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- Comment on I ordered my daughter a pizza, something I don't usually do. I got Domino's smallest size with two toppings. I got her cheese sticks and two sauces and tipped the driver 20%. $31.07. 1 day ago:
Hey, it’s good to keep exercising the math muscle, and apparently making mistakes is a better learning reinforcement for us than always succeeding, so I bet it will stick better now.
- Comment on I ordered my daughter a pizza, something I don't usually do. I got Domino's smallest size with two toppings. I got her cheese sticks and two sauces and tipped the driver 20%. $31.07. 2 days ago:
I got $31.07 here using a calculator. Perhaps you’ve uncovered a plot perpetrated by Big Calculator. (A joke.)
- Comment on I ordered my daughter a pizza, something I don't usually do. I got Domino's smallest size with two toppings. I got her cheese sticks and two sauces and tipped the driver 20%. $31.07. 2 days ago:
Just ignore the trolls, they have meaningless little lives and nothing better to do than try and make a random person online feel like shit so the trolls can feel like their existence matters in any significant way. Which sucks, as they could probably better focus that time constructively, but instead…this.
- Comment on I ordered my daughter a pizza, something I don't usually do. I got Domino's smallest size with two toppings. I got her cheese sticks and two sauces and tipped the driver 20%. $31.07. 2 days ago:
Learning to “life-hack” a web site for deals (especially when in a crisis) shouldn’t be a prerequisite for purchasing food at a reasonable price. The onus should not be on the consumer to not get ripped off by the seller.
This is just a continuation of systemic failure of business running rampant on the web without any reasonable regulation to prevent it.
- Comment on Windows just changed the desktop wallpaper and re-added the search bar without my permission after an update 2 weeks ago:
Like the fruit and internet search giant, they forced RTO and all the smart talent left.
So they have the B team, and likely a bunch of H1-B visa engineers that are basically indentured servants writing the code now. It’s just a paycheck and survival at this point.
- Comment on Best Buy Membership "discount" 4 weeks ago:
Best Buy and most retailers offer free shipping on items $100 and above most of the time. You just don’t see that until checkout. No special plan needed. It’s to compete with the likes of Amazon.
- Comment on Grocery stores promoting gas discounts are not helping the transition away from gas vehicles 1 month ago:
I actually see this rest stop idea as really cool advantage to bring life back to random locations across the country. Kinda like the 1950s Route 66 road tour theme that was popular back then. Create a stop with some goofy thing to look at, some food, some place to stretch, a park, a rock wall, whatever. Great opportunity to capitalism while creating fun and working around the range problem until technology improves or countries like the US get with the program and go more public transport.
As for:
Stop pretending we need to drive 500 miles without stopping, that’s dangerous anyway.
It is more a functional reality in western states, not a luxury or something to boast about. One can drive that 200 miles (likely your charge range will be less at 85MPH with a 60MPH headwind and ascending 4000 vertical feet over a few hours) without having services, utilities, or even towns. The range is a necessity to get back to civilization, let alone finding a charger or gas station.
- Comment on "Features" 1 month ago:
Ha, what a delightful way to share! Figured it would be easy enough to Internet search, but this way, others reading the thread will be more inclined to enable it when it is just right in the conversation.
- Comment on Microsoft extolling the benefits of cloud storage in their Office save dialog 1 month ago:
Yep, just gotta get off my lazy butt and do it.
- Comment on "Features" 1 month ago:
There is a reg key to add that disables bing search.
Ooh, do share with the class!
- Comment on Grocery stores promoting gas discounts are not helping the transition away from gas vehicles 1 month ago:
Electric vehicles aren’t helping with the transition to electric vehicles. Cars are more expensive than ever. If one has a choice between an annoyingly necessary vehicle that can get them to and from work and take care of long trips, or something that costs the same (or more) and can’t even get you halfway across the state on a single charge, which would one with a limited budget pick?
I have some friends that tried to take the plunge with EV. They bought one used, so some age on the traction pack. Cold-ass winter came along, the car doesn’t do active thermal management of the pack. They could barely make it 24 miles between towns. Their next car will be a hybrid. Until EVs are priced similar and behave similar to ICE cars, it’s going to be a slow roll to convert people.
- Comment on Thanks AT&T! 2 months ago:
Yet another way for the ol’ US to fuck their citizens’ lives up, huh
That’s the smell of freedom right there! Yeah!
- Comment on Live Nation/Ticket Master won't give you your tickets unless you install their app 2 months ago:
iOS in the US doesn’t allow sideload.
- Comment on I just want to view the recipe 2 months ago:
Not only a different skin, a kneecapped version of Safari that doesn’t have the root level access to Javascript performance boosts that Safari proper does.
1Blocker for the win slightly. It can do an device-local loopback adblock VPN. Until Apple says no.
- Comment on Adobe putting spam in notification tray on Windows 2 months ago:
Just throwing out there that PDF X-Change Editor and WondersShare PDFelement are both exceptional PDF editors. PDF X-Change Editor also has Windows ARM64 builds so you can run them on ARM based PCs. Although the best thing is to try and escape from Windows entirely anymore.
- Comment on Adobe putting spam in notification tray on Windows 2 months ago:
Between that, the installation of programs like HP smart, copilot, and Dev Home without my consent. OneDrive being trash. Start menu being slow ever since they deployed copilot even with it shut off. All the tricks to get you to run Edge. The list just keeps growing.
The notifications to get you to change notification settings on a program like Microsoft to-do not being run in a while just take the cake. I’ll run my apps if and when I want to. STFU M$. I pay you for an operating system to run my computer. Not to fight with it constantly.
- Comment on I have unlimited cellular data on my phone but not if I use it as a hotspot. 2 months ago:
They force configs on unlocked phones as well, or just don’t “certify” them and refuse to let them work. AT&T will go the extra step of locking you out of your SIM card until you call them. The other two are pretty passive about it and your phone just doesn’t work right until you put the SIM back in a phone they “like”.
- Comment on I have unlimited cellular data on my phone but not if I use it as a hotspot. 2 months ago:
My condolences.
- Comment on I have unlimited cellular data on my phone but not if I use it as a hotspot. 2 months ago:
Ahahaha, are you in marketing?
- Comment on I have unlimited cellular data on my phone but not if I use it as a hotspot. 2 months ago:
Especially given:
- Limited to 15GB
- Then limited to 128kbps
The 15GB is going to be variable based on the link speed available. If full 5G, that can be erased with 15 speed tests in a few minutes.
From there, it’s 128kbps * 3600 (to hours) * 24 (to days) * 30 (to month) = 331,776,000 kilobits -> 41.472GB + the original 15GB -> 56.472GB is the limit each month for “unlimited”, roughly. A hard limited number.
- Comment on I have unlimited cellular data on my phone but not if I use it as a hotspot. 2 months ago:
It always blows my mind going to a rental and the rental has no or lacking Internet. Yes, I’m probably on vacation, but it’s the future and life requires a few megabits. Years back I made it standard procedure to prep some kind of mobile broadband for my destination (buying a month of prepaid for a hotspot or whatever) fully expecting it to just always suck, it’s annoying that this is still a necessary procedure in 2024.
- Comment on I have unlimited cellular data on my phone but not if I use it as a hotspot. 2 months ago:
Carriers in the US configure phones so that the tethering APN is always used for tethering specifically over all interfaces, the traffic is also tagged with a different TTL. They also do some malarkey with deep packet inspection (in case you figure out how to modify the APN) to identify if a computer is using the connection (like the initial phone home Windows and Mac both do to determine the type/quality of Internet connection they are connected to.)
All of this one can work around, but it becomes an annoying game of cat and also cat, and then if the carrier “decides” you violated the “spirit” of their TOS, they’ll cancel your plan and take your number away.
- Comment on I have unlimited cellular data on my phone but not if I use it as a hotspot. 2 months ago:
It’s a really weird and very American problem. Our home broadband either doesn’t exist or is really expensive in any given market, and tends to have clauses, conditions, etc. Like Comcrap limiting people to 1TB/mon (very easy to burn through quickly by just watching some television programs) unless they pay more for “unlimited”. People, as taught by Capitalism, hunt for the best deals. Paying one bill instead of two saves money. Some have light enough home Internet requirements that they don’t need expensive home broadband.
Then the companies get pissed that we’re doing what we are supposed to do, find the best deal for our needs, so they set up false gates to make sure we follow the path they want us to follow. Then they pay off the regulatory agencies to allow terms like “unlimited” mean not unlimited, 3G HSPA+ being known as 4G. 4G being known as LTE, 4GLTE or 5Ge. 5G being known as 5G, 5G+, 5GUW, 5GUC, (even though, with the exception of T-Mobile in many markets, that 5G will actually be non-standalone and anchored to an LTE packet core, not 5G SA) and all the other damn arbitrary marketing buzzwords. All of which really mean nothing because the 5G spec allows a carrier to flip on the 5G availability flag on a phone even if 5G doesn’t exist in your market.
Most of this, AT&T is the biggest perpetrator of by far. Especially the lying about 5G.
The rules are all made up, nothing is real. Time for the arbitrary monthly bill increase for no reason! Pay up, chump!
- Comment on Staying for the week at an AirBnB in Rochester, MN. This is what I just found out I'm stuck with. 2 months ago:
Your average landlord isn’t going to even be thinking or caring about “piracy”. They only care about their bottom line.
- Comment on Amsterdam testing system that can remotely slow e-bikes down 3 months ago:
caranddriver.com/…/new-car-regulated-speed-limit-… California is already trying.
- Comment on YouTube comments like this 3 months ago:
Solution (for a lot of the Internet): addons.mozilla.org/…/shut-up-comment-blocker/
- Comment on 2G, 3G, 4G, 5G mobile data made some sens as it represents generational leaps in the technology itself but then Xfinity wants to advertise "10g" internet... 3 months ago:
It was hilariously reading the presser on NBCComcrap talking about how 10G DOCSIS development is progressing and they could almost hit 10Gbps in labs on the downlink but uplink would only be a few hundred megabits tops. Like, none of those numbers are worth selling a marketing brand of “10G”. Real fiber Internet can hit it, my provider offers 10Gbps/10Gbps. That could be called “10G” - if we continued to conflate speed with generations like Comcrap tried to do.
I really wish the FCC would step up and slap all these companies perpetuating these weird lie terms the last half a decade.
- Comment on Exciting news! The free API you were using is no more free! 7 months ago:
No, they’re up to 20 grams now! Isn’t that great!?
- Comment on Neighbour deliberately blocking OP 7 months ago:
Read that in the voice of Jasper from the Simpsons.
- Comment on Neighbour deliberately blocking OP 7 months ago:
Plastic doesn’t corrode. (Arbitrary Dodge Pickup Gas Tank Pic: www.moparpartsinc.com/p/…/55398734AA.html )