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scrubbles , 4 months ago

Gym membership is the only chargeback I've ever done.

When I signed up I put my wife and myself on my credit card and we used it for a long time. We decided to cancel and I called them up, waited on hold for almost an hour, finally got through and they told me that I could only cancel mine, as I was the only one talking to them. I told them my name is on both accounts and it's my credit card payment information, I'm not paying for them anymore, and the outsourced customer service guy literally just repeated his script. He also told me that I would still be on the hook for some reason for 3 more months of membership, nothing he could do.

Called my credit card, picked up immediately and the woman was extremely nice and understanding. Within 20 minutes my money was back and any future payments were blacklisted to them.

Name and shame, it was 24 hour fitness, but from what I hear this happens with all the major gyms.

scrubbles , 3 months ago

I'd say the answer is in the middle. I see the world on fire and I also have a lot of anxiety because I can't really do much.

But I did what I can personally change. I moved my house off of gas to a dual fuel heat pump with gas only in extreme (<15 degrees F) cold. I moved our water heater off of gas, and we just bought an EV to replace our aging (120k mile) gas car. I also use the bus and train whenever possible (however my wife works far away from transit lines so for now we need one car). I would be doing solar too but we don't have much space on our roof, and estimates said we'd barely cover 20% of our usage. (Far north so only for a few months too)

When I purchase things I try to think about what would be the more moral choice, and I usually go with that.

Beyond all of that, I vote in every election, and that's about everything I can do.

And that's helped my anxiety. I'm about as carbon neutral as I can be, I encourage my friends and family to make carbon neutral choices, but after that I put down my blinds and try to ignore things. I'm not president, I can't change the world, but I at least changed my family.

And I'd say if everyone who felt the same hopelessness started making similar changes it would start to make a difference, showing there's a demand for green alternatives.

scrubbles , 4 months ago

I'm still waiting for me to just liquify. I'm disappointed, they said it'd happen within a year! Then 2 years. Now 5 years! Just happen already, it's the waiting that's the worst part

scrubbles , 4 months ago

People who say stupid things like "soyboy" have never experienced chronic heartburn/acid reflux. I love a good steak. But if I did red meat regularly I'd burn through my esophagus. Soy is a perfectly good substitute that doesn't agitate me and in most things you can't tell it's there.

Substitute half of ground beef in any Midwestern casserole with soy crumbles and I'm 95% sure none of these meat babies would be able to tell.

scrubbles , 4 months ago

All conspiracy theories start with a small truth, that's what makes conspiracy theories feel justified and right.

Nail on the head. Bill Gates is not a super good person and has done bad things. A logical response is to see that humans are fickle and are capable of doing good things and bad things. An illogical response to that is spiraling to say he's injecting us with microchips and involved with some medical cabal.

Which leans to the other truth about conspiracy theorists. They are afraid, and realizing that humans even as high up as Gates are fallible means that no one really knows what they are doing and the world is chaotic. It feels safer to say they're all in cahoots because even if it's really bad, at least there is someone in control.

It's completely normal to search for answers in the chaos, and it's okay to feel afraid that we're all just hurtling through space on this rock with no one in the drivers seat - but we need to be self reflective to see those are our actual emotions, and not try to cover up our emotions with theories that make us feel better.

scrubbles , 4 months ago

I didn't realize the government was strapping people down and forcing them

scrubbles , 4 months ago

Satisfactory I bought for 30 dollars 4 years ago and it's sitting at 1,600 hours for me. I think sweeping general statements are really the bad guy here

scrubbles , 4 months ago

This development aligns with Microsoft's ongoing initiative to streamline its software offerings and concentrate on more sophisticated applications.

Gross corpospeak. Translated as "We never invested in this because we want you to buy the paid version. Now that the paid version has completely eclipsed the free version we will be deprecating it"

scrubbles , 4 months ago

Imagine offering up your own brain (and probably life) for a beta alpha version of a prototype from a guy who's products have never left the beta stage?

As a software engineer myself there are certain things I know I never want to work on. Things like heart pumps and diagnostic machines where firmware needs to be so incredibly precise that one fuckup and people literally die. And these people trust the guy who makes Teslas. They're fun to drive... I wouldn't stick one in my brain though.

scrubbles , 4 months ago

I have a lot of negative opinions about Steve Jobs - but I admit he was one CEO that would have been so specific about the technology and so determined to get it perfect the first time that I could see him doing it to himself first.

It's that same determination that he told himself that he could cure his own cancer.

scrubbles , 4 months ago

Maybe. I've just shipped too many bugs to prod to trust myself. But you're right for every senior engineer who is paranoid about that there's 100 devs who will ship it and then take vacation for a week.

scrubbles , 4 months ago

Lol I'm taking it as a motivational speaker, lol you just may be right. Who knows, but you cheered me up

scrubbles , 4 months ago

I hate articles with headlines like this. "Now what?". Well, I'm gonna keep on shitting, I don't really care what either company chooses to do

scrubbles , 4 months ago

I did it with blob storage, ended up being much cleaner and cheaper. You'll need to toy with it a bit, but from scratch will be a lot easier than the migration I had to do. You'll easily eat up 100+GB in pictures, which on the cloud on a VM's drive that's a fair chunk of money. Object storage is pennies.

scrubbles , 4 months ago

Wow this is going to be interesting from multiple fronts for me especially.

First, I'm a huge swiftie - and Taylor is probably not going to take this lightly. Who she's going to target will be a more interesting question. (Shameless plug for !taylorswift if you want to join our small community)

Second, as a nerd who has dabbled with generated art - thank you trolls for ruining it for all of us. This is just going to beg for regulations that is going to ruin the generative AI world - as if we didn't have enough regulations barreling towards the area with copyright issues.

Third, as someone who hates Musk - I hope everything focuses on him and the platform formerly known as Twitter.

scrubbles , 4 months ago

Second for namecheap. It's reliable, easy,. .. and cheap

scrubbles , 4 months ago

They keep worrying about a recession - and then do things like layoffs which cause recessions.

scrubbles , 4 months ago

What a douche.

scrubbles , 4 months ago

George Carlin knew the world exactly for what it was. He simply held a mirror up to it and we simply laughed at it, because at its core our society is ridiculous.

Wars, racism, hatred, government. All societal things built up because we humans can't control ourselves, because we're still just brains swimming in chemical soup dictated by instinct.

I'm not joking when I say he was a modern day prophet.

scrubbles , 4 months ago

I'm getting real tired of corpo doublespeak. It's everywhere right now and I feel like people are finally getting wise to it. I don't want to hear whatever made up by committee garbage you came up with. Give us an answer.

scrubbles , 4 months ago

Have you just tried having more money?

scrubbles , 4 months ago

I personally love the meme the other day of someone asking a Honda dealership chatbot to write python for them and it did perfectly.

These LLMs are really only good for big dogs like Google, Microsoft, and the like to put on their search engine for a general AI. It's going to be reeeeal difficult to limit to such a narrow range. I'd argue that they're better off using their existing "chat" bots

scrubbles , 4 months ago

Meanwhile Mitch is just stroking out a bit in the corner

scrubbles , 4 months ago

I personally love how they gave ink cartridges the ability to execute arbitrary code. Not like there are ways for them to have a signed hash or something that could do the same amount of validation, but actual code. That's HP's fuckup, not ours.

scrubbles , 4 months ago

well that makes a bit more sense, thanks for clearing it up. Still stupid, but not as bad as I had been lead to believe.

scrubbles , 4 months ago

Peak boomer humor

scrubbles , 4 months ago

Obligatory I bought my brother 2 years ago and I'm still in the original toner. A bit more up front but you'll save sooooo much more in the long run.

scrubbles , 4 months ago

Nail on the head. Racism now stems from people feeling like they're no one, but they have an excuse to feel better than this person for an arbitrary reason so they take it.

There's a reason most of the racists are poor uneducated white people

scrubbles OP , 4 months ago

Yup exactly. They just need better responses than "get legal on the phone"

scrubbles OP , 4 months ago

Oh absolutely agree, but this is where they can use it.

The dev can say that they obviously need an official plugin, and work with them on that because now they have 1,800 clones of an unofficial one that may not be optimized.

We also get to know that our tiny HA community has hit a critical mass large enough to get a corpo to freak out a bit

scrubbles OP , 4 months ago

Thanks, on my phone and can't edit it well right now

scrubbles , 4 months ago

Yeah, honestly it's crazy but I also understand. In Seattle there are some real dumps out there, but the dump isn't what they're selling for 170k. That's just the value of the land. A townhouse on a quarter acre is 500k out here, they probably took a picture of the structure so the buyer knows they'll have to knock it down

scrubbles OP , 4 months ago

Nooooo I said not to!

scrubbles OP , 4 months ago

I don't know how to edit Wikipedia, but it'd be great if somebody would edit the Streisand effect Wikipedia page to include this

scrubbles , 4 months ago

Amazing. Let's truly take it from their point of view.

The only people who care about this plugin are HomeAssistant users, so a very small subset. Those users then either

A) Already own the product, and thus are not going to cost them anything because they already bought it or
B) Home Assistant users who are in the market for their product, and from experience will only buy a product if there's an HA plugin.

In what way are they losing "millions" to these 2 groups again?

I have literally made decisions on purchases like vehicles on if they have a home assistant plugin or not. For HomeAssitant users it's one of the largest factors.

scrubbles , 4 months ago

We've learned with assistants we mostly need them to... turn off the lights and play music. I don't want to have a conversation with my smart speaker, I don't care about it being hooked up to an LLM. As soon as I can't turn off the lights or play music it goes in the bin.

scrubbles , 4 months ago

You have a good project you like for that?

scrubbles , 4 months ago

I've filed so many reports and they have never fixed any of them. My favorite one was that I was driving along following directions and realized google took me down a private road. No shit, had no idea where I was, but this "road" was definitely someone's field road. In the middle of it there's a car parked to the side, and literally 2 guys, one with a shotgun just stare me down as I drive away. Got back on the main road and got the fuck out of there.

Reported it to Google as a private road. Nothing changed. Reported again - response with "We didn't find anything wrong". Reported again and still nothing. Reporting is a placebo for google.

scrubbles , 4 months ago

Lol like any democrat went "yay biden". Same thing with Hilary. Both parties are picking turds.

South Park was always right. Douche and Turd Sandwich

#turdsandwhich24

scrubbles , 4 months ago

You train on a bunch of reddit crap, you're going to get neck beard reddit crap out. It'd look different if they only used art history books.

scrubbles , 4 months ago

I have no idea what these stupid AI startups are planning. Playing with the tech at home is one thing, building a business and distribution it is a whole other .

This was probably some stupid publicity stunt to drive more traffic, and it backfired. Shit like this is what's driving the new laws coming out

scrubbles , 4 months ago

Dubs, because I'm a poser I know

scrubbles , 4 months ago

We have one area of actual steady investment in our lives - our homes. And they can't handle us making a tiny bit of money

scrubbles , 4 months ago

I'm 99% sure this lady actually ended up being mentally unstable. And not haha maga unstable I mean like actual mental institution unstable. If you were wondering why your hilarious meme wasn't taking off

scrubbles , 4 months ago

Ah I love when they remove features to improve my experience

scrubbles , 4 months ago

Just having 8 of them being spammed on the page at once. I'll say they were funny, and I'm american. But it quickly became spammy. At least spread them out over a few days