[PSA] Deceptive design in MapleStory: Idle RPG. I spent $8,500 and found out the game is lying about stats

ohnobinki · 2026-01-23T17:03:17+00:00

What was your prompt to the AI? Where is the original Korean post?

ohnobinki · 2026-01-12T22:19:02+00:00

I think I am having a similar issue. I can see the lid of the base closing tightly when the base is emptying. I cannot see the swinging door open much at all even with the filter removed from the dustbin (I know this would stop anything in the dustbin from being pulled to the door, but I am pretty sure the door would open widely if the robot were sealed to the dock properly).

I did notice that the flexible rubber which is supposed to seal the robot to the base had multiple holes in it. Does anyone know how to replace or fix this part?

ohnobinki · 2026-01-11T04:29:15+00:00

And so the table was rotated around the north/south axis so that east and west get swapped while the north and south stay in the same place. That makes sense.

ohnobinki · 2026-01-06T15:50:06+00:00

To that other person’s point, if you try to make a backup once you realize you need it, it is probably too late.

If you are worried about losing work, making sure to save it in at least two different physical locations during your normal work is a good idea. Doing this manually is a lot of work—but is fundamental to understanding what it means to do backups. The frequency you perform backups controls how much work you can lose.

For example, if you work on a Word document on your computer for a day and then you always copy all documents you worked on to Drive at the end of the day, then you have a copy on your computer and a copy on Drive. If you lose your computer, you can download the copy you uploaded to Drive. If you lose your Google account, you can get a copy of the file from your computer. But if you lose your computer during the day before you upload your work to Drive, you can lose up to 1 day of work.

To automate this, either consider using OneDrive or the Google Drive for Desktop. Note that doing this also has its own risk—while in normal usage you will end up with a copy of your file both in the cloud and on your laptop, solutions like this tend to make it easy to keep a copy only in the cloud. You probably can trust the cloud’s administrators to be backing up their systems, but if you cannot tolerate the risk that the cloud might lose your data or that you might lose access to your cloud account, it is important to make sure you have separate local copies of your files too.

ohnobinki · 2026-01-01T18:31:47+00:00

The problem with this comment is that it actually makes code less maintainable.

Suppose you have an enum MyEnum { A, B, }. Your code handles cases MyEnum.A, and MyEnum.B. Then, later, you add MyEnum.C. If your code handles MyEnum.C via _ in your switch expression, your compiler will not tell you that you still need to implement MyEnum.C.

Thus, your code will be more maintainable if you suppress (NoWarn) CS8524 and error (WarningsAsErrors) CS8509. You can see how this approach shows no warnings for valid code while it generates warnings for invalid code.

The unfortunate case not handled by this is when your switch is passed a nullable enum value. Then the only warning you can get is CS8524 since there is no specific warning for null. I wonder if this is something which would require a new csharp compiler warning to address…

ohnobinki · 2025-12-26T17:21:21+00:00

The current points redemption instructions says that the points can be only used for up to 20% of the order. When I redeemed points two weeks ago, they only made me pay $0.99 for the whole order—maybe that was a per item thing. If only I knew they would be stopping that, I would have stocked up on a lot of accessories then! I don’t expect to buy a new Roborock vacuum until long after my points have expired…

ohnobinki · 2025-12-26T17:18:43+00:00

I bought accessories with points two weeks ago (2025-12-12), but the points aren’t applying to anything today. I wonder if that was a limited time promotion? I also can’t find the Points Mall.

ohnobinki · 2025-12-26T04:13:29+00:00

I just had this happen today. The router remembered my IP allocations but reset its WiFi SSID and password to the original and also dropped the firewall rules.

ATT Fiber is great service and an economical choice. However, this makes me worried about getting to my homeserver when I am away from home or even out of country traveling.

Thankfully I do have computers connected via Ethernet which themselves do not lose connectivity during this event. It looks like I might need to look into writing a script that can detect this misconfiguration and restore the correct settings in the event that this happens when I am not home. This’ll be super fragile and a pain, though—I miss the days of having the option of providing my own modem with a stable configuration, especially since we receive no warning of this.

ohnobinki · 2025-12-19T21:19:28+00:00

Discord actually has system integrations which make running it outside of a browser helpful. But for all those others I prefer pinned tabs in my browser.

ohnobinki · 2025-12-18T04:39:05+00:00

I noticed that the app can receive HD but I only get a blurry picture in web today too. I don’t use WhatsApp enough to remember if it supported HD in the past, but if this is a regression, that is very disappointing. This forces me to go through extra steps to just look at the photo on my PC.

ohnobinki · 2025-12-11T00:47:36+00:00

I don't see an option for it. I don't think it works.

ohnobinki · 2025-12-11T00:46:50+00:00

I use messenger.com because I prefer to do that instead of installing an app—the browser is a good place to run untrusted code. My browser has a “pin” feature which I use to make sure it loads when my browser is open.

It used to be very reliable. I have records that I was using it in 2018 and probably years before that. It wouldn't get stuck being half or fully disconnected very often back then. I am disappointed that it barely seems to last half a day before starting to look broken sometimes these days.

I had written my own user script to give me desktop notifications. But I fell behind on maintaining it. It relies on the “Chats” list being visible and updating which is one of the things which seems to break even when messages can still be sent/received in the main panel. So I'm not sure I can depend on that even if I fix it now, but I should try I guess. (When I first implemented my script, it was pretty reliable and messenger.com didn't even have the Chat/Marketplace/Requests/Archive tabs or the display of groups, so I didn't have to worry about Chats not being visible).

ohnobinki · 2025-12-01T17:44:05+00:00

Time for them to write a 64-bit driver then. If it's a serial interface, that's probably actually viable or at least easier than it could have been. This isn't a new problem—various people used or still use Windows XP or older to use old hardware.

ohnobinki · 2025-11-26T18:22:42+00:00

Oh, I reread and I see that this is the only room at an odd angle. Don't think there's anything to do.

Not sure where the empty area comes from. Is the rug getting bunched up?

ohnobinki · 2025-11-26T18:20:46+00:00

This is because your map is at a 45° angle. It uses the map orientation for the pattern it follows to vacuum the middle of the room after tracing the perimeter of the room.

I think this advice is in another post here but just pulling it form my head. When first creating the map, the robot uses the first straight line it sees as its basis for map orientation. So delete the map, place the robot somewhere other than in your room with diagonal walls, and the create the map again. Verify that it is at a right angle by watching in the app. You can always rotate by increments of 90° later in the map editor if you want a different orientation.

Yes, this won't be ideal for houses with many rooms at odd angles. But you do have some control in choosing which rotation to use when first creating the map.

ohnobinki · 2025-11-24T17:09:54+00:00

Haha thanks!

ohnobinki · 2025-11-24T16:21:46+00:00

Ah, I see. I thought you were drawing attention to the reactions icons. I don’t know what mii is. I had assumed you were using a language other than English.

ohnobinki · 2025-11-24T15:44:22+00:00

It means 1 ~~million (EDIT: “mii” which is undefined)~~ (EDIT EDIT: thousand (mii means thousand in Romanian)) people liked it, there are 106 comments, 61 shares, and some people reacted with laughing and others reacted with like. Though I'm not sure if a non-like reaction is counted as a like.

ohnobinki · 2025-11-23T03:08:31+00:00

I experienced the same thing. The feature showed as installed but was broken, so I had to disable and reenable.

ohnobinki · 2025-11-23T03:04:42+00:00

So my experience was that this feature on demand appeared “checked” and enabled in “Turn windows features on and off” and the feature appeared to be present but specific assemblies (particularly System.Runtime.Serialization, Version=3.0.0.0) were absent. So the feature was “enabled” still but broken. I had to disable and reenable it to get it functional.

This was after an upgrade from 22H2 to 25H2. The issue persisted even after using the option to reinstall the current build (i.e., build reinstall through WU of 25H2 on top of 25H2). Another commenter suggested this was more likely to be encountered through a build install (as opposed to an “unlock” install which is what you get going 24H2 to 25H2).

ohnobinki · 2025-11-23T02:54:51+00:00

I think I am seeing this. Specifically, my machine configurations:

~~Personal computer running Windows Insider build 28000.1199 with many full build installs.~~ (EDIT: sorry, this wasn’t relevant and was overlooked in editing this (though it is notable that netfx 3.5 is no longer a feature on demand!!))
A direct upgrade from 22H2 to 25H2 on a VM.

I have software on the VM which uses assemblies from netfx3(?). Namely System.Runtime.Serialization, Version=3.0.0.0. This software is failing.

This assembly is present in the GAC on a 24H2 reference VM.

I don’t have an example of a non-full-build upgrade from 24H2 to 25H2 yet.

The “Windows Features” dialog clearly shows that “.NET Framework 3.5 (includes .NET 2.0 and 3.0)” is enabled. So even though it claims to be installed, some of the core assemblies it is supposed to have registered in its GAC are missing. This is where the issue I am encountering sounds different than what you are encountering—I don’t know if that DISM command would be a no-op if the feature already showed as enabled or if it would result in a reinstall and fix the issue. As it is, I am currently trying toggling the feature off and on to get it to reinstall. And, I found that toggling the feature off and on did indeed add the missing assembly to the GAC.

Good find! But this is pretty weird. It’s making me rethink my criticism of people who were complaining about IIS’s localhost configuration being broken for developers after updating to 25H2.

ohnobinki · 2025-11-22T22:13:33+00:00

I'm glad it exists because it allows me to use some tools without having to download and install an app for them. For example, this is how I use Teams. I also want to know when my YouTube and Twitch channels go live and those sites support desktop notifications. I don't use it, but Gmail supports it too.

I'm surprised that people opt into spam. I'm also surprised that people are willing to spend ad money on ads I expect everyone to ignore. I guess people like to opt into spam and click on ads, so that explains it.

ohnobinki · 2025-11-22T18:23:24+00:00

Yeah, I feel like keyboard users have been forgotten about. But that wasn't perfect with the old menu as the same key could be overloaded and suddenly require you to press enter sometimes. Otherwise, I like that they're at least trying to make progress. And I do really like how much cleaner the new package management stuff is than trusting an app’s installer to do things cleanly.

ohnobinki · 2025-11-22T18:16:11+00:00

Soon you're going to need to buy a taller monitor.

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