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mathlad, in Ubisoft will delete your account if you haven't logged for some time (Even if you owned games in it)

I never buy anything related to Ubishit. That company is the combination of greed, laziness, and bad decisions.

dustojnikhummer, in A light of wholesomeness shining in a bleak dystopian hellscape
Shadow, in HP insists you must use their cloud printing service, covers USB port with sticker
@Shadow@lemmy.ca avatar

I mean the sticker has a peel up icon on the corner. They’re obviously not trying to hide this, they’re just pushing the user towards wifi.

Also a custom firmware bound by serial number ranges would be even cheaper than the sticker. Logic doesn’t hold up

macumbamacaca,
@macumbamacaca@feddit.nl avatar

Yeah, but we can’t be angry about that.

m4xie,

You are absolutely correct.

It’s not very expensive not to populate the USB receptacle on the the PCB.

Sealing the hole in the case would be easy. You could have an removable insert in the case’s injection mold so there’s the option not to have the hole.

If they thought two case parts were too logistically complicated, or they already made the mold and don’t want to mill it out to make space for the insert, they could insert plastic plugs with permanent snaps.

If they really didn’t care, they could even just put they sticker over the hole in front of an unpopulated port.

Xylight, in This got me thinking which button to click
@Xylight@lemmy.xylight.dev avatar

The “delete account” button.

Aussiemandeus, in You can't uninstall this software without being forced to participate in their survey
@Aussiemandeus@lemmy.world avatar

Write a suicide note blaming them.

Fisk400, in we are devolving

I think this is apple being particularly shitty because most services don’t do that.

elvis_depresley,

in fact, apple forces other services to not do that but have double standards for themselves

illi,

Pretty sure I saw it somewhere else as well. Don’t remember where, but I think there was option to cancel subscription and cancell reccuring payment. Pretty sure this is so they can silently take awau the more fair option later.

zaph, in HP insists you must use their cloud printing service, covers USB port with sticker
@zaph@lemmy.world avatar

I had a customer come in on Friday because they couldn’t get their brand new printer to work. When I pulled the sticker off a new hp hater was born.

LazaroFilm, in Raising your price for prime day
@LazaroFilm@lemmy.world avatar

Keepa is great for Amazon. I think the price jacking before promo is not allowed by Amazon you may be able to report it. But it will likely not do anything.

Licensed_to_ill,

What’s keepa

LazaroFilm, (edited )
@LazaroFilm@lemmy.world avatar

It’s a browser plug-in that displays a graph of the price history for a given product right on the Amazon page. Great to know if it’s the right time to buy or if you should wait for the price to change. Amazon prices change daily, sometimes hourly.

red,

What the heck is a beep set plugin

Edit: looks like the commenter above was owned by his autocorrect. It’s a browser extension.

LazaroFilm,
@LazaroFilm@lemmy.world avatar

It’s autocorrect. Browser plugin

red,

Extension*

TheYear2525, in we are devolving

I cancelled a service I was getting for free, and they stopped providing the service 😭

sirfancy,

Yeah literally what is this post lol.

fing3r, in Is that “Balkenkreuz” beam cross, which was used by Nazis, intentional or not?

Thats not an iron cross

Showroom7561,

You are right, it’s the Balkenkreuz, also used by Nazis.

Wrong Nazi symbol, my apologies. I’ve corrected the title.

Muehe,

Actually you are both wrong, since the Balkenkreuz and the Eiserne Kreuz are but two of hundreds of variations of the same symbol, the black cross of the German Order of knights, dating back to the 12th century. It's the same symbol.

And not only that, the particular variation you are going on about, the Balkenkreuz, black cross with a thick white and small black outline except for the endings of the cross, isn't a Nazi symbol. It was used in the first world war already.

Which is all completely ignoring that it's a simple cross with a single outline, one of the most basic shapes there is, used by a medical company.

All to say, I see how it's easy to mistake, but you are wrong on the facts and you are airing your grievances on the wrong venue. Write to the company, maybe they will even agree with you and change it.

Showroom7561,

I appreciate the history lesson. I had no idea that people would take such offence to a funny observation I had about a symbol on a bike saddle.

And I don’t think the company is led by nazis, nor do I think they intended for the symbol to look so similar to the one used by nazis.

They were using a medical cross before, and this new one looks nothing like a medical cross in my opinion.

This post wasn’t meant to be controversial or upsetting, and it seems to have triggered far too many people. I regret posting it.

GregorGizeh,

Also of note, the Bundeswehr logo is a slightly different variant of that same symbol, and is in current day use.

Fluffy_Ruffs, in Oil draining over the hot exhaust? Sounds good guys, let's sign it off and start production!

Next time just rotate the bike 90° so the oil drains straight out and misses the exhaust. Problem solved!

4am,

Yeah my first though as well is the bike is probably supposed to be tipped when draining?

Resistentialism,

Tipping it over could cause a drop, which could be costly to replace. And if you’re just holding it to one side. You’d need a second person to either hold it, or take the plug out.

Red_October,

Alternatively redirecting gravity by 90° would also solve the problem, without the difficulty of needing to reposition the bite.

luthis,

Actually this sounds like an even better solution, I’ll let you know how it goes.

luthis,

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luthis,

Oh fuck, it’s so simple! Thanks man, this is the correct answer.

motsu, in Oil draining over the hot exhaust? Sounds good guys, let's sign it off and start production!

Doesn’t help for this (or the next) oil change… But look into a fujimoto drain plug. Its a mini ball valve that is spring loaded (so you have to press the leaver up before you can turn it… Also has a 2nd safety in the form of a plastic clip that prevents it from being pressed up). Makes oil changes so easy. For your bike, it might still be too recessed, but the valve has a hose barb on it too so you can direct the oil into the drain pan

quinkin,

Fumoto, but yes.

CADmonkey,

I like the fumoto valves for another reason - if tou have an aluminum oil pan, the valve will keep you from wearing out the threads.

thepianistfroggollum,

I like not having to have to use a jack to get enough clearance to use a wrench.

thepianistfroggollum,

I’m 100% buying another fumoto valve when my free oil change plan is up. I never even had to jack up my old car to change its oil.

My one complaint was that without seeing the valve, it’s super hard to remember which way you push and which way to turn. Not fun to figure out when your oil is at highway temps and you’re fumbling around between hot parts with a glove that’s getting hotter and hotter.

But that’s mostly because I’m stubborn.

luthis,

fujimoto drain plug

duuude amazing!

Anonymoose,
@Anonymoose@infosec.pub avatar

Seen a lot of complaints about these thing leaking over time in the car communities. No experience myself, but may be something to keep in mind, especially of you end up laying the bike over.

luthis,

I’ve noticed mine is leaking, even though I torqued the drain cap exactly to spec. Maybe it needs a washer or something.

rarely, in The only way to avoid Grammarly using your data for AI is to pay for 500 accounts

Gang, I hate to tell you this but this is what we mean when we say “you are the product” especially with free offerings.

But if you hate that I have a worse thing to introduce you to: the internet. If you respond to this comment, or any comment on any lemmy instance or other federated service or website or blog… your words can be consumed, copied and used to train whatever anyone wants. It is trivially easy to create web scrapers with just a bit of coding knowledge. These days it’s pretty easy to then use that data to train AI models. To a computer, it’s just data.

Grammarly is a product where you give it bad grammar and it gives you good grammar. Grammarly, like many products, gets better over time when it can understand what went wrong so its teams can make it right. This can often include any text entered into the program. I don’t know the specifics but they should be outlined in the privacy policy. A company using data it already has to train AI makes sense, especially if it anonymizes that data. It may not be ethical given that users weren’t aware of AI at the time they accepted the privacy policy, but with american capitalism a company can change a privacy policy and you can opt out if you don’t like it.

That’s why we all have lawyers on retainer to read and translate all privacy policies for all websites and applications we interact with in a daily basis. Right? That’s normal, right?

I will say, could this support person have meant that an organization with 500+ employees get a custom AI model trained on only the organization’s 500+ accounts? Because that would be better, and likely more ethical too.

If that’s not the case and any content you have put into grammarly is being used to train AI, then I guess it’s time to stop using grammarly then huh? But it’s also time to stop posting anything on the web, too. Oh, and don’t publish anything, ever.

Or, you could go with the flow. This data is mixed with millions of other accounts… sort of like what happened when chatgpt trained on anything you’ve already put out there. The only real concern I could see is if you discussed a very specific thing or invented your own personal coded style of writing and used it so much that, among the millions of other users, dominated the corpus and skewed the training model. Say there are only 5 grammarly users and you are number 5… you keep talking about “procorpia” being “mass sledge”, generating hundreds of entries with thousands of tokens “words”. By contrast let’s say the other 4 grammarly users only used it a few times a month to send short emails. Now, after training, the 6th grammarly user mispells a word as “procorpia” and grammarly generares “procorpia is totes mass sledge brah”. Suddenly, your secret is out.

If, on the other hand you speak the same broken english as the rest of us, you are probably fine.

neothefox, in HP insists you must use their cloud printing service, covers USB port with sticker

Man, this isnt just evil, that’s stupid and lazy evil

LeHoz, in Netflix is a Nickle & Dime Outfit

NOWTV is pretty awful for this. You’re stuck with SD content and adverts unless you pay £7 a month extra for HD and no ads.

That’s right. HD, not 4K. They’re stuck in 2009.

Acid,
@Acid@startrek.website avatar

Yeah the boost thing on NowTV is something I can never pay for out of principle it’s atrocious. Not to mention the experience on a pc is terrible.

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