Just tried Grayjay on desktop last night. Syncing with mobile is awesome.

But on desktop, I’ll continue to use freetube because i can block channels (or even content by keyword) from showing up on my feed.

If you only watch content that you’re sibscribed to, then this shouldn’t even be a concern.

It’s all about status. Big building = big dick. And more buildings spread all over the place is the equivalent to them having tons of kids.

It’s such a primitive, ape-brain thing to do, but that’s how these psychopaths operate.

This isn’t “vomit-inducing”, it’s rage-inducing.

If someone can give away 99% of their hoarded wealth, and still be a MULTI BILLIONAIRE, you know that the global community needs to come together and put caps on personal wealth. Taxing them isn’t enough.

Yeah, likely right in front of the doors so she makes sure to poison everyone else, too.

The front of my local hospital always has people smoking, and you’ll always be breathing it in if you’re trying to enter the ER or main entrance or parking lot or the park beside it.

but otherwise it’s local if possible, or direct from the vendor if not.

The problem I find is that local usually means “you’re gonna pay a lot more for the same item you can get shipped for free off Amazon”.

So, who am I benefitting? It’s a horrible consumer dilemma that I hate to be caught up in.

And it’s not even an “Amazon” issue. Our local bike shop, as much as I really do like to support them, sells tires for 2-3x more than what I pay to get them shipped in from an online bike store out of Germany (I’m in Canada!). Supporting local only works when local isn’t trying to screw you over.

Also, check your local library for “creator” services. Our local libraries have 3d printers you can either use, or have them print stuff for you for dirt cheap. Really, really cool service.

At our (Canadian) Walmart, I’ve seen so many cameras set up, you’d think you were at a casino! I’m talking cameras in the dry good isle, FFS! And we have an airport style security gate as well as uniformed security at the store exits.

And to think that they trust customers enough to be their own cashier, yet treat them like criminals while they shop, is madness.

For me, it’s screenshots.

I can’t even count how many self-hosted or open source projects I’ve wanted to check out, and the project page is just text.

If I don’t know exactly what I’m getting into in the first 10 seconds, I’m onto something else, especially when it’s something heavily based on UI/UX with frequent interaction.

EDIT: Also, I’m a fan of docker apps to run off my Synology NAS, but it better come with step-by-step instructions, or I won’t bother. There are some good resources for detailed instructions for various self-hosted/NAS/docker related content, but it’s nice when a project actually has this in their documentation.

My intuition says that deviating from the first suggested method of delivery is throwing a wrench in their algo somehow.

From my experience, I usually have to pick an option other than the default, because I rarely need something to arrive between 4am and 7 am! LOL

I’m fine with “any time tomorrow or the next day”, since that’s typically the only other option.

This is what happens when you let AI write the job listing. It’s just word salad.

Never forget that Trump publicly mocked a reporter with a disability.

Yeah, I made the unfortunate mistake of taking one when I was unshaved, and totally didn’t look like what I usually do. Regretted it every time I had to show my ID for years until it came up for renewal! I feel your pain!

R.I.P. 😂

I don’t know how big your license photos are, or at what resolution they get printed at… but ours looks like a stamp printed with a dot matrix printer and laminated. You couldn’t tell a zit from an eyeball. LOL

When Canada Post was still alive, this used to happen a lot when using their parcel service.

I would check all available options, because the ones you’d expect to be cheap often ended up being more expensive and take longer to get to the destination, and the cheap options don’t give you perks like free parcel insurance.

OP, I also love how much you save by letting them deliver just a few hours later!

They can afford it, too.

“Our record business performance during the September quarter drove nearly $27 billion in operating cash flow, allowing us to return over $29 billion to our shareholders,” said Luca Maestri, Apple’s CFO. (SOURCE)

Here’s an interesting interpretation of the strategy in the context of modern, online shopping:

“…while ending‐9 prices exert a sizable impact on shopping cart additions (by nearly 20%), the impact on final purchases is marginal (by less than 4%). A possible reason could be that even if each individual product adopts its ending‐9 price, the cost of the shopping cart (which can involve multiple items) might still not preserve such a pricing structure.”

This “trick” may be easier at the retail level, when the customer really doesn’t know (or can be influenced) by the final total. But as the study suggests, when shopping online, we may fall for the trick initially, but have an easy enough way out to avoid making the final purchase.

Either way, that’s just one form of phycological warfare that retailers use. Online shopping comes with far more opportunities to trick us compared to a brick-and-mortal shop. Always have enough buffers before confirming your order, so you aren’t spending more than you need to (or buying things you don’t need!).

You’d be surprised how well “99” works compared to the whole number. It’s a marketing trick, which is why most items are listed as .99, .98, etc.

lots of people would love to work less for less money to have more time.

Yes, work less, more time… the money part is the “gotcha!”.

I’m in Canada and over 50% of the population are living paycheck to paycheck. Too many people aren’t even taking their earned time off just so they can put in extra hours to afford a roof over their head.

Depends on what “a bit” is. If Japan is anything like the rest of the world, people can’t afford to lose any pay, for any reason.