Fuck you, Google.

[B E C K]

For, uh, no reason in particular. 

[jonhammstein]

*wipes sweat from brow*

[B E C K]

I have a forward on a Gmail account that's supposed to send me my reminders and shitty Google, like, paused my forwarding because they felt like it?  I've been getting my reminders like that for years. It's not broken either.  I logged in to troubleshoot it and before I even did anything, they forwarded me my renewal receipt. So Gmail just didn't feel like sending me anything until I logged in again? Good to know, I guess. 

[jonhammstein]

I won't lie, I thought maybe you had finally washed your hands of it all. I'm relieved to find it was simply a clerical? error.

[B E C K]

The thought has crossed my mind but it doesn't cost me much to maintain this place and this is the only corner of the internet I can speak my mind. Even if only a couple of people read it.

[Rodent of Unusual Size]

I've never used Gmail for anything more than a virtual FTP.

[B E C K]

Totally random but I finally installed the Chrome extension that makes Google images fucking viewable again. Instead of, you know, a tiny box in the corner which ruins the point of even searching for images of shit.

[B E C K]

So I think my extension borked with whatever latest Google updates came rolling out because it doesn't function like it used to. It still works but it pretends it only found 2 images or something instead of showing multiple image results. This isn't all results but I liked getting similar pictures to the side and it's annoying to come across dozens of results that do this shit.

[B E C K]

Also, I started using Opera. I don't know when it happened but Google put some stupid arrow after the new tab plus part of the browser bar and it's fucking with my muscle memory. I go to open a new tab and get a fucking drop-down box. And it broke something inside of me. I'm gonna give other browsers a shot now but Google just continues to piss me off.

[Rodent of Unusual Size]

Opera is Chrome with a custom skin over top of it. Vivaldi is now the way.

[B E C K]

Why does everyone want to tack on a sidebar? Opera did it and I looked up Vivaldi and they're all "look at our rad sidebar." No, I hate it. I'll give it a try and just remove the thing. (Okay, I can just minimize it. That's easy.) But sheesh.

Gotta say: I installed it while replying and unlike Opera, it's smart enough to immediately adapt to my High Contrast mode. My laptop is on High Contrast black and then I use Dark Mode on every site that allows it. Opera was so confused that the settings hid a bunch of options from me. Kinda like my old Ezboard Pitch Black where the text and all the buttons were black except I couldn't highlight anything to find how to change the settings. I had to figure out how to make the settings appear. You also answered my question as to why the search result I found made me access the chrome flags to do it. I was like "this shit uses chrome flags?" Still not sure why Opera threw ads at me either.

[B E C K]

Oh, lawd, there's a bottom bar. Yes, Vivaldi, tell me the time. Because it's not like everyone's computer already has that feature.

Okay, I shouldn't be mean. Someone out there likes that feature.

[Rodent of Unusual Size]

Oh, lawd, there's a bottom bar.

You can get rid of it pretty easily.

[B E C K]

Yeah, I nuked that bottom bar after I posted that. But I'm just annoyed I had to do it in the first place. The default options are like a three-sided picture frame.  There's a sidebar, there's a top bar, there's a bottom bar, there a bunch of stuff in the middle. I don't like clutter. Do people really browse this way?  Close the window and expect all of their tabs to reload? Like, when I close a browser window, I'm done with the browser. Don't reload that shit with the 20 tabs I'm finished reading. I've already found the option to correct that, too.

What I haven't figured out is the wallpaper on the home page. It treats wallpaper in a strange way. No matter what I do to the image, it refuses to orient it how I want it. I found the options to repeat, center, or fill. But I can't shift the picture left, right, up or down. Which is not the end of the world but still a tad annoying.

[B E C K]

Did a search for bedding today that kept bringing up children's bedding and crib bedding. Added -kids and -crib and no fucking change at all. Ads for crib this and crib that and kids whatever. With those exact words and everything. Google really is pure ass now.