u/geminiwave

I’m still trying to figure out how the retailers do it, but I’ve run into this scam a few times. Every time the CC company has to get involved.

Store shows up. Has good (but believable) prices, or they have a truly unique and interesting product.

They advertise a lot and sell through orders.

Those orders get tracking. Sometimes immediately and sometimes it takes a few weeks.

The orders show tracking to your city.

Order shows as delivered by USPS later but of course you never get the item.

The reason is that they somehow gain access to a legitimate shipping number and none of the tracking has any more fidelity than your city.

After they’ve done enough orders they close the shop and when you complain to Shopify they just say they’ll forward your complaint to the merchant.

They won’t deal with it at all or help facilitate a refund through their POS system.

Fortunately the credit card companies know this well and are good about chargebacks, but both Amex and Chase just advise to stay away from Shopify entirely because of the scams.

Honestly it makes me not want to open my own store there and it definitely makes me not want to do any business on Shopify.

Just got our new vestaboard. I've had it ordered for over a year. In that time the note and note array came out. And when I got the device installed my heart sank a little bit. First: the frame around the white casts just enough shadow that it makes the display a little bit harder to read in a way that the black wouldn't be that way at all. And now with the Note, I could have a 2x2, or even a 4x6 display which would rule, but no way to really extend my existing display.

Ah well. it's still beautiful. I just wish I had either got this in black (I didn't realize that the shadows cast by the sun would make it so hard to read) or get an array of it.

Honestly when I got the notice it was out for delivery I had forgotten about even ordering it because it was so long ago.

Before I get started: Why should you trust me? You shouldn't. Hope rides alone. That said, I love coffee and I drink a lot of it. I use a Breville Barista Pro and I have at least one cup every single day. My latest love has been Tokyo Kissa from Blue Bottle. My favorite of all time is Vita by Vivace, though I've had some really amazing single origin shade grown coffee in the past. Anyway that just gives you a "taste" (pun intended) of my preferences.

This coffee slaps.

that is all.

No wait wait wait don't leave. I have more. I put in 16 grams into the grinder. I wasn't sure the settings so I used similar settings to what I use for Hayes Valley espresso because the beans had similar characteristics (on the very fine edge of espresso. I would say bordering between Caster Sugar and Flour so the cusp between Espresso and Turkish).

This turned out to be dialed in nearly dead on. Excellent crema, but not too much. The coffee was smooth. Definitely a bit nutty, almost hazelnut right out of the machine. I do a normal latte with it using whole milk, and I have to say this is one of the smoothest coffees I have ever had, but it pretty quickly gave me the jitters. I've never quite had a coffee this smooth and this caffeinated since the Vita. The espresso is very drinkable straight though with no cream or milk. Just don't mistake the smoothness for decaf.

I'm going to test this out as an affogato (my wife's favorite) and see how she thinks of it.

The only bummer of this is that I assume it is limited edition and thus I won't be able to get more of it in the future.

EDIT: Thank you all so much! You were all wonderful. I am completely taken care of now. I appreciate all the outreach, and also for the people looking for OTHER augments, I DMed you and will work to get those to you (for free. I don't need anything anymore).

I’m so tired of hunting. I just want one for the vault. I can’t get the 1800 seeds people are asking for. I have some other augment BPs I could trade but…. Would someone take 1k seeds and …like whatever else? Seriously I just want this BP and I’m so tired of hunting.

Hey there I’m trying to find the right setup to be an interface and agent harness for local development.

I’ve tried a few things where I host models on LM Studio. I have two apple silicon macs with 64gb ram each and a PC with a 5080. I can utilize Claude code with a harness like Archon to distribute work but the issue is that archon doesn’t pass context or tool calls so it’s making my local models blind and somewhat stupid. In the end I spend a lot of tokens just making the local models viable.

I tired loading them BYOK into copilot which functions much more effectively…. To a point. The problems are that copilot shoves anywhere from 40-60k tokens into every prompt as tool calls even on a simple “hello there!” So the 5080 can’t work at all, and the macs are almost completely filled up from word one.

I got good results making qwen3.6 be the planner/architect and at first it was doing a great job coding but eventually it just gets stuck in endless tool calls loops. It can’t edit code bases without corrupting them. And it spawns dozens of agents that all overwrite each other.

It’s been suggested that copilot is a little too heavy duty with prompt injection for local models so I ask: what do you all use?

Opencode? Hermes? Cursor? I would love to know.

I was playing a harvester map. My intention was to melee the core a bunch for trials. Generally people are pretty medic happy in these maps but this time I got downed and nobody revived me. Which is fine. I was going to crawl away. A dude kept circling me to check me out and at first I thought he would revive but he didn’t. So I expected he would knock me out but he didn’t do that either.

What he did was way more devious.

He took a single shot at the queen and the queen walked over and stomped me. I crawled away and shouted for him to back away because it would kill me.

Aaaaaand that’s when he walked by me again and took a single shot at the queen to attract her and get me. And he did it until I finally died.

Guy wanted my goop but didn’t want to mess with ABMM. I was legitimately impressed with the deviousness of it.

Well dude you got some shield rechargers, a little ammo, and a banged up torrente I. Congrats!

same problem as here https://www.reddit.com/r/redditdev/comments/1sfcgvz/cannot_create_script_application_on_prefsapps/

I am trying to add a script application at reddit.com/prefs/apps, the form won't submit after completing the CAPTCHA. It keeps telling me I have to read the Responsible Builder Policy, which I did, but it has no actual error to it. It just keeps cycling me into a Captcha.

I have tried this on desktop Chrome, Safari, and mobile Safari as well.

Since the latest update things have been…spicy. As a solo player it’s been mixed. Sometimes friendly. Sometimes not. I’m a PvE player. So it was frustrating.

I had 3 or 4 glasses of scotch tonight. I had my buddies play. I have one friend who hates PvP. Another who is okay with it but terrible at it. We loaded up for a Stella night raid. Geared up for carnage. I told my team “it’s shoot on sight. We don’t fuck around”.

We load in. Arc everywhere. It’s bedlam.

We encounter some raiders. Before we can shoot: “hello!!! Are you hunting blueprints!”

Dude ended up giving me one I was hunting down for ages. We found 6 more BPs.

So we load into blue gate. Run into other trios looking to dominate arc.

Load into riven tides night raid. Find raiders wanting help on quests.

Load into spaceport. Find snipers asking if we want cover for our quests.

What the fuck is happening?!!! Every mission on trios was friendly. Helpful. And entirely PvE. It was incredible. My buddy who hates Arc said he’d play more if this was the standard.

Tonight was the best trios session we ever had.