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Transunion is done now to do Equifax. Sat on the phone for almost an hour inputting info through an automated process only for it to fail at the end. What piece of shit systems these companies have, holy crap. Worse than dealing with the government. Gave up for tonight, will try calling tomorrow. I suspect Transunion is the main one anyway, and that's the one that was sus because of the wrong address.
 
It rained all week last week so I was annoyed I couldn't paint my fence. Now it's supposed to be sunny all week and I'm annoyed I can't fertilize my lawn.
 
Crest changed the plastic they make into toothpaste tubes. The new plastic holds its shape and pulls the toothpaste back away from the mouth of the tube when I stop squeezing.
 
And the hits just keep on coming!

Sold a trading card on ebay and it was a high enough value for it to go through ebay's authenticity guarantee. It passes (Ebay and PSA agreement that checks cards to make sure they match the description and condition described in the listing) the process and gets sent to the buyer. Buyer msgs me with a pic of a nice big old mark on the back of the card.

My listing pic:

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Their pic sent to me this morning:

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Now we get to see how the return process works

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Red Squirrel said:
Sucks. That looks like a reflection from a round light. Wonder if it's some sort of scam they do so they get a refund and then end up with the card too.
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Not in this case. They have to send the card back to PSA to be authenticated again as part of the return process. Since it is individually numbered (27/79) on the back, they can't send a substitute card in it's place.
 
It's just the straight mark they're complaining about. Had that mark existed during the authentication process, it would have 100% been failed, the buyer refunded, and the card sent back to me.
 
I feel like the majority of my job is not even doing my job but rather dealing with all the shitty systems. Spent most of this morning dealing with the shitty new VPN that never works properly. Now I'm fighting with the shitty new time entry system. I would probably be more busy doing my actual job, if the shitty new systems we are suppose to use to monitor the network were actually reporting alarms properly. Basically everything new they put in is shitty and hardly works. It's been quiet and that's probably because we're not even getting alarms in first place lol. Some of these screens have not changed for months. One site has been showing a power outage for over a month, not a real alarm. Nobody seems to care.
 
^ Enshittification will continue until total collapse ensues. The great garbage avalanche isn't going to happen on its own.

On the trading card: I am going to go old school and accept any grief it causes me. Dallas Wings sounds like a feminine hygiene product. 😝 The douche trying to screw you over buyer's remorse or whatever can go piss up a rope.

I don't have first world level problems. I have this IS Ceti Alpha 5! level problems.
 
Every year I clean up a data directory I use, and archive old data to reduce clutter. I don't remember how to do it offhand, so I have this in my linux notes...

Code: 
find . -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -mtime +365 -exec mv -t Archive2024 {} +

What it does is collects anything that's older than 1 year old, and put's it into a directory. I then zip it, and move it to an archive folder.

Well, today it failed, and I spent ~45 minutes trying to figure out why. I kept getting an error that was something like 'exec has no argument'. Basically I told it to execute something without giving it something to execute. I finally realized I left the "+" off the very end :^S Really stupid mistake, but it's better than a mystery problem I guess. You don't expect ancient tools to change, so it's failure was really puzzling.
 
DAPUNISHER said:
^ Enshittification will continue until total collapse ensues. The great garbage avalanche isn't going to happen on its own.

On the trading card: I am going to go old school and accept any grief it causes me. Dallas Wings sounds like a feminine hygiene product. 😝 The douche trying to screw you over buyer's remorse or whatever can go piss up a rope.

I don't have first world level problems. I have this IS Ceti Alpha 5! level problems.
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lxskllr said:
Every year I clean up a data directory I use, and archive old data to reduce clutter. I don't remember how to do it offhand, so I have this in my linux notes...

Code: 
find . -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -mtime +365 -exec mv -t Archive2024 {} +

What it does is collects anything that's older than 1 year old, and put's it into a directory. I then zip it, and move it to an archive folder.

Well, today it failed, and I spent ~45 minutes trying to figure out why. I kept getting an error that was something like 'exec has no argument'. Basically I told it to execute something without giving it something to execute. I finally realized I left the "+" off the very end :^S Really stupid mistake, but it's better than a mystery problem I guess. You don't expect ancient tools to change, so it's failure was really puzzling.
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Crazy how these simple errors can send you on a wild goose chase too. The other day I spent an hour chasing why a very simple program was throwing 100's of compile errors. Turns out I did a typo and put end instead of endl after a cout<< statement. None of the errors pointed to that line. It was just all over the place.

Another fun one is accidentally putting a semi colon where it shouldn't go, like:

Code: 
if(condition);
{
dostuff();
}
 
KLin said:
Not in this case. They have to send the card back to PSA to be authenticated again as part of the return process. Since it is individually numbered (27/79) on the back, they can't send a substitute card in it's place.
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Why not PSA it before you sell it? I guess it's kind of pricey but if it's a good card and looks like it will rate high you get a lot more for it. My friend sends a ton of cards to PSA, I think he gets a bulk discount or something.
 
VashHT said:
Why not PSA it before you sell it? I guess it's kind of pricey but if it's a good card and looks like it will rate high you get a lot more for it. My friend sends a ton of cards to PSA, I think he gets a bulk discount or something.
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It did get sent to PSA before. I sold it as part of eBay guarantee authenticity. It's not grading tho.

eBay Authenticity Guarantee

Authenticity Guarantee lets you shop with confidence—just look for the checkmark.
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