Pika

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[–] Pika 3 points 1 year ago

sounds like an easy chargeback claim if that's the case, "service not rendered/doesn't exist anymore" might lose the acct out of it but who really cares at this point

[–] Pika 2 points 1 year ago

I blocked it at the router, so nowadays I don't use it unless there's an article I really need to access

[–] Pika 2 points 1 year ago

I think one of admins commented saying he added in the last thing, saying there's a delay but it takes time to delete the existing spam communities

[–] Pika 8 points 1 year ago

apple does this but, it's outlawed by the same regulation that this is. Batteries must be easily accessible and there must not be software restrictions for them

[–] Pika 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I mean this is what teslas PR email does, or is it Twitter... it's one of those lol

[–] Pika 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

edit: I just attempted this again on my laptop, they have slightly fixed the issue. If an update is queued when you're online you can remove it from the queue and then go offline and you can play it again. However if you are online you still need to update in order to play the game. This is much better than what it used to be, which was if it detected that you need an update even if you canceled the update and went offline it would say update required.

old post: If you could point me to these settings that you indicate it would be much appreciated,

Please be aware that if the setting your indicating is the allow background updates or the prevent auto updates. While that will make it so the game will not update automatically it will still register the game as requiring update which means if you go offline it won't let you play the game until the update has been done.

I'm going to go test it again because it's been a while since I've tried update in a few minutes

[–] Pika 3 points 1 year ago

A workaround you can do is, before launching steam disconnect from the internet, then launch steam, when it launches it will say no connection and give an option to launch in offline mode, once offline mode is launched you can turn your internet back on. Just keep in mind steam also has to refresh your games every once and awhile as well so you have to go online at /some/ point or it won't let you play the game offline anymore. Steam is super annoying in that matter.

[–] Pika 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

According to the support Community this was fixed about an hour and a half ago, but I continued to have issues I had to manually log out again and log back in to fix it

[–] Pika 1 points 1 year ago

if it was Amazon's method I don't think you would need to wait, iirc it adds it to your amazon cart and you can see pricing and quantity prior to leaving

[–] Pika 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I just wanna add, I am super excited for a world with that last part. No waiting in line, No dealing with stupid miscans on barcodes that no company wants to standardize the location of, pricing would be super simple(it would just appear in my cart when the NFC reader noticed me taking it off the shelf), you wouldn't need to find someone that wants to have the brain numbingly boring job of just standing there.

It's overall a win-win, the only downside is I can see heavy pushback from older generations because that will basically kill cash tender, so older folk who want to use checks or cash (or even the no digital folk) would have issues with the system

an alternative system I could see that allows cash tender still, is an online shopping with a pay with cash option at checkout, then the clerk gets your goods, tenders it and then gives your change. Or maybe continue having the self-check area, but if you're paying cash when you enter the building you grab a tablet(more like an NFC/RFID identifier) and all the stuff you grab goes on to that identifier and then when you go to check out you just put your identifier on the machine and pay as you normally would

[–] Pika 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

unless this changed in the last 2 years, steam detects if a game has an "update pending" so regardless if you go offline, if it detected there was an update it prevents the game from launching. I tried to get around my parents crap download with that trick and it failed.

[–] Pika 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

it's so true... I feel bad due to it but, half the time t1 is just rehashing the power cycle and try again list.

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