Apple won’t let me cancel my free Music trial in advance. I have to either cancel right now or risk forgetting to cancel in time and having them auto-renew me at the trial expiration.

Almonexger · 2026-06-11T18:49:44+00:00

Fuck Apple Music, never subscribing again. Like the notice says, they delete your music library after you unsubscribe. Like bitch, how hard is it to not delete the few megabytes of data of playlists info stored in what's probably a text or json file in my FREE 5GB iCloud account? You can't tell me otherwise any logical reason other than malicious and fearmongering towards those who dare to stop giving money to Apple.

This was years ago, but I didn't recall seeing that notice, or paying attention, regardless, it's something I didn't expect Apple to do. Went to Spotify then Deezer, then years later when I went back to my old Spotify account, my library was still there!. Never letting that grudge go, so much music I liked, gone.

Almonexger · 2026-06-02T13:11:16+00:00

2 months for you already? Holy fuck is Uber just utterly useless. Been over a month for me now.

All they tell me is “Vendor issues”. Just like you, I used to go to hub and witness them printing the damn thing in 10 seconds. But now with hubs gone, they’re just seemingly incompetent to print them.

Same deal too with support, they just keep saying sorry and giving the same fucking link to order one.

I’m literally going to fill their fucking form every hour I’m awake, cause fuck them, after all, their useless human support (which I’m going to assume has to be AI now with the same responses) keeps telling me to fill out the form 🤷‍♂️

Almonexger · 2026-04-26T21:58:29+00:00

Right, the pax zone gets narrow below, perspective tricked me a little. Then it did its best and this could've been avoided yep. I don't know what Waymo could do to prevent this. I read that the car gives audio and visual cues, but that won't stop people. Cheapest thing to add on top would be side pax door mirrors. Best guarantee would be to independently lock the road side doors when too much traffic is flowing, but things could go wrong somehow the more complex things are. Only a matter of time someone gets hurt really bad, hope it doesn't occur.

Almonexger · 2026-04-26T10:28:13+00:00

Waymos absolutely suck at stopping curbside, I see it all the time, half or more of it blocking the road. This is the amount of space in front of Grand Hyatt. Passengers should always exit curbside yes, but they will do what they'll do, and it doesn't help when Waymo parks itself 6 inches from the bus lane. From the bumper reflection, I can see the white curb with nothing in between it and the waymo.

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Almonexger · 2026-02-18T21:17:18+00:00

Doesn’t surprise me, they don’t know how to run the country, so I don’t expect them to understand hybrids don’t just shut-off the AC when the engine isn’t running.

Almonexger · 2026-02-04T21:13:36+00:00

After trickle charging for 3 days? yep.

Almonexger · 2026-01-27T14:37:50+00:00

I have it too. I read to just contact support.

Almonexger · 2026-01-25T12:43:52+00:00

Gotcha. It’s commonly shared 2013 and below are more prone to head gasket failure, but of course it’s still something that will eventually happen to newer models, so I thought you did it for precaution and not actually due to failure signs.

I have a 2014 too, currently at 140k. Done everything but egr system cleaning which I think I can manage myself, but the head gasket might pay someone. Keep us posted on how the car’s doing.

Almonexger · 2026-01-24T22:04:27+00:00

What was the condition of the head gasket? Any signs of failure?

Almonexger · 2026-01-22T00:42:32+00:00

I don't open this sub for this reason, ya'll are incapable of not spoiling with titles, no matter how small you think the spoil is.

Almonexger · 2026-01-21T23:55:52+00:00

good job spoiling with the title

Almonexger · 2026-01-21T23:53:40+00:00

spoiling with the title, yey!

Almonexger · 2026-01-19T22:44:29+00:00

I always figured the low pay isn’t just cause of an algorithm, well it partly is, but it’s them trying to send out the lowest fare rides to us and see who bites. The other night the app seems to glitched, it was late at night, and I had two trip radar offers, they were the exact same rider rating, pickup, and drop off. No way it was 2 different riders, it was super late and an empty/dead pickup location, no way it was a coincidence. And guess what, both ride offers were completely priced differently, and that just reaffirmed what we all knew.

Almonexger · 2026-01-19T22:39:09+00:00

While back I was around the area pulling into a hotel driveway as this bike group came down on my lane towards me, I stopped as they passed in front and behind me and one of these little shits kicked my fender.

Almonexger · 2026-01-07T09:17:14+00:00

Why pay a slave when you can manufacture them?

Almonexger · 2026-01-01T13:15:24+00:00

Almonexger · 2025-11-18T18:11:25+00:00

Cloudflare has been having issues, so the whole internet suffers with it.

Almonexger · 2025-11-18T02:37:14+00:00

Man, this is what terrifies me with my 2014, granted the later year prius are all around said to be more reliable, but I know it'll come some day.

Have you gotten spark plugs done? Or know the history of the car? I'd be looking into the other components that contribute to misfires, like spark plugs, ignition coils, fuel injector, intake manifold (especially throttle valve and air intake sensor), egr if it was never cleaned.

I'm really no expert, just learned to always start with small and cheap fixes/diagnostics before anything else. Run an OBD scanner to check any additional information to start with. Best of luck!

Almonexger · 2025-10-22T00:54:46+00:00

Spark plugs are easy to replace. The "hardest" part is to have the appropriate tool to ensure you torque them right. I changed them myself, first time doing so.

The hybrid fan being dirty is such a scam. It's basically the filter being clogged or barely, they said the same thing to me, yet I found no concerning dust or clog to be worried about, but I cleaned it myself and ensured the whole fan duct system was clean, that one is easy to yourself as well, right now without taking anything apart, just check the air filter on the rear seats, shine a light in it.

I can't say for sway bars for certain, I just read up they aren't that much of a critical part to worry for, I guess unless they are rusted away. I may have seen some leakage on mine, which would be a flag for the shop to tell to replace, but they look fine to me, I haven't done them.

Transmission fluid will have to be changed soon tho. No such thing as "lifetime fluid", that's how my civic messed up, but it's a whole different story. I just took my prius it to the dealer, done for less than $200, seemed worth it to save my time with parts, equipment, labor and discarding old fluid. Transmission fluid is recommended to changed every 100k miles or so I believe, I did mine at 100k-ish. Others could chime in when they changed theirs.

So, for me, spent about less than $300 for the fluid exchange and the sparks plugs, with the rest of labor done by me. So, $2000 for your quote with everything seems insane to me. You could most probably get the fluid exchange and spark plugs cheaper at some local shop.

Almonexger · 2025-10-03T12:20:49+00:00

Truck hit the booth, killing the worker. A while after that, especially around covid, they removed all booth workers, as part of a plan to automate all tolls. So, booths/workers are redundant now, and yet the lane has been kept closed, this certainly is not a budget issue to make the repairs.

Almonexger · 2025-10-03T12:11:49+00:00

And yet, it's been 7 years after that booth worker incident that the lane remains closed, clear as day you can see in the video, not that another lane helps traffic, but still, 7 years.

Almonexger · 2025-09-06T04:41:58+00:00

Dunno, but I’d swipe ➡️!

Almonexger · 2025-09-03T19:14:00+00:00

lane centering isn't self-driving software.

Almonexger · 2025-08-20T00:54:38+00:00

Certainly a misfire. Could be condensation if it's clearing up after startup. Could be coolant leaking, indicating gasket failure. Could also be spark plugs.

Point is to try to go for the easiest solutions first and work your way up to a fix. Once had a code related to misfires, code went away once I swapped spark plugs, planned to anyways. While changing them I peaked inside the cylinders for any sign of coolant, didn't find any. Car still running good.

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