Haven’t got my $1,000 yet.

  • xia ( xia@lemmy.sdf.org ) 
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    3 years ago

    Lol… good luck with that, they don’t even honor their mistakes. I once found a typoed price (brand new laptop dirt cheap). No more “false advertising” claims these days, your order is just canceled without any stated reason, and without recourse.

    • The law has the concept of consideration and there is a level of judgment used on these kinds of things. Intent is part of the law too. Which means if someone falsely puts a cheap price for a product to get you into a store (or something like that) they’ll likely be on the hook for that, it’s false advertising. But if someone simply made a typo and the price on offer doesn’t line up to reasonable consideration, then it’s not binding. There was no intent to deceive, and the price isn’t reasonable consideration for the product.

      So while there may be times you may be able to benefit from someone making a mistake, there will be many times you won’t. That’s not a bad thing since the same law protects you if you make a mistake. If someone puts into the fine print of a contact that you should give them all of your possessions, and you didn’t notice it, the law would also throw that out because they didn’t offer reasonable consideration for your possessions.

      So you don’t have recourse (nor should you) in the scenario where someone made an honest mistake like with a typo. Sucks that for a moment you thought you were getting a laptop for a ridiculously cheap price, but think about what it would mean on the other end. You’d be getting a laptop without paying a reasonable price for it, the company would have to eat the cost, and some poor bastard would probably be fired for making a typo. Is a cheap laptop really worth someone else losing their job?

  • Crow ( Crow@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 
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    3 years ago

    Why is everyone talking about 1TB being tiny? I have one 1TB SSD and it’s the biggest storage medium in the entire house what kinda stuff do y’all save?

    • My Skyrim mods download folder alone is over ½ a TB.

      I also want to load a 1TB MicroSD on my Steam Deck for emulation, so I need at least another 1TB to download the image file to flash to the MicroSD card. (I don’t want to fuff around downloading and curating a romset, so it’s easier to just download a 1TB image from a private tracker and flash it. From there, I can just swap individual roms/romhacks in and out as needed.)

      My Deck will have a 1TB SSD and a 1TB MicroSD. My desktop had 2TB, but I just added another 4TB.

      On the other hand, on my phone I barely use half of my 128GB and will likely never run out of space.

    • __ghost__ ( __ghost__@lemmy.ml ) 
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      3 years ago

      Well, they suggested a relatively small capacity in a mechanical drive

      My main rig has 11TB, my media server two RAID1 arrays at 16TB and 18TB

      It’s easy to get out of hand with media, games, lots of VMs, dedicated boot drives, etc

    • phuntis ( phuntis@sopuli.xyz ) 
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      3 years ago

      my steam deck has 2tb in it and my computer has 2tb ssds one for linux one for windows I wouldn’t say 1tb is tiny but eh 2tb isn’t too expensive at this point so I wouldn’t buy anything below 2tb anymore personally

    • On my 14TB divided among 7 drives of varying capacity form and speed, games, music, DVD rips, BR rips, 3d models, backups of other systems in my possession. 14TB is getting too small for my needs honestly, prolly gonna slap another 4TB at the problem instead of deleting old stuff.