If they cut back on the boiled lollies for decent, that's where I'll draw the line!

Wrapping Christmas presents with paper from a roll. Cut the size you want and the new piece immediately rolls up again. Have to unroll it and place weights on the corners to keep it flat while you start to work with it. Driving me crazy.

Wrapping Christmas presents with paper from a roll. Cut the size you want and the new piece immediately rolls up again. Have to unroll it and place weights on the corners to keep it flat while you start to work with it. Driving me crazy.

FTFY

Possibly also one for the braindead software design thread:

Trying to buy something on a site that uses eWay as its payment provider.  I have the usual payment and auth sites whitelisted, default for other sites is permissions locked down so the site can't do absolutely anything it wants.

Enable a half-dozen random sites that it needs in order to work.  Checkout is still greyed out so enable another pile of random sites.  Still greyed out, another dozen or so and Checkout is enabled.  Get to the payment page and I need to enable another list of sites, reload, another set of sites, finally it looks like I can enter my details.  Now it wants some code from the back of the physical card so I go and dig up the card and enter it, at which point it hangs because I need to enable more sites, which restarts the whole process from scratch.

Go through all this again and now it wants 2FA confirmation from the bank app, authenticated via fingerprint.  Then it hangs again and I have to enable another pile of sites.  I've now got about half the Internet, including things like virusbucket.ru, whitelisted, and after another trip through the whole loop the payment finally goes through.

I feel very reassured around the handling of my $14.95 payment.

If your competitors ever ask you for a recommendation for a payments provider, recommend eWay to them.  I'm sure it'll do wonders for their sales.

neb:

 

Possibly also one for the braindead software design thread:

 

You must have really wanted that $14.95 item!

Spotify first introduced your year in review (Spotify Wrapped) and now every on-line service provider wants to bombard you at the end of the year with stats on how much time you've wasted on their platform. It was fun and kind of made sense with a music streaming platform but why does everyone feel the need to copy that!

@Freitasm, when can we expect the Geekzone Wrapped email?

Rikkitic:

neb:

Possibly also one for the braindead software design thread:

 

You must have really wanted that $14.95 item!

 

Senecio:

 

@Freitasm, when can we expect the Geekzone Wrapped email?

 

Unless there's a prize, I don't want to see my stats... 

Gurezaemon:

 

Wrapping Christmas presents with paper from a roll. Cut the size you want and the new piece immediately rolls up again. Have to unroll it and place weights on the corners to keep it flat while you start to work with it. Driving me crazy.

 

FTFY

 

All I wanted was a heap of sympathy and some understanding of what I was going through. All I got was cynicism. So unfair.

Just got this message from Sky

vexxxboy: I wonder if we ever get to see this new experience or being cynical  is it just a way to make people upgrade to the new box.

If I got something like that, I would get out. Normally there is a free exchange of a box in the event of a unilateral contract amendment.

vexxxboy:

Just got this message from Sky