The Official Status Thread
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
@dcon my solution is Gmail.
They didn't exist when I did that.
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@cabrito CenturyLink's DNS has been garbage all year. It was bad enough I changed my DNS to Cloudflare, just so I wouldn't have to reload every single page two or three times.
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@dcon And if you remember far enough back, many of them had ridiculously small mailbox limits too. GMail, or GoogleMail
, was one of the earliest "unlimited" providers.
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@Zenith on the other hand, 100MB in 2000 wasn't that ridiculous. At least for personal mailbox, for most people.
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@Gąska IIRC Hotmail back then was something ridiculously small even for that time, like 10-15 MB
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@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
Hotmail back then was something ridiculously small even for that time, like 10-15 MB
witch was somehow still larger then most professional mailboxes or those provided by the university ... those still came with descriptions about connecting to them with Pine.
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@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gąska IIRC Hotmail back then was something ridiculously small even for that time, like 10-15 MB
I miss the days when attaching megabytes of images in an email wasn't the norm...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gąska IIRC Hotmail back then was something ridiculously small even for that time, like 10-15 MB
I miss the days when attaching megabytes of images in an email wasn't the norm...
Yeah, you had to piece the multiple uuencoded parts from NetNews back together...
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@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gąska IIRC Hotmail back then was something ridiculously small even for that time, like 10-15 MB
Looks like even in 2000, Polish internet was vastly superior to US internet.
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gąska IIRC Hotmail back then was something ridiculously small even for that time, like 10-15 MB
I miss the days when attaching megabytes of images in an email wasn't the norm...
Yeah, you had to piece the multiple uuencoded parts from NetNews back together...
You know, I wonder if someone were to implement that we a "new" encryption scheme, how long it would take to decipher it?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gąska IIRC Hotmail back then was something ridiculously small even for that time, like 10-15 MB
I miss the days when attaching megabytes of images in an email wasn't the norm...
Yeah, you had to piece the multiple uuencoded parts from NetNews back together...
You know, I wonder if someone were to implement that we a "new" encryption scheme, how long it would take to decipher it?
Given that most files had a few pieces missing, maybe never.
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@Luhmann said in The Official Status Thread:
those still came with descriptions about connecting to them with
Pine/bin/mail.
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Status: Well, tier 2 at Comcast may as well be the kid down the street. All that retard could do was send me an e-mail and ask for the 6-digit code inside. He couldn't even read the ticket because he thought it said I couldn't get into my e-mail. I told him a move failed and I needed him to look on the server for the orphaned mail file. He lied and said he couldn't see into mailboxes, to which I responded "that's a lie. You know damned well you could find anything you wanted in my mailbox under the Patriot Act. You know how I know? I was an Exchange administrator and software engineer. Tell me, why did tier 1 even escalate to you if you're even less technically competent than they are?" He kept saying it was due to privacy and I kept saying "you can say that as many times as you like but it'll never be true. Can't you even look at the server's error logs? What about tier 3? Is there somebody in tier 3 that knows anything about e-mail?" Well finally I guess he had enough and said he was going to close the ticket. I said "make sure you mark it closed unsuccessfully since you didn't understand the problem and didn't know how to do anything." This idiot actually told me to forward e-mails to myself if I lose them in the future. Fucking retarded needful not-doer.
I'm debating whether to call again tomorrow. It's on my employer's time so why not? God damn, how do you fuck up a move operation so badly that both copies disappear?
Though I really hope the sender can oblige me and resend these e-mails so I can try uploading fixed copies through an IMAP client if I can find one that can actually read my entire mailbox.
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@Zenith Oh and since I've been bitching up a storm, how about Gamestop?
These idiots are having a 20% off Marvel sale with 40% off a specific set. Not going to lie, I'll flip that set for double original retail in a year, which'll be lower than the triple retail everybody else will try to get, and people will complain even though it sat for an entire year. So I order 15 figures, several in duplicate. I carefully arranged it to get free shipping all around between in-stock and preorders. Because God damn is their cart (and, ultimately, invoice) fucking confusing. So, anyway, now they're mailing them out...one at a time.
Why GameStop is flirting with bankruptcy, ladies and gentlemen.
Edit: Here's the stupidity of their billing.
This is what they e-mail you:
All of the items are up above that, all listed at full price. Now, you'll see it says I saved $142. Yeah. Well, during the checkout, it said I was saving something ridiculous like $297 (I knew it was wrong...I guess they just kept adding not just the 20% but the $5.99 shipping per figure?).Their online order details don't even show any breakdown. That changed since the last time. They also ditched infinite scroll on mobile (but, sadly, not desktop). The old details page used to apply the breakdown to the individual items...wrongly. It would average the entire discount between them in this bizarrely complex formula. For some reason.
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I guess my web host decided to move my incoming mailserver without telling me to update my MX records, so my mail has been getting blackholed for a week.
Edit: I guess they couldn't have told me, since my email has been (silently) down.
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status Sigh. Amazon. My 15amp fuse on my RV battery evidently overloaded and when it blew, melted the holder. So I ordered a new one (well, 2 because of packaging). They arrived last night. (found them this morning) That 5-pack of KN95 masks is not compatible with 12v. (return/replace is in process)
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I'm diabetic. Evil.
Status: I'll get informed about that tomorrow. Hereditary. Let's hope I'm not, yet.
Well, the first part at least.
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Status: Feeling a little bad at possibly sending Comcast on a wild goose chase.
I reached out to the store and they were able to copy but not resend the invoices. So I have an e-mail with eight invoices printed one after the other. Eight, because a new order I placed at noon also failed to generate an invoice. What I received will at least help me reconstruct most of what I need for my system (I'd still like date times though). Also of note, the links in these copied invoices aren't garbled with tracking like usual, so that must be the mailer's doing.
Apparently, other people are having similar issues. Some people aren't receiving invoices, others aren't receiving newsletters, etc. So far, it appears to be class based.
I've been reading e-mail headers in Thunderbird, and what I noticed is that different types of e-mails travel different paths. E-mails to/from customer service are normal, from expected mailbox to expected mailbox. Order updates go through a MailChimp plug-in, spoofing the reply/from address. Weekly newsletters go through an iContact list. Product recommendations go through a different iContact list.
So now it makes sense why the one person looking at traffic at Comcast can't find them. I might call again to have them try searching for the MailChimp plug-in address, because that's the class that are missing for me, just to be sure. Or I might not.
I really hope the store figures out what's wrong with their software and I don't have to keep asking for manual invoices/alerts.
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Status: Ordered a couple more 24x 18650 cell battery packs. No idea what I'll do with them yet, but that's a problem to solve later
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status getting up really early tomorrow so I can move stuff into my new place and get the network up and running by the time work starts at 8. Gonna be a long day. Fortunately most of the morning is meetings where I don't really need to think.
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STATUS: I agree with my colleague who just said:
It's morning every morning! I can't handle this!
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
I'll get informed about that tomorrow.
Sober blood glucose levels normal. Apparently, no further investigation for now, even though I'd be interested in the long-term parameters.
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Status: Contemplating if I should finally check out the
gardenselfie thread after all. Might ruin my mental picture if I see you as humans.
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: I can stay as remote employee forever!
Yeah, The corona pandemics also brought some good things.
I work from home since mid March, and the office I used to occupy with a colleague is already planned to be used by our service people.
But: the common chatter with the colleagues gets missing. Just meet them there and have a short chat - that's something missing now.
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@BernieTheBernie That's why my team has a permanent chatroom open (in Skype, but the exact technology isn't important if it works). It helps a lot that we already had a team member working remotely for quite a while before this whole business started.
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STATUS get thee behing me satan!
My isp is offering me 1 gig broadband. Very tempted.
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@DogsB
Pretty sure that's the voice of Gabriel
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@Benjamin-Hall woke up before 4am. Moved in. Internet is operational, table in place, and chair set up. Now I can take a shower.
Oh, and early morning trains.
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@DogsB the cheapest package mine offered was 1 gig, but no tv or phone. Which is ok, I don't use those anyway.
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Status: RTX 3080 WILL BE JUST $700!? Goddamn, I might do the unthinkable and buy a top-of-the-line GPU this year!
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
Might ruin my mental picture
Well don't look for mine unless you're brave. Only thing I've uploaded of my person is an unmentionable.
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: RTX 3080 WILL BE JUST $700!? Goddamn, I might do the unthinkable and buy a top-of-the-line GPU this year!
Won't that also needs a top-of-the-line power supply too?
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@Tsaukpaetra not really. A standard 700W would suffice.
On the other hand, the even-higher-than-the-top RTX 3090, a triple-slot GPU with a custom power connector, is rumored to use up 400W all by itself. But at $1500, it's way over what I'm willing to spend.
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: RTX 3080 WILL BE JUST $700!? Goddamn, I might do the unthinkable and buy a top-of-the-line GPU this year!
Wow. I paid almost $600 for my 1080 3 years ago. I'm due for a new machine; I might upgrade the card along with it. OTOH, GPU isn't my performance bottleneck. My problem is the physics calculations, which use the CPU. Xeon is nice, but it's definitely showing its age compared to current CPUs in its class.
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: RTX 3080 WILL BE JUST $700!? Goddamn, I might do the unthinkable and buy a top-of-the-line GPU this year!
Top-of-the-line would be a Titan, the rest are just second best at best.
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@Gąska I'm torn about this. 3080 sounds great. Surprisingly good price. But one thing amazing about Pascal is how efficient it's been. With 3090 they've pulled a goddamn Vega. We'll see the actual numbers soon, but it's not going to be very good.
And that's a shame. That weird new cooler looks interesting. Most AIB designs look like Transformers
Power Rangers, with every new generation more inbred and retarded, and now with more blinkenlights. But they do work. I doubt this new thing is going to. I've had reference 780, 980, 1080, and 1080 Ti almost-reference. It's been... well, they ran ok, except in summer. You're not supposed to play games in summer, right? Eehrm. I sat out RTX, which was better, but now the power numbers are up again, a lot.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: RTX 3080 WILL BE JUST $700!? Goddamn, I might do the unthinkable and buy a top-of-the-line GPU this year!
Wow. I paid almost $600 for my 1080 3 years ago. I'm due for a new machine; I might upgrade the card along with it. OTOH, GPU isn't my performance bottleneck. My problem is the physics calculations, which use the CPU. Xeon is nice, but it's definitely showing its age compared to current CPUs in its class.
Damn it, I was ready to drop a shitload of money on a new rig, but at these prices I expect them to be sold out for a while.
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I shall be waiting for RDNA2 to be released too, having something to compare against is always nice. And it will be interesting to see how well a 3090 stacks up against a Radeon VII now that winter is coming, so I know if I can get a better space heater!
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@error Find a second-hand 2080 Ti. PCMR will carelessly flood the market over the next few weeks. 650 ought to do it, maybe even with some remaining warranty. Then flog it off next year. You're not going to lose much. Same thing happened with RTX. Two years ago I nabbed 1080 Ti for 400. When RTX got solid, space invaders beaten and everything, I never bothered to reconsider (well, that's a lie, but... you know).
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I'm gonna buy my PC on Black Friday. If Radeons are released by then, I'll get whatever benchmarks say to get, if not, I'll go with 3080. Also, I hope for a price drop for Valve Index, but if it doesn't happen, I'm getting HP Reverb G2.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official Status Thread:
Find a second-hand 2080 Ti. PCMR will carelessly flood the market over the next few weeks. 650 ought to do it, maybe even with some remaining warranty.
3080 is going to have better performance than 2080 Ti, and NVidia says 3070 (MSRP $500) will be on par with it. So $650 will be a very bad price.
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
Also, I hope for a price drop for Valve Index, but if it doesn't happen, I'm getting HP Reverb G2.
How are you going to use it with your monocle?
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
Also, I hope for a price drop for Valve Index, but if it doesn't happen, I'm getting HP Reverb G2.
How are you going to use it with your monocle?
I'll put a second one in front to cancel it out!
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
Wow. I paid almost $600 for my 1080 3 years ago
When I bought my new Dell, I opted for no video card - and just moved my 4y old 1060 (w/ 6G) over. Since I don't really play any games on this, it's happy!
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Status: Have to make another call to Comcast tomorrow.
I registered a new store account from one of my domains and received an order confirmation just fine. I cannot, however, get either of my parents to figure out how to create another Comcast e-mail over the phone for me to test that. So I turned to Google to see if Mandrill (the MailChimp plug-in used to send these notifications) was having some sort of problem with Comcast. Nothing current but last year (and sporadically back to 2012 or so) they had some of their IPs flagged as spammers/botnets and mail wasn't being let through. So absent another account to test with, I have to call the Comcast traffic people and see if they're seeing mandrillapp.com being kicked back in their logs. Last time it seemed like they caught it quickly but if that's what happening now it's been almost three weeks.
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The beard oil I've been conditioning my facial hair with makes my mustache smell like doughnuts.
Status: hungry
Mmm. Forbidden donut.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official Status Thread:
Transformers
Power RangersOn that note... observe!
A 4K gas stove! Chairman Wow.
Isn't that racist now?
iChill Air Boss Ultra X4 Fusion Power Stealth has always been idiotic (yes, that's a 4th fan, a 40mm little and entirely useless fucker), but... that's a 3070, people.
Lucy in the sky with diamonds...
What's my game? Well, for starters I don't wash my white video cards together with red shirts...
:drake_approves:It doesn't look like it's going to move any kind of air and will definitely clog up with dust real quick. It's iPhone married with a metal brick, but at least it's got some sense remaining.
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@Zenith Well I'm stumped. I talked to another Comcast customer who's still receiving these e-mails. I would expect any blocks would be network-wide and in any case this person's only two hours away in the same state. I also called the store out in Wisconsin and they insist the notifications are being sent. In fact I was supposed to have received three yesterday. All they could suggest was to check my spam (done repeatedly) and put them in my address book (done long ago).
God damn this is so frustrating. I didn't change anything and now I have to create a different account just because?
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status Took my car in for service and got a loaner. It has a bunch of features I don't (I only do the base package because I really don't care about those bells/whistles).
- Keyless entry/ignition is interesting.
- Lane departure could be annoying - or it could train me to turn on my signal a little earlier (I have a bad habit of tapping it as the wheel turns).
- I rather like the blind spot indicator.
- The energy saver (whatever you call the feature that turns the motor off when stopped at a light) fucking freaked me out - didn't know about that - I thought the car had just turned off because of some keyless glitch. So I tapped the Start button - which tried to turn things off. Luckily I sorted that out before the person behind me got too ticked off. Next time, I waited to see what would happen - ok, engine restarts when you take your foot off the
gasbrake. Service dude - this would be a good thing to brief someone on! (He explained the keyless since I've never had one)
edit: Keyless is also entry
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
Keyless ignition is interesting.
I have that. Particularly handy in combination with keyless entry - I just need to push a button on the doorhandle to unlock the door. Meaning no need to dig for keys and handy particularly with the trunk when your hands are full.
@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
The energy saver (whatever you call the feature that turns the motor off when stopped at a light) fucking freaked me out - didn't know about that - I thought the car had just turned off because of some keyless glitch. So I tapped the Start button - which tried to turn things off. Luckily I sorted that out before the person behind me got too ticked off. Next time, I waited to see what would happen - ok, engine restarts when you take your foot off the gas. Service dude - this would be a good thing to brief someone on! (He explained the keyless since I've never had one)
Called stop & go on mine, but mine doesn't really work. Not sure if that's a problem with the model or with my car, but I was warned it didn't really work when I bought the car.
It is convenient though that if the motor stops through driver error (EG releasing the clutch too fast) you just need to put the stick in neutral and then back in gear, and it restarts the motor automatically. The start button doesn't help in that case since its first action is to turn the electronics off.Note I am European and thus drive a manual transmission. If you're driving automatic, some of the above may work differently (and the same if you have a different brand).
