A while back Amazon started requiring logins to view or search product reviews. (They show a very limited number without login.)
Anyone who’s ever looked through Amazon reviews knows a huge number of them (and sometime the majority) are bullshit, but apparently that’s just fine with Amazon. They were able to completely shut down sites like fakespot.com with that one move so buyers are now on their own.
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Was in a Trader Joe’s and this woman was practically shouting into her phone. Even worse, she had it on speaker and the woman on the other end was shouting back. Bad enough in the same isle, but then she walked up right next to me and they continued shouting into my ear. Well, if you’re going to be that rude…
I looked at her and began hacking as loud as could which is really loud. When I paused the shouting resumed so I started hacking again. The look on her face when she shouted, “Ewwww!” and backed away was priceless.
Perhaps not one of my finest moments, but one I will always treasure anyway.
You left out DDNS. It’s free, easy to set up with lots of detailed guides online, and works as well as a static IP.
It’s a feature, not a bug. Healthcare and insurance companies exist for and only care about profits.
If people are struggling to afford healthcare it means their prices are right where they want them.
The anti li-ion crowd here is really strange. I wonder if they’re also anti-vaccine?
Dell bios settings often include battery charge limit settings. I have mine set to a 70% limit which provides hours of backup with the display off.
Modern laptop batteries when kept cool and undamaged are extremely safe despite what you might read in these comments, especially when you limit the charge. Parking your car in your garage is hundreds of times more hazardous.
¡Gracias, primo! Espero verte en el malecón.
It is always odd to find someone who has no clue that other people have different needs and priorities.
Others report the same issue including someone commenting in this posting. From what I can tell Google is targeting private VPN servers on residential IPs.
I’ve used a different private VPN running on a commercial cloud server when traveling internationally. Google has never fucked with the location of that IP.
They were serving you pages in Spanish? That is really fucked up even for Google.
Do you believe a multinational company’s business polices are targeting you specifically each time you have a problem?
I believe Google specifically does this to discourage VPN use. It screws up their primary reason for existing: advertising revenue.
It’s already my primary search engine, but unfortunately it’s not a full Google replacement.
I avoid changing the MAC to pull a new address because family members actively use the VPN server via DNS and it can take a while for DDNS to update everywhere, but that’s what I’m going to have to do.
Whois correctly returns Charter Communications and every single IP location service shows a U.S. location. This is strictly Google’s fuckery.
I don’t sign in unless there’s some reason to. In this case Google is using cell towers to determine my phone’s location while in Mexico (and on my VPN) and then applying that location to everything on my Spectrum IP.
Interestingly Google has never done this when I’m using a VPN on a cloud server instead of my home server.
My neighbors (on the same Spectrum subnet) aren’t seeing this so it only affects my IP address. Google doesn’t give a crap about single user problems, in fact I think they’re doing this to discourage VPN use.
Not a full reinstall solution, but aptik is one of the only utilities I’ve found useful enough to pay for. Last time I reinstalled it saved me many hours of configuring.