I know people prefer to complain instead of act, but what is something people don’t like but has an alternative?
Dungeon and Dragon. There is a ton of TTRPG out there and things like Level up 5e are direct replacement with better content.
Hell even just D&D 3.5e is better than 5e imo. Though I mostly play Pathfinder 2e nowadays (I’d be happy with Pathfinder 1e as well).
Just 5e is boring as hell to both DM and to play.
undefined> 5e is boring as hell to both DM and to play.
My experience this is 100% the group, the system is secondary to the quality of DM and other players. A good group will have fun in any system.
Sort of. I personally a more engaged with the system if it’s more mechanically intensive and provides a lot of character customization options (such as feats at every level or every other level from leveling up), with lots of actual hard rules to follow and not just guidelines.
5e is not mechanically intensive enough for me.
Ha I run a game store and it’s finnally good to see things like Blades in the Dark, Mork Borg, Alice is Missing, Avatar, Cyberpunk, and Pathfinder knock a percent or two into the D&D Market share.
iPhones. Love my Pixel and I don’t care how much my co-workers bitch about bubble colors.
In the US,I phone is a social status. They’re judging you because it’s like you don’t own a car and just have a unicycle in their minds. What amazing marketing. I’m an Android pixel owner since the beginning and still am. There’s some articles written about it too
Yeah Apple people are very clickie. If you don’t have one you’re a freak. Lol I’m fine being a freak. I never cared much about fitting in anyway. Fuck the Joneses!
It’s strange as flagship Androids are just as expensive.
But there are a lot of Androids that aren’t expensive, unlike iPhones.
You can save so much money and add so many customization options by switching to android.
Went back to android with the first pixel. After five different phones (microphones and speakers kept breaking) I went back to iPhone.
This is why I don’t buy Android.
The software isn’t optimized enough from smoothness and battery consumption perspective.
Also, the ROM that’s usually comes from the manufacturer is either spyware, bloated, or just crap. You need technical knowledge and risking bricking your device to install custom ROM.
The hardware, which is my least concern, depends on the company you buy from.
My SONY smart tv (with apps disabled) would phone home like ~200 times a minute.
Sounds like you had issues exclusively with hardware, perhaps you should’ce gone for a different manufacturer. My personal anecdote has never seen anything break (that I didn’t cause myself).
I mean, it’s google’s flagship phone. My experience with Samsung in their other products has never been good. Which is why I went back to the product that has always worked for me.
All 5 were Pixel’s?
Yes - only because they were still under warranty so google kept shipping me more.
I think you just got unlucky most people don’t have anything close to that experience
Yeah, conversely my kids’ use iPhones and they, and their iPods back in the day, are more troublesome than my and my wife’s Androids (Galaxies, Pixels, One+)
The kids are only on iPhones because they were the smallest form factors for sale at the time. Little kids have little pockets
I’m not sure but the iPhone bubble colour debate seems so US centric. In the UK, I’ve never heard of anyone bringing it up
It is 100% exclusive to iPhone users in the US and it’s so bizarre and ridiculous. Apple has even brainwashed children with this shit to the point that kids are bullied for not having iPhones.
I wouldn’t be surprised if teens in Canada felt the same way. Not necessarily the Hubble colour bu indefinitely sense iPhone is a status thing.
I can see reasons why people would prefer android, e.g. ability to install apps outside of the manufacturer’s App Store, and there are some android models that are cheaper than iPhone (less so since iPhone SE, but still true).
But the post asks about alternatives for companies that people don’t like. I.e., where it’s the company that has a problem morally. Do people generally think that Google is morally better than Apple? Sure, Apple is anticompetitive about hardware and software access because that’s how they make money, but Google is anticompetitive about data and advertising because that’s how they make their money. I kinda think they’re both bad.
Hoping I don’t come off as antagonistic here. I’m genuinely curious what people think.
I didn’t see anything in the original post about morals. I answered based on the fact that Apple is a company that some people don’t like and Google offers an alternative for some services and products.
If we’re talking strictly about morals I would have to think of a different answer.
Broader than a brand, but I think it fits here…
Everyone hates banks. Credit Unions are better in every possible way.
Amazon, sort of. It absolutely cannot be beat for convenience. Ordering something in 15 seconds, then having it shipped within 48 hours is unmatchable.
But if you plan ahead, and aren’t an impulse buyer, you can find alternatives with better products and similar prices. Most stuff on Amazon is absolute junk with clickfarm reviews.
Ironically Reddit was really good for finding niche websites for whichever product you were looking for. Hopefully Lemmy will reach that point eventually.
Would be interested in a community for general purchase recommendations (any product, no specific category). Having a thread site like this where actual humans who bought the product and don’t work for the company can write honest reviews/recommendations is extremely valuable
Not the same but which (which.co.uk) is a non-profit consumer group. You can pay them subscription and they do non biased and quite detailed reviews of all the normal electrial stuff. I’ve used them for a washing machine, freezer, earbuds, TV, handheld vacuum cleaner.
For those in DE/AT/PL/UK: https://geizhals.eu/
It shows many local online shops, including Amazon. Amazon usually isn’t the cheapest IME in Germany.
Ordering something in 15 seconds, then having it shipped within 48 hours is unmatchable
you mean like online shopping in general?
I assume they mean having it arrive within 48 hours, which is not typical of most online shopping.
which is not typical of most online shopping.
not
alternativeto.net is great for this
TurboTax. I used freetaxusa this year and I’m never going back.
Windows -> GNU/Linux
KDE/Gnome -> JWM
TV -> Reading books
Twitter -> Fediverse
Coke/Cola -> Tea/infusion
Amazon -> Local bookshop
Amazon needs a bit more than bookshops to replace it. Need a whole shopping mall
A shopping mall and a dumpster full of worthless crap, but you often can’t tell if you’re looking at an item from the shopping mall or the dumpster.
i’m an absolute cola addict and unfortunately nothing else scratches the same itch for me. i am a fan of iced tea though
Why the KDE hate?
People hate KDE? I’ll check out JWM, but KDE is incredible.
I’m downvoting you simply for suggesting an alternative to Coca Cola.
Good day.
Reddit -> Lemmy
lmfao the 10 downvotes
Some people hate books.
WhatsApp for me. I hate it but in my country all people use it.
I’ve had some success getting people in some social circles in Canada to use Telegram.
then just don’t use it…
“just don’t talk to your friends, bro”
because whatsapp is the only way to talk to your friends…
It’s not that is the only way to talk to your friends. In some countries Whatsapp is the default way to communicate with other people because of SMS prices so if you need to talk to your friends, distant relatives or complete strangers you know you can reach them using that app.
In some cases the fastest way to communicate with a company’s customer service is through Whatsapp.
Instead of browsing on reddit, there’s this new thing called “Lemmy”…
Got sick of the SEO spam from Google so I switched to Kagi. It lets me block all the blogspam and Pinterest junk when I search.
1.5 cents per search query. hmmm… not sure if i could switch my mind to be careful about searches.
I guess I would start using local calculator and dictionary more.
With the $10 plan, it’s 1 cent per a search for the first thousand, and maybe a thousand searches a month doesn’t sound like a whole lot but supposedly the average user on Google does 3 to 4 searches a day (who knows what the actual source for that is). Thought in that case the $5 plan would be better.
Google doesn’t seem to provide a dashboard which summarizes how many searches one has done personally over a period of time, though it does list them all on https://myactivity.google.com/product/search if you haven’t opted out.
Most browsers also provide an easy way to switch between search engines, though personally I would suggest always using Kagi if you’re going to spend the money, because some of the of value comes from generally having better results, in addition to being able to filter out SEO garbage for specific search topics (like programming queries).
Also, to be fair, Kagi is not perfect. Google’s calculator and unit converter are better in my experience, for example. And I still use Google at work (software dev) because I refuse to use personal accounts on work devices, but even then I find myself using my phone sometimes to search Kagi when Google is not turning anything up.
However, I’ve watched Google’s search quality drop for a long while now, and I like what Kagi is doing, so I support them.
P.S. If you’re worried about unlimited spend, Kagi provides settings to cap pay-as-you-go costs.
People complain about Banks screwing them over with fees and caring more about investor profits all the time. But few people move their money to credit unions or other co-operatively owned financial institutions. Usually it’s because of some minor inconvenience.
Interest, cash back, and in person locations are hard to beat for me. I search a couple times a year to see if I can find a credit union that beats or meets what I got currently.
Yeah I should have added that distinction. I’ve yet to see a comparable cordless in the price range. I meant full vacuums.
I shop in Lidl, and it’s full of brands that are decent in their own right but design packaging clearly meant to evoke the big name brands. Most of them taste better than the big brands too
Adobe design products, there’s Affinity, it’s great, professional and a lot cheaper.
I made the mistake of saying I use Photopea instead of Photoshop on a forum. The adobe mafia slammed me into oblivion for that one 😆
