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#2974464 28-Sep-2022 20:31

neb: Listening to the gentle rainfall on the roof for awhile. Then remembering that you hung the towel out to dry after your shower.

You only have one towel?

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#2974528 28-Sep-2022 21:28

Behodar:

neb: While we're complaining about attachments, the utterly braindamaged way that Outlook for the Web or whatever it's called (forced to use, don't have a choice) includes every single image in an email as an attachment in replies, forcing you to manually delete up to a dozen images each time you reply to someone whose work email includes logos and other junk.

On that note, why do so many businesses insist on replicating the email metadata (name, email address) in the signature?

Its a weird thing that older email users seem to enjoy having signatures. The worst is ones that put all the instafacetiktwitter icons as small images and then they keep re-adding them on every reply cycle so they end up exceeding the number of attachments that antivirus software is happy with. Also outlooks stupidity of changing them from being nicely linked to the inline image to being an attachment that shows as an attachment and the content of the email has a missing image icon where it was.

Just outlook really. Why is it so bad? Why have they not at least tried to fix it. Why do they make a mail program where there is literally no save option on an inline image, and if you do export the email and try to get it from there it seems to resample the image to potato quality?

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#2974578 29-Sep-2022 02:17

Amazon's stupid non-transitive search, where if you're looking at, for example, a Left-handed Metric Shifter but not quite the one you want and enter "Left-handed Metric Shifter" in the search box to see more of them you get no results, including the one you were just looking at. You then have to spend forever trying to figure out which specific search term will find what you're after, and how many items you're not seeing because a search for a Left-handed Metric Shifter doesn't turn up any of the Left-handed Metric Shifters they stock.

I thought it was only Mitre 10 that did that...

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#2974588 29-Sep-2022 06:30

Unhelpful or vague updates from currency clearing houses when you have a payment deadline and a bunch of money in limbo, after the first batch went through without a hitch.

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#2974683 29-Sep-2022 10:17

Handsomedan:

I get annoyed at the SJW's who comment on articles about the ramraid kids being caught - blah blah blah, we must do better by them, it's such a shame, they aren't to blame etc.

Grrrrr.....they COMMITTED CRIMES. THEY ARE CRIMINALS. It's absolutely their fault. They know right from wrong. They're not from an alien civilisation with different societal norms.

Here's my SJW POV.

At a bank security course I did, they said that about 25% of people are honest (will return a lost wallet), 25% are dishonest (will steal a wallet out of someone's pocket), and 50% are opportunistic (will keep a wallet if they find it). (Personally, I think it's probably a normal bell curve over the range of honest->dishonest behaviour). But the point is that the banks believe (and I see no reason to disagree) that this applies to all their staff, including management, so not just kids, not just the poor, and not just Kiwis.

Switzerland and Japan and Scandinavia have extraordinarily low crime rates not because they are hard on criminals nor because they have lax laws nor even because they have an especially disciplined society nor large positive peer pressure. It's fundamentally because everyone (including manual workers) is middle-class or above, i.e. comfortable and moderately well-off. No-one wants to go to jail because they would lose all of that.

In NZ we have an underclass who have little to no prospects. For them, going to university is beyond their dreams... they simply cannot afford it. Their parents have little interest in their children's education anyway, so they under-perform at school, truant, and leave ASAP. They're *never* going to own their own home, nor buy a new car, nor go on holiday to Europe, unless they do so via crime. Life is a constant grind of low-income jobs and WINZ and struggling to make ends meet. OTOH, knowing someone in jail is *normal*. Going to jail some time in their life is not unexpected, perhaps even inevitable or a rite of passage. Jail is not (much of) a deterrent... at least there you get fed, clothed, and have somewhere to sleep. Fines are unpayable, so a problem for WINZ, not a deterrent. Our problem is they (correctly?) perceive that they have nothing (or very little) to lose.

If we combine the ideas of a ubiquitous 25% dishonest ratio and low deterrence in the underclass, then if we have a lot of people in the underclass, and 25% of them are dishonest, we will have a lot of crime and large prison populations.

Draconian punishment isn't the answer either... 164,000 convicts were shipped to Australia between 1788 and 1868 under the British government's new Transportation Act — a humane alternative to the death penalty. Approximately 25,000 of these convicts were women, charged with petty crimes such as stealing bread.

I'm not saying that these kids haven't committed crimes, nor that they shouldn't be punished. I'm saying that they are the inevitable result of the unequal society we live in, and that focussing on catching them or punishing them won't change things very much. If we want this to stop, we have to reduce the size of the underclass. But that's not a convenient sound-bite, nor achievable within a generation. And I'm just a SJW.

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#2974687 29-Sep-2022 10:31

There aren't enough +1's in the world for this post ^^^^

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#2974772 29-Sep-2022 13:13

Someone sent a spam email to our customer support address. The helpdesk system sent back a "thank you for logging your issue" email, which bounced because the spammer's "from" address doesn't exist.

The spam message itself does not contain any contact information, so with the email address bouncing what on earth did they hope to accomplish with the spam in the first place?

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#2974782 29-Sep-2022 14:08

Behodar:

Someone sent a spam email to our customer support address. The helpdesk system sent back a "thank you for logging your issue" email, which bounced because the spammer's "from" address doesn't exist.

The spam message itself does not contain any contact information, so with the email address bouncing what on earth did they hope to accomplish with the spam in the first place?

If the email contains a link for the recipient to click, no return email is needed.

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#2974912 29-Sep-2022 15:26

It doesn't.

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#2974995 29-Sep-2022 20:45

Too many options for buying a new laptop.

I’ve decided to replace my 5-year-old laptop and there are so many options to choose from. I’m sure brands that have had a poor reputation in the past will be good enough now, so I can’t discount them. The price range is vast, but is price a good indicator of capability and quality?

I don’t play the latest in games, or run other complex calculations, and can exclude the more expensive ones. I know portability is important for me, and I want something smaller than the 15.8” screen I currently have. The other thing I want is capacity, so that my ever increasing collection of photos and other media is included in my Carbonite backup.

This still seems to leave a zillion options. Is too many options something small?

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#2975104 30-Sep-2022 00:49

Yup, and it gets even worse when you factor in the confusion within a single manufacturer's range. For example for Lenovo, which via their Thinkpad legacy make the only laptop keyboard that doesn't suck, had the very nice X1 Carbon that started off as a spectacular product but has degraded and cheapened to the point where what's sold as their flagship product is worse than their bargain-basement line, the E-series (E14, E15).

Speaking of which, anyone have an E14/15 who can comment on the keyboard? From video reviews and photos it looks like the same one as the X1 uses, but they're out of stock everywhere I can get to to play with one.

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#2975121 30-Sep-2022 07:36

Bought an E14 for wife last year when the old HP finally died. I think the keyboard is really comfortable, the laptop performs well and the price is right. I recommended it to other people before.

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#2975238 30-Sep-2022 09:04

Withdrew cash from an ATM this morning. Half way though the stack the cash switched from bird side-up to face side-up, and the bottom two notes were rotated.

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#2975593 30-Sep-2022 16:55

Found some software that looked useful, downloaded it to find that it includes zero documentation short of a URL, which doesn't work. The page isn't in the Wayback Machine, and the software is completely opaque without any docs (it's command-line based and I have no inkling of any of the commands).

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#2975594 30-Sep-2022 16:58

SirHumphreyAppleby:

Withdrew cash from an ATM this morning. Half way though the stack the cash switched from bird side-up to face side-up, and the bottom two notes were rotated.

At least it didn't withhold them. ;-)

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