The My Bucket's Got a Hole In It Complaint thread
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Complainting non-complaint: I feel like I'm in a "Groundhog Day" situation. I'm still trying to fix my boogered special cable. Each day I revisit this cable problem trying to determine the next step. I think that I now have all the parts and tools necessary. I've even bought a new modern soldering iron(pencil) with fine points and heat control. (old soldering iron is 55 years old and too big and too hot for tiny tiny wires). So, now that I have all the parts I've begun the task of clipping the old bad 10-pin USB-MiniB connector from the cable (snip, all done). Then I had to verify the pin-out on the new connector. Did I mention it's tiny? Very tiny. And of course the pin solder points are on two separate sides of the connector base and not identified. More tedious and tiny maniupulations of my ohmmeter to identify the layout of pins 1-10 and document it in such a way that makes it easy to not make a mistake when I finally get arround to soldering the wires on.
Next was stripping the insulation from the ends of the cable and identifying wire colors and end to end connectivity to make sure they match what I have documented previously. Did I mention these are tiny tiny wires? I have old old eyes.
Now comes the hard part, arranging the wires in a holding mechanism so that all the prepared ends of the wires are exactly long enough to each reach the corresponding tiny tiny solder pad on the connector base so that there is no excessive strain on any one of those tiny tiny wires.
OK, that's enough stress for today. None of this has been easy on me. My back is screaming bloody murder, my feet are swelling, my eyes are bluring. Perhaps tomorrow I'll unpack my brand new modern soldering pencil and practice with it a bit before tackling the tricky job of soldering the wires to the pads. Then of course I have to test it to make sure it all works, then squeezing a little silicone rubber into the connector shell halves and clip them over the completed soldering job.
If this is successful I'll have spent over $80 for wrong cables, a soldering kit, specialized 10-pin USB breakout boards, and the hard to find 10-pin USB Mini-B connectors to fix my poor planning and stupid "try a bigger hammer" tactic that started this ordeal a month ago.
Note to manufacturers: If your device needs a special cable PLEASE make your special cables available a-la-carte even if at high cost for idiots who booger them.
i remember token ring. had a special tool to prep the end for the connector.
how does that patreon work?
i just have to post i need money and people will send me money?
You need to offer soemthing they want, usually with at least monthly additions. As it patrons of art, people who pay artists so they can work in return for getting a grovelling dedication from the artist when the work is released.
render art count? i dont even have a set of decent water color pencils
@Mystiara: If you don't feel doing/joining Patreon, there's always Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/ ;
I asked if I had any post this afternoon, and my father said no. Mum goes to look through one of his bags, and finds an envelope with my name on it. So he's hiding my post. And now, he's started an argument because he's been found out.
Wow! I just found an app for my Tivo which lets me see the Daz Forum and it lets me see the controls that were missing on my stupid phone. However I still cannot do new paragraphs that easily. Need to look into see why.
thanks N_R Arts
know how you feel.. feelinng pretty abused by family too.
Carp I need to update my signature as I changed my dragon cave scroll name.
...that was the name of the town I grew up in in the south environs of Milwaukee WI. There is a major seminary there named after him from which the town took its name from after it split off from the old "Town Of Lake".
Yeah the patron Saint of critters.
lol near the beginning robin williams describing golf
Probably, but it would be up to you to find a way to reach people who might pay you to make it, it isn't effort-free money (for many people it's money-free effort from what I can tell).
Non-complaint: I'm pretty happy with my latest render.
I'm still trying to figure out what is wrong with my keyboard and this TV web browser will let me enter a new line?
is lovely
was just listening to the lyle lovett boat song.
i like robin williams a lot, but i think the original la cage au foll was funnier than the robin williams birdcage version.
need a life upgrade. my stove still broken. fridge is leaking puddles. need laundry machine. need my scat bus pass renewed before my next dr apt. need a new futon or sleeping surface. need an a/c. need a a lil table or cart for my coffee machine.
need some kind of reliable grocery delivery. i'm too blind to manage in the store by myself. i cant see the screen on atm machines.
it sucks losing my independence. i hate asking for things. if i'm like not grateful enough. they work 6 six days a week is a big sacrifice of time to drive out here and they let me know it. i'm not depressed, i'm really not. and grateful for the kindness of strangers. theres some really wonderful people in the area.
the house owner finally fixed my toilet, was leaking water from the tank. they replaced my screen door finally.
...wow, that's really nice.
No problem ^^
I get nothing but cr*p from them, until they want something done. Then I'm "the best person in the world". It's a pretty toxic household.
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I hope those charms turn up in the post soon.
I wish I hadn't Googled that...
...I hear you on a good part of this. While my appliances are working fine (for now) I and I have a decent bed, it is getting harder to do many tasks as I am simply breaking down physically. Just trying to pick something up that I dropped on the floor is difficult (and with my ever worsening grip that is happening more frequently). The other day I had to mop the hard floors in shifts as after about ten minutes or so my hip and back would start hurting. To reach anything on a low shelf or cupboard close to the floor, I often have to use a chair to sit on as it is painful to bend down or particularly kneel. The walk to the market is getting harder as well but I just don't trust others when it comes to picking out items like produce, meats, and seafood, and you need a minimum order of 50$ (I usually end up at around 30$ - 35$ per trip). I also like using my own washable grocery sacks rather than getting a bunch of paper, or as of late, plastic, ones to deal with.
Eyesight is slowly fading as well though I can still read street signs & such clearly but for example, a menu at say the corner Subway or coffee shop is at a certain distance where it is slightly blurry and my glasses don't help.
Hate getting old.
I'm so sleepy. However it is too late for a nap.
I agree! Well done!
Dana
Does anyone here remember a user named Rainbo? I just found out she passed away Friday night.
Dana
Noting some of the above complaints about eyesight...
I can still see fairly well, but I can imagine people's frustration when their eyesight starts to get bad, people who do product graphics like labels mostly completely suck at what they do...
What the eff is this obsession with razor thin narrow fonts?
If I see a narrow black font on a mirror chrome background one more time, I'm going to track down the person who approved it and beat them raw with a dead fish.
It's been a thing recently with certain construction products, but I see it now on food products too... who the hell thinks that's a good idea... you literally have to keep tilting the container to be able to read whatever is written on it, like it's some secret magical runes that can only be read at the vernal equinox when the light passing thru the peaks of the lonely mountains fall at just the right angle... frickin' annoying it is.
While I’m on it, I’ve got another graphics complaint… now lots of takeout places and fast food joints have embraced the magic of the digital menu board… which can be both a blessing and a curse…
Mostly a curse, because most individuals who are doing the graphics are really bad at understanding these are not web graphics, but menu boards that people need to read from several feet away, mostly hanging from ceiling… and again with the narrow, thin fonts!
I’m imagining if you have bad eyesight, narrow fonts are all but invisible, but these nitwits keep using them everywhere.
It’s excusable for the dope who takes a sheet of 2’x3’ oaktag and writes out a garage sale sign in ballpoint pen and staples it to a telephone pole and then wonders why nobody came… they aren’t professionally trained to understand that at ten feet it looks like a blank sheet of white cardboard, not a sign.
Anyone being paid to create a menu should understand they are being paid to convey information, not entertain with cool designs and graphic effects…
Which leads me to the other menu complaint… live graphics…
I don’t know what it’s actually called, but it’s menus that change and have videos and crap going on in the background…
What the eff are you doing there?…
A customer is reading the menu trying to figure out if they want a Weiner schnitzel deluxe or a Burrito kebab and suddenly the selection changes to baked potatoes and fired squidy chips…
It literally holds up the line because it confuses people who actually haven’t memorized the menu.
Stupid stuff…
Also, while I'm writing this, I keep getting server errors which is also pretty damned annoying.
It’s becoming a little unfun to visit the forums lately as these server errors and inability to load the forum page are getting worse.
It’s like roulette clicking on the forum, sometimes it loads, sometimes it don’t…
I’m also a little bummed out by Cholhole’s passing… I know, it’s weird because we are all just avatars and random words and thoughts here, but I still feel all the people here I’ve been conversing with over the years (13?) are real people, and despite the limits of the context, I consider you all friends… So don’t no one else around here go kicking any buckets any time soon or I’ll be really pissed off at you… and I don’t care what your excuse is.
No croaking… okay.
I’m really bad at showing concern in an eloquent way, but I think you get my point.
Also, I’m really, really bad at not veering off course, like how I just randomly turned from complaining about bad graphics to obliquely saying I like you folks and hope everyone remains in the realm of the living in as best health as possible.
Well… cheers and be well.
page 87 already? its one way to measure life
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+1 on the menu fonts and animated menus. I complain to staff about it everytime I encounter it.
+1 on the animated graphics on menus. Hate 'em, hate 'em, hate 'em. It's bad enough to see pictures of the food and with even slightly degraded eyesight and age affected image processing skills to realize that all the images of all the different foods look identical. i.e. Layers of brown, red and green.
And I swear that TacoBell's food is all the same stuff. They just put it together in a different sequence and charge different prices for it.
+1 on missing Chohole. She was the one administrator I actually never had reason to grump about.
+1 at being bad about being able to show concern toward remote people.
PS: For a real experience, go to a KFC/TacoBell combined outlet and try to read the double data hanging menu there. Oy
And everytime I ask for a "regular" chicken breast they ask me to use their word for it. I can never remember if they want "non-crispy" or "original" or "plain" or whatever. I want the "regular" one, the one that is not their alternative one(s). 
I'm trying to set up my custom TiVo Remote buttons. I probably should write down what is what after I set it all up. Still can't figure out how to do new paragraph/new line on my TiVo web browser and bluetooth keyboard.
My tablet pc came with a bluetooth keyboard. i press the enter key to create a new line.
...+1 to all the above +1s
I love it when I'm at the Evil Empire of Caffeine and order say, a "medium coffee" to which the barista blurts back something in their corporate pseudo Italian to which I reiterate "medium coffee". Some get so flustered that I won't "conform". Someday whne I'm at one, I'm going to ask for a "regular coffee" (which in New York City is coffee with crème and sugar) and see how they react.
That is because it is a tablet PC not a TiVo streaming device retroed into something to type out documents and browse the web. Hopefully in August or September I can get a real computer. Testing things out to see if it will work..