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r/MagicEarth•

Here's an example I've seen a few times now: Going on the M25 South, having to exit onto the A30. But ME shows the "M25" sign in the instructions.

https://preview.redd.it/wdjh84tunxrh1.jpg?width=1840&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2859edabf17ce9d433a4ded3b710aa690d92d27a

https://preview.redd.it/ipa67unxnxrh1.jpg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d83883e7b38bbec35d6d65c573f4a853a7d6aca2

I've checked OSM and the data looks sound to me.

https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/951562793

It has destination:ref=A30 yet ME seems to show the ref=M25 instead.

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r/MagicEarth•

My car can display the next turn information on the dashboard. With other navigation apps, I can see the turn pictogram as well as the road I'm on and the road I need to turn into.

With ME, I only seem to see the pictogram but no names.

Has anybody else noticed the same?

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r/Seagate•

I have a LaCie 5big Network 2. It is updated with the latest version 2.2.12.3. I want to factory reset it to give it away.

The manual lists 2 methods (page 120 ff.):

    1. Factory Reset with keeping the data
    • Turn off
    • keep button pressed while switching back on
    • when LED stops blinking, release button
    • when LED stops blinking, press button again to confirm reset
    1. Factory Reset without keeping the data (this is specific to the 5big Network 2)
    • turn off
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r/GoogleMaps•

A friend recently got his 7 year old 3-star review (without any text) of some German business deleted due to "defamation". And the business that was reviewed back then has no reviews below 4 stars anymore. (There were still some 1- and 3- star reviews when I checked it a few days ago.) Their overall rating shot up to 4.9 with absolutely no 1-, 2- or 3-star reviews -- from what I can only assume was far lower before.

It appears someone found out that Google just deletes "bad" reviews if reported in the "correct way" even though there's no legal ground. Even when objecting to the deletion, they just reply with "we've checked, it's still defamation, no action is taken".

This makes their star-

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Moin! Schwiegermutter hat ein Paket in ihrer örtlichen Filiale eingeliefert. Zielort laut Aufkleber: "London, United Kingdom."

Irgendwie muss der Mensch da hinter'm Schalter, der wohl auch noch mit ihr herumgewitzelt hat: "Ach, London in England!", aber als Zielland "United States" in den Computer gehackt haben. Wie wir mittlerweile herausgefunden haben, steht jedenfalls "US" auf der Quittung. Und weil ihr kürzlich noch von einer Bekannten erzählt wurde, dass die Preise bei DHL gestiegen sind, ist sie auch nicht sonderlich stutzig geworden, als sie 50 statt der sonst üblich 30€ bezahlen sollte.

Nun haben wir im Tracking verfolgen können, wie offensichtlich auch niemand mehr auf das Etikett

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r/Hewlett_Packard•

I've bought a used HP EliteBook 810 G3 and wanted to turn it to proper HP-incl.-all-bloatware factory settings. I've downloaded the Cloud Recovery Tool and created my recovery USB for Windows 10 which turned out to be in NTFS format. Which is weird for a supposedly EFI-bootable drive.

However, it didn't show up in the boot selection. Only after I've enabled Legacy mode ("CSM"), it was popping up - but then, the Windows setup complains about the harddisk being in GPT format.

Is there any way to get a proper EFI-bootable HP-rescue medium that will return the whole thing back to factory defaults (incl. HP_TOOLS partition, etc.)?

Or IS MBR the default and somebody converted the disk to GPT on

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r/APIcalypse•

I want to keep my account as I'm still able to find various old comments from me that don't show up in my profile and thus are not caught by any of the deletion tools. But I also want to "undo" all my contributions where possible. This includes deleting those comments found on Google, but also my up- and downvotes.

As I didn't find any tool to do this, I wrote these two lines of JavaScript to be pasted into the browser's developer console.

Upvotes

Got to https://www.reddit.com/user/me/upvoted/, open your browser's developer tools, select "Console" and paste this:

$('.upmod').not('.archived').each( (idx, elem) => { setTimeout( () => { console.log('click ' + idx + ': %o', ele
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r/MightyDoom•

For some reason I get a lot of misleading ads where the actual game looks absolutely nothing like what's shown in the ad.

There's a reporting feature at the bottom left (hand with shield icon). When you report such ads, it counts as if you never watched the ad in the first place. I.e. you won't be revived and you won't get the boost/coins/crate. Just keep that in mind.

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r/ukvisa•

Never thought it would be ready that fast.

  • Applications: Tue, 17 Jan 2023 (late at night, so basically 18 Jan)
    • booked biometrics separately (me + wife) at: TLScontact Berlin, Germany
    • self-service upload
  • Biometrics: Thu, 19 Jan 2023 (shortly after office hours started)
  • Transferred to UKVI: Thu, 19 Jan 2023 (afternoon)
  • Arrived at the UKVI (me): Mon, 23 Jan 2023 (late morning)
  • Arrived at the UKVI (wife): Tue, 24 Jan 2023 (mid-morning)
  • Decision made: Wed, 25 Jan 2023 (morning)
  • Passport ready for collection: Wed, 25 Jan 2023 (noon)

The people at TLS said waiting time is around 3-4 weeks at the moment so we were very surprised to get our passports back so soon.

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r/ukvisa•

My wife and I are EU citizens wanting to move to the UK. I’ve got a job offer from an international company and after asking them what type of visa they would issue and whether that counts against ILR as we want to get citizenship they replied that it will be an exempt vignette and that, yes, it counts against ILR.

However, in the sparse information I can find about this vignette, it only says that you are exempt from border checks. Nothing else. Those websites with a bit more details said that you still need 5 years on a “Tier 2” (what would be a SWV now) to qualify for ILR, so 10 years total.

Was there any recent change in these rules or is this still correct?

It also says the exempt

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