Thing is, no one is doing that for online services. They’re just charging fees to make extra money. The number of people paying cash is so small in general and most of us aren’t doing that so all that really happens is the raise prices in the usual sneaky fuck you way they do where you don’t know up front what things will cost. It’s ridiculous honestly.

No they weren’t allowed to charge a fee before. They had to build it into the cost of doing business like every other thing that goes into the price. Visa isn’t “allowing” them to SHOW the fee, they’re being forced to allow the fee (surcharge) to be added on because of bills the feds passed.

I guarantee this isn’t working out in your favor. That’s why these businesses fought so hard to have the fee. Visa and MasterCard wanted merchants to not do this because it makes credit cards less attractive if places charge fees. The thing I’m particularly skeptical about is how much they charge. The fees are like 2 to 3 percent. Checks and debit cards are flat like a few cent fees. Allstate charging 5 dollars for debit or 2 dollars for bank transfers is fucking insane.

I just wish they had better prices. I go there for weird hardware usually or if I actually need help but otherwise the prices are pretty atrocious so it’s hard. I have always loved those stores though once I was old enough to appreciate them lol.

This is so many people. It’s astounding. So many people just seem completely overwhelmed at all times no matter where they are or what they’re doing and cannot simply prepare for what comes next. I suspect a large part of it is they’re just distracted on their phone like zombies.

Sometimes it can help troubleshoot but you have to already know what you’re doing so you can filter out really stupid suggestions and get to the “oh yeah I didn’t think about that” kind of stuff. If you’re relying on it completely, you’re gonna have a bad time lol.

I am not even a developer but I’ve noticed tickets having a response written clearly by AI that miss several things I already talked to the person over teams about. Like dude read your own fucking comment before you post. The conclusion is wrong and you know that because we talked about it before you had the AI “figure out the problem” in the first place. Fuck. I know reading logs is really time consuming and annoying but the AI isn’t always very good or won’t just say “hey that log isn’t showing that I’m looking for” and instead just hallucinates something.

I don’t even hate AI, but could we at least use our fucking brains while using the AI? When it spits out code to me for my home projects, I, someone who is not a developer, still look at the code to make sure it’s not say running a loop that will hammer disk looking for 1200 files one at a time instead of pulling a directory listing and searching it or something very similar in the database I’m using. People have gotten so lazy. Maybe they’re tired of their bosses trying to force them and are providing garbage? I don’t know but can we just not? Lol.

There’s a downgrade utility for a reason lol. You always have that option and it’s not particularly hard to use. Most of the time it’s fine but yeah shit like this does happen from time to time.

There’s a beer at a locally brewery here called Hop Shock. The name tells you everything you need to know lol.

Thank you. Christ I hate IPAs. I always feel like people are lying when they say they like them lol. I know everyone is different but fuck IPAs are SO bitter and awful.

The problem with this imo is that having each individual user needing to login with a password every time is kind of just cancer. I don’t get why they can’t just password protect logging into my server and then each user doesn’t need a password every time. Now it’s been a while but my understanding is it’s still basically that way? No one wants to type in a password every time on a TV. That sucks. And if they’re in a multi user household, that’s even worse.

How are other projects going to handle using the Jellyfin app to log into Jellyfin? I don’t understand this. I see sentiments like this pretending Jellyfin is perfect like they don’t understand why people use Plex. I want to give my mom a URL that she can login to (or even better she gives me a code) after she downloads an app. What is the point of Jellyfin itself not handling this? It’s pointless. If I’m going to have a half baked server app, I might as well just use Kodi. They can be as stubborn as they want with this but people need these very basic things. I’d actually donate money to the project if they didn’t stubbornly REFUSE to do the main thing every Plex user wants. Other projects don’t need to do this. The Jellyfin developers need to. I first tried Jellyfin 6 years ago and this is STILL an issue and so I just stay on Plex because I’ve already got lifetime. I WANT to move to Jellyfin but I need to give normies access to my stuff and apparently that’s a wontfix for them?? I can host all this shit myself. I just need it all built in and for the apps to support it. I don’t think anyone is crazy to want this right?