MrGG

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[โ€“] MrGG@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Was the INXS song Original Sin?

[โ€“] MrGG@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Oh you ๐Ÿ˜‚ you think I should ask the multinational behemoth social media company (that is routinely antagonistic towards the laws of other countries, and rejects feature requests from users for sport) to support WEBP as a shareable format in their messenging app, rather than the very receptive developer of a small app that I directly support through my subscription?

You have contact info for the team I should be talking to at Facebook?

[โ€“] MrGG@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 years ago

Oof. I guess that's slightly better than what happens with Facebook Messenger, which is a generic "an error has occurred" dialogue box.

[โ€“] MrGG@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 years ago (5 children)

I know what WEBP is, why it is used, and why some instances would prefer to use it. But sharing WEBP to Facebook Messenger does not work, it returns an error.

[โ€“] MrGG@lemmy.ca 20 points 2 years ago (20 children)

Would you really want to prove it? What would that accomplish?

You're probably going to be depressed either way: either your parallel life is worse or your parallel life is better. If it's worse then you have to witness it and (I assume) can't do anything about it. If it's better then it's not really you that gets to enjoy it, and is nothing more than an existential cocktease.

I guess if you're really lucky parallel-universe-you might have invented something world-changing and you figure out how it works and bring that information back to your universe. But if it's anything like most of my dreams it's mostly just uncanny anxiety-inducing quasi-nightmares.

[โ€“] MrGG@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The username... the NZ country code... are you a hobbit?

[โ€“] MrGG@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Ahhh, ha ha ha, it's gone, it's gone, it's gone. Oh, it's gone. All the shitty shows are gone, all the idiots screaming in the fucking wind are dead, I love it. Leaving nothing but a cool, beautiful serenity called...Arizona Bay. That's right, when L.A. falls in the fucking ocean and is flushed away, all that it will leave...is Arizona Bay.

[โ€“] MrGG@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Why is the CN Tower still standing though? Where is the SkyDome? And you expect me to believe that in an apocalyptic future Toronto traffic has actually improved?

[โ€“] MrGG@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago

I'm also in Canada. Are you looking for separate apps? There's only a single app, with in-app purchases and subscriptions within it. There used to be separate apps (Sync for Reddit, of course) but apparently Google didn't like that, so now everything is bundled into a single app.

[โ€“] MrGG@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago

I'd bet it would. Apps seem to randomly decide they want to be associated with the wrong account (particularly their Google Pay association), so I'd bet re-associating it to the correct account using the browser trick would fix in-app purchase associations as well. But I've not tried it for IAP, so I can't say with any certainty that it would work.

[โ€“] MrGG@lemmy.ca 11 points 2 years ago

Glad to help, dumbfuq!

[โ€“] MrGG@lemmy.ca 24 points 2 years ago (7 children)

I'm amazed that this is still an issue years later, but here we are.

You can (or at least you used to be able to) get around this issue by going to the play store in your web browser (logged into the account you want the app installed under) and using the "install to my phone" tool. It'll eventually install the app on your phone, and it should display the correct payment options.

I have to do this myself soon as I'm having a similar issue with a different app, but it's such an annoyance that I haven't bothered yet.

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