I was gonna word it as “flip off” but I think that might’ve been confusing.
My answer would generally be a few times a week for various reasons.
Every time I have to do something in a Microsoft admin interface at work. Worst software on the planet, fuck SharePoint, fuck Teams, burn it all to the ground.
On phone i have adblock. Middle finger to ATM every time i see ad there. ATM have camera, which is adds value to middle finger.
I have to use Windows 11, New Outlook and Excel for work, so… frequently.
When YouTube flips to a loud ad and I’m too slow to the mute button, I for sure tell the TV to fuck off and give it the finger.
For sure a few times a week.
lol, watching ads
Install SmartTube if your TV / streaming device supports it. It comes with adblock and sponsorblock.
lol this is almost my exact reason for posting this…
Windows update at work? That’s a one finger salute! Phone notification that’s not the spouse? Finger! All my packages are up to date and I can’t get my -Syu dopamine hit? Double fingers!
…so probably at least once a day?
I run my own repo for my AUR packages, with the help of aurutils, on a VM, which also needs updates. That way I get to run updates for my server before building packages before running even more updates on my clients. Makes the update O exponentially better 🤤
hardly any ‘salutes’ to the screen, but definitely some uh… ‘verbal exchange’ happening. usually several times a day, and you wouldn’t want children nearby if i’m really on roll because windows fucked something up big time. aaaaand, occasionally to and at myself because every now-and-then it truly is my fault.
Never. Why would I do that? It’s an object, and I would not even do that toward a person.
The day we realized there were too many ads on TV… we (my spouse and I) decided it was not a good deal we were offered (paying for a tv and then being forced to watch always more ads) so we got rid of the tv (not breaking it, or anything: we gave it away) and since then we never watched TV again, that was some 26 years ago.
The day I realized I could not trust my (smart)phone to respect my privacy… I stopped using it for anything personal. No social, no games, not even music or ebooks are stored on it: only what I’m required to use for security and finance purpose because I have no alternative. Heck, I barely use it as a phone ;) And certainly not to watch YT: I watch it on my computer using uBO on a Firefox fork (Waterfox), so I never have to watch an ad. I used to be a paid subscriber to YT, but I decided to stop paying the day they became serious about hunting down on ad-blockers… and I started using one myself ;)
depends on how much politics i watch that day
Every day. CAD software is frustrating even on the best of days.
Depends on how frustrated I am with the game I’m playing at the time or how hard I beat the fuck out of an annoying enemy.
I work in IT…i would be a millionair for every time i did it in the last 5 years. Because somehow its always the same. I finish something and it works. Then come back the next day and it suddenly no longer works!
… never?? is this something people do, first time i’m hearing of it
I used to work front-line CS for e-commerce owned by Alibaba in my country.
So several times a day. Never felt rage like those ever since. I last 2 months.
I usually just throw my phone against the wall when it’s called for. The message is a lot clearer that way.
I middle finger many objects (and a few people) throughout the day.
