Publisher states a payment has been made + sent remittance.
I have not received the funds (after six weeks now) and my (UK) bank’s customer services, fraud and international teams have all stated they cannot see any payment and that I do not have a block on my account.
Any advice on what to do? I’ve never been in this situation before, and the amount of money is not insignificant. But also, the publisher appears to be very much in “we’ve paid so nothing we can do” mode now.
@craiggrannell Send them a late payment reminder, late payment demand then a letter notifying them of the intention to take them to small claims court.
Until the money is in your account they’ve not paid you, no matter what they think.
And if indeed it has been lost on your side they should be able to provide you evidence of the payment exiting their accounts to yours.
@craiggrannell I’d be surprised if it’s gone missing on your bank’s side TBH, I bet they’ve keyed it wrong and it’s either gone elsewhere or been returned to them by now.
I’m sure when you keep pressing them a payment will magically drop into your account with a “we’re not sure what happened” when they find the mistake on their side.
@craiggrannell It’s ridiculous that they think your bank can investigate anything without some sort of technical reference, like they’re going to go through the likely hundreds of thousands of payments they get in a day to find a random one 🙄.
@robb The best bit is getting a bunch of leaflets through a week after the postal votes have gone out - they clearly aren’t smart / don’t care enough to work out timings which is proving to be a good filter about who I shouldn’t vote for.
(What I hate about this stuff. I do actually have an Evri package on the way. So seeing this did give me that momentary pause. Although that the message is from some random outlook.com address meant it was an obvious scam.)
Just had a customer service experience (via email) where the first response to my query arrived in English and the response to my follow-up (in theory from the same person) arrived in French.
Okay so I sacrificed my credit card details to Adobe to answer this question, since Adobe's marketing completely buries it:
You can use modern Lightroom (the non-classic version) to browse (not organize) photos in your machine (or USB/NAS drive) without syncing them to the Adobe cloud storage.
And this includes the Mac App Store version, although it my limited experience, it seems the non-MAS version is quicker to enumerate files on my NAS.
@brunoph The best bit is that when you edit an image this way you get a small
XMP sidecar with the edits rather than a massive new file like you get with Photomator and Affinity Photos.
@andycarolan There’s an MPG-optimum PSI that dealers tend to inflate to rather than the “comfort” setting (mine was the same, 40psi straight from the dealer).
Folks who use Feedbin, what advantages does it give over other RSS readers? I’ve been using Reeder on iOS to read my Feedbin subscriptions, and realised I could just skip Feedbin entirely and just use Reeder. I signed up to Feedbin back when it had Twitter subscription support, but that obviously didn’t last.
Folks who carry iPhones in a bag/handbag: I need some advice!
After years of badgering, my mum finally has an iPhone. But she’s worried about carrying it in her handbag, which has keys etc.
She’s looking at a Spigen screen protector, but I was wondering what else would be good (eg to protect lenses).
(I should add: she is a VERY reluctant iPhone owner. So I want to minimise excuses to not use the iPhone. But it needs to be safe and ideally not limited in terms of MagSafe charging.)
@craiggrannell For my mum we got the JETech screen and lens protectors and a random Amazon folio case.
The lens protectors don’t seem to noticeably affect the cameras and the folio case she wanted because it’s means the screen protector never needs to be replaced 😄.
One thing I’ve noticed with handbag-carrying people is that keys etc. seem to destroy silicone cases, even Apple’s.
@craiggrannell It looks like there are some MagSafe compatible folio cases on Amazon now, I guess they’ll work about as well as any case assume the back is thin enough.
The folio cases with magnetic closure rather than a flap thing would probably improve the experience too.
@andycarolan I’ve messed around with hosting various mail servers before (not on the Synology granted) and normally they just don’t work - in the age of email centralisation ISP IP address ranges and even small VPSs are generally immediately marked as spam.
I’m starting to think Apple need to add an “I hate sports” mode to their devices - I really don’t need to see random sports stuff in News or MLS being pushed in the TV app.
@andycarolan I’ve had something similar when the Universal Search indexing database became corrupted. I basically had to delete all the scanning locations from its settings then re-add them.
@andycarolan@andycarolan Beyond that and possibly any apps like Drive (and the other Synology ones) you may have installed I can’t think of much else it could be (assuming nothing like Time Machine is connected when it’s noisy).
The 4-bay ones can be a bit noisier if they’re formatted as BTRFS because of some data checks they run but I don’t think the 218 supports that (correct me if I’m wrong though) - in saying that it may still schedule some sort of filesystem check on a regular basis.
@andycarolan No problem! I know how annoying a noisy Synology can be. It could be Spotlight doing some indexing, I’m not quite sure how that works with network drives - Time Machine definitely does a lot of stuff in the background though.
Question for the developers. You're sending an API request with an array of arguments (e.g. show me only things of type 1 and type 2), assuming the API doesn't support comma separated values, which of these would you expect to be the "correct" way? #WebDev
I just pushed out a new build of the TestFlight I'm running for Pedometer++. This major update is focused around making it the best companion possible for hiking with an iPhone or Apple Watch. It includes:
In-app advanced route planning on both iPhone and Watch.
Offline map download of hiking oriented maps
Full re-design of the Watch app to make it really shine on watchOS 10
@_Davidsmith Do you have any plans to make a separate screen for managing routes outside of starting a workout?
Also, I’m not sure if come across Footpath before: https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/footpath-route-planner/id634845718 it has quite a nice “draw a line” interface for planning which I find, for areas with lots of dense footpaths to choose from, a little quicker than tapping waypoint.
I do appreciate the quality of the maps you’re using in Pedometer++ though, they’re much nicer than ones I’ve seen in other apps.
