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Story of the two thousand stolen Playdate handhelds
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Here's a better version, with images, in the style of a traditional print newspaper article: https://gist.github.com/justjanne/1e1254bf207c4d98862e040136...
Not sure if it helps anyone else, but for me it made the story a lot easier to grasp.
I wrote most of it by hand, using an LLM just for a rough outline which I then manually rewrote line by line, streamlined, removed hallucinations, double-checked all quotes, reordered and added images and links.
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This is getting downvoted but I actually quite appreciated it. Story is interesting enough I'll listen to the whole podcast! I can't do that for every single podcast link that I come across. There's not enough time in the year much less the day.
It's AI generated, how do I know if it's accurate? It could be making up the whole thing.
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#44The thing that surprised me the most about it is that FedEx didn't just pay them the 400k for lost shipment. They had all the proof that it was lost, all that Fedex had was a signature of someone who doesn't even work at their fulfilment centre. Even after their "higher ups" got involved all that FedEx could do was "huh, sucks to be you I guess?" Does freight shipment not have insurance? What's going on here?
This reminds me of the recent story where an Uber courier stole two MacBooks, there was no signature, CCTV showing no delivery, and Apple was just like "our carrier has completed the requested investigation, and no further action will be taken by Apple."
Wouldn't the right course of action in that case be to issue a chargeback and let Apple and Uber fight it out?
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#45I summarized the transcript into an article: https://gist.github.com/justjanne/1e1254bf207c4d98862e040136...
Not sure if it helps anyone else, but for me it made the story a lot easier to grasp.
I wrote most of it by hand, using an LLM just for a rough outline which I then manually rewrote line by line, streamlined, removed hallucinations, double-checked all quotes, reordered and added images and links.
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#46I wanted to buy a playdate when they first came out, but unfortunately they weren't shipping to my country. Now they do, so I just placed an order 15 mins ago and my partner just received a call from the bank to verify that it wasn't a fraudulent transaction. She just asked me - what is this "play date" you just sent $300 to? Oh dear. :D
Then you say "it's a handheld gaming device" and the matter is settled.
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#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
This reminds me of the recent story where an Uber courier stole two MacBooks, there was no signature, CCTV showing no delivery, and Apple was just like "our carrier has completed the requested investigation, and no further action will be taken by Apple."
When you're the one making the rules, enforcing them and judging who breaks them, you can basically do whatever you want as long as you pay taxes :)
As long as you properly plan your taxes to 0.
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#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
This reminds me of the recent story where an Uber courier stole two MacBooks, there was no signature, CCTV showing no delivery, and Apple was just like "our carrier has completed the requested investigation, and no further action will be taken by Apple."
Wouldn't the right course of action in that case be to issue a chargeback and let Apple and Uber fight it out?
Yes, but it can be quite burdensome if your Apple account has any value to you. (Say, if you are an app developer for instance, or aren't quite sure which services you have registered with an apple email address, etc.)
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#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
Allegedly.
I wonder where to put it though. > Thanks so much for alledgedly listening > please don’t alledgedly steal our Playdates. > please don’t steal our alledged Playdates. > Because we will alledgedly find you.
Allegedly because we will find you.
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#50Imagine being the thief in this case and getting stuck with an entire pallet of these weird indie handhelds that you can't fence because nobody knows what they are just hanging out on your garage.
It seemed it was a planned thing, so probably not a big surprise.