I had a similar thing happen with Best Buy. I ordered a laptop which showed as “delivered” but never arrived. In fact I was at home the whole day they claimed it was delivered and nobody even came. Best Buy had no proof it was delivered other than a tracking number, and wouldn’t send me a new one or refund me. The employee on the phone told me to just call the police and report it as stolen. I escalated it to a supervisor and asked them to listen to the original conversation, and explained that it’s not my responsibility to get the laptop - it’s their responsibility to ship it to me. I also at the same time disputed it with my credit card. The end result was someone at Best Buy calling me back and apologizing for the employee’s mistake, and my credit card company saying they refunded my money, as well as telling me I could keep the laptop if it ever arrived later. So it ended up working out. I just had to escalate it and be the squeaky wheel.

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I have a solution. More algae.

Unrecognized toilet paper roll detected. Please make sure to only use authentic rolls.

Until the company shuts down its servers and your toilet stops working.

Never played any of these before. Do I start with this one or would I need 1?

This needs to be the plot of a new “The Wizard” remake.

They may have made the page purely for SEO to grab a few people considering downloading GIMP.

Medic: “Later.”

CyberPunk 2077 did a similar thing. Seems to be a new pattern. Promise free DLC to drum up support. Charge for the DLC. Wait for things to cool down. Do it again.

Yeah they put ads on that little screen you use to pay. Also it never has any receipt paper loaded.

No, it doesn’t need that many. I read that it will have micro-transactions.

Get a second one at least. You can’t really trust it otherwise. If the truly important data is relatively small you can even just put it on a cloud service as an extra backup. Or use something like Backblaze B2 and keep it connected to your computer and backed up that way.

No, this is because YouTube compresses every file before distributing it. This happens even when downloading on the creator side.

You’re referring to a video codec degrading as it keeps rendering the video again, not just copying and pasting the bits. There is no degradation from copying and pasting a file as-is.

I was burned too bad with Cyberpunk 2077 that even though Starfield seems to be all right, I’m waiting until after reviews come out before I pick up a copy. That just means I wait a few more days to reduce the risk of more pain.

Seeing so many Linux memes here on Lemmy has made me start to consider Linux in the future… I can’t use it for work, but maybe on an older computer or tablet.