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[–] otp@sh.itjust.works 2 points 23 hours ago

I dunno, chatrooms serve a very different purpose than emails..

[–] otp@sh.itjust.works 1 points 23 hours ago

Update game

"Oh hey, the console doesn't need to update this time! And this 5-year old game is the one I just updated last month, and there hasn't been any news or anything about the game."

needs to update

"Wow, these minor bug fixes are (probably) amazing. Especially when it's 300MB!"

[–] otp@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 day ago

I've given up on Purolator.

I just contact customer support/the seller and tell them all the steps I took (filling out my complete address, and on the day of, contacting them with my buzzer number), and tell them that I didn't receive my package despite being home all day. I also didn't receive their "sorry we missed you" sticky note anywhere. And no missed calls for the buzzer.

They often try to tell me the package is at a pickup point...I tell them that that's not the address I entered into their system, it's not the one that you put on the package, and you need to tell Purolator to send it to my address, or they're going to return it to you/the sender.

This worked for my $1,000 package, thankfully. It didn't work for my ~$50 packages. So that got sent back to the sender and I got a full refund. And I won't be buying from them again unless they stop using Purolator.

Meanwhile, Amazon will drop off $200 packages at my doorstep without a signature -- the way I want it! Lol

Purolator said they needex me to print out a form saying I authorize a drop off without a signature. I told them the driver is never going to see it because they don't enter my building's lobby let alone come up to my apartment. They said to do it anyway and it'd be fine. When I told them it said missed delivery again despite me following their instructions, they stopped replying to my support ticket...lol

[–] otp@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Gatekeeping food, of all things? Lol

[–] otp@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I think you were talking about people who believe in not having kids, and the other commenter was talking about people who want to blow themselves up to prevent others from having kids.

[–] otp@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago

Oh, wow! I didn't know that. Thanks for adding that.

[–] otp@sh.itjust.works 25 points 1 day ago

"Trump narratives" contradict reality more often than not

[–] otp@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

This is a good thing that happened in the US. The point isn't that he in particular did something good. It's that a good thing happened.

It was bound to happen regardless of the president. I wouldn't be surprised if it was in the works under the former president.

[–] otp@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I think you're mixing up my disagreement with not understanding you.

[–] otp@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 days ago (3 children)

I think you're making large reaches in your analogies. Are we supposed to have the government come in and bad cosmetic DLC, and then fight a war over it that splits the country (or world) in two? Lol

My point is that cosmetic DLC (and expansion packs) isn't the problem -- the problem is loot boxes and pay-to-win microtransactions.

[–] otp@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 days ago (5 children)

I have to say that the customer holds some of the blame. If people are obsessively buying cosmetics that do nothing and that's the only way the game is being sustained...either the game is that good already, or the players are the reason the game sucks.

When players need to spend money to be competitive, I think it's fair to place the blame jointly on both the devs/publisher and the players. When spending money doesn't change the game OR provides new content, it generally indicates that the player base is happy with what they're spending money on. I don't think that's a problem.

[–] otp@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 days ago

I think there are far bigger problems with modern journalism than being technically correct in favour of the affirmative voice.

 

(bonus points if it's being used for official business purposes)

 

One of the tricky things with English is that we often have words that can be combined to form different words.

Like greenhouse. It's a combination of green + house. But a greenhouse is something very different from a green house. Autocorrect may cause some people to make this mistake, but generally, the concepts are understood to be different.

On the other side of things, there's things like "alot" which is mistakenly used so commonly that my autocorrect didn't even care that I typed that (and it's not just because of the quotes!).

Then there are words like login, which as a noun is definitely one word, but as a verb, should almost definitely be two words ("log in to this website", but "this is my login for the website")...but "login" seems to be universally recognized as standard for a verb, even though we don't say loginned for the past tense (we still say "logged in").

And of course, there are other words that are commonly paired together that we don't often see with the space removed, like "Takecare", "Noway", or "Ofcourse". These could all be potential candidates for the "alot" treatment. What makes "alot" special?

So what causes "Please login to the website" to be "correct", but "I workout everyday" to be incorrect? (And maybe everyone is "wrong" about login, or everyone is right about "workout" and "everyday", and the compound word is an acceptable alternative to the versions with the space)

I feel like this would be better in an AskLinguists community here... maybe there's an active one that someone could point me to? But I'm still curious to see what people think

 

I have 3 credit cards...

  1. Oldest, good for groceries, but that's it. It represents about 45% of my total credit card limit.
  2. Crappy card, used to have good rewards but now sucks. This is about 40% of my total credit card limit. A few years old. I use it once every few months to keep it active.
  3. My current "best" card that I use for most things. Only had it about a year. Represents around 15% of my total credit limit, but I'd like it to be more as it has the best rewards.

I pay off all my cards twice a month and have a great credit score.

I'm wondering if there's any drawbacks to cancelling my crappy card and either applying for a limit increase on my good one or just applying for a new/better card.

 

I know MediaBiasFactCheck is not a be-all-end-all to truth/bias in media, but I find it to be a useful resource.

It makes sense to downvote it in posts that have great discussion -- let the content rise up so people can have discussions with humans, sure.

But sometimes I see it getting downvoted when it's the only comment there. Which does nothing, unless a reader has rules that automatically hide downvoted comments (but a reader would be able to expand the comment anyways...so really no difference).

What's the point of downvoting? My only guess is that there's people who are salty about something it said about some source they like. Yet I don't see anyone providing an alternative to MediaBiasFactCheck...

 

I used to be able to press the microphone button on my home screen and say "Start 5-minute timer" and it would start the timer.

Now, when I do that, it does a Google search for "Start 5-minute timer".

How do I get that functionality back?

I don't want to open an app, and I don't want to use a number pad or anything to enter the number.

EDIT: Thank you! I went into the Gestures section of Settings, and now I can long-press the power button to get the desired behaviour. This might even be more convenient than tapping the mic icon!

 
  1. Tap search button on the bottom.

  2. Search like normal for communities with the search term. Results returned like normal.

  3. Clicking the unfilled heart (to subscribe) results in the error presented in the attached screenshot.

  4. The back button (Android) doesn't work. App must be force-closed.

  5. The subscribing action was successful; discovered on reboot.

  6. Repeating the steps, but instead of the unfilled heart, clicking on the community successfully navigates to the community.

  7. This didn't happen before.

  8. I might be one update behind current as of Mar 18

 

Bananas are ridiculously cheap even up here in Canada, and they aren't grown anywhere near here. Yet a banana can grow, be harvested, be shipped, be stocked, and then be purchased by me for less than it'd cost to mail a letter across town. (Well, if I could buy a single banana maybe...or maybe that's not the best comparison, but I think you get my point)

Along the banana's journey, the farmer, the harvester, the shipper, the grocer, the clerk, and the cashier all (presumably) get paid. Yet a single banana is mere cents. If you didn't know any better, you might think a single banana should cost $10!

I'm presuming that this is because of some sort of exploitation somewhere down the line, or possibly loss-leading on the grocery store's side of things.

I'm wondering what other products like bananas are a lot cheaper than they "should" be (e.g., based on how far they have to travel, or how difficult they are to produce, or how much money we're saving "unethically").

I've heard that this applies to coffee and chocolate to varying extents, but I'm not certain.

Anyone know any others?

 

I've got a fairly new 14tb Seagate Expansion. It works fine, and I've been using it for a month and a bit.

I don't know how long it's been doing this, but the power supply is making a very faint alarm sound. The power supply is plugged into a Belkin surge protector powered on and with the "protected" status light lit, and it is plugged into an outlet. The HDD is currently not plugged in to a computer.

It's not a beep or electricity. It's a distinct weewooweewoo. I couldn't even determine the source until I pressed my ear against it.

Googling just points me towards typical "my HDD is making a sound, how long do I have until it dies", but nothing pointed me to the alarm sound from the power supply.

I'll check again if it makes the alarm in other conditions, but in the meanwhile, I was hoping someone here might know something.

Thanks in advance!

EDIT: The sound only happens when...

  • Power adapter is plugged into the HDD, AND the outlet
  • HDD is NOT plugged into the computer.

Plugging it into the computer stops the noise from the power adapter.

 

I know money can't buy happiness blahblahblah.

Do they do gift exchanges at all?

Do they ask for anything?

They have enough money that they could get anything made or done for them at a moment's notice. Like having ChatGPT, but for services. Ridiculous things we couldn't imagine.

Anyone have any insight into general trends along those lines?

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