Offer not valid in Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Alaska or Hawaii. Void where prohibited.

“The ad-free tier. Look man, don’t even ask about cost. This is one of those situations where if you have to ask, you can’t afford it.”

She thinks that if she just plugs in the plug to charge it, that the people at appleHQ won’t let her phone charge because they don’t like her. So she first turns on airplane mode, so that they have no communication with her phone, and can’t see what she’s doing. THEN she turns OFF the phone, so that her phone won’t know it’s her charging it.

Yes, I realize NONE of that makes sense. At all. That’s kind of my point that she’s not going to be learning anything new about technology. I just nod my head, yes mom, the people at appleHQ can’t see you now…go ahead and charge your phone…

While rolling my eyes internally.

At this point it’s less about the current quality of the product, and more about the company. I had every right to have my item replaced. I was within warrenty. It’s not MY warrenty policy. I didn’t set the terms. I didn’t set the duration. They did. They said if any issues arrise within a certain time of purchase I could get a replacement. I had the proof. I sent them the proof. I was told something along the lines of “In this case we’re not able to replace the drive”. When I asked what was wrong, I was told it was a high capacity drive with an electronic failure point. I even called on the phone, pulled up a pdf of their warrenty and asked them to show me where in the warrenty there was an exclusion for this situation. They didn’t even attempt to try. They just argued that it couldn’t be done, because the drive failed. I said "Yes. The drive certainly did fail within warrenty period. That’s what’s covered within the warrenty. That’s the whole purpose of the warrenty. To provide reassurance to the customer that if they should so happen to buy one of the 1% of drives with a malfunction beyond their control, that the product they paid for will be replaced without worry. "

They then told me I was wrong, transfered me to their boss, and while on hold hung up.

I understand if I buy a western digital, I run the risk of also buying a dud drive. However I assume they will honor their warrenty.

Seagate doesn’t need to honor any warrenty. They don’t need to offer any warrenty. However as the customer, I’m free to inquire about warrenty terms before buying. If I see a product that does not offer warrenty on new items, or doesn’t allow returns? That tells me the company doesn’t stand by their product. It’s then MY decision on if I want to gamble.

Seagate DID offer a warrenty that they set the terms for. That tells me they stand behind their product. So when they told me no, and gave no reason besides “the drive is dead”? That’s called bait and switch. Which breaks trust between customer and business.

They might have 36TB SSD hard drives at $100 that they guarentee will last 100 years. I still won’t buy it, because I’ve lost trust in the company to stand behind their claims.

And here we are, 20 years later. Still haven’t bought a single seagate product since. And often times being interested in a sale or offer, until I saw the brand. I’ve multiple times in 20 years went out of my way to avoid seagate.

And if they would have honored the warrenty? I’d have moved on from any grudge. Back when Logitech was still a good company I called and asked how much to repair an out of warrenty mouse I have. I understood I’d have to pay. I was getting a price quote to see if it was worth it, as I LOVED that mouse model in 2000. Sad when it died in 2006. Dude on the phone just said “Ah, here. Lets not even repair it. I’m just going to send you the same model”

And sent me a brand new (old stock) replacement of the same mouse I had. That mouse lasted until 2014.

So I used the same model mouse from 2000-2014. And I also still buy logitech products, even though I recognize the company is not as high quality as they used to be. Call it nostolgia, call it brand loyalty, whatever. It still just feels right buying logitech, and a huge part of that is what they did in the past.

I know people don’t want to hear it but can we expect non-techies to meet techies half way by leveling their tech skill tree?

In order to charge her iphone, my mom first turns on airplane mode, and THEN she powers it down. Turns it off completely. I asked why she does any of that. She says “Because they won’t flip the charge switch for me until they do! I wish I could take the battery out first, and THEN turn off the phone. But I suppose if they can’t see my battery with airplane mode on first, this is just as good.”

And you want this woman to learn terminal?

Ok, now tell the linux people this.

How is it going to be as big as reddit if EVERYONE is vetted?

What? I post a lot, but the majority?

…oh, you said LLM. I thought you said LMM.

What do you do in real life? You tell them to fuck off.

I bought a seagate. Brand new. 250gb, back when 250gb on one hard drive cost a fuckton.

It sat in a box until I was done burning the files on my old 60gb hard drive onto dvd-r’s.

Finally, like 2 months later, I open the box. Install the drive. Put all the files from dvds onto the hard drive.

And after I finished, 2 weeks later it totally dies. Outside of return window, but within the warranty period. Seagate refused to honor their warranty even though I still had the reciept.

That was like 2005. Western Digital has now gotten my business ever since. Multiple drives bought. Not because the drives die, but because datawise I outgrow them. My current setup is 18TB and a 12TB. I figure by 2027 I’ll need to update that 12TB to a 30TB. Which I assume will still cost $400 at that point.

Return customer? No no. We’ll hassle our customer and send bad vibes. Make him frustrated for ever shopping our brznd! Gotta protect that one time $400 purchase! It’s totally worth losing 20 years of sales!

I’m still not buying a seagate.

And so it begins…

:O

I hadn’t heard. I see it on wikipedia now. That death went right past me.

Zuck? I thought that was Screech from saved by the bell…

I’m already not buying it. I have a rule. I’ll pay full price for a full price game. That’s fine. That’s fair. I pay full price, I get full game.

I will also play free to play games that charge small amounts of money to play. That’s fair. The game was free, and I am enjoying it. That’s fair.

My rule comes into place that I will NOT buy a game that I then need to continually pay for.

GTA 5 has already shifted priority to their online portion of the game. But there’s still a solid single player game. But online has CLEARLY been the priority post launch, with no updates or dlc to the offline campaign since release.

Compare this to constant updates and dlc for the online campaign. But there’s a catch. GTA states that GTA Online is a seperate game/experience. However, in order to play GTA Online, you need to buy GTA 5. On PS5, I believe the standard non-sale price is STILL $59.99. Keep in mind, this is an upscaled graphics PS3 game that came out in 2013.

So in order to play GTA Online, you gotta pay $59.99, but once you do you’re IMMEDIATELY at a disadvantage. Not the fact that you’re level 0, but the fact that even if you level up your player, other players are constantly using shark cards. Which are in-game currency that you don’t unlock. You buy them. With real world money. Already paid $59.99, but let me just pay another $19.99. Not to win, but rather to not fall behind.

Because if I pay $19.99, and you pay $19.99, we’re both on even footing, and we’re both out $19.99. However if I pay $19.99, and you don’t, I then have an advantage before you even turn your console on.

And rockstar has openly stated that GTA 6 will heavily lean into this EVEN HARDER. It’s now a core component of online play, which again, is their main concern with this game.

They’ll throw in a single player campaign, but it’s just scraps off the bone. The real meat of the game is online. Which again, is pay to stay competitive. After you’ve already bought the game.

Nooooooooope. From my perspective the only way to win, is to not buy/play at all. This coming from a 41 year old who played the ps1 GTA games as a teenager. So it’s not like GTA just isn’tmy thing.

I want to like GTA 6. But rockstar is just giving me the middle finger. So in return I will give back the middle finger.

HEY IT’S FRED!!!

Remember that? Remember Fred? Ah, of coarse not. You have the memory of a goldfish…

STOP BEING RIGHT!!!

Doesn’t matter. They’re going to make it into a smart tv, and then I’m not going to buy it.

Iceberg of stupidity. And it’s not just genZ. It’s Americans in general.

But trump is the one who started the movement to ban it when he was president the first time!