I only buy from merchants that offer PayPal (there are few I trust by card, like Amazon). And the reason is that whatever it happens, I can always get my money back with PayPal. It happened 3 times in last 5 years that seller took the money and never shipped anything. I got all them resolved very quickly.
That's BS. Had a seller screwing me over who "sold" me a VR headset.
He gave me a UPS tracking number which belonged to a package that was delivered to another city, another person, was part 1 of a 3 package delivery and weighted 28kg, pretty heavy weight headset. The only match was the zip code everything else had nothing to do with me.
So I complained to Paypal, gave them all the data that showed that the tracking number wasn't from the right package and still PayPal let the seller keep the money.
Aside: Where do you live that has a postal service where zip codes match in different cities? Sounds like someone misunderstood the point of a postal [zip] code. Or, did I misunderstand?
As a rule of thumb, sure, you can presume that zip codes follow political boundaries (city, county or state). The vast majority of times, that's the case.
However, if you do a lot of mailing, you'll discover some zip codes that cross state lines (because some remote area is actually served by a post office across the state line).
Or some area where several towns & cities map to a single "preferred" name that the USPS uses (example: Centennial, CO).
Zip codes are for the convenience of USPS and to make their life easier. The edge cases are very fuzzy & fractal.
This is more common than you would think in the U.S. ZIP codes don't always follow geopolitical boundaries. There are two cities in 57717. Some ZIP codes even cross state boundaries; USPS won't state it when you look up ZIP 42223 in their web tool, but part of it covers Tennessee. For example, the Pratt Museum is in Fort Campbell TN but has a Fort Campbell KY mailing address.
You can, but you probably have to call up your bank during business hours, wait on hold for a while, and then get given the runaround for a while. PayPal you just push a button and it's done.
In the UK my experience with chargebacks is that they’re very biased towards the company. It’s a drawn-out process during which you get harassed by the company’s anti-chargeback team in to accepting an ex gratia payment etc. you have to supply lots of evidence and when the company provides some poor quality evidence the bank goes “oh well that’s decided then” as if responding was sufficient.
This is true, you have to very persistent with the chargeback route, sometimes only a threat of legal action against the bank will move things forward.
If you live in the US, you could use Privacy for this (privacy.com). Not only do they allow you to create a separate card for each merchant, pause/unpause/close/set spend limits and so on, but their support is so nice that half the time they'll just give you credit instead of making you bother with a proper chargeback. And you can do that over email.
Works even with merchants that don't support PayPal. Everyone supports good old card numbers.
If you contact their support over email they'll enable the option for you to use a card as your funding source. But IIRC you have to connect a bank account first with more than $50 in it and then you can switch to the card.
But of course, as Meta put gun to the head of everyone - you WILL make Reels, or else - and now all the people I follow, increasingly make Reels. I hate Reels.
Yeah but they’re not really for you. They’re for making it easy for Tiktok creators to cross-post their content.
IG, FB, and YT all realized that if they force creators to choose between making Tiktoks and posts/videos they’re going to make Tiktoks. The cost of making entirely separate content has to be worth the extra audience and you can change the calculus by making the cost really low.
The super annoying thing about reels is how they don’t just play fully in the feed the way Tik Tok does. You see a weird 2 second loop and on that have to choose whether to engage. And FB has a horrible history with video, filling the feed with videos 10x too long that had no point and not letting users track forward.
I cannot hate FB more than I do. If it wasn’t for Marketplace, my account would have been deactivated years ago. And even Marketplace is obnoxious in a myriad of ways.
Marketplace always switches back to non local pickup when you search for something new. So annoying. We get you make no money from p2p local selling but they should just accept that and not make the users experience worse.
The crazy thing is they fill the feed with ads in between the p2p stuff so they should be making money, and those ads would be much more relevant since they know a user’s search terms (so higher rates per ad), but then they just make the user experience of searching suck.
I’d say the entire Facebook UX sucks. If I didn’t know better I’d think it was a startup with inexperienced designers. Shocking how complicated and lazy it feels.
Drip Europe | Frontend Engineer | Full Time | Remote, but significant overlap (at least 4 hours) with Central European Time | https://www.drip.com
We’re an ecommerce marketing automation platform that’s generated more than $2 billion in revenue for our customers since 2018, and we’re only getting smarter and better at what we do: help independent retail thrive.
We’re looking for a frontend engineer that knows Javascript very well for Drip Onsite Team. We write lots of Vanilla Javascript that should not affect our customer’s performance or functionality, no matter how good or bad their website is made. Also, many of our customers do not know how to code, so we’ve built a flexible yet easy-to-use HTML editor to help them make their campaigns. In short, we get to solve some pretty technical problems for a lot of non-technical users.
Specifically, we’re looking for someone who is not primarily a framework user but who likes to tinker with problems no one has discovered before. Pragmatic, not politician. Can ask questions and give answers.
Most my coworkes are introverts. We do not do anything above. Unexpected enough? And we are lean and mean highly functional team. The most helpful for my team is let people be themselves and not force rituals.
And why assume introverts don't like these things? If anything, I prefer having an arena to be social, rather than having to take the initiative myself.
Find a hobby. Something that is not work related and take it seriously. I don’t know - start cooking, invest into obscure LP’s, vintage fashion, start collecting stamps, racing cars. PS! Going to gym and travelling is not a hobby.
Maybe it's only happening with local music, which I have ripped from CDs. But, since we're at it, I recently lost the ability to search for local music without my phone looking for it on the internet and offering to download what I already own.
Also, with introduction of Apple Music, Apple disallowed sharing music over LAN. I always found it useful to be able to play music that sits on just one computer on the network, from any Apple device. What once just worked, now became a subscription fee for iirc $20/mo.
Are you talking about iTunes Match which is $25/year? I used to keep everything myself in iTunes (music and movies/series) but the hostility towards local files had me move elsewhere. The not being able to search for local files is beyond annoying when using an apple tv and having a large local library in iTunes, I know they have since split iTunes into different apps.
I don't remember how much exactly they wanted or what was the service name that would resolve this freshly introduced annoyance. Some Apple stuff is more expensive where I live, than in the U.S. but it may have been $25 yearly not $20 monthly.
It pretty much looked like an extortion attempt: Apple blocked my access to owned, legal, lossless music files in their proprietary AIFF format and offered presumably the same music streamed from their servers for a fee.
IIRC this sharing functionality worked until Mojave and became problematic with the introduction of Catalina. It went from being an option in iTunes to being an option in the Sharing menu in System Preferences. It still used DAAP as an underneath technology but became problematic, with browsable but not playable library etc.
Before that, I had an IKE VPN set up from iPhone to home network which allowed accessing music residing on iMac's HDD while biking or hiking, on iPhone with much less storage than music library weight.
if by phone you mean iPhone , I just checked and it works fine for me in the music app. under search there are 2 tabs, radio, local. local searches local only for me. iOS 15.1
I do hate the apple tries to push Apple music at every opportunity even though I have zero interest.
Also, I found shuffle is broken in the music app. I switched to Foobar2000 and suddenly I'm hearing tracks on shuffle that the Music app had never played in 10years that were on my phone.
> if by phone you mean iPhone , I just checked and it works fine for me in the music app. under search there are 2 tabs, radio, local. local searches local only for me. iOS 15.1
When I use Siri and instruct it to "play xxx", where "xxx" is a locally present song, it often randomly does not play the song but instead searches for it. An example from yesterday or the day before: I have a "Reservoir Dogs" soundtrack ripped from CD. If I instruct my iPhone to "play Little Green Bag", it no longer just plays the song it lists in Music.app, as it always did when it was called iTunes. It offers me the purchase and download of George Baker Selection CD which originally lists this song included in Tarantino's movie.
I currently have iOS 15.02 installed and I do not have nor had Apple Music subscription.
Sleeknote | Frontend Engineer | Full Time | Remote, but significant overlap (at least 4 hours) with Central European Time (Denmark based) | https://www.sleeknote.com
We’re a growing, stable company that creates tools that help websites turn their visitors into customers with popups. We are the good guys, as unobtrusive as possible. We are the most expensive, and our customers love us.
We’re looking for a frontend engineer that knows javascript very well since we have to write vanilla javascript that doesn’t affect our customer’s performance or functionality, no matter how good or bad their website is coded. Also, many of our customers do not know how to code, so we’ve built a flexible yet easy-to-use HTML editor to help them make their campaigns. In short, we get to solve some pretty technical problems for a lot of non-technical users.
Specifically, we’re looking for someone who is not primarily a framework user but who likes to tinker with problems no one has discovered before. Pragmatic, not politician. Can ask questions and give answers. We have multiple nationalities at Sleeknote and many work remotely.
P.S. We do not use React, nor Typescript directly, but we are inspired some of the ideas.
