Taalen

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[–] Taalen@lemmy.world 36 points 2 days ago

If it's the only thing you drink, price adds up fast.

[–] Taalen@lemmy.world 33 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

One of the companies making GPS navigators for cars used to advertise lifetime map updates. Small print: lifetime of the device, two years after release

[–] Taalen@lemmy.world 42 points 1 month ago (11 children)

Whatever it does, it doesn't seem to help with colors.

[–] Taalen@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Sadly your average person just doesn't care about consumer rights, in any matter.

I learned my lesson about malicious DRM when Starforce broke my new computer's DVD drive back in the day. Fortunately it was still under warranty so I had it fixed, but sucked all the same.

[–] Taalen@lemmy.world 28 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'd love to start over with 50 million, too

[–] Taalen@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

EU is at least trying to do something about that. As of last year stores are required to display the cheapest price they've had for an item in the past three months when they have something on sale. Not all stores comply, and of course they try to get around these by the usual shenanigans, like basically the same product being available from the manufacturer with two slightly different item codes.

Edit: I think I was mistaken, and it's 30 days, not 3 months

[–] Taalen@lemmy.world 21 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Here, let me adjust your sarcasm detector

[–] Taalen@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago

When I last moved, I fit my six person dining room set in my VW Passat at the same time. The table was partially disassembled, all the chairs were whole. Pretty sure there was other stuff in the car at the time too. Regular people don't need these giant pickups.

[–] Taalen@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago

Well, technically both Julius and Caesar were his last names, Caesar was an extra name of unknown origin in his family branch. Since him it became a title.

[–] Taalen@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

This is pretty close to how it works here in Finland, although I'm not sure if it's based on national or EU legislation. The cost of recycling is baked into the price of any electronics, and as a rule of thumb, you can drop off any small devices to be recycles at stores that sell appliances. When it comes to bigger appliances, the stores only need to take your old one if you're buying a new one. You can of course also bring them to municipal recycling centers.

[–] Taalen@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

One way of taking human sacrifice

[–] Taalen@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

One way of taking human sacrifice

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