I appear to be on track to sharing your experience. My latest order not only failed to arrive a day or two earlier than promised, which is what usually happens, but it looks like it will befall the same fate as yours – the promised date is tomorrow, and it has not yet shipped. And sure enough, it now says “arriving tomorrow by 10 PM” which I’m pretty sure will turn out to be bullshit, unless it ships in the next few hours from a local warehouse.
Meanwhile, two days later, my return still says “in transit”.
That often happens to me. And grinds my gears too, just like yours.
In my case though, I’ve proven the problem is not the hardware. It’s my fat thumb that often taps the top of the touchpad when hitting the spacebar. With the result that I’ve clicked unnoticed on wherever the mouse cursor happened to be. Which is often well away from where the typing cursor is. Gaahh!!!
You might spend some effort seeing if the problem is really flaky hardware versus flaky wetware.
Hmm. I’ve lived in a lot of large buildings with emergency generators. They normally power elevators, fire alarms, and corridor or stairwell emergency lighting. And that’s it. They do not power any part of the individual living units.
The fact your fridge has power is weird. Unless the power failure itself is only partial within the building.
Commonly generator fuel tanks are sized for a few hours’ operation. 48 hours tops. And as @BippityBoppityBoo said, of course not every building keeps their tank full all the time. And depending on where you live, generators need to be tested every so often, which usually entails running for 15-20 minutes. So you might well start an unexpected outage with 1/4th of a tank because of months of uneventful testing.
Some generators are connected to the local plumbed-in utility natural gas supply. In which case they’d run indefinitely (as long as the gas bill gets paid ). Of course that’s more likely in a newer better-class building in a region where plumbed-in utility-supplied natural gas is common. Which might or not be where you are.
Thanks, and I had considered that. But, the problem has gotten much, much worse in the past few months. I don’t think I have gotten that much clumsier. My hard drive failed and had to be replaced last year… When playing bootleg Legend Of Zelda roms on an emulator, my system slows to glacial speed during combat while playing Twilight Princess.
Finally, whether the problem is in the laptop or my hands, disabling the touchpad and using a mouse will solve it… But, thanks!
In addition to my fat thumbs mentioned above, I’ve had sorta the same problem in reverse. The left click button of my touchpad basically got more and more intermittent then quit altogether. It never triggered on its own, but it simply worked less and less often and eventually never.
At which point I bought a new/different keyboard of the same basic style. Yaay; problem solved!! Not so fast, Sherlock!
Which new (6 weeks old) keyboard just this morning refused to left click for a bit. I could click, but it would not spring back up, so every click was a drag whether I wanted that or not. Oops. I suspect a crumb got in there.
It seems fine now a few hours later, but now I’ve got my eye peeled for further stupids from it. Damned untrustworthy machines!!!
Something is wonky on one of my browsers. I’m mostly using Edge now thanks to @LSLGuy’s recommendation, but I still use Firefox for logging into various secure sites because it has all my passwords saved.
So last night I logged into an account that I use for looking at one of my credit card statements, and it had a fit because it thought I was logging in from an “unknown device” and insisted on doing two-factor authentication. No, I wasn’t, that’s why my password was saved right there in the Firefox cookie. Just now I logged into Gmail and Google had the same fit, and sent me a “Security Alert”.
I suppose it’s possible that my IP address has changed but that would be very unusual. I can’t tell from the router when it was last assigned, although it does say WAN Up Time is 141 days 03h:46m:18s. We’ll see if this strange behaviour continues. Last night I logged out of the credit card account and immediately logged back in again, and the second time it was fine.
I will not copy and paste the whole bizarre and disjointed rant. I’d like to, but copyright belongs to the author. So, here is my summary-
The main body of the post is just asking if anybody in the neighborhood knows anything about a seemingly abandoned food truck. There is a photo of the truck. I immediately noticed the large Jewish star on the side.
Below the picture is more text. The text says that it is part of some conspiracy that the food truck shut down on the same day that Iran fired missiles into “Israel” (The quote marks are in the original. The clear meaning is that Israel is not a real and legitimate country).
I have considered leaving the group numerous times. However, it has been a useful resource. I wanted to find a Chinese restaurant that was open on Thanksgiving- preferably an all you can eat buffet. I made a post asking for advice and addresses. Many were provided, including an all you can eat buffet.
I think it is fairly obvious that if I objected to the prejudice and bigotry, I would be met by a massive number of posts calling me an idiot and a bigot. Then, I would be banned.
I agree that tomato sauce itself should be blended to a creamy smoothness. Pusateri’s and Rao’s sauces are like that. But a good pasta sauce can legitimately contain solids like bits of mushroom and sausage, as this one did. As I said before, the consistency turned out to be perfect for thoroughly sabotaging plumbing far, far down into the drainpipes. Larger particles would not have gotten very far, and smaller ones would have just washed away. This was the perfect sludge.
And believe me, I need an unexpected nearly-thousand-dollar expense right now about as much as I need a hole in the head.
Amazingly, I just got the “item has shipped” email. So there’s a good chance they’ll meet their delivery commitment for tomorrow. We’ll see. I’ve never before had an item ship at literally the last minute, so close to the promised delivery date.
I have that complaint often at work. I show my customers how to go into the touchpad section of the mouse settings and set a delay; you can make it so that, say, every time you type it disables the touchpad for one second. (You can set the interval, there is a range.) So if you are typing and you bump the touchpad in the middle of it, it ignores it.
I have a true mini-rant. I just got back from seeing Wicked at the movie theater. That’s not my rant; the movie was great and I really enjoyed it. (I saw the play around a decade ago and liked that too.)
My mini-rant is that before the movie started, when they showed trailers and ads, there was an ad for this movie. WTF. If I’m already sitting for the movie, do you really need to promote it? Are you afraid I’m going to change my mind sometime in the next ten minutes and walk out?
You are both wonderful. I wish more people would think “What can I do that’ll make life easier for other people?”
I was quickly becoming “that guy” who holds things up because my ancient phone and PowerBook couldn’t do a lot of those Things That Everyone in the Twenty-First Century Does Easily.
So, I just decided to… spend money ::shuddder:: (it’s tough for me to even type that phrase), and become one of those people who update their operating systems and upgrade their phone and laptop so I could run the latest and greatest.
(Now, I did find a used phone on Gazelle dot com for cheap, and a deal on last year’s MacBook Air, so I’m still pinching a few pennies)
Now I just have to take the time to actually LEARN how the damn things work. But I realized that being The Clueless Curmudgeon was just laziness on my part…
AND a bad attitude (“Dadburn, iffen I cain’t git a eye-phone with a tellyphone dial on it, then ah’ll jest find me a pay phone!”).
So, on our last trip to Europe, my wife was impressed when I clicked on my Wallet app, and my tickets, boarding passes and seat assignments were all displayed big-as-life!
Of course, I did have backup printouts in my jacket pocket… because I too hate to be “that guy”!
The short version of all this is that a UK company makes a cleaning fluid that is unfortunately also called Apeel, which does contain all kinds of hazardous substances [PDF]. It is not the same stuff that is sprayed on fruits and vegetables.
Back to rants about Amazon. The product that was supposed to arrive today is now rescheduled to December 5, nearly a week later (even though it said it was already shipped). On the product page, it says delivery as soon as tomorrow (Dec 1) if someone pays their outrageous extra shipping fee, or free delivery by December 4. But I ordered it on November 26 and still have to wait until Dec 5?
They also helpfully say “If you have not received your package by 5 December, you can come back here the next day for a refund”. Sounds like they’ve lost it somewhere in transit.
). Of course that’s more likely in a newer better-class building in a region where plumbed-in utility-supplied natural gas is common. Which might or not be where you are.