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SilasCoade

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Maybe not trivial. Having a bathroom remodel done. Guys installed the vanity before the trim, which makes sense, but they forgot that the drawer front is flush to the edge of vanity. So guess what happened when they installed the door trim? Draw smacks into the trim.

These things happen. Called the contractor and sent a picture of the problem. Guys come out today to "fix" it. Their solution was to replace the door trim with something slightly thinner and rotate the vanity a little bit. Then when I pointed out the gap between the baseboard trim and the wall they tried to tell me it was because the wall is not plumb. While that is a true statement, it didn't suddenly fucking warp in the last two days. What really happened is these lazy fucks did not want to have to remove and shorten the baseboard on the other side of the vanity because now the toilet is back in place and it would be a pain in the ass. They also didn't want to have to do anything with the sink drain pipe.

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9 hours ago, PilotsError said:

I'm single and only use one plate, bowl, fork and knife, etc.  When I use them I wash them quickly and set them to dry for next time. While I have other plates and utensils, it seems stupid to actually use them.

I'm pretty much the same way. I have way more dishes and utensils than I need. I have a stack of 10 plates in the cupboard but it's rare that more than one gets dirtied at a time, and then it's only two. Don't even get me started on glassware and collectible plastic cups. I clean all my pots and pans and knives by hand, I clean as I go while cooking, and it doesn't take much extra effort to clean the dishes and utensils after I eat. 

My cupboards and drawers are overcrowded as it is. I've removed some items and should remove a lot more. But then it's a matter of storage because I don't want to just throw any useful thing away. I wish there was some way to donate them to poor college students moving into an apartment for the first time.

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4 minutes ago, NeverMarryAStripper said:

Microsoft is the devil and Bill Gates is the Anti-Christ.  He won't be satisfied until every person in the world needs his explicit permission to use their own computer.  Fuck him right in his windows goat ass.

So your pirated shit suddenly doesn’t work, huh?

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2 hours ago, NeverMarryAStripper said:

Microsoft is the devil and Bill Gates is the Anti-Christ.  He won't be satisfied until every person in the world needs his explicit permission to use their own computer.  Fuck him right in his windows goat ass.

Yep., what Windows wants to do always takes priority over what I want to do. Started making the switch to Linux about a year and a half ago, and changed over completely about 9-10 months ago.

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I would pay extra for the ability to just stick with XP for the rest of my life. None of the useless bullshit that has been added to any of the Office Suite programs is an actual improvement, at least as far as I'm concerned. Just change for the sake of forcing change and collecting incremental tolls from users. 

 

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I hate content management systems that make you "confirm" every stupid little detail especially shit that can easily be undone. 

Like I have to confirm that I want to "publish" a document, even though if I mess up I can easily unpublish it with a simple click.  Except then I have to confirm my unpublish.  

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I would pay extra for the ability to just stick with XP for the rest of my life. None of the useless bullshit that has been added to any of the Office Suite programs is an actual improvement, at least as far as I'm concerned. Just change for the sake of forcing change and collecting incremental tolls from users. 
 
I still run Windows 7. It's great. Don't have to deal with the intrusive bullshit of Windows 10. XP was great, too. Windows 10 blows.
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2 hours ago, Vic Mackey said:
On 8/30/2020 at 9:24 PM, Prepuce of Doom said:
I would pay extra for the ability to just stick with XP for the rest of my life. None of the useless bullshit that has been added to any of the Office Suite programs is an actual improvement, at least as far as I'm concerned. Just change for the sake of forcing change and collecting incremental tolls from users. 
 

I still run Windows 7. It's great. Don't have to deal with the intrusive bullshit of Windows 10. XP was great, too. Windows 10 blows.

3.1 or nothing. 

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On 8/30/2020 at 9:24 PM, Prepuce of Doom said:

I would pay extra for the ability to just stick with XP for the rest of my life. None of the useless bullshit that has been added to any of the Office Suite programs is an actual improvement, at least as far as I'm concerned. Just change for the sake of forcing change and collecting incremental tolls from users. 

 

It's not really a question of UI improvements, more of a question of better security and whether or not Microsoft is shipping necessary patches. You can stick with XP if you want but its kind of like driving a car that got recalled for faulty brakes. 

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So they should fix the fucking security issues and leave the Office Suite alone. Maybe I wasn't clear enough, but I'm not clamoring for whatever security flaws XP and other systems have, but rather criticizing the many "improvements" and unnecessary changes that seem to be unavoidably associated with new operating systems. Like integrating LinkedIn with Word and Outlook - that is not a security improvement. Nor is it anything that needed to be done. It's stupid bloat and I hate it almost as much as I hate having to relearn how to do shit because Microsoft needs to make changes in order to render their previous products obsolete. 

There are a thousand other usability- and continuity-related inconveniences that Microsoft has forced on longtime users that I don't care to list.

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17 minutes ago, Prepuce of Doom said:

Maybe I wasn't clear enough,

No, I understand you fine. I'm making the point that there are things under the hood that you need to consider if you are sticking with an old version of Windows. Developers changing UI for the sake of changing it drives me crazy, too. That doesn't mean it's a good idea to keep using Windows xp. Whether or not they leave other changes alone they are going to make security improvements.

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1 hour ago, Prepuce of Doom said:

So they should fix the fucking security issues and leave the Office Suite alone. Maybe I wasn't clear enough, but I'm not clamoring for whatever security flaws XP and other systems have, but rather criticizing the many "improvements" and unnecessary changes that seem to be unavoidably associated with new operating systems. Like integrating LinkedIn with Word and Outlook - that is not a security improvement. Nor is it anything that needed to be done. It's stupid bloat and I hate it almost as much as I hate having to relearn how to do shit because Microsoft needs to make changes in order to render their previous products obsolete. 

There are a thousand other usability- and continuity-related inconveniences that Microsoft has forced on longtime users that I don't care to list.

sounds like upgrading office was your problem, not upgrading windows

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On 8/29/2020 at 11:06 PM, NorthLoop said:

Drivers who don't understand the rules of a pedestrian crosswalk. Austin drivers generally get it but here in NB they'll sit there and wait for the blinking light to stop before they go. Meanwhile the pedestrian is already 2 blocks away. 

Probably the same people who stop for a school bus on the opposite side of a divided boulevard.

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On 8/1/2018 at 5:06 PM, TexasHooch said:

Restaurants that have "boneless wings" on the menu. When I order chicken wings, I hate having to clarify that I want the damn bones in them. Feel free to keep your sauced up nuggets on the menu, but please don't call them wings.

Man after my own heart.  TEAM SAUCY NUGS!!!!11

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It makes me surly, and I don't know that it's all that trivial.  But when powerful people have photographers snap pictures of people visiting the cemeteries of their children.  

Something about it...I dunno.  Rubs me the wrong way.  It's becoming an accepted practice as of late.  Makes me surly.  

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This confuses me.  Are the powerful people having people take pictures of people visiting the graves of the powerful people's children or people visiting the graves of the other people's children?  Is this really a thing?  What do they do with the pictures?  I feel like i'm not very informed as I had no idea this was a thing.

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