The messaging looks like you can cancel and/or maybe not accept by doing ‘Manage Subscription’

But it’s obviously using dark patterns to make it seem like the only thing to do is accept.

Exactly why corporations love it so much.

Make all the accusations you like, no evidence required, and no consequences at all for making false claims.

I just got a new phone and I’m trying Kvaesitso to move away from Nova, but I just can’t get used to it.

I think I just really like the paradigm of having a ‘desktop’ where I can freely arrange my most used apps in a specific layout, and Kvaesitso - by intentional design choice - doesn’t allow it.

It’s a shame for me because I love the ethos, I love the open-source approach, and I love that it’s a wholly original launcher - rather than a fork of the stock or anything else.

For some it’s the perfectl launcher I’m sure, but to me it’s like even after I unlock the device I’m still stuck in something that feels like a lock screen to me, and I feel weirdly trapped and claustrophobic.

Not sure why it makes me feel that way, but it does!

This is exactly how I feel too. A little bit of repetition is totally worth it, versus having inappropriate coupling, or code that jumps in and out of parent/child classes everywhere so you can hardly keep it in your head what’s going on.

I freely accept that I AM a mediocre dev, but if that lends me to prefer code that is comprehensible and maintainable then I think being mediocre is doing my team a favour, honestly.

I’ll say this now.

Inheritance is the most misused capability of OOP which programmers think makes their code look smart, but most of the time just makes a giant fucking mess.

I read that as ‘TODO’

Like they just haven’t got around to that line of the sign yet

Uninterested as they are cakes, not biscuits.

Finally, now I can at last not subscribe to HBO Max, just the same as I am not subscribed to the rest of the streaming services.

It’s an abbreviation scheme which represents a word as its first and last letters, and a number to indicate the count of letters in the middle which are missing.

“Internationalisation” = 20 characters long, so becomes “i18n”

Sauce? Maybe Legend of Galactic Heroes?

It’s sleepytime “extra” because it has extra sleepytime stuff (relaxing herbs or whatever)

And it’s caffeine free because it’s caffeine free.

Yet. It won’t stop them from trying.

This is how it’s always been, ever since the earliest days of the Internet. I got on IRC back in the day, and immediately felt like it was easier to open up with those people than anyone in real life.

In part it’s the anonymity and the lack of consequence or repercussion. But it’s also because as part of a shared community online, you already have a common baseline with these people and a reason to feel some kind of connection with them.

It’s nice.

This post deals me psychic damage

Yes they should. But we have to accept that no gate check is 100% infallible.

If the boarding pass check stops 99% of people who accidentally try to board the wrong flight, and of those people who do manage to get on then another 99% immediately realise they’re somehow on the wrong plane, that makes this guy the 1% of the 1%.

Which is to say simultaneously both very unlucky, and very incompetent.

I find it so difficult to rationalise how this person could get on the wrong flight and not notice. Especially that it took him six hours to finally realise, on a flight that was supposed to be three!

Even before you get on the aircraft the gate is full of info about where the plane is going. It’s not a secret. And once you’re on there are even more clues.

The in-flight map. The crew announcements. The probable dual-language briefings in English and Japanese. The fact that half the passengers look Asian.

These aren’t indicators you even have to consciously check, they’re environmental cues you simply can’t avoid when you’re breathing the same air as other people, which all trigger the feeling “this isn’t right”

I can only assume he made it on board and immediately fell asleep, because otherwise he has to be the least observant individual ever.

Boring real explanation:

The tea is called “Sleepytime Extra”

The product link is likely supposed to say “Celestial Seasonings Sleepytime Extra Caffeine Free Tea” but is truncated.

Then again, it could be surprisingly good like the Fallout TV series.

But I wouldn’t count on it.

Same here in UK honestly - it’s that or the hazards, they both send the same message :)

I’ve personally observed that drivers of big trucks tend to do the indicator thing, while most people in cars do the hazards. Not sure if there’s a specific trucker reason for that divide! Possibly it’s less easy to reach the hazards in a truck but I don’t know, that’s just a guess!

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