The Official Status Thread
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@JBert said in The Official Status Thread:
Also, soldering is ok for conductors with low current, but for a water heater I would prefer some cold welding method. The solder can add a little resistance and with enough current it might heat up.
Not really. To make it heat up noticeably, you would need a serious thinning somewhere (like a loose contact or patially broken wire). And since the soldering has increased cross-section compared to the wire (you twist the two wires together before soldering), this wouldn't apply even if tin had many times higher resistance.
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@Arantor said in The Official Status Thread:
@dkf honestly, I’m not going to care, they put us in the fifth floor (0-based counting) and the lift doesn’t work. The five flights of stairs are about three flights too many for me at the moment to care too much about the outside.
It gets better! There are electrical sockets in the room for the TV, the kettle etc. but none of them work. Management tells us this can’t be fixed. Not “can’t be fixed tonight” but “nothing we can do”. They suggested if we wanted to charge our phones we could walk down to reception and charge them there.
Tomorrow we will be in full Karen mode because it’s one thing to pay for a 5th floor room and have to walk the stairs, but no tea/TV/charging is not on. New room or refund please.
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Photo of @Arantor:
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@Arantor said in The Official Status Thread:
It gets better! There are electrical sockets in the room for the TV, the kettle etc. but none of them work. Management tells us this can’t be fixed.
Was that the following scenario at some point?
The fuses are in a locked cupboard and they are all blown, except this one. Get another extension cord. Oh wait, you just blew the last fuse? #(&$()@&$(
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@sebastian-galczynski said in The Official Status Thread:
The fuses are in a locked cupboard
... stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying "Beware of the Leopard."
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@sebastian-galczynski said in The Official Status Thread:
The fuses are in a locked cupboard
... stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying "Beware of the Leopard."
No, the sticker says "Maintenance technician: $NUMBER, between 11:00 and 12:00", and $NUMBER doesn't pick up even during these hours.
And when he does pick up, he says he's on vacation and sends you to this other guy. The other guy doesn't have the key, and you spend 2 hours sawing through the pad (with a hand saw, because there's no power).
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So it was indeed a blown fuse, and maintenance have since fixed it.
Since this has been fixed, we didn't check out and find somewhere else. I am beginning to wonder if this wasn't a mistake. I don't quite know when we entered that little hotel in Torquay in 1974 but fuuuuuuuuu.
So we had breakfast, we had paid for it.
I asked for traditional English breakfast: billed as sausage, bacon, mushrooms, grilled tomato, beans, and choice of egg: poached, fried or scrambled.
On my plate, there was technically a sausage, there were a couple of sheets of pinkish rubber that masquerade as what the Brits think bacon is like, half a can of heated Heinz beans, a ladle full of fried button mushrooms and a poached egg.
We both asked for tea with breakfast. What we got, we're not sure how to describe, whether it was coffee-flavoured tea, or tea-flavoured coffee, because it tasted inexplicably of both and yet neither.
Scratch that, I am sure how to describe it. My tea that I asked for was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea.
I find myself recalling the trials and tribulations of one Dent, Arthur, Dent, and his battle against a Nutrimatic Drinks Dispenser from the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation. "If you enjoyed this experience, why not share and enjoy with your friends?" / "Because I want to keep them."
https://youtu.be/_wSBC5Dyds8?t=113
(starting at 1:53 if it doesn't embed properly)
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@Arantor said in The Official Status Thread:
half a can of heated Heinz beans,
If it is actually Heinz beans, they'll have been the best thing there. Heinz make good beans. But it was probably Aldi bargain beans, or something even cheaper.
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@dkf I've had Aldi beans, it didn't taste like them.
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Status: So I have sda, with 2 partitions. and sdb, with 5 partitions. Wonder which one is my USB stick and which is the system disk I want to securely erase.
Eh, there's nothing of value on the USB anyway.
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@Arantor said in The Official Status Thread:
I've had Aldi beans, it didn't taste like them.
Well, Heinz use more tomato than everyone else and (relatively) less sugar; their beans taste richer and less sweet.
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HOLY MOTHERFUCKING SHIT POLAND HAS WON THE MATCH FOR EVERYTHING
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@Gustav Lewandowski vs a bunch of bleep
bleep not-football-affine people. Was that … surprising?
(Not going to watch the video.)
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gustav Lewandowski vs a bunch of bleep
bleep not-football-affine people. Was that … surprising?
Poland winning anything is surprising. Now they have real chance to advance, even if they lose the next match (which they'll do).
Note that Saudis beat Argentina the other day.
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@Gustav as I said, I’m not following it so I don’t know any details. The saudis winning is more like a fluke though than a show of how strong they are. And I know Poland has at least some pretty good players.
A quick search shows the (extremely skewed) FIFA ranking has Poland at #26 and SA at #51. And the market transfer value of Lewandowski alone is twice that of the whole Saudi team, or ten times in total.
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
The saudis winning is more like a fluke though than a show of how strong they are.
Right now: Argentina-Mexico, 0-0 at half time.
World Cup is always full of flukes. That's what makes it more fun to watch than Champions League.
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@Gustav said in The Official Status Thread:
That's what makes it more fun to watch than Champions League.
It's a low bar though, considering that metric football is less fun to watch than drying paint.
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@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gustav said in The Official Status Thread:
That's what makes it more fun to watch than Champions League.
It's a low bar though, considering that metric football is less fun to watch than drying paint.
Maybe they could just start a new sport of competitive speed bus parking, as a refuge for jaded futbol fans.
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
Maybe they could just start a new sport of competitive speed bus parking
It's like competitive tram driving with none of those pesky restrictions of rails!
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
speed bus parking
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
speed bus parking
That's the opposite of parking.
Fun fact: the Polish title of this movie is "Speed: Dangerous Speed"
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Status: Wondering if brain damage is legitimately a requirement to be in business.
I was looking for an image to use for a custom mouse pad as my old one just disintegrated today. In the process of doing that, I found a place selling metal posters with my favorite cartoon on them. One problem - they all have this "wrinkled tablecloth" effect. At first I thought, OK, this has to be some dopey copy protection measure to keep me from stealing art that they had already stolen. But, nope, no notice and no similar effect on anything else I searched. So now instead of getting a couple hundred bucks, they will get zero.
Back to the mouse pad search,
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
mouse pad
couple hundred bucks
WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE
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@Gustav said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
mouse pad
couple hundred bucks
WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE
No, the metal prints were $60 each and I was going to buy six different ones. The mouse pad I'm only looking to pay around $20.
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@Zenith ah okay. Carry on then.
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@Gustav said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
mouse pad
couple hundred bucks
WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE
It's Gamer quality.
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@Tsaukpaetra I don't know what's worse - the idea of programmable RGB mousepads, or that I'm sure they already exist.
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@Gustav said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra I don't know what's worse - the idea of programmable RGB mousepads, or that I'm sure they already exist.
Looks like you're right
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@homoBalkanus of course I'm right. I'm always right. Especially when I make depressed remarks about how much our civilization has fallen, those are basically gospel.
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Well, Chrome somehow managed to infect Brave with its "I'll crap the first time I try to load any URL, then connect but drag my ass on every attempt thereafter" disease.
"Somehow"?
They're both based on the same code. Anything in Chrome that sucks is also going to suck in Brave. Unless someone working on Brave fixes it, which in my experience .... don't hold your breath.
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@Gern_Blaanston said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Well, Chrome somehow managed to infect Brave with its "I'll crap the first time I try to load any URL, then connect but drag my ass on every attempt thereafter" disease.
"Somehow"?
They're both based on the same code. Anything in Chrome that sucks is also going to suck in Brave. Unless someone working on Brave fixes it, which in my experience .... don't hold your breath.
Maybe it will work better in Edgium
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@Gern_Blaanston I say "somehow" because I managed to kill Brave's updater for real while Chrome's keeps rising from the dead. Brave had its problems but that wasn't one of them until recently.
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
Chrome's keeps rising from the dead
I just set deny execute permission on the Updater for those that need it. It's pretty effective!
Well, until someone runs the installer...
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@Tsaukpaetra I delete the file, replace it with an empty folder, then remove permissions from it and the corresponding containing folder.
Good thing I’m not using Windows anymore.
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status: appreciating @Zecc 's avatar picture.
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status: considering whether I should change avatar.
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Here's a small screenshot for no particular reason:
And a link : https://what.thedailywtf.com/post/2036350
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In case someone cares about things even more boring than football, which already is more boring than soccer:
The Dream saga got a sequel.
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status finally someone has reached out to me to take my money. Even threw in delivery for free. Besides that bit of good news I've got a chest infection. Not stopping me going drinking though.
@Gustav give it time. It'll turn into a Cassandra complex.
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status: is this... Flu?
After two rounds of high temperature sweeps.... Inconclusive.
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@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
status finally someone has reached out to me to take my money. Even threw in delivery for free. Besides that bit of good news I've got a chest infection. Not stopping me going drinking though.
in an unbelievable display of competence, the salesman realised the product was sold out in his branch but found that it was still in stock elsewhere. He’s having them deliver direct. I may have found one of few competent salesmen.
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It's been a hot minute since xkcd used to be funny, but what the heck is this?
Is this some American joke I'm too European to understand? What part of this is confusing?
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@topspin In Brexitania, there are two taps on the sink, one for warm water, one for cold water. They are placed at maximum possible distance from each other.
Enjoy!
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@BernieTheBernie just to confuse people, the hot tap might not always be the one on the left either.
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@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gustav said in The Official Status Thread:
That's what makes it more fun to watch than Champions League.
It's a low bar though, considering that metric football is less fun to watch than drying paint.
Hold on. What kind of paint?
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@homoBalkanus pff, no alpha channel? What am I supposed to do, temporal dithering?
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FUCKING HELL WHY DOESN'T FIREFOX RETAIN TYPED URLS WHEN I EDIT THEM ONCE??
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status When cooking rice in the rice cooker, it helps to press the Start button before you walk away.
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
status When cooking rice in the rice cooker, it helps to press the Start button before you walk away.
Hmmm. Simple lunch. 1/2 stick (maybe a little more) of butter, heaping spoon (normal utensil) of chopped garlic, 1 small/med sweet onion, a bunch of shrimp. Sauteed onions+garlic, added shrimp, dash of vodka, cooked until shrimp were done, then poured over rice. A little chopped broccoli (still in freezer) would have been nice... Next time.
edit: This is a BIG reason I love working from home!