Super General Advice (the thread for advice without making a thread)

I have one of those but I hurt my jaw really badly by chewing on it. It was large round beads, though. Maybe a different shape would work better.

 

Stimtastic's dulcimer and gem beads are pretty squishy. I have a rather weak, easily hurt jaw but I don't have issues with those (and I actually chewed through the gem beads eventually because they're hollow in the middle and my favorite spot to chew was where the silicone is thinnest around the middle). The blossom is good too if you want something with lots of texture. I think they have some other thin, light ones, but I haven't tried them.

 

I may be completely wrong here but my assumption is that as long as it has a microSD slot, you can put whatever sized microSD card in there.

 

A lot of them at least claim to have a cap on size. :(

 

What does having a cap even accomplish?? If they're not even offering, like, specific cards that can be used to make extra money???

That sucks. :/ I hope you can find a nice tablet in the price range that doesn't have that kind of issue.

 

Probably not very useful information but the size cap is not punitive. It’s because the microsdhc cards, holding up to 32 gb, are using the FAT32 file system. It literally cannot make use of more than 32gb of memory because that’s the limit of the room it has for unique memory addresses. Even if the memory were physically there it wouldn’t be able to interact with it.

Larger cards are using a different file system. It’s a proprietary Microsoft thing called exfat apparently, which I’m not sure I’ve ever heard of. A device that was created to use microsdhc just might not be functionally capable of talking to these bigger cards even if you could add all the code without breaking anything.

 

@Acey belatedly, because I've been out of town, I actually currently have a 64gb microSD in my tablet and it works just fine. I don't have exactly that model because mine has cellular data, but the one you linked is identical to the one I have other than that.

 

It looks like I’m actually getting a Kindle Fire, which isn’t IDEAL but should suit my needs if it has expandable storage, which I think the new ones do?

 

Just found an inexplicable $36.99 charge on my paypal, which was apparently set up as a monthly recurring payment. Woo!

Already reported it to Paypal and requested a stop payment/refund on both transactions I found, so there’s that, but I don’t suppose anyone here knows who WSJ/Barron’s is or what service they provide?

Also, how to get rid of the skin-crawly unclean feeling of having money disappear when I don’t know why or remember agreeing to it but being worried that I actually did agree to it and now I’m a bad person for trying to get my money back?

 

Wall Street Journal and Barron's. So news.

 

... I agreed to a $9 a month subscription, which I cancelled after two months because I couldn’t afford it.

crap did I agree to something else without knowing it?

 

Apparently Barron’s is an investment publication. Doesn’t seem like something you’d subscribe to on a whim or by accident.

Edit: Ahh, that makes sense. I hope you can get it canceled, for real.

 

Oh these fuckers.

They have automatic renewal turned on. There is no online way to turn it off. You have to call customer service.

I thought I cancelled my damn subscription, but as far as I can tell that’s actually impossible without making a damn phonecall.

As far as I know, I fucking agreed to this shit when I signed up. Cancel the $9 payment, pay $37 instead.

Arrgh.

 

how is that legal

 

It’s legal cause I clicked the box that says “I’ve read the terms and conditions,” that’s how.

And to be clear, I’m not even sure that’s what’s going on. It’s just an extrapolation from observed facts mixed with outrage. That sort of thing tends to make the ol’ conclusion-generation engine go boom.

I’m super pissed about the phone thing though. That’s gotta be an accessibility violation.

 

... Hold up.

The $9 a month subscription was to the Washington Post, not the fuckin Wall Street Journal. I have less than no reason to be buying a subscription to the fuckin Wall Street Journal.

OK now I’m just.... what’s the emotion that goes with waking up at 5 AM with an epiphany about W-starting news publications that you definitely wouldn’t have agreed to pay cash money to?

... Never mind, I go back to sleep now.

 

i'm going to spend christmas with my mom. plane tickets are $1300, bus tickets $250. It is obvious that I should pick the bus tickets, but it's a 20 hour trip and i've never travelled by bus before. I kinda want to save money, but I also don't know if it's worth spending almost a day in a bus, and I'm afraid of accidents or, like, what if someone robs the bus. thoughts?

 

> plane tickets are $1300

Where the heck are you flying from? That’s insanely expensive.

 

Generally people paid to do transit try really hard to not get in accidents, as it's a giant deal if they do get in one. I've never been on a long haul bus ride like that but know tons of people who have done the 6-8 hour megabus from Chicago to Minneapolis and I've never heard of anything more uncomfortable than weird conversations with their neighbor happening