I’ve just learned that Deliveroo now offer two subscription tiers at which they will refund some (tier one) or all (tier two) of your order value if they arrive late.
A *food delivery company* has managed to make delivering your food before it goes cold an optional extra with a recurring subscription fee.
"EULAs of Despair"
https://www.pilotlab.org/eulas-of-despair
As an example, the first three tiers of the Amazon EULA terms total over 642,000 words of text, which translates into OVER 53 HOURS of reading at the rate of 200 words a minute.
I ordered a single top from an online store recently. Since then I’ve had an email from them at least every two days, does this shit work, or are people just guessing that it might?
@tracketpacer this is going to be left’s version of Bill Gates putting 5G trackers in vaccines isn’t it? I once had to explain to someone *I did EE with in college* how that was physically impossible.
@0xabad1dea Windows 11 had nothing to remind you about but is contractually obliged to pop an irritating notification every 27 minutes.
The Comments Below, so called because they’re the gateway to Hell.
I decided to learn how to fly the A320. Very much a case of the I Have No Idea What I’m Doing dog, but flying a jetliner. Took me an hour to start the thing up, 30 minutes to fly to Manchester, and then I missed the approach and had to land it by hand because I couldn’t make the autopilot try again.
@fesshole if it’s any consolation they’re used to it, crash detection triggers on roller coasters all the time.
I am quite irritated because I am trying to write an email to someone in an American prison and not only do they charge you extra for every jpeg you want to attach, but the filesize limit is 1MB and they do absolutely nothing to resize images for you automatically nor offer any advice on how to do it yourself. The average phone-photo jpeg has been larger than 1MB for many years. Most nontechnical people would be utterly roadblocked by this
@SecurityWriter I’ll see your 3M USB-C cable and raise you a neat little pack of USB-C to all the other USBs adapters to go with it. I can charge more or less everything from the comfort of my sofa.
@anon_opin yeah, it was a simpler time when you’d stumble upon photos of a man with a surprisingly elastic anus, and women who like to bathe in chocolate.
@q so what you’re saying is that if I put the bar on a train track I can run it unlicensed anywhere I like?
Got home from a Halloween party where I’d drunk half a bottle of wine and immediately sat down for a 400 mile flight through the Himalayas in Flight Sim. Take off was a bit hairy, the landing was one of the best I’ve done despite having to weave through some foothills to get to the runway. Turns out being slightly drunk is the secret to a smooth landing.
The CAA may disagree with this statement.
@anon_opin woah there cowboy. It’s a good thing you’ve kept this incredibly controversial take anonymous otherwise you’d have Big Tube hunting you down.
@sinvega this is driving me slowly mad. Even more so because I don’t really know how to teach the vibes detection which allows me to skip over the bullshit to my ten year old son. Feels like we lived through the golden age of the web and it’s all downhill from here.
Not sure what I’ve interrupted here but I’m pretty sure it won’t be good for us.
@Quinnypig even if you do it sounds quite a bad idea to give a Markov chain direct control of your computer.
@tdp_org @paddyduke what about push notifications? Surely you want your day to be interrupted every time this site you’re visiting for a single purpose posts a new article.
@grajohnt @John @moraghickman Nice fabric for a phone case too! 
I have completed my slow and meandering simulated flight from Lands End to John O’Groats. Six legs or so, gradually upgrading to faster planes as I went. Now I need to work out where I’m going next.