I’m not even sure how many chickens I can fit on my current hard drive, but it’s probably more than the number of persons I can fit.

  • Metostopholes@midwest.socialEnglish
    5·
    2 months ago

    Yeah, you definitely don’t want to get one that only holds 1 chicken. The extra money is worth it to hold 1 chickens.

  • finitebanjo@lemmy.world
    2·
    2 months ago

    Automation has truly ruined online shopping. These days you can order from a respectable brandname on a big company website and find out later the seller is actually nanchangshishengyuedianzishangwuyouxiangongsi and they sent you a completely different product than advertised.

    • paultimate14@lemmy.world
      2·
      2 months ago

      I remember back in 2013 I built a PC for my wife, and in 2014 one for myself. At that point, buying something online still felt a bit odd. It was reserved for specialty items, shipping would often take at least 2 weeks, or even 6 weeks depending on where it was coming from. I was no stranger to purchasing online, but brick-and-mortar stores with real stock still existed and could get me what I purchased much more quickly.

      I remember being so impressed with Newegg’s website. It made it so easy to build a computer and make sure everything was compatible. It was really easy to compare different options. The filter system was intuitive and comprehensive. I remember thinking “wow this is a perfect shopping experience. The future has arrived”.

      I went to build my next PC in 2019, and dear Satan was it so much worse. I had heard about Newegg getting bought out by a larger company in 2016, and it showed. They opened it up to 3rd party sellers. The filters got clogged with garbage and don’t seem to work properly anymore. The sort function became a joke. The UI got rearranged to be less intuitive. I think they purposefylly wanted to make a worse shopping experience to make people frustrated, to get them to give up on looking for deals and pay a bit extra just to be done with it. I ended up having to go to a 3rd party website (PCPartPicker) to figure out what I needed and where to get it. And some of those parts I had to order on eBay (some even from Newegg’s eBay account which is just… Why are we doing this?), some on Amazon or Best Buy. And it’s only gotten worse since.

      This same experience has happened everywhere. Just this morning my wife was checking out Culture Hustle to see if they have any interesting new paints and commented on how much worse the website was now than when we last used it a few years ago.

      This may make me sound like an old curmudgeon yelling at clouds, but I think the Internet peaked a while ago. There are arguments over exactly when, but sometime between 2008-2016. I remember in 2012 in talking to my fellow students about how Google search results were getting worse.

      • kreskin@lemmy.world
        1·
        2 months ago

        Yeah, I remember a long time ago thinking Linkedin was useful and had some good articles. Now its gross.

      • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        0·
        2 months ago

        It’s weird how Amazon kind of pushed every online store into becoming eBay (without the bidding… Do people still use eBay for auctions?)

        • taladar@sh.itjust.works
          3·
          2 months ago

          The bidding is actually the main reason I never once used eBay but do use regular online store like Amazon.

        • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works
          1·
          2 months ago

          Every electronic I own is basically from an eBay auction. It’s a great place to buy from, their buyer protection is borderline too good… not such a great place to sell on. Although, what are you going to do, go to their other big competitors?..

  • lunarul@lemmy.world
    2·
    2 months ago

    Just today I was trying to look for something at homedepot and not only were the filters exactly like that, but they were also additive. So if I selected both “1 chicken” and “1 chickens” to cover both spellings, it would say 0 results because no product matches both at the same time.

    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      1·
      2 months ago

      This shit infuriates me. It is trivial to add an option for “and/or” when you have multiple checkboxes.

      • taladar@sh.itjust.works
        1·
        2 months ago

        You don’t even really need an option for fields that are single value and compared by equality. Two distinct values for that only ever make sense as an OR filter.

    • toynbee@lemmy.worldOP
      0·
      2 months ago

      I haven’t had this problem that I can recall with online shopping, but I have definitely encountered it when searching Jira tickets.

      Actually, some of my most successful online shopping (or at least filtering) has been at Home Depot. They indicate where items are in their store very specifically (and usually accurately) and most of them even have Google Maps of the inside of their store. Because I can precisely locate something before I go there, I know exactly where to go when I do and can be in and out very quickly. It’s wonderful.

      The screenshot is from Walmart. Their accuracy is much more questionable. I didn’t see a single chicken last time I visited. Joking aside, the website has indicated that an item was in stock in an aisle that didn’t even exist (I think it was looking at another store despite me confirming multiple times which one I had set).

      • taladar@sh.itjust.works
        1·
        2 months ago

        In Jira that counts as a feature because Jira is explicitly designed to be as painful as possible to work with.

  • sudoer777@lemmy.ml
    2·
    2 months ago

    I’m gonna upgrade to the 0 TB hard drive pretty soon so everything stops using up so much storage