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#3348072 26-Feb-2025 14:22

ezbee:

Is an operating system without a file manager built in really an operating system ?

I assume so. If you have a file system you are referring to a DOS, disk operating system, surely?

Although I agree the term DOS has practically disappeared and OS is the prevalent term now.

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#3348075 26-Feb-2025 14:35

ezbee:

Is an operating system without a file manager built in really an operating system ?

mv, cp, rm, what is problem?

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#3348090 26-Feb-2025 16:12

Ugh. My work phone locking me out. For some reason it's asking for the (iPhone) passcode. No problem. I look it up, enter. Incorrect. Odd. Reenter, incorrect. And again.

Check my notes again, I've changed the password in January last year, and then again in June, but not since. Sigh. I'll have to wait for IT in the US to wake up. Whom I cannot call so I'll have to use the chatbot.

Sigh.

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#3348307 27-Feb-2025 10:22

Logging into my doctor's website to make an appointment. "Please enter the code we emailed you." The 6-digit code is set up as six different fields, and they're all flagged as password fields. This means that first of all, it doesn't autofill it when the email comes in. And since they're flagged as passwords, the password manager tries to take over when you click into them, and after you finally get all six of them entered it then tries to replace your actual saved password with one of the random digits. Argh!

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#3348313 27-Feb-2025 10:44

All this talk that doctors will go broke if we change the prescription rules so taht you only need to visit them once every year for a refill of a regular prescription.

I can't get into my doctor, they have a long wait to get an appointment, then I often see whoever they've managed to get in as a locum, because they're chronically understaffed.

If I didn't need to see them every few months, I'd free up space for people that DO need to see the doctor - they'd also have more time to do a good job without being wildly overworked, if all of us time wasters weren't there all the time.

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#3348329 27-Feb-2025 10:57

mudguard:

Ugh. My work phone locking me out. For some reason it's asking for the (iPhone) passcode. No problem. I look it up, enter. Incorrect. Odd. Reenter, incorrect. And again.

Check my notes again, I've changed the password in January last year, and then again in June, but not since. Sigh. I'll have to wait for IT in the US to wake up. Whom I cannot call so I'll have to use the chatbot.

Sigh.

And IT have said that the Apple Passcode and Apple ID are the responsibility of the user (me) and to go see Apple. We used to have MDM on our phones so could reset anything via our work laptops. But we have migrated off this.

In to One and even they were confused so they've asked me to call Apple. I'm curious to see how this goes with a with an Aussie sourced phone, that I do not own, and am not account holder on the telco account either. Working for a US company 😂

Wish me luck!

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#3348330 27-Feb-2025 11:03

Handsomedan:

If I didn't need to see them every few months, I'd free up space for people that DO need to see the doctor - they'd also have more time to do a good job without being wildly overworked, if all of us time wasters weren't there all the time.

On the other side of this. Someone I know recently needed emergency treatment. Called 111, they sent ambulance plus local doctor and told us, it is quicker to go to your GP after hours service (hour drive), rather that direct to ED as you will be waiting for upto 10 hours. So GP says you need to be in hospital NOW, go directed to ED and got seen straight away due to that process. Which is quite stupid really. System has got worse. And most of the people at ED, should have been at their GP...

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#3348342 27-Feb-2025 11:27

Handsomedan:

All this talk that doctors will go broke if we change the prescription rules so taht you only need to visit them once every year for a refill of a regular prescription.

I can't get into my doctor, they have a long wait to get an appointment, then I often see whoever they've managed to get in as a locum, because they're chronically understaffed.

If I didn't need to see them every few months, I'd free up space for people that DO need to see the doctor - they'd also have more time to do a good job without being wildly overworked, if all of us time wasters weren't there all the time.

For me to get more inhalers its a very quick appointment, Sometimes a listen to the chest or a blood pressure check but I suspect thats just so that they are doing _something_ other than clicking a few things on the computer.

I will usually ask them to give me a prescription for paracetomol or ibuprofin or hayfever meds or whatever else is cheaper prescribed rather than OTC to make it slightly more worthwhile.

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#3348350 27-Feb-2025 12:17

richms:

Handsomedan:

All this talk that doctors will go broke if we change the prescription rules so taht you only need to visit them once every year for a refill of a regular prescription.

I can't get into my doctor, they have a long wait to get an appointment, then I often see whoever they've managed to get in as a locum, because they're chronically understaffed.

If I didn't need to see them every few months, I'd free up space for people that DO need to see the doctor - they'd also have more time to do a good job without being wildly overworked, if all of us time wasters weren't there all the time.

For me to get more inhalers its a very quick appointment, Sometimes a listen to the chest or a blood pressure check but I suspect thats just so that they are doing _something_ other than clicking a few things on the computer.

I will usually ask them to give me a prescription for paracetomol or ibuprofin or hayfever meds or whatever else is cheaper prescribed rather than OTC to make it slightly more worthwhile.

Fairly similar for me, but it's time taken out of the doctor's day that doesn't need to be spent on someone who is otherwise well.

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#3348358 27-Feb-2025 13:00

This is a bigger annoyance than a courier parcel but I dont want to start a separate thread but the topic is conversation skills or lack thereof.

The conversation is a two (or more) way process. It's not for one person to hog the time but for exchange, both giving and receiving. Sometimes you should talk but sometimes you should ask a question rather than fill in your timeslot with information about yourself. Knowing when to do either makes the difference between enjoyable time and can't wait to get away.

Real life example. I go to a gig which I really enjoyed. Soon after, I tell someone about it - 'oh what a great gig'. This person proceeds to tell me about a great gig they went to YEARS AGO.

This is wrong. Don't always make things about yourself. I know who you are. You are those people that NEVER ask me a question about what I'm doing but just blah blah blah about what you're doing every time I see you.

Yes, sometimes and at an appropriate moment it will be good to tell me about your great gig from years ago but I went to this gig in the last week and I'm excited about it. You should let me talk about it a little more. Then at an appropriate time , after I have gushed all about it, I will ask you - have you been to any good gigs lately.

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#3348374 27-Feb-2025 14:01

mudguard:

mudguard:

Ugh. My work phone locking me out. For some reason it's asking for the (iPhone) passcode. No problem. I look it up, enter. Incorrect. Odd. Reenter, incorrect. And again.

Check my notes again, I've changed the password in January last year, and then again in June, but not since. Sigh. I'll have to wait for IT in the US to wake up. Whom I cannot call so I'll have to use the chatbot.

Sigh.

And IT have said that the Apple Passcode and Apple ID are the responsibility of the user (me) and to go see Apple. We used to have MDM on our phones so could reset anything via our work laptops. But we have migrated off this.

In to One and even they were confused so they've asked me to call Apple. I'm curious to see how this goes with a with an Aussie sourced phone, that I do not own, and am not account holder on the telco account either. Working for a US company 😂

Wish me luck!

And I'm the idiot. I have eight character alpha numeric password for my work iPhone. I have six digit pin. It was asking me to update my passcode. I kept reading this as password. It just wanted me to change my pin, hence passcode. Crisis averted.

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#3348375 27-Feb-2025 14:05

mudguard:

And I'm the idiot. I have eight character alpha numeric password for my work iPhone. I have six digit pin. It was asking me to update my passcode. I kept reading this as password. It just wanted me to change my pin, hence passcode. Crisis averted.

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#3348390 27-Feb-2025 16:07

The fact that when you call the local library (Auckland) to find out what happened to the two books you have on hold you get routed through to a call centre in God-knows-where where you go into an endless hold loop and in any case since they can't look across to the hold shelf will have no idea what's going on beyond what their system tells them, which is the same incorrect information on the web page.

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#3348492 27-Feb-2025 21:53

outdoorsnz:

On the other side of this. Someone I know recently needed emergency treatment. Called 111, they sent ambulance plus local doctor and told us, it is quicker to go to your GP after hours service (hour drive), rather that direct to ED as you will be waiting for upto 10 hours. So GP says you need to be in hospital NOW, go directed to ED and got seen straight away due to that process. Which is quite stupid really. System has got worse. And most of the people at ED, should have been at their GP...

Tried this approach a couple of years ago on a Sunday morning when, after developing an ever increasing stomach ache through the night, I was sure I had appendicitis so took myself off to the After-Hours GP service. Had a wait of a couple of hours there before they decided yes I did have appendicitis, and contacted public hospital ED to tell them I was on my way. When I arrived at ED, there were all of 3 people waiting... Could have saved myself a couple of hours of agony if I'd gone straight to ED.

Anyway, appendix removed 5pm the same day.

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#3348501 27-Feb-2025 22:55

outdoorsnz:

Dog poop bags seemed to have got impossibly hard to open! You are standing there under fire, people are looking at you like you are a filthy person, dog is like what the?, and that bag will just not open. Lick your fingers (in the correct order, not after the fact) and even still it will not open!!!

Ahaha I had this the other day.

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