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#2861821 4-Feb-2022 16:41

Seeing someone quoted nearby $400 for a reinstall of windows makes me wonder if I’m in the right job…. Excuse my while I collect my jaw from the floor.

Ah well, I’ll be getting a bottle of wine for doing it instead.

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#2861822 4-Feb-2022 16:47

MadEngineer: Seeing someone quoted nearby $400 for a reinstall of windows makes me wonder if I’m in the right job…. Excuse my while I collect my jaw from the floor.

Ah well, I’ll be getting a bottle of wine for doing it instead.

That doesn't seem out of the reasonable depending on what is required. Backup of data, reinstall of windows, patching, drivers, and reinstall of user apps, reinstatement of email, configuration of printers, it's probably not hard to get to 3 hours even at a moderate rate of $120 an hour + GST.....

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#2861825 4-Feb-2022 16:49

Rikkitic:

Stickers on any fruit. Is this a conspiracy to annoy people as much as possible? Why the hell do they have to use such strong adhesive on apples?

Considering collecting those stickers has added about $5000 worth of sports gear to our local school, I'm in favour of them :)

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#2861852 4-Feb-2022 18:34

networkn:

MadEngineer: Seeing someone quoted nearby $400 for a reinstall of windows makes me wonder if I’m in the right job…. Excuse my while I collect my jaw from the floor.

Ah well, I’ll be getting a bottle of wine for doing it instead.

That doesn't seem out of the reasonable depending on what is required. Backup of data, reinstall of windows, patching, drivers, and reinstall of user apps, reinstatement of email, configuration of printers, it's probably not hard to get to 3 hours even at a moderate rate of $120 an hour + GST.....

i was just thinking how big were the windows

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#2861865 4-Feb-2022 19:46

Ah well, I’ll be getting a bottle of wine for doing it instead.

Come work for me, I'll give you three bottles of wine :)

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#2862005 5-Feb-2022 10:03

Companies that make it next to impossible to report bugs/issues. In this case I was having a problem with YouTube. It has a page called "Contact Us", which immediately asks whether this is a problem with a recurring paid subscription, or a one-time purchase. What about when it's not related to a purchase at all?

I ended up using the "Feedback" option but who knows whether they'll ever read it...

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#2862009 5-Feb-2022 10:15

Provisional tax.

The idea of paying tax before you actually earn money is very odd.

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#2862091 5-Feb-2022 12:22

Behodar:

Companies that make it next to impossible to report bugs/issues. In this case I was having a problem with YouTube. It has a page called "Contact Us", which immediately asks whether this is a problem with a recurring paid subscription, or a one-time purchase. What about when it's not related to a purchase at all?

I ended up using the "Feedback" option but who knows whether they'll ever read it...

They don't want to hear from you. It's that simple.

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#2862095 5-Feb-2022 12:56

I could say the same about Apple. There's a "Feedback Assistant" for reporting bugs, but Apple never reads them.

Case in point: Eight months ago I reported a bug in Xcode where closing a file and clicking "Don't Save" still saves it anyway (it actually saves before the "do you want to save?" window even appears). How can you get this wrong?! But several releases later and the bug's still there...

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#2862216 5-Feb-2022 14:29

networkn:

MadEngineer: Seeing someone quoted nearby $400 for a reinstall of windows makes me wonder if I’m in the right job…. Excuse my while I collect my jaw from the floor.

Ah well, I’ll be getting a bottle of wine for doing it instead.

That doesn't seem out of the reasonable depending on what is required. Backup of data, reinstall of windows, patching, drivers, and reinstall of user apps, reinstatement of email, configuration of printers, it's probably not hard to get to 3 hours even at a moderate rate of $120 an hour + GST.....

Agree re the scope of work required. Is $120/hr considered moderate? I would have considered it at the higher end for desktop PC service.

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#2862220 5-Feb-2022 14:47

daveymg:

Agree re the scope of work required. Is $120/hr considered moderate? I would have considered it at the higher end for desktop PC service.

Its like when car enthusiasts get upset at the workshop charge-out rates - they are so far in the industry they don't know what is actually spent to get there and the return that you need to see on that for it to be worthwhile.

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#2862224 5-Feb-2022 14:54

richms:

daveymg:

Agree re the scope of work required. Is $120/hr considered moderate? I would have considered it at the higher end for desktop PC service.

Its like when car enthusiasts get upset at the workshop charge-out rates - they are so far in the industry they don't know what is actually spent to get there and the return that you need to see on that for it to be worthwhile.

Self interest on my part, I do desktop PC service, among other things, but I'm not charging $120/hr.

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#2862228 5-Feb-2022 15:30

Geektastic:
Provisional tax.

The idea of paying tax before you actually earn money is very odd.

Good point. So if we die three months after we've paid it, do they give a refund or does it go into a special coffer.

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#2862230 5-Feb-2022 15:33

American recipes.

"Half a stick of butter"
"4 fluid ounces of milk"
"Roll the dough out to 3/16 of a culinary football field"

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#2862241 5-Feb-2022 16:08

Behodar:
American recipes.

"Half a stick of butter"
"4 fluid ounces of milk"
"Roll the dough out to 3/16 of a culinary football field"

American media descriptions of anything involving sizes: "The wossname was the length of three football fields, the size of three olympic-sized swimming pools, almost as large as Rhode Island, able to hold four Libraries of Congress and weighing over 7,600,000,000 pounds".

That last one is particularly important, never give a weight in the most relevant units, always give it in pounds even if it's a ten-ton press or a 40-ton bulldozer.

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