The Official Status Thread
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@Gribnit I could cancel out Soundcloud ads if I paid them too. But why bother?
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@pie_flavor eh, usually I prefer to pay for stuff rather than sell my future attention and productivity, ymmv
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@Gribnit Fifteen seconds of ad, about six times a month. So $5.00 for a minute and a half of extra music.
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@pie_flavor You have no context-switching cost? Thought you had a nearly insurmountable context-switching cost. Anyway, like ymmv, ymmv.
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@pie_flavor Meh. I have the Pandora app, but I've never used it; I've never even set up an account. I have a bunch of CDs ripped, but I never listen to them. When I listen to music on my phone, it's almost always streaming one of the two radio stations I listen to, both of which are non-commercial (though they sure have plenty of "underwriter messages"). One of them I listen using their slightly buggy but add-free app. The other I listen through the web, because their app wanted permission to access too many resources it had no business accessing.
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
Dunno what I'd do on train rides without Soundcloud.
My truck has a loaded 200gb sdcard full of my tunes. I'm sure you could come up with something.
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@Tsaukpaetra yeah, but then you're listening to tunes you know about and downloaded. I prefer listening to new things.
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@pie_flavor If you get an AM radio (like your phone has but you can't use) you can always tune right between a polka station and christian talk radio and turn the volume up until it's mostly distortion anyway.
Always new and exciting.
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra yeah, but then you're listening to tunes you know about and downloaded. I prefer listening to new things.
So... Radio?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra yeah, but then you're listening to tunes you know about and downloaded. I prefer listening to new things.
So... Radio?
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nah, there's nothing good on the radio these days. The Upload on Soundcloud though has what's actually new and interesting.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra yeah, but then you're listening to tunes you know about and downloaded. I prefer listening to new things.
So... Radio?
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Yes, like I said, I mostly listen to online streams of the stations I listen to, although the FM radio in my phone works just fine for the local one. (The other one is 800 miles away, so over the air reception is not so good.)
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Yeah, we have whole training videos all about sex in the workplace. Wait, I mean....
There's a billboard down the street (US101) that warns about office affairs being NSFW.
Can you guess who?
I haven't seen that one, but my commute involves only about 100m of 101, so I don't see much in the way of billboards on a regular basis.
It's on 101 south, about 1 or 2 exits before SJ airport.
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Yeah, we have whole training videos all about sex in the workplace. Wait, I mean....
There's a billboard down the street (US101) that warns about office affairs being NSFW.
Can you guess who?
I haven't seen that one, but my commute involves only about 100m of 101, so I don't see much in the way of billboards on a regular basis.
It's on 101 south, about 1 or 2 exits before SJ airport.
Road trip!
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gribnit Fifteen seconds of ad, about six times a month. So $5.00 for a minute and a half of extra music.
Is there some kind of SoundCloud Radio thing? Because I've never had any audio ads listening to songs.
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Yeah, we have whole training videos all about sex in the workplace. Wait, I mean....
There's a billboard down the street (US101) that warns about office affairs being NSFW.
Can you guess who?
I haven't seen that one, but my commute involves only about 100m of 101, so I don't see much in the way of billboards on a regular basis.
It's on 101 south, about 1 or 2 exits before SJ airport.
That used to be part of my daily commute, but unfortunately not anymore. Unfortunate, not because it's a nice commute β anything but β but because if I were still working at the company I was working for then, I'd still own a house, probably still be married, and most of the other bad things that have happened to me during and since the recession wouldn't have happened.
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Status: Achievement Unlocked
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@Gribnit said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Achievement Unlocked
Quick! To the turrets! We gotta destroy it before it enters the atmosphere!
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Still trying.
AAaaand still nothing.
Fuck this game, I guess. I gave it more tries than I expect the users of our game to, and nothing.
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Status: User claims failing eye-sight and wants bigger monitors.
OK, first they need to do a visual devices assessment form which takes a good 5 attempts to go get them to do it...all while they're still pestering me in spite of being repeatedly told the form is a blocking action.
Now we're in the spending approvals process and they keep sending me emails to monitors and coming to my desk with printouts of monitor specs wanting to have extended discussions about monitor features.
I'm sorely tempted to suggest the only feature they actually need is a monitor that can be rectally inserted.
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Dear Windows, Linux, and everyone else:
I DO NOT WANT TO SET A PASSWORD OR PIN FOR MY DEVICE
Not even if it has a linked Microsoft account. Not even to do stuff as administrator/root. So fuck off already.
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@anonymous234 said in The Official Status Thread:
Not even to do stuff as administrator/root.
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@pie_flavor Do you really care that a burglar might break into your house and install new drivers on your computer without your permission?
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@anonymous234 passwords arenβt for physical access. If theyβve got physical access, they donβt need it to do literally anything they want.
Administrative passwords are a firewall against compromised code running in unprivileged accounts.
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Status: Apparently my apartment hosted a locked door mystery yesterday... Either that, or my toilet spontaneously clogged itself, plunged itself, flushed itself, and then shook out the plunger on top of the closed lid of the toilet.
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Apparently my apartment hosted a locked door mystery yesterday... Either that, or my toilet spontaneously clogged itself, plunged itself, flushed itself, and then shook out the plunger on top of the closed lid of the toilet.
Sounds like one of those questions for Mr Whiskey, along with 'why are my keys in the fridge'?!
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@Cursorkeys
Given that I was at work during the entire period in which the activity took place, I think we can clear Mr WhiskeyAlso the fact that Iβve never had alcohol...
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
I prefer listening to new things.
Remove your headset and listen to the environment around you.
People's conversations are always new things
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@TimeBandit said in The Official Status Thread:
@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
I prefer listening to new things.
Remove your headset and listen to the environment around you.
People's conversations are always new things
And 90% of the time things I didn't want to hear. Especially when sitting in the lunch room with a bunch of the back-office ladies (who are all 50+) sitting around gossiping. So much for the idea that women are more refined and delicate than men...
Status: Trying to figure out the intersection between
a) things I should do today
b) things I can be bothered to do todaySo far all I'm getting is
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@TimeBandit said in The Official Status Thread:
People's conversations are always new things
No they're not. Most conversations are basically
did you see {tv show} last night?
I did. I literally enjoy watching {tv show}. Lovely weather today
Isn't it? But I hear it's going to rain this weekend
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@Benjamin-Hall
It's been a while since we've had a high quality shitpost in the , are you the hero we need?
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
@Benjamin-Hall
It's been a while since we've had a high quality shitpost in the , are you the hero we need?Nah, that's firmly outside the "things I can be bothered to do today" set. And I'm better at sidelines-snarking than at stirring up trouble to begin with.
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@Jaloopa said in The Official Status Thread:
did you see {tv show} last night?
Did you see that ludicrous display last night?
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@anonymous234 The trouble with Arsenal is they always try to walk it in
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@Jaloopa said in The Official Status Thread:
did you see {tv show} last night?
No, I was busy shoveling the damned snow
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@TimeBandit I literally enjoy {shoveling the damn snow}. Lovely weather today
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@hungrier
<whisper>Yes, loony bin? I have your escaped patient... Send someone quick, I think he might hurt himself</whisper>
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@izzion
Also, a realization I had while I was writing the previous post... if one of the most iconic American discount stores operated in Canada, would they be Loony General?
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@izzion Oddly enough, none of the dollar stores I know of are called Loonie anything. The big ones (at least last time I paid attention) are Dollarama, Buck or Two, and Dollar Tree Canada.
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Status: Potentially fixed the issue by fixing another issue which I fixed after reading a spec. The only reason I wouldn't have noticed it as an issue previously is that, as mentioned, the devices we have didn't exhibit the keyboard issue, and most of the other number inputs didn't post back directly, but via AJAX, which avoided the browser's built-in validation checks.
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@TimeBandit said in The Official Status Thread:
Remove your headset and listen to the environment around you.
Oh, you mean the other 50 people in this room (open office) with me?
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@dcon Like the lapping of stupid, disruptive, irrelevant waves at the seashore. Sooooooothing.
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status Just replied to a linked in message with:
<normal not interested message> Sorry to be rude, but you might want to learn to read.
(yeah, no I'm not)
Background: They send a 'hey, you might be interested in this job that has absolutely shit to do with your resume'. I reply, 'No, not interested as you can see from my resume'. They replied with the same message.
Odds on how long before I block them?
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@dcon Form response works best here. Wordy, polite, and completely disinterested to the point where they feel like they were yelled at by a guy in a monocle who can't pronounce the letter r.
"I do not consider positions {meeting the fucktarded criteria you seem to have applied}" pretty much, on each offending occasion. Make 'em feel like they almost got sued.
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@Gribnit What's a form response?
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
a linked in message
I've gotten a few insinuating I'm the owner of the company I work for. Kinda weird...
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@stillwater said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gribnit What's a form response?
This is an automated message confirming receipt of your message. We will respond within 48 business hours.
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@Tsaukpaetra thanks! @stillwater ^
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You do realise you already lost by responding in the first place? LinkedIn spammers are the worst and you need to block them without giving half a fuck. REPORT and BLOCK!