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Am I correct in my interpretation of what I'm reading, that Duolingo does not have any support mechanism other than for billing problems? I've been paying for a family plan for over a year, and recently my data was corrupted and I've lost hundreds or thousands of hours worth of progress, and I really need them to restore it. I know they have a feature request button, but I don't need something to go into some product person's backlog to be triaged months from now, my need is much more immediate. It's incomprehensible to me that that a paid language service that bills itself as AI-forward doesn't have a chat or email correspondence mechanism.

Earlier this year, I planned a trip to Japan. It was my fourth time visiting, and I have a little bit of history with introductory Japanese from previous trips (by way of a class at our local Japan Cultural Association, and self study through part of Genki 1). This time I decided I was going to try Duolingo, and immediately connected with the approach (although the stubborn refusal to ever explain even arcane grammatical rules rubbed me the wrong way from the beginning). I dragged the others I was travelling with onto the app and we got a family plan, and spent the summer learning. I absolutely chewed through the content, and finished sections 1-3 before my trip.

Indeed, I felt more comfort

As a company, Best Buy has been withering on the vine for years while Amazon eats their lunch, but I historically trusted them, and so I figured I'd give them the benefit of the doubt here, especially since I don't love Walmart, and Target can't seem to get out of their own way these days.

This is likely the last time I'll ever buy anything from them. My unit has been sitting in their warehouse in Dinuba, CA, waiting to be handed off to UPS, for ground shipping - as I type this we're 30 minutes and counting short of it being in that state for a whole day. The label is there, UPS has the tracking info and everything. They just don't have the device to deliver.

I could've very easily done in

I'm trying to get a sense of whether this game would be a good fit for a group to get together on a recurring basis and play? All reviews have been so careful to avoid spoilers that it's not clear to me at all how the game even plays, just that it's beloved by people who like things that I like.

I'll say that we've really enjoyed some analog puzzling stuff together (Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective, T.I.M.E. Stories, the meta stuff in Gloomhaven/Frosthaven), and I've personally loved a bunch of the big solo puzzlers of recent years (Obra Dinn, Outer Wilds, The Witness, etc). And conceptually, the idea of drafting room tiles to build out a mysterious old house is very Betrayal at Hou

Tried to plug in our holiday lights this afternoon only to find that our old switch, an iHome ISP100, apparently isn't usable anymore because SDI completely abandoned Android for the iHome Control App, which has somehow broken device pairing. So that thing has become e-waste and now I'm looking for a new outdoor plug that I can set up with some sort of mechanism for timing (open to anything) and voice control (Alexa).

At this point I think I'd prefer simplicity, I'm happy to forego bells and whistles, and to pay more, to just have something that solves a problem and can continue working after the company who created it has given up on it. I assume Matter is the answer there, but if there's

My wife and I signed up for Rover at the beginning of the year, and started looking for people we could form a recurring walker / occasional housesitter relationship with. Our dog is a pandemic pup who wasn't well socialized before we got her, so she is anxious around new people. We can't just treat sitters like a commoditized resource that we can swap in and out on a whim - we really need one person who the dog will become comfortable with. So, we made a whole big spreadsheet, picked our top four or five folks from the list, and went to reach out to them. We ran into two problems.

First - Rover's system of only being able to message a person who you have booked is problematic. We weren't

I've been building my first script to do setup for a game (Arboretum), and I'm absolutely stumped by something that I thought would be super easy. I have a deck of cards, and I want to deal cards out to the players. I'm using the API reference here: https://api.tabletopsimulator.com/object/#deal but it just has the effect of doing nothing at all.

I know my deck object is referencing the proper thing - I can flip it, shuffle it, and get its quantity. When I print its tag, it says it's of type "Deck". When I call the deal method, the response in code is "true", implying that cards were dealt. But the deck does not change size, and no playe

For the last 15 months or so I've been part of a group of 4 that has been regularly playing Gloomhaven. This has been by far the most consistent game group I've ever been a part of - a big part of that is that Gloomhaven itself compels you to keep your group together - and it's been great, but we're reaching the end of the available content. We have a few scenarios left in Forgotten Circles, and we'll probably go back and play the several scenarios that we didn't unlock in our core game playthrough, but we'll be fresh out within the first quarter of this year.

I've backed Return to Dark Tower, and I'm definitely onboard for Frosthaven. But those aren't coming anytime soon. I'll probably

Hi all. Wondering if anyone has any resources that would help me follow which Seattle eateries (and drinkeries?...) have switched to a no-tip model. I'm thinking both those that have switch to a flat service charge model (Tom Douglas and Renee Erickson restaurants), as well as those that have just included cost of living in their prices (Optimism Brewing, Ivar's). There was a lot of coverage around this in 2016, with some local posts trying to catalog the trend as the cost of living bill was starting to take effect, but I haven't seen anything tracking it more recently.

So, I received my device earlier this week, and got everything set up physically. Printed the cat from the SD card, which worked until the very top, at which point it went haywire, but otherwise good. So I moved on to trying to setup wifi, but this is where things have gone wrong.

First I tried to use MalyanLink from Windows, per these instructions: https://www.mpminidelta.com/wifi/windows. That had me install unsigned drivers, which I'm super uneasy about, but I went ahead with it anyway. With the program installed, however, it doesn't connect. It just says "Printer not connected. Please connect through USB port.", even though the printer IS

I'm looking for a way to buy a physical copy of the two community-driven campaigns, Into the Unknown and Capital Intrigue. Having switched from PDF to physical copy for the solo scenarios was enough to convince our group of the value of having a real, tangible booklet that you could easily pass around. I'd love to have something similar that I could use for these two campaigns, and would be happy to pay for a bit for it. I've had terrible experiences in the past trying to print game components on my own (tried and failed to get D&D spell cards to align front-and-back like 15 times on a commercial printer before ragequitting), so I don't really want to mess with that. I know that other fo

I'm gonna be traveling abroad (in my case, in Japan) during September community day, and it got me thinking: As a person who doesn't speak the primary language of the country I'll be in, what is the best way to find people I might be better able to communicate with for community day?

In looking at the TSR League Map, language(s) is not a piece of data provided per community group. Maybe that would be a solid addition in the future. In the meantime, how should I find English speakers to get that coveted September stamp on my Traveler Card?