Random thing you loathe right now.

I use the CVS app and leave notifications on to help manage mine and my family member’s prescriptions.

95% of the notifications are spam that has nothing to do with our medication.

master0 wrote:

It is disgusting how much you can see this sort of behavior. From politics, to business, to people shopping in stores. Even family. It's some of the worst bits of culture.

I think the polish cyberpunk 2077 dev is another poignant example.

New loathe:

Ants have contaminated my jalapeño peanut brittle.

master0 wrote:

It is disgusting how much you can see this sort of behavior. From politics, to business, to people shopping in stores. Even family. It's some of the worst bits of culture.

It in turn means that you acting the same way is the only way to garner respect. The number of people I know who have only ever gotten what they wanted from their employer by threatening to quit first is borderline insanity.

I work in the procurement side of IT/IM, and I've seen over the past few years recruiters in my industry completely abandon giving employees advice on how to get a promotion at work. They now tell them not to waste their time on fruitless endeavours: If you want a raise, change jobs. What a broken system.

RawkGWJ wrote:

I wonder when today’s American laborers will catch on to the benefits of organizing? It’s sad to me that folks are so easily intimidated.

Yeah, what's a little being run over by a car or losing your benefits and pay for months. People know the benefits of organizing, but I think we can cut people who don't want to be harassed by corporate goons, or lose medical coverage for their kids a little slack.

I work in the procurement side of IT/IM, and I've seen over the past few years recruiters in my industry completely abandon giving employees advice on how to get a promotion at work. They now tell them not to waste their time on fruitless endeavours: If you want a raise, change jobs. What a broken system

That is true for IT in general and for the last decade or more.
And then potential employers have the gall to ask me why I've bounced around or whether I want to stay at one place or do I prefer contract work? Thankfully it is easy to dismiss as the IT industry is cutthroat, but why ask in the first place if you know the answer?

RawkGWJ wrote:

Ants have contaminated my jalapeño peanut brittle.

:(

I can't imagine that's going well for them.

Now they're fire ants!

Kurrelgyre wrote:
RawkGWJ wrote:

Ants have contaminated my jalapeño peanut brittle.

:(

I can't imagine that's going well for them.

Capsaicin only effects mammals so they are probably just enjoying all the sugar and protein.

Capsaicin only effects mammals so they are probably just enjoying all the sugar and protean.

Ants are pretty versatile ;P

fangblackbone wrote:
Capsaicin only effects mammals so they are probably just enjoying all the sugar and protean.

Ants are pretty versatile ;P

Brain no worky early in the morning

Rykin wrote:

Capsaicin only effects mammals so they are probably just enjoying all the sugar and protein.

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"Anthill", a novel by famed insect research E O Wilson, is a tremendous way to learn about ants and how they interact with humans, animals, other ants and insects.

So's SimAnt

If you can find it anymore...

Robear wrote:

If you can find it anymore...

Nearly impossible.

I rented SimAnt on the SNES and beat it in one weekend. Memories.

Things breaking after an update.

So, we ship these big kits of server equipment to different venues for video production. They're leased or rented, generally weigh somewhere in the range of 60-200 lbs, and can have anywhere from $10k to $80k worth of gear in them. Recently a division of ours had one of theirs "lost" by FedEx... and it was around the upper end of that value range. So, since I normally build these things, I started looking into some way to track them if they get lost.

After a lot of research into cellular-based GPS trackers (which I was mostly against because I'm too lazy to make an argument to accounting why we need to pay a monthly bill for it, even though several functions were really neat), I settled on Apple Airtags. I was between them and the Samsung trackers, but everyone in our company gets issued a MacBook, so I figured sticking with Apple was a better fit even though the Samsung ones tested better from what I could find. And then there was Tile trackers, but they seemed to not function well enough for my use case (poor reporting, no replaceable battery).

Anyways, I finally got them delivered today and wanted to test them in a number of different situations to see if they'd still report their location. But it took me most of the day to just get them set up. I had to use my boss' personal iPhone to get them registered to the account I had created for them. What really screwed me up, is that my MBP was still on Catalina which couldn't see them at all. I had to update to Big Sur... so I did, which fixed the issue!

However... it broke my mouse. Normally I wouldn't be too upset, except that I use a Logitech G600 MMO mouse with 72 programmable functions, about a third of which I have set to different functions or macro'd to paste common commands I use throughout the day. So while the Airtags are now a go (and looked to work well so far), I'll probably spend a fair bit of time tomorrow figuring out why my MBP can't see my mouse anymore. Grrr.....

It’s after 2 AM. Hot. Humid. Thunder. Lightning. No rain!! Come on!!! Give me some f*cking rain.

My dog's not doing so well right now, but all we can do is just wait and see.
<=== That's a pixel art version of him over there.

I decided to stop at Waffle House yesterday for breakfast. Never been a problem in the past. About an hour after I ate, my body decided to act like I was prepping for a colonoscopy. Thank goodness I'm still working from home!

The SSD on my wife's new PC just totally exploded last night. Walked away from a working PC, came back and it wouldn't wake up from sleep. BIOS doesn't recognize it as a bootable drive, rescue USB key says the drive is corrupt and unmountable, chkdsk runs for hours and reports hundreds/thousands of unreadable blocks. Ordered a spiffy new m2 drive, going to install windows on that and see what if anything is recoverable from the old SSD. I'm going to build her next one myself so it has parts I trust.

Nonloathe- E. O. Wilson's book "Journey to the Ants" is also fantastic with beautiful pictures.

Not going to be much luck with a dead SSD. When they die, they die
Definitely do not run chkdsk on an SSD. That eats up whatever marginal sectors you had left...

BackBlaze is awesome, qaraq. It's rescued me from failed drives a few times.

halfwaywrong wrote:

My dog's not doing so well right now, but all we can do is just wait and see.

He's still doing pretty bad and we're no closer to finding a reason. He had a couple of x-rays and a blood test - they all came back looking good. He perked up a lot when he had to stay at the vet for half a day, for whatever reason. Otherwise he's just laying around and not doing much else. He can walk, but really weakly. He can eat and drink, but not like he normally would. He's got some painkillers to see him through the weekend, then pending that, an abdominal scan.

Robear wrote:

BackBlaze is awesome, qaraq. It's rescued me from failed drives a few times.

This drive was in a really new computer and just had Windows and some savegames on it; I think it was backing up to MS onedrive, but we'll find out.

I'm not terribly happy with 'iBuyPower' or maybe just the SSD brand they choose right now; the first one we got had something bad with the drive or mobo so we returned it, and now this one's crapped out too.

New loathe: Neither m.2 SSD makers nor this computer builder bothered to include M2x3mm screws, and the local hardware store didn't have any. I thought I had a spare from when I installed mine a couple of years ago, but no dice.

I've used duct tape. Seriously. Not too much, just enough small strips to hold it in place. (I didn't want to risk changing the heat radiating characteristics so it was just around the edges, really). Rubber bands or cable ties might work. And once I just sat an SSD in the case.

Migraines. Also migraines that make me nauseous.

Rainsmercy wrote:

Migraines. Also migraines that make me nauseous.

Yyyyuuuupppp. Good luck getting through them. Migraines f*ck me up.

qaraq wrote:
Robear wrote:

BackBlaze is awesome, qaraq. It's rescued me from failed drives a few times.

New loathe: Neither m.2 SSD makers nor this computer builder bothered to include M2x3mm screws, and the local hardware store didn't have any. I thought I had a spare from when I installed mine a couple of years ago, but no dice.

I hate the way they cheap out on a part like that that would cost them less than a penny in the bulk they would be buying them at. I was upgrading a bunch of PCs at work to m.2 SSDs last year and had to get both the stand-offs and the screws.

I have a child in Africa. I feed him, I clothe him, I educate him, and I inoculate him.

All for less than $0.75 a day.

Spoiler:

A fraction of what it cost me to send him there.