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Wumpus
Oct 16, 2003

ᴄᴏɴɢʀᴀᴛᴜʟᴀᴛɪᴏɴs!

Albino Broccoli posted:

Well looks like I'll be looking into Hyundai when my Kia finally kicks it

Had it for 10 years and they can pry it from my cold dead hands while it still works

If it's not too small a make, Mazdas have great tactile controls. A small touch screen, but also physical buttons for regular stuff, and a jog wheel and inputs on the center console in front of the armrest. Also, nicer interiors for a given price point.

I guess the got shittier part is no 6 for a few years and who knows when it'll start back up.

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Wumpus
Oct 16, 2003

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Pennywise the Frown posted:

fight instructor

I finally know what I want for christmas

Wumpus
Oct 16, 2003

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Fashionable Jorts posted:

I wonder how many modern songs are mastered to sound best on car speakers, since these days those are the best speakers a significant number of people own.

You see me now, a veteran of a thousand loudness wars.

I've been living on the edge so long where the winds of treble roar.

Wumpus
Oct 16, 2003

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Kmount da Hood posted:

gross old men in spy gear and fleeces

homeless people in designer clothes

The two genders

Wumpus
Oct 16, 2003

ᴄᴏɴɢʀᴀᴛᴜʟᴀᴛɪᴏɴs!

DemihumanResources posted:

No, it's a way someone thought of to shove another $10/mo subscription down humanity's gullet

wait wait wait

:10bux:

a MONTH?!

Wumpus
Oct 16, 2003

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signalnoise posted:

My toilet broke. The metal chain used to connect the arm to the plunger or whatever got corroded straight through. Now my toilet doesn't work

A couple weeks ago I repaired a sticky flush handle.

Looked like a ~ lovely patina ~ on the bolted connection where the metal handle post meets the arm, then the post end just snapped the gently caress off.

So I guess there's something in the water. And by repaired I mean replaced.

Wumpus
Oct 16, 2003

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TotalLossBrain posted:

I started getting system tray pop-up ads to buy Avowed Premium. I have never bought or played that game

I got that on my work computer. The hell?

Wumpus
Oct 16, 2003

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Denim Dude posted:

shame on your it person.

Come apply policy, my lord?

:wink:

Wumpus
Oct 16, 2003

ᴄᴏɴɢʀᴀᴛᴜʟᴀᴛɪᴏɴs!
hackernews

when every story is click bait, no one will be

Wumpus
Oct 16, 2003

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Howard Beale posted:

We were on a road trip last night and as I drove, my wife tried to use Google Maps to try and find late-night gas stations and restaurants still open along our route. The search function constantly brought up places in towns we had already passed, yet hadn't brought them up earlier when we had been approaching those towns. We concluded Google Maps has a serious U-turn fetish.

Google Maps likes you to turn. To pay attention to not just turn left but turn from a particular lane, very exacting. Okay maybe you didn't listen and look last time, here's a different turn. Or maybe a route that saves you a couple of minutes? It's technically straight but very windy. Maybe a little turn just for the thrill?

That grade separation confused me, the turn I just told you about isn't what I really wanted. This is the real one.

It's not asking if that stopped vehicle is still there. It's asking whether you are still there. Where did you go and why don't we talk any more?

Wumpus
Oct 16, 2003

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Silly Burrito posted:

that seems like a hell of a trade for an Arby's ad

In other news: sleep seems a lot harder to keep going. Waking up in the early morning. No kids at home, no weird noises, just awake. Sometimes but not always worried. Harder to concentrate during the day. Weird to complain about never sleeping through an alarm again, but here we are.

Wumpus
Oct 16, 2003

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Fashionable Jorts posted:

Ive been experiencing that too lately. I wake up a full hour before my alarms and feel like poo poo all day. Is this age?

It's reality. A time related physical constant has changed around us, also making it less likely to see a movie in theaters or dine out.

Wumpus
Oct 16, 2003

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Fashionable Jorts posted:

i also skip all cutscenes!

I did that a whole lot in my 20s, ended up learning my personal story secondhand.

Probably just lucky we didn't die during character generation.

Wumpus
Oct 16, 2003

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On that note, having to figure out which utilities now charge a percentage fee for card payments so I have to enter bank data, or don't, and now I have to switch options again, because they've renegotiated or something.

At least the coke-pepsi switch only happens once a decade.

Wumpus
Oct 16, 2003

ᴄᴏɴɢʀᴀᴛᴜʟᴀᴛɪᴏɴs!
I'm officially old but still trying to match Office changing keyboard shortcuts: paste text without formatting (in some context) and non breaking space. But it's been decades and my habits are too strong and I get bad results and why did they change that.

Like undo in Illustrator, but that's a lifelong struggle.

Edit: airplane food rear end complaint.

Wumpus fucked around with this message at 14:46 on Oct 15, 2025

Wumpus
Oct 16, 2003

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Cimber posted:

Soon San Francisco start up will offer suicide nets as a perk of the job!

Always negotiate for suicide gross.

Wumpus
Oct 16, 2003

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euphronius posted:

Also windows makes me put in a pin to sign in every loving time I hate it so loving much and can’t turn it off

For me it's the resource hog features that I know are just responsive enough not to hack them out like Aero (...yet).

Sign in pin is building critical numpad muscle memory that will 100% have to change after some future patch.

Wumpus
Oct 16, 2003

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We all train autocorrect wrong, as a joke.

Wumpus
Oct 16, 2003

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Strategic Tea posted:

There's a Gibson novel where they meet a gig worker whose job is literally to look like a high flier, flirt with people in bars, and slip [your product here] into the conversation. I wouldn't be surprised at all if it's now real!

I think they freak out and quit when they realise how many people are doing the same thing back to them.

This exact thing happened to me earlier this year. Big casual nerd event with no door control, group chatting at a long bar height table, some guy in his 20s sits down and tunes in and eventually slips in a pointed comment about some investment service that is totally block chain.

Could have been newly turned on to it and obsessing, going for a referral, maybe just feeding the pyramid, but it sure as poo poo wasn't subtle.

E: except for the high flier bit, factory standard bro.

Wumpus
Oct 16, 2003

ᴄᴏɴɢʀᴀᴛᴜʟᴀᴛɪᴏɴs!
Grabbing a free sample while refusing to interact with or acknowledge the human behind the counter is a delicate balance.

Wumpus
Oct 16, 2003

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Salt Fish posted:

Finally we can have a computer simulate a free will.

I love you

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Wumpus
Oct 16, 2003

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Numerical Anxiety posted:

None is etymologically a contraction of "not one", so it should be singular.

"Not one" is the logical opposite of singular.

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