Peffse @ Peffse @lemmy.world

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Two of the best call centers I've ever worked with would be Google Fiber and Intel. Both of which are probably terrible now.

(2015) Google Fiber actually had people who understood networking, understood my personal setup, and understood what tests I had already performed to diagnose that my issue with their equipment. No faffing about with a script, I gave them my test results and got an appointment for a replacement line in like, 15 minutes, and an immediate credit on the account.

(2009) Back when Intel made rock-solid vanilla motherboards I did a dumb and accidentally disabled legacy USB on my board, which meant that I couldn't press F2/DEL to get back into BIOS. I called Intel, gave them the troubleshooting steps I already ran (including jumper BIOS reset), and the call center forwarded me to the engineer who designed the motherboard. He whipped up and sent a bootable CD-ROM image to update the BIOS back to default and then updated all future revisions to avoid my issue.

I wish every call center was that good.

I've noticed more and more are just hanging up on you now.

I just wish it had a better name. Anything You just makes my brain feel like it hiccup'd trying to reread the sentence parsing it a second time as a name.

Microsoft has pushed and pushed and pushed and finally achieved their goal of going digital-only with Game Pass. I'm 100% confident that the next console won't have physical media options, so I probably won't be getting it as I don't want Microsoft dictating whether I own something or not.

I'm really curious when Microsoft will start seeing the fruits of all their purchases. They've bought up a lot of game devs. Seems modern games cook for 3-4 years before publishing, so some might be turning up soon.

format? Why yes I'd want a properly formatted drive let me just run that.

I hope Fallout London won't have to push their release date back to cope with this change. If Skyrim updates are any indication, this might not bode well.

I'm curious, the current flash drive you are using... does it allow paging files? I would figure flash media would be marked portable to the OS and not allow page files to be used.

What? I didn't have to subscribe to anything. Are you not choosing Open-Meteo?

I guess I'll keep this in the back of my mind, but I already migrated over to QuickWeather when Geometric Weather went unsupported. It stinks that I can't swipe between locations anymore, but the built-in radar and higher information density outweigh switching back for me.

I can sympathize, but moments like that are good to test backup solutions. I replace the drive, pretend the first one died, and see how hard it is to start over. Turns out I'm not very good at backups and always miss stuff. :(

The end result is a bug fixed and some lessons learned.

I still remember the outrage when they announced 2004 wasn't a free upgrade for 2003 purchasers. Stores did their best to mitigate that, but all my friends were peeved and kept to UT99 because of it.

As somebody who has had to set up smartcards, yes. It's a linux system managing that. The end-user GUI stuff is all Windows though.

There's a surprising amount of Linux in some hospitals... but people just don't see it. Fetal Monitors? Probably Linux. User tracking and auditing software? Also Linux. Network downtime document viewer? Linux. Heck, the software that carts use to print sheets to the network printers is CUPS.

Check out section 1K of Roku's agreement

You will be happy to know that modern EULAs now have provisions against mass arbitration and bind you to a "class action" style arbitration.

I honestly don't understand how any of this is legal considering they can't prove you agreed to anything at all. I know my family members have agreed to junk while visiting my house and I don't know what account and where.

Just in case you missed it: The joke is a reference to Freeman's Mind (another Ross creation) where Freeman lists things he was right about but called wrong.

I would be so confused and so very angry at the end. I had a hard enough time working inside vim-tiny.

I've tried. Check how large the list got before I completely blocked the domain a couple years ago. And it STILL let stuff through, as they constantly add more crud that infests the pages. The focus isn't on the content, it's on the revenue... and they push hard on the revenue. I bet every single module has an extensive list of trackers attached.

    
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Every annoying thing ever invented is embedded in every single fandom page. Ads, twitch streams, ads, personality polls, ads, content gating behind login, ads, sidebars, ads, popups, ads, "share with facebook", ads, "Tweets from thisguy", ads, "Check us out on tiktok", ads, ads, ads and some more ads...

I think the only four I have set to block are reddit, twitter, facebook's products and fandom. A shame those are always the top 10 results from any search.