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#3299113 19-Oct-2024 21:43

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Maybe the punishment for naughty politicians should be having to listen to the collected 'thoughts' of Donald Trump.

Loss of their government pensions .... Loss of ability to work for any local/national government in any senior role or elected official.

If religion is the opiate of the masses, then racism & classism are crystal meth of the masses.

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#3299547 21-Oct-2024 18:16

I wanted to 3D print something small. I had a filament "refill" in the colour I wanted, but didn't have a spare spool for it. Not a problem: for small lengths it's OK to just cut off a length of the stuff and hang it off the holder.

So I measure out the amount I need, then I measure it again. Measure twice, as they say, and cut once. And then I proceed to cut the wrong strand (once).

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#3299649 21-Oct-2024 20:10

A dog goes berserk as I walk past the gate it’s behind and the owner comes out to quieten it but just as the barking dog stops it cops a whack from a thrown shoe

Dogs don’t have reasoning. All that the owner has done is punished the dog for going quiet

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#3299731 22-Oct-2024 02:54

MadEngineer: A dog goes berserk as I walk past the gate it’s behind and the owner comes out to quieten it but just as the barking dog stops it cops a whack from a thrown shoe

Dogs don’t have reasoning. All that the owner has done is punished the dog for going quiet

Definitely not Pavlov’s dog.

Sometimes I just sit and think. Other times I just sit.

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#3299872 22-Oct-2024 14:14

As part of the neverending dumbing down of anything to do with IT, the infantilising of communications relating to business transactions. Hooray! Yippee! Two more sleeps till... these are fine if you're talking to a five-year-old, but have no place in any kind of serious communication.

"Hooray, your haemorrhoids suppositories have shipped! Yippee!".

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#3299879 22-Oct-2024 14:34

neb:

As part of the neverending dumbing down of anything to do with IT, the infantilising of communications relating to business transactions. Hooray! Yippee! Two more sleeps till... these are fine if you're talking to a five-year-old, but have no place in any kind of serious communication.

"Hooray, your haemorrhoids suppositories have shipped! Yippee!".

Add to that, Office 365 popping up "helpful tips" on basic functions. Been using word processors since the Commodore 64, I think I know how CTRL-C, CTRL-V works thanks. Especially since that tip popped up when I went to CTRL-V paste something in, proving that I did, in fact, already know how it worked. *facepalm*

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#3299881 22-Oct-2024 14:39

geoffwnz:

Add to that, Office 365 popping up "helpful tips" on basic functions. Been using word processors since the Commodore 64, I think I know how CTRL-C, CTRL-V works thanks. Especially since that tip popped up when I went to CTRL-V paste something in, proving that I did, in fact, already know how it worked. *facepalm*

You'd be surprised how few people can copy and paste.

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#3299884 22-Oct-2024 14:44

networkn: You'd be surprised how few people can copy and paste.

Sad but true. The number of times I've had to watch someone mouse their way through the entire process via menu selections rather than using a few keystrokes...

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#3299885 22-Oct-2024 14:45

networkn:

geoffwnz:

Add to that, Office 365 popping up "helpful tips" on basic functions. Been using word processors since the Commodore 64, I think I know how CTRL-C, CTRL-V works thanks. Especially since that tip popped up when I went to CTRL-V paste something in, proving that I did, in fact, already know how it worked. *facepalm*

You'd be surprised how few people can copy and paste.

I work in IT. Nothing surprises me any more about how people use/misuse computers and supposedly basic functions.

If I had done a right click, paste, or edit menu, paste, then fair enough to explain hot keys to me, but when I just used the very same hot keys it was trying to teach me, that's a fail.

Also, the tips restart from scratch every time there's an update of O365 which doesn't help.

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#3299890 22-Oct-2024 14:55

neb:

Sad but true. The number of times I've had to watch someone mouse their way through the entire process via menu selections rather than using a few keystrokes...

Probably the same people who enter text in field 1, move hand back to the mouse, click field 2, move back to keyboard, enter text, back to mouse, click field 3...

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#3299947 22-Oct-2024 15:34

Behodar:

Probably the same people who enter text in field 1, move hand back to the mouse, click field 2, move back to keyboard, enter text, back to mouse, click field 3...

Because dumbasses who do that have learned webdesign and the tab order is all stuffed up.

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#3299951 22-Oct-2024 15:38

RealMe website being a dog slow piece of crap. Helping daughter register for something, just for the RealMe site stop responding. Waiting for the last ten minutes and nothing.

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#3299953 22-Oct-2024 15:40

freitasm: RealMe website being a dog slow piece of crap. Helping daughter register for something, just for the RealMe site stop responding. Waiting for the last ten minutes and nothing.

I do a bit of work with Govt Agencies and have to log into their Tenders website, GETS (it's from the 80's I believe) and you have to use a personal RealMe login to do business.
It's shambolic and awful and feels plain wrong

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#3299957 22-Oct-2024 15:57

freitasm: RealMe website being a dog slow piece of crap. Helping daughter register for something, just for the RealMe site stop responding. Waiting for the last ten minutes and nothing

Waited 30 minutes, three attempts.

Switched to Edge, it worked.

What a waste of time.

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#3300069 22-Oct-2024 19:20

freitasm:

freitasm: RealMe website being a dog slow piece of crap. Helping daughter register for something, just for the RealMe site stop responding. Waiting for the last ten minutes and nothing

Waited 30 minutes, three attempts.

Switched to Edge, it worked.

What a waste of time.

Have to use RealMe to log in to fill out security clearance form for work. RealMe doesn't work from work computer. *sigh

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