Melpomene @kbin.social I'm probably just an AI pretending to be human.
Into wandering abandoned places, tinkering with technology, and authoring things for fun and profit.
Yay, the Democrats saw a way to get votes and pretended to care. Fuck all the way off with that bullshit. Spend half a century fucking over LGBT people, pander for 20 years, profit.
"They're better than the fascists they've worked hand in hand with for years" is a pretty weak endorsement.
I'm not the one explaining away my support of my side's bigots by saying they're less bigot than the other bigots. But go off.
Go look up Biden's long and storied history of voting against LGBT rights and then tell me how he's okay now because something something excuses.
George is okay with supporting homophobes and bigots as long as they're his homophobes and bigots.
Correction, the collusion between Dems and Republicans makes third party candidacy an impossibility.
And who, exactly, has worked together to ensure that there are only two bad choices ever available come election day?
The Democratic party works with the party they (rightly) call fascist to keep out competition to thier duopolistic rule, even excusing thier own incredibly bigoted recent past.
Cooperating with the friends of fascism is not a vibe.
I'm not disabled, but the whole "people with disabilities don't know what they need" nonsense irritates me.
People: provide a wealth of evidence, including dissertations from those with disabilities
You: Nuh uh!
Congrats.
"And maybe if you are too disabled to safely drink from a mug, scalding hot beverages are not a great idea, anyway."
You heard that in your head and went 'yup that's what I'm going to post today.'
And you could have popped a few words into a search engine before you went straight to "I feel like." Many of your questions have already been answered; why not do thr homework first?
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=disabled+need+plastic+straws&t=fpas&ia=web
Almost all of the malware ridden apps people encounter are FROM the app store.
Which they can apparently do from the Play Store, too. Thing is, the sort of person who goes seeking out alternatives is generally (though not always) more familiar with tech.
Regardless, lockdown by design isn't about safety so much as it is about control.
As much as I hate them for it, they've done an excellent job vilifying ownership of one's own devices.
I find it interesting that these companies are taking something that was once normal... loading your choice of software onto your thousand plus dollar computer... and pretending that its something new and evil.
I'd prefer honesty. They want cash and this undermines thier platform near-monopolies.
I'm glad your experience has been good, but buyers really ought to be wary. There are themes in the bad reviews that should give them pause.
The service doesn't cover most healthcare so you're still stuck with One Medical's bills, which (if reviews on Trustpilot are correct) tend to be higher than traditional medical. They still bill to your insurance if you have it.
I was curious so I looked up reviews of One Medical. Almost universally, people note that they charge well more than average for services, fail to meet thier appointment wait time promises, limit access to doctors, and have terrible customer service that fails to respond timely and often fails to respond at all.
$99 seems to be a lot of money to pay to be ignored.
Long COVID symptoms can persist for a year after initial infection, or re-emerge months later after disappearing.
Google Pixel Warranty Support - Objectively Terrible
While this is obviously an anecdotal account, my experience with #Google support has been nothing short of terrible.
I have a faulty Pixel 7 Pro, purchased less than 90 days ago. I went through all the troubleshooting steps including resetting with the online tool, issue persisted. So... thinking that I had a slam dunk, I contacted Google support.
After confirming with Google that the issue was 100% hardware related, I thought we would be good. But alas, no... they wanted more logs. So, I provided logs. The logs showed exactly what we expected (broken hardware) so again... I thought we were good.
Nope! "We can replace this if you mail to us and wait up to two weeks for a replacement.
After pushing, they suggested that they could do an advance swap if I provided a receipt for the purchase with an IMEI.
I did so. We... we should of been good now, right?
Nnnnnope.
"Sorry, this email address isn't the one we first recognized. We know you provided a receipt and proof of identity and a blood sample and CCTV recordings of your purchasing the phone, but uh... can you use that address we know you closed like... two months ago?"
So I read the warranty and that does not appear to be a requirement. Right now, I'm awaiting their response re their warranty, because honestly it feels like their customer service (if one should even call it that) it designed to make sure that people with legitimate claims get frustrated enough to replace versus seek repair.
I hope this is just a one-off and the majority of people don't have these experiences but... somehow, I doubt it.
Maker Friendly Etsy Alternative?
I've not had much luck with this, so... here goes nothing! I love supporting independent creators, but using Etsy leaves a bad taste in my mouth. They're full of drop-shippers, they ruin makers by closing accounts without warning... you know, all of those nasty things.
Are there other options out there aside from hunting for makers' personal sites? Any help would be appreciated, as I've not had much luck finding an alternative
E2EE Cloud Alternatives - Your Experiences
Good morning, afternoon, or evening!
Periodically, I review my services to determine whether I'm getting the best balance of features for what I pay. For remote file sync I've been using Tresorit for quite some time... I find it easy to manage and I love that I can sync all of the things. Problem is... they keep changing the plans. I've manage to finagle discounts for long-term use, but I expect that my efforts will eventually fail.
So... what providers do you use? How have your experiences been? I'm willing to consider other providers, as long as they:
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Have a solid track record (I use this for work type stuff and I don't want to find myself scrambling to reconnect to an offsite provider later)
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Have E2EE (I mean, should be a given.)
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Can sync individual folders and disparate locations
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Preferably, are not hosted in a privacy-backward location.
Can you help? Or is poor Melpomene stuck paying for Tresorit forevermore?