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#3220175 19-Apr-2024 08:17

MadEngineer: Creating a form in excel and getting back as a printed, hand written scanned pdf.

AAAAARRRRGGHHHHHhhhh

Haha! At least you tried.

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#3220177 19-Apr-2024 08:21

MadEngineer: Creating a form in excel and getting back as a printed, hand written scanned pdf.

AAAAARRRRGGHHHHHhhhh

You're doing exceptionally well!
My 'best' is a JPEG picture of the document (complete with coffee-cup ring) taken with a cellphone

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#3220180 19-Apr-2024 08:31

My "best" is a screenshot of an error message pasted into Word, then a screenshot taken of that, printed, and scanned. I've actually just been through the ticket attachments folder to see whether I could find it, but no luck (it would've been ~10 years ago).

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#3220186 19-Apr-2024 08:47

When we HAD to supply a printed form...

I filled in the form, I printed the form, there was a piece of yellow paper in the printer left over from the last user, but the form printed and all the information was there.

The IT department rejected the form because it was on the wrong coloured piece of paper..

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#3220211 19-Apr-2024 10:25

The continued inability of NZ Post Couriers to provide an acceptable first-world level of service in 2024.

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#3220214 19-Apr-2024 10:32

PolicyGuy:
MadEngineer: Creating a form in excel and getting back as a printed, hand written scanned pdf.

AAAAARRRRGGHHHHHhhhh

You're doing exceptionally well!
My 'best' is a JPEG picture of the document (complete with coffee-cup ring) taken with a cellphone

🤦‍♂️

used to get this on occasion. Surprised me to get it in the way I did in this day n age. I’ve got to send the same form to a few dozen more recipients to fill out - will now have to include instructions on filling it out on the form itself :/

The form contains a grid of information i need to collate. Bless, at least I got the required info with only one follow up request

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#3220216 19-Apr-2024 10:35

MadEngineer: Creating a form in excel and getting back as a printed, hand written scanned pdf.

AAAAARRRRGGHHHHHhhhh

Did you send the PDF as a form, or just a raw excel file?

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#3220219 19-Apr-2024 10:40

Are you sending to multiple destinations or receiving from 1 slack courier.

My last from Post Couriers at Foxton Beach came from Mitsubishi in Lower Hutt. The delivery email from Mitsubishi said expect delivery in 3 to 5 working days. The parcel arrived the morning after being ordered. The service from both couldn't have been better.

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#3220225 19-Apr-2024 11:09

It's annoying that Google pay now needs separate authentication for every single transaction. Not sure if this is something that has changed on my phone (S23+) or a more general change. Previously, up to a certain transaction amount, I could pay without unlocking my phone. Now, even with phone unlocked, the sequence is: scan, get prompted for authenticate, authenticate, rescan, terminal normally doesn't immediately recognise phone, move the phone around and wait, payment finally goes through. It would actually be quicker just to get card out of wallet and use that
Does anyone know if there's a setting that can be changed to get around this? I wouldn't mind having to unlock the phone first, because I can do that in advance while the checkout operator is doing their bit. It's the forced double scan which is annoying

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#3220227 19-Apr-2024 11:13

I have been trying to find a replacement thermostat for a Midea bar fridge/freezer

I have contacted over a dozen companies who all tell me they do not support that model (Who cares, can you get the part for me...)

I even got told by Trade Depot the same thing...then I find the same bl00dy unit for sale on their web site.

I suspect they just rely on the things lasting for their "warranty" period and then fob people off after that in spite of the CGA. And if it dies, they give them a new one and scrap the old one (Adding to our ever growing waste stream).

There are LAWS about this...having to carry spares at a reasonable price.

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#3220229 19-Apr-2024 11:15

shk292: It's annoying that Google pay now needs separate authentication for every single transaction. Not sure if this is something that has changed on my phone (S23+) or a more general change. Previously, up to a certain transaction amount, I could pay without unlocking my phone. Now, even with phone unlocked, the sequence is: scan, get prompted for authenticate, authenticate, rescan, terminal normally doesn't immediately recognise phone, move the phone around and wait, payment finally goes through. It would actually be quicker just to get card out of wallet and use that
Does anyone know if there's a setting that can be changed to get around this? I wouldn't mind having to unlock the phone first, because I can do that in advance while the checkout operator is doing their bit. It's the forced double scan which is annoying

Work has done this for every time we use email etc etc etc etc from our home machines.

We must use MS authenticator

I just deleted works email from all of my devices, I am not doing that.

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#3220246 19-Apr-2024 12:17

sir1963:
I have been trying to find a replacement thermostat for a Midea bar fridge/freezer

Does the thermostat have any markings? Forgetting the fridge it came from it may be used elsewhere.

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#3220247 19-Apr-2024 12:21

PolicyGuy:

MadEngineer: Creating a form in excel and getting back as a printed, hand written scanned pdf.

AAAAARRRRGGHHHHHhhhh

You're doing exceptionally well!
My 'best' is a JPEG picture of the document (complete with coffee-cup ring) taken with a cellphone

Looxoory! We used to dream of JPEGs with coffee-cup rings! I get "we try to do X and get error, can you help us?" (English is not their first language). It's gotten so I have some prepared text to paste into the reply asking for a copy of the error message, which often also includes instructions on how to avoid the problem. For example if a remote server can't be contacted the code does various things like trying to ping it to see if it's even there (this is such a trivial thing to help diagnose common problems and yet I've never seen any other software that does it) and reports that it can't be reached or whatever as appropriate.

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#3220248 19-Apr-2024 12:25

Bung: My last from Post Couriers at Foxton Beach came from Mitsubishi in Lower Hutt. The delivery email from Mitsubishi said expect delivery in 3 to 5 working days. The parcel arrived the morning after being ordered. The service from both couldn't have been better.

I've got to say, the service from NZ Post when using the Trademe click-and-collect has been pretty good, I can order a pickup on the evening of day 0, get it picked up the morning of day 1, and at its destination on day 2. This has happened several times now so it wasn't just a one-off.

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#3220250 19-Apr-2024 12:50

This propensity for search engine companies to add "AI" to the results. I searched for "what is the difference between product A and product B" and the AI summary gave me a list of differences, with four references. Of those four references, two say that A and B are the same thing, one 404s, and the other is comparing B and C.

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