Tl;dr amazon blocks acc for an accidental payment reversal, gives me no options to repay them and support can't help as the account is flagged. Halp
Readit Newspombrand commented on Amazon blocked my account and I lost all my Kindle ebooks, support can't help old.reddit.com/r/amazon/c... · Posted by u/pombrand
I credit Battlefield 1942 for helping me waste my time in highschool leaving me with bad grades and hollow experiences.
pombrand commented on A Chinese woman wrote millions of words of fake Wikipedia history sixthtone.com/news/101065... · Posted by u/Zuider
I hope she gets her own wikipedia page about this
Not a problem unique to America.
Average (Mean) Annual Death Rate per Million People from Mass Public Shootings (U.S., Canada, and Europe, 2009-2015):
Norway — 1.888
Serbia — 0.381
France — 0.347
Macedonia — 0.337
Albania — 0.206
Slovakia — 0.185
Switzerland — 0.142
Finland — 0.132
Belgium — 0.128
Czech Republic — 0.123
United States — 0.089
https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/mass-shoo...
pombrand commented on Impressions from a first-time Mac user loganmarchione.com/2022/0... · Posted by u/loganmarchione
4. You can press the option key when pasting to move the files or you can drag the files (you can enable drag with drag lock to make things easier: https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/change-mouse-trackp...)
5. Why do you need a standalone app to make screenshots? cmd + shift + 5 (or 4) work fine imo.
4. Im aware but it still cumbersome, would be nice to do it without the using the keyboard.
5. Because I need more functionality.
pombrand commented on Impressions from a first-time Mac user loganmarchione.com/2022/0... · Posted by u/loganmarchione
Apple believes they always have the best way, and rarely gives you options to do things in other ways..sometimes they're right, but not always.
I switched from Windows last month, after installing rectangle, bettertouchtools and speeding up all animations possible, I'm left with the following gripes.
1. No magnetic windows the way windows does unless in the clunky fullscreen mode.
2. No way to turn off animations for maximising windows.
3. No way to let mouseover select window an action is taken in (i keep closing the wrong chrome window using mouse gestures)
4. Finder still sucks (so does no cutting and pasting files)
5. All apps cost money, e.g. ScreenX for windows is free and better than all paid macos options for screenshots.
6. Chrome window resizing seems artificially slow.
Overall windows still feels more productive, but also sucks more in many other ways, such as preinstalling candy crush or its opaque update system.
pombrand commented on Apple announces 27-inch 5K Studio Display apple.com/studio-display/... · Posted by u/sparshgupta
Unless things changed since last I checked ~2 years ago, macOS’s 150% scaling actually renders at 300% and downscales. It looks pretty bad (visible aliasing on any kind of text) and is wasteful performance-wise.
it actually looks great on the LG 5k giving you 2880 pixels across and there's no significant performance hit w a M1 macbook air.
pombrand commented on Canon sued for disabling scanner when printers run out of ink bleepingcomputer.com/news... · Posted by u/LordAtlas
Last month, my friend's HP Laserjet Pro printer started flashing "SUPPLY PROBLEM" error message and wouldn't print anything. Apparently, all he did was update the firmware after a message popped up on the printer urging him to do so.
Well, that firmware update included new DRM checks for non-HP toners. The printer would just refuse to work with 3rd party toner cartridges.
I had to help him and had to find an old firmware and downgrade to an older one which didn't contain the DRM. The firmware didn't come from HP's website because they deleted all old versions so I downloaded the version off someone's Google Drive. Who knows if that FW contains something malicious. Also, I had to install Windows because old firmware update is a Windows program. You're SOL if you use macOS or Linux.
This incident didn't make my friend go and buy $200+ worth of original toners like HP intended. All it did was make him anxious of updating anything and of using HP products and has wasted a lot of his and my time. He said he won't buy another HP printer again.
If you want to learn more, search for "HP supply problem" with your fav search engine. Or see this link on HP support forums [1]. And don't update your printer's firmware if it's working fine... because who knows when they'll disable FW downgrade option and you'll be stuck with a DRMed printer.
Edit: Just in case you found this comment through a search engine or this has affected you, I recommend downloading FW from this page [2]. It also has a list of affected HP Color LaserJet Pro printers (there's quite a few models.. the page lists 11 models). That blog also has a full saga of HP's shenanigans and their attempts to block aftermarket cartridges [3].
[1] https://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Printing-Errors-or-Lights-Stuc...
[2] https://borncity.com/win/2021/02/02/firmware-downgrade-for-h...
[3] https://borncity.com/win/2020/11/08/hp-firmware-update-for-i...
Better yet, HP will re-enable auto firmware updates if you disabled them at lest with certain printers (they did for mine). HP never again.
pombrand commented on Myths in cycling: wider tires are slower renehersecycles.com/12-my... · Posted by u/jmilloy
Wider tires are still slower BEYOND A CERTAIN SPEED as drag increases. Furthermore tire rolling resistance test are done on a bumpy surface, and 25 mm tires > 28 mm.