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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago (5 children)

I once heard it also involves a miserable little pile of secrets.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

...And emissions valves, vacuum hoses, evap canisters, fuel cap/seals, possibly a valve cover gasket, serpentine belt, tensioner, and idlers, fuel filter, possibly the fuel pump. 500,000 kilometers is 310,685 miles for all the Yanks and Brits in the audience, and if you manage to drive a combustion car that far without needing all of those things, let alone any selection of them, I will eat my distributor cap.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

Knives are prohibited

Tru fax, I am never working where you do, ever, so long as I live. I'd melt like the Wicked Witch of the West, I'm sure.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

You can just send 'em back and buy something else. Amazon will take any damn fool thing back.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

We could only hope.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Shout out to B&H. I bought my drone from them, and they offered the same model bundle at a slightly lower price than Amazon and also offered next-day shipping for no charge.

They also have a physical retail store and real live people you can call if you have a question, unlike either winding up talking to a chatbot or being redirected to Mumbai after a 45 minute hold.

I don't know these guys from a hole in the ground other than that, but they beat Amazon and that was good enough for me.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

If your site did not call visitors a flak monkey at least once I will be sorely disappointed.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

If the case were that it weren't, Path of Exile just to throw one example out there would have been piledrivered into dust by Blizzard for wholesale copying the UI layout for Diablo 2. Or better, Binding of Isaac for making an incredibly superficially Zelda-looking screen layout and despite being hugely popular, conspicuously not drawing the ire of the single most litigious batch of motherfuckers in the entire video game industry.

So, no, I'm pretty sure nobody can sue you for making a UI that looks similar to another UI.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 weeks ago

Nah. Even if it's local, I'll burn my CPU cycles on what I want to, thanks. That's like installing a bitcoin miner in your PC and claiming, "But it only runs in the background." Fuck off and buy your own hardware, Microsoft.

[–] [email protected] 116 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Nope.

Back in the box and straight back to the store.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago

I'm interested to hear what the deal is now with all those damn "EcoATM" cell phone buying kiosks now, because to my knowledge those were operated by the same outfit (Outerwall) as Redbox is/was. Are they bankrupt, too? My local Dollar General has had one squatting in their foyer for over a year with an out of order sign taped to it and apparently nobody from the mothership has noticed or cares.

Those damn things are theoretically full of cash.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

But it's abandoned on their property. If you abandoned something on a commercial property and never came to reclaim it, eventually (probably quite quickly) the store management would dispose of it. They're not going to keep it around stinking up the place forever "just in case."

I'd doubt somebody could officially just unilaterally throw the thing away, but the business on whose property it's parked absolutely has some kind of contingency to deal with crap left there by one of their vendors. Or they will if they're a retail operation worth a damn.

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