Lol. Gotta leave a little room down there for the “it can always get worse” section.

Unintentionally pressed my elbow into a hive if red paper wasps.

STRAIGHT FUCKING FIRE 🔥🔥🔥. Don’t recommend it. 3\10.

Except sometimes I know for certain the “wrong password” it wants me to change is the currently used one.

God’s, I’d hate to deal with losing my phone number. I have most everything crosslinked where my number isn’t the only option, but some I’m sure would still give me a big fat FU to deal with. I have all my passwords to everything correctly saved in my PW manager, at least

Go to the gym a couple days a week for weights.

Been getting a big amount of cardio in playing The Thrill of the Fight on VR.

Eat just OK.

Bullshit IT trick. If they suspect a possible security compromise they’ll force this out to everyone. It gets you to change your password without them revealing that they may have been compromised and had data stolen.

RDR2 would piss me off to no end when trying to find a place to camp.

Union lock down. Hit 7 million and no instances part of the fediverse are allowed to have more than 40k subscribers or members unless they already had more when the 7m hits. Then only one new instance a month can be added to the fediverse, and all that apply get voted on to be in. Lol

I’m old. Chatrooms old. Went through digg and reddit from their infancy. Problems don’t show until you start climbing over 10,000,000 active users. That’s when eg9s and advertisers and bots and manipulation and overwhelmed mods and all the bullshit starts to chip away at things. 4 to 7 million users is the golden zone. Active and plentiful subs. Little enough bullshit.

It’s gotten a bit busier as far as new posts showing up go (been here since reddit api debacle) but we need like 4,000,000 more users, and then if we just held right there, we’d all be able to live happy little lives. There’s still just not enough people to support smaller, more niche instances.

On a side note: Doubly fuck reddit again. I don’t get on there to use it, but occasionally I’ll hop into an old sub looking for info. Got a notification that /humor deleted my post of a funny poem thing from 15 friggin years ago. One of only 2 posting I ever made that still occasionally got comments on.

I disagree. You’re addicted to anything you like enough. I know people that go out fishing every single week it’s possible. I used to play table tennis in a weekly league and would never get sick of playing it. There was also a stretch of about three years where the only game I’d play if I had a chance to play videogames was league of legends. I had friends that played WoW every single day for years. Another friend will never shut up about hiking. It’s all the same. All these are things you genuinely like. All could be viewed as an addiction. They’re often one and the same.

I have around $500 worth of sharpening stones and strops for knives and straight razors. I sharpen people’s knives for free. I hate seeing a dull knife and have sharpened knives for over 30 years now.

Am I addicted, or is it a hobby?

It still just can’t work as a baseline. How are you supposed to quantify “too entertaining”? It’s a ghost concept that the court is just deciding on the fly with no basis or precedent that can be set. Like, why YouTube and not Fortnite? Being too entertaining shouldn’t be a crime.

No. The feedback loops were much slower. Super Smash bros: get feedback and try to improve so people want new game even more. Super Smash bros Melee: get feed back and try to improve it so people want to play it even more. Super Smash Bros Brawl: get feedback and try to improve… You get the point.

Anyhow, are you saying that you’ve decided that there’s a limit on how well entertainment manages to entertain you? Gonna make sure porn is only allowed to use missionary position, next?

I hate meta and Google, but looking at this from a broader scale: “How the fuck are you supposed to punish anything that’s designed for entertainment, being too good at entertaining you?” Am I supposed to sue Nintendo because Super Smash Bros Melee was so good me and my friends probably spent like 2000 hours playing it? Or maybe sue the ITTF because table tennis is fun as hell and I want to play it every chance I get.

But for real. How are you supposed to impose a tangible limit on how fun or addictive something is allowed to be? Does every TV show have to end with a total resolution so you aren’t overly compelled to view the next episode? Did the first run of king of the hill need to be cancelled for being too great to not watch?

For real. I floated around with Ubuntu like 15 or so years ago. Everything was learning and researching and getting things to work. Plopped Mint on my laptop a few months ago and didn’t hardly have to do a thing to figure it out. But of troubleshooting to get my VPN to run correctly on it.

It depends on their version the fcc is considering “manufactured”. If they mean it in a literal sense, there’s pretty much just starlink. If they mean it can be an American company but put together overseas then there’s plenty, like Netgear and Linksys.

The kind that can be better made with $20 and a trip to home depot?

Say anything against the grain and you’re banned from the instance. A problem with individuals having complete control of their instances, and there’s really no way to do it otherwise. Obviously that’s not all instances, but a lot of people who set one up also have their own personal narratives they want to push.

The article says this:

“Naturally, he refused the offer and brought up Australian consumer law, which is quite similar to the European one for these matters. In a simplified form, retailers are responsible for warranty claims and must replace or refund the defective item; then they take the issue to the manufacturer. When confronted by Goran, Umart went to the trouble of quoting the Australian Consumer Law but made a seemingly byzantine and twisted interpretation of it, reiterating that a refund at the original price was the proper remedy.”

Now it totally sucks, but there isn’t the faintest blip of a bastardization or a twisting to the warranty policy refunding the amount he paid for the RAM. It says in plain text that they have to issue a refund or a replacement. It does not say the customer gets to choose whichever they want, and a refund most definitely doesn’t mean you get more back than what you paid for it.

Now what umart did next is definitely a shit move that they should be on the hook for. Keeping the ram and sending it off themselves without first checking with the customer. Umart should pay for that fuck up.