The Official Status Thread
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
status Well, that was bad timing. I was just about to walk the dogs. The skies just opened up and it's pouring. And getting heavier. Sorry kids, you're going to have to wait...
R-A-I-N > W-A-L-K
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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.
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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.
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@Tsaukpaetra I have been having such a difficult time with so many sites lately even without this bullshit. GameStop loves to print "Oops!" and nothing else on mobile. I get "Oops! Game Over!" half the time on a desktop. I tried to order some containers from Container Store. At check out, I couldn't get past the radio button asking what shipping method I wanted. It just loaded up 90 blank pages below it and clicking between the options didn't work. Only when I slammed the Enter key did it decide to load the next step. Walmart keeps fluctuating between showing filters on the left and not showing them. More and more sites can't focus on anything (links, textboxes, etc) without locking up and triggering their own task manager asking me to wait for or kill windows, half of time citing themselves as the blocker. I thought it'd be better moving from 200 tabs in Chrome to 20 tabs in Brave but good Lord is everything a pain in the ass in this browser. It also likes to act like mobile where tabs that aren't focused stop loading (especially my mail which takes way longer to load than it should) which is super helpful in Windows which isn't crippled in the multitasking department like Android or iOS. This sounds vaguely like when my DNS settings got magically screwed up a few months back...
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Status: Just closed 33 tabs of literature research!
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@topspin 59 tabs remaining open.
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@BernieTheBernie said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin
569 tabs remaining open.
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@BernieTheBernie said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin 59 tabs remaining open.
:rookie_numbers.meme:
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Status: Bitch, you were unresponsive for two weeks, you don't get to complain when I don't immediately jump on your pole after you finally do answer!
I literally had to tell you I was cancelling your ticket and returning your machine to the stockroom in three days with a red before you decided to say "Oh yeah, I guess here's a place you can put that."
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Just closed 33 tabs of literature research!
We're all adults here. You can say "porn".
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@Luhmann said in The Official Status Thread:
@BernieTheBernie said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin
569 tabs remaining open.Nice.
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Status: nice.
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Status: 2 November. Just switched HVAC from "cool" to "heat". Not that I actually need heating yet — it's still 23°C (74°F) in the house — but I'll need heat before I'll need cooling again.
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The fun season is officially over
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
I first read that as "girl kiosk". I guess that ... um ... .
I went with "girl look skank"
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: 2 November. Just switched HVAC from "cool" to "heat". Not that I actually need heating yet — it's still 23°C (74°F) in the house — but I'll need heat before I'll need cooling again.
I switched mine 10 days ago when the inside temperature dropped below 65F.
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@dcon Also status last night: Grilling burgers outside
inwhile wearing a short-sleeved shirt. In many places, that's not something a sensible person would do in November.I was grilling the burgers on a grill, not in a shirt. That would be silly.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@dcon Also status last night: Grilling burgers outside
inwhile wearing a short-sleeved shirt. In many places, that's not something a sensible person would do in November.I was grilling the burgers on a grill, not in a shirt. That would be silly.
Ah, not this guy then:
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
In many places, that's not something a sensible person would do in November.
Currently in Montreal: 14° C (57.2° F)
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@TimeBandit said in The Official Status Thread:
Currently in Montreal
I'm so sorry! I hope you get better soon.
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Status: Elder Scrolls Online is downloading an update — 2GB at 10MB/s. This is going to take a while.
Now applying the patch — 60GB.
And now downloading and applying even more patches.
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status: holy duck, it's everybody's birthday here at Texas Roadhouse!
We've heard the yeehaw cheer no less than 12 times in the past two hours.... 😬
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@Tsaukpaetra And y'all ain't even in Texas! (Neither is Texas Roadhouse; they're headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky.)
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
Neither is Texas Roadhouse; they're headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky.
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Status: It's shit like this that makes me do layout with tables.
Two hours later and I still haven't received confirmation of paying my bill even though my account has all of the right information on it. When they moved me over to Brightspeed, they claimed I'd get instructions on how paying my bill would change. Spoiler alert, they didn't. So now the quick bill pay on the old ISP, where I still have to go to pay bills, is broken. It can't match my ZIP code with my account number, phone number, or e-mail. But the full login can. Except it can't send an e-mail apparently.
(to review, the ISP a couple of years back had a problem where transferring my parents' phone number to my account meant the lookup to associate my e-mail with a phone number now had two records and picked the oldest instead of, oh, I don't know, the most current or both that forced me to look up my account number for "quick" bill pay which only had one e-mail associated)
I had another issue with Bank of America where they foisted two factor authentication on me and for shits and giggles I picked e-mail this time. TWO HOURS LATER I got the "expires in 10 minutes" code to complete logging in. Worthless good-for-nothing assholes.
And apparently my Ameritrade broke one of their two logins. The landing page has on at the top or you can click through to go to a full login. Well the former goes as far as asking your security question (more Two Fuckup Authentication) before dumping you on the full login screen to do it all over again. Jesus Christ how is everything so broken?
Edit: Oh, but they can send me two notices for flipping that switch once. Idiots.
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
Jesus Christ how is everything so broken?
Welcome to Internet Banking
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@TimeBandit said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
Jesus Christ how is everything so broken?
Welcome to Internet
Banking
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Elder Scrolls Online is downloading an update — 2GB at 10MB/s. This is going to take a while.
Now applying the patch — 60GB.
And now downloading and applying even more patches.
Don't worry. Those patches probably have patches too.
:twilight_zone:
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Status: In the past couple weeks, my phone has had intermittent delays receiving text messages, or sometimes not getting them at all. It's to the point now that whenever I have to 2FA my Azure/AD login
25 times a day for no good reasonI mostly use the call option without even trying the text one.Related status: I posted this because I just received a 2FA code from Microsoft. I assume it was one that I had requested, but whether it's hours or days old, :who_nose:
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@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
I mostly use the call option without even trying the text one.
Except my phone is just as unreliable at calls as it is at texts. At least texts will arrive eventually; if the caller doesn't leave a voicemail, I may not even know I missed a call.
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@HardwareGeek I get the occasional ghost voicemail that doesn't ring or put a missed call notification, but the majority of calls do get through
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
I mostly use the call option without even trying the text one.
Except my phone is just as unreliable at calls as it is at texts. At least texts will arrive eventually; if the caller doesn't leave a voicemail, I may not even know I missed a call.
My phone is still banned from the network despite supporting VoLTE just fine.
One of these days....
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@Tsaukpaetra T-Mobile told me I needed to buy a new phone, because it would stop working when they turned off 3G. It still works (as well as it did before, anyway).
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra T-Mobile told me I needed to buy a new phone, because it would stop working when they turned off 3G. It still works (as well as it did before, anyway).
Only reason I "upgraded" my S7 was because I was starting to get apps that didn't support that old of on OS anymore (android 8 as I remember)
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
android 8 as I remember
You don't want to know how old a version of Android my phone is running.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
android 8 as I remember
You don't want to know how old a version of Android my phone is running.
Don't try to install the SouthWest Airline app!
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@TimeBandit said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
Jesus Christ how is everything so broken?
Welcome to Internet Banking
After I've lost my credit card and raged too much to write that post why, it took me like, what, 3 months to calm down and order a new one. Got it Monday. Of course it needs the retarded verified by VISA crap that my bank so incompetently implements that it made me lose the card in the first place.
So I go to their site to register it with their registration PIN sent by mail. And, who would've guessed it, it asks me for a security question . In fucking 2022. Banks are still so incompetent that they force you to use the worst security features ever invented. Because choosing from a list of questions like "what's the name of your first pet", "what's the name of your first friend", "what's the name of your elementary school teacher", that pretty much anyone can just guess, adds "security" in any way.
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
choosing from a list of questions like "what's the name of your first pet", "what's the name of your first friend", "what's the name of your elementary school teacher", that pretty much anyone can just guess
First pet: I don't remember
First friend: What's a friend? More seriously, it was certainly some neighbor kid that I haven't seen since I was 3. Name?
Elementary school teacher: Which one? I had 6 of them. (But I only remember the names oftwothree of them.The answers to these and similar questions are random strings that are stored in my password manager along with the passwords themselves. I don't actually know the correct answers, myself.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
First pet: I don't remember
First friend: What's a friend? More seriously, it was certainly some neighbor kid that I haven't seen since I was 3. Name?
Elementary school teacher: Which one? I had 6 of them. (But I only remember the names oftwothree of them.The answers to these and similar questions are random strings that are stored in my password manager along with the passwords themselves. I don't actually know the correct answers, myself.
First pet:
(pA~N=B93D)3R9~U0_3PQr;S2H<U7Sd#m\V6anbdk$cm4|X}-es1}M5e*wzW?,m;
First friend:l0@%_&r;|XSy!IcQsNk(tDJ*YDk1%3;+].[EQ%LNlp#f+*z:oy_h8PArVm6Ns,FQ
Elementary school teacher:uBv9?]0LcKu9{ZO9sf/K3Q/WIu%taoZ*R1}_zaJ{J9UGONJV~o(_LN'0J/Sza]xZ
LOL, those auto-generate pw settings look like line noise! (had to edit because there's formatting in there)
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@dcon
poor (pan, he was taken from us too soon.
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@dcon Yours are longer and have more special characters than mine. I use long, complex passwords, but for the security answers, I usually limit the character set to what could plausibly be a real answer. If the question is about a person, alpha + space. If the question is about a street address, alphanumeric + space. I always assume that if the site is stupid enough to ask the question, they might be stupid enough to verify it. Also, on at least one occasion, I've been asked a security question when calling customer disservice on the phone. Reading random strings over the phone is ; IIRC, I got about half-way through and he said, yeah, that's good enough.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
Yours are longer and have more special characters than mine.
Well, those aren't real ( and all that). Mine are all regular type Q/A answers - but they have no relation to the Q.
edit: In other words, something I could actually recite on a phone call.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
Reading random strings over the phone is ; IIRC, I got about half-way through and he said, yeah, that's good enough.
@error_bot xkcd identity
Edit: no, the other one
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@error_bot xkcd 1121
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
it needs the retarded verified by VISA crap that my bank so incompetently implements
... The what?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
it needs the retarded verified by VISA crap that my bank so incompetently implements
... The what?
The verified by retards visa. It's crap. His incompetent bank implements it.