncomfortable. Thank you is plenty.

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Not sure what your coding level is but you could interact with and scrape the sites with python. I'm sure other languages have similar frameworks.

Even if you aren't very familiar and don't know any pythons, it's a good one to learn and though it could take a while to learn enough to do what you want, you would be more motivated to figure things out and it would save you a lot of time (and money) in the long term.

https://realpython.com/modern-web-automation-with-python-and-selenium/.
https://www.projectpro.io/article/python-libraries-for-web-scraping/625

Got any more details on that? Seems like it could be an interesting read

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I see no downside, only upsides, mainly not having to be subjected to the bile spewed by company propagandists who manipulate people in search of unsustainable growth and profit at the expense of humanity

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No clear answer for sir and ma'am honorifics

I feel there is no need for them so just dropping them is the best solution - anyone who expects them or is insulted by not using them is an entitled ass.

Very interesting! Thanks

No marketing people, no marketing materials, no marketing budget, no influencers. I don't mean not using the term and switching the practise to some other title or having it so there are loopholes that allow the propaganda machine to continue making the world a worse place.

Do I think this will happen? No, it is but a dream due to the greed of humanity. Those on top thinking their entitled to be mega wealthy, those on the bottom hoping they'll be on top one day.