Random thing you loathe right now.

RawkGWJ wrote:

Clipping my fingernails is annoying. Toenails are worse.

But the flavor.. divine.

MaxShrek wrote:
RawkGWJ wrote:

Clipping my fingernails is annoying. Toenails are worse.

But the flavor.. divine.

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When you make a meal that was almost perfect but you just slightly messed up some aspect of each dish.

ClockworkHouse wrote:

When you make a meal that was almost perfect but you just slightly messed up some aspect of each dish.

Same. Gotta be less lazy when I measure things. Especially when baking...

Thats why I try to make one-dish meals. (Casseroles, savory pies, etc). That way, if I mess up one aspect of each dish, I've only messed up once.

Outlook at work has been acting up lately, with super helpful messages like "Cannot send e-mail" and when I try to save the concept mail "Operation failed".

Fry’s Electronics went out of business suddenly last night. Sigh.

Robear wrote:

Fry’s Electronics went out of business suddenly last night. Sigh.

Bummer. I never got a chance to go into a Fry's.

I still get nostalgic sometimes when I drive by the location where my old Comp USA used to be.

Fry's was hurting for a while sadly
I typically got all my non SSD hard drives there and network, video or USB cables there.

Had my yearly review again. To say I'm disappointed is a bit understated. Probable will have to start job hunting again. It's become very obvious that my company will do the minimum they can get away with. Just sucks. I've been at several companies that all treat me nicely enough, but pay a little as possible. I'd easily stay where I'm at if they just gave me the average. blah.

master0 wrote:

Had my yearly review again. To say I'm disappointed is a bit understated. Probable will have to start job hunting again. It's become very obvious that my company will do the minimum they can get away with. Just sucks. I've been at several companies that all treat me nicely enough, but pay a little as possible. I'd easily stay where I'm at if they just gave me the average. blah.

If your company is anything like mine, they'll make you a proposal once you hand in your resignation. Rejecting that proposal as too little too late does feel immensely satisfying though.

When you post a thing you made and get a bunch of nice positive replies, but you know that later on the only reply you'll remember is the one negative one.

dejanzie wrote:

If your company is anything like mine, they'll make you a proposal once you hand in your resignation. Rejecting that proposal as too little too late does feel immensely satisfying though.

Both a close friend and myself have experienced the situation where our employer immediately offers us a raise after we formally resigned, which just deepened our desire to leave even more. After giving us the runaround for ages they finally admitted we have value at the last second possible, and it also proves the toxic environment where they just viewed threatening to quit as a power move they respect and respond to far quicker than actual earnest attempts from us to change things.

Yup, exactly all that. I had notes to show off all the things and changes I've done over my time there. And basically within thirty seconds I realized none of it matter. Already setting up interviews. On the plus side my new salary potential is way higher then I expected.

kuddles wrote:
dejanzie wrote:

If your company is anything like mine, they'll make you a proposal once you hand in your resignation. Rejecting that proposal as too little too late does feel immensely satisfying though.

Both a close friend and myself have experienced the situation where our employer immediately offers us a raise after we formally resigned, which just deepened our desire to leave even more. After giving us the runaround for ages they finally admitted we have value at the last second possible, and it also proves the toxic environment where they just viewed threatening to quit as a power move they respect and respond to far quicker than actual earnest attempts from us to change things.

I'm wondering if that sort of thing actually works out for employers. Like, if you make a similar offer to five different employees as they're heading out the door, how many will stay if you offer more money, and how many will leave more pissed off than before?

master0 wrote:

Yup, exactly all that. I had notes to show off all the things and changes I've done over my time there. And basically within thirty seconds I realized none of it matter. Already setting up interviews. On the plus side my new salary potential is way higher then I expected.

That's the main way to get raises in my experience.

So jobs are like cable or cell phone service? They f*ck you over until you threaten to leave and only then they might give you a decent deal?

Some jobs, yeah.

And in my case, my job is like my service provider where I eventually went with a smaller company, because even if the smaller one has fewer amenities or benefits and is less state of the art, I don't feel like a sucker having to argue out of being exploited every day. (I know some small companies can suck too so don't @ me.)

I dragged my heels on searching out the BBC show named after The Watch. I knew that they deviated from the books. I knew that. I hesitated and hesitated. Then Amazon put up the first episode on Prime. Zero barrier to checking it out. I left my preconceived notions at the door. I wanted to like this. I was ready for a show like this.

Spoiler:

Vimes and Carcer have a past! They were rebel buddies and Vimes infiltrated the watch to kill the captain (just go with it!). Carcer confronts Vimes in front of the Watch House, hands him a giant knife, and reminds him of his mission. The captain interrupts them and speaks nicely of Vimes even when it is revealed that he is an infiltrator. Vimes chooses to arrest Carcer instead of stabbing his nice captain. Carcer shoots a crossbow bolt at Vimes and the captain jumps in front of it. The bolt pierces the captain's badge and as Vimes rushes to the dying man's side he yells out "Captain!" The dying man rasps: "You're the captain now!"

That's me paraphrasing the scene that made me say out loud, alone in my basement: "This is stupid. Nope!"

Rezzy wrote:

I dragged my heels on searching out the BBC show named after The Watch. I knew that they deviated from the books. I knew that. I hesitated and hesitated. Then Amazon put up the first episode on Prime. Zero barrier to checking it out. I left my preconceived notions at the door. I wanted to like this. I was ready for a show like this.

Spoiler:

Vimes and Carcer have a past! They were rebel buddies and Vimes infiltrated the watch to kill the captain (just go with it!). Carcer confronts Vimes in front of the Watch House, hands him a giant knife, and reminds him of his mission. The captain interrupts them and speaks nicely of Vimes even when it is revealed that he is an infiltrator. Vimes chooses to arrest Carcer instead of stabbing his nice captain. Carcer shoots a crossbow bolt at Vimes and the captain jumps in front of it. The bolt pierces the captain's badge and as Vimes rushes to the dying man's side he yells out "Captain!" The dying man rasps: "You're the captain now!"

That's me paraphrasing the scene that made me say out loud, alone in my basement: "This is stupid. Nope!"

I think I posted the trailer to this a couple of weeks back. It was so dreadfully awful I’ll be avoiding this like the plague.

People are already into post-Covid driving mode on the interstates in New England. It would be funny if they weren't so dangerous and careless.

Although I still have memories driving from Maine to New York, and having highways almost completely to myself last year. The weirdest days were driving through Hartford, Connecticut, wondering if I really needed to signal lane changes on an empty 8 lane highway.

It gets empty anyway, once you head up past Springfield and Ho-Yoke...

Picked up some 3DS games I've wanted to play for ages. Played 20 minutes with the d-pad, and my thumb still aches an hour later.

Definitely over thirty and everything hurty. Felled by a toy! Curses!

I've had a pretty rough experience with Amazon that has been ongoing for a couple weeks. Back on 2/24 I ordered a new gaming chair. I was using an office chair that the hospital my wife was stationed at was throwing away about 10 years ago. It was getting really uncomfortable, the hydraulics would sag when I sat down, the padding was damn near non-existent, and the back didn't sit upright anymore. It was overdue for replacement.

I chose one on Amazon at about $170, and it showed that it would be delivered by 2/28. I pay for Prime, so that's about in line with most of my purchases. The next day, the estimated arrival changes to 3/16. I figure it might be a glitch, so I give it a few days. And then a few more days. By 3/8 it still hadn't shipped yet. I was fed up and managed to get a good deal on a chair through BestBuy a few days back ($250 chair marked down to $170 after tax with free 2-day shipping). I attempt to cancel the Amazon order, but it's refused because "the item will ship shortly". On 3/9, it still hadn't shipped, so I submitted another cancel request. Still showing "shipping shortly" and they won't cancel. I order the other chair.

Yesterday, I submitted another cancel request. Then I got on a chat session with an Amazon rep, as it still showed it hadn't shipped yet. The chat didn't amount to much, besides him saying he'd put in a request to cancel. Yesterday afternoon it finally ships and I get charged for it. I get the UPS tracking number, attempt to call UPS to decline the shipment before it gets far, but I literally can't get through to a rep because I'm the receiver and not the shipper.

The chair is listed as arriving tomorrow, so today I put in a return for it, and they'll come pick it up from my porch next Friday. The chair I ordered from BestBuy two days ago arrived today, even though it stated it would arrive on Monday. I've already gotten it put together and am enjoying a new chair. It just seems insane to me that Amazon wouldn't cancel the shipment given that I started trying 3 days before they actually shipped it.

Amazon can be weird. My wife ordered something and it showed delivered and the picture in the app of it by the door, except that wasn't our door!

Checked with neighbors on both sides and it wasn't them. But it was pretty obvious that was a day it snowed here. We got flurries but nothing stuck. But some areas nearby had an inch or two. There was clearly snow on the porch pictured.

So tried to say we didn't receive package. It asked us to wait a day despite it showing as delivered. So we tried again the next day and blah blah.

Wife got on the phone and explained. They said they would send a new one. Showed up a couple days later

Then around 4 weeks later they send us an email that says we never returned that first package and they are charging us for it. WTF?!

Anyway my wife called again and they straightened it out, refunded us. But damn.

It was Amazon driver too with the picture and tracking so not like they could blame it on UPS or USPS. Their problem all the way but a struggle to get it straight.

The 20H2 update of Windows 10 keeps failing, so it increasingly looking like I will have to reinstall from scratch

I was working on an extremely old and slow laptop, trying to update it, and it just would not do it. That particular laptop (from 2017, IIRC, but bottom-of-the-barrel), would update like two versions from the one it came with, which took hours, but then wouldn't go any further. Each attempt took several hours, and failed. It won't even boot up newer install ISOs. It just can't run them, period.

Fortunately, Windows LTSC 1809 runs happily on it, so that ended up working out okay. That'll get ten years of security fixes, so that's probably the last version it will ever run.

The speed was a lot better in LTSC, too. That CPU has, like, no extra cycles available, so all the extra crapola in mainstream Win10 really loaded it down. But it felt pretty snappy with LTSC, which is quite similar to Windows 7 in terms of the software loadout. (eg, almost none.)

Major downside there: LTSC is very expensive, about $300, and you have to go through a real dance to order it. It's widely pirated, so Microsoft would probably move a lot of copies if they reduced the price.

dejanzie wrote:

The 20H2 update of Windows 10 keeps failing, so it increasingly looking like I will have to reinstall from scratch :-(

I had that problem with an earlier version - might be worth trying a full repair on Windows, which takes a while but probably less than a full reinstall.

I must have counter-jinxed it by posting that loathe here, as the update now went through! Yay superstition!