lmao wrong community

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• The speaker had an unexpected experience with UPS, a shipping company, regarding high brokerage fees for a package shipped from the US to Canada.
• UPS charged significantly higher fees than competitors for customs clearance, holding the package hostage until the fees were paid.
• The speaker ordered a hot sauce collection and was not informed of the shipping company used, resulting in unexpected fees.
• The fees included entry preparation, disbursement, and GST, with the entry preparation fee being more than the initial shipping cost.
• The speaker contacted UPS to dispute the fees, citing the Consumer Protection Act of Alberta and arguing that the fees were unfair and an unwarranted additional cost.

Estwing hammers. Not excessively expensive, but the kind of hammer you buy for life.

I’d like to see more protections on that end, ie: auto-reboot if the SIM card is ejected, if not unlocked for X days, if network access is lost for X minutes, etc

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And therefore will be prime targets by the government to act as an identity broker for services with an online age requirement.

You don’t get filthy rich by paying people a fair wage… what a shitty world we live in.

May he never be forgotten 🍺

For those kind of devices, the manufacturer should have to make it possible to easily load a third-party firmware when they declare a device as obsolete.

I understand it’s not financially viable to support a device beyond a certain threshold, but there’s likely a community behind those that are willing to keep these drvices alive for a while longer, with the benefit of reducing the amount of ewaste.

We already have Palantir Corp

Any battery-powered toys that makes noise is a terrible idea…

And lose even more influence in Europe? Bitch please.

I normally vote NDP even though where I live is usually a Liberal stronghold, but this time I’m tempted to vote Bloc.

The post-credit logos of the Simpsons were a synonym of bedtime.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrAug7LH0zE

I use handbrake with libaacs, libbdplus and an up-to-date keydb

https://vlc-bluray.whoknowsmy.name/

With these in place, you can just read and transcode a Blu Ray like any other media.

Sorry I couldn’t help. Ultimately, communication is key and if you’re both satisfied and she doesn’t feel she needs more or missing out, then there’s no harm :)

there’s https://lemmyverse.link, but a native way of doing so would be nice.

Ultimately, using a protocol handler instead of URLs would solve that (ie: like how mailto links works).

• Ability to see and export the posts and comments I upvoted and downvoted
• Polls with configurable restrictions (ex: only allow subscribed members of the community to vote from the date the poll was published, single-choice or multiple choices, restricted to local instance)
• Tags for posts and users inside a community
• Have a table for rules, and have those rules show up when creating a report
• A lemmy:// (or fediverse://) protocol, to make linking content, users, communities, etc more universal across instances, apps, etc

It’s probably too sensitive? Have you tried stimulating it indirectly, for example by licking/touching its hood right above it instead?

Also, take your time, listen to the body language and if you sense some kind of positive response you keep doing exactly that, you don’t change the pace, pressure, angle, etc.

3dfx voodoo 3 3000, with its whopping 16MB of VRAM.