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![[1116] F5](/comics/2019-09-19-1116-f5.png "[1116] F5")
On the following page you can find all the info about this year’s Sandra and Woo + Gaia artwork contest which comes with $5000 prize money!
- Sandra: What’s up with that artist’s shop? Why is it suddenly $11300?! That can’t be right!
- Sandra: I have to email the artist so that he fixes the mistake!
- Sandra: … And done! Now we have to wait!
- Woo: F5 is a dangerous drug! Stay away from it, kids!
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f5 is a horrible thing. Ask anyone who’s been online to buy a new game on launch date, or a new collectable after SDCC.
Worse part is you can go through all that trouble trying to refresh the screen, and what you’re buying sells out in the span of a single refresh.
I’ve found that the best way to counter the F5 drug is to do something else – it’s easier if you leave the computer but using another program and/or going to a different site does work as well.
“Aww, still in Memphis.”
Joke’s on you, on Macs it’s Cmd+R.
… still the same drug, though.
… aaaand I’m using a Windows PC right now anyway.
Had to search to understand – and I am using PC’s for 30 or so years. I usually just click on the round arrow.
@ MaxArt:
Ctrl+R works on Windows too, you know. Isn’t Ctrl+Shift+R supposed to clear the cache as it refreshes too?
So, the joke is that she doesn’t understand the concept of “bidding”?
Brock Lesnar is using F5!! Here comes the pain!!
Ah yes, I used to use this drug all the time when waiting for new strips. I use it less now, but I don’t think I’ll be able to quit any time soon.
Reminded of the ticket hunt for comic con from the Big Bang Theory.
When your livelihood hangs on the balance and F5 isn’t enough and your fingers are all cramped out and spasming from clicking and you desperately need to eat/use the restroom…
*cue ad music jingle*
There’s always Check4Change! A FREE firefox exte…
*Novil deleting comment as spam*
She’s not bought the pic and is now just re-sending her order over and over every time she mashes F5, is she?
Only living, breathing humans would be THAT stupid.
@ Brett Bellmore:
There was no bid, the guy is charging ten thousand for shippimy.@ clickbait:
No she’s refreshing the email waiting for a response.
clickbait wrote:
Ithink she still is in the ‘shoping cart’ view, so refreshing doesn’t do much. But her folly is her expectation that sending an e-mail will result in an instant fix. Today’s zeitgeist really…
@ MaxArt:
not, if you set macOS to use the F-keys as intended. then F5 works the same.
I used to work with a woman who gave herself an RSI in her wrist doing that!
“oops my bad, shipping fees are actually 20000$, let me fix that”
why would you want the artist to fix the problem I’ll keep the extra change and use that for something like a switch
Used to be that eBay wouldn’t assess fees on shipping charges before they figured out that sellers were padding their shipping charges to avoid eBay getting their cut.
Foreseeing three options.
1. a response from the seller thanking her for bringing the shipping price mistake to her attention. she looks again and the shipping price went up.
2. the seller responds with a explaination that the shipping price is due to extreme concerns needed to get it to her safely (think war zone, private courier demanding significant hazard pay to get it from a person who lives deep in a controlled area.)
3. combine two with a comment from yesterday, and the delivery will include the artist hand delivering the painting and a personal thanks for getting her/him/them out of a controlled area.
@ coyoteBR:
It is Ctrl-R for me…
PS2kid wrote:
Brock’s F5 is named after the strongest class of tornado, the Fujita-5. These days, the original scale has generally been replaced with the the Enhanced Fujita scale. An EF5 is absolutely devastating.
I’m not sure Sandra’s finger is going fast enough to generate a tornado, but I think there might equivalent property damage at this rate.
@ Brett Bellmore:
This isn’t an auction, it’s the artist’s personal site, where the artist set a sale price of $1,300.00 and then tacked on $10k shipping.
Hello, Sandra North
Thank you for your e-mail.
Your e-mail is important to us and will be handled in the order it was received.
Beware the evils of caching! You might be looking at an old screen! Quick! ctrl-shift-r or shift f5!
@ dragon7:
I would want the artist to change the problem because the problem is that I would have to pay $10,000 in shipping
Should I point out F5 doesn’t actually work on eMails? The most common webmails just use ajax, and the time it takes them to load the UI on full refresh is actually longer than the time it takes them to request an inbox update. Meanwhile, POP3 and IMAP clients will generally not recognize F5 as anything other than “reload the currently selected message from the harddrive”, and would perform no net activity in response to it being pressed. Either way, all she could be potentially refreshing is the store’s contact page, which would not have the reply to her query.
@ CinCoutMagus:
“Aww, still in Memphis.”
Man, I feel the same way every time I look at a Julie Belle painting. I want one so bad, they’re so pretty but I have neither the money or the space.
WARNING! For anybody who ships UPS= they have a god-awful trick called CUSTOMS BROKERAGE FEES. True story= bought a 45.00 item, UPS shipping 25.00 and CUSTOMS BROKERAGE FEE 35 00! Ship ANYTHING by UPS, make sure they include that! The seller didn’t know, I didn’t know, not until the U-PAY SUCKERS truck came up and all of a sudden there it was! I wouldn’t have even minded it if it had been at least slightly unreasonable, but 35 DOLLARS on a 45 DOLLAR ITEM?????????????????????????
das wrote:
It does.
Ctrl+R has been widely introduced in Windows too exactly because of MacOS, but on Windows I still use just F5.
Mr. Spock wrote:
Nope. It works in Firefox only. In Chrome and Safari you’re stuck with Cmd+R.
F5 is usually associated with something else on Macs.