Gestrid @ Gestrid @lemmy.ca

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Just a guess, but it's probably just because the person would end up throwing a tantrum. "YOU CAN'T ARREST ME! I'M BEING ARRESTED! I DIDN'T DO ANYTHING WRONG! WHERE'S YOUR PROOF!" (Or something like that.) As anyone around them tries to ignore the guy shouting at the top of his lungs and trying to do his best not to get handcuffed.

At least it's routing you to a department instead of trying to help you solve the issue yourself by showing you different help pages you already looked at before trying to contact support.

I've had to literally perform a Google search to find a customer support phone number before. Because the website of the company just kept redirecting me in circles.

Their phone support was just as useless, though.

It was GameStop, by the way.

Tickets to Avatar: The Last Airbender in Concert and the merch I bought at it. I spent something like $200 in total, but it was WORTH. EVERY. PENNY.

I mean, just schedule the appointment, put it on your work schedule, and ask that doctor (or whatever you call them) for a note for work. That's what I do.

On the flip side, this is what makes Windows generally very good at backwards compatibility. They do update the codebase for stuff, but still generally very backwards compatible with software and games designed to run on previous versions of Windows.

Fun Fact: Backwards compatibility is the reason you can't name a file or folder CON.

To be fair, who wouldn't?

High switching cost compared to finding another extension (e.g. uBO Lite), even if the resulting experience is worse.

You're not wrong about the high switching cost.

Switching from Chrome to Vivaldi (because of Chrome's whole FLoC thing) to Brave (because I didn't like Vivaldi's layout) to Firefox (because of Brave's whole thing) was a pain.

And I don't mean as a whole. Taking the time each time to change from one browser to another was always a pain. Transferring bookmarks and passwords was easy (Chrome and Firefox are at least compatible in that regard), but transferring extension settings was a whole different beast.

Some extensions had cloud sync support. Others had local export support. Some didn't have either kind, and I'd have to manually copy the settings from one browser over to the other. And that's not even getting into finding replacements for the Chrome-exclusive extensions (of which there were only a few, thankfully).

The headline is a bit overdramatic. Google hasn't pulled uBlock Origin off its extension webstore. Rather, it's switching from Manifest v2 to Manifest v3, which won't support features the current version of uBlock Origin needs to work. We've known this was in the process of happening for months. It's a good reminder of what's coming eventually (namely, the fact v2 extensions will be entirely disabled by Chrome soon), but this is nothing new.

You usually get BOGO for half price in my experience.

Not necessarily. In my area, most stores actually require that you get two. Publix is the exception.

Only one or two stores on grocery day, but I saw her cut a bill in half with coupons.

I used to work in a grocery store (not Publix). I once saw someone use so many coupons that the store owed her money. I have never seen that happen since. It blew my mind at the time that that even happened. It still kinda does.

I know a lot of people at my local Publix shop there primarily for the BOGOs. In my region, you don't actually need to get two. The product just rings up as half price at the register. (Apparently, in some regions, you actually need to get two for the BOGO to work. That's not the case in my region, though.)

That's not what they asked for in the slightest.

Not to be outdone by the classic Thomas the Tank Engine character skin.

Reddit is not a great replacement for Discord and its live chat features IMO.

I never directly paid for Reddit Gold (in the sense that I had a subscription to it), but I definitely gilded others' comments a lot.

So... a Reddit community with an exclusive Discord server?

tools to help prevent unauthorized sharing

Back in the day, we called them subreddit mods. /j

So...this is for porn.

Only if those subreddits have something where the user... creating that gets a portion of every subscription payment.

The only really active communities I've seen are the tech communities and the politics/ news communities. So, yeah, I agree with the other guy: I'm looking forward to much more variety.

Ah, ok, so it was a mechanical failure, not a software glitch.