Revolut business is the same. Somehow you must have chrome on mobile if you want to send a bank transfer from desktop. (It opens a qr code that when scanned, only works with Google Chrome and not any other chromium browser)

As a customer I hate those “smart” address form as they don’t accept my real house number but I need to put the generic one and hope the delivery guy is smart enough to read notes

I work in a e-commerce and the amount of people that forgets the street number is insane.

We send email to ask clarification: no response (probably filtered by the artificial stupidity classification in Gmail, everyone only reads the main category)

We call them to ask clarification: nobody picks up because they assume it’s telemarketing

I blame the Google chrome auto fill, because it fills the whole form automatically instead of line by line like on Firefox, so people assume that it’s filled correctly while instead the browser decided to omit the street number

Exactly, it’s especially infuriating on newpipe. WHAT went wrong? It’s an error 500 from YouTube (rare, unfixable, try again) or Google changed something and need to wait for a client fix? Or simply Google blacklisted the IP address or put some captcha that prevents playing the video??

After all the president, while pretending to care about fentanyl pardoned THE guy that did the most work in facilitating online sales of fentanyl

News? Which news?

What about Lux - it’s now discontinued but on my xiaomi mi 5 with a faulty brightness sensor that always reports full sunshine (and android 7) is doing miracles with the rooted plugin

When rooted a Xposed module might intercept and stop changing brightness level

Protect from accidental data damage: for example the dev might have accidentally pushed an untested change where there’s a space in the path

rm -rf / ~/.thatappconfig/locatedinhome/nothin.config

a single typo that will wipe the whole drive instead of just the app config (yes, it happened, I remember clearly more a decade ago there was a commit on GitHub with lots of snarky comments on a script with such a typo)

Also: malicious developers that will befriend the honest dev in order to sneak an exploit.

Those scripts need to be universal, so there are hundreds of lines checking the Linux distro and what tools are installed, and ask the user to install them with a package manager. They require hours and hours of testing with multiple distros and they aren’t easy to understand too… isn’t it better to use that time to simply write a clear documentation how to install it?

Like: “this app requires to have x, y and z preinstalled. [Instructions to install said tools on various distros], then copy it in said subdirectory and create config in ~/.ofcourseinhome/”

It’s also easier for the user to uninstall it, as they can follow the steps in reverse

yes, they say (weirdly only in italian and not in any other language) that the departure board can be accessed via their chatbot on whatsapp

Rome

Don’t understand this.

There isn’t an htpc mode on ubuntu, and you’re restricting results from australia. It seems normal that the results are irrelevant.

Maybe you’re searching for this, to install over vanilla ubuntu: https://github.com/dudewheresmycode/TenFootGnome

They’re making you a favor

Like apple “intelligence” that when asked who won the super bowl (not an obscure event), failed 38 times out of 58 https://onefoottsunami.com/2025/01/23/not-so-super-apple/

Instead to an european user today they sent:

i finally managed to extract the OTP secret.

OMG, WTF. So needlessly hard. If Epic Store did the same of Valve for their OTP, the forums would be filled with hate and outrage

Need to pay an auditor to check the code https://support.google.com/cloud/answer/13465431?hl=en

for FOSS projects, google itself could sponsor the certification, if they really cared about security and not just closing the garden. The code is public and they could definitely write automated tests to check all they need to check, and at every single commit, and not just yearly, done in secret by some auditor.

For google drive integration, i saw that most devs are just removing support for it because doesn’t make sense to pay $500 yearly to support it when there’s a million of better alternatives

I replaced gmail with fairemail for similar reasons. I can’t stand their interface, designed to maximise clicks on the wrong locations.

Main problem is that now google requires developers of email clients to give $4000 in annual fees (level 3? or level 2 for just $500 is enough?) at their friends at KPMG to do yearly audits of the code, so they will kill most alternatives in few years now that oauth is mandatory

I’d absolutely pay that 23 cents PayPal invoice as there’s a fixed 35 cents fixed fee on every transaction plus 3%, so if you pay it, it costs them 13 cents