[-] RooPappy@kbin.social 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

My wife bought a new Pixel 8 recently from Google Fi. They sent a Pixel 6a for some reason. She attempted to work with their incompetent, powerless, disconnected and foreign support for a week to get something to happen, desperately reaching out every day for someone to just tell her what was happening. Then, she just purchased a new one because you can't go longer than that without a phone.

Then it was 2 more weeks of them failing to issue a refund for the original wrong phone, trying to ship another phone that she no longer needed, and simultaneously trying to bill her a penalty for not yet activating the phone that was originally shipped.

All it would take is one person who had information, authority, and a modicum of understanding. Nope. That is not a thing that can be achieved through any level of escalation at Google anymore.

Nokia had the same problem recently during a recent issue. They have intentionally made it impossible to solve issues. This is what some companies want. Don't buy from them.

[-] RooPappy@kbin.social 12 points 11 months ago

I can't imagine a more unpopular idea in all of politics.

[-] RooPappy@kbin.social 10 points 11 months ago

I'm not sure if lawyers think their words are magic sometimes, or if they'd just really like them to be magic.

I live in a state that prohibits most non-competes from employers, and any effort to try to get employees to sign overly restrictive agreements can actually result in a fine and penalty. My company sent me a legal agreement saying that by signing the doc and continuing to be employed, I agree to waive my state's protections against non-competes. As if... that would hold up in any court, ever.

It's a blatantly illegal clause and I could have fought it at the time... but in the end I knew it was totally unenforceable at worst. I'll go after them for the penalty if they ever try to enforce it, or if I leave under bad circumstances. It was more valuable to me to have this document than it is for them to have it.

[-] RooPappy@kbin.social 14 points 11 months ago

You calling me crazy? Just 'cause I got a hotel in my foot doesn't make me a boogalymoogalymoogaly!

[-] RooPappy@kbin.social 13 points 11 months ago

Not a domain, but I did register a yahoo email address of roopappyatgmaildotcom@yahoo.com just to confuse people who asked for my email address.

[-] RooPappy@kbin.social 11 points 11 months ago

People need to be willing to suffer small conveniences to send a message to companies, but they aren't. And then they complain that the government should step in, while they constantly elect people who protect business interests and are anti-consumer in the name of "small government."

It's requires at least one or the other... a free market with consumers who drive the demand, or big government. With neither, you end up with constant corporate abuses.

[-] RooPappy@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago

Look at these poor people stealing a little bit from you!

Ignore these rich people stealing 500x that much from you!

[-] RooPappy@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago

I don't get the outrage. I'm sure his campaign headquarters was just a little warm and he needed something to create a breeze and cool things off.

A place that only sells fans is where I'd shop as well. Nobody knows fans like a place that is for Only Fans, right?

[-] RooPappy@kbin.social 14 points 1 year ago

Don't forget the raping, which a court found he definitely did. I don't know why that isn't mentioned in every article. "Proven rapist, Donald Trump..."

[-] RooPappy@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago

I used to build those Mac clones back in the mid to late 90s. We were building high-end video editing systems, and you could either get a PowerMac 9600 or one of the clones. I think we used Daystar (?) machines, and I remember they had this PCI expansion box where you could run a ribbon cable and add more PCI slots for additional cards. Wild west, crazy stuff.

[-] RooPappy@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Or you could pay for Nebula instead of the company causing the problem. Or you could contribute to their Patreon.

[-] RooPappy@kbin.social 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I was looking for a foot rest for my outdoor hanging chair this past weekend. So I searched for "hanging chair foot rest". Apparently, there are really popular products out there that are foot rests that hang under your desk, or on an airplane seat, and it clogged up the results. It isn't what I wanted, but it was all I got.

So I searched for "hanging chair foot rest -desk -airplane". And I found that modifiers don't fucking work for Google shopping. They have disabled operators completely. I'm trying to find what I want using methods that used to work fine, and you're saying "no... what you want is this thing you told us you didn't want."

Google sucks. Eat dicks Google.

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