I’m at a loss to explain why online I only hear about these terrible experiences.
Happy customers don't write about their glorious experience with Airbnb. You only hear about the ones that make the news or the courts.
Then multiply the relatively small fraction of issues against 400 million nights per year booked with Airbnb and it's easy to think that every booking is a nightmare.
And he describes exactly what I have to deal with on the regular, "content that only sort of helps"
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Have you tried running sfc /scannow and making sure your antivirus is up to date? That usually fixes the issue that you are describing.
If that does not help, a complete system reinstall often solves the problem you have.
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Regarding the death of hyperlinks, it's probably more a case of "why bother clicking on yet another link that leads me to another page of crap?".
That is, it used to be the case that you'd put information on the web that was useful and people would link to it, now 80 percent of it seems to be variations of my "helpful" text above, SEO'd recipe sites, or just AI hallucinations of stuff scraped from other sites.
Satellite cellular coverage will probably swoop in and make an absolute shitload for one of the telcos.
See Vodafone's plan for NZ, it'll probably end up being the same here. Even just getting country-wide data and SMS would be a hell of an improvement over what's available now.
You might need to recalibrate your mental chronometer because Hobart began to have electricity in 1898, 126 years ago, and they had gas lighting before that starting in 1857 ish, some 160-plus years ago.
I just want my backspace key to go back a page in my history when I press it, LIKE IT USED TO BE FOR 20+ YEARS.
But no, this is apparently a "poor UI experience", so I have to put my hand on my mouse, locate the pointer, move it to the back button, and then click.
At least Firefox allows you to rummage around under the hood and set it back.
It's a similar data point to those people who accidentally got a single 10x or 100x dose. We know from those people that very large doses don't seem to have any major negative effects, we now also know that a long term "continuous" dose doesn't have much of a negative effect.
Similar things have worked in countries that aren't so under the thrall of the mighty corporation. I recall some guy in ... Russia? who struck out and reworded a bunch of penalty clauses for a credit card offer he got and mailed it back to the bank, which accepted it and issued the card. Cue much hilarity as he racked up a bunch of charges and then got it thrown out in court. (Actually, here's a link.. They eventually settled out of court for an undisclosed sum.)
Anyway, I live in Australia so my response to all these kinds of attempts at removal of my consumer rights is a drawn out "yeah, nahhhh"
It's really when you get into the thousands though that SI prefixes generally start to be used, you don't see deca or hecto used that often. It's mainly because we're usually happy keeping three digits of precision in general conversation (185 degrees C, 250 metres, etc). After that we get a bit sloppy and start rounding, and that's where kilo comes in and we start talking about "1.25 kilometres" and such.
Add in the fact that people rarely need to describe temperatures higher than 1000 degrees C with any precision, (they'll just round to hundreds/thousands/millions usually) and that's why SI units feel weird with temperature.
I have an Oki laser printer that I bought for $129. I've had it so long I gave it to my kids for university. Duplex, wifi, and I've bought two toner cartridges for it in the 8 years we've had it.
(Side note: If you go to an airport, you'll find that the dot matrix printer spewing out the passenger manifest at the gate is often a Okidata Microline-series printer, an updated version of the printer I had in 1992)
Basically, don't buy an inkjet printer, and don't buy HP.
That may be true but if the language is tough to develop with, then those users won't get a product made with that language, they'll get a product made with whatever language is easier / more expedient for the developer. Developer time is money, after all.
Local channels are required to show 55 percent local content between 6am to midnight on their primary channel.
What's the cheapest content you can make? Reality television. Great bang for buck there. Practically writes itself, and plenty of fools will go on it for free for the slim chance of a prize at the end. Just provide a few locations/sets, some alcohol to get the drama going, and Bob's yer uncle.
Hence we have:
MAFS - seriously, how many times can you repeat an 'experiment' before you deem it a failure? Every season all I see is the miserable failure of alleged 'experts' in matching people.
SURVIVAHHH - JAW DROPPING CHALLENGES AWAIT OUR CONTESTANTS AND OMG BACKSTABBING, EVERY WEEK.
I'M A D-LIST CELEBRITY GET ME OUT OF HERE - As above. Less backstabbing though, that's nice.
This is closely followed by game shows, so we also have:
DEAL-OR-NO-DEAL
TIPPPPING POIIIINT
THE CHASAAH
Finally, news and "current affairs" can then be used to plug the gap.
So we now we can run:
6-9am with a couple of hosts doing some morning television waffling on about nothing in particular.
have a repeat of last night's "prime time" shows from 10-12.
squeeze in some overseas content like Days Of Our Lives in the afternoon.
have a bit of gap-filler at NEWS, FIRST AT 5, WAIT 4.
and then we can show the "real" news at 6. 30.
Add in THAH PROJECT, or A CURRENT AFFAIYAAH, where we can talk for eight minutes , cut to two minutes of ads, cut back to the desk for another "coming up next" and then cut back to another two minutes of ads before we have to worry about actual content.
Finally we can show our prime-time content (MAFS et al), which we've teased all day with ads sprinkled between everything else.
After that, who cares? We've reached our local quota. Stick a movie or two on until midnight.
I used to think that ABC/SBS were a little dull. But now I'm glad of them.
User: "I moved my PC to another desk and now my monitor is off. The hard drive is making noises though. All the power cables are in haha. I made sure the connections were all nice and tight it's a bit strange."
IT: "Okay I want you to follow the video cable from the monitor to the hard drive. It should have a BLUE connector at the end.Can you see the label where it is plugged in?"
User: "..yes it says 'serial', I think?"
IT: "Aha. I'll drop around this afternoon with a spare monitor. That Trinitron monitor you've got will need to go away to be repaired."
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I wouldn't consider this to be an on topic post for the "worldnews" or "world" communities. If you cross-post to everywhere, why even have communities?
But posting this to technology, software, AI, communities, no problem.
As soon as they mentioned "algorithmic feeds and viral content", not interested.
You get "viral content" because of algorithmic feeds, which are there to 1) keep you engaged on the platform, and 2) allow them to push sponsored content to you for profit.
Even the word "feed" in this kind of context just reminds me of cows at a feedlot, mindlessly munching down on whatever garbage is piped into the trough, slowly being fattened up to be sold off to the highest bidder.
There are days when I get on here and there's not much of anything interesting in my communities and you know what? I'm fine with that. I put the phone down and do something else. I don't need an endless torrent of "content" to surf courtesy of an algorithmic feed that doesn't have my best interests at heart.
Didn't you know? All the cool kids these days skip documentation and just hang out on discord, where you can get a laggy response to your query about build dependencies in 2-3 business days.
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Happy customers don't write about their glorious experience with Airbnb. You only hear about the ones that make the news or the courts.
Then multiply the relatively small fraction of issues against 400 million nights per year booked with Airbnb and it's easy to think that every booking is a nightmare.