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hactar42

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hactar42 ,

This is the thing I love the most about the younger generations now.

  • Boomers: If you don't like it do something about it
  • Gen-X: nah we're too nihilistic
  • Millennials: sorry we're too busy trying to survive on the scraps you left us
  • Boomers: that's what I thought

Now:

  • Boomers: If you don't like it do something about it
  • Gen-Z/Alpha: okay!
  • Boomers: no, not like that!
hactar42 ,

Nope! Still singing it in my head

hactar42 OP ,

That doesn't work anymore. If you follow those instructions you'll receive the pop-up I posted.

hactar42 OP ,

Trying to view them through your browser will bring you to this pop-up. And it says you can't use screen shots or print outs.

The only other option is to use a mobile wallet, but that prevents me from sending my friends their tickets, since I purchased them all together.

hactar42 OP ,

You're talking about the same company that charges a "convenience" fee for ordering online. Then if you decide to go to buy them in person you charge a "facilities" fee.

hactar42 OP ,

Sadly, I tried desktop mode in Firefox and still got the pop-up

hactar42 OP ,

It's really sad because the artists have little to no control over this. It is the venues who are contracted through Ticketmaster.

I remember Pearl Jam suing them for this in the 90s. Unfortunately, Pearl Jam lost and here we are 30 years later still dealing with their monopolistic tactics.

hactar42 OP ,

Clicking Next redirects you to the App/Play Store

hactar42 OP ,

You and me both

hactar42 ,

I'm old enough to have experienced an Exchange server being brought to it's knees due to two out of office replies fighting back and forth with each other.

hactar42 ,

This was the early to mid 2000s. I honestly don't remember the specifics. But I do remember the emails coming from somewhere in Eastern Europe, so it may have been some crap system on their end that treated each reply as a unique conversation. Which could be why our Exchange server kept replying.

hactar42 ,

Microsoft in 1995: Let's put the start button at the lower left. So people can always find it.

Microsoft in 2012: Start button is gone, but you can still click the lower left, like you have been for 17 years.

Microsoft in 2013: Fine have your button back since everyone is so used to clicking on it.

Microsoft in 2021: Let's make the start button move around every time you open and close anything.

hactar42 ,

And I thought I was a hardened criminal for sticking a bunch of beets in the mayor's fridge.

hactar42 ,

Not anymore. The last version of Windows 11 I installed on bare metal did not allow the trick when you just turn off the WiFi. I had to Shift+F10 to get to the command prompt, enter "oobe\bypassnro", then reboot before it would allow a local account.

hactar42 ,

No confusion you say

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/840c643b-7c1b-4552-b897-8558beafddd9.png

hactar42 ,

It's actually Mountain Home, Idaho. I have no idea who came up with that system. When I lived there 20 years ago they were talking about changing it. But it still remains to this day.

hactar42 ,

So, I'm old enough to have driven in that forgotten time before smartphones. A lot of directions were based on landmarks. Like...

Go down the street until you see the house with the big tree with a swing in it. Take the second left after that and follow until you get to the corner where the Stop and Go used to be (it's a 7-11 now). If you hit the highway you went too far.

Basically if you couldn't read a map well, you got lost a lot. That and you could pull into any gas station or even better a pizza place and ask them for directions.

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