#consumingin2025 — Public Fediverse posts

Repco doing the dirty on their customers.

Local physical store shut - no electricity.

Phoned their national automated switch board seeking re-opening ETA. Followed instructions.

On hold for 15 minutes then told "Lines busy. Call back in a few minutes."

Trash service from Repco.

#Repco #Australia #ConsumingIn2025

Been using the DiDi "ride-sharing" "tech-bro taxi" app.

1. Prices have gone up about 23% and I now need to compare their prices and the scummier other provider.

2. Sharing the details of the ride, something pretty important for some riders' security, is not reliably done by DiDi. Multiple instances of the link not arriving at the SMS of the Share-recipient happening here. Yucky, trashy, unsafe.

#ConsumingIn2025 #DiDi

Been using the DiDi "ride-sharing" "tech-bro taxi" app.

1. Prices have gone up about 23% and I now need to compare their prices and the scummier other provider.

2. Sharing the details of the ride, something pretty important for some riders' security, is not reliably done by DiDi. Multiple instances of the link not arriving at the SMS of the Share-recipient happening here. Yucky, trashy, unsafe.

#ConsumingIn2025 #DiDi

Been using the DiDi "ride-sharing" "tech-bro taxi" app.

1. Prices have gone up about 23% and I now need to compare their prices and the scummier other provider.

2. Sharing the details of the ride, something pretty important for some riders' security, is not reliably done by DiDi. Multiple instances of the link not arriving at the SMS of the Share-recipient happening here. Yucky, trashy, unsafe.

#ConsumingIn2025 #DiDi

Been using the DiDi "ride-sharing" "tech-bro taxi" app.

1. Prices have gone up about 23% and I now need to compare their prices and the scummier other provider.

2. Sharing the details of the ride, something pretty important for some riders' security, is not reliably done by DiDi. Multiple instances of the link not arriving at the SMS of the Share-recipient happening here. Yucky, trashy, unsafe.

#ConsumingIn2025 #DiDi

Been using the DiDi "ride-sharing" "tech-bro taxi" app.

1. Prices have gone up about 23% and I now need to compare their prices and the scummier other provider.

2. Sharing the details of the ride, something pretty important for some riders' security, is not reliably done by DiDi. Multiple instances of the link not arriving at the SMS of the Share-recipient happening here. Yucky, trashy, unsafe.

#ConsumingIn2025 #DiDi

Did some DIY printing of documents at Officeworks.

Changes to the user interface have hidden the ability of the user to change Contrast and Brightness when printing.

What are they, $10,000 printers?

"Fuck the customer, this works for us"?

(The collation/stapling bench is long gone.)

#Officeworks #ConsumingIn2025

Just wasted another 20 minutes trying to get Google Home to connect to Google Chromecast.

smh

how crappy

#Chromecast #GoogleHome #Enshitification #ConsumingIn2025

Google Android almost got the banking app (last used 3 days ago) uninstalled to make space for a mandatory update of #Whatsapp.

I've got the #MassMarket blues.
My #UX counts for less than a pixel on a 8K display.
#ConsumingIn2025 #IHateIT

Google Android almost got the banking app (last used 3 days ago) uninstalled to make space for a mandatory update of #Whatsapp.

I've got the #MassMarket blues.
My #UX counts for less than a pixel on a 8K display.
#ConsumingIn2025 #IHateIT

Google Android almost got the banking app (last used 3 days ago) uninstalled to make space for a mandatory update of #Whatsapp.

I've got the #MassMarket blues.
My #UX counts for less than a pixel on a 8K display.
#ConsumingIn2025 #IHateIT

Google Android almost got the banking app (last used 3 days ago) uninstalled to make space for a mandatory update of #Whatsapp.

I've got the #MassMarket blues.
My #UX counts for less than a pixel on a 8K display.
#ConsumingIn2025 #IHateIT

Google Android almost got the banking app (last used 3 days ago) uninstalled to make space for a mandatory update of #Whatsapp.

I've got the #MassMarket blues.
My #UX counts for less than a pixel on a 8K display.
#ConsumingIn2025 #IHateIT

Premium quality, premium price box of #TeaBags from #Twinings.

Box fails to open when "Pull Here" tabs are pulled.

#BigTea using GenAI in packaging design?

#ExistentialFirstWorldProblems
#Tea
#ProductPackaging
#DesignFail
#ConsumingIn2025

Premium quality, premium price box of #TeaBags from #Twinings.

Box fails to open when "Pull Here" tabs are pulled.

#BigTea using GenAI in packaging design?

#ExistentialFirstWorldProblems
#Tea
#ProductPackaging
#DesignFail
#ConsumingIn2025

Premium quality, premium price box of #TeaBags from #Twinings.

Box fails to open when "Pull Here" tabs are pulled.

#BigTea using GenAI in packaging design?

#ExistentialFirstWorldProblems
#Tea
#ProductPackaging
#DesignFail
#ConsumingIn2025

Premium quality, premium price box of #TeaBags from #Twinings.

Box fails to open when "Pull Here" tabs are pulled.

#BigTea using GenAI in packaging design?

#ExistentialFirstWorldProblems
#Tea
#ProductPackaging
#DesignFail
#ConsumingIn2025

Premium quality, premium price box of #TeaBags from #Twinings.

Box fails to open when "Pull Here" tabs are pulled.

#BigTea using GenAI in packaging design?

#ExistentialFirstWorldProblems
#Tea
#ProductPackaging
#DesignFail
#ConsumingIn2025

@vwdasher
And here is the non-profit #LouisRossmann has started.
#ConsumingIn2025 #ConsumerRights #Repair #RightToRepair
https://consumerrights.wiki/Main_Page

Just off a #PhoneCall about an important matter. (Funding.)

The quality of the audio was so poor.
Syllables and words often smearing.

Seems to happen quite frequently, but far from "all the time".

I'm thinking the algorithims they're using to shrink the bandwidth of the audio signals are not suitable for the environment they're being used in.

#Enshitification
#PhoneCallAudioQuality
#PhoneAudio
#AudioQuality
#ConsumingIn2025

Just off a #PhoneCall about an important matter. (Funding.)

The quality of the audio was so poor.
Syllables and words often smearing.

Seems to happen quite frequently, but far from "all the time".

I'm thinking the algorithims they're using to shrink the bandwidth of the audio signals are not suitable for the environment they're being used in.

#Enshitification
#PhoneCallAudioQuality
#PhoneAudio
#AudioQuality
#ConsumingIn2025

Just off a #PhoneCall about an important matter. (Funding.)

The quality of the audio was so poor.
Syllables and words often smearing.

Seems to happen quite frequently, but far from "all the time".

I'm thinking the algorithims they're using to shrink the bandwidth of the audio signals are not suitable for the environment they're being used in.

#Enshitification
#PhoneCallAudioQuality
#PhoneAudio
#AudioQuality
#ConsumingIn2025

Just off a #PhoneCall about an important matter. (Funding.)

The quality of the audio was so poor.
Syllables and words often smearing.

Seems to happen quite frequently, but far from "all the time".

I'm thinking the algorithims they're using to shrink the bandwidth of the audio signals are not suitable for the environment they're being used in.

#Enshitification
#PhoneCallAudioQuality
#PhoneAudio
#AudioQuality
#ConsumingIn2025

Just off a #PhoneCall about an important matter. (Funding.)

The quality of the audio was so poor.
Syllables and words often smearing.

Seems to happen quite frequently, but far from "all the time".

I'm thinking the algorithims they're using to shrink the bandwidth of the audio signals are not suitable for the environment they're being used in.

#Enshitification
#PhoneCallAudioQuality
#PhoneAudio
#AudioQuality
#ConsumingIn2025

@jpnearl

Yes products and services have become very un-usable for an increasing proportion of the population.

Hidden controls, complex controls, hidden food packaging openings, food jar tops that need tools to lever open, the whole of IT (with a few exceptions), low audio quality phone calls, microscopic print on food packaging are just the ones that spring to mind.

Seems to be a de-couple between design and consumers.

#DesignFails #ConsumingIn2025 #APatternLanguage #ChristopherAlexander

@jpnearl

Yes products and services have become very un-usable for an increasing proportion of the population.

Hidden controls, complex controls, hidden food packaging openings, food jar tops that need tools to lever open, the whole of IT (with a few exceptions), low audio quality phone calls, microscopic print on food packaging are just the ones that spring to mind.

Seems to be a de-couple between design and consumers.

#DesignFails #ConsumingIn2025 #APatternLanguage #ChristopherAlexander

@jpnearl

Yes products and services have become very un-usable for an increasing proportion of the population.

Hidden controls, complex controls, hidden food packaging openings, food jar tops that need tools to lever open, the whole of IT (with a few exceptions), low audio quality phone calls, microscopic print on food packaging are just the ones that spring to mind.

Seems to be a de-couple between design and consumers.

#DesignFails #ConsumingIn2025 #APatternLanguage #ChristopherAlexander

@jpnearl

Yes products and services have become very un-usable for an increasing proportion of the population.

Hidden controls, complex controls, hidden food packaging openings, food jar tops that need tools to lever open, the whole of IT (with a few exceptions), low audio quality phone calls, microscopic print on food packaging are just the ones that spring to mind.

Seems to be a de-couple between design and consumers.

#DesignFails #ConsumingIn2025 #APatternLanguage #ChristopherAlexander

@jpnearl

Yes products and services have become very un-usable for an increasing proportion of the population.

Hidden controls, complex controls, hidden food packaging openings, food jar tops that need tools to lever open, the whole of IT (with a few exceptions), low audio quality phone calls, microscopic print on food packaging are just the ones that spring to mind.

Seems to be a de-couple between design and consumers.

#DesignFails #ConsumingIn2025 #APatternLanguage #ChristopherAlexander

Not always functioning at 100%?

Well you're doing better than #Officeworks.

Far as I can tell they've got the same barcode on the theft-prevention "Take this card to the counter" cardboard on the SD card display racks as on the real item you're trying to purchase.

So if you don't watch carefully you can go through the checkout and then discover at home that you've paid more than $70 for a bit of cardboard.

Such good service, so convenient, so reliable ... smh

#Australia #ConsumingIn2025

Just had a #Jaycar aerial connector break apart under mild load.

Just luck that the cable didn't disappear back into the wall cavity.

Off to #Altronics - maybe they'll have something non-fragile?

#Australia #ConsumingIn2025

Was asked to open the plastic honey tub after a 45 year old massuese known for strong massages was unable to open it even with a spoon.

This is ridiculous - over half the population will be unable to open these food containers. We need government regulation.

#AccessibilityOfPackaging #Packaging #ConsumingIn2025 #AgingInPlace #FoodPackaging

An #ElderlyRelative is heartily sick and tired of taking 5 x #FishOil capsules the size of footballs (hyperbole).

Today the first dessert spoonful of fish oil went down in seconds with no drama.

#AgingInPlace #Supplements #ConsumingIn2025

Accessibililty of packaging.

The frozen fish bag below is currently at the edge of accessibility without pliers for me.

My grip strength is probably about average across the nation's population.

This is exclusion of the aged #IMO.

#AccessibilityOfPackaging #Packaging #Woolworths #ConsumingIn2025

#Aliexpress global #ScamArtists continue their predations.

They tell me I've got +4 messages from sellers.

And there is no apparent way of viewing those Messages ( which prob include comms about mislabelled products) in Firefox on Android.

It's now taken over an hour of my time trying to communicate about getting a refund due to the deliberate time wasting user interface that these #Shits provide.

#ConsumingIn2025

#Aliexpress are making it very difficult to get a refund for an #ItemNotAsDescribed.

No apparent way to do it on Android browser.
On "desktop webpage" the buttons do no match up with the touch fields on the screen".

Had previously been relucant to spend +$70 there. Now seeing that the time wasted in trying to get $ refunded for trash cheap products isn't worth the cheapness, the delay and the hassle.

Yay for trashy companies like Aliexpress and #DiDi.

#ConsumingIn2025

Been trying to get #PhoneSupport from #Australia's #ANZ bank for over 40 minutes.

Wondering if these #Grubs will disconnect the call before I get them to give me the info I seek.

Edit: Still waiting after +60 minutes.

#ProfitsBeforePeople

#ConsumingIn2025

Been trying to get #PhoneSupport from #Australia's #ANZ bank for over 40 minutes.

Wondering if these #Grubs will disconnect the call before I get them to give me the info I seek.

Edit: Still waiting after +60 minutes.

#ProfitsBeforePeople

#ConsumingIn2025

Been trying to get #PhoneSupport from #Australia's #ANZ bank for over 40 minutes.

Wondering if these #Grubs will disconnect the call before I get them to give me the info I seek.

Edit: Still waiting after +60 minutes.

#ProfitsBeforePeople

#ConsumingIn2025

Been trying to get #PhoneSupport from #Australia's #ANZ bank for over 40 minutes.

Wondering if these #Grubs will disconnect the call before I get them to give me the info I seek.

Edit: Still waiting after +60 minutes.

#ProfitsBeforePeople

#ConsumingIn2025

Been trying to get #PhoneSupport from #Australia's #ANZ bank for over 40 minutes.

Wondering if these #Grubs will disconnect the call before I get them to give me the info I seek.

Edit: Still waiting after +60 minutes.

#ProfitsBeforePeople

#ConsumingIn2025

#ANZ bank app has just lied to us, saying we'd made too many login attempts.

Whereas we'd had entered the correct info and they've upgraded their password requirements.

Slimey practice in a slimey industry.

Now a blind elderly relative is going to try and confirm their identity in a phone call.

Might take 50 minutes and then she'll have failed.

Edit: First try was waiting for a human for 9.5 minutes. Then a visitor arrived and that call needed to be ended.

#TrashService #ConsumingIn2025