Here’s my “Fuck BofA” story. A long time ago now, I was really tight on cash on a Friday and needed a few things before my next paycheck on Wednesday. I knew how much money I had in my account, and knew what I could afford, and what I couldn’t afford. I couldn’t afford the gas for my car if I bought my groceries and paid a few other bills, which meant that I would just overdraft the card for the gas. I’d be about $10 short of filling up the tank, so I was okay with paying the $35 overdraft fee for the gas, because I needed it to get to work. I did the math, and I’d be roughly -$50 when it was all said and done.

Come Monday, I find that I’m at -$500. I look at my account history, and I see that BofA reorganized all my transactions from the weekend, processing them from largest to smallest. So instead of ONE large purchase overdrafting my account and accruing a single overdraft fee, they hit me with like 6 overdraft fees because of all of the smaller, ~$5 purchases I had made that weekend.

I fought with them for months, telling them that I’d pay the single overdraft fee if they agree to charge me based on the timeline in which I actually made the purchases, but they refused to budge, and eventually closed down the account, and also blacklisted me from opening an account with any major bank again.

The next year, a law was passed that made it so they can’t do that anymore. But the law didn’t make them pay back anybody that they already fucked over.

That method isn’t without its own flaws.

Just FYI, PSP games will be ISOs, not ROMs.

You could look into getting some cable channels as a pretty cheap and easy solution. They’re just plastic half-tubes that you can bundle the cables into and stick to the wall, so you could just have one pipe that runs up the wall to the back of the TV. You can paint them to match the wall and hide it a bit, too.

The “Fediverse” (capital F) refers to the social media platforms utilizing ActivityPub, specifically. I don’t believe there’s any agreed-upon name for such a network on ATProto, since Bluesky is the only platform actively using it.

There are ways of cooking shrimp

It is the food of the sea, after all.

Familiarity, I’d imagine. You go to Chipotle in any part of any city, and you already know what’s on their menu, how much it’ll cost, and how it’ll taste. But smaller restaurants, even a local chain, can vary wildly from store to store, and most people probably don’t want to spend their limited lunch time experimenting with restaurants they’re unfamiliar with.

This is my thought on it, too. I don’t disagree with any of the point OP is making, but I think a larger issue is people misusing ActivityPub platforms and trying to make them into something they’re not. It’s not meant to be a messenger, it’s not meant for privacy. Everything being public and transparent is part of the core design of the Fediverse. The idea of private groups/posts on the Fediverse seems counterintuitive to me.

Japan.

Sony audio products are terrible about this. Earbuds with names like WF-1000XM5, like how am I supposed to shop for that?

That post is from 2021. Is there a more recent udpate?

Hmmmmm… 🤔

This has been my approach so far. I try to walk with a particularly heavy footfall past that area, so that hopefully my presence is known in advance. So far, nothing’s gotten close enough to be a concern. I’ve sometimes looked back and seen them crossing the street some distance behind me so I know they’re active at the time, so maybe they are hearing me and keeping a distance.

Yeah, I was going to suggest a data export, as this will often give you a handful of files, most importantly would be a CSV containing all your posts. It would probably be relatively easy to automate the process with that file.

Reminds me of that dude whose argument was “Do you know how expensive a slave was back then?!” lmao

I think that’s largely because he wants to make his channel as kid-friendly as possible. If you watch some of his real early videos, he has a much calmer, more lecture-like demeanor without all the goofy edits and other modern YouTube tropes.

His other big business venture is a subscription box for kids, which I think it aimed for around 8-13 year olds, so I imagine he’s adopted his current personality to try to appeal to that audience.

Mark Rober is what you get when you cross veritasium with Mr beast.

I hate that this makes as much sense as it does.

This would require spending an extended period of time speaking with a Tesla salesperson. I’d probably rather just die.

Maybe you should consider why that image was in the article in the first place.

Careful, he’s gonna user-tag you, next!