Xed

I've had only one charge dispute with my Apple Card but it was enough to make me question whether I should use the card at all. That's how much of a nightmare this dispute was. Doing an iMessage-based claim (or card limit increase) couldn't be easier with the Apple Card, but the back end with GS was a nightmare.

I had made a legitimate purchase which never arrived. I forget the details about the mailing but I was able to contact the USPS to track the package which showed that it was returned to sender. The company in question said that it doesn't matter so they wouldn't resend or refund. I then used all this info to let GS know. It took several months and several attempts to finally get my card permanently refunded.

I hope that they've cleaned that up by now.

sbdude said:

Xed said:

It's sad that decorum is gone from one party as MAGA made cheating and stealing acceptable. 

You're kidding right? Refresh my memory, was it the Republicans or the Democrats in California (and everywhere else) that increased the amount you'd have to steal or shoplift for it to be a felony, or even be prosecuted? I hope you're trolling, because your comment is extremely ignorant.

WTF are you on about. The Republican Party was hijacked by RINOs who are made a diety out of convicted felon who was great buddies with Epstein and whose only ever made money from conning people and refuses to accept that he lost the election last time and the popular vote twice and has literally stated he wants to be dictator.

You'd think the sexual assault alone would keep him from getting enough to keep people from voting for him, but I guess some people like the idea of a rapist in office. Personally, I believe in democracy so if you want to support an entitled, whining, pedophile, who has gaslit you into believing the stupidest fucking lies even when there is plenty of evidence showing he and his propaganda machine (FOX) didn't even believe the lies themselves... you go right ahead — you have that right.

PS: Speaking of yard signs, do you not recall the Ohio sheriff that was instructing residents to write down names of people with Harris signs in their yards. You really don't think that was problematic? No party is perfect, but one is now egregiously corrupt and anti-democratic.

It's sad that decorum is gone from one party as MAGA made cheating and stealing acceptable. 

ranson said:

As it stands in October 2024, certificates have a lengthy lifespan of about 13 months. 

The lifespan of TLS certificates can actually be between 1 day and 13 months (or longer if you roll your own Certificate Authority), and it varies from solution to solution. Most places go with exactly 1 year because it is easier to remember the same day every year.

Anyone using a modern public cloud solution (CloudFlare, AWS, etc.) to operate their web offering will not have any problems with increasing the cadence of TLS renewal and the overhead involved, because the cloud provider handles it automatically behind the scenes. So anyone complaining that it is too much work to renew more frequently has chosen not to use the available public cloud automations for this and has also chosen not to invest in an alternative or homegrown automated certificate renewal solution. Instead, they are manually renewing and loading certificates - in an age where good systems administrators do everything possible to avoid manual deployments and the potential for human error that comes with it.

Going from a maximum of 13 months to a maximum of 1.5 months seems like too much of a drop. I can see why they don't want the needle moved so drastically.

thrang said:

Watched this with my wife and son a few days back. It wanted to be a Shane Black movie, but didn't have his sensibilities, rhythm, energy, or smartness (see The Nice Guys for how it's done - a movie that gets more than a few nods from in "Wolf").

Some smart dialogue, but it felt very oddly paced, sparse, and aimless. There's no way this should have been a theatrical release - it quite firmly has a made for TV feel.

These streamers need to focus on quality scripts first and foremost. "Wolfs" needed one.

5.5/10

So far I'd agree with it being sparse. Ever scene feels too drawn out like there is too much gravitas to everything without the substance to back it up.