zippergz (u/zippergz)

zippergz commented on iPhone Pocket apple.com/newsroom/2025/1... · Posted by u/soheilpro

lucideer · 3 months ago

It shouldn't be legal to sell products under the name of a dead person (at the very least in cases where there's a strong chance buyers are given the impression that the person had something to do with production of the product).

> a collaboration between ISSEY MIYAKE and Apple

Issey Miyake died 3 years ago. He has not participated in this "collaboration".

zippergz · 3 months ago

Can we also not have Levi's? Ford cars? Jack Daniel's? All of their namesakes died a very long time ago.

zippergz commented on A modern 35mm film scanner for home soke.engineering/... · Posted by u/QiuChuck

anfractuosity · 3 months ago

Hmm, does seem pretty expensive but sounds interesting. I've got an old Canon FS4000 for 35mm, which works ok for me. I'm curious what people recommend for 4x5 film.

Is there such a thing as a cheap drum scanner.

zippergz · 3 months ago

I haven't done 4x5 in a while, but I have an HP flatbed with a 4x5 adapter (purchased used on ebay) which does an OK job for the price.

zippergz commented on Uv is the best thing to happen to the Python ecosystem in a decade emily.space/posts/251023-... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

caconym_ · 3 months ago

There is nothing I dread more within the general context of software development, broadly, than trying to run other people's Python projects. Nothing. It's shocking that it has been so bad for so long.

zippergz · 3 months ago

I dread running my own Python projects if I haven't worked with them in a while.

zippergz commented on Not paying with cash rubenerd.com/not-paying-w... · Posted by u/mikece

dlcarrier · 5 months ago

Most of the places I buy from charge an extra 3% for credit card transactions, so rewards cards are just giving your money back, but worse.

zippergz · 5 months ago

Curious what part of the world this is in. I can recall a grand total of three places I've seen in my area do this. It's a tiny minority here.

zippergz commented on Occasionally USPS sends me pictures of other people's mail the418.substack.com/p/a-b... · Posted by u/shayneo

garciasn · 7 months ago

I get this semi-frequently too; but, the biggest problems for me w/this system are:

1. I get the pictures DAYS before the actual mail (weekends ignored). Why?!

2. I sometimes don't get pictures of the mail at all, particularly mail that's not bulk mail--it's from individual to individual.

I could give a flying fuck that I'm going to be getting 5 advertisements in a few days. I want to know when I'm getting ACTUAL mail and this system doesn't seem to capture that effectively.

zippergz · 7 months ago

I think this is something that sucks about your particular sorting facility or you're just very unlucky. I've been using Informed Delivery since it launched, in two different states, and while it's not perfect, I find it pretty accurate, especially for normal mail (envelopes, postcards, and so forth). I'd guesstimate that it misses a real non-junk mail item less than 1% of the time, and it misstates when something will be delivered 5% of the time or less. Certainly not enough to offset the value of the service.

zippergz commented on Occasionally USPS sends me pictures of other people's mail the418.substack.com/p/a-b... · Posted by u/shayneo

nemomarx · 7 months ago

I get that with normal tracking lately too, like Amazon reporting something is delivered the day before it actually shows up. Have we misaligned some metric where now shippers want to announce stuff early so they can claim speed?

zippergz · 7 months ago

I've definitely gotten the sense that the flip side of that is happening - in many cases, items get marked as "shipped" when the label is printed, but often shippers don't hand the package off to the carrier until days later. I can't prove it but sometimes it very much feels like sellers, especially on platforms like etsy and ebay, make sure to print the label immediately and mark the item as shipped so they can claim fast shipping, but then are in no hurry whatsoever to actually get the package in transit. Maybe this is not nefarious and is just a side effect of the way the systems work together, but as a customer it's pretty annoying. For me it's less about how long it takes to get the item and more about feeling mislead on whether it is actually on its way or not.

zippergz commented on Someone at YouTube needs glasses jayd.ml/2025/04/30/someon... · Posted by u/jaydenmilne

Starlevel004 · 9 months ago

It used to be 12 videos until about a year ago. If you zoom in and out the thumbnails don't change size!

The worst casualty of the current design is the search. You get three videos before it inserts completely irrelevant and unrelated algorithmic recommendations. No? Fuck off? Do what I tell you to do!

zippergz · 9 months ago

Yes, this search thing is absolutely infuriating.

zippergz commented on FTC takes action against Uber for deceptive billing and cancellation practices ftc.gov/news-events/news/... · Posted by u/pinewurst

cameldrv · 10 months ago

This is my biggest aggravation. They consistently underreport estimated pickup times. Dropoff times are essentially universally significantly later than the estimate before booking.

It's things like this that make agents potentially exciting. So much of enshittification is wrapping an essentially good service in a crappy and misleading UI to drive extra revenue. If you can replace the lying UI with a more honest one, and then do a fair and automatic comparison between Uber and Lyft, a lot of the annoyance goes away.

zippergz · 10 months ago

This is the same thing the food delivery apps (including Uber Eats) do. I have screenshots showing the estimated delivery time pretty consistently jumping up anywhere between 20% and 50% from what it shows on the initial screen to what you get once you've placed the order. And then often they don't even make that time estimate.

zippergz commented on Milwaukee M18 Battery Reverse Engineering quagmirerepair.com/milwau... · Posted by u/jakogut

Saris · 10 months ago

Their M12 batteries don't have balancing (or a BMS inside), so they go out of balance and 'bad' very quickly. I've just added a balance plug to the outside of mine that I plug into my hobby Li-ion charger.

zippergz · 10 months ago

I believe you on the technical details, but as an anecdote, I have M12 batteries that are 10 years old and still working fine. At least, good enough that I have noticed no issues with them and I don't even know off the top of my head which of my batteries are newer and which are older. I also have a bunch of M18 tools and batteries, and I've noticed no particular difference in how they age compared to the M12 ones. But I'm just a DIY homeowner, so my usage is relatively light.

zippergz commented on Zoom outage caused by accidental 'shutting down' of the zoom.us domain status.zoom.us/incidents/... · Posted by u/RVRX

renegade-otter · 10 months ago

These big companies spend tens of millions on homegrown tooling, even their own languages and databases, but they can't assign one dev to write a domain-monitoring tool?

zippergz · 10 months ago

Markmonitor is much more about the people and service behind it rather than the software. To replace markmonitor you don't need a dev to write a tool. You need a dev to write a tool, and then a team of people who build relationships with everyone in the domain world and are available 24/7 to make calls and deal with issues if they come up.