What first world problem did you have today?

[Chaotic42]

Yeah, but it's annoying to have to go in and turn all that crap off. Just be a browser.

 

[snoopy7548]

Right click -> Ask an AI Chatbot -> Remove Chatbot

*mic drop*

 

[IronWing]

It can be disabled. On my phone right now, but look it up. I'm still on an old version cause debian, so I haven't gotten it yet.

I just tried it. On the right click menu, go to the chatbot submenu and one can remove the chatbot right there.

 

[IronWing]

Quit typing faster than me.

 

[Chaotic42]

Right click -> Ask an AI Chatbot -> Remove Chatbot

*mic drop*

Nah, I get it, I just don't like it. The thing popping up is Google Lens, which seems to be new. I thought it was AI, but I guess it's a reverse image search feature.

 

[lxskllr]

I remove every search option aside from duckduckgo. Maybe that's why I don't have that stuff.

 

[Lost_in_the_HTTP]

Y'all gotta get Brave.

 

[lxskllr]

I don't do chrome. Firefox would have get worse by orders of magnitude before I use a chrome browser.

I'm not gonna willingly hand google control of the web.

 

[Red Squirrel]

My internet seems to be acting really strange, pages are very slow to load but yet if I do a speed test I'm getting the speed I'm suppose to. My firewall also shows that I have like no traffic, but I don't trust that graph because it was showing like 4kbps even while the speed test was happening. I should probably look into better network diagnostic tools I can setup.

 

[Chaotic42]

My internet seems to be acting really strange, pages are very slow to load but yet if I do a speed test I'm getting the speed I'm suppose to. My firewall also shows that I have like no traffic, but I don't trust that graph because it was showing like 4kbps even while the speed test was happening. I should probably look into better network diagnostic tools I can setup.

Weird, I'm having the same problem right now. Maybe AWS is having a moment again.

 

[Chaotic42]

Edit: Double post while complaining about network hiccups...

 

[sdifox]

Double Post is back!

 

[Chaotic42]

Double Post is back!

Oh my god, it's back again....
Brother, sisters, everybody lag...

 

[Red Squirrel]

Weird, I'm having the same problem right now. Maybe AWS is having a moment again.

I was wondering that too if it was AWS or a CDN or something. Although loading my own forum was also kind of slow, the pages were loading fast but images were slow. If I pinged it, it took like 30 seconds for the first ping to start, but then the rest would be fast. I thought it was maybe DNS, but if I did nslookup it was fast. So it's weird.

Seems better now though.

 

[lxskllr]

Earlier, I laid down to take a nap, and just as I was drifting off, a bird hit my window and woke me up. Unless I'm exhausted, I usually only have one chance at a nap. Today, I lost that chance. Had to get up and do something else :^(

 

[nisryus]

One of the neighbor (ok, a friend that lives five blocks away) just re-sod his whole lawn (front and back). By chance he had one pallet of sod left over because he ordered four but the people he hired only used up three pallets.

Free sods! The wife was so excited so I had to haul the whole thing stack at a time. Took four trips to move them all back. Then spent the entire afternoon fixing up my lawn. Thanks free sods.

 

[mikeymikec]

Earlier, I laid down to take a nap, and just as I was drifting off, a bird hit my window and woke me up. Unless I'm exhausted, I usually only have one chance at a nap. Today, I lost that chance. Had to get up and do something else :^(

Your body allows you to have daytime naps?

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I have experienced an interesting musicmagpie clusterfuck on ebay recently. I went trawling for BR/4K upgrades for DVDs I already own and picked out several that were pretty decently priced, including a couple that made my (likely genetically sourced) "ooh that's a bargain" part of brain light up and not so much the "is this a film I really want to have an upgraded version of" logic circuit.

The round of trawling through their selection on various offers took a while, maybe an hour or so. By the time I was done I had a not-particularly-organised set of tabs open that I thought was better organised, and partly because I saw that one or two were "only one left" and one or two had also said out of stock by the time I put them in the basket, I was rushing through the process faster than necessary caution demanded. Ten items in total in the ebay basket, a longer list than I can see on a single glance. As a result, I ended up with some not going in the basket as expected, and a missed offer to boot (buy 2, get one 40% off). By the time I noticed this, I had already checked out.

On review, I'm thinking damn how do I fix this. From experience I know that quite a few suppliers work better by cancelling an order and re-making it rather than contacting customer services and try to get it amended, so I cancelled it. Within ten minutes I get an e-mail from ebay saying cancellation denied because reasons. Ok, fine, I'll make another order with the couple of remaining titles that inadvertently didn't make the first cut, it's not the end of the world.

A day or so later I get another e-mail saying that I'm getting a partial refund. £8 off a £40 order seems oddly specific, and the e-mail is laid out so badly that only on later review do I realise that they let me cancel one title because of what they call a "technical error" (getting a 4K title for £8, and when I later checked the site it showed them selling the same title for £24, so no doubt someone at their end pressed the "backpedal" button!).

I conclude that I'm not going to get the 4K title bargain that I could have done without anyway, but I'm still mildly peeved that they could have cancelled the whole order like I asked them to, but only did the bit that was convenient for them.

Fast forward a few days later, a day or two ago: I start getting e-mails saying that my (entire) order is about to ship even though it already arrived and I just ignore those. Then today I received the 4K title that they told me was cancelled.

One last minute bit of drama was that my heart dropped with the 4K title's branding very much suggested 4K only (4K + BR titles normally have a line beneath the 4K logo to say that it's a combo version), then I opened the case and it had both editions in. This then prompted me to check other titles I really wanted to get 4K+BRs for such as 'The Untouchables' or 'Silence of the Lambs', but those really are 4K only!