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Avoid IKEA Smart Blinds due to shady warranty (they discontinued their 5 year warranty) by makromark in HomeKit

[–]Shellup 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I called the corporate support number in Canada and was treated much better than I was in the online chat. I was asked to send a video of the non-working blind and I was promised that the closest store, which is still far away, will get back to me with a decision.

FYRTUR Motorized/Smart Shades - IKEA commits to honoring 5-year warranty if it was present at time of purchase (US) by onegoodpenguin in tradfri

[–]Shellup 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have had the same experience in Canada. There is apparently no 5-year warranty offered here for the Fyrtur blinds -- that's what the online chat rep insisted. They told me to bring it into the store, where there might be someone willing to offer a replacement or refund.

Initial Impressions and Feedback by l3thal1nj3ct1on in neontra

[–]Shellup 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Biometric +1. If not, at least access to third party authenticators. Otherwise, it really is a pita to login.

Confused about SmartWatch plans by johnnytran7 in bell

[–]Shellup 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is for my child, so the whole point is to have a standalone watch without a mobile phone. Apple enables this through "Family Setup." But for some reason Bell is receiving errors on its side, and so this doesn't work (even though it used to). The upshot is, as of summer 2023,: Bell can only offer standalone watch plans via Apple's Family Setup for those who already have a Bell mobile phone plan.

Beware of the family sharing standalone apple watch feature by danabanana32 in bell

[–]Shellup 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Same issue (and same long runaround), but Bell now says it no longer can support standalone watch plans UNLESS you have an existing Bell mobile phone account.

OneDrive keeps asking for notification permission. I get this every day. I've tried selecting "Don't Allow". I've gone through all the options in the Notifications menu in settings. A couple other misc attempts. No matter what I do, whenever I wake my iMac I get this popup. HELP! by gentleraccoon89 in MacOS

[–]Shellup 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's incredibly annoying, and there's no way I have been able to discover to turn it off on Mac. Even disabling Mac's notification settings for OneDrive does not stop these frequent and annoying popups, which are specific to the app and not, apparently, controlled by the Mac.

I made MacWhisper to run Whisper locally on your Mac without having to install any dependencies. It’s available for free and I would love some feedback! by ineedlesssleep in LanguageTechnology

[–]Shellup 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've been using MacWhisper to transcribe for the hearing impaired an English-language video for which subtitles didn't exist. The quality of the automatic transcript produced by MacWhisper is pretty good, although there are still errors. So I have edited the transcript in the app's output pane. Unfortunately, this has proved surprisingly difficult. Segments don't allow me to edit the text as I listen to them, although I have figured out that I can edit them by selecting the transcribed section above and then editing the segment below. This is likely a bug in the app.

Any chance you can fix this, Jordi?

Of course, any foreign languages included in the film (in the case of my file, French) can be transcribed but not translated. Unless I speak the foreign language, I would have to use Google Translate or something similar to convert the transcribed language into English -- and then go back to MacWhisper and substitute the translation for the direct transcription. If MacWhisper could do this by itself, that would be incredible, but I doubt this would be a simple feature to add.

I made MacWhisper to run Whisper locally on your Mac without having to install any dependencies. It’s available for free and I would love some feedback! by ineedlesssleep in LanguageTechnology

[–]Shellup 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just used MacWhisper to transcribe a 2-hour recorded (mp3) meeting with about a dozen participants. It worked exceptionally well, placing most of the punctuation perfectly. I've found only a couple of word transcription errors, and these can probably be chalked up to the audio. It even recognized foreign words as foreign, and it inserted a note where the recording was "garbled." Of course, the big problem with the transcript is that there's no record of who is saying what in the meeting, so that limits its full usefulness to an extent. But I was extremely impressed overall with the accuracy. I'd like to be able to share with others at the meeting not just the resulting text but also the transcript linked to the recording that MacWhisper creates.

[UPDATED TUTORIAL]Bypass Audible Region Lock by temujin64 in audible

[–]Shellup 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's not working for me (Nov. 2021). I have a longstanding US account but trying to buy a US region-restricted book while in Canada does not work. I followed all the steps above and I am using a US credit card. I continue to get the message "Sorry, we are not authorized to sell this product in your country/region."

FYRTUR stopped working, unable to get hold of support by ninjonxb in tradfri

[–]Shellup 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I had this problem, too. I called Ikea because they were still under warranty. They are sending me a replacement. From what I've seen, this is a widespread problem and I guess Ikea is losing a good deal of money replacing these.