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Toyota is alright. I've got a recent RAV4 without any of this nonsense.

Woah, small world. I got an email from "Maris" too, back in July: https://imgur.com/a/Q7pq9uu

I never responded to it, since it reads like an obvious scam, but I had no idea the scam was this elaborate.

You should add a way to export all the URLs on the platform in a format that matches the URLTeam (https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/URLTeam) releases.

That way, when you shut down your service, we can figure out what some of these short links went to.

Please do not pipe scripts downloaded through curl into bash. Use a package manager. That way the downloaded binary can be verified against a checksum and/or GPG signing.

As a matter of principle, I am not paying a $2 "processing fee" to stop people from sending garbage to my mailbox.

Also, the permanent credit card offer opt-out requires me to print and send a letter from each address I live at. This is clearly designed to be as annoying as possible so nobody does it.

I couldn't find the UN report that they got their chart from. However, they only said "providing adequate calories and nutrients", which is a low bar.

I'm guessing 1.5kg of dry white rice can be found for around $1, and that covers the "calorie" needs. The rest of the budget can be spent on vegetables, nuts, beans, lentils, etc. to cover the "nutrients". It would be a pretty sad diet, but I think you could hit the numbers they're looking for.

Use a wire transfer. It's faster than mailing a cheque and only costs like $20.

Can I download the video/photo content for offline storage? I don't want to spend a bunch of time recording memories if it's all going to be lost when this app shuts down in a couple years.

fly.io is an excellent alternative. I am slowly migrating all of my clients over.

> I can't copy+paste without introducing bugs

What OS or clipboard manager are you using that strips out whitespace?

I've used Windows, macOS, and a whole host of Linux flavors. I haven't encountered this clipboard issue on any of them.

Offering loads for a $50 purchase is grossly irresponsible.

It's bad for the customer, since they risk getting fees for missed payments and will likely be charged interest on the loan. By offering this as an option, retailers are preying on people who are in such a bad financial position that they do not have savings and cannot qualify for a credit card or have maxed out their existing credit cards.

In the event of a forest fire, does the land owner have to pay back the carbon-offset buyers?

Owning a "share" in one of these "house-companies" sounds like a nightmare. If you want to sell it off, you have to find someone who's willing to buy 1/8th of a house, or buy out 7 other owners to sell the house normally.

Users need to be able to edit the same files that ransomware encrypts, and differentiating between a legitimate user and a ransomware program is difficult.

I haven't gotten anywhere making the moral argument to teachers or administration at my university. However, making the technical argument that Lockdown doesn't run on my system because I have Linux on my laptop worked. Occasionally teachers will ask to video chat with me during the exam, but I think that's acceptable.

I've experienced the opposite with Amazon. If you complain about a product you've gotten they simply refund the full purchase price, no need to return the item or anything. I've even gotten months of prime refunded by telling them I forgot to cancel.

I assume that eating the cost of a bad purchase is cheaper for them than upsetting a long-term customer.

If you're not willing to look outside of the exact form factor and specs that Apple happens to support, then open devices aren't a priority for you.

I use a 1 inch thick Thinkpad that's almost a decade old because it runs Libreboot. There is an alternative, but you need to be in the mindset where freedom is more important than hardware.

I see no problem with automated purchasing bots. These bots are only able to exist because people are willing to purchase the products bot-owners are selling at a significantly higher markup. This whole thing would go away if retailers raised their prices or supply to meet demand.

Also, these limited product releases and steep black friday sales are psychologically manipulative. They're designed to create a false sense of exclusivity and urgency for the consumer. I'm happy to see it backfire on retailers.

Making a repo that is incompatible with another hosting system is not a GPL violation.

There are all sorts of compatibility issues that can arise from platforms doing dumb things. For example, a repo with the files README.md and readme.md in the same directory would break on certain Windows machines due to case sensitivity problems.

My favorite of these "trials" ads has got to be their Jenga game from 2014 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWc8dUl7Xfo). I'd like to imagine that that could be turned into a real competition.

Do some research then. It's not impossible to figure out where things are coming from.

Google Drive has never really offered unlimited storage. Once you get above about 0.75TB upload in one day they throttle down your upload speed or cut you off completely.

It would take years to upload a petabyte, which keeps usage within well defined limits.

You're implying that owning a smartphone is a necessity.

You could simply own neither an Apple nor a Google product and sidestep this whole decision.

I don't think YouTube fights low-quality comments like that. Comment moderation is generally left up to channel owners. YouTube just provides tooling like their spam filter, word blacklists, and "pending approval" settings. However, channels can choose to enable those or not.

I don't think people know or want to know their neighbors anymore, at least not in America.

Shut down the engine when someone is still driving? That's not just inconvenient, that's suicidal. What if you're not able to get back to a place with cell coverage in time? Is the car just going to stop in the middle of the highway or the middle of a tunnel?

What exactly do you propose? A zipcar that doesn't allow allow you to drive outside of the city?

Pets are not a replacement for human interaction.

Most people choose friends who are similar to themselves, even at a genetic level: https://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/pressrelease/friends_are_the_famil.... Social homophily is well-studied and I would assume that you are an outlier.

Is this DRM free?