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  #3153918 31-Oct-2023 10:15
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@Behodar:

Now we just need a Stuff article about it. "You're cleaning your soup ladles wrong."



It won't happen until there is a TikTok for them to ripoff.




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  #3153919 31-Oct-2023 10:17
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Handsomedan:

 

That the supermarket duopoly is so hard to break, that the only real and serious competitor just couldn't survive. 

 

 

I didn't even know there was a competitor. Google tells me that you're probably talking about "Supie", which I'd never heard of. Possibly some marketing fail there?


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  #3153927 31-Oct-2023 10:33
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Companies that push updates when you dont need or want them as everything was working fine . I am looking at you Thunderbird, i now have no idea how to navigate your new layout and i cant be bothered to learn how . 





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  #3153974 31-Oct-2023 12:25
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freitasm:

 

This whole AI fever is infuriating. It doesn't add anything and makes everything worse at the moment.

 

 

YMMV. I've found it can save a great deal of time at certain work related tasks - for example getting it to cross-reference two documents, one translated from the other, to put together a consistent bilingual glossary for consistency in technical writing.

 

 





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  #3154005 31-Oct-2023 14:21
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freitasm:
@Behodar:

 

Now we just need a Stuff article about it. "You're cleaning your soup ladles wrong."

 



It won't happen until there is a TikTok for them to ripoff.

 

Or a Reddit post...





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  #3154008 31-Oct-2023 14:33
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freitasm:
@Behodar:

 

Now we just need a Stuff article about it. "You're cleaning your soup ladles wrong."

 



It won't happen until there is a TikTok for them to ripoff.

 

Or a 7Sharp in-depth analysis.

 

 


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  #3154020 31-Oct-2023 14:56
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frankv:

 

Or a 7Sharp in-depth analysis.

 

 

That program and that phrase should never exist in the same sentence ROFL. 


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  #3154192 31-Oct-2023 19:12
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Handle9: Windows crapping the bed. That’s an hour or two I won’t get back.

 

I withdraw and apologise to Windows.

 

I am now annoyed that an NVME drive has failed and it's 2 months out of warranty.


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  #3154286 1-Nov-2023 07:17
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Buying HDDs from America. Order two at the same time. Send them separately. Get customs to keep them cause they're over the limit. Eventually find someone at Aramex to do something about after about 6 tries and 10 days. They arrive and they're just in their normal shelf display box, no extra protection plus they're look at me - new expensive product to pinch, though fortunately nobody did. Just hope they work now...





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  #3154304 1-Nov-2023 08:01
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New watches that are must haves, they really are must haves, dammit. Now where is my debit card. *Sigh*

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  #3154390 1-Nov-2023 10:30
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rb99:

 

Buying HDDs from America. Order two at the same time. Send them separately. Get customs to keep them cause they're over the limit. Eventually find someone at Aramex to do something about after about 6 tries and 10 days. They arrive and they're just in their normal shelf display box, no extra protection plus they're look at me - new expensive product to pinch, though fortunately nobody did. Just hope they work now...

 

 

I had a 20 TB external just with my address stuck on it left in the old milk part of the mailbox by aramex.

 

The other 4 from the order were in a brown amazon box that they bothered to bring to the house the next day.





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richms:

 

rb99:

 

Buying HDDs from America. Order two at the same time. Send them separately. Get customs to keep them cause they're over the limit. Eventually find someone at Aramex to do something about after about 6 tries and 10 days. They arrive and they're just in their normal shelf display box, no extra protection plus they're look at me - new expensive product to pinch, though fortunately nobody did. Just hope they work now...

 

 

I had a 20 TB external just with my address stuck on it left in the old milk part of the mailbox by aramex.

 

The other 4 from the order were in a brown amazon box that they bothered to bring to the house the next day.

 

 

Had Aramex deliver 3 packages the other day.  Notes on the packages: "Leave on back doorstep".  Sign on front door: "Please use back door".

 

Driver leaves packages on front doorstep in full view of the street.

 

Since I was home and saw him arrive, I'd popped out to receive them.  When found on the front door, suggested that they use the back door next time.  His response "you had dogs out so I wasn't going to open the gate".

 

I pointed out that I had two indoor only cats and no dogs, nor signs of dogs.  Just a gate that doesn't even latch.





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  #3154421 1-Nov-2023 12:23
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...and you (or I) daren't complain, cause you never know.

 

I also seem to have a memory problem (no surprise there) considering the number of parcels I've apparently signed for (but didn't)





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  #3154495 1-Nov-2023 16:34
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Since we're moaning about AI... I gave ChatGPT a few pages of text from an OCR output and asked it to "remove any unnecessary line breaks" which it did a fairly reasonable job of. But on proof-reading it, I found that it was changing some of the wording. I submitted the request again along with an instruction to not make any other changes. It didn't help. It was still making wording changes that it thought were a good idea but were nonetheless not requested and not accurate to the document that had been scanned.


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  #3154594 1-Nov-2023 17:14
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Skynet strikes again!

 

 





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