The Official Status Thread
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Status: Reheating leftovers for lunch, in a toaster oven, using a 50% duty cycle. 4 minutes on; 4 minutes off. Using the timer on my phone. Because the toaster oven has a completely unnecessary temperature control for the toast setting, but no temperature control at all for the bake setting; baking is always 450°F. ETA: Using the timer on my phone because the toaster oven's dial has no useful markings for times less than 10 minutes. (Are the marks for times >= 10 minutes accurate? I don't know. And define accurate. ±10%? Probably. Better than that? )
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
temperature control for the toast setting,
It is a lie.
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@Tsaukpaetra Very possibly. But they don't even make the attempt for baking.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Reheating leftovers for lunch, in a toaster oven, using a 50% duty cycle. 4 minutes on; 4 minutes off. Using the timer on my phone. Because the toaster oven has a completely unnecessary temperature control for the toast setting, but no temperature control at all for the bake setting; baking is always 450°F.
Not sure where my toaster oven is now, but I do remember it actually had a temp control. Sucked at doing toast tho.
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Status: Called AmEx's bluff and ordered the rest of the necessary PC parts. There are a few more parts I'd like to order but I should be able to make it with what's already ordered. Even if I have to use a Windows 7 ISO on a flash drive in lieu of my ever-elusive CD...
Slightly related: eBay is dropping AmEx because, they say, the fees are high. Looked in a mirror lately, eBay?
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Status: 0 for 4 for finding PCs that were supposedly found a few months ago and locked down. Bad juju...
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
Even if I have to use a Windows 7 ISO on a flash drive
Does Windows 7 even run on current hardware?
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@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
Even if I have to use a Windows 7 ISO on a flash drive
Does Windows 7 even run on current hardware?
It is technically possible to EFI boot it if memory serves. Been a while, I think you need to bootstrap the installer from a Windows 8 (or better) boot.wim though.
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@Zerosquare Not particularly current hardware. I made sure to have USB 2.0 and BIOS. We'll find out in July I suppose. If not, I have enough duplicate boards and compatible parts that I can set up a "new" PC albeit with outdated specs. And if I have to run a VM inside Windows 11, well, I broke Google's updater so I can break Microsoft's too.
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
@PleegWat said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Compliance trainings have pre-assessments this year which allow you to skip some courses if you make 100%.
Saved me an hour of mindless clicking.Cost me an hour of WTDWTFBetween "Click next when the audio finishes playing" and frequent cases of "Read (ie click) all tabs before continueing" I would not have gotten any foruming done during the course.
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Status: Target's notification system isn't doing the needful.
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@Zenith Solution is simple: the item description is a non-printable word.
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@BernieTheBernie said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zenith Solution is simple: the item description is a non-printable word.
Politics
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
@BernieTheBernie said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zenith Solution is simple: the item description is a non-printable word.
Politics
::laughs in Dixie::
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Status: cataloguing...
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@PleegWat said in The Official Status Thread:
@DogsB I recall reading that one
yearsdecades ago.Spoiler
Reproduction was wonky too.Yeah, the Moties turned out to be one of the dumber alien species written but the book was quite good. Tempted to move on to the sequel immediately but I think I might start spacing out my fiction with non-fiction. Also Elden Ring.
STATUS post festival lurgy is getting worse. Might have to go to a doctor.
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@Tsaukpaetra
problem solved
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@Luhmann said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra
problem solvedI do kinda wanna skim through them though...
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I turn 40 today.
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@error Commiserations. May today be the worst day of the rest of your life.
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@error said in The Official Status Thread:
I turn 40 today.
Happy Birthday.
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@error said in The Official Status Thread:
I turn 40 today.
Happy Birthday.
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
I turn 40 today.
Time to have a mid-life crisis and get a trophy wife!
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@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
Tempted to move on to the sequel immediately but I think I might start spacing out my fiction with non-fiction.
I started reading rabbits by Terry Miles. The idea is interesting and uncovering more about the idea is interesting but everything else about the book is fucking god awful. It badly needed an editor to ask simple things like: based on previous descriptions of interactions with that character, why have they suddenly decided to do that? Nothing about the world hangs together well or is plausible and consistent with what he's written so far. He's making up shit on the spot but not revising the rest of the book so that it fits.
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OMFG! I'm bringing my mother to my next interview!
where do you see yourself in five years?
The grave, if I have to keep listening to you.
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@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
status This has gotten awful retarded. I have to stop applying for corpos.
but you love their money!
Quiet you!Friday:
canceling interview. Role already filled.
kind of shit to do it by declining an invite but okay.Monday, over email:
sorry, cancelled wrong interview. I’ve rescheduled for Tuesday afternoon.
hello, sure but I’m not available on Tuesday can you give me the original slot on Wednesday?
I’ve rescheduled for Tuesday morning.
I’m not available Tuesday. Can you reschedule for Wednesday onwards at any time.
I’ve rescheduled for Tuesday afternoon.
I’m withdrawing from this process.
Corpo got in touch and said you’ve pulled out.
I’ll forward you the email chain.
Jesus wept. Sorry about this.
They've put up a new job posting... I'm tempted to apply.
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@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
STATUS
Disclaimer:
The above information on this description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job.
Corpo reserves the right to alter this description at any time. Corpo practices the concept of equal employment opportunity with respect to hiring, promotions, transfers, pay, discipline, fringe benefits, and all other terms and conditions of employment. No individual will be discriminated against, and no employment decisions will be made, on the basis of an individual's race, color, national origin, religion, age, gender, protected disability, marital status, familial status, veteran status, height, weight or citizenship.
Because nothing attracts a candidate like a fucking TOS at the end of the spec that implies the job spec is probably meaningless.
Applied!
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Status: So we've known how we will implement this project for weeks. No, today's full-day meeting is about a much more important question.
How will we model this project in jira.
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**cries in corpo contractor**
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@PleegWat said in The Official Status Thread:
How will we model this project in jira.
Badly
Next question?
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Status yesterday: I love my new phone, it's so cool
Status this morning: Yep everything looks fine, phone still cool and new
Status a few minutes ago: WTF happened to my stylus
So now I have made the Amazon Order Of Shame: replacement stylus, third-party 2 pack
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@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
So now I have made the Amazon Order Of Shame: replacement stylus, third-party 2 pack
Just wait until you sign up for the recurring order. (No, I don't have a stylus, nor do I want one - because of that)
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@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
still cool and new
You'll find yourself not really using the chique features soon enough...
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@Tsaukpaetra So far I've found myself no longer using my stylus, but not because I lost interest in it
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@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
Status yesterday: I love my new phone, it's so cool
Status this morning: Yep everything looks fine, phone still cool and new
Status a few minutes ago: WTF happened to my stylus
So now I have made the Amazon Order Of Shame: replacement stylus, third-party 2 pack
When I bought my current tablet I got the stylus pen that goes with it and I am amazed how much I use the thing. My only complaint with it is that there isn't a spot to magnet attach it on all four sides of the device.
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status: apparently need to find more things to do with my tablets' pen based on the glowing reviews...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
status: apparently need to find more things to do with my tablets' pen based on the glowing reviews...
Most of what I do with it I could do just fine with touchpad/mouse/finger (touchscreen) and keyboard or non-digital means; it's just convenient.
For example, there's a game I play for which I used to print record sheets for my various vehicle designs and mark them up with pencil. Now I make PDFs and draw on them on the tablet.
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Status: Strange. I don't usually have this many Anti-Homocidal events from Censor.
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Status: The absolute state of e-commerce...
So yesterday I wanted to order another copy of this keyboard and went to the manufacturer's site to see if they sold it directly. I learned they had a similarly themed number pad. I had second thoughts so I just ordered the number pad. No problem.
Well today I went to order the keyboard and now it says:
So is the shipping service down and all exceptions translate to "bad address" or is there really some sort of reason it won't take the same address that it took yesterday? Same result in any browser on any machine I have access to so we can't blame Windows 7 this time.
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@Zenith Welcome to the Distortion Delivery Zone.
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@Zenith The site changed what cuntry it thinks you're in.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
cuntry
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@HardwareGeek Oh get this. If I put a different item in the cart, it'll pop up a dialog to remove the keyboard because there are no delivery options. Is this the new Hindustani way of marking items out of stock? You know, instead of disabling the cart buttons or anything that actually makes sense?
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
cuntry
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Status: fighting the bugs.
So two months ago my neighbor-bum kicked the can and his apartment was leased to a new tenant (it's city-owned, unlike mine. The bum has been renting it since commie era). The new guys started taking out all the trash, including some matresses.
Approximately at the same time something started biting my ankles and forearms. I initially thought these were just mosquitos, but after I literally woke up from itching I found one of these bastards running away on the bed.
I immediately called an exterminator. We checked every nook and cranny - no visible signs of infestation. He fogged the entire apartment. When we returned after all day wandering through the city checking out every cafe in a 5 mile radius, a lot of creatures were dead:- a spider in the corner
- some stray fruit flies and moths
- spider mites that were chewing on my pepper plant
what was not dead: - bed bugs.
I dutifully notified the non-bum neighbor about the situation, asked if she was bitten or something, she notified the condo administrator who in turn ordered spraying of all the common property (namely the staircase), which is pretty useless since the bugs don't dwell far from the bed anyway.
Next night something bit me again, and I caught a 2nd instar nymph. Given the timing this means that a live nymph survived the fogging, as opposed to an egg. What's worse it was walking on a recently sprayed surface and not caring at all.
I've thrown away the bed and carpet, vacuumed everything, bought an air matress. This seems to have solved the problem for now, but I still await another fogging and I'm washing everything at 60degC and packing it into bags.We were supposed to eat the bugs, not be eaten by the bugs. What went wrong, Klaus?
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@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
Tempted to move on to the sequel immediately but I think I might start spacing out my fiction with non-fiction.
I started reading rabbits by Terry Miles. The idea is interesting and uncovering more about the idea is interesting but everything else about the book is fucking god awful. It badly needed an editor to ask simple things like: based on previous descriptions of interactions with that character, why have they suddenly decided to do that? Nothing about the world hangs together well or is plausible and consistent with what he's written so far. He's making up shit on the spot but not revising the rest of the book so that it fits.
It was fucking awful. Seven trainwrecks out of three charging rhinos.
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@Zenith I had that when I tried ordering a sink aerator. They won't ship to California.
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zenith I had that when I tried ordering a sink aerator. They won't ship to California.
They're not properly licensed to sell carcinogens
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zenith I had that when I tried ordering a sink aerator. They won't ship to California.
They're not properly licensed to sell carcinogens
I figured it's because there are different water flow restrictors. And - OMG - I might be trying to increase the water flow! It's a kitchen sink for fucks sake - of course I need good water flow!