therealidiot

Joined 12 years ago

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Comment · 8 months ago
Yeah, no. Account gone in advance.
Comment · 2 years ago
my washer/dryer also has capacitive touch and will usually pause itself this way during a dry cycle if I forget to put the keypad lock on.

it's an absolute failure of product design in my eyes

Comment · 4 years ago
A company that forced me to be on video calls is a company I would leave immediately
Comment · 4 years ago
Well I use it daily and I can't even scroll up through chat history without it getting totally janky. The search basically doesn't work, I routinely have to restart it and often text shortcuts (like Ctrl+A to select all) just stop working completely.

It's not stable at all. Audio calls are generally okay, but often screen sharing just doesn't seem to come through either.

Comment · 5 years ago
Comment · 6 years ago
I can't focus properly on bright blue things. There's a football stadium not far from where I live and its name alternates between red and blue in big text.

I know what it says but I cannot read it at night when it is blue.

Comment · 6 years ago
Glad you mentioned this, as I would end up returning such a device too and now I don't need to waste my time

I'm looking for a new ereader and I don't want to have to register/sign in with anything to use it.

Comment · 6 years ago
Yeah, push notifications are an absolute shitshow.

A standardised push notifications API where you could swap out providers would be such a breath of fresh air.

That being said, the two applications I run that are doing long-polling sockets (Conversations and K-9 Mail) don't really use a lot of power, according to the battery settings screen on my Lineage device

Comment · 6 years ago
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Comment · 6 years ago
I don't buy this, there must be some false positive rate in some of these sites. I've been told that I've viewed too many articles on sites I've never visited before.

It's happened at home too where I live alone and have not seen my IP address change in a very long time.

Comment · 6 years ago
Second this, I've had no trouble ringing an old GPO 746 telephone (and very loudly) with a Grandstream HT802
Comment · 6 years ago
I've just submitted a refund request, I'm not sure if it will be granted but I'd hope that others who do not run Windows will also consider making a refund request (unless offline play is your preference anyway)
Comment · 7 years ago
Can't read without signing up on Medium now?
Comment · 7 years ago
I find the latency of these things to be really bad, and the "wide-angle" view is never wide enough (and what is with all of the parking guide lines they draw that never seem correct?)

...but then most modern cars seem to have abysmal visibility through the back windows anyway. The rear view from a 20 year old Micra I often drive is excellent, much better than any of the more modern cars I have hired.

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