Went to enterprise and rented a car that had literally 4 leaking tires and they filled them all up to 55 psi before handing the car over. This photo was taken after the 30 minute drive home.

Called and took the car back in for service only to get the same car, same 55 psi on all wheels, and same major leak in the rears. Went to another enterprise location to get a normal car instead 2 days later. Really took me back to my first car, but it's a lot less fun when it's not even yours and the "fix" is just dangerous overpressure.

See box that looks like it's 3/4 ripped in half from stacking damage:

"Looks good to me, send it off."

Ended up ordering it from Phillips for cheaper on sale, turns out it's not too hard to avoid Amazon altogether and a bonus for the company's reputation being important to the ones picking/packaging the product. Hard to blame the Amazon worker though, they don't get paid enough to care.

The ad and the linked terms don't say anything about the deal being available only for new customers and accounts. It's the lack of transparency that really gets me.

Christiano Ronaldo elbowed an Irish player during Irelands win over Portugal, earning himself a red card and an automatic ban.

In an unprecedented move, FIFA lifted the ban allowing him to play.

Screenshot is from Fox News

So I recently got a Blue Brixx set and needed to download the manual as it is not included in the box... Now that requires an account, which is just stupid... At least I can supply absolut garbage information, which is a plus. However I wanted to delete the account directly after downloading what I needed... Now that requires you to fill out a contact form (like that is legal in the EU...) and now it tells me that the throw away email I could use before is not a valid email (likely because it has numbers in them)... WTF IS THIS GARBAGE

I sometimes use Reddit as a search engine to solve various problems, where there is a chance to find something, but if you want to publish something, then the pain begins, posts are blocked by some kind of filter. I know this is done to protect against spam, but as a newcomer to this social network, I don’t understand how to solve this. It’s like you have to be chosen, do everything by their rules, and even write to some moderator personally about this problem. This social network has long since ceased to respect freedom of speech, just like 4chan, where the same thing happens. That’s why I was looking for alternatives and came across Lemmy, which respects freedom of speech and has different servers with their own rules, which is very cool, but I would really like as many people as possible to know about it.

I used to comment frequently on a very niche hobby subreddit with fewer than 2 000 subscribers. After the Reddit API changes and the rise of AI-generated posts, I got sick of reddit and deleted my account.

Before deleting my account I made sure to obfuscate all my valuable contributions (for example as long term reviews of products and detailed analyses with pros and cons) so that if reddit somehow managed to restore them, they would be of no use. I thought this should have done the job, but it wasn't.

Today I decided to google my old reddit username. Found some comments because other users had mentioned/pinged me in their comments. I don't mind that. I couldn’t find any of my posts or comments on reddit and was happy.

As I scrolled through the Google search results, I stumbled upon a blog I had never heard of before. My Reddit username appeared in the search result preview which got my interest.

Could it be that another user that coincidentally chose the same username? I wanted to see what this other person had written.

I opened the blog post which discussed a product related to that niche hobby. Of course the post was infested with Amazon affiliate links everywhere. I continued scrolling to the comment section to see what "I" had written.

To my shock, it was the exact review I had posted on Reddit before editing and deleting my stuff.

The blog owner had copied my original reddit post and used my reddit username as the blog comment username. I felt upset because I hadn’t given anyone permission to reuse my posts elsewhere.

I don't want to name the blog, hobby and reddit username so that blog don't get more undeserved views.

Please keep your racist comments to yourself, this is about these 2 people as individuals.

They're both just arguing semantics, but 1 refuses to elaborate at all and cries about bullying and antisemitism for the slightest pushback.

The other has a point, but on being called antisemitic he has to point out him being a proud Zionist.

If they didn't deserve each other, this would be actually infuriating.

I was uploading images to imgur to clear space off my phone yesterday and got an automated message that "content" in one of my albums broke community guidelines and therefore the album was deleted.

What picture exactly broke the guidelines? I have no clue. I wasn't posting anything I'd consider borderline.

How did this unknown picture break the rules? I don't know, because imgur won't tell me.

Can I appeal it? I don't see any way, which sucks since it is almost certainly an automated filter and those are known to make mistakes.

This is a problem on a lot of sites, both with and without automated content moderation. I've seen people defend sites having unknown rules as a way to keep uploaders from gaming the system, but frankly to me that's just stupid. People with enough time to figure out the workarounds will always game the system, while more normal casual uploaders are stuck essentially rolling dice.

People who joke about legos haven't stepped on this bad boy

Yes. Buried in the settings there's an option to disable it

I heard a YouTuber say today, "We are now available wherever you get your podcast; that means that an audio format of the show is now available on both Spotify and on Apple Music/Podcasts,“ and, like…isn't the contradiction of the first half against merely 2 (technically 3) locations not glaringly obvious?

Like, I get that most people don't conceive of things on their computers, anymore, in terms of files and there's a convenience to going to a centralized service to browse for a particular thing (podcasts, in this case) but…it's still annoying that we're shoving things which still, currently, – with relative frequency – can be accessed not behind proprietary, paywalled locations into these locations that're beyond collective control.

Reading this shit gives me an aneurism.

Please, delete the bs political, actually infuriating posts, mods. If you need help, I'm willing to volunteer.

A few months ago, I bought an American Standard brand toilet seat that soft closes. It was nice. But apparently after about 6 mo of normal use, the plastic piece for the lid broke; a week later, the seat ripped apart from the hinge. That’s the American Standard for you I guess. /s

So today, I go get a different toilet seat, and as I’m trying to adjust it to fit on the toilet, I notice that they gave me two left brackets.

So now I have to go back to the store and hope they will open boxes until we find me the correct right bracket. And before anyone suggests flipping the left bracket over: you can’t. Each bracket has grooves cut into one side that fit in the specific side of the mounting bracket that attaches to the toilet.

I hope y’all’s day is going better than my week! 🤣

cross-posted from: https://libretechni.ca/post/423335

Instead YouTube gives me literally nothing but AI spam. :/

I scrolled down a bit more and got this: https://i.postimg.cc/fJcPhG45/Screenshot-20251118-150802.png

Scrolled down some more and this: https://i.postimg.cc/v1khnhRp/Screenshot-20251118-151325.png

I kept scrolling until I ran out of relevant results. Not a single video was legit. I don't think I've ever seen so much AI slop in one search term and by the gods there is a lot of crap on YouTube.

Anyone have a good comparison video? I'm just wanting a decent comparison of Actual, Firefly III and possibly HomeBank. Feel free to also give me your 2 cents on whatever you use :)

OQB @Thorned_Rose@sh.itjust.works

I ask, because I've been seeing a lot of content on this community make it to all that I would not consider "mildly infuriating."

Back when "r/mildlyinfuriating" first emerged in the early 2010s, it was at least in past a humor sub: a place for OP and commenters to commiserate and/or chuckle at something relatively minor (the "mildly" part of "mildly infuriating"), usually something that involved or happened to OP directly. Post content was often comprised of things that were disproportionately upsetting, such as dropping your toothbrush in the toilet, or that felt ironic, such as spending three hours preparing a fancy cake recipe just to have the power go out right as you put it in the oven. Neither of these are actually that bad in the grand scheme of things (hence, mildly), but in the moment they make you want to tear your hair out (hence, infuriating). Of course as with all things Reddit, the community eventually lost its original purpose and morphed into a catch-all for "stuff that made me mad," but I always appreciated the original spirit of the sub.

Which brings us to lemmy.world's mildly infuriating community. I checked the sidebar, which reads:

Home to all things “Mildly Infuriating” Not infuriating, not enraging. Mildly Infuriating. All posts should reflect that. I want my day mildly ruined, not completely ruined.

To me, it seems like the intention here is to be a mirror of the Reddit sub, presumably the Reddit of old and not the current mess of a platform we abandoned. Yet when I sorted this Lemmy community by "top month," I would consider only about a quarter of the 20 top posts to be mildly infuriating by either the original sub's initial intention or this community's current sidebar definition. The remaining ~75% of posts were the typical assortment of tech enshittification and horrifying political news that you could expect to find in any politics/news/technology community, which I would consider not only enraging instead of mildly infuriating, but also not unique or providing novel content to the lemmyverse. Which poses the question, what is the point of this community?

(Ido not mean to call anyone out specifically, but for the sake of clarity, here are two example posts that I counted towards being mildly infuriating, and two example posts that I did not.)

Are we okay with the "mildly infuriating" community becoming a "news that really upset me" community?

Anyone else ever noticed how there is no longer an option to permanently reject or completely disable an option anymore?

Every 3 weeks I get a popup in MS teams (yeah I know, but it's for work, nothing I can do about it), that asks me if I want to pin the AI agent tab and the only option is yes please or remind me later. What the actual fuck is this shit?

Never worry about commie crap like public citations getting in the way of misinformation rhetoric again! (Because the LLM trained on fuckin twitter made it up lmao)

On the flipside for an actually cool non-cucked integration of LLMs with wikipedia check out this post on the localllama where the person shares their project of using a local private llm to search through a local kiwix server instance of wikipedia. https://piefed.social/post/1333130