The Official Status Thread
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Status: unable to determine if "Wheel of time" is a movie, program, wellness recovery program, object, or book series.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: unable to determine if "Wheel of time" is a movie, program, wellness recovery program, object, or book series.
Yes.
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@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
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Wheel of time drops today. Might be time to ban me. I'm tempted to start drinking and bitch about it in real-time.
threads are free
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
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Wheel of time drops today. Might be time to ban me. I'm tempted to start drinking and bitch about it in real-time.
threads are free
I've been logged out on my phone after changing my email address and I can't get back in there. You're gonna be spared.
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Status: Well, this is creepy.
My ISP e-mail got an e-mail from "cPanel" saying my business domain is running out of space. My business e-mail got an e-mail from "cPanel" saying a domain I never did anything with is running out of space. It's like when I occasionally get these extortion spam e-mails that guesses my password but for the wrong thing they're trying to extort.
Can we just nuke Africa and southwest Asia from orbit already?
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
Can we just nuke Africa and southwest Asia from orbit already?
I fear China would take offence.
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@PleegWat said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
Can we just nuke Africa and southwest Asia from orbit already?
I fear China would take offence.
So would I. I have a thread dedicated to them.
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The sweet sound of a push notification being received. Curse Google for changing their payload format and having worse (as in "old, incorrect") documentation than even Apple on that matter.
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Status: NaNoWriMo day 19, 38432 words.
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Flex status: someone was having immense difficulties with graphical software. Capital letters, incomplete sentences and letter transposition abounded.
Offered to help… got the bulk of it done in a few minutes.
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Status: Shinies 1, Gym Badges 0
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Status: Why did both Walmart and Target change their websites to just show a blank white screen on mobile Chrome? It's like the last thing I can use my phone for after all of the hipster appy apps stopped working is finally breaking too.
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Status: a short while ago, on a Discord server far away, someone tried to upset me by calling me a pedantic ass. As though this is somehow an insult. I suggest it is 100% accurate.
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@Arantor said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: a short while ago, on a Discord server far away, someone tried to upset me by calling me a pedantic
assarse. As though this is somehow an insult. I suggest it is 100% accurate.You're an Englishman, aren't you?
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@Arantor said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: a short while ago, on a Discord server far away, someone tried to upset me by calling me a pedantic ass. As though this is somehow an insult. I suggest it is 100% accurate.
We take that as a
of honor and have more emojis for it than eskimos have for snow.
INB4 comments about eskimos using emojis.
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@DogsB I'm an Englishman but the person who called me this was not, so I was prepared to let the incongruity slide.
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
Why did both Walmart and Target change their websites to just show a blank white screen
And nothing of value was lost.
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Status: Blerk. I want to buy a laptop but I don't know what to settle for since what I want is unobtainable.
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@Zenith If I needed a new one, I'd get a Framework, even without a touch screen (though that is a selling point for some people.) But I don't, and will be helping my brother to buy our Mom a new roof next year.
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
INB4 comments about eskimos using emojis.
Bur we have no emojis for eskimos, have we?
somehow do not at all look exkimoic.
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@SirTwist It's an interesting idea but they leave out alot of details.
Laptops are one of those markets where there are a hundred brands with no product differentiation besides the brand printed on the bezel. I should just buy a retro C64 case and bolt a portable LCD to it.
Status: Around 2007, I bought a pair of leather gloves online for a comic-con costume. 14 years later, that company started sending me e-mail
adsspam.
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Upgrading to Windows 11. What could go wrong?
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Filed under: Famous last words and other sayings by @Tsaukpaetra
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
Around 2007, I bought a pair of leather gloves online for a comic-con costume. 14 years later, that company started sending me e-mail
adsspam.I can totally relate. Not 14 years, but after a gap of a few years, I started getting daily spam from a company I bought something from once, as a birthday/Christmas/something-or-other gift for my daughter, because she wanted that specific item (an iPhone case, which is a thing I have absolutely no use for myself). Also, I once, probably 6–7 years ago, bought a USB microscope (not a very good one) on eBay, and now I continually receive ads for various optical industrial measuring equipment.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
Around 2007, I bought a pair of leather gloves online for a comic-con costume. 14 years later, that company started sending me e-mail
adsspam.I can totally relate. Not 14 years, but after a gap of a few years, I started getting daily spam from a company I bought something from once, as a birthday/Christmas/something-or-other gift for my daughter, because she wanted that specific item (an iPhone case, which is a thing I have absolutely no use for myself). Also, I once, probably 6–7 years ago, bought a USB microscope (not a very good one) on eBay, and now I continually receive ads for various optical industrial measuring equipment.
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
Upgrading to Windows 11. What could go wrong?
You might succeed and get Windows 11.
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@error as it happens I had to buy a toilet seat a few months back. I have not received any further recommendations from said vendor about buying more of them.
I consider this a win.
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Status: Blood/caffeine ratio is too high.
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@error It's been a few years since I last bought a toilet seat.
They haven't sent me any targeted ads. In fact, I don't see how they could have, since I purchased it at a brick & mortar store and did not leave my full address information.
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@PleegWat Maybe you live somewhere that stores didn't look like the meat counter in a Soviet grocery store even before COVID.
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@PleegWat said in The Official Status Thread:
They haven't sent me any targeted ads. In fact, I don't see how they could have, since I purchased it at a brick & mortar store and did not leave my full address information.
I still occasionally get spam from a software company whose product I bought at a brick & mortar store that went out of business (the store, not the software company) ~15 years ago. I guess I must have registered/activated the product, because they wouldn't have gotten my contact info from the retail sale.
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status the Sea Bear and Grizzly Shark comic was as amazing as you might hope.
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@Zenith Dude, I might be getting a Dell.
Edit: The part I don't like is no USB 2.0 so I can't put Windows 7 on it without jumping through some hoops.
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
Upgrading to Windows 11. What could go wrong?
Depends on where you want your taskbar...
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Blood/caffeine ratio is too high.
Solution: drink more coffee
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@TimeBandit said in The Official Status Thread:
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Blood/caffeine ratio is too high.
Solution: drink more
coffeeteaFTFM, and I was in the process of doing so when I posted that.
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Shinies 1, Gym Badges 0
An honest 1/4096 try or did you use one of those tricks from newer games that makes catching shinies almost trivial?
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Shinies 1, Gym Badges 0
An honest 1/4096 try or did you use one of those tricks from newer games that makes catching shinies almost trivial?
Honest full odds luck
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Status: So while I get told I "don't have enough HTML experience," it turns out my bank's recent "upgrade" pushed out a transaction listing page that can't escape ampersands. Thus my bills from AT&T and PP&L show up as AT and PP.
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
I get told I "don't have enough HTML experience,"
You have 5 years (or whatever) of experience instead of 1 year of experience >5 times. Obviously, the latter is better.
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Shinies 1, Gym Badges 0
An honest 1/4096 try or did you use one of those tricks from newer games that makes catching shinies almost trivial?
Honest full odds luck
Congrats! I've played Pokemon for hundreds of hours and have yet to encounter one, let alone catch one.
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Status: It's so much fun teaching people that have used computers for years how to use a computer. Bad enough they can't understand they need to download programs to view some file types, now they suddenly don't even know how to close a window anymore. I watched somebody get into their e-mail three different ways and then stare blankly at me when I accidentally bumped the screen (fuck touchscreens) and closed it and asked them to get back to their e-mail.
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
e-mail
Today somebody whined at me because I put the preview pane on the bottom instead of the right in Outlook. Like, it really bothered them for some reason.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
I put the preview pane on the bottom instead of the right in Outlook.
Good
manrobot! The One True Way™.
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status: oh how nice for Gmail to ask for access to my contacts. Would have thought it just assumed I wanted it by default...
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@Tsaukpaetra Not if it knew who your contacts are.
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: It's so much fun teaching people that have used computers for years how to use a computer. Bad enough they can't understand they need to download programs to view some file types, now they suddenly don't even know how to close a window anymore.
I suffer from the opposite problem, of people who close and reopen windows instead of simply switching applications.
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Status: You can't make this stuff up. GameStop put the new Doom compilation on sale so I decided to buy it. The site gives me three payment choices - an expired Discover card, an expired Mastercard, and a current Discover card. Guess which selection won't enable the "place order" button.
Edit: Also, the site says orders $35 and up are free shipping. Apparently they use JavaScript to round $34.99 up to $35. Would be great if I could, you know, buy this...
Edit More: Fuck you GameStop, ordered it from BestBuy.