Ah i get it. But that tax is minimal and applies on specific hs codes. Like “additional 10% on polyester fabric shirts manufactured in that specific country”

I assumed it was applied it anyway together with the vat, it’s technically possible during the ioss declaration. Maybe it’s difficult to calculate for small stuff as especially clothing do the tour of the world, manufactured in Bangladesh, labeled in turkey, sent back to china for logistics

At least now everything is taxed at ~20% and china post seems stopped abusing the postal service by canceling their package service to Europe (source for that, a month ago I personally tried to send a package to myself from a Chinese post office, they said they don’t do that anymore, had to fit the stuff in the luggage) so now Alibaba and similar they ship a big container to Europe with combined orders and then use local shipping

How the us is doing by having the threshold so high is insane, leaving door open to abuse. It might made sense until the 80s when international trade was limited to big imports and there was no e-commerce. In my country every single package would declare a value of 799 and nobody would pay a dime lol

Like the far right in my country before the elections “We have the solution to fix the economy, vote for us” - without of course saying what they’re going to do.

Unfortunately, majority of people believed them

Populism works, people like to vote for someone that says what they want to listen even if it’s obvious that they’re not going to do that

But it’s not true. The threshold now is 0€, everything needs to pay vat since one year ago. Over 150€ it just can’t do the automatic ioss vat payment

? under 150 euro the VAT is already automatically collected via IOSS, or it would be held at customs even if it’s declared as gift with 0€ value.

omg i cannot state how much i hate the widgets bar, it’s like they designed it on purpose to show ads&clickbait

Google dialer?

Ad free, not slow, but collecting all possible data on your calls.

I like that it’s blocking the spam calls, I get 10 spam calls for each real call. Unfortunately that needs to send back to them all my phone calls with their caller id.

I hate how it shows the call log. It only shows the latest action ever for a number and doesn’t even show the time. This is especially infuriating when you need to see what time someone called. For example my doctor office called to move my appointment, then when I showed up they said that wasn’t true and wanted to charged me for a no-show. I wasn’t able to prove immediately that they called me on which day and at which time to move the appointment because the “simplified” call log only shows the latest call action which was that I called back several days after that.

Sure but we all know that 99% of people don’t change defaults.

Also, waiting for those updates that “accidentally” revert to the default

It changed my setting from disabled to enabled after the update

i have the feeling that a feature like this makes a very little money that compared to the millions that google gives to be the default is a drop in the ocean

probably this won’t be enough to even pay the CEO salary

c’è bisogno di uno che faccia da referente e scelga le priorità. Gli esempi dove “il partito” è quello che decide, non sono proprio democratici

I don’t understand what macron was thinking. If they got this result 3 weeks ago, rushing new elections with no time for an extended electoral campaign was going to get the same results, no?

On the top right. Maybe it’s some a/b testing to see which one “converts” (=annoys) more. I don’t have the “just take me to the download” link like in the other image, just the X to close the login popup

Unacceptable IMHO, I just want to give my clients an easy link to download the huge files I’m sending them without ads or tricks. With this wall many users will get confused and create a new account

Both on mobile and desktop there’s a “login wall” but it can be dismissed by pressing on the X.

Still, it’s a dark pattern that I don’t like, tomorrow at work we will discuss alternatives as we subscribed (one single account shared between everyone) just for sending attachments with filelink using thunderbird - and with a “login wall” it no longer fits the purpose

Shared from a paid account or from a free account?

If shared from paid account, then tomorrow I’m going to cancel our company account as this is unacceptable, we use that for sharing files in emails (we tried to use a self hosted nextcloud but customers are too dumb to figure out how to press the download button)

Free usage is still limited to 2gb unless you got a lot of referrals. It was a lot in 2008, but it’s difficult to daily use that in 2024

I already tried to swap circuit boards in identical Seagate ide drives and not only it worked to recover the data but technically that windows 98 PC still boots today (I turn it on once a year because I have a very old SCSI film scanner that doesn’t work with newer stuff)

You should try the experience, I used ddrescue to create an image

No, I’m not paying for that

The money goes only to the seller, not to the cracker that worked hard just for the glory

È stato abbastanza imbarazzante, al limite dell’incredibile considerando quanto sono ultra pianificati questi incontri, con team di esperti che ti preparano risposte pronte a tutte le domande scomode. Impappinarsi e concludere con “abbiamo sconfitto medicare” può succedere a me, un pinco pallino a caso se dopo una notte di bagordi mi sveglio la mattina e diretto senza nemmeno prendere un caffè vado a fare un comizio senza alcuna preparazione, ma non può succedere al presidente degli stati uniti

Not victim blaming nor defending Adobe because fuck them, but… It’s not a cancellation fee and they’re actually nice to let you cancel earlier.

I explain: when you sign up, you can choose between monthly commitment or yearly commitment. Yearly commitment has a much lower monthly fee because they want to discourage occasional usage, but many individuals wouldn’t like to pay the huge yearly sum in a single payment, and in this case they offer a yearly plan with monthly installments. (For a big company instead is the opposite, they prefer paying the huge sum and get a single invoice instead of 12 invoices - less work for the accounting dept). Yearly plan with monthly installments isn’t the same of a monthly plan.

So, technically, the user agreed to a 1-year contract and they’re even nice to let you go out earlier by just paying back the discount that you got in the meantime, like if you subscribed monthly. If you think about it, it’s almost unheard. With most yearly contracts, there’s no possibility of early cancellation. Even Amazon, that label themselves “the most consumer friendly company” doesn’t easily give partial refunds to unused Prime subscriptions.

Regarding the chargeback, in my country all the banks except American express would reject it as you got the service as stated in the contract

Now that I almost defended Adobe, fuck them and always try to find an alternative to their products before giving a single penny to them

For a professional, what Acrobat pro can do is not available in any other program and (don’t tell Adobe!) only 50 cents a day is an incredible deal

For example you can scan a sheet of paper, it does OCR on it and creates a font that matches exactly the one on page, then you can change words and sentences without changing the look of it.

Trim pages, remove elements, edit embedded images and vectors with other programs (doesn’t need to be made by Adobe but it works better if it is). Change margins, fonts, colors, flow text differently, change the line spacing. Have a preview how color will change when printed, see if spot colors are used and change them in different ways. Edit transparencies, use plugins for extended repetitive work. Convert the fonts to outlines if the font has some kind of DRM and doesn’t allow embedding, resulting in visual difference between other computers.

The nerfed standard edition at 10 euro per month instead isn’t worth anything