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Armitag3 posted:Amazon probably had the best customer support and that’s pretty sad because they just throw money at it. Hey amazon i think i got a fake thing: keep it whatever and here’s your money back. Didn’t use prime? here’s your money back. left an ec2 instance running too long? oops here’s some credit back and don’t do it again had, past tense. they tightened up their purse strings in Covid times and now it is like pulling teeth to get anything more than a $5-$10 account credit. I had a period of time last year where they were routinely missing their delivery windows by multiple days. i contacted them with a list of the late deliveries spanning multiple months and a "why should I pay the new higher rate for this crap?" type attitude. in the past that would have been a guaranteed year of Prime or similar, this time I had to spend a long time repeatedly explaining that I wasn't complaining about one particular delivery and got offered a $10 promotional credit.
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infernal machines posted:either ed zitron reads yospos or we're some kind of bizarre cultural zeitgeist he definitely is a goon (i remember him posting some SA screenshots on twitter) so it wouldn't surprise me
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FMguru posted:amazons internal codename for the process of cancelling prime refers to a bloody ten year siege that only ended when one side tricked the other into doing what they wanted: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/06/ftc-sues-amazon-over-4-page-6-click-15-option-prime-cancellation-process/ pretty sure they meant "the odyssey". smdh
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infernal machines posted:either ed zitron reads yospos or we're some kind of bizarre cultural zeitgeist Here I sit Unsubscribing Try to quit They keep arriving was me after hitting Unsubscribe yet again to another Rogers email
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Beeftweeter posted:pretty sure they meant "the odyssey". smdh lol stem
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infernal machines posted:either ed zitron reads yospos or we're some kind of bizarre cultural zeitgeist everyone knows email has been rendered unusable by spam. We are constantly being chased from one method of communication to another by advertising. Everyone stopped using voice calls because of the spam, then we abandoned faxes because of the spam, then email, now we’re trying to find something less spammy than sms.
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Beeftweeter posted:he definitely is a goon (i remember him posting some SA screenshots on twitter) so it wouldn't surprise me hi ed
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FMguru posted:amazons internal codename for the process of cancelling prime refers to a bloody ten year siege that only ended when one side tricked the other into doing what they wanted: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/06/ftc-sues-amazon-over-4-page-6-click-15-option-prime-cancellation-process/ i still can't imagine that it's as painful as trying to cancel an aol account was: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmpDSBAh6RY
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https://www.pcgamer.com/discord-is-opening-the-monetization-floodgates-get-ready-for-microtransaction-stores-and-paid-exclusive-memes/ Strap in for more enshittification
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Armitag3 posted:https://www.pcgamer.com/discord-is-opening-the-monetization-floodgates-get-ready-for-microtransaction-stores-and-paid-exclusive-memes/
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mystes posted:I'm guessing this is mostly aimed at encouraging streamers with discord servers who already have other means of monetizing their fans to use discord for monetization
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Armitag3 posted:https://www.pcgamer.com/discord-is-opening-the-monetization-floodgates-get-ready-for-microtransaction-stores-and-paid-exclusive-memes/ I'm not reading this because "PC gamer" autoplayed an anime at me that followed my scrolling and unpaused itself
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BMan posted:I'm not reading this because "PC gamer" autoplayed an anime at me that followed my scrolling and unpaused itself try using ublock to keep the brown sea from invading your home op
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so far discord seems to have actually done a pretty good job of making people want to pay for cosmetic stuff rather than forcing them to pay. I'm not even going to say to give them the benefit of the doubt, but it's at least theoretically possible that they could add stuff like this without loving it up. otoh if streamers milking their fans are generating all the money they are probably eventually going to start viewing the servers that aren't monetizing the poo poo out of everything as dead weight mystes fucked around with this message at 19:12 on Jun 22, 2023 |
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Armitag3 posted:try using ublock to keep the brown sea from invading your home op the ublock on my phone doesn't hit whatever the hell this is
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infernal machines posted:either ed zitron reads yospos or we're some kind of bizarre cultural zeitgeist this is good
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tech bubble v5.8: Strap in for more enshittification
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infernal machines posted:either ed zitron reads yospos or we're some kind of bizarre cultural zeitgeist yospos is packed with computer touchers who are very sensitive to small changes in the computers because everything is computers right now until something else comes along and fucks everything up even worse some how that means the sensitive computer touchers know about everything rotor posted:tech bubble v5.8: Strap in for more enshittification tech bubble v5.8a: enshittification? the internet was always poo poo Expo70 fucked around with this message at 20:55 on Jun 22, 2023 |
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rotor posted:tech bubble v5.8: Strap in for more enshittification dang thats good. hey, do you know anyone around here who has the ability to change the title of a thread?
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post hole digger posted:dang thats good. hey, do you know anyone around here who has the ability to change the title of a thread? im on the fence about it. Its a good thread title so I'm sorta doing a trial run, but its not so good that I immediately know its better than the current title, which i love
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thats very democratic of you. im sorry for giving you sass
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post hole digger posted:thats very democratic of you. im sorry for giving you sass its ok phd, i forgive you
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rotor posted:im on the fence about it. Its a good thread title so I'm sorta doing a trial run, but its not so good that I immediately know its better than the current title, which i love i wonder if a compromise could work tech bubble v5.6: effortful grunting towards enshittification
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rotor posted:tech bubble v5.7a2: not so good that I immediately know its better
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rotor posted:tech bubble v5.7a2 (nightly): not so good that I immediately know its better
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infernal machines posted:either ed zitron reads yospos or we're some kind of bizarre cultural zeitgeist i don't know who this is but i got sent down a rabbit hole and i liked this slightly older piece https://wheresyoured.at/p/the-rot-economy big edward abbey vibes
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Expo70 posted:i wonder if a compromise could work this could have legs depending on the cage match results
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toronto star posted:Meta, Facebook and Instagram’s parent company, announced Thursday it was making good on its threat to block news sharing on both platforms across Canada in response to Ottawa’s online news bill.
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Oh no don't block it you've really shown them
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mystes posted:I'm guessing this is mostly aimed at encouraging streamers with discord servers who already have other means of monetizing their fans to use discord for monetization, so it might not mess up the experience for normal people using discord for normal things that much but I guess we'll have to see this is aimed at extracting a 30% cut of Midjourney
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shame on an IGA posted:this is aimed at extracting a 30% cut of Midjourney
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Mr. Crow posted:i don't know who this is but i got sent down a rabbit hole and i liked this slightly older piece more please
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one of those lyft bike share electric assist bikes has been locked up on a charging station directly outside my work since at least monday morning, loudly beeping every second due to some kind of error. it's driving me insane. everyone in the office has emailed/called lyft to get them to send someone to get the bike, and while lyft has acknowledged that it's been reported, they said it can take up to 10 business days for a technician to come out. multiple times a day a van comes by to restock bikes here but the guys that pick up bikes to deliver to charging racks that are low on bikes can't pick up bikes with errors to take them to their warehouse for repair, apparently, so it's just constant beeping.
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Do you have any rivers, streams, canals, oceans, or tributaries nearby? If so, please do the needful
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infernal machines posted:either ed zitron reads yospos or we're some kind of bizarre cultural zeitgeist 
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koolkal posted:Do you have any rivers, streams, canals, oceans, or tributaries nearby? it's probably locked into the docking station and will only let the technician remove it file a noise complaint?
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fermun posted:one of those lyft bike share electric assist bikes has been locked up on a charging station directly outside my work since at least monday morning, loudly beeping every second due to some kind of error. it's driving me insane. everyone in the office has emailed/called lyft to get them to send someone to get the bike, and while lyft has acknowledged that it's been reported, they said it can take up to 10 business days for a technician to come out. just get some wire cutters and do the needful
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