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The rules around chargebacks et al are dictated by the card scheme and remain the same regardless of country the merchant is operating in or car holder is transacting in. How this translates on the ground would be the primary point of difference to other countries.

It’s more like $30 a day for every level 1 complaint open with TIO and cost goes up from there. I seem to remember level 3 is around $250 a day though memory is becoming increasingly unreliable.

Point is, even if TIO sides with the telco (unlikely, they encourage both parties to find a middle ground as they are consumer first oriented) on a case where it takes for example 10 days (again, unlikely) to resolve; the margin[1] on a residential NBN service with a budget provider like TPG has already evaporated and that’s without considering costs of having TIO liaison staff, etc.

It’s a good model because it encourages the telco to resolve the complaint properly and in the customers favour before the problem can make it to TIO as once it gets to them, it always costs the telco money. Provider is better off wearing $100 cost to resolve than have the complaint spend 3 days with TIO level 1, taking up time and resources whilst also becoming a publicised negative statistic (TIO regularly publish report outlining telco performance from a number of complaints perspective).

I think your suggestion is a good one. Just adding this detail because I think it’s important to note that the model is actually about encouraging better complaint handling and customer service than just being about fines and punishment.

[1] assuming 12 month term on approx $65/m service but I am speaking in broad terms

Only if you can find their remains

I have been seeing all of the above problems on my 16GB M1 MacBook Air for probably at least 6 months now.

WindowServer has consistently been the main culprit but occasionally other apps like to chip in where they can too. Often that means there isn’t one single process which I can kill to reclaim enough memory to continue working without being promoted again or having MacOS forcibly close all my applications on me. As a result, reboots appear to be the only real solution for me.

Interestingly though, in the past few weeks I have been working with similar numbers of open Sublime Text windows as yourself and I can confirm that since then, ST4 has been a regular and serious offender when it comes to memory usage in Activity Monitor.

> I'm not technically savvy

I’m genuinely curious how you ended up here?

I have them happen too (for no particularly discernible reason)

Ever tried to setup an IPSec VPN between a checkpoint gateway and a device from another vendor? Even their interoperability guide doesn’t cover half the things that can and will go wrong.

This comment started out quite well and I really wanted to understand everything written after mentioning a lost laptop

I’ve been reading articles like this proclaiming the imminent death/irrelevance of the MBA for decades now. Tech audiences seem to receive them well.

Never come across less than positive content about MBAs from anyone who holds one though.

Then the next day she finally gets around to setting up her GitHub actions and this happens.

Now gran really thinks something is up

Could you explain for those of us who remain ignorant? Not really a phrase I tend to use anyway but it would be useful to understand the additional context.

Lovely stuff. Back of the net

It seems the only way to get Apple cooperate is to demonstrate how this can hurt them and their product. Article headlines need to be something like “Attention: Apple’s Airtags are not safe to scan”. Written for consumer consumption then delivered as a PSA to different news media. News sites and channels love to be the first with this stuff too

And pandemics?

I can’t speak to your voice experience however I used to regularly end up 20-90 pages deep on google searches ensuring I collected all the information I need.

In the last year or so I have not progressed past page 3 without being presented with mostly fake results. This even happens when I use specific terms which I know used to return perfect results and when I know the content exists.

For example the other day I wanted to find a presentation made at FOSDEM so I searched for the FOSDEM keyword with filetype: pdf. I saw a handful of genuine results despite knowing there are hundreds of matching documents.