Mildly Infuriating

Like come on now, why do you have to nag me to make the millionth account I don't care about maintaining, just to access your site and do what I intend to do in it. Just so you don't redirect me back to where I was prior to you nagging me to sign up? The least you could do is that.

It was one of the tools that allowed me to maintain healthy credit card usage habits. In my idle time when messing around on my phone I’d gotten into the habit of just transferring money from my checking account to my credit card, often in excess of my actual balance, so as to cover “pending” purchases.

Not only will my bank no longer let me do that, just to twist the knife a bit, they will let me make multiple payments totaling the pending total due so long as no individual payment exceeds my actual balance.

So it’s not that they can no longer handle negative balances on the card, it’s just that they’ve half-ass made the interface disallow it.

[Edit: on the left is when viewed from lemmy.world; on the right is when viewed from sh.itjust.works.]

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I think I might need to ask for some pies from PieFed (no offense to Lemmy)

We live in the UK. She didn't go any further than this. I got her to download TOR and use the "old.Reddit" trick to bypass this so it was only mildly infuriating for her in the end

startmail is the email domain in question

So the Steam Deck only has one port, so USB hubs/docks are necessary if you want to use external drives and/or keyboard and mouse and/or video outputs, etc...

So what I want is

1. Attach an external portable ssd (so I can install a full desktop linux on it. SteamOS is "immutable" so I can't do certain things on it), and various peripherials like keyboards and mouse (bluetooth doesn't work on preboot LUKS encryption password screen)
2. Have power flowing into the SteamDeck to keep it powered (there's only 1 port, remember)
3. Portability, I don't wanna be stuck to a wall, I wanna use powerbanks.

So I plug power bank into the usb hub's PD USB-C port, then plug it in the steam deck, nope, no power. Unplug-replug, try plugging in using hub first, then power bank, then powerbank first, then the hub, nope, different order doesn't change anything.

But then I try a different power bank (I have a few different ones, varying in wattage), and it works?

So I try the first battery, nope doesnt work.

Then I just got frustrated and I started messing around with different dongles, I plugged in a USB C-to-A to the hub, then a USB A-to-C (so its now USB Hub <--> USB C-to-A <--> USB A-to-C), then power bank, and it works?

What the fuck? WHYYY

Who the fuck designed USB C? Why is this so broken?

(Its a Ugreen battery that is broken and need the 2 dongle trick, the Anker battery works flawlessly, both 140 Watts output)

It's only mildly because it's owned by a POS company in Germany, so it's to be expected. I can see how they carefully crafted it.

Just saw this, I know its a bit pedantic, but damn is it really so hard to make sure your numbering is right for your distro? This is the main one 25.04, the one that the 'download' button downloads.

Looking for one for the initial setup of my little homeserver, because i bought a non-APU CPU (server needs no GPU, amirite?).

The SWIPE plan of Slovak Telekom limited by age up to 28. Despite them having a web portal and shop, SWIPE can only be purchased and managed via a separate app for SWIPE.

Going through registration, it just loads a fucking website to do the registration.

But if that's not enough, it's Chrome-only it seems.

The support for SWIPE seems limited to an LLM chatbot that can do anything but being helpful

Furthermore, at school I got an ad for 3 months 50% off on this plan with ISIC, yet such an offer seems nowhere to be found on the internet, and I've been unable to find the code as directed.

This feels like a usual no-name brand scam, yet it's just part of Deutche Telekom group.

My bank forces me to re-insert my card (or tap) for every transaction. Pay CC - insert card, enter pin, move the money to the CC, machine gives a receipt (or emails it) then the machine spins out the card. If I want cash I have put the card back in. I asked the teller today about why this is happening, they are as shocked as I.

It has been the sensible order of choosing the source account then choosing the destination account. Now they’ve switched it to where you have to first choose the destination account then choose the source account.

I understand this shouldn’t be a big deal but my brain just absolutely rejects it and even knowing full well they’ve made the change on several occasions I’ve moved money the wrong way. Sometimes without even realizing it for days.

I don’t think this is simply a muscle memory thing that I’ll eventually get used to; I feel like it’s fundamentally nonsensical and I’m curious if it’s just me. Or am I just being a stubborn old man stuck in his ways?

no picture bc I'm at home rn, but I recently started working at the Library in my small town. we've been trying to remove the outdated or poorly circulated books and replace them with more recent ones and ones that will circulate better. in the process of doing this my boss found an anti-vax book from 2008 that we got as a donation in the early 2010s (we know bc it says in the computer) and the last time it had been checked out was like 2 months ago and it has some the best circulation of any of our books. even worse, we dont just get a book and put it straight on the shelf. donations are sorted through by volunteers, offered to the library if the volunteers think they'd be good, and then have to be accepted by the director. the previous director added the book to the system personally. a librarian did this. thankfully my boss, the new director, decided it was 1) too old to keep around, 2) too damaged to keep around (fucked up spine), and 3) bullshit, so she put it in the pile of books we are deleting from the system.

Upper middle class folks in my urban neighborhood in my city are buying golf carts to zip around the city. Primarily it seems to be a way to surreptitiously drink and drive while having friends and family in tow. The owners/drivers are typically easily seen with a beer in hand. It seems to fall along racial lines as only white communities would be able to skirt DUI laws in such broad strokes.

Now I am in a city park and one of these assholes drove a golf cart 200 yards in on grass and dirt directly to park directly at the playground. This seems like a clear, "It's only a problem when other people do it, I'm doing nothing wrong," scenario. Fucking hate these golf carts, especially with the Kei car bans, but primarily because of how they are used and abused. I'm definitely a proponent of alternatives to cars, but this application ain't it.

MD5? SHA1? We increase security by not telling you.