The I Miss the Old Days Complaint Thread
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McGyver - you might have missed your true calling and road to fortune!
When you look into the Gateway the Gateway looks into you - if the result is bad that is not the forum's fault, now is it? Bwahahahahaha.
Yeah, and they would have made great radio programs too.
But radio story shows died 90 years ago("A Prarie Home Companion" being an exception).
Cloudflare squarely points the finger at DAZ
Speaking of radio programs. I miss the "Click & Clack" radio program (actually "Car Talk") for car mechanic advice. Admittedly I only ever heard it while travelling long distance in my car (ah, I miss my car). Semi-funny guys with some useful tips for automotive amateurs who call in with questions. An easy way to spend an hour driving, and thinking about the little noises your car makes, especially if its like the one being described by the caller. I liked their credits sign-off when they mention their lawyers, "Dewey, Cheatem, and Howe"
I think the bit buckets at DAZ are overflowing, and it takes a while to sweep them back into bags for processing. Either that or parts failing in the server.
If so, then when we get an outage, does another vacuum tube get its wings?
...I loved that show.
I like pie.
And cheese. I like cheese, too.
What about cheesecake? Which is actually usually made in a pie shell!
Dana
I used to (actually still do) loudly announce "I like pudding" when people around me were loudly arguing about something pointless or stupid, or more accurately stupidly arguing pointlessly without having any recognizable train of thought, or reason... I'd make the announcement to just get them to pause long enough to either shut up or think about what the hell they are saying and try to make some form of sense...
If I got attention from the announcement, I'd go on about why I like pudding... particularly chocolate pudding, the texture of different puddings (like regular pudding verses tapioca), the history of pudding (mostly made up on the fly... in case you didn't already expect that) or other interesting pudding based trivia (interestingly, also mostly made up... in case you still didn't already expect that)... if and when anyone would ask "what the hell" I was talking about, I'd ask the same or point out I thought we were just shouting out random shi... er... "stuff" and thought I'd join in.
I've done it here a bunch of times when I come across a discussion that seemed to go off the rails and will probably get the thread closed, but it's probably a thread worth saving... I think it worked once or twice in like fifteen years...
One of the "I love pudding" posts was actually pretty epic... substituting the concept of pudding for cooperation and mutual respect despite different points of view... It could have made a good speech for a character in a movie where they were trying get warring factions to cooperate... if you switched out the pudding parts... too bad I didn't write it down or copy it.
One day pudding (or pie, or cheese) may bring world peace...
Come to think of it... didn't someone once say "blessed are the cheese makers"... Someone named Brian I think...
Either way, the sheep will probably still inherit the earth.
well. pudding is one thing. but you can't beat either a Devon Custard, or even better a good clotted cream and jam on a scone.. (and the great debate on which goes on first.)
I think regular gangrene is when body parts die due to bad infection and sepsis, I can imagine that Fournier's version would be very nasty!
Oops I accidentally double posted!
so I will post two pictures of my afternoon snack! Or did I post two of the same picture?
...cheesecake brings me peace
What is that?
I think I want to go to bed soon, so does that mean I need to turn off my lights and get off my computer?
Left over cheesy spinach bread from Domino's. It probably looked better the day I got it.
Leftover Cheesy Spinach Bread was one of my favorite San Francisco psychedelic rock bands back in the day. Ah youth...
Non-complaint: Wheee..., I just discovered that today is Easter, and for the first time in decades I've not been invited anywhere for holiday meal.
So, I guess I'll dig out some special treat to make for myself today. Unfortunately, the local grocery is closed and I don't have all the ingredients for my mother's famous oatmeal chocolate chip cookies.
Perhaps I'll put together some asparagus, lasagna, lima beans, half a Dove dark chocolate bunny, and a bottle of Champagne, then afterwards, another afternoon/evening of navel contemplation & other normalness.
Complaint: My neighbor on the other side of the wall has taken up singing. Bellowing is more like it.
It's not that he's tone deaf, I just think he must be totally deaf, or beyond caring what he sounds like.
I'm not sure whether I am bothered more by his rendition of the "Bogie and Bacall" song, or when he practices chanting in American Indian style.
A ponderable: Speaking of navel contemplation, I'm still pondering on the question, "what the f' is light"? Feinman's idea that two electrons have to "agree" to exchange a photon (regardless of their place or time in the universe), for light to "happen", is mind shredding.
For decades I've been pondering wave/particle duality; Einstein's gravity(bent space); quantum entanglement(spooky action at a distance); non-locality(being not locally real/resolved); and now, retrocausality(irrelevance of spacetime).
These are all clues to an as yet unilluminated view of reality, but I think I'd have to turn my brain inside out to grok it. What a wonderful time to be considering these things, I believe we're on the brink of a paradigm breaking era, a re-thinking of physics and reality.
We just need someone capable of turning their brain inside out to get us started down the new path.
What's wrong with this picture? (watch the tapes in the background 0:10 to 0:30) <click on the "Watch on YouTube" button>
Happy Easter!
Legit Complaint:
Manufacturers who don't understand what the hell a "strain relief" is for... If there is anyone who is not familiar with the term, a strain relief is that part of a cord near a plug or connector that is designed to taper down from the plug to the cord to prevent the cord from bending too sharply... it's also that section of flexible sheathing that stick out of an appliance or tool that protects the cord... usually they have "relief" cuts in the shape to make it more flexible or they are made of a different, or flexible material and the cord passes through it...
Whatever the design choice, the point is to protect the cord from severe stress and damage by providing a transition from a rigid point where the cord enters/exits the plug or tool and the point where the stress of constant bending will eventually cause wear in the cord, causing the insulation to wear out and break, crack or split allowing the cord to short out or potentially become an electrocution hazard.
Granted, a phone charger cord is not much of an electrocution hazard, but it damn well is a fire hazard.
Manufacturers used to take fire safety/electrocution a little bit seriously... but now with online stores selling every manner of cheap electronic crap imaginable and along with all sorts of erosions of consumer rights, companies no longer take these things seriously if it's even a consideration in the first place.
Maybe I'm old fashioned, but it used to be expected that if you design stuff, you understand the materials you are specifying for the item's production... like if it's a pair of flip flops you don't just call out "foam rubber material" because there are lots of foam rubbers and if you don't specify the right foam density it's too soft or hard to assemble... they won't burst into flames, but if it falls apart instantly, that not good... it's a problem if all the stores that buy them end up demanding a refund.
I don't think people are taught this in college anymore... I don't feel anyone older than forty has familiarity/interest in material characteristics and specifications anymore or they are being specifically discouraged from caring about it.
Stuff like durometer, modulus of elasticity or material density are like the crazy talk of some old cave hermit who is ranting on about the magic formulas of some ancient civilization they once visited...
In the case of the cord strain reliefs, when you have a cord that's constantly being plugged in and out, you need a good flexible transition... if it terminates without the proper amount of flexibility, you are just moving the stress from the plug to the end of the strain relief... so it shorts out a few millimeters further away... you literally did nothing of worth, you failed at your job... you suck at making stuff.
If you understand the purpose of the strain relief and make it right (easy), it prevents sharp bending of the cord and you reduce the risk of the cord wearing through.
It's not just cheap cords... a certain fruit named manufacturer of electronic devices has one of the worst cord designs ever... idiotic in fact...
Theoretically, on paper it probably seemed like a good idea... make the cord sheath out of a super flexible low durometer material, surround the wires with a fine braided mesh of flexible wire sheathing beneath the cord exterior and you don't really need much of a strain relief... you avoid a big gawky plug or anything that might mar the sleek look of the cord... you'll just need a little vestige of a strain relief, a small smooth bit that sticks out of the hard shiny plastic plug.
Its stupid.
First off, the material is rubbish... I can't say for sure, but if it's silicone based it's the worst, because it breaks down too quickly and splits and pills and becomes damaged by ordinary surface contaminants and even sunlight... so there's that... but it usually breaks/shorts way before that's an issue because the stupid little tail of a strain relief that does stick out of the plug causes bypass stress to eventually pop the braided sheathing out of the plug... the sheathing slips down a bit and hidden beneath the soft flexible outer sheathing, the frayed ends start to saw through the protective vinyl coating on the actual electrical wires they are supposed to protect... eventually it wears through and provides an excellent medium to insure a short... whereas with normal wear-though, you'd have to wait for the exposed wires to actually touch, here you have something conductive that surrounds the exposed wires, actively providing a shorting hazard way before complete exposure.
Good work there.
I'm sure it looked beautiful as a sketch on the design proposal, but whoever designed it and whoever approved it sucked at a primary responsibility of what should have a big part of their job.
So yeah... that's my complaint for today.
Cheers.
There is a Daz+ only item in the store. I can't get it because I'm currently not a Daz+ member.
There are lots of DAZ+ non-members, and each of them are in your boat. Getting crowded in there?
The trick is not minding.
Just save the money, and buy an icecream treat instead. You'll probably get more use out of it.
I already own several metal grid shader sets, that doesn't appear to bring anything new to the table so I really don't care I cannot buy it
...had that happen to the power converter for my 16 year old notebook. Instead of at the plug, the strain occurred at the transformer unit. One day when I plugged it in there was a pop and burst of sparks from the joint after which the wiring inside was visible (the insulation on the failed joint melted).. Fortunately it was not yet connected to the notebook. Got a replacement unit that has much better stress protection on all the joints. .
I couldn't find my rainbow glasses in any of my clear cases. I thought I lost them until I looked in the kitty case.
I opened the kitty eye glass case and found my rainbow glasses!
I had two pairs of glasses before March 2023. I bought 4 pairs with insurance money in March 2023 so now I think I have 6 good pairs of glasses! Four of them have transition lenses which turns them into sunglasses but the other two don't.
I mainly wear the two regular glasses on rainy days or when I'm just going to be inside!
So we were at the grocery store. And when we're at the cashier, I tend to place the items on the conveyor belt in an order that I think will help the cashier. I group all the frozen items together, all the cans together, all the chemicals together, and everything. This time, we had groceries going in one basket that were being paid for by me, but going to two different locations. So we used a rather heavy box of kitty litter to divide my items from the other person's items. The cashier picked this item first, and put it back in the basket to scan it. Now I don't know why she thought putting the item in the basket and scanning it was any better than scanning it before putting it in the basket, since it was already on the conveyor belt. But that wasn't the real issue.
She continued to randomly grab items to scan next. She wasn't scanning the items next in line. I don't think she was grouping things by type. My best guess is she was scanning everything in order by weight. So the order I placed things in was for nothing. And the other person had to sort out what items to take home when we got to the car. I don't know why this had to happen. I just know if you buy a gallon of milk and a gallon of boric acid, she will probably put them in the same bag.
the checkout operators seem to deliberately reach over and grab the stuff behind even though I put the stuff I want in the bottom of my granny cart first.
also I have 3 bags but they cram it into one
I just keep repeating myself like a stuck record with a smile
"could I have the heavy bottles first please to put in the bottom of my cart"
"I have 2 more bags can you please not squash my bread into that one, I don't mind packing it myself I am only trying to make your job easier by not making you pass me everything"
This is why i use the self checkout. I can scan and bag in the order i want.