What country are you in? You may be entitled to a refund/replacement since you have the receipts

Luckily/unluckily (because effort), in Australia, consumer guarantees on length of time you can get a refund are vague.

E.g. it doesn’t matter that a fridge’s manufacturer warranty is only 2 years, you expect that to last longer.

With effort, you could probably get a fridge fixed like 5 years after purchase with some badgering / threatening small claims.

Bricking your product would probably fall under that category.

This is wild speculation, not a lawyer.

How long do patents last for anyway? Pokemon being caught in balls must be many, many decades old by this point.

They’ve started serving ads when you skip backwards. Drives me fucking nuts.

I was willing to use the mobile app with ads because the interface is slightly less buggy.

Ad blocking on mobile web it is for me now 👍

I’m on the youngest side of the millennials, when do I inherit, since I often like to phone in, as these days if you want something fixed quick, you’re better off calling (in Australia at least).

Much better waiting on hold for 10 mins than who knows how many business days before the customer service inevitably copy pastes something from the FAQ that doesn’t resolve your problem.

Also, I like to call friends, on the phone. And use SMS 0_0

Again, when can I get my inheritance, thanks haha

Honestly, good on you so much for sharing. The fact you’re not ashamed and willing to share could save someone from the same attack, and as others have pointed out, even the most security minded of us can have lapses in judgement.

I’m really glad you weren’t screwed in the end.

We want the legend, rather than the man, it would seem

💀 where is this?

… Re-read before I sent. I thought this said country, lol.

Yikes, why even have a bus at that point?

While this is completely true, it’s a bit tone-deaf. Fuck cars, but many people barely have a choice because their public transport consists of a handful of busses that come once an hour and nothing is close by.

As an aside, I spend a whopping total of about $1/day (edit Australian $, so less USD) on maintenance and electricity for my electric cargo bike. I go about 17 km each way to work and the funny thing is it’s only about 10 mins longer than driving, lol

He was also denied his demand to get rid of fully justified text, ugh!

While I get that as a stop gap when your city hasn’t built enough PT, car to the station sounds like a good last mile solution. But my personal preference, and how good public transport is set up, is that in 90% o more of the trips around your city, public transport should never be more than a walk away.

This is not to say that cars should be removed entirely (for disabled people where PT accommodations are difficult, delivery, emergency vehicles etc). Just that you shouldn’t nearly as many cars for the last mile, in a well designed system.

This is how I try to live, mostly. Can’t get there by public transport? Well I’m not going unless I have to then 👍 because cars are expensive and I’ll get a cab or rent one if I have to. But I live in a fairly car-centric city. It’s totally possible to have your entirely city be accessible by foot + PT.

I’m not sure if the driverless car tech would ever be viable, and why not just do driverless BRT conversions, which is possible right now, and not that expensive.

TotalLauncher has been a great replacement for me. Jumped ship a number of months ago

Oh neato, then all good!

It would make sooo much more sense for the ISO to set something up, and make governments each responsible for keeping it updated, since they’re the ones doing the changing.

Require all participants to amend their law/regulations, so there’s a note to prompt whoever is in power and changes it next.

I’m sure some places would still neglect to do it… Haha

Perhaps we’ll move to UTC+10¼, and then move forward 45 minutes in the summer.

If the day number is a prime, then we’ll go back π hours.

Hope that will help!

You’d be surprised how many of us simply never consider even the bare minimum of the mechanisms behind how things work.

I don’t entirely blame them, because the areas outside my knowledge you could wave your hands and I’d probably believe you if it’s too detailed or advanced for me to understand deeply, and things closer to my area I understand and question more.

Quantum physics is basically magic to me (I’m trying to think of another area where I’ve never considered how something works, I’m sure there are many areas where I’m a dunce, but alas, it’s hard to know the things you don’t know you don’t know). I’m totally happy with the physicists telling me: there’s some wibbily-wobbly magic happening down there, and thus, in most cases you’re going to come across, discrete electron energy levels 👍.

Thanks, I like your funny words magic man.

Though, in some cases, I think people’s lack of curiosity disturbing. I had someone once seriously tell me they thought we had sent spacecraft to other star systems 😬. because they heard been able to measure compositions of atmospheres. That was a formative experience for me at the age of 19. That despite someone going to 13 years of school, and getting into a decently competitive university, they didn’t know we haven’t sent spacecraft that far.

Neat 👍 that sucks

Are there like no consumer guarantees in the US? How is this not a open and shut case where the manufacturer needs to replace or refund the product?

It’s wild some of the stuff I find out is in the bible, and not just unrelated fiction. I was 14 when I finally found out David and Goliath was in the bible, not just some whacky kids story lol

Lol, how would they even fit that in? What channel?