It’s not just soda bottles here, it’s milk bottles, cream, fruit concentrates… Anything in any kind of plastic container with a screw-on cap.
Actually the soda bottles are the least egregious examples. The milk bottles are terrible: you’re 100% guaranteed to spill milk if you don’t detach the cap.
Thanks!
With a scalpel and a bone saw - at least that’s what the surgeon said - and because sometimes people are born with issues that need fixing later in life.
Plus, they very likely can’t sell electrical equipment that has had its cord chopped up and repaired
I did it proper. You couldn’t tell the cord had been replaced. For the rest, yeah I know what you mean. That doesn’t mean it’s not crazy that the Red Cross should refuse free shit. My Dad lived through the war and the food restrictions, and let me tell you, he would have been outraged.
Next time, find a friend with small feet who would like to take it off your hands.
The funny thing is, I’m a clear foot taller than my wife, but my own feet have been shortened surgically a few years ago and are now shorter than hers, and I fit inside the machine just fine. But I didn’t want the machine because I hate foot massages 🙂
The only problem with that theory is, they didn’t even open my box. I know that because the box still had the tape I closed it shut with. So they couldn’t know I had replaced the cord.
Besides, it wasn’t a shitty splice: I actually opened it and replaced the whole cord. You could never tell it wasn’t the original thing.
The less Google can figure out who you are accurately, the longer the ReCAPTCHAs get. For instance, if you run Librewolf with Resist FingerPrinting, you’re going to eat a metric shit-ton of buses, stairs, bicycles and fire hydrants.
Captchas are maddening, they’re forced labor and there’s a special place in hell for whoever invented them, deploy then and maintain them. However, you should take comfort in the fact that if you have a really hard time getting past a particularly stubborn ReCAPTCHA, it means Google has a harder time tracking you.
Oh the humanity!
How is this infuriating?
You haven’t been taken for a fool. You haven’t been taken by surprise. Thule isn’t an unavoidable monopoly you have to give money to.
If you feel it’s overpriced, you can, ya know… not buy Thule.
I tried to take them off a few times until I realized it was on purpose and not a manufacturing defect.
The problem isn’t the force it takes to rip it off: that’s easy enough to do. The problem is that the now-free cap has sharp edges that really hurt, and the plastic bottle now has an annoying dangling plastic tail.
Well, it looks like the SDF instance is catching up: suddenly a whole bunch of comments, and all the upvotes from the lemmy.ml instance now show up in the SDF view. Too many upvotes in fact 🙂 I guess the downvotes are still getting processed.
Maybe this is all sorting itself out, whatever the bottleneck was…
Oh and by the way, I wasn’t implying that SDF is responsible for this. It was just a general comment on the state of federation in Lemmy, which - the more I look at it - seems really quite fragile.
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I’ve tried to hit support for the Lemmy instance and the Peertube instance - and for the Matrix instance too - both through forms, emails and in the support chat thing in the shell account. Nobody answers, ever. It’s like crickets in here.
The only email address that answers and provides help is [email protected].
Welcome to SDF. I guess it’ll be fixed in a few days maybe.
Not sure what’s happening, but if you say so…
The image is a screenshot taken on my ancient laptop, so it can’t be more than 1920x1080 🙂 What’s wrong with it?
This is my general method to find and install apps:
First hit F-Droid
If F-Droid doesn’t have it, hit the Play Store through Aurora. Carefully assess each and every candidate returned by the Play Store search by searching for feedback on DDG, as I treat anything served up by Google as adware / spyware even if the Play Store says it’s free of ads, doesn’t need permissions or it’s open source.
If the Play Store doesn’t have it (an older version of an APK I specifically need for instance) hit APKPure or Aptoide. Download each promising APK manually, unzip it, look for sketchy things in the archive manually, then run the APK through Hypatia before sideloading it, because I treat anything served up by APKPure or Aptoide as malware.
I block CNN by not visiting their website.
The only CNN worth anything is CNN International, and that still works fine with all ad blockers raised. But even CNN International started pulling the same stunt, it’s not remotely good enough that I would miss it either.
Easy: post from the SDF instance, then check directly on the other instance if your post made it. If it hasn’t after 10 minutes, feel like you wasted your time. Rinse, repeat - until you’re tired of wasting your time and open an account on another instance.
Sorry I mistook what you wrote for sarcasm 🙂
It’s called venting. Because when I pay for a service and I’m not getting it, sometimes I feel like venting.
Maybe the restaurant is infested with investment bankers for whom life is indeed to short. Maybe the sign is a secret handshake to tell other investors they’re welcome in this joint.