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  • Oh don't worry. She'll get the other spider out for her other eye in just a moment.

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  • I'm with you on this, and English is my first language. This feels like a foreign-to-australia sort of issue rather than a foreign-to-english one.

  • Pornhub had a shitload of other issues that weren't payment processor related.

  • With the slideshow fps that only Tumblr can produce, too.

  • From the article;

    I think that this debacle could've been avoided if Plex had just taken a more careful approach with its app overhaul.

    So, they separated out their photo app from the rest of it, and people got mad because they did a bad job of it. I don't see the problem. There's a lot of reasons to be mad at Plex, but them taking their photos service and putting it into a different app isn't plex trying to make things shittier for money. It's just the regular development required to keep things running well. Except for how badly they did it, apparently.

    I don't use Plex. Never did. But I just don't see separating photos from the main app as anything worse than a side-grade. The article mentions how they didn't have a photo app for the TV users, which okay, that's worth complaining about, but if they had done that part right it would actually be less effort if all you wanted to do was display photos on your TV.

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  • JavaScript Date objects are cursed

    JavaScript date objects are 1 indexed for years and days, but 0 indexed for months.

    Oh that's not nearly the only thing javascript fucks up about their Date() implementation. https://jsdate.wtf/

  • My federal job came with one pre-installed.

  • The fact that this didn't come up on his yearly checkup means he either has a shit doctor, or he doesn't regularly go to a doctor. Either way, it's a good sign for his continuing health.

  • As a fellow bureaucrat, I absolutely understood his frustration. Why go through the entire process of switching insurance, risking missed coverage days, and other bs, when you could just call and have a person look at the generated evaluation numbers to fix things? He wasn't mad at me; just had his professional bride bruised when he found out that I was getting the same effect as the official process by doing (in his eyes) even more work than a simple call would be.

    I actually love finding these things in my job. Whenever someone does something that looks really silly on the surface, but as soon as you look into it from a user persective you find out it's just as good (or better) than the official process you originally expected. It's always trippy finding them because you have to turn your brain around to understand why they did it. And you always wanna keep it in your back pocket if you ever end up in a similar situation.

  • Live every day like it's your last

    Dude mixed up living with dying. Rookie mistake.

  • I've found that this is usually a "staying with a single insurance provider" problem. I usually end up switching every two years or so, but I check everytime my six month renewal comes up. I've found that my premiums pretty consistently go down so long as I keep looking around. The last few times I switched from geico to progressive then back to geico, and the cost went down each time I switched.

    Fun fact. At the last call to make sure my insurance was switched over properly, I had the csr angrily explain that in order to get the same affect, all I had to do was ask for a reevaluation of my policy. It turns out that the automated systems that send out your new price every renewal don't do a good job of adjusting the premiums down and you're supposed to ask a person at the company to review things if you don't like the automatic price.

    I plan on continuing my personal policy of switching providers every few years anyways. I'd rather have the new customer prices than deal with a person on the phone going through every option to see if the new price is actually better or worse than the competitors offers.

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  • Not for me. I have no idea when I last shut off an xp machine. My first free computer came with 98se, and my first purchased PC had windows 7 installed. At some point, I shut off an xp machine, either for school or at the library or whatever, and I have no idea when that was.

  • You could also modify the frame to have that pole blocking things be removable; cut it off and weld on a pair of bolts to put it back when you're done.

  • The phone would be otherwise still fine despite being 2 years old. I'm sure even if it was covered, Google would find some way to not repair it under the program because it is a carrier unlocked model running GrapheneOS.

    I had a different, also known hardware issue with my pixel 8 screen. I also use grapheneos. I used the pixel replacement policy that google had (the phone was still under warranty) and I didn't even bother to put the OS back to default, just erased everything on it. They didn't even bother to check for the default software, just that they got a pixel 8 back from me.

  • Lmao at the hackernews magazine; did the virus cheat somehow and hacked the man to die quicker?

  • Back before Fanfiction destroyed mobile app access to promote their shitty app, I used to read stories on there daily. Now I don't even bother with ff.net anymore and its been long enough that I don't directly remember any of the authors who I enjoyed either. Mostly I hang around space styles, sv, and qq these days.

    But to actually answer the question, Aaron Kite, of Wattpad, is still my favorite author who should have been published, even after a reread ten years later. He's not gone, but it's pretty obvious he's moved onto other hobbies now.

  • Fun fact, I actually grew up with the right one inside my house garage, running. My dad managed to find a working one somehow, and was just handy enough to hook it into the water in the wall of the garage. It was actually really neat.