ParkMobile is yet another service that is nearly unusable because their app assumes that email can be delivered instantly. They don’t even offer a regular password login, just “send a link.”
So how I’ve gotta sit at a parking lot for 10-ish minutes until that email comes in so I can pay to park. What are the chances that the morons behind this decision also time-limit the link for too little time as well?
Smoke detectors self-expire after 10 years. Ionizing detectors have radioactive Ameriicum-241 in them. They're exceptionally difficult to recycle. It seems like here in SF I have to ship them to the manufacturer, Kidde, who no longer advertises their recycling program.
I wonder how many of them are just dumped into landfill and are causing untold problems.
Perhaps the answer is to collect enough to make my own backyard reactor. Then the gov’t will come clean it up for free.
@1af32b4c@5e66d80f 1. Is the CEO of Target a right-wing nutjob, because crapping on SF is their current fetish.
2. If I'm driving to Target, I'm going to the big one in Colma, not some rinky-dink one at a location that hasn't been a retail success for any prior tenant.
@2cdb4f27 Does anybody actually maintain MacPorts? Most of the world uses Homebrew because certain Apple management abdicated responsibility for the platform.
Dear Apple App Review: why does the Nextdoor app request permission to access the local network? It's a social networking app and pretty much the only reason it could be doing that is some kind of privacy-invasive fingerprinting for their advertising masters.
You should have caught this during review and forbid it.
@30a83efa Really not a fan of how ugly this is making things. That they aren't text-based preprocessor directives means there's now some duplication to accommodate them too.
@0ec94728 I find those all-in-one-window multi-pane apps to be terrible UX. With many of them, you spend too much time fiddling the panes around instead of getting work done. Overlapping windows were more flexible.
I'm beginning to think that every power strip in the size class I'm shopping for is some kind of scam. The one I got might have a counterfeit UL label on it. Another brand's website talks about them being a "widely recognized company in North America” with a corporate address at a UPS Store at a mall and their factory pictures have signage in Chinese.
I think there needs to be some enforcement against Amazon to stop this. These products can be very dangerous.
@c2907aac I would like bug reporters for every car manufacturer. I keep finding obvious software bugs in cars I've purchased. The only way to report bugs is to bring the car in for service and have the shop log the problem and hope that the manufacturer data mines the shop logs for issues. They probably don't unless there are a lot of unnecessary module swaps or some other cost that bubbles up.
@61fef4cd Our rescue came before the pandemic, but he’s developed several behaviors we haven’t been able to help him with. He’s growing agoraphobic; he’ll run outside to take care of business but is afraid of go on walks of get in the car.
It's really annoying to me that I have Terminal, VS Code, Nova, etc. and macOS no longer has something like the Macintosh Communications Toolbox that would have made all those terminal emulators be shared code.
Looking for a 16 outlet metal power strip with widely-spaced outlets suitable for transformers.
Only one such product on Amazon is UL-listed (Tripp-Lite PS4816/PS4816B) and the outlets on it are oriented badly for transformers.
It's unreasonable to be selling high voltage products that aren't UL-listed, but Amazon is happy to sell all manner of unsafe Chinese products with no checks and balances. Somebody's house is gonna burn down and the insurance company is going to deny any claims.
Ordered a JUNNUJ. The listing claims UL-listing, but I have my doubts since there’s no listing for that name in the UL online database.
Hey Amazon, you do know that you're an accessory in committing fraud if they're lying? Some judges take rampant and persistent fraud seriously these days.
Can we keep the "Diane was a respected political titan” stuff to a minimum? I've been her constituent since the ‘80s and she was always awful. Pro-censorship, anti-encryption, and I still think she masterminded Dan White somehow.
@0f5aeee8@30a83efa The CM4 can be attached to any number of interesting carrier boards, whereas the RPi comes in the one shape with this one set of connectors. For example, the Home Assistant Yellow carrier board.
@38cb67ff Sadly only BoA’s card grants tier points on Virgin Atlantic. I expect that Delta will cause them to sunset this card at some point and then I can ditch them.
I do my actual banking elsewhere for many of the reasons you suggest.
Bank of America proves incapable of basic banking once again. Declined a minor credit card charge from a vendor I've used before. Account locked out until I call the fraud department, who cannot explain why it was declined except to gaslight me that I failed to provide some unspecified additional authentication through a process that doesn't exist. Rep then wanted to shift my account from app-based Push Notifications (secure) to SMS (insecure) and I had to assert that I didn't want that.
Really could do without the ads for GitHub Copilot on every code page on GitHub and in the Welcome window in Visual Studio Code.
I won't ever use it so long as it is trained on stolen code.
@4d6d22e8 They fulfilled your order from two different distribution centers. Arguably less packaging than consolidating the order at a single distribution center before final packaging.
@2e510284 All the anti-fraud stuff that banks have done over the last 30 years have been a joke.
They routinely find reasons to decline valid charges from me, even when using CVV codes or Apple Pay, but somehow just always allow in-person purchases of gift cards in distant states or purchases at places like Cabela’s which I have never been to.
@46fd6dcf@0f5aeee8@30a83efa And compute modules wouldn’t have the incredibly bad power connection that RPi keeps doing.
The 5 has non-standard USB-C. (5V@5A isn’t part of USB-PD). Dumb.
@e06c1f25 I _think_ that both GitHub and GitLab have pull requests in a different refs tree. I'd love a write-up of these other ref trees out there (besides stash, which you covered).
Also, the world needs more interesting and coordinated use of git notes.
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