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Illustrator. It's industry standard for graphic design, but has the stability of a toddler on ice
alcohol, im an alcoholic
capitalism
Google, this fucking phone, the cesspool of fezbuk, the shittified streaming services I canβt manage to unsubscribe fromβ¦
Google Workspace. I have several clients who insist on using it for unknown reasons. It creates unprofessional looking work products. And in some cases, it is just plain kludgy (slicers randomly shoot themselves over the Sheet, page numbers randomly renumber when the footer is updated, etc). The part that gets me the most is that it is similar in price to other productivity suites, but often our clients opt to buy Zoom and Slack on top of that - basically doubling the price.
Plastic
Credit cards
Just a slimy middleman taking a cut of every transaction and trapping people in debt. But a bit of a tragedy of the commons because merchants raise prices to accommodate CC fees and the rewards are hard to pass up.
All my durable medical equipment like CPAP machine, DirecTV, and Walgreens for anything.
Cars
Reddit.... Google drive....
My life
Adobe "Creative Cloud" thanks to it's monopoly in the design industry (though I am in the process of doing my first smaller client job with Inscape atm).
Whatsapp and google classroom
Planes/Airports... I travel for work and I hate them, uncomfortable, crowded, huge waste of time and lots of problems just waiting to pop out.
Button shirts.
The day on fully out as trans ill never touch a button shirt again. I wanna have all black blouses.
A government
Google play services, Discord, and Snapchat.
Money
Passwords.
I prefer password-less logins with a hardware key but only a few online services offer it.