This question was inspired by my hatred of Temporal Anti-Aliasing which, in many games nowadays, is poorly used as a performance bandaid. On lower resolutions it will smudge and blur the image and certain bad cases of TAA will cause visible ghosting.

Yet in spite of all this, certain games won’t let you turn it off or have hair/fur/foliage look like dogshit without it so sometimes I still use it.

  • @shapesandstuff@feddit.de
    143•2 years ago

    Amazon basically.

    Some things are near impossible to get in a reasonable time frame, or get shipped from China anyway if i get them at the source.

    • netburnrEnglish
      32•2 years ago

      Also returns aren’t a maze of bullshit and return fees like many other online sites.

      • idunnololz
        7•2 years ago

        Amazon sucks but their return/refund policies are amazing. I pretty much never have to worry about a lost or missing package.

    • @jmbmkn@beehaw.org
      3•2 years ago

      I manage to live without Amazon. I just pretend it doesn’t exist, I don’t know if it’s cheaper or quicker on Amazon as I don’t see it (I use a search engine that can block results). It’s also probably other aspects of my life that also make it possible, spare money, spare time, no kids, live in a city.

  • @Jourei@lemm.eeEnglish
    73•2 years ago

    My vote goes to Google, to whom I am tightly married. It’s ecosystem and interconnectivity between apps as well as devices is unbeatable. It’s super reliant.

    It’s the one entity that can wreck my online and offline presence. I mean, I use android and Google to login everywhere. If Mr. Google so decrees, my phone could wipe and google account be gone tomorrow. Same applies to Apple and Microsoft, but I don’t use their systems as much. The poison I picked is Google and I hate it.

    • @stealth_cookies@lemmy.ca
      13•2 years ago

      I feel like I don’t use that many Google services (mostly because I’m not convinced they won’t shut down), but the ones I do use are the ones that would really suck to lose access to. I realized this a few months ago and have at least been working on moving my email away from Gmail to my own domain since that is the critical one that could screw everything up.

    • @pathief@lemmy.world
      6•2 years ago

      In the last months I tried to cut as many Google services as I could. I use the Proton suite now, it’s nice.

      Unfortunately I still heavily rely on them for Android phone and TVs… Not to mention YouTube, which is yet to have a good competitor.

      • @Tak@lemmy.ml
        3•2 years ago

        I doubt we’ll ever see competition to Youtube. It has reached the point where they will basically have to be antitrusted like AT&T to see a competitor.

        • Obinice
          3•2 years ago

          I don’t even know if YouTube will be around in 30 years, let alone not have competitors.

          All gigantic businesses think they’re too big and entrenched and used every day to fail, until they do. Just look at Yahoo! as one example from recent memory.

          So, we’ll see, I suppose!

          • @Tak@lemmy.ml
            2•2 years ago

            In the end I am just a dummy on the internet speculating. For all I know climate change will be coming down from the top rope and take Google with it.

          • @ilinamorato@lemmy.world
            1•2 years ago

            I mean…you’re probably right. But there’s a little part of me that thinks…they said the same thing about Facebook, that it wouldn’t last five years, that it would go the way of MySpace and something else would jump in, but… it’s been just a few months shy of 20 years now, and even though it’s not the juggernaut it used to be, it’s entrenched in a way I never expected.

            And then there’s, like, GE, which is 130 years old…or Cigna, Remington, Citi, or Chase, which are older. Some others, like AT&T, do a little dance and come back…I dunno. Some companies just have staying power (in the case of Cigna, I think it might be a pact with some unholy abomination). And they’re all still dominating or at least leading their respective markets.

            Even your example, Yahoo, while certainly not the cultural force it once was, is still around in a slightly different incarnation. Nothing ever really dies, it seems.

    • AzureDiamond
      9•2 years ago

      Surprisingly hard for people to accept, if you don’t have it.

      • Thelsim
        5•2 years ago

        I really wish I could get out of using WhatsApp, but it’s all everyone ever uses.
        And there just isn’t any good enough argument you can use to convince the average user from doing otherwise. Unless it literally makes the phone explode in your hands, people will not change.

    • @Zippy@lemmy.world
      1•2 years ago

      I think WhatsApp is still fantastic. Just a matter of time till Facebook incorporates it fully in. That is what worries me.

  • @SuperSpruce@lemmy.ml
    32•2 years ago

    Almost anything Google. I have an Android because I hate the restrictions of iOS, but forcing me to sell my location to Google if I want to know where I am (even in an open source app because location is a system thing).

    • @lemillionsocks@beehaw.org
      8•2 years ago

      Ah man it’s depressing watching the fall of google. From my gmail beta account which was incredible to do no evil, google are great, theyre open, to so many cancelled projects replaced by similar ones(ehem chats and video chats) and so much bad behavior with their ads.

    • @Fisch@lemmy.ml
      5•2 years ago

      If you don’t want that, you should look into microG. It replaces Google Play Services with an open source reimplementation, so apps that use it and stuff like location still work but without actually talking to Google. If an app uses Google Maps, it will instead use OpenStreetMap, for example. There’s a version of LineageOS, which ships without Google stuff and instead with microG and F-Droid as well.

      • @Pantherina@feddit.de
        5•2 years ago

        MicroG is not exactly secure or privacy friendly if you continue using the same services.

        Pootly my thing is a Google Pixe phone, as these now dont have a headphone jack anymore and are from Google, but for GrapheneOS

  • Lvxferre
    22•2 years ago

    Socks. If I’m at home you’ll never see me wearing socks, not even if it’s -5°C out there. But got to use them while wearing shoes, I guess.

    • @dingus@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6•2 years ago

      Really? I’m the opposite. My feet are usually always freezing even if it’s warm outside! So I wear socks.

    • @Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works
      3•2 years ago

      I don’t mind socks but I hate shoes and I don’t like dirty socks. The sandals I wear all the time have a toe thong so no “socks with sandals” for me.

    • @MrMamiya@feddit.de
      1•2 years ago

      We have a group chat going that’s been pretty successful. My brother left Facebook first and that made it easier for me.

  • @azimir@lemmy.ml
    18•2 years ago

    It’s not just one thing. I can easily whip up a list:

    • Cars - they strangle out the city and make our urban communities dystopias
    • MS Office - I can mostly avoid it, but every time I have to use it, WTF?
    • Java - the syntax is fine. It’s the whole universe of build/config/versioning tools that gets me
    • Pure Capitalism - I’m ready to protest the hell out until we get some democratic socialism
    • First Past the Post Voting - It just degrades into a two party lockdown
  • Lemuria
    18•2 years ago

    YouTube. I wish they made better decisions about how to run the platform,.

    • @RoyaltyInTraining@lemmy.world
      2•2 years ago

      It being free is only barely enough incentive to use it. If they ever have effective anti-adblock and force users to watch five ads before every video, I’m gone. I will never give any money to a monopolistic company if I don’t have to.