The username is the joke.
I’m not putting in more effort than you clowns unless I feel like it lol
In my experience essentially all amazon fraud returns that go into circulation end up getting a free replacement.
If you’re not returning a brick in place of a GPU and instead return the actual hardware, the next guy simply gets a DOA that looks like a DOA, quacks like a DOA, and returns like a DOA for another one… so the odds of this causing an actual issue for a normal human is extremely low.
Yeah, they know it’s cheaper to refund the purchase price rather than to provide a replacement. Why would they ever take the bigger loss to them? They’re businesses, not people with a conscious. They are legally required to make the most profit possible for their shareholders as they are both public entities. Publicly traded businesses are by definition lawful evil because this is the kind of world humanity gravitates towards.
I’m sure the warranty terms are worded in such a way that is most hostile to consumers and most beneficial to themselves. There’s always a half dozen legal gotchas that rarely apply in cases where they would lose a penny more than is typical like market shortages caused by AI infrastructure spend. The only time it makes financial sense for them to honor the warranty is if it’s cheaper than providing a refurbished replacement, and a refurb of these drives is likely worth much, much more than the original.
I’d say the play here is to buy a new one and return the old one but do a label swap. It’s certainly fraud, but then amazon or sandisk get to eat it instead of you. If you are concerned about how hard it hits their bottom lines, check out their stock valuation over the last year.
I mean… there’s this. https://thelibre.news/no-really-dont-use-brave/
I love the series, especially XCX even though it doesn’t look like they’re revisiting it any time soon.
The combat is kinda casual mmorpg tier when you’re mid-lategame. It’s similar to having perhaps a third of the moveset of lancer in FFXIV once you get going. Like sure, there’s some amount of positioning or build composition for the team, but it’s still very tiny compared to games with robust combat systems.
The game shines with the amazing, wondrous open worlds. Then there’s the characters with great personalities, and the stories that tie it all together. Plus the fairly robust post-game grind is enjoyable. There’s a lot to love, but definitely not the early to mid game combat for me anyway.
100%
Even many, many lemmy users believe there is a semblance of privacy on the internet today, or in national businesses with modern IP camera tech. It’s all gone.
They have enough telemetry to know who you are between all the details the browser gives them. Hell, most people don’t even know what a tracking pixel is or how it has been used for well over a decade.
We’re at the point with machine learning that the resources required to process all of these datapoints is trivial even when done onboard fairly cheap devices.
affects mobile the most obviously… but google’s playbook is to basically have forced telemetry always and enforce integrity of their telemetry, and by extension advertising etc.
https://piunikaweb.com/2026/05/07/google-recaptcha-play-services-requirement/ - this just seems like an ok article for it, I did a simple web search and it came up, but others certainly exist if you dislike the source.
Probably just a dip is kinda expected. They’ve powered through countless things that would have caused a rout before. I expect the administration to announce some bullshit grift to prop it up if it actually continues.
Isn’t there something like 340 news sites that actively block them already?
it’s all of those things and many more big money interests.
There’s some competition, but regulatory capture is de facto.
It’s exacerbated whenever conservatives control the legislature and executive, and obviously wildly out of control now that the supreme court is partisan from F society’s scheming in lockstep with the rest. I don’t understand how attempting to undermine and overthrow the constitution does not have any consequences when done so openly, but here we are.
you gun types are nutters.
Areas with very restrictive personal defense laws in the US like Massachusetts have lower gun death rates per 100k by a huge margin over wide open states like Mississippi. https://publichealth.jhu.edu/center-for-gun-violence-solutions/issues/gun-violence-in-the-united-states
Guns don’t make people safer. Knives don’t make people safer.
Sikh knives don’t really fall into those aforementioned categories though, and i’m not trying to show any support there just because of one person’s actions. If someone wants to kill they are going to find a way.
When you visit our restaurants, we may capture audio and video information inside and outside our restaurants via CCTV cameras and other tools that help us monitor restaurant safety and improve our operations.
I love how they call out the in person surveillance plain as day and people still think it’s private to even go there lol.
“Improve our operations” doesn’t preclude them from building a profile about you, selling it to increase revenue, or using it for advertising to target you individually to maximize sales/profitability.
In some states like mine it’s illegal to record audio indoors on CCTV… but who the fuck is going to know if it’s there or not?
Get big money out of politics and you’ll get climate change as an issue with potential.
FWIW you can’t drive from North America to the southernmost point of South America. You’re gonna have some problems a little after Panama City.
or just use the drive through and pay with cash and avoid all of this
I get that they keep trying to eliminate humans that take drive through orders, but there will always be an escalation path for a real human. Just takes a single car blocking the lane lol.
Was thinking more about the looking over your shoulder aspect.
You use a credit card right? probably one with the same number you use in other places with your name and address attached right? They know what you buy man. Odds are some commercial source has every possible detail about your life attached to it like your wage history, purchasing history, web viewing/commenting history…
Maybe if you used pre-paid gift gift cards or something you could be somewhat anonymous, but nowadays with how cheap and easy facial recognition tech, walking gait tech and license plate reader tech is… doubt that will work for long.
Edit: Mcdonalds is using cameras to verify the accuracy of orders before they are handed to customers. Do you REALLY think they aren’t going to go a step further and record license plates, faces and gait? Verkada, a commercial brand of cameras I manage, already does this publicly for plates and faces. Gait is not new and as unique as a fingerprint. Nobody is going to admit they are tracking your biomechanics, even if they do it every single day.
AI/ML gets shit wrong and sure, maybe in rare instances you’ll be mistaken for someone else… but they’re going hard into surveillance tech. They already have surveillance promotions where different people get different promotions at the same store for the exact same products.
Why would you ever use the kiosk when you can use the mobile app?
It’s just a shitty version of the same thing with zero privacy and completely filthy with other people’s kids’ nastiness all over it. Don’t get me wrong, all of our phones are disgusting but it only takes a few minutes of being in earshot of a public bathroom to realize how few people actually wash their hands after they shit all over the stall, floor, doors, walls and selves.
And like most mmo launches, it’s really just an EA launch with the real content to be reworked and added later.
Condos generally won’t let you have chargers. HOA hate everyone.
Not everyone can afford the boomer American dream of detached housing.
Yeah fucking right.
I’ve seen what happens to ethics teams in orgs. It’s always a joke. They generally mean well and often times there really is a whole team trying to get a company to do the right thing, but nobody at the C level gives a shit when personal enrichment is on the line. If they did, they wouldn’t be C level at a company with that kind of wealth.
They certainly have the capability of replacing the hardware but they know they have you over a barrel because they choose the winner, which is them!
They would just eat a few hundred bucks in unrealized profits… which they’re never gonna do willingly. They probably have an arbitration clause to prevent class action suits too because that’s what everybody lawful evil does these days.