The Room 101 thread - for things you hate or just having a bloody good moan

[Stormbringer]

I've known a couple of acquaintances of late whose landlords have decided to sell their properties and they've been forced to move.

In one case, the renters were able to find accommodation in another rented flat which is, arguably, better than their previous arrangement. In another case, the renters were forced to move many, many miles away into a massively inferior and generally unsatisfactory location. I feel very sorry for them.

[Sly Boots]

I've known a couple of acquaintances of late whose landlords have decided to sell their properties and they've been forced to move.

In one case, the renters were able to find accommodation in another rented flat which is, arguably, better than their previous arrangement. In another case, the renters were forced to move many, many miles away into a massively inferior and generally unsatisfactory location. I feel very sorry for them.

You can add +1 to that, we had to move out of somewhere for that reason at one time. We ended up having to move back in with my mum for a few months

[Animalmother]

It's a bit of all the above. The rents have gone crazy in the past few years and everyone is cashing in on it. I also live in most of the most expensive cities to rent in Europe. I'll find something but the whole process is very draining and soul crushing at times.

[Stormbringer]

The way that AI art and the internet-driven disinformation plague have gone hand in hand to create an entire multiverse of false narratives, and how these have been roped into crap click-bait advertisements pasted all over YouTube.

One of the latest themes I've seen doing the rounds is that Steven Bartlett has been arrested, owing to the number of pictures I've seen of him posted all over my browser being physically seized by the UK equivalent of a S.W.A.T. team, and all framed in what looks like a fake BBC web-page. Also, I don't even know if only I am seeing these (are they being tailored to me?)...or is everyone else seeing the same thing? I feel like, looking at the world through the lens of the internet, the fabric of reality is being unwoven before my eyes.

[Hatredsheart]

The way that AI art and the internet-driven disinformation plague have gone hand in hand to create an entire multiverse of false narratives, and how these have been roped into crap click-bait advertisements pasted all over YouTube.

One of the latest themes I've seen doing the rounds is that Steven Bartlett has been arrested, owing to the number of pictures I've seen of him posted all over my browser being physically seized by the UK equivalent of a S.W.A.T. team, and all framed in what looks like a fake BBC web-page. Also, I don't even know if only I am seeing these (are they being tailored to me?)...or is everyone else seeing the same thing? I feel like, looking at the world through the lens of the internet, the fabric of reality is being unwoven before my eyes.

I was getting a lot of that fake headline clickbait too, ESPECIALLY on X. I'm much happier on bluesky tbh.

[Stormbringer]

I am happier on bluesky too, but I think it's YouTube that's the worst offender these days (at least in my experience); that's where I'm seeing the bulk of AI-generated fake news clickbait ads.

[Hatredsheart]

I am happier on bluesky too, but I think it's YouTube that's the worst offender these days (at least in my experience); that's where I'm seeing the bulk of AI-generated fake news clickbait ads.

I use smarttube on my tv luckily, haven't seen an ad there in years.

[Can't think of one]

Bloody Amazon.

For the last 10 years roughly, I've had my dad's account in my Amazon Household so that he can receive my Prime delivery benefits, and then I've signed my account into his devices so he can use my Prime Video. It's worked pretty well that way. Amazon are now putting an end to this by changing Amazon Household into Amazon Family, which on paper sounds even better: I add him to my Family group and he gets ALL my Prime benefits, not just delivery.

Except we also get all each other's notifications, along with sharing of all Alexa devices, payment methods and activity.

This shouldn't be a big deal - it's not like we have any especially private activity we want to hide (that I know about ¬_¬) and while he has loads of Alexa devices, I have none. But as someone who is stringent (militant, even) about privacy when it comes to technology, this feels fucking awful. I hate not knowing how, when or why my data is being flung about Amazon willy-nilly, and especially the payment methods being 'shared' in some unspecified manner, which is a nightmare from a security perspective. I like my accounts to be barebones and isolated, under my control, and this is the exact opposite.

I've just been hit my this, My sister has prime but according to her you can only add one adult to the group, which is a pain in the arse as there four adults in our household and yeah I don't like the whole other people can see my orders thing either...I have to get my Viagra tablets from somewhere else now ¬_¬