Seriously, Wikibooks? (sh.itjust.works)
It's incredibly ironic that ChatGPT constantly asks me to verify that I'm not a bot
Literally every single time I try open their app, I get asked to click the button again to verify that I am indeed human....
Corporate astroturfing is the norm
Went to Google Play to complain about Hulu. I noticed Google advertising that over 300 reviews had the verbatim quote "watch and movies that you love". It's always confusing that buggy corporate apps have >95% 5 star reviews until you see that the majority are just completely fake, and no one cares or is doing anything about it.
Lots of times the restaurants won't even have milk (lemmy.world)
This used book that I bought for 12£ on the internet was apparently previously bought from Oxfam for 1.99£ (jlai.lu)
When you have to use multiple browsers because one place doesn't work (kbin.social)
I use ProtonMail as my primary e-mail client. For some reason, I cannot get to ProtonMail to verify an e-mail that I used to register elsewhere. I keep getting the hourglass on Firefox. So I go a try Chrome and it's the same deal....
Nature Valley: 10 bars in 5 packs (lemmy.world)
I was in a rush and I needed to pick up a quick snack that I could eat during class. I chose these Nature Valley bars which said they had ten bars inside. What I failed to notice is the tiny print at the bottom where it says 5 x 2, i.e., 5 packets with two bars....
"Features"
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Microsoft extolling the benefits of cloud storage in their Office save dialog (slrpnk.net)
"If you don't save your data to someone else's computer then we can't monetize it."...
Someone purchased the old domain of a FOSS app, then it's using it to deceive users to download adware (feddit.it)
One of those two sites is distributing adware. Which of them?...
I bought a car with a bad engine
A year ago I bought my wife a Mazda CX-5 diesel and paid 10K for it. Now I found out that it has an engine defect that will be extremely expensive to repair, so the car is a write-off, at best I can get 2K back.