Notices by 🇳🇴 Thor — backup account (thorthenorseman@octodon.social), page 114

"Hey, sexy... Wanna federate with me? I'll be all over your feed."

I still regret not buying old Tiki 100 computers from my home town's school. To my knowledge, only one company made microcomputers in Norway in the 1980s, and they are probably collector's items today. They ran a CP/M clone called KP/M and compatibility was good enough to run Borland Turbo Basic on them. I wonder if I could get my hands on one of them.

NetOnNet/Mobylife wanted to charge me €40 to change a broken key on a Macbook Pro that I have only owned for 4 months. I had to start an argument with them to get them to acknowledge my rights.

They ask you to pay first, and will only give you what you're entitled to if you're willing to have an argument with them. That's unethical.

How many millions do they save per year by depriving customers of their legal rights?

We have had several female prime ministers in Norway. They have figured out how to display authority without being cold. Much like "strong father figure" is a common persona for male heads of state, "strong mother figure" has become the common persona for female heads of state here in Norway. They seem to have figured it out in Germany too, with Angela Merkel. Britain? Kind of. America? Not so much.

I'm signed up for niu.moe, not quite knowing what to expect. It's basically a mix of computer talk and lolicon. My feeling is that fetishes are fine, but why would you want to broadcast them to the whole world? Yes, everyone's a pervert if you dig deep enough, but "Hello, I'm a pervert!" just isn't something I want to signal.

@morguldir @bithive I'm tempted to delete the original post because I'm not sure what good it does to have an argument about this on Mastodon...

@morguldir @bithive I'm well aware of what the law says and I've been to those sites many times. It's just that you'll often have to argue about it. In this case it was NetOnNet and stuff has happened since I originally typed up the post, so things are in limbo right now.

@morguldir @bithive But that's the same with the 6 months! What I'm saying is that the store will often pretend that you don't have this right.

@bithive Same thing here. But before you get that far, you have to get the manufacturer to acknowledge the law...

@bithive Oh, and they make the claim that there are no visible manufacturing flaws, which does play into the legal aspect of it. I mean, either you cast a piece of plastic properly or the part won't fit, so I see what they mean.

@bithive They replied back. They say that some hinge plastic is broken. They further say that it didn't arrive that way from the factory (true), so it must've happened later on (also true). However, I notice that they are focusing on the manufacturer's warranty, which is typically limited in scope, and not the rights granted by the law.

@bithive The law doesn't say anything about *who* it should be probable to, of course. I wonder what they're going to reply...

@bithive To the repair shop, it's probable that the customer bumped the machine into something. To me, that's improbable because the machine has been clamped shut during transportation, and it seems improbable that a mild bump (as might be expected if a machine is carried in a bag) would cause plastic to break on the tab key specifically. What is more probable is that, as a programmer, I am using that key a lot, and it was kind of weak to begin with.

@bithive The law says simply that the vendor must "make probable" that the fault was caused by the customer. They haven't done so yet, they just gave me two options (paid repair or paid return to customer) so I've asked them to do so. I'm not sure what that would even mean in the case of a broken key. If, say, a piece of plastic is broken underneath, what is the most probable cause?

@bithive It was sent in *because* the tab key had fallen off and refused to reattach. I have done nothing to that key except to push it.

They don't want a hideously large amount to fix it, but the way I understand their statement, they are basically saying that I voided the warranty.

This is one of those situations where your rights aren't worth jack shit because it's their word against mine.

@sdm I missed it. It pissed you off? Well, at least we know that you didn't find it funny...

What do you do when the computer repair shop claims that you broke it, and you have no recollection of doing so? They're claiming that the tab key on my laptop came loose because of something I did. They don't state how...

Reasons for population control: https://youtu.be/EShUeudtaFg #howisprangentformed

@sangobirb Try something less pointy and more voluminous maybe?