ultimatebob
Lifer
- Jul 1, 2001
- 25,134
- 2,450
- 126
Got to get her to upgrade to a 2021 Ford Mustang GT. Life is too short for boring cars.
BoomerD
No Lifer
- Feb 26, 2006
- 66,585
- 14,989
- 146
My mower broke down a few weeks ago so I've been having this guy do my lawn. He didn't show up this week so I went to take my mower in to get it fixed. Squirrels chewed holes in the gas tank,.. WTF.
highland145
Lifer
- Oct 12, 2009
- 43,973
- 6,340
- 136
Did...windows already has the default driver...the same unknown machine....whatever.
Paid $40 for 3 of them, 10 years ago.
Stupid tramp was running fine when i left the office. Left it on to see if win might not forget her.
Svnla
Lifer
- Nov 10, 2003
- 17,986
- 1,388
- 126
Closed the online savings account from BoA a few weeks ago after I earned the $250 bonus after 3 months. Yesterday I received a check from them to cover the interest of the last month and it was $0.07. Yes, 7 pennies worth on the check. Shall I cash it?
Red Squirrel
No Lifer
Stuff like this is why I've been holding off for as long as humanly possible to get off windows 7 for my gaming machine. It seems every couple weeks Windows 10 is pushing bad updates that break stuff.
I sometimes think I'm making my life harder by using Linux as my main OS, but then I forget all the PITA windows 10 people go through.
At some point I won't have a choice if I want to play newer games though, or even older games that are tied to proprietary platforms like steam, sicne the launcher itself stops working on 7 after a while. That's what happened to Unreal Tournament, the launcher just flat out stopped working. I hate that most games are even relying on these launchers now days instead of being standalone.
snoopy7548
Diamond Member
- Jan 1, 2005
- 8,293
- 5,374
- 146
Do you have Windows set to receive updates for non-Microsoft products? If so, it probably updated your printer driver.
highland145
Lifer
- Oct 12, 2009
- 43,973
- 6,340
- 136
Local supermarket has counters for takeout food. One of them is for fried chicken/fries etc.
They have 3 screens. On screen 2 it says "Step 2: Choose chicken", and then there's a bunch of different options/sizes.
On screens 1 and 3 it says "Your Windows 7 PC is out of support"
It kind of reminds me of that South Park meme with Step 3 Profit, except here it's step 2 choose chicken, and step 1,3 ??
Red Squirrel
No Lifer
Local supermarket has counters for takeout food. One of them is for fried chicken/fries etc.
They have 3 screens. On screen 2 it says "Step 2: Choose chicken", and then there's a bunch of different options/sizes.
On screens 1 and 3 it says "Your Windows 7 PC is out of support"
It kind of reminds me of that South Park meme with Step 3 Profit, except here it's step 2 choose chicken, and step 1,3 ??
I always wonder why stuff like that does not just use Linux. Make it a web page on a browser that's full screen. you can literally run that on a Raspberry PI, and have a bunch of spares to swap out if one goes wrong. You can train a minimum wage teenager how to set it up and fix it. Multiply that across all chain locations and it's savings in the 100's of thousands in licensing fees.
highland145
Lifer
- Oct 12, 2009
- 43,973
- 6,340
- 136
Eff, I need to get a real audio that can put up with my shop. Would like a 6 + sub but my neighbor would not. Made the boy a cajone..the wife text me at midnight, wtf? Anyway, knocked the radio off of the mortising box and bent the audio input....spoty spotify...
UsandThem
Elite Member
- May 4, 2000
- 16,068
- 7,383
- 146
Weirdest day today shopping for cars.
I decided to submit the info for the car we want using Sam's Club auto purchase program late last night. I probably received 20 emails and phone calls from dealers, and we decided to head to one earlier today to see what their offer was. The thing was, they were not answering the phone. It would ring like 5 times, and then automatically disconnect. We tried multiple times, but it was like that every single time, so we just decided to head up there.
When we got to the dealer, there were like 4 police cars and about 10 officers standing in front of it. I wasn't even sure what the hell was going on, so I got out to ask if the place was on lockdown or something. When I exited the car, one of the deputies was staring right through me like he was expecting me to do something bad. I literally had to look the option direction from the stare-down he was giving. One of the dealership sales people came out and asked if they could help us, and when we asked if their dealership was even open because of the police presence, and if so what happened, she said "Some people have decided to handle transactions here", and that was it. We were there maybe 5 minutes, and they actually increased the selling price by $3000 over what they sent us in the Sam's Club deal (and which I showed them). This wasn't some tiny no-name dealer, as this was Hendrick Honda which is a huge dealer in the SE.
So since our time was so short and weird there, we decided to go to a different Honda dealer about 30 minutes away from the first one. We get there, and start looking at the cars in the lot for a moment. There weren't any other customers on the lot, and a sales person came out pretty quickly like they usually do. He asked if we wanted to test drive a car, and we told him we had already done that and that my wife had already decided what car she wanted. He then asked if we had worked with anyone there, and we told him that their dealership had sent an offer through the Sam's Club thing. He then said, "Great! Here's my card if you want to buy something, so you can just show that the people here". He then left and went back inside the building. From the time he came out to the time he was back in the building was no kidding like 20 seconds. He never came back out (nor did anyone).
Both me and my wife were both like "WTF is going on in at Honda dealers in this area today?"
So it looks like tomorrow we will try a 3rd one, and pretty much buy something there as long as they are a better experience than the first two.
I decided to submit the info for the car we want using Sam's Club auto purchase program late last night. I probably received 20 emails and phone calls from dealers, and we decided to head to one earlier today to see what their offer was. The thing was, they were not answering the phone. It would ring like 5 times, and then automatically disconnect. We tried multiple times, but it was like that every single time, so we just decided to head up there.
When we got to the dealer, there were like 4 police cars and about 10 officers standing in front of it. I wasn't even sure what the hell was going on, so I got out to ask if the place was on lockdown or something. When I exited the car, one of the deputies was staring right through me like he was expecting me to do something bad. I literally had to look the option direction from the stare-down he was giving. One of the dealership sales people came out and asked if they could help us, and when we asked if their dealership was even open because of the police presence, and if so what happened, she said "Some people have decided to handle transactions here", and that was it. We were there maybe 5 minutes, and they actually increased the selling price by $3000 over what they sent us in the Sam's Club deal (and which I showed them). This wasn't some tiny no-name dealer, as this was Hendrick Honda which is a huge dealer in the SE.
So since our time was so short and weird there, we decided to go to a different Honda dealer about 30 minutes away from the first one. We get there, and start looking at the cars in the lot for a moment. There weren't any other customers on the lot, and a sales person came out pretty quickly like they usually do. He asked if we wanted to test drive a car, and we told him we had already done that and that my wife had already decided what car she wanted. He then asked if we had worked with anyone there, and we told him that their dealership had sent an offer through the Sam's Club thing. He then said, "Great! Here's my card if you want to buy something, so you can just show that the people here". He then left and went back inside the building. From the time he came out to the time he was back in the building was no kidding like 20 seconds. He never came back out (nor did anyone).
Both me and my wife were both like "WTF is going on in at Honda dealers in this area today?"
So it looks like tomorrow we will try a 3rd one, and pretty much buy something there as long as they are a better experience than the first two.
Muse
Lifer
- Jul 11, 2001
- 41,180
- 10,377
- 136
I also have a laser Brother printer, a HL-5470dw, have called them a time or two and gotten decent service. Had a problem in that the toner on printed sheets would smear, the prints would become unreadable. It's a B&W printer. They gave me the solution. There's a setting "improve toner fixing." You have to dig into the options to find it. Once properly set, it's remembered. Ever since doing this my prints have been great with few exceptions. It takes an extra 5 seconds or so for the first print to come out. I think it has to do with heating the toner setting element enough. Why it is necessary to make the adjustment I don't know.
Lol! I bought one of my brothers a Sony boom box 35 years ago when he and his buddy were doing carpentry work together. Damn thing now hangs over the workbench in his garage - and still sounds good
. Things a tank.
Muse
Lifer
- Jul 11, 2001
- 41,180
- 10,377
- 136
Red Squirrel
No Lifer
Display Port has this annoying thing where when you turn off a monitor, or even switch input, it tells the computer that the monitor is unplugged. That causes all the windows to be all reshuffled all over the place and it makes a huge mess. When I work from home I have it setup so one of the 4k's is on the KVM so I can switch between work and personal easily. This works ok as the KVM always shows something connected to both machines. But the secondary monitor on top I have it setup so I just plug DP directly in, and HDMI is also directly in from my personal. I just switch the input to work and keep it that way for the day. This causes my work computer to go completely haywire when I switch it back to personal or even turn off the monitor. I have a special inline HDMI dongle I use for my personal as I was having the issue even in Linux with HDMI where it would shuffle all my windows around in Linux. (why is this annoying thing even a thing anyway?). This works great, but the work PC is DP and I can't seem to find such dongles that are made for DP.
I bought 2 DP to HDMI converters last year, and for the life of me I cannot find the 2nd one. The 1st one is already in use to go from DP to the KVM. I was thinking of using the 2nd one for the 2nd 4k and then putting the HDMI inline dongle thingy inline so it can stop the whole window shuffle thing. It annoys me that I can't find the second converter.
Ended up just ordering another one. I hate buying something when I KNOW I have it here but can't find it. I consider the other one a loss at this point. Looked all over for it. It could even be that I accidentally threw it out with the box when I originally got the package.
I bought 2 DP to HDMI converters last year, and for the life of me I cannot find the 2nd one. The 1st one is already in use to go from DP to the KVM. I was thinking of using the 2nd one for the 2nd 4k and then putting the HDMI inline dongle thingy inline so it can stop the whole window shuffle thing. It annoys me that I can't find the second converter.
Ended up just ordering another one. I hate buying something when I KNOW I have it here but can't find it. I consider the other one a loss at this point. Looked all over for it. It could even be that I accidentally threw it out with the box when I originally got the package.
Svnla
Lifer
- Nov 10, 2003
- 17,986
- 1,388
- 126
Went to get some groceries earlier tonight. The check out clerk entered my pack of green onion ($0.50/pack) as celery ($1.53/pack) so I was being overcharged of $1.03 plus higher sale tax. I didn't know until I was home later.
Shall I get a GoFundMe account now?
Shall I get a GoFundMe account now?
JEDI
Lifer
- Sep 25, 2001
- 29,391
- 2,738
- 126
from experience, costco's auto buying program is the same thing.Weirdest day today shopping for cars.
I decided to submit the info for the car we want using Sam's Club auto purchase program late last night. I probably received 20 emails and phone calls from dealers, and we decided to head to one earlier today to see what their offer was. The thing was, they were not answering the phone. It would ring like 5 times, and then automatically disconnect. We tried multiple times, but it was like that every single time, so we just decided to head up there.
When we got to the dealer, there were like 4 police cars and about 10 officers standing in front of it. I wasn't even sure what the hell was going on, so I got out to ask if the place was on lockdown or something. When I exited the car, one of the deputies was staring right through me like he was expecting me to do something bad. I literally had to look the option direction from the stare-down he was giving. One of the dealership sales people came out and asked if they could help us, and when we asked if their dealership was even open because of the police presence, and if so what happened, she said "Some people have decided to handle transactions here", and that was it. We were there maybe 5 minutes, and they actually increased the selling price by $3000 over what they sent us in the Sam's Club deal (and which I showed them). This wasn't some tiny no-name dealer, as this was Hendrick Honda which is a huge dealer in the SE.
So since our time was so short and weird there, we decided to go to a different Honda dealer about 30 minutes away from the first one. We get there, and start looking at the cars in the lot for a moment. There weren't any other customers on the lot, and a sales person came out pretty quickly like they usually do. He asked if we wanted to test drive a car, and we told him we had already done that and that my wife had already decided what car she wanted. He then asked if we had worked with anyone there, and we told him that their dealership had sent an offer through the Sam's Club thing. He then said, "Great! Here's my card if you want to buy something, so you can just show that the people here". He then left and went back inside the building. From the time he came out to the time he was back in the building was no kidding like 20 seconds. He never came back out (nor did anyone).
Both me and my wife were both like "WTF is going on in at Honda dealers in this area today?"
So it looks like tomorrow we will try a 3rd one, and pretty much buy something there as long as they are a better experience than the first two.
since your wife likes the honda civic and accord, why not just email ALL the honda dealerships within 60 miles of you for the out the door price?
and goto the cheapest one?
and mark as spam those dealerships that wont give you a price and tell you to come in.
they will forever email you so mark as spam the 1st time saves you from seeing another email from them ever again.
UsandThem
Elite Member
- May 4, 2000
- 16,068
- 7,383
- 146
Pretty much all of them outside of 3 dealers wouldn't do the price outside of going to the dealership. Of those 3, two were pretty bad and the ones you quoted above. The one we went today really surprised us with just giving a good price (at least today). They were the first ones who gave us a horrible price to begin with, which prompted me to see what the whole Sam's Club auto program was about.from experience, costco's auto buying program is the same thing.
since your wife likes the honda civic and accord, why not just email ALL the honda dealerships within 60 miles of you for the out the door price?
and goto the cheapest one?
and mark as spam those dealerships that wont give you a price and tell you to come in.
they will forever email you so mark as spam the 1st time saves you from seeing another email from them ever again.
To their credit today, we showed up and the car salesman's assistant (the salesman was with another family when we arrived) asked us a few questions (down payment, how many months, trade-in, etc.) and came back with a very solid/fair price. I was so shocked how straight forward they were, and I asked them for a few minutes so my wife and I could talk it over outside for a moment. We basically went out and simply talked about how shocked we were they weren't even going to do the "let me talk to my manager" back and forth nonsense. We walked back in and said we'd do it.
Today was.........dare I even say it, pretty decent in how it went.
Geekbabe
Moderator Emeritus<br>Elite Member
Craving a huge lobster roll, a hot lobster roll with lots of drawn butter, sides of cole slaw, fries & corn on the cob
BoomerD
No Lifer
- Feb 26, 2006
- 66,585
- 14,989
- 146
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