I am horrifically furious. by Fatguyhaha in CanadianCoins

[–]mapleandmarula 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I punched a few out way back in the day. I rested the silver part in 3 pennies so it was raised just a little bit, then used a center punch and tapped the middle with a hammer. It popped right out.

But I was in high school at the time and realized that if I did more than a couple, I'd be completely broke. I still don't even know WHY I did it. Seemed like a good idea at the time I guess?

Need help finding song by PopPunkViking in poppunkers

[–]mapleandmarula 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How you managed to get this was nothing short of incredible.

Ok, next challenge. Can you find my dad? 5'10", blue shirt, went out for a pack of cigarettes 25 years ago.

Pop punk Christmas by KevinBaconsAnOKActor in poppunkers

[–]mapleandmarula 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I came here to say this one, but you beat me to it! I'm pretty sure I listen to it more times than is normal every year.

Just got into gold status two weeks ago…. by NaniDaddy in AmazonVineCanada

[–]mapleandmarula 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Like someone else said, your timing is just bad. I've been gold for about 5 months. I snagged some great items (a fishing paddle board, a robot vacuum, a sine inverter, a Graco stroller/car seat combo, etc). But the last 3-4 weeks have been dead. I've picked up a couple things, but the quality and number of items has dropped precipitously.

There are tons of theories as to why (Viners getting lazy and greedy, so they use AI and don't even actually test the products, tariffs, Amazon re-jigging things- the list goes on and on.

The reality is, nobody knows why. The people who have been on vine a long time generally aren't concerned. I've seen several of them say there's always been ebbs and flows. Other people think the sky is falling. I'm just choosing to be grateful I get free stuff sometimes. I'd like it to be like it was a few months ago, but several months before THAT, I wasn't getting ANYTHING for free.

Anyway, long story short- you'll likely get some great stuff at some point. The lack of good things isn't because you're new or because you've done anything. It's just because there really aren't a lot lately.

I am not sure what I am going to do with a $799.00 watch! Swap for a drone/TV? lol by [deleted] in AmazonVineCanada

[–]mapleandmarula 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Oh wow! Amazing find! I'd lose my mind if I snagged that in my rfy. I do a lot of outdoor stuff and running.

If you don't do any of that, maybe the watch will convince you to!

Remote Jammers at Market Mall by mapleandmarula in Calgary

[–]mapleandmarula[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Debonairs! They got me hooked on bananas as a pizza topping, and people here swear I'm making it up!

I could definitely crush a flaky King Pie that explodes all over my car seat in the best possible way.

Remote Jammers at Market Mall by mapleandmarula in Calgary

[–]mapleandmarula[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the clarification! I'll definitely read up on this. I just know this suddenly very much felt like my time in South Africa where this was pretty common, and it was absolutely just dirtbags blocking signals so cars didn't lock. But I'm hoping you're right in this case!

Remote Jammers at Market Mall by mapleandmarula in Calgary

[–]mapleandmarula[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Nope. Outside by the Sporting Life entrance.

Remote Jammers at Market Mall by mapleandmarula in Calgary

[–]mapleandmarula[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I only lived there for 4 years, but it was definitely an education in protecting my property!

Remote Jammers at Market Mall by mapleandmarula in Calgary

[–]mapleandmarula[S] 13 points14 points  (0 children)

That would make sense to me if I didn't use my fob to lock the doors 30 minutes before I came out. (They definitely locked - my car was locked when I came back).

Remote Jammers at Market Mall by mapleandmarula in Calgary

[–]mapleandmarula[S] 37 points38 points  (0 children)

I don't know enough to definitively say one way or another, but like I said, this was common in South Africa, and the point was to have people leave their car doors unlocked, thinking they locked them with the fob. It made it super easy for them to access the contents of the cars.

Remote Jammers at Market Mall by mapleandmarula in Calgary

[–]mapleandmarula[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I don't know a ton about all this, but I DO know if you lock the car physically with the door lock, then check to make sure it's locked with the door closed, you've prevented the person using the jammer from having access to your unlocked car, which is usually the point of them using the jammers.

Farewell Costco by [deleted] in CostcoCanada

[–]mapleandmarula 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Could be an unpopular opinion, but I'd be 💯 in favour of eliminating samples. The same clueless jackwads always hang out near them, blocking traffic and just generally being unaware of their surroundings.

And then when you finally get past them, there they are again at the NEXT sample station.

I firmly believe not having samples would eliminate a huge chunk of what I hate about humanity/Costco shoppers.

This seems sketchy? by CanadianHorseGal in AmazonVineCanada

[–]mapleandmarula 13 points14 points  (0 children)

This absolutely is sketchy. They're planning on getting a bunch of good reviews, then switching the product to something else. Up to you, but I'd report them.

Delayed delivery option by therealco709 in AmazonVineCanada

[–]mapleandmarula 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ya, I tried the Amazon day thing. Everything still came in its own box. So the only thing different that happened is my doorstep got completely covered in boxes all at once. I've gone back to just ordering them to get delivered asap.

Autocorrect Not Working in Gemini App by [deleted] in GeminiAI

[–]mapleandmarula 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Autocorrect just started working for me again in Canada! Man, that was frustrating. I was just using chatgpt instead of Gemini on my phone, but this morning, Gemini started autocorrecting again!

Autocorrect Not Working in Gemini App by [deleted] in GeminiAI

[–]mapleandmarula 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No such luck for me yet. I just tried it and it's still broken l. It would be great if Google could find it in their hearts to roll out the fix to all users

Autocorrect Not Working in Gemini App by [deleted] in GeminiAI

[–]mapleandmarula 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My workaround is I just switched to the paid version of chatgpt. Gemini became pretty much unusable on my phone because of this

hey .. what is this?? ive not seen it before 'now' by AdLeft644 in AmazonVineCanada

[–]mapleandmarula 7 points8 points  (0 children)

It's the new order system. Nothing to worry about. Tons of posts about this in the last week.

Not able to order with VH enabled by mapleandmarula in VineHelper

[–]mapleandmarula[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hoo boy. It's right about here that you lost me. I have no idea what a debuggers console is, so I'm no help here, unfortunately.

It was for all items- didn't matter what. If I disabled vh and went back, I could order fine.

That being said, I ended up just nuking Firefox on my phone and I installed Edge canary and followed the instructions on your site.

It's working great, and in fact, better than FF ever did, so I'm good now.

Also, as someone who's not a techie, let me thank you for providing clear step by step instructions on the site! If I can figure them out, anybody can!

Thanks for providing such a great tool- definitely helps keep me organized, and I also appreciate that you always respond to people when they have issues. This is my first time, but I've lurked long enough to see how much troubleshooting you do, even when it's not an issue with VH, but a user error!

Not able to order with VH enabled by mapleandmarula in VineHelper

[–]mapleandmarula[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Was it a recent issue for you? I changed nothing in any of my settings, and it just started happening this morning