My phone will not charge complaint thread

Mistara

chaynawolfsmoon said:

complaint: daz studio database. i hate you. i refused to fiddle with you anymore.

someone create a better database that i can find what i need.

i may have to take drastic measures and separate content into new folders so i don't spend all day looking for what i want. grumble grumble fume.

in other news... it feels like fall... i feel the need to hypernate.

this is 1 reason i keep all the promos in a folder on my desktop,

visually scan large thumbnails

however, this fails when the promo doesn't have the name of the product on it

then i have to right click properties to get the thumbnail name,

is hypernate like a power nap?

 

Mistara

kyoto kid said:

Mystarra said:

chaynawolfsmoon said:

Mystarra said:

chaynawolfsmoon said:

i went to the store to get food. i bought a bag of nacho doritos, a box of cheez-its, a pack of chocolate chip cookies, some fake beef, some dry roasted peanuts, and a package of frozen pizza.

i'm fairly certain i fail at adulting...

 

if yoy onlu knew what that sodium was doing to your kidneys.  

i'm in my upper 50s and my kidneys cant process salt 
doesnt just make your limbs retain water,
also damages maculars in your eyes. and go blind.  macular edema 

everyone tells you the danger of sugar.  the danger of sodium is like silence killer
they sent me to specialists to tests my swollen legs, looking for blood clots, paying
specialists fees and tests fees. 
 dr didn't mention  don't eat salt, until after all that money went flush

well... i'm just going to drink water. and nothing else...

thank you

was having a panic attack, worried you'd keel over with a heart attack

another silent killer is deli meets.  bores head, all processed with as much fats and sodium and still call iy turkey.,  turkey deli meat is not much better than baloney 

...it's also the nitrate based preservatives as well. When I do buy something like bacon or sausage I always get the "uncured" variety (again more expensive for the same reason I mentioned above) as it is in the commercial curing process where the extra salt and nitrate preservatives are added.  Because of this it doesn't have as long a "shelf life" so when I buy it, I generally use it within the next few days, and/or freeze any remainder.  The other benefit, no growth hormones or antibiotics which are also not good for us.

nomms the nitrates

Mistara

is it true what they say about green MnMs?

LeatherGryphon

From reading other threads it seems like a lot of people are building new or majorly upgrading their system.  And it seems to be a lot of very old systems.  Must be that 2010ish was an era of well built adequate machines that just kept on running and running and running like the "Energizer Bunny".

Non-complaint:  I got into upgrade mode when I essentially gutted a decade(ish) old desktop to build a nice modern machine with new motherboard, current class CPU, faster/more RAM, bigger powersuppy.  Seeing how well that worked, I then I replaced the hard drive in my decade(ish) old laptop with an SSD.  Again success.   And now today I'm finishing moderately upgrading another decade(ish) old desktop by replacing the hard drive with an SSD.  All three of those computers have (or had) been upgraded to bigger hard drives, max RAM, and Win10 a long time ago but the advance to SSD still makes a major improvement on how well they run Win10.  Very happy.  It's a good time to know how to do this type of tinkering.  I've been having a ball, digging in to my old parts boxes for screws, better/bigger secondary hard drives for internal storage or backup, shorter cables, and tie-wraps for organizing the wiring,  It keeps these old hands and brain busy and away from the TV.

Complaint:  I'm running out of money and old desktops to upgrade.

Ostadan

My late-2013 iMac (the last model with an NVidia card) has a failing internal hybrid drive.  Basically nothing works, or takes ten minutes or more to work.  Awaiting an external drive that can be recruited as a new boot drive because iMac is basically impossible to self repair (you have to remove the front glass which is attached by adhesive to open it at all).  Amazon sells a replacment kit with tools for $350.  Yipe.

Mistara

complaint  miss kulay still absentia 

DanaTA

Mystarra said:

kyoto kid said:

..yeah I can still do a number of those things on the list. save for:

Fixing the carr as cars today are so computerised these days you need specialised (and expensive) equipment that only certified mechanics are allowed to have.  No more Saturday afternoon "driveway maintenance" sessions 

Hunting & fishing, well as I no longer drive, those have become something of he past (and I used to bow hunt as well as enjoyed fly fishing).

Dancing is pretty much off the list as well because of my arthritis, though I used to be pretty good in my day.

I even used to be able to sew both machine and by hand (worked in a theatrical costume shop) however arthritis has made it extremely difficult these days. Can't even sew a button back on anymore.

As to the last item, I even do so in public loos (provided it isn't extremely grody) and there is an ample supply of soap and towels.

__________

As to the bureaucratic battles, Yeah had an ace in y hand which I pulled and laid on the table (which I mentioned in one of my posts on the topic) and I moved up to the next tier on my phone plan that give me unlimited calling and 5 GB of data (only a 5$ difference).Wish I could trade off the texting for a discount because with my stiff painful fingers, I can create new codes the NSA probably can't break.  Oh, and a congressional ruling that was handed down changed it from being "money that isn't yours".

__________

...Doritos, ugh, never touch rubbish like that anymore, haven't for a while.  Even the store brand crisps are too salty for my taste, though I do like Kettle Chips' "no salt" crisps and Ritz low salt crackers.

When cooking I do use a pinch or so of salt, however today it seems many restaurants (particularly fast food chains) and mainstream food processing companies use a soup ladle as their basic unit of measure. 

 

ninchuck hamster  lol 

I have that thing!  It plays "Kung Fu Fighting" while it twirls the nunchaku.

Dana

McGyver

I decided on my Halloween costume... I'm going as zombie #256 from the first season of "The Walking Dead"... but as he appeared two weeks before the Zombie Apocalypse occurred.

Nobody will figure that out.

McGyver

Mystarra said:

is it true what they say about green MnMs?

That they are colored green by a rare type of algae that on the surfaces of septic pools?... yes.

chaynawolfsmoon

Mystarra said:

chaynawolfsmoon said:

complaint: daz studio database. i hate you. i refused to fiddle with you anymore.

someone create a better database that i can find what i need.

i may have to take drastic measures and separate content into new folders so i don't spend all day looking for what i want. grumble grumble fume.

in other news... it feels like fall... i feel the need to hypernate.

this is 1 reason i keep all the promos in a folder on my desktop,

visually scan large thumbnails

however, this fails when the promo doesn't have the name of the product on it

then i have to right click properties to get the thumbnail name,

is hypernate like a power nap?

 

Hypernate is absolutely like a power nap.

chaynawolfsmoon

complaint: I've completely abandoned trying to render on any of my other computers... mostly. I still need to test my laptop. Compared to my normal system the others take 2 to 4 times longer on the same scene and if the scene is memory intensive then forget about it.

I may end up using them for storage since I'm running out of space fast.

I really need to retire a couple of older computers. But that would require organizing everything and moving my email accounts and reinstalling programs that I may have lost the discs to. So much effort.

kyoto kid

Mystarra said:

kyoto kid said:

..yeah I can still do a number of those things on the list. save for:

Fixing the carr as cars today are so computerised these days you need specialised (and expensive) equipment that only certified mechanics are allowed to have.  No more Saturday afternoon "driveway maintenance" sessions 

Hunting & fishing, well as I no longer drive, those have become something of he past (and I used to bow hunt as well as enjoyed fly fishing).

Dancing is pretty much off the list as well because of my arthritis, though I used to be pretty good in my day.

I even used to be able to sew both machine and by hand (worked in a theatrical costume shop) however arthritis has made it extremely difficult these days. Can't even sew a button back on anymore.

As to the last item, I even do so in public loos (provided it isn't extremely grody) and there is an ample supply of soap and towels.

__________

As to the bureaucratic battles, Yeah had an ace in y hand which I pulled and laid on the table (which I mentioned in one of my posts on the topic) and I moved up to the next tier on my phone plan that give me unlimited calling and 5 GB of data (only a 5$ difference).Wish I could trade off the texting for a discount because with my stiff painful fingers, I can create new codes the NSA probably can't break.  Oh, and a congressional ruling that was handed down changed it from being "money that isn't yours".

__________

...Doritos, ugh, never touch rubbish like that anymore, haven't for a while.  Even the store brand crisps are too salty for my taste, though I do like Kettle Chips' "no salt" crisps and Ritz low salt crackers.

When cooking I do use a pinch or so of salt, however today it seems many restaurants (particularly fast food chains) and mainstream food processing companies use a soup ladle as their basic unit of measure. 

 

ninchuck hamster  lol 

...as long as they don't drive around in Kias.  Traffic is bad enough the way it is here.

 

kyoto kid

Mystarra said:

complaint  miss kulay still absentia 

...indeed, that place she's in sounds more like a prison than a group home. 

chaynawolfsmoon

this place has gone to the hamsters...

could be worse... it could be overrun with flamingos.

kyoto kid

...

chaynawolfsmoon

snooty birds...

LeatherGryphon

chaynawolfsmoon said:

snooty birds...

But synchronized walkers and occasionally a great yo-yoer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvPjtolajZk

kyoto kid

... 

LeatherGryphon

Non-complaint:  Wheee... my 2nd desktop has been upgraded to using a 500GB SSD and WOW is it frisky now!   However, I do have to admit that during the process of cloning the hard drive using the "Acronis" app provided by Crucial, a bad sector was found that caused the clone operation to pause and give me some options to resolve it.  Per their suggestion I tried to use native Microsoft tools to identify and repair the error but they couldn't find anything wrong.  So, I finally just took the option to "Skip it" and it only found the one bad sector so I hope that it was in an unused spot on the drive.  Also during the cloning operation and other normal operations of the system I had been observing the Windows "swap area" statistics and began to believe that the 4GB RAM memory (all this machine can handle) was running at least 3/4 full all the time and was doing more "swapping" than is efficient.  And there was only one drive in the system so when it was "swapping" it was having to swing the drive's access arm between data areas and swap area.  This, and the bad disk sector may have been contributing to the terribly slow performance it had been giving for the last couple of years.  So, after the clone was complete and I was satisfied that the system was running again (very spritely, in fact) I reached into my box of used hard drives, found one that was 750GB and I modified Win10 to write its swap files to the hard drive instead of the SSD to avoid excessive writes & rewrites to the SSD.  Yeah, it will be a little slower, but I shouldn't let it do a lot of swapping anyway.  So I still have a little work to trim down the RAM usage & discard unecessary resident apps.  Having the larger secondary hard drive in the system also gives me an internal backup disk.  

This is now a very nice, fast, little machine for everyday stuff.  Not a graphic wizard but it is very quick.

(Note:  the original hard drive has been removed, and stored in an anti-static bag labeled as to what data it contains, and as "Possibly Bad" and tossed into my box of archive data.)  

('Nother note:  Who would have thought that 4GB isn't quite enough memory for running an operating system?   My first machine in college had 16K bytes!)

kyoto kid

...uh oh,, wInter weather advisory for Milwaukee WI with  2" - 5" of snow forecast for tonight and tomorrow and then temps down into the mid 20s.  Looks like the trick or treaters will have to bundle up and put their galoshes on tomorrow night.

Glad I don't live there anymore.

starionwolf

I saw a new dentist in the dentist office today.  He did not introduce himself.  I guess he was in a hurry to eat lunch?  I can understand why some people think some doctors are rude.

Mistara

plainnt  between weather and traffic, bus ride home was 3 hours, from bohemia to huntington

reeedickyooluss

have an idea for a new tradition  

winner of the thread title makes a banner for it !!  a nice sig sized banner

Mistara

i miss going to halloween parties

i miss going to parties

i miss going out

do people still line dance?

would they let me in a dance club with my walker?

shall we dance dun duh duhn - the japanese version lol

kings are fast learners

 

that laugh  omg

 

 

kyoto kid

Mystarra said:

 

i miss going to halloween parties

i miss going to parties

i miss going out

do people still line dance?

would they let me in a dance club with my walker?

shall we dance dun duh duhn - the japanese version lol

kings are fast learners

.. I love that that scene. 

Mystarra said:

 

that laugh  omg

...my favourite laugh:

This along with her "beeg bada boom" was the basis for my character Leela.

chaynawolfsmoon

i had some weirdly dreams this morning.

LeatherGryphon

Halloween ready:  Pumpkin carved.  Candy set out in dishes.  I never (well hardly ever), get any trick-or-treaters so it's all for me!  Yay! 

Of course I've bought my type of candy. 

I did, however, just a few days ago get a surprise visit from a Seventh-Day-Adventist delegation wanting to talk to me about the good word in the Bible.  They went away without a conversation and of course didn't get any candy. 

Mistara

trick or treat!!  tnite is the nite to watch achmed the undead terrorist
ahwooo lycans

oh boyy sale today got me good.  Retail High!  

spent my 8tb drive monies  dooooh

 

McGyver

chaynawolfsmoon said:

i had some weirdly dreams this morning.

Did it involve the octopus with a top hat, riding a skateboard handing out free large Frostys from Wendy's?

I like that one because I feel hopeful when I wake up... mostly hopeful that I'll find a free frosty on the dining table when I go downstairs... then I'm usually sad because the Frosty Octopus hasn't visited.. I know he's real.. he must be... why is life so cruel and devoid of dessert bearing cephalopods?

Now I have to go to the terrible local Wendy's and order my own Frosty from the terrible people who work there... If I order even one thing, they'll find a way to get it wrong.. they are so bad at everything.

I hope your weirdly dream was betterly.

WinterMoon

LeatherGryphon said:

They went away without a conversation and of course didn't get any candy. 

What happens if you let them in? Has anyone ever done so, and can tell the tale? I've never met any SDAs, that I'm aware of, but my Mom once let some Jehova's Witnesses in and gave them coffee. Then they became friends, although Mom never converted. 

With this being a spoopy night and all, make sure that no one who knocks on your door has all-black eyes (like an alien). If they do, you need to slam the door in their faces, and shut yourself in a room that doesn't have windows until they stop knocking and begging to be let in. 

 

McGyver

LeatherGryphon said:

Halloween ready:  Pumpkin carved.  Candy set out in dishes.  I never (well hardly ever), get any trick-or-treaters so it's all for me!  Yay! 

Of course I've bought my type of candy. 

I did, however, just a few days ago get a surprise visit from a Seventh-Day-Adventist delegation wanting to talk to me about the good word in the Bible.  They went away without a conversation and of course didn't get any candy. 

Candy is bad for you... it contains sugar and that can make your heart fall out and make your teeth fat... you should give it to me, I've had my shots so it won't effect me like that.

You didn't have any conversation with them? My conversation usually is... "Stop ringing the damn bell, I told you I worship Cthulhu, he that slumbers in R'lyeh and will rise again to rule the earth"... alternatively I also substitute Satan or The Flying Spaghetti Monster... They usually come to the front door, where I politely tell them I'm insane and then they go to either of the side doors and knock or ring the doorbells... maybe they are hoping I'll have changed my outlook on religion by the time I get to those doors... alas, I am only annoyed by that point.

I'm very disappointed that I still haven't printed up my own pamphlets for my own wacky religion to hand to them... I've been meaning to do that for years.