What first world problem did you have today?

[igor_kavinski]

I can probably stretch what's left until Monday but it's going to be tight.

Time to go hunting for small prey!

 

[sdifox]

Between work and Christmas time, I never had a chance to buy cat food and I'm running really low. Tried to go to Pet Value today which is the store that carries the food I use but it was closed. I hate how everything closes so early now, you can't even trust the store hours online.

I can probably stretch what's left until Monday but it's going to be tight.

You are so not making it off grid.

 

[igor_kavinski]

The food delivery guy must've thought I was some random hobo when I stepped out of the villa to get my food from him. He called it in to his HQ. They call me in about 10 minutes and confirm if I got the food delivered. Never happened before.

 

[sdifox]

The food delivery guy must've thought I was some random hobo when I stepped out of the villa to get my food from him. He called it in to his HQ. They call me in about 10 minutes and confirm if I got the food delivered. Never happened before.

Newsflash, Igor doesn't know he's a hobo!

 

[iRONic]

Can a cat kill & eat a squirrel…? Maybe multiple cats…?

 

[igor_kavinski]

Can a cat kill & eat a squirrel…?

A very hungry and agile cat, yes.

 

[lxskllr]

Spot has gotten a baby squirrel. I was very displeased. She could catch an adult if the stars aligned properly. She's a climber too, so a squirrel might be surprised how high in a tree she can get.

 

[sdifox]

Eventually nutty Squirrel has to sleep and well the cats can deal with him then.

 

[Red Squirrel]

You are so not making it off grid.

Lol off grid doesn't mean 100% isolated. Although I will need to stock up on stuff more as it's a further drive to get to town. It's something I try to do here too but sometimes just don't have time to go until I'm out of something. Once I'm off grid I also won't have to work, so I'll have more time to do stuff like that. Work gets in the way of life. I pretty much worked non stop throughout all of December except for the days that everything is closed. Although at some point when I'm off grid I would want to work on DIY cat food and for myself but not something that will happen overnight.

Managed to get the food, thankfully they were open today, and still open by the time I got there. Only place opened in that entire court too. Got lucky. With the way things are going we'll all be living off grid eventually.

 

[MrSquished]

Lol off grid doesn't mean 100% isolated. Although I will need to stock up on stuff more as it's a further drive to get to town. It's something I try to do here too but sometimes just don't have time to go until I'm out of something. Once I'm off grid I also won't have to work, so I'll have more time to do stuff like that. Work gets in the way of life. I pretty much worked non stop throughout all of December except for the days that everything is closed. Although at some point when I'm off grid I would want to work on DIY cat food and for myself but not something that will happen overnight.

Managed to get the food, thankfully they were open today, and still open by the time I got there. Only place opened in that entire court too. Got lucky. With the way things are going we'll all be living off grid eventually.

If you ever successfully go off grid, I'll eat the Twitter and Facebook servers, since according to you, they are easy to run in a shed. I can put two servers down with some seasoning and condiments to wash them down, no problem.

 

[QueBert]

The Chinese hax0rs who got access to my Google password list are back to sending me emails trying to extort $$$ from me. Ironically, they're saying "please" "thank you" and "kindly respond within 48 hours" all while threatening to upload the videos of me they claim to have where I'm masturbating.

I can't respond because they don't give an email are somehow spoofing my email so I don't know where it's coming from. Threatening people while trying to sound polite is pretty damn hilarious.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Took 2 of my 3 PVE nodes down for maintenance. Apparently if it breaks quorum, it shuts down *ALL* VMs even the ones on the host that's not taken offline. Seems to me that kinda defeats the purpose of having a cluster.

Painting a rack shelf so I can put them vertically and in order to do that I had to move the nodes out of the rack, and I was hoping to watch TV in between coats of paint but the VM for that is down and it won't let me bring it back up until the other nodes are online.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Everything recovered, shelf is done and everything shouldn't have to move again so this shouldn't be an issue anymore. There's also room for 2 more nodes to fit nicely... tempting. I don't really need more capacity at this point though. I kinda jumped the gun on installing it as the paint was barely cured but should be fine. I wanted to make sure all my VMs will come back up.

 

[lxskllr]

Got an email asking me to write a review about some candy I got. I'm generally inclined to write reviews, especially for smaller shops, and when they make it easy. Looks like I can do it directly from the email in this case...



The problem is it's locked to 5*, and I can't change it to anything else. Text boxes appear to work, but not the *s. I don't write fraudulent reviews, and it wasn't a 5* candybar. It was a 3, maybe a 4. It's bothering me enough I might poke around in the mail source and try to see what's happening, but that's a lot of work for something completely voluntary, and doesn't benefit me at all.

If companies want reviews, they need to make it easy, and fuck off with spyware logins like google and facebook, which is what another company wanted me to do. There's a 0% chance of that happening, so a company that makes products I think are exceptional, won't hear a thing about it from me.

 

[K1052]

The Chinese hax0rs who got access to my Google password list are back to sending me emails trying to extort $$$ from me. Ironically, they're saying "please" "thank you" and "kindly respond within 48 hours" all while threatening to upload the videos of me they claim to have where I'm masturbating.

I got one of these and asked if they could please include the link to my Onlyfans when they carry out their "threat".

Didn't hear from them again.

 

[igor_kavinski]

Didn't hear from them again.

Some Kazakhstan scammer girl went a bit above the rest and sent a low res MOV extension video (maybe really old iPhone) to me after I told her to prove she was real. Then next email she tried to entice me with photos of herself in lingerie. Except it looked like someone took those photos and she claimed to be living all alone and hadn't been laid in two years. So I simply asked her, who was holding the camera/phone while she posed? Two days now and no reply yet. Maybe it was her cat?

 

[Red Squirrel]

Got an email asking me to write a review about some candy I got. I'm generally inclined to write reviews, especially for smaller shops, and when they make it easy. Looks like I can do it directly from the email in this case...

View attachment 114417

The problem is it's locked to 5*, and I can't change it to anything else. Text boxes appear to work, but not the *s. I don't write fraudulent reviews, and it wasn't a 5* candybar. It was a 3, maybe a 4. It's bothering me enough I might poke around in the mail source and try to see what's happening, but that's a lot of work for something completely voluntary, and doesn't benefit me at all.

If companies want reviews, they need to make it easy, and fuck off with spyware logins like google and facebook, which is what another company wanted me to do. There's a 0% chance of that happening, so a company that makes products I think are exceptional, won't hear a thing about it from me.

I hate that so many devs can't even get simple forms right anymore. I run into stuff like this often as well where forms don't work or are super glitchy. Lot of it probably has to do with security stuff like ad blocking software but hell if I'm going to turn that off. No reason why it shouldn't work.

 

[lxskllr]

Got an email asking me to write a review about some candy I got. I'm generally inclined to write reviews, especially for smaller shops, and when they make it easy. Looks like I can do it directly from the email in this case...

View attachment 114417

The problem is it's locked to 5*, and I can't change it to anything else. Text boxes appear to work, but not the *s. I don't write fraudulent reviews, and it wasn't a 5* candybar. It was a 3, maybe a 4. It's bothering me enough I might poke around in the mail source and try to see what's happening, but that's a lot of work for something completely voluntary, and doesn't benefit me at all.

If companies want reviews, they need to make it easy, and fuck off with spyware logins like google and facebook, which is what another company wanted me to do. There's a 0% chance of that happening, so a company that makes products I think are exceptional, won't hear a thing about it from me.

Ok, I was able to leave a review on a web interface. I left a 4* review for the product above, and it's nowhere to be found on the product page. I left a 5* review for a different product, and it showed up right away. I'm not playing those fucking games. Publish everything, or publish nothing. Reviews that only show people loving a product are worthless. Everything can't be 5*. Oh well. It'll save me time not having to acknowledge their review requests. One less job to do.

 

[igor_kavinski]

Publish everything, or publish nothing.

They can also use other tactics. Like one online site informed me that the review I had left wasn't really a review but a complaint so they deleted it. Letting others know about the quality of a product isn't a complaint. They got bought by Amazon some time later. Souq.com -> Amazon.ae

 

[Chaotic42]

I'm going back to school (yay), but their whole system is as deeply integrated into Microsoft as possible, so it doesn't look like I'll be able to use my BSD laptop and I'll have to toss Windows on it. They also don't allow POP or IMAP email access, so I have to use the terrible Outlook web thing.

I should just keep filing bug reports about GhostBSD compatibility until their IT staff puts a hit out on me.

 

[Brainonska511]

They also don't allow POP or IMAP email access, so I have to use the terrible Outlook web thing.

Shouldn't you at least be able to access web Outlook through the desktop app?

 

[Chaotic42]

Shouldn't you at least be able to access web Outlook through the desktop app?

Yeah, once I make the switch and put Windows on there. Maybe I should get an old Apple laptop and give macOS another shot.

 

[IronWing]

Shouldn't you at least be able to access web Outlook through the desktop app?

Outlook is one of those programs where the desktop app is worse than the web interface. The only thing the desktop app does better is extracting archives.

 

[Brainonska511]

Outlook is one of those programs where the desktop app is worse than the web interface. The only thing the desktop app does better is extracting archives.

Maybe it's because I'm still using Outlook (classic) on my work computer that I don't completely hate it.

 

[Chaotic42]

Maybe it's because I'm still using Outlook (classic) on my work computer that I don't completely hate it.

I actually like older Outlook. The newest version moved things like the mail/calendar buttons and tries to be way, way too helpful. "You have this in dark mode, it may be hard for you to read". Wow, thanks, I didn't notice it was in dark mode. At least you can turn that off.

UI design is so important and I think companies have UI teams who have to find busy work. Just contract it out so you're incentivized to only change it when you need to.