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Everything is Shit: Tracking the Great Enshittening

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1 hour ago, HornOnTheBayou said:

THANK YOU! The entire Alamo experience revolves around staying off of your phone and now they want us to use it to order.

I wouldn’t mind if I could just use the damn app! It already has my cc, it already knows my seats, and it already knows which theater. So everything is already in place for me to order from the menu and get food to my seats without having to go through the QR code bullshit. Thank you for coming to my ted talk

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    3.  Shaggybevo.  Truly the most enshittened enterprise in intergoogles history. Literally a scat site. How you left that off the list, I'll never understand.

  • hayden_horn
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    so i've been meaning to make a post about this. i've likened it the great chiseling. i think that's where we are. i feel like everything described in this thread is very true and depressing

  • And pay the removal fee?!

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Or just let me order using the paper slip and a physical card like before without the hassle

22 hours ago, MissingInAction said:

Motherfucking qr codes for every god damn thing. No I will not install your cocksucker app to pay for my drinks,food,parking, etc.

That qr code for parking bullshit makes me miss the good old days of being approached by some guy who offers to watch my car for $5 while I'm parked downtown.

16 hours ago, randomhorn said:

Or just let me order using the paper slip and a physical card like before without the hassle

Mine still lets you. Had no problem Christmas Day ordering breakfast and then candy mid movie.

Alamo is always just a better experience in general.

On 12/30/2025 at 7:18 AM, Dbeasy said:

Caution, long answer in case it helps others looking for a fridge:

Thanks for all of the input. I am now much more knowledgeable on fridges than I was a week ago. Did a ton of research, and a few things I learned along the way:

Consumer Rports shows heavy customer disatisfaction and weak reliability for every brand, with Bosch being the least offensive. They didn’t test the luxury brands like sub zero. I ruled those out because I don’t want to spend $10k and the selection was too limited. Bosch required ordering and they didn’t have the style we need. Otherwise we would have bought Bosch 800 series.

We bought a Whirlpool that we thought would be good enough, but the ice dispenser wouldn’t work due to a poor design and manufacturability. But more concerning was that the temperature struggled to work well. We took it back and bought a GE fridge that had what we wanted and was the competitor to the Whirlpool.

The GE fridges have the highest consumer reports ratings, but also the lowest customer satisfaction ratings. Given our experience with other GE appliances, we are expecting problems. But if it goes south, I’ll have a plan C ready for ordering a better fridge.

The top, bottom fridges are more reliable because of their simplicity. We use a top freezer model for our garage fridge. Next most reliable are the side by sides because they don’t have multiple compressors and evaporators. We’ve had, and still wanted, a side by side because of space limits on open doors (damn kitchen island), and not liking freezer and ice on the bottom. French door types are the least reliable but most bought. And the most choices, by far.

As said earlier ice dispensers are a source of problems. However we use that function every day, multiple times per day, so we bought one with it anyway.

The Korean brands are controversial. Samsung and LG had serious quality issues as recently as a year ago, compressors and ice makers. However, theoretically they are improved. Repairmen still hate them. There are debates about why.

The fridge ratings are all gamed by social media marketing companies putting in fake ratings. So you need to adjust the ratings. A 4.0 rating implies a lot of problems. A 4.5+ rating might indicate a reasonably good fridge.

We looked at Costco but they didn’t have a type and model that would work for us. Ended up going with Lowe’s because we were able to buy it and have it delivered a day later. And every fridge was on sale. Saved quite a bit on the one we bought.

Summary of brands IMO

Bosch - pretty good quality, limited design options, longer deliver intervals. Not a bad choice if looking for a French door type. More expensive.

Whirlpool - heavy volume sales, basic fridges, some ok some not. We liked the one we bought if not for the quality issues.

GE - tested well but that bad customer sat has to come from somewhere. Probably will break prematurely.

Samsung - ice maker problems behind them supposedly. Felt a little more solid than GE, Whirlpool or Frigidaire. Some interesting features. More features for the price. If quality issues are improved and repairmen are biased, maybe not too bad. I know a few owners who are unhappy with theirs.

LG - same as Samsung except it was compressor issues. Almost bought an LG, if not for annoying ice door buttons.

Fridgidaire - didn’t look too closely primarily because their consumer reports ratings were generally lower across the board.

KitchenAid- overpriced for cosmetic features. It’s not the higher quality brand it used to be

GE Profile - a little nicer than GE, better ratings. Potentially decent choice but harder to find and order. If Lowe’s would have had the model we wanted we would have gone with it

Cafe - a GE upscale brand. Looked interesting but wasn’t able to touch one .

Other brands - there were others but they were too hard to find or there were too few choices, indicating low market share. We wanted a brand where parts and repair were straightforward.

One other the biggest surprises is that there aren’t really any great appliance stores in Austin anymore. We were interested in that to see a wider variety of lesser known models. But, since we couldn’t find a store we liked, we prioritized getting a fridge fast that we could touch over ordering one from one of the appliance stores where we weren’t able to touch the fridge.

The whole process sucked.

I think I would avoid the big box stores and try the types that supply builders, like Capital Distributing. They can do a little work on pricing for you. And I think the big box stores have "special models" like Walmart gets special, slightly extra shitty, versions of TVs and such.

ETA: FBS seems to be the Centex version of Capital.

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1 hour ago, Js1 said:

Mine still lets you. Had no problem Christmas Day ordering breakfast and then candy mid movie.

Alamo is always just a better experience in general.

Overall agree. Mine lets you use the old skool paper mid movie as well. But I want it all taken care of before hand and the QR code and ordering page experience sucks donkey balls

1 minute ago, randomhorn said:

Overall agree. Mine lets you use the old skool paper mid movie as well. But I want it all taken care of before hand and the QR code and ordering page experience sucks donkey balls

Oh mine still has paper menus so you can order with paper pre-movie. They don’t even push the QR code

1 minute ago, Js1 said:

Oh mine still has paper menus so you can order with paper pre-movie. They don’t even push the QR code

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A big FU to Texas for taking a relatively simple process to renew car tags online and making it a whole ordeal by having to sign up for a new account at TxT.

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Paying taxes is harder than voting.

Interestingly stupid.

38 minutes ago, Iceman said:

Paying taxes is harder than voting.

Interestingly stupid.

Funny story, both actually got harder this year with the changes to the mailing system. Postmark date is no longer when picked up, and it'll be stamped on the date it hit the sort center instead, an indeterminate number of days into the future from pickup

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On 12/31/2025 at 9:06 AM, randomhorn said:

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They actually pushed the QR code a bit this morning, just the Aziz Ansari reminder about 10 min left to use it before it reverts to paper only.

I still only use paper. I have rewards to redeem whenever I go

Impressive, Corsair has been cancelling people's orders left and right and then marking the item up 25-40%. If they did that to any EU customers their consumer protections are gonna whack Corsair pretty good.

Wild how consumers are just getting fucked over for fun now. I mean, they always were, but it's remarkably worse than it's been for as least as long as I've been alive

27 minutes ago, Captainant said:

I mean, they always were, but it's remarkably worse than it's been for as least as long as I've been alive

Now it’s a blatant free for all.

The ESPN game tracker has been absolute shit this year. A couple of times I've seen it show a team go from 3rd and 2 on their opponents 30 to 3rd and 42 on their own 30 because the quarter changed. But the Ole Miss/Georgia game takes the cake. I woke up in Rome this morning at 5:30 to get back to Austin. When I woke up, Georgia had just kicked a field goal with a minute left to tie it up. In the next drive, according to ESPN, Ole Miss ran three plays and got three yards. Then they went for it on 4th and 7 in their own territory in a tie ball game. I saw that on the screen and knew something had to be wrong, but I didn't know what it was. Then on the next play Georgia kicked a field goal to go up 37-34. 20 seconds later, ESPN tells me Georgia got a safety to go up by 5. My son and I were staring at the screen trying to understand what happened, because none of that made sense. But we got in the taxi assuming Georgia won. It wasn't until we were sitting at our gate at the airport that we looked again and realized that Ole Miss had actually won.

14 minutes ago, HornOnTheBayou said:

The ESPN game tracker has been absolute shit this year. A couple of times I've seen it show a team go from 3rd and 2 on their opponents 30 to 3rd and 42 on their own 30 because the quarter changed. But the Ole Miss/Georgia game takes the cake. I woke up in Rome this morning at 5:30 to get back to Austin. When I woke up, Georgia had just kicked a field goal with a minute left to tie it up. In the next drive, according to ESPN, Ole Miss ran three plays and got three yards. Then they went for it on 4th and 7 in their own territory in a tie ball game. I saw that on the screen and knew something had to be wrong, but I didn't know what it was. Then on the next play Georgia kicked a field goal to go up 37-34. 20 seconds later, ESPN tells me Georgia got a safety to go up by 5. My son and I were staring at the screen trying to understand what happened, because none of that made sense. But we got in the taxi assuming Georgia won. It wasn't until we were sitting at our gate at the airport that we looked again and realized that Ole Miss had actually won.

In fairness, the end of that game was a boondoggle. They brought the stage and trophy onto the field three times because everyone thought the game was over and the refs really fucked it all up, as they had been all 4Q

1 minute ago, Captainant said:

In fairness, the end of that game was a boondoggle. They brought the stage and trophy onto the field three times because everyone thought the game was over and the refs really fucked it all up, as they had been all 4Q

Yeah, that's what I heard. But that still doesn't explain why ESPN told me Ole Miss went for it on 4th down in a tie game with 30 seconds left in their own territory.

On 1/1/2026 at 7:43 PM, Steel Shank said:

Didn't Alamo get bought out (or partially)? PE?

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