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#2621572 15-Dec-2020 00:17

Geektastic:

My wife and I were saying only yesterday just how complex and irritating modern life has become "to protect you" or "for your safety" etc etc.

Well if dumb idiots didn't keep putting their credentials into any site with a facebook logo on it and then crying about how its facebooks fault that they "got hacked" then they wouldn't have to.

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#2621578 15-Dec-2020 06:05

Geektastic:

My wife and I were saying only yesterday just how complex and irritating modern life has become "to protect you" or "for your safety" etc etc.

you would be the first one to have a whinge if your credentials got hacked.

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#2621673 15-Dec-2020 09:14

Geektastic:

Old Testament - God visits about every other page in some form.

New Testament - turns up in person

Now - nowhere to be seen for thousands of years. Why? Facebook. He has created another world somewhere instead and labelled social media as "do not repeat"!

Nah... God has a Facebook page. Maybe he spends all his time on that nowadays? Not surprisingly, he hasn't answered any of my comments and replies there, not even a like. He has a dry wit and is virulently anti-Trump, BTW, but his actual effectiveness in that regard is kindof disappointing for an omnipotent deity. Atheism seems a better option every day.

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#2621705 15-Dec-2020 10:18

richms:

Geektastic:

My wife and I were saying only yesterday just how complex and irritating modern life has become "to protect you" or "for your safety" etc etc.

Well if dumb idiots didn't keep putting their credentials into any site with a facebook logo on it and then crying about how its facebooks fault that they "got hacked" then they wouldn't have to.

My late father used to get very irritated that everything was designed "to save idiots from their own idiocy"!

He did not regard that as a cost he should bear.

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#2621751 15-Dec-2020 10:22

Jase2985:

Geektastic:

My wife and I were saying only yesterday just how complex and irritating modern life has become "to protect you" or "for your safety" etc etc.

you would be the first one to have a whinge if your credentials got hacked.

Really? It would in all likelihood be my fault unless it was caused by something over which I have absolutely no control.

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#2622026 15-Dec-2020 15:12

Getting my vehicles checked and maintained before I go on holiday.

P.S. I thought that I'd entered the What's something small that really annoys you? topic. I had to go a page back to find the point where this topic morphed.

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#2622093 15-Dec-2020 16:13

Hammerer:

Getting my vehicles checked and maintained before I go on holiday.

P.S. I thought that I'd entered the What's something small that really annoys you? topic. I had to go a page back to find the point where this topic morphed.

I did that with my car, but the results are better off in that other thread...

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#2622191 15-Dec-2020 17:49

Hammerer:
Getting my vehicles checked and maintained before I go on holiday.

P.S. I thought that I'd entered the What's something small that really annoys you? topic. I had to go a page back to find the point where this topic morphed.

Is the car involved in the holiday?

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#2622635 16-Dec-2020 11:51

I have learnt about two things recently:

1) Doomscrolling - originally I though this was a way of watching something ala Doom FPS, but didnt fit into the context of the sentence. Didnt worry about it at the time. Then I saw it mentioned again, so decided to look it up.Basically looking at bad news all the time,"Doomscrolling (or doomsurfing) is the act of consuming an endless procession of negative online news, to the detriment of the scroller's mental wellness."

2) Wax Motors - Motors made of wax? What the heck? No - A wax filled plunger (linear actuator) that has a heating element - when the wax expands, it pushes out the plunger. It has a lot of force as the wax is not compressible. Apparently used in HVAC and Washing machines, dishwashers ( detergent dispenser) amongst other industries.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wax_motor

So, 2 useful bits of info filed into the grey matter. It's probably displaced something I should remember, but now I can't ...

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#2622653 16-Dec-2020 12:22

Seeing the delight on my mechanic's face when I take ~~his Christmas Bonus~~ my car in to have the new issue looked at...

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#2623006 16-Dec-2020 19:42

^ haha that's pretty much my thoughts when I took my car in for the triple dip of WOF+service+cambelt last week

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#2624689 20-Dec-2020 19:37

Paying off the mortgage tomorrow.

Update: Just got the confirmation from the solicitors. It’s a bit of a state of normlessness not to have to pay rent or mortgage payments, which I’ve been doing for 30+ years.

Very strange. Nice. But strange.

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#2624830 21-Dec-2020 10:25

Being told by someone we know that our teenage boys have impeccable manners and are "awesome dudes"...and that was when we weren't around, so we know it's not just a show for us.

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#2624832 21-Dec-2020 10:29

Handsomedan:
Handsome Dan does not currently have a side hustle as the mascot for Yale

C|N>K.

(In case that's unfamiliar to people it's Caffeine piped through Nose onto Keyboard).

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#2625168 22-Dec-2020 04:28

That I finally could manage to swap a DS-720+ with a TS-453D ... I didn't really feel comfortable with the Synology (too limited for my use cases - oum, it was a gift, but ...)

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