Oh, Misty, I forgot my Complaint Thread
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...oh, ouch.
...Complaint:
Attaching the link to an appropriate post of mine to a different thread a bit earlier.
https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/7481811/#Comment_7481811
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...hmm, 00:20 Daz Time and the store hasn't changed over yet.
Nope, no IBM Model M keyboard.
It's a shame, I could have used a windfall. But I do have several keyboards with a PS/2 connector. And of course a few USB or wireless keyboards in varying states of reliability or cosmetic integrity. Several of my keyboard hoard is either Logitec or HP with the decal scraped from the "N" key by my fingernail.
(Seemingly, the fate of all my cheap keyboards).
Non-complaint: I finally found my Cyrillic keyboard. It was already attached as a 2nd keyboard to the machine I wanted to use it on. Duh!
I found it because when I had finally located the long plain white keyboard box, it had the wrong keyboard in it.
So, I went back to my lab and looked carefully at the six keyboards on the workareas and ta-da..., there it was! Who knew? Don't get old, your brain goes fuzzy.
...yeah, still looking for a Model M as I am tired of the letters wearing off cheaper keyboards. I don't have long fingernails but tend to strike the keys with slightly more force using the weight of my hand and wrist (like a piano key) to press them down all the way which tends to wear the letters off in less time.. Model M's always had much more durable printing on them and if the latter or number wore off individual key caps could be replaced.
Letters wearing off doesn't matter to me. I don't need to look to know what I'm typing. Leaned touch typing way back, with Typig Tutor...the DOS version. When my sister visits from Maine and tries to use it, she gets confused. I tried to give her a copy of Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing, but she never used it, so never learned. Now she uses her phone or tablet more than her laptop. Too bad.
Dana
Yeah, I can touch type in the dark too. However, my issue is a slight tendency toward obsessive orderliness.
The missing "N" on the key just twists my nuts and makes me want to correct it. You should see my kitchen pantry shelves, my book shelves, my paper filing cabinets. If I can't see an order I create one, if I see an order and something is askew and not playing well with the established order it need to be repremanded and set right. If I can find two compatible orders in the same set of items then I'll go for it, if it makes sense. Admittedly, there's a little bit of Monk in me.
And should anyone touch my displayed collections and baubles they better remember where they picked it up from. Although sometimes the dustless spot gives a clue. I am not an obsessive duster.
Phew, I thought I'd have to start more or less from scratch on the enormous animation I've been working on, but I figured it out. The upside is that if I DID have to start over, I wouldn't have to spend the entire month+ it's taken me to get to this point.
I can touch type in the dark too, but what I can't do is play a game in the dark, or do other tasks that require that I find keys on the keyboard. So a few years ago, I bought 2 gaming keyboards that light up. One for work, one for home. Since Covid, I've been working from home, so now I have a spare!
The new cardiologist prescribed me some water pills to treat my new symptoms. I need to get an MRI and echo of the heart. Then I'll see my regular cardiologist for his opinion on my heart's condition.
Putting a picture puzzle together in the dark is a challenge too.
...with ,the serious decline in dexterity and touch sensitivity due to arthritis, I ended up resorting back to the "search & destroy" method. I am down to using only one finger on my right hand when typing, Therefore I need to look at the keyboard so quality of the printing on the keys is important. My speed (on a "good day") is about 18 wpm, down from around 50 - 55, yeah, that's how bad it became. My left hand is beginning to get worse as well.
@ LeatherGryphon ...I remember that show..
...well time for a complaint and a fairly major one.
This morning I received an robot call that purported to be from my bank concerning possible fraudulent expenses on my account. Given how seniors in particular are often preyed on by scam artists, I hung up and called my bank to verify if they were the source and ye they were. Apparently someone applied my card number to an Uber account and either began joyriding or ordering lavishly on UberEats (one of the individual charges was almost 80$). The primary red flag is that I don't or ever used Uber or even have an account with them, (or Lyft) as to set one up, I would have needed to leave my card number on their system, and I'm fairly leery of that due to hacking.
I don't even have my card number and information permanently saved here.
Basically it goes back to Monday when I was at the weekly trivia contest as a cigar pub I go to. After I signed the receipt for my purchases I accidentally left the card in the folder. I realised the error about 20 min later when I was going to use it for a different transaction afterwards. I immediately called the orb back and the person working there (someone I've known for years) said he found it and would put it in a safe place with a note. I've known everyone who works there for years, one person for decades and they are very trustworthy. I went back yesterday (Wednesday) to get it and yes, it was there,
Earlier that same day I ordered a couple items online and put some money on my transit fare card. so nothing seemed out of the ordinary. Also these purchases were after the first couple Uber charges were posted so I know those were not the cause.
Apparently multiple cards can be attached to a single Uber account (all you need are the primary and security number, you don't even need the physical card) and people can also "buy" rides for others (of course you need to have an account with Uber to do so).
So to condense this a bit, I went to the bank talked with the officer I called earlier and she tagged the four Uber charges as being fraudulent after contacting the Home office (one of the charges had already been refunded by then as I also reported the situation to Uber). I had her cancel the current card and will be getting a new one which will be a bit of pain as it won't arrive for 5 - 7 business days. I'll also need to change the number to the new one for the direct pay of my utility, Net, and phone bills so I don't get cut off.
I learned to type in the dark using echolocation...
A bat I knew taught me how to do that in exchange for a cookie.
None of the words ever look remotely close to what I'm trying for and generally everything comes out looking like "gffdfeg)be khirtuebjfc # &#dDX; &692. M %"...
I'm starting to think that wasn't even a bat, but that damn mouse with fake wings taped on... I think I was scammed... I suppose this is why you never give a mouse a cookie.
I wonder why you shouldn't give a mouse a cookie...
Maybe it's a religious thing... like pork is for Jews or kiwi fruit is for Vampires...
Is Vampirism a religion?
I dunno... I'm going with it being a religion because I'm too lazy to erase that... but I figured whatever religion mice are they weren't allowed cookies.
Actually I never read the book about giving a mouse cookies, but the title "If You Give A Mouse A Cookie..." seemed ominous like you weren't supposed to give them cookies for some reason...
I assumed something terrible would happen... like maybe they'd mutate or go on a killing spree.
But as I was realizing that the bat was probably a mouse, I thought the cookie thing might be some sort of religious taboo...
Now I feel like I'm responsible for that mouse going to hell...
Technically, he's still alive and probably could turn his life around and devote his life to charitable acts... but he is real jerk and he was probably going to hell anyway...
I wonder if mouse hell is full of cats that gambled and collected pornography... some cats are jerks too... so I'm sure some of them might get sent to mouse hell, both as humiliation and to torment bad mice.
I think I'm really tired and overthinking this...
Maybe it's okay to give mice cookies and they just get fat and die from clogged arteries if you overdo it.
Who knows.
Actually that might be a good idea for an exterminating service for people who hate their mice, but don't want to kill them directly... instead of poison, the exterminator feeds them really fatty unhealthy foods till they die of a heart attack.
That seems too complicated, but people are stupid and I can see this being a workable business model.
...needed that after today.
I'm thinking if you give a mouse a cookie, you end up with a mouse friend.
...and soon, a lot of them.
Back when 3090s were insanely expensive if you could even get one, I decided to buy an A5000, or maybe even an A6000. Now that prices have gone back down, I'm still eyeing the A5000, but have some hesitation about it. The 3090 generally outperforms the A series one-on-one, but the A series apparently scales better, meaning that multiple A5000s will outperform an equivalent number of 3090s. Despite an A5000 costing more than a 3090 for fewer CUDA cores, I'm still thinking about it, partly because I am completely unwilling to buy a 3-slot GPU.
...I was considering an A4000 when 3060 prices were over 900$. Wasn't NVLink compatible as it was a single slot card, but has 16 GB of VRAM about twice the cores of a 3060 12 GB, can operate in Tesla Compute Mode (to bypass Windows WDDM if used just for rendering), and a TDP that was 20 w lower than my old 1 GB GTX 460. THe markup for MSRP for teh A series was not where near as steep as for hte standared RTX cards as teh MSRP for the A4000 was 1,000$ and I was eeign them priced at about 125$ - 200$ over that which pretty much reflected the cost adjustment resulting from the worldwide chip shortage.
I'm also looking at the A4500, but I keep getting into a war of escalation in my brain, where I look at the different cards and keep ruling out the lower tiers in succession. Good thing I bought my 2060 Super to tide me over while I saved up for a Titan RTX before the 30 series was revealed.
...additional complaint, linked to the prevous one.
Another issue having to wait for a new debit card to arrive, can't buy anything in the store here. Not that most sales have been all the spectacular, but once in a while there's a flash sale that's good. I took out a small cash withdrawal before the card was cancelled, but that doesn't work for online purchases.
Would be pretty bummed if there was a steep discount on Daz+ memberships which occasionally happens before a PC...err...Daz+ sale before the new card arrived as my membership expires on the 27th. The spring and fall sales have become about the only sale events I look forward to anymore as at leas I can use Daz+ items to unlock discounts and of course there's the Daz+ For a Day sales.
Um, OK? Uh, which show?
I don't remember mentioning a show. Although my brain is beginning to rot, and remembering isn't what I remember it to be.
I didn't see your previous post... sorry to hear that happened.
That was supposed to be your activation phrase... decades ago you were brainwashed and programmed by Illuminati Capybara from an alternate universe (in this one the Illuminati are allied with Penguins)...
Actually, koyoto kid was also programmed by the Capybaras... apparently to type that phrase when a certain sequence of events unfolded... my guess is it probably had something to do with the credit card dilemma or that squirrel that's been following him lately.
But I guess whatever it is the Capybaras had planned has fallen flat if you don't remember what you were supposed to do.
I suppose that's the problem with trying to infiltrate other realities using complicated long game chains of people activating other people to get something nefarious done...
One guy forgets the phrase and it's "game over, dude"...
Also that Capybara only live like eight years and most die from drug overdoses or alcohol related illnesses at around four years.
Which is probably for the better or we'd all be speaking Capybara now... technically it's a lot more nuanced and eloquent than Guinea Pig, which most people think are the same, but Guinea Pig is less sophisticated and uses cruder grammar as well as the inverse metric system for vowels.
Monk. I love that show. The lead actor is a genius with characters.
Ah, yes. "Monk" the TV show. Now I 'member.
Tony Shalhoub is an absolute treasure.
Not exactly a complaint, but something I just discovered. Here I was going along thinking that phones and tablets handled application updates the same way computers do. Either overwriting the old data with new or uninstalling the old and installing the new, thus maintaining the size of the application or program. But no. Apparently phones and tablets just install the new data alongside the old thus bloating the size of the app to a ridiculous degree. I couldn't understand why Instagram and FB Messenger were about 4gb each, when my sister, who recently bought a new phone said her Instagram app was only 700mb. So I uninstalled both of them and then reinstalled them from the app store and lo and behold Instagram and FB Messenger are now both under 200mb. I don't know if it works the same on iOS, but I would bet it does. Planned obsolescence is annoying AF.
...the showI referre to is called Monk, about a detective who had an obsessive mind for details as well as a number of compulsive habits. It aired from 2002 to 2009. (only saw the first season or two before my television died). The show was later adapted into a series of novels by a writer for the series.