minor inconveniences that are not struggles

[I'm a Puppy!]

Got invited to a business dinner yesterday. I typically don't like business dinners, but I dislike eating alone even more so I agreed. But one guy showed up that I just can't stand because he's the antithesis of me. Arrogant as hell, selfish, condescending, back-biting, but he's not rude about it. You just sorta have to put up with it, and let him talk about how great he is and how there'd be no company without him, and everyone is an idiot should be grateful and respectful of him. I spend an hour eating suffering through this and we finally finish dinner. I get up to leave and drive the 20 minutes to my hotel and my coworker, who knows I can't stand this guy and can't stand him himself, says, "Hey Antithesis, your hotel is pretty close to Puppy's. Why don't you ride with him so you don't have to take an Uber." 

Dude was like "Great idea! Let's go Puppy."

I'm totally gonna have to find a way to get back at him for that.

[Corporal]

So, I got one of them googly phones. Namely, a Xiaomi Mi A1, one of those Android One smartphones where it's just vanilla Android without any bullshit. Supposedly. Four Gigs of RAM, 64 Gigs of Flash, a snapdragon 625 may not be the hottest SoC on the market but it's still plenty for what I'll be doing with it, and a good camera and screen.

And since my dad has the tech skills of a two months old toddler, he tagged along and got the same phone so he could leech off my "expertise".

So far, so, uh, kinda good.


Spent much of my time today playing whack-a-mole with the google assistant. My last name rhymes with google, so when I answer the phone or casually mention my name in a conversation, the google assistant on both phones pops up and starts farting around. With both of us, and both our phones. We must have some AI compatible voices or something.

Disabling the assistant doesn't work. It's still there, it just pops up a mournful message that you can enable it with just one click. Every single time, with no way to disable it. Which is only marginally less obnoxious than the assistant itself.

Long story short, I've resorted to installing the Nova launcher and then disabling the google app in the settings. Ain't nobody got time for this bullshit. I don't have enough patience, especially with my old man worshipping every single of my taps from a safe distance in the background.


I'm kinda bummed out by Android 7 though: one google widget on top of the home screen that cannot be disabled or removed. Swipe right to get to the fucking full screen google prompt. Hold the middle button for barely more than a femtosecond to get a popup with a google and/or google assistant and/or google now prompt. Say anything even remotely resembling "google" anywhere within earshot of the phone to get another popup with the fucking assistant. If you want to nitpick, and by now I do, then Chrome as the default browser is yet another google search page. WHY NOT JUST MAKE THE ENTIRE GUI A GOOGLE SEARCH, GOOGLE.


Also, at least in theory these damn things should already be updating to Android O. I need to check why the OTA updater is still stuck on Android 7. Then again, this year they should get uplifted to Android P, and I just know that two updates in rapid succession will make my poor pa burn this incarnation of heretical witchcraft.

[Beezy]

Seems like I'm the only one in the world who hates anything mint flavored. 

I'm fine with mint as gum, candy, and tea. That's about it.

[Forgotten A. Turnbuckle]

Got my girlfriend a 256GB iPad Pro and case for her main Christmas gift.
What did she get me?  A pillow and tickets to see some Acapella competition in Madison, Wisconsin this weekend (about a 5 hour drive).

This is what I get for agreeing to watch Pitch Perfect with her and enjoying it.
 

[team filler]

Didn't notice the chocolate chip cookie I bought was vegan 


This shit taste horrible, brehs 

[chronovore]

Got invited to a business dinner yesterday. I typically don't like business dinners, but I dislike eating alone even more so I agreed. But one guy showed up that I just can't stand because he's the antithesis of me. Arrogant as hell, selfish, condescending, back-biting, but he's not rude about it. You just sorta have to put up with it, and let him talk about how great he is and how there'd be no company without him, and everyone is an idiot should be grateful and respectful of him. I spend an hour eating suffering through this and we finally finish dinner. I get up to leave and drive the 20 minutes to my hotel and my coworker, who knows I can't stand this guy and can't stand him himself, says, "Hey Antithesis, your hotel is pretty close to Puppy's. Why don't you ride with him so you don't have to take an Uber." 

Dude was like "Great idea! Let's go Puppy."

I'm totally gonna have to find a way to get back at him for that.

Wait until April Fool's day, connect his PC to a Raspberry Pi just sitting behind his existing computer. Put up a login screen which loops.

Bonus Points: capture their actual login, and then get to the real fuckery.

Alternately: Thoroughly dampen their office chair, let them land ass first in that at the beginning of the day.

You're never going to work with me, are you?

[chronovore]

Didn't notice the chocolate chip cookie I bought was vegan 


This shit taste horrible, brehs 

Vegans hate life, and all their food is designed to reinforce this mindset.

[hungrynoob]

Seems like I'm the only one in the world who hates anything mint flavored. 

what about toothpaste?

[archnemesis]

Seems like I'm the only one in the world who hates anything mint flavored. 

what about toothpaste?

There are other flavors (and no flavor). One of my kids can’t stand mint either.

[Valkyrie]

Seems like I'm the only one in the world who hates anything mint flavored. 

what about toothpaste?

There are other flavors (and no flavor). One of my kids can’t stand mint either.

Yeh, there are lots of toothpaste for adults too that doesn't taste disgusting. Mint mouthwash makes me wanna kms, so I use one made for cowards like myself.

[I'm a Puppy!]

Didn't notice the chocolate chip cookie I bought was vegan 


This shit taste horrible, brehs 

Vegans hate life, and all their food is designed to reinforce this mindset.

Strangely this explains a lot about my jewish friends now that I am acquainted with jewish food.

[Raist]

Mint is the plant of the devil. Anything based on it should be banned

[Forgotten A. Turnbuckle]

Dell just called to tell me my premium warranty with accident coverage on my laptop expires in 3 days. 
They said I could renew it for a year for $450, but they'd be willing to give me a %20 discount.

Yeah, no thanks.  Probably couldn't sell it for much more than that 
Normally I don't go for premium warranties on something like this, but I had good luck with them before with dell.

My brother spilled beer on an old inspiron laptop I had years ago.  I sent that one in thinking they'd fix or replace it with the same, but instead they gave me a brand new XPS which at the time was a huge upgrade.

I thought for sure my 2-year old would have dumped milk all over it by now, but nope.
Maybe I can get him to do it in the next 12 hours.
 

[TVC15]

Papa TVC hurt his back. Anyone want to try pointing my coccyx to try to fix it?

[Madrun Badrun]

Struggling with a class assignment.  Its for a machine learning class and I'm in the machine learning group.  Feel kind of embarrassed.  Doesn't help that I haven't done real math in years. 

So some of the questions weren't actually possible lol.  The revised assignment is better.   

[jorma]

After prepping all day for a colonoscopy, making sure that everything is neat for the camera team, i have decided that my long time dream of becoming a gay porn star is dead.

I'm peeing from my asshole, it's awful.

[skullstorm]

I feel like I'm gonna faint.

Also, I might be seeing things. TSwift is everywhere

[Tasty]

I feel like I'm gonna faint.

Also, I might be seeing things. TSwift is everywhere

Everything is Taylor. Taylor is everything.

[skullstorm]

Don't you mean Taylord

[Tasty]

Don't you mean Taylord

[Tasty]

Taylord of the House Swift, First of Her Name, the Fearless, Kween of the Swifties and the First Men, Breaker of Records, and Mother of Snakes. 🐍

[skullstorm]

  The dark priestess Taylord

[Yeti]

Soon all will be Taylor, and the world will drown in Swiftness

[Atramental]

 

[Joe Molotov]

Taylor get up come on get down with the Swiftness

[samfish]

It was really hard for me not to pick a Tay Tay ava with cum on her face.

[agrajag]

woke up this morning with $1000 withdrawn from my checking account. Someone hacked my paypal and helped themselves to my money. I called the bank and put a stop payment (it was still processing), and it was a minor headache as the support kept transferring me from one department to another.

[TVC15]

My butt can’t stop throwing up.

[Corporal]

I'm on Android O now. It's... practically the same as 7.1.2 that the phone came with. How boring.

They shuffled around some things in the settings etc and I've already had three support calls with my dad because things look just slightly differently (or are arranged slightly differently) so he gets confused. This is Windows levels of fuckery.

That was a pointless waste of time, I guess. And bandwidth. A gigabyte per phone, for that.

[Tasty]

Which phone do you have?

Oreo was a pretty nice upgrade but nothing earth-shattering.

[Corporal]

Xiaomi Mi A1, middle of the road phone (4 GB RAM, 64 GB Flash, 625 CPU), released under the Android One label so no added fluff besides a custom camera app and an IR remote app and an Indian(?) social network app and... I think that's all.

It's pretty sweet, all things considered. Ranted and raved somewhere in this thread about the freaking google search and -assistant invading nearly every button press and app, but after installing nova launcher and fucking around with some settings I'm rather content.

...and if google allowed me to access the FM radio without fucking around with a service menu or rooting my phone and crawling around in the guts, it would be even better. But oh well. German radio is something I'd listen to once every three years or so. If I had no other option. And was forced at gunpoint. But still, it's stupid that they hid it away.

[skullstorm]

My thumb has been fucking sore for a few days now. I know it's because I always use my phone with one hand and now I've been trying to stop but goddammit I just can't type on my phone with my index finger while holding the phone in the other hand, I'm physically unable to do it. It's the way old people use their phones, I've never done it and I can't learn it now  I now try to remember to keep a pen with a stylus tip on me at all times and use that instead but it feels so dumb. I used to have a Note but I never used its stylus for typing either. I think I use messaging apps too much to get this level of pain 

I guess I'll just keep massaging my thumb and using pain relief gels and hope something will finally work. And when the ache's gone and I forget all about it I'm just going to start using my phone with one hand again 

[Raist]

Your "phone". Sure.

[Mupepe]

I've got a trip scheduled to leave next Thursday to Russia.  I really want to go but it was last minute notice and I had to get a business letter of invitation which has to be issued by the Russian government.  It takes 7-9 business days.  Today was day 7 and I got nothing.  They take tomorrow off so I know it's not coming tomorrow and Thursday is the last day I can receive it, drop my visa application and get it back in time for my flight next Thursday.  Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu

So now I'm stressing.

[skullstorm]

Your "phone". Sure.

Pfft, what a banally vulgar insinuation 

[hungrynoob]

if you stopped being a wimp you could type faster with your index finger faster than you ever could with your thumb.

[Brehvolution]

2 thumbs are faster than an index finger.

Index finger? Are you 60?

[hungrynoob]

Who said anything about 2 thumbs?

But since you brought it up, he said his thumb hurts too much to use it.

[agrajag]

2 thumbs are faster than an index finger.

Index finger? Are you 60?

 

[chronovore]

Bought a pair of Apple's Lightning connector earphones, because my son was borrowing my standard jack ones. I need a mic-equipped pair for work, so this precluded them being useful to him. I think i mentioned here, first thing was my wife borrowed them, but only once.

My iPhone 6 battery life is straight garbage. Not on the same unbelievable tier of the old 4S, but bad. I bought a case with a built-in battery. That's' helped, but it turns out the case doesn't do pass-through for the Lightning, so the Lightning headset doesn't work with the case. I switch out for my old no-battery MagPul case so I can use the headset.

I go to a downtown meeting on Monday, turns out they'd moved the time from 11AM to 2:30PM, so I've got to entertain myself. My phone battery is dying. I buy a charger battery at a convenience store. It adds 30% to the charge, then the phone says the "accessory may not be recognized" and stops charging.

After returning home, I switch back to the the battery-case, only now the phone charge is draining faster than ever. The screen may also be popping out a bit, which was an "infected" battery last time it happened.

I may be getting a new phone sooner than I can afford it. 

[Quaker]

Bought a pair of Apple's Lightning connector earphones, because my son was borrowing my standard jack ones. I need a mic-equipped pair for work, so this precluded them being useful to him. I think i mentioned here, first thing was my wife borrowed them, but only once.

My iPhone 6 battery life is straight garbage. Not on the same unbelievable tier of the old 4S, but bad. I bought a case with a built-in battery. That's' helped, but it turns out the case doesn't do pass-through for the Lightning, so the Lightning headset doesn't work with the case. I switch out for my old no-battery MagPul case so I can use the headset.

I go to a downtown meeting on Monday, turns out they'd moved the time from 11AM to 2:30PM, so I've got to entertain myself. My phone battery is dying. I buy a charger battery at a convenience store. It adds 30% to the charge, then the phone says the "accessory may not be recognized" and stops charging.

After returning home, I switch back to the the battery-case, only now the phone charge is draining faster than ever. The screen may also be popping out a bit, which was an "infected" battery last time it happened.

I may be getting a new phone sooner than I can afford it. 

Not sure if it applies to Japan but Apple is offering $30 battery replacements at Apple Stores in the US because of all the bad press they were getting. I think it applies to iPhone 6 and up over here.

[I'm a Puppy!]

Apple

[chronovore]

Bought a pair of Apple's Lightning connector earphones, because my son was borrowing my standard jack ones. I need a mic-equipped pair for work, so this precluded them being useful to him. I think i mentioned here, first thing was my wife borrowed them, but only once.

My iPhone 6 battery life is straight garbage. Not on the same unbelievable tier of the old 4S, but bad. I bought a case with a built-in battery. That's' helped, but it turns out the case doesn't do pass-through for the Lightning, so the Lightning headset doesn't work with the case. I switch out for my old no-battery MagPul case so I can use the headset.

I go to a downtown meeting on Monday, turns out they'd moved the time from 11AM to 2:30PM, so I've got to entertain myself. My phone battery is dying. I buy a charger battery at a convenience store. It adds 30% to the charge, then the phone says the "accessory may not be recognized" and stops charging.

After returning home, I switch back to the the battery-case, only now the phone charge is draining faster than ever. The screen may also be popping out a bit, which was an "infected" battery last time it happened.

I may be getting a new phone sooner than I can afford it. 

Not sure if it applies to Japan but Apple is offering $30 battery replacements at Apple Stores in the US because of all the bad press they were getting. I think it applies to iPhone 6 and up over here.

Thanks.

I replaced my screen with a 3rd party one, so Apple may decline to service it at all. But I'll ask first. :-/

[skullstorm]

Who said anything about 2 thumbs?

But since you brought it up, he said his thumb hurts too much to use it.

Did you just assume my gender bro 

Anyway yeah I'm trying to use my index finger now like a damn 60 year old. Feels lame. At least my thumb's getting some rest and it doesn't hurt as much today.

[Cerveza mas fina]

I was turning on the car this morning for my wife so it would heat up before she hits the commute, but I think I dropped my phone and now I'm stuck all day without a phone. Was supposed to call some city council about permits for a coffee cart but I guess that will be tomorrow.

[Cerveza mas fina]

Maybe, i did the math a few years ago, now doing new math.

[Corporal]

New math huh. First, we had addition. Now, with Math 2018, we humbly introduce... a way to add like never before! This handy new tech we like to call Multiplication lets you add countless amounts of numbers in just a single operation!

No but seriously though, all the best. Hope the numbers work out.

Maybe snap a few pics if/once you have something to show. It's always interesting to see such things come to life.

Also, pimp your cart out with racing stripes. Red ones. Trust me, I'm an expert.

[Kara]

There's this thing going around Twitter* where you post the first thing you ever bought from the comically evil book selling website and when I checked mine it was a Tahar Wattar novel ~10 years ago. This is a very specific kind of self-ownage.

*Probably elsewhere too but I only use Shitter.

[Cerveza mas fina]

Complaining about being white really is a first world problem.

[Atramental]

If it makes you feel any better, a good chunk of /pol/ might not consider you as white. 

[Purrp Skirrp]

Trying to talk my sister out of a relationship with an Onnit pushing, Rogan listening, physically abusive pothead

[seagrams hotsauce]

and steal his weed

[TVC15]

Who is fucking babies?

[Rufus]

Ian Watkins

[hungrynoob]

So I pan fried chicken thighs, 3 of them, first two were slightly pink inside, but not pink enough to get my stop eating. Last one was really raw which i didnt notice until I ate almost half of.

What are the chances I will die?

[I'm a Puppy!]

At least 14.

[hungrynoob]

dont dream too high geez

[Raist]

Happy salmonella.

[Rufus]

You work in food safety. You should know best.

[hungrynoob]

specialising in fish.