The Official Status Thread
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@error Well, yes. Or no. I don't know. It can't be the whole deal. I find people that do not profit from it are the most enthusiastic.
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My only other guess is literal brainworms.
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Status: Well that was a weird call. Follow up from an MRI, apparently I have a cyst, but through comparisons from prior scans it's stable?
Huh.
Better be careful not to get punched I guess.
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
My only other guess is literal brainworms.
Judging by the population here?
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official Status Thread:
@error Well, yes. Or no. I don't know. It can't be the whole deal. I find people that do not profit from it are the most enthusiastic.
Where I come from, the starting salary for programmers is over national average, and after 3 years you land in the highest tax bracket. It's also much easier to get into than other high-paying jobs - no special licenses, no extra regulations, no mandatory barely-paid learning period like lawyers or doctors have. Half my college class was very disinterested in computers and were open about being in it only for the money.
My sister started an actuarial science degree this year. She was never good at math, she never had any passion for it. But she dug up a spreadsheet of all jobs in USA, sorted by average salary descending, and actuary was near the top. Her alternative choices were economics and then mechanical engineering.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official Status Thread:
My question then is what kind of substances is everyone on that they remain so invariably enthusiastic all the time about it.
Youth. Don't worry, it's effectiveness fades in time.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official Status Thread:
My question then is what kind of substances is everyone on that they remain so invariably enthusiastic all the time about it.
I think some people are just always enthusiastic. The same sort of person who's always happy at 9am on a Monday morning.
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@izzion To quote the great Rick Sanchez: "I'm a
scientistprogrammer; because I invent, transform, create, and destroy for a living, and when I don't like something about the world, I change it."
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"I fuck the world until I like it, or it likes me. One way or another."
-- Tsaukpaetra
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
"I fuck the world until I like it, or it likes me. One way or another."
-- Tsaukpaetra...or it fucks me. And not in the way I would like.
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@Parody said in The Official Status Thread:
Phone updated to Android 12 today.
Wow. Mine's a bit behind... Still (and forever more) on 8.
This is my last OS update. (Pixel 3a)
Every month I login to get my bill: "You're eligible for an upgrade!"
I've never bought one on contract. Heck, I was prepaid up until I moved and couldn't make phone calls in the new place.
Yeah. Mine still works mine - and more to the point, still fits in my front pants pocket.
I use my shirt pocket. The 3a fits there but it's a little tall in general; I wouldn't mind having a phone half an inch (or so) shorter just because it's hard to reach everywhere with my thumb.
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@Parody said in The Official Status Thread:
I use my shirt pocket.
I do that when I want to videorecord clandestinely. Since it's not like I can make the phone shorter so the fact that the camera lenses are showing means there's no way for me to be capturing video simply because it's in my pocker...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@Parody said in The Official Status Thread:
I use my shirt pocket.
I do that when I want to videorecord clandestinely. Since it's not like I can make the phone shorter so the fact that the camera lenses are showing means there's no way for me to be capturing video simply because it's in my pocker...
Creepy.
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@Parody said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@Parody said in The Official Status Thread:
I use my shirt pocket.
I do that when I want to videorecord clandestinely. Since it's not like I can make the phone shorter so the fact that the camera lenses are showing means there's no way for me to be capturing video simply because it's in my pocker...
Creepy.
Wait until I upload the many zeroes of videos I've taken like this!
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
"I fuck the world until I like it, or it likes me. One way or another."
-- Tsaukpaetra...or it fucks me. And not in the way I would like.
I spend considerable amount of time telling the world to go fuck itself.
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
I spend considerable amount of time telling the world to go fuck itself.
Does it ever listen?
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@Arantor the population keeps going up so I guess.
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@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official Status Thread:
My question then is what kind of substances is everyone on that they remain so invariably enthusiastic all the time about it.
I think some people are just always enthusiastic. The same sort of person who's always happy at 9am on a Monday morning.
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status I think 99.9999999999999% of all phone calls I now get are "Hi, this is Vanessa from dealer services<FUCK YOU, CLICK>". At least 5 every day.
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Status: I searched "Clint Eastwood card trick" and somehow YouTube knew I meant Chris Pratt.
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@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
always happy at 9am on a Monday morning.
And then the murders began.
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@Parody said in The Official Status Thread:
I've never bought one on contract. Heck, I was prepaid up until
I don't remember how we acquired our phones back in the not-prepaid, flip-phone days, but I've been prepaid ever since I was out of work for almost 3 years back during the recession and couldn't pay my bill. I could go to regular, not-prepaid service now (except maybe with Verizon; they might hold my previous payment history against me, but it's been over 10 years, so probably not) and pay for a phone on a contract, but I don't really want to.
I moved and couldn't make phone calls in the new place.
I have T-Mobile, so making calls anywhere is hit-or-miss.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@Parody said in The Official Status Thread:
I moved and couldn't make phone calls in the new place.
I have T-Mobile, so making calls anywhere is hit-or-miss.
T-Mobile's been good for me except at my Mom's old house. They lived on a farm away from the nearest highway and the only one that worked there was Verizon.
At this house T-Mobile service works on the upper floor but not in the downstairs.
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
Other people in other threads talking about getting out of IT: I get it, I really do. But no other skill I have pays this well.
Because you get paid like 2-3 times as much as I do for slacking off twice as much. It’s kind of hard to decline when you can make the thing go and they think you’re a wizard.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official Status Thread:
it slid its slimy tentacles in every little hole it could.
There's a thread for that .
The next post:
@error said in The Official Status Thread:
I just had a Lovecraftian moment of cosmic horror
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Status: Huh. I guess my Amazon account was using an older password.
Pondering what other accounts I actually care about I missed...
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Problem Ejecting USB Mass Storage Device
This device is currently in use. Close any programs or windows that might be using the device and then try again.
FFS.
It's been something like 20 minutes since I last touched anything on this drive.
Write caching is disabled.
I don't see anything in resource monitor.
The only time the LED blinks is when I click "Safely Remove".I've just yanked it out.
What do you guys do when this happens?
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@Zecc Had this annoying crap happen to me one too many times. I gave up. I usually yank it out just like that if I’m sure it is not being used. I don’t do Eject USB anymore. Been years since I did that.
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Just copied a ton of files from another similar drive.
Clicked "Safely Remove" immediately after.No complaints. :shrugh:
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@Zecc said in The Official Status Thread:
The only time the LED blinks is when I click "Safely Remove".
Assuming you're sure nothing's got open files on it, it's fine to remove whenever.
If you're really concerned it's most likely a stuck File Explorer window that's holding the icon cache hostage for no reason.
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@Zecc said in The Official Status Thread:
What do you guys do when this happens?
Eject via the context menu in explorer, which will subsequently offer a force option labelled “Continue”.
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@TwelveBaud said in The Official Status Thread:
- any advertising that survives the ad-blocker is likely crap you have no interest in, thus reinforcing the decision to block the world, losing the advertisers money for no reason.
Someone who worked for a company in this business once told me that nowadays, you don't get money for merely displaying an ad ; you only get money when people actually click on the ad.
Which means they don't actually care that much about people who block ads, because those people most likely wouldn't have generated revenue anyways.
Which means that all those sites claiming "you're hurting us by blocking our ads!!!" are lying. Except they can't tell people the truth, because:
- it's significantly harder to guilt-trip people with "you're hurting us by not clicking on the ads!!!"
- they're contractually not allowed to tell people to click on ads, because the advertisers don't want to spend money for people who click but don't buy anything.
As I told that person, "that was probably not your goal, but you just killed the very small remaining guilt I had about using an ad blocker. Good job!"
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
Other people in other threads talking about getting out of IT: I get it, I really do.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
I have no obligation to help the site do them
Technically speaking, you may have that obligation if the site's terms and conditions specify that you're only allowed to consume the site's content if you see the ads, which I would be very surprised if they didn't have (at least the bigger ones).
I'm fine with reasonable ads. The problem is that the vast majority of ads are NOT reasonable. I'm especially sad about YT ads, because that money would go to my favorite content creators, and even if I don't click anything they still get paid. But if the ads are 2+ minutes and unskippable, forget it, ain't nobody got time for that.
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@Zecc said in The Official Status Thread:
Problem Ejecting USB Mass Storage Device
This device is currently in use. Close any programs or windows that might be using the device and then try again.
FFS.
It's been something like 20 minutes since I last touched anything on this drive.
Write caching is disabled.
I don't see anything in resource monitor.
The only time the LED blinks is when I click "Safely Remove".I've just yanked it out.
Trying to read from it now pops up:
D:\ is not accessible.
The file or directory is corrupted and unreadable.Attempting a disk scan results in:
The disk check could not be performed because Windows can't access the disk.
WTF, Windows?
After seeing this I tried connecting it to a Linux laptop which reads it just fine. But two different Windows machines can't seem to be able to even read as much as the partition table.
Forking shirtballs. Don't tell me this drive has become Linux hardware.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
it's most likely a stuck File Explorer window that's holding the icon cache hostage for no reason
Gotta wait for the AV to scan all those newly updated image files!
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
But if the ads are 2+ minutes and unskippable, forget it, ain't nobody got time for that.
Or if the ads come up every 2 minutes…
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In 6 hours time it will be 5.30 and I will then have 14 calendar days to go.
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@Arantor said in The Official Status Thread:
In 6 hours time it will be 5.30 and I will then have 14 calendar days to go.
Remember the forum's policy on leavng jobs. Take no prisoners but leave survivors. The lesson won't be learned if there is no one to remember it.
status I think I'm Lovecrafted out for the year. I love his shtick but some of that stuff is a tough read. Back to schlocky pulps again.
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@Zecc said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zecc said in The Official Status Thread:
Problem Ejecting USB Mass Storage Device
This device is currently in use. Close any programs or windows that might be using the device and then try again.
FFS.
It's been something like 20 minutes since I last touched anything on this drive.
Write caching is disabled.
I don't see anything in resource monitor.
The only time the LED blinks is when I click "Safely Remove".I've just yanked it out.
Trying to read from it now pops up:
D:\ is not accessible.
The file or directory is corrupted and unreadable.Attempting a disk scan results in:
The disk check could not be performed because Windows can't access the disk.
WTF, Windows?
After seeing this I tried connecting it to a Linux laptop which reads it just fine. But two different Windows machines can't seem to be able to even read as much as the partition table.
Forking shirtballs. Don't tell me this drive has become Linux hardware.
You didn't happen to "burn" an ISO image onto it before, did you?
I've had trouble with certain "hybrid" ISO images that work fine on everything but Windows because of some partition shenanigans.
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@Tsaukpaetra As a matter of fact I might have at some point, but that's long done (I think). Linux reports only the "regular" NTFS partition occupying most of the disk, preceded by the small hidden system volume partition. I wonder if that's what got corrupted and is making Windows .
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@Zecc said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra As a matter of fact I might have at some point, but that's long done (I think). Linux reports only the "regular" partition occupying most of the disk, preceded by the small hidden system volume partition. I wonder if that's what got corrupted and is making Windows .
Very likely. Especially if at one point it was GPT but then a tool attempted to make it MBR brokenly.
Ask me how I know!
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Especially if at one point it was GPT
How do you know??
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@Zecc said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Especially if at one point it was GPT
How do you know??
Because GPT puts the partition table at the beginning and end of the drive, and if your tool is not aware of this and just fucks with the beginning of the drive, shit happens depending on which the OS decides to use.
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status: walking back my sleep cycle so I can awake for 6am workday start is going ok. Painful, but ok.
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Anyhoo, sounds like I have a good excuse to buy myself a new higher capacity SSD, copy my digital hoarding over, and format this one.
I've already transferred over the essentials, but I MUST COPY ALL THE THINGS. You never know when I'm going to need again the source code of canceled projects from 2004, or the backup of the backup of backup of all those white papers and saved web articles I've never read.
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@Zecc said in The Official Status Thread:
You never know when I'm going to need again the source code of canceled projects from 2004
Oh, we do know. It will be roughly one week after you decide "OK, time to finally get rid of this junk I'll never use again".
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zecc said in The Official Status Thread:
How do you know??
Because GPT puts the partition table at the beginning and end of the drive, and if your tool is not aware of this and just fucks with the beginning of the drive, shit happens depending on which the OS decides to use.
I think you two need a refresher on rhetorical questions. The thing is, you're not supposed to answer them.
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@Zerosquare Where did I make a rhetorical question?
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
But if the ads are 2+ minutes and unskippable, forget it, ain't nobody got time for that.
Or if the ads come up every 2 minutes…
I was once watching a GTA5 No Damage challenge run on Twitch with ad blocker disabled to support mh favorite Australian streamer. It's usually just one ad at the beginning, but this time it randomly popped up mid-stream, and it caused me to miss the death of the run. Never again, Twitch. Never again.