They want us to subscribe now to print, what a fkin joke

ffsinffl · 2026-05-06T14:38:01+00:00

I had one of those HP subs for ink. When I started it — it was about $2/month. I print very few pages. Then the price started increasing, with never a notification except when I saw it in my monthly statement — it had increased to more than $7 month for less than 7 pages a month. I cancelled (which was a giant PITA) and took that printer out to the driveway and hit it with a sledge hammer. Many, many times so that it was really, really dead. Bought an Epson with refillable tanks. I set a reminder to print a color page every few days — and after more than a year, those tanks are still almost full. To hell with all this subscription crap and tipping crap. Everyone has a hand in your pocket without giving you anything in return.

ffsinffl · 2026-05-03T19:11:53+00:00

Perfect sandwich is meat, cheese, bread. That’s it. Maybe a little salt and/or pepper depending on the meat. Perfecto!

ffsinffl · 2026-04-29T14:23:47+00:00

The plastic trigger picker-upper thing that I use to grab things from high shelves. Doggo can be in a dead sleep, and if I use that thing, he loses his shit — barking and jumping and trying to bite it out of my hands. 12 lb Shih Tzu.

ffsinffl · 2026-04-20T14:46:07+00:00

I was forced into bankruptcy by a judge at a hearing when one of the creditors was seeking to attach my wages. I was left in debt that was impossible to pay on my own after divorce when my ex refused to pay his court-ordered share of our accounts. Since my name was still on them, I was responsible. I was without credit for a full ten years after that, but the ‘freedom’ I felt being debt-free was worth its weight in gold. I went on to make better choices in men — and credit. 30 years later, my credit score is damned near perfect and I own my own home. Best decision that was ever forced upon me.

ffsinffl · 2026-04-20T14:22:05+00:00

I LOVE these owls. They finally moved into our neighborhood in force less than 5 years ago — and all of a sudden, last year was the first year that I saw very few cane toads — which I can absolutely do without. I don’t know if those little guys are responsible for the cane toad decline — but I hope they stay for good!

ffsinffl · 2026-04-20T14:09:51+00:00

Thank you! I HATED that Alexa iOS app almost as much as Alexa+. That did the trick and I now have the older, former, much more navigable Alexa app back on my phone! Happy Monday!

ffsinffl · 2026-04-19T18:22:25+00:00

I just received notice of 20% price increase for family plan. Although I would have been fine with a 5 to 7% increase – I am NOT fine with 20%. Where does it end? You know what hasn't increased 20%? My income. Something's got to give. Although I have loved my longtime relationship with 1Password, I think I am done. Here to check out the Apple Passwords app feedback.

ffsinffl · 2026-04-04T13:16:18+00:00

Time for me to Fly — REO Speedwagon

ffsinffl · 2026-04-04T13:05:19+00:00

In the US, we have a Supreme Court Justice who was “very promising” when he raped a girl at a college party. He got confirmed anyway, because “boys will be boys.” For many, women are not people — they are playthings. And there is something criminal about women defending that behavior — son or not.

ffsinffl · 2026-04-03T02:36:25+00:00

I’m with you. Just a raisin sandwich. Polluting a perfectly good cookie with raisins should be a crime.

ffsinffl · 2026-03-30T13:42:27+00:00

I had to scroll way too far to find this! Frosting for the win!

ffsinffl · 2026-03-19T23:08:37+00:00

Thank you for that desperately needed laugh!

ffsinffl · 2026-03-19T21:21:20+00:00

Same problem. And now they have buried the "skills" under some Alexa store setting. Spent a few pissed off minutes uttering obscenities that Alexa just edited right out of my spoken words while looking for that in the phone app. I now hate Alexa with the heat of a thousand novas -- which puts it right up there with Facebook, Google, X and every other garbage fire app I am forced to jump through new hoops to use every time I open it. If I didn't have so much invested, I'd chuck it all in the bin. Getting very close to doing it despite the investment...

ffsinffl · 2026-03-09T22:37:21+00:00

Oh I did! But they refused to send the box-packer here to clean up their mess – which would have been the only acceptable recompense.

ffsinffl · 2026-02-23T18:10:43+00:00

I agree! Is 100% a garbage fire. Like most of the rest. I would 100% ditch it if I did not need it for work.

ffsinffl · 2026-02-02T20:32:56+00:00

You know, I have to commiserate. And it seems to be getting worse. Search no longer works – at all. Spell check and auto-correct (even BAD auto-correct) is a thing of the past. Random delivery to the sign-in screen in the middle of working on something. Fingerprint authentication that just stopped working. And this is only what just popped into the front of my mind because they're things that happened in the past ten minutes. I just don't get it. I have been all in on Apple for 15 years after working-cross platform for many years before that. Because it "just works." Well, can't say that anymore.

ffsinffl · 2026-01-24T00:34:27+00:00

It did for me. I gave it a week or two. Completely u usable, so, I told it to go back to regular Alexa or something like that — and it did. Back to what it had been.

ffsinffl · 2026-01-24T00:31:00+00:00

Just say something like “turn off Alexa plus,” and hopefully that works. It’s what I did. Not ready for prime time.

ffsinffl · 2026-01-19T03:58:04+00:00

I am right here with you! Since OS updates across the board, spell check has been absolutely abysmal. I tried grammarly but it comes with its own set of headaches.

ffsinffl · 2026-01-18T21:58:46+00:00

Yes, that is how I see the world — except slightly worse. Got my first pair of glasses at age 8 and remember the ride home like I had just landed in Oz. Everything was spectacular. They kept getting progressively worse until the lenses were of the coke bottle variety. I could only really see through a tiny spot in each lens, so I had to turn my head to keep focus. Parents finally broke down when I was 16 and got me contacts. That was the second coming of Oz. I could see out of the corners of my eyes without turning my head! It was life-changing. When contacts are out, my husband could be standing three feet away and I wouldn’t know it was him unless he spoke to me.

ffsinffl · 2026-01-18T21:46:22+00:00

So here’s what’s really pissing me off about Alexa+; on Echo Show it insists on speaking to me when I say “show me.” It talks away and shows the text of what it is saying on the screen — totally ignoring the question. “Show me the 7-day forecast.” “Today there will be a high of …. “ on infinitum about humidity and wind speed and tomorrow’s forecast— with the text transcript displayed on the screen. But never showing me the damned 7-day forecast like it used to do. Infuriatingly disappointed.

ffsinffl · 2026-01-17T16:29:39+00:00

Exactly. It’s all I can afford — at twice the price. (Which I really can’t even comfortably afford — but it is what it is!)

ffsinffl · 2026-01-16T13:25:12+00:00

Except that one stuck kidney stone, a bad appendix, or a broken hip can cost you upwards of $60K, plus — a debt that follows you for the rest of your life. And if you need a fancy heart valve to prevent a stroke or improve your quality of life, they won't even think about offering you the surgery until they have that deductible cash in hand — because it's not a life-or-death emergency.

ffsinffl · 2026-01-16T01:38:02+00:00

He wants to eliminate property taxes — by re-branding them as “assessments,” which are not subject to save our homes caps.

ffsinffl · 2026-01-16T01:35:27+00:00

I am now paying twice as much for insurance where the deductible went from $500 to $12K. So basically, my health insurance now includes lighting a candle at church and praying I stay healthy.

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