[-] Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz 44 points 1 month ago

You do realize we're talking about the same society that requires a warning label to not eat the shampoo?

[-] Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz 48 points 2 months ago

This always cracks me up. He's mad about big tech censoring political information, but wants HIS political information censored. Probably not even bright enough to realize how pathetic he sounds.

[-] Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz 50 points 2 months ago

Gee are you implying that storing passwords in plaintext is a bad thing? /s

[-] Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz 49 points 2 months ago

I've also read about the John Deere issue as a leading instigator of right-to-repair laws. They weren't able to provide authorized local repair techs when a tractor breaks down, so farmers were stuck waiting 1-2 weeks for someone to show up while crops were rotting in the fields (think of how fast your fresh fruit rots in your kitchen and then imagine dozens of fields of that crop going to waste). And the biggest insult was when the repair tech drove into town for a $5 part that the farmer had already identified but couldn't replace because of manufacturer lockouts.

[-] Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz 44 points 4 months ago

You might want to re-read that... This is saying they signed up for a 1-month free trial in 2019. It sounds like they haven't even had a subscription for the last 5 years but the lawyers are still trying to argue that it applies.

[-] Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz 51 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Just an FYI, I had that happen to my driving glasses a couple years back. My optometrist said that's because you cannot leave glasses in a hot car as the heat destroys the coating... OK thanks for telling me AFTER the fact, where do you THINK I am keeping a pair of glasses that you designed specifically for my driving vision? And by the way, I've been wearing glasses for over 35 years and always had the anti-glare coating for night driving, what did you change that is suddenly making them self-destruct when they are stored where I need them???

Yeah they had no answers for me. But OP, if you left your glasses in your car, that's probably what happened to the coating.

[-] Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz 48 points 6 months ago

Worst thing in the office place was when some idiot left their window open in the middle of Winter, temps fell below 0F with high winds, and froze the 2" sprinkler pipes running over their office. Flooded most of the 2nd floor then started running through and raining out onto the 1st floor (and then into the basement). And it happened during covid lock-downs so it was fortunate anyone was even in the building to report it.

My own personal oopsie was checking network cabling in a small room, bent over to check things low and then wandered out to check elsewhere... Then noticed there was a LOT of commotion on the sales floor. Turns out I hit the power switch on one of the phone cabinets with my ass and shut down half the phone lines.

[-] Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz 51 points 8 months ago

Funny how, despite all their screaming about the subject, Republicans are the ones who we keep catching in the act of voter fraud.

[-] Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz 51 points 9 months ago

Are there any doctors in the house? Because I'd swear that looks like they used the model of a male skeleton here.

[-] Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz 44 points 10 months ago

Well SOME of us are prepared, since we had parents who actually cared about our lives rather than virtue-signalling to their Facebook groups.

[-] Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz 44 points 1 year ago

Don't forget Microsoft's whole "we're gonna pretend like we're integrating everything just so you can never find anything"... I work from home half the week but don't want to receive phone calls after-hours (because of course we had to fucking get rid of real phones and change to Teams). Oh they claim there's lots of scheduling options, but when you dig into it you find out you can't actually schedule anything in Teams, you have to go into Outlook. I'm on Linux, Outlook isn't an option even if I wanted to touch that steaming pile. So I go to the web version of Outlook only to find that no, despite their assurances, you cannot actually schedule your office hours to send phone calls straight to voicemail. That feature might come "soon" but considering half the time our staff launches Teams they get a blank page on private chats and have to keep restarting until they show up, I have a serious lack of faith that Microsoft could code up something useful for office hours.

tl;dr: Using "integration" as a buzzword to put options in unrelated and unused products, only to discover those features don't even work.

[-] Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz 52 points 1 year ago

Asked by a mother to recover family photos from her deceased son's laptop. Fortunately I noticed and removed the porn folders before passing over the USB stick.

The one thing I absolutely hate doing is getting inside my mom's computer. She's a heavy chain smoker and everything is covered in yellow tar.

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