The Daily Rant Thread

[Suburban_Hooligan]

That's always the best fix and the first thing to try

believe it or not, it actually has a term. it's called "percussive maintenance"

 

[Doom!]

Garage door opener/spring bar decided 9 years of exercise was their limit... $585 for a complete re-build.

Damm adulting... I blame @Doom!

Been there done that and I blamed @Doom! Too!

 

[RudyF6]

2 things.
1. its raining and I'm at work. i have a winter beater monster truck i built just for this but how am i supposed to run it if I'm at work?
2. when i play a game my phone freezes and crashes. i just found out that if i bonk the phone on the desk while it freezes, it unfreezes and works. sometimes i have to bonk it 3 or 4 times to get it to finish what its doing. so yeah... sup wit dat?

The phone thing?
Percussive maintenance.

 

[Guest D]

The phone thing?
Percussive maintenance.

Repetitive percussive maintenance

 

[Chubaka]

I was given a pizza with fake ingredients. It was sausage but tge sausage was cut with ground turkey that was cooked with the sausage to flavor it.

 

[Mrgoodwrench35]

I was given a pizza with fake ingredients. It was sausage but tge sausage was cut with ground turkey that was cooked with the sausage to flavor it.

Who committed this horrible atrocity??

 

[Xraycer]

I was given a pizza with fake ingredients. It was sausage but tge sausage was cut with ground turkey that was cooked with the sausage to flavor it.

Obviously, someone's trying to kill you.

 

[Chubaka]

Who committed this horrible atrocity??

My sister.

 

[Doom!]

Get a rope!

 

[WickedFog]

Spent the last few days going through my Windows 11 install. Man, if you guys are using Windows 11... you BETTER look into shutting down Windows' spying abilities. Holy crap. It is absolutely infuriating how much those bastards are watching you. Just one tiny fragment of some of the stuff it can do...

There are even settings hidden all throughout Windows that will actually turn settings back on if you turn them off. And even if you use software that keeps this stuff locked out, Windows turns it back on with each update. I'm going to start wearing a tinfoil hat like Mike.

 

[81exige]

you think that's bad? look at what the execs at MS pitched for the future of Windows 11; the brief is they want to turn the OS into an "agentic" experience (getting copilot to navigate windows for you...even though search bars are built into windows for easy navigation, and there is documentation online????) and safe to say everyone absolutely DOGGED on it. it just shows how these executives are so incredibly out of touch with what the users actually want

oh and speaking of copilot, last tuesday I got a briefing from the company that we have to log copilot usage while handling customers - although you don't actually have to send the email that copilot drafted, you can just ask it to draft something and delete it right after, what matters is the fact you used it. the boss said they don't want to enforce it either but it's a requirement from microsoft themselves. I'm 100% betting they're enforcing it so they can lie through their noses to their investors that "see, everyone LOOOVES our ai assistant and they can't wait to use it when given the chance"

 

[DavidB1126]

This is @Suburban_Hooligan @wicked-temp and @CertifiedMike

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[OnwardGuinevere]

Not a rant, I'm just still thrilled I completed my personal goal yesterday to upgrade my ham radio license from Technician to General. It takes a bit of time to go through all the potential questions, there's 432 possible questions. Then you get tested on a random 35 of that 423. So you have to put some effort in. It feels good to not have to take practice exams after I get my kiddo to sleep or in any small instances I can get.
My radio is on order, so I'll finally have the beginnings of a proper mobile station

 

[DavidB1126]

Does anyone know how to factor by grouping?
Random question but the words trigger a rant

 

[9x19]

Yes, it's quite easy.

 

[Lukedavis]

Yes, it's quite easy.

teach me your ways

 

[9x19]

teach me your ways

For a nominal fee... up front... and no refunds if you don't 'get it'

 

[9x19]

Not a rant, I'm just still thrilled I completed my personal goal yesterday to upgrade my ham radio license from Technician to General. It takes a bit of time to go through all the potential questions, there's 432 possible questions. Then you get tested on a random 35 of that 423. So you have to put some effort in. It feels good to not have to take practice exams after I get my kiddo to sleep or in any small instances I can get.
My radio is on order, so I'll finally have the beginnings of a proper mobile station

Congrats, will it work when you really need it... underwater, you know for when your state falls off into the ocean.

 

[Xraycer]

For a nominal fee... up front... and no refunds if you don't 'get it'

You do realize he has no  future money, right?

 

[OnwardGuinevere]

Congrats, will it work when you really need it... underwater, you know for when your state falls off into the ocean.

Thanks!
It should be fine. I'm on in CA, so no risk of falling off into the ocean and far enough inland WA state. If the ocean makes it far east past the Cascades then it earned it.

As a contingency, I'll make sure I have the snorkel on the Land Cruiser.