Ditto. Primarily mine is used to “sweep” the shop and dry off motorcycles after washing.

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This could still be a UMRP situation, then. Most of our UMRP or at least MAP agreements have a stipulation where we’re allowed to round the price up or down some small amount, typically up to 49 cents, in order to make the final figure a round dollar amount or make the pennies the same as the other items in our catalog (XXX.99, XXX.97, XXX.49, etc.) ostensibly for aesthetic purposes. This would also cover your system making all clearance items end in 96 cents or whatever the hell.

This is surely a case of corporate stupidity, but whether or not it’s Apple’s stupidity or Best Buy’s stupidity I couldn’t tell you. Possibly both!

Typically these UMRP agreements are void once a product becomes discontinued. At that point it can be put on genuine clearance. I have to deal with that with several vendors at my business; none of them give a rat’s ass about the price once they’re no longer listing a product themselves.

It’s more likely a combination of the two in this case; some C-suite asshole somewhere is hyperventilating about how much they’ve “invested” in stock in this product and sees clearancing it as a “loss” rather than what it is, which is unloading dead stock that they’ve already paid for at a value that is still at least greater than nothing and making room for inventory they’ll hopefully have better luck with next time. I imagine subtracting the 4 cents from the price is automatic, and is the tell their system adds to the price of any clearance item. Flagging it at clearance probably also marks it nonreturnable.

I presume for similar reasons, one of my local Walmarts still had up until very recently a back aisle endcap full of “clearance” electronics goods which included some 32 and 64 megabyte USB 1 flash drives for, I believe, a whole three cents less than MSRP, 30 or 40 bucks each. So no wonder they’re still there.

so ginormous

Tell me about it. The Cybertruck is an inch and some change longer and 8" wider than my ratty full size 1990’s pickup, yet somehow manages to have only slightly over half the usable cargo volume – 42.80 cubic feet vs. 70.7. And I’m being extremely charitable by treating the Cybertruck’s bed area as if it were cubic starting from its tallest point by the back glass, when in fact it’s wedge shaped.

It also weighs 3269 pounds more (in its lightest configuration) and as we all know by now the Cybertruck’s towing and trailer tongue weight ratings are outright lies. Whereas millions of people have successfully lugged a combined total of billions of tons worth of boats, bikes, lawn mowers, and RV’s with GM and Ford pickups over the decades.

Even for the use case for someone who “needs” a truck, the Wankpanzer is a moronic choice.

They couldn’t possibly make it any more garbage than it actually is.

In the middle of an audio book in any media player but you connect to your car? Too bad! Android Auto is its own separate little world and your playlist position is different in the car vs. out of it.

Someone sent you a text but ye gods forbid, they sent it before you started driving your car? Too bad! You can’t see past text messages, just the ones that were sent while you were driving. I guess if somebody texted you an address in advance you’ll have to fish your phone out of your pocket.

Somebody’s calling you who is already in your address book. Too bad! We’ll only show the phone number on the screen and not their contact name.

Etc., etc.

Android Auto is basically useless. My car stereo supports both, so I just screen mirror if I actually care about functionality. I only use Android Auto itself when all I want is a map.

A knife. And another knife.

It makes sense that they wouldn’t have anything to comment anyway. Google themselves don’t actually manufacture most Chromebooks, they only provide the OS. I imagine the majority of the mass of Chromebooks in the world by weight are actually designed and made by Lenovo, Asus, Dell, HP, etc. Even the Google branded ones are manufactured by someone else under contract.

It’d be like demanding Microsoft explain to the news why your Dell caught fire simply because it had Windows installed on it.

Yeah, like, first time?

The presentation has changed slightly but the content is much the same. Back in the good old days I was a moderator on Totse forums (the original, but its web bulletin board incarnation and not when it was a BBS) and we literally had an entire subforum just titled “Bad Ideas.” This was where things got launched, torched, smoked, blown up, stolen, scammed, or otherwise mutilated. Or at the very least all of the above talked about, at length. All of this with an strong implicit suggestion to try it yourself. Most of the kiddos did not actually have the means to pull of what they claimed they did but the ones who could and more importantly had the means to prove it were celebrities. Usually only for a short time, for various reasons.

The early Internet was basically just a repository for bickering about Star Trek, low grade porn, plans for how to build potato cannons, or schemes involving smoking dried banana peels. An immense amount of stupidity has always been there to be found, because the place was and is full of teenagers and teenagers are stupid.

I sure was, when I was one.

I can tell you that what happens after option 1 is Snow Crash.

Why does it look like someone had to hastily edit a dick out of it in the bottom center?

Always remember: The people who apparently faked the moon landing, are concealing the existence of a ruling class of lizard-men, are putting 5G microchips in your water, and have a functioning secret one world government operating in hidden tunnels and dark smoke filled rooms are also the exact some chucklefucks who couldn’t cover up the Watergate scandal.

Make no mistake, those in power absolutely are out to get you but mostly for the purposes of making themselves richer and remaining entrenched in power. The one and probably only factor working in our favor is that many of them are in fact working at cross-purposes.

My current bugbear is “guesswork,” although in my case this is in the context of the marketing bumf that my vendors and manufacturers slather their products in.

Apparently in the corporate world, the only purpose of guesswork is to “take it out of” things. Take the guesswork out of this, take the guesswork out of that. It seems at this point you are guaranteed that any time “guesswork” appears in a sentence it’s going to be preceeded or followed by it being taken out of something, as surely as U always follows Q.

Once you notice the pattern (it doesn’t take you long if you’re sitting in my seat) the lack of originality becomes deeply irritating.

“Fast paced environment” is the one that always gets me, because that’s just explicitly admitting that their organization is a total clusterfuck but somehow this inevitably gets put in the bullet points list because some bozo apparently thinks this is a positive thing that will make people want to work wherever-it-is.

All it means is that you’d better show up wearing roller skates because management is going to expect you to be in three places at once all the time.

Especially when the poster does not disclose that it’s AI.

The perpetual Youtube rabbit hole occasionally lands on one of these for me when I leave it unsupervised, and usually you can tell from the “cover” art. But only if you’re looking at it. Because if you just leave it going in the background eventually you start to realize, “Wow, this guy really tripped over the fine line between a groove and rut.” Then you click on it and look: Curses! Foiled again.

And golly gee, I’m sure glad Youtube took away the option to oughtright block channels. I’m sure that’s a total coincidence.

W/e. I’m a have-it-on-my-hard-drive kind of bird. Yt-dlp is your friend. Just use it to nab whatever it is you actually want and let your own media player decide how to shuffle and present it. This works great for big name commercial music as well, whereupon the record labels are inevitably dumb enough to post songs and albums in their entirety right there you Youtube. Who even needs piracy sites at that rate? Yoink!

Still I have one (1) in a stairwell in my house. So far I’ve left it alone, partially because it also has a stupid piece of stair molding blocking part of its cover plate but mostly because I have never in all my years found any reason to plug anything in there.

Somebody probably originally intended it to be for a vacuum cleaner or something, but even the corded ones I’ve owned have had cords more than long enough to reach both ends of the stairs from a selection of other nearby, non-stupid outlets.

I get where you’re coming from, but in certain fields I don’t think that’s going to fly too far.

The guy selling me a sofa, I really don’t care if he has a bachelor’s degree or not. My doctor? Yeah, I kind of think he needs to have legitimately completed medical school.

They did disclose it, though. I got popups every time I logged in for weeks warning of the imminent additional cut Apple was going to take from donators/creators, which explicitly spelled out that payments made via other platforms would not be affected by this cut.

Maybe they were prevented from doing so in the iOS app, but they sure did it everywhere else.

This is exactly it. It feels like about 99% of the crap these companies are pushing has no reason to be an app. Patreon is already primarily a web page. I guarantee you everything anyone cares about in the app you can do on the mobile version of the web page. Without being locked to the App Store/Google Play, and on (practically) any device. Isn’t that what these companies should want in the first place? Totally device and platform agnostic, ready for the maximum amount of suckers potential paying customers to be able to access it?

Whatever driver Windows hands you for your nVidia/AMD card is likely to be hilariously out of date. If the driver it gives you is the one with the bug that’s bugging you, you won’t have a choice.