Maybe it comforts you a bit, today I got an email with the monthly invoice from my ISP for their service, and it started with “Hallo ${CUSTNAME}”. At least I know what they meant with “CUSTNAME”…
Especially when it’s a lie. I’ve seen signs like that and waited the full 20 minutes, with no sign of the shopkeeper returning.
It infuriates me when a streaming series has one episode that’s significantly longer than all the others. I usually like to wrap up my TV watching around 10:00 pm and start getting ready for bed. At maybe 9:35 last night I decided to watch one more episode of the show I was watching, assuming it would be ~30 minutes like all the others. At around 10:10 it didn’t seem like the plot was showing signs of concluding soon, so I checked and realized there was still over 30 minutes remaining. Unlike all the other episodes, this one was a full 1 hour 9 minutes.
I’m a computer programmer. I deal mostly with code/logic/databases.
But in the last 35 years I’ve moved and set up plenty of systems.
But you need to have a team of PHD’s with back up to connect a printer to a wireless network. Been working on it for TWO hours. I have all the correct information, I enter all the correct information. “That didn’t work”
I’ve set up this exact same printer, the one there in the corner that I’m giving dirty looks to, two times before. It’s only 5 years old, not used much.
GAAHHHHAHA. This thing is about to get a long fall and a short stop. Or I guess Best Buy recycling. But shit. It’s driving me nuts.
It’s funny – my wife has a Ph.D. in Computer Science (Natural Language Processing, specifically), and I’m always doing all the IT work here in the house for her. Printer can’t connect? That’s me. Internet down? That’s me? Monitor flickering? That’s me.
My boss at a long-ago job could never figure out how to put paper in the printer. It was a very simple laser printer with a single paper bin at the bottom that pulled out like a little drawer, but somehow she was helpless when the printer ran out of paper. 
Sadly, that wasn’t the worst thing about her.
It would help a lot if everyone got on the same page. It’s asking for a ‘passphrase’ uh, what? I guess you mean passWORD. It’s called a PASSWORD. I don’t give a damn if it’s 14 characters long, it’s a PASSWORD.
I’ll give it a phrase ‘Yippee-ki-yay…’ Buh, bye, just need to find an elevator shaft. Well, I’m not there yet. But I had to walk away.
Well, I got the printer working. It finally connected to my Wi-Fi. I’ve tried so many different things, I really don’t know how I did this.
NOW if I could only get my smoke detectors to mind. 5 years old. They are hard wired but batteries also. I guess for redundancy.
New batteries, and it’s happy. As long as it’s not plugged in. But the new battery will not do a ‘test’. Plugged in it will. Says low battery. I think it’s a malfunction of some sort. But It really pisses me off.
I don’t think the issue is chemicals leaching into SodaStream bottles. SodaStream says it’s because the physical stress of the internal pressure can weaken the bottle. It may reach a point where the bottle is weakened enough that it can explode from the pressure. They say the bottles are safe to use after the expiration date for non-carbonated beverages, which wouldn’t be the case if leaching were the issue.
The SodaStream carbonating plastic bottles are designed to withstand the recurring pressure caused by carbonation. However, due to the nature of plastic and the stresses it undergoes, it is necessary to replace the bottles after a certain period of time. This is because the plastic can gradually degrade and deform, which may lead to cracks and potential safety hazards when carbonating. After the date printed on the bottle, the plastic carbonating bottles can no longer be used for carbonation, but they can be used to hold your still beverages. Our glass carafes can be used indefinitely, provided they remain free from cracks or other damage.
They expire? Huh. I have the competing DrinkMate product and I’ve been using the same bottle that it came with and one I bought five years ago. I’ll report back when it finally explodes. (A third bottle did not survive the dishwasher. One should carefully read the side of the bottle.)
I’m sure SodaStream’s main concern is avoiding lawsuits, so the bottle lifetime they recommend must be much less than the actual mean time between failures.
Sodastream and Walmart have pissed me off, Walmart no longer accepts empty bottles and gives you full ones in return- for about half the price.
Now we have no place to refuil.
Why is it that new-bought sneakers are laced such that the next-to-the-top lacing is out of sync with the rest of the lacing? That is, starting at the bottom, the laces are woven over/under, over/under, over/under, but the one next to the top goes under/under. This makes it hard for your fingers to get at the under/under portion to pull at the laces when tightening them - especially when you’re getting old and stiff and bending down to tighten and tie sneakers is getting to be more of an ordeal.
I suppose I’ll unlace them next time and rethread the laces to be more accessible going forward. But why do they do it that way?
I have to put in my complex pwd 20 times a day. This is making things LESS safe, and generally pisses me off.
Got to put it in again, had to wait for some code to run. And I will need to do it again, and again …
At the community college where I teach, all of the computers have the same software loaded, even if it makes no sense for some computers.
For example, the instructor computers in the classrooms have this program that basically allows the instructor to make hand-written notes on the monitor with a stylus, for when the monitor is projected on the pull-down screen. I’ve never used it, but some teachers do. This program is also installed on the computers in the department office, where it is completely useless. But it’s there, running and wasting memory. And I can’t kill it in the task manager, because of course I don’t have the proper permissions. And this is one of many useless programs that are wasting memory, slowing down the computer, that I can do nothing about.
I think the biggest crime, though, is that every computer on campus in infected with McAfee. That and Norton are the worst possible “anti-virus” programs out there. I thought IT departments were supposed to know about these things? Who makes the boneheaded decision to go with McAfee??
I think something similar happened today at that same pharmacy. I walked past them and they still have a sign up saying “Free flu and covid vaccines with most insurance - walk ins accepted.” I would bet money that I would not be able to just walk in and get a Covid vaccine. Sure, if I had a doctor’s order in hand, I might, but that’s not usually what “walk in” means.
My local Dillon’s (Kroger) store has a similar sign. I’ll be visiting them shortly to get one of each. We’ll see if they’re both free. (My doctor’s office does NOT have the covid vaccine.)
If your workstation is physically secure (and if you are an administrator on your workstation) here’s a workaround. Add a Yubikey to a USB port and store the complex password there. Then you just need to push & hold the "button” each time you need to replay the stored password. Naturally, if your workstation isn’t in a secure area this is a very bad idea. Alternatively, you could take your Yubikey with you each time you leave work.
Thanks, I remote into my workstation. It’s a VM so on a huge server. It’s in a very secure area.
What I would ask is don’t kick us off after ~ 10 minutes of inactivity. I’m likely just searching for work stuff on the web, or in shower or something. Or just running code that takes an hour.
I work from home.
The timeout should be at least an hour. There probably isn’t any point in it at all.
Out here in CA, you do not need a doctors order to get either the Flu or Covid vaccine. And yes, most insurances will cover it for free at the pharmacy.