kels · HackerTrans

vor 8 Jahrendiscuss

Maybe not compared to a free game like Fortnite, but 50 million copies is huge when it comes to video game sales. The 50 million number is from Xbox and PC only.

GTA V is the top grossing game of all time and sold 90 million copies on 3 platforms. Minecraft has sold 150 across way more platforms and has been around way longer.

kels

vor 8 Jahrendiscuss

I have no affiliation with any of these companies.

I use StatusCake for basic uptime monitoring for websites. I switched to them from Pingdom because they are cheaper. Only downsides I've had with StatusCake is if something is down it doesn't give you the cause. Pingdom would show you the trace route. That has made it hard to tell and I would get quite a few false positives saying sites were down. I haven't had false positive issues for months now though. Their paid plans have SSL/domain monitoring.

Monitis for cheap Linux CPU/RAM/Load monitoring.

kels

vor 8 Jahrendiscuss

I don't think this is Amazon trying to trick anyone. Even though it's the same brand, it's two different sellers. The sellers make the listings, not Amazon.

The reason one shows the price breakdown in ounces and the other doesn't was because it wasn't set up in the listing to show that.

The shipping time is different because each listing has their stock in different warehouses.

My biggest gripe with Amazon is the third-party sellers all selling the same item they're importing from a Chinese company but rebranding it (poorly). As an example search for gaming headsets and you start to notice that the headsets being sold under different brand names look exactly the same. If you look even closer at the images you will see they don't even remove the original brand name from the headsets themselves.

To me the biggest erode in trust when I search for something and every result is the same item but rebranded and they're all at different prices with their own collection of reviews.

I've bought many items on Amazon trying to find the superior version to find out they're the exact same thing but rebranded.

kels

vor 8 Jahrendiscuss

I'm in Colorado and I had to pay $66 up front. $50 is a deposit and $16 is the fee every two years. I see that California doesn't have a fee but I know other states do.

TaxJar will register for you in the States that you need for ~$100 per state, plus their fees (https://www.taxjar.com/state-registrations/) -- I'm sure Avalara does something similar but that's ~$5000 that a small business probably won't have.

kels

vor 8 Jahrendiscuss

What no one is talking about here is how this would be handled, especially for a small online sellers. There are almost 10,000 tax jurisdictions (https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/post/mccon...) and you're not allowed to collect sales tax unless you register for that jurisdiction. There is also a fee collected by most jurisdictions to register and most make you send in periodic reports, even if you didn't collect any taxes for them.

kels

vor 8 Jahrendiscuss

I still have my functional Omnibot that my Dad bought when I was a kid.

kels

vor 8 Jahrendiscuss

I really want to like all of these services. I've used Grubhub, Uber Eats and DoorDash. My problem with them is that it costs way more than eating at the restaurant. It's usually 30% - 40% of the cost of the food for delivery, service fees and tip.

I've always wondered why it wasn't cheaper to do take out than eat at a restaurant. I'm not taking up a parking space, table, using facilities, or taking up as much of the employees time but I still incur that overhead.

kels

vor 9 Jahrendiscuss

I had this happen to me recently when I hit 90% of my data cap from Comcast for the first time.

At first I noticed that all traffic was being hijacked to show me a full page message that I was at 90% of my data limit and to contact the Comcast Security Assurance team. It looks really scammy like those alerts from "Microsoft" that my computer is infected.

After clicking on the acknowledge link multiple times it wouldn't stop so I called the security assurance team.

While waiting on hold for 30 minutes it finally stopped but I was already irate. I had to argued with the rep because he told me that I could disable the web notifications and he finally found out that Comcast removed that option and he apologized that there was nothing he could do.

kels

vor 9 Jahrendiscuss

I'm in Colorado Springs (2nd largest city in Colorado) and we passed this last year although it didn't get any coverage. Colorado is definitely moving in the right direction.

kels

vor 9 Jahrendiscuss

I get where WordPress is coming from by not fixing this issue since it's an Apache thing. But since Apache's default value causes this to happen I think the framework should try to protect its users. The normal user that had their WordPress installed using an application installer on a shared host isn't going to know about this issue.

kels

vor 9 Jahrendiscuss

You could do this a lot easier:

  if ( !isset( $from_email ) ) {
    $sitename = parse_url( strtolower( WP_HOME ) )['host'];

    if ( substr( $sitename, 0, 4 ) == 'www.' ) {
      $sitename = substr( $sitename, 4 );
    }

    $from_email = 'wordpress@' . $sitename;
  }

Edit: you still need to strip out www. if it exits. Also not compatible with < PHP 5.4

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