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Cake day: June 27th, 2023

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  • Honestly, I don’t even believe it’s inefficient. There’s plenty of documented/recorded evidence of child labor around the world. Sometimes, all you really need is a pair of hands, and kids are physically capable of doing it. Countries with shitty labor laws are ripe with child labor abuse.



  • This gist of it from the WAN show was this:

    • They were unaware that it was intentionally not looking for the best deals (thus, scamming the consumer)
    • They stopped advertising Honey because of the referral hijacking
    • A ton of creators knew about it, and had already dropped Honey (people just talked about it via DMs, not publicly)
    • This all happened when YouTubers were getting shit on for even doing ads/sponsors, and they didn’t want to make a video that was basically “stop using this thing that saves you money because it takes my money” (see first point)




  • That’s not Amazon’s fault.

    That’s mostly the fault of consumers who buy from Amazon (and other e-tailors).

    There’s quite a few retail stores that don’t keep inventory, even for common things. Staples comes to mind, where it feels like half their damn office items aren’t in stock, so you need to wait for them to have it brought in.

    The problem is that those same retail stores can’t compete with Amazon’s shipping speed. It becomes a case of:

    • I want to buy a thing, I need it fast, so I guess I’ll check my local retails stores
    • My local retail stores don’t have it in stock, but I can order it and it’ll be there in 4-5 days
    • I can just buy it off of Amazon at a comparable price, and have it tomorrow

    It’s alright if they don’t want to carry inventory, but they need to have the shipping speeds to compete, otherwise there’s no reason for the consumer not to just buy it off of Amazon directly.







  • While I agree with most of what you’re saying, it’s also stupid to blame Microsoft for breaking your computer if you forcefully uninstall the Windows store, despite the fact that it’s needed for parts of certain updates.

    A lot of the “debloaters” have no fucking idea what they’re actually doing and are uninstalling/disabling critical parts of the OS so the task manager shows less RAM usage (because God forbid you actually use your damn RAM).







  • Their outside communication is nonexistent at best

    Eh, they’re decently active on Reddit, I guess. They send the occasional newsletter regarding new features if you don’t unsubscribe (and they’re pretty good at not spamming with those, imo).

    development speed is unbearably slow

    I see people say this all the time, and while feature updates are kind of slow, I’m also not lacking anything, personally. I would appreciate it if they smoothed-out SimpleLogin’s extension, though. That thing is weirdly clunky to use.

    Agree on the Linux bit, though. I’m surprised they haven’t put more work into that.

    Overall, I’ve been a happy customer for a few years, personally.