The Sky is Falling Complaint Thread

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  • Sfariah DSfariah D Posts: 26,279

    My computer crashed mid render of my last render.  I forgot to see if I can recover it but started a new render now.  

    Now trying to decide if I want to use Genesis 8/8.1 or Genesis 9?

  • PerttiAPerttiA Posts: 10,024
    edited July 23

    Non-Complaint; Found myself a new girl, she was born in 2005 and only seen 230 000 km (142 000 miles). smiley
    Judging by her appearance and our 40 mile honeymoon, she has been treated way better by the previous owners than her twin sister was (RIP).
    She did cost 1350eur (including 24% VAT), but I think she was worth it.

    In official papers she has been named Opel Astra 1.6 Twinport Sport Caravan

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  • Sfariah DSfariah D Posts: 26,279

    I was trying to figure out how to get disabiled fare for the local buses.  Right now they are free, but they won't be in September.

    also this blue polish followed me home today. Only my left nails are painted.  I mean fingernails.  The toenails and right fingernails need to be done still?

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  • NylonGirlNylonGirl Posts: 1,816

    LeatherGryphon said:

    Agreed, most lyrics are awful.  Which is probably why they are uttered unintelligibly.devil

    My favorite has always been the songs with lyrics that are beautiful even without the music. Songs by Whitney Houston or Luther Vandross have lyrics that read like a coherent love letter. To hear them sung with perfect clarity feels good to me. And those singers from that class would sound the same live as they do on their records. On the other hand, I've come to like music from London Grammar, whose lyrics hardly make any sense... and music by Chvrches whose lyrics make no sense whatsoever. They just sound good to me at times. I think it might also help that people sometimes like to imagine their own lyrics to songs, which helps when the song writer has obviously had a bit too much Power Water.

  • GordigGordig Posts: 10,056

    NylonGirl said:

    On the other hand, I've come to like music from London Grammar, whose lyrics hardly make any sense... and music by Chvrches whose lyrics make no sense whatsoever.

    I'm very bad at decoding metaphors generally, but I find Tori Amos's lyrics especially inscrutable. Even when I know the lyrics, I rarely have any idea what they're about. Love her music, though.

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,054

    ...complaint:

    YouTube Adverts getting worse. I can't even watch a 10 minute long video without two or three advert breaks (I have not turned my advert blocker off).  There is a way to get around actually having to watch them by refreshing the screen each time the message comes up  on the screen (usually twice does it). but sometimes that takes you back to the beginning of the video and they are still a serious interruption to the flow of what you are watching. I can somewhat tolerate it during informational or news videos but it really kills the mood listening to music.

    I really have a thing against having to suddenly pay a ransom for uninterrupted content and who knows how long this will last until you have upgrade to   "super", "ultimate", or  "plaid" level premium service to get advert free content..  That is what drove me away from cable television many years ago..

    Paywalls on news publication sites are bad enough to deal with.. 

  • Sfariah DSfariah D Posts: 26,279

    I had a dream that somehow blends ai with robots and sci-fi.

    in a dystopian world which is run by ai, a young hero tries to save the world from ai art.

  • Air quality continues to be lovely. Currently among the world's worst. We hit #1 in the world a few years ago, so there's always the possibility of a repeat.

  • kyoto kid said:

    ...complaint:

    YouTube Adverts getting worse. I can't even watch a 10 minute long video without two or three advert breaks (I have not turned my advert blocker off).  There is a way to get around actually having to watch them by refreshing the screen each time the message comes up  on the screen (usually twice does it). but sometimes that takes you back to the beginning of the video and they are still a serious interruption to the flow of what you are watching. I can somewhat tolerate it during informational or news videos but it really kills the mood listening to music.

    I really have a thing against having to suddenly pay a ransom for uninterrupted content and who knows how long this will last until you have upgrade to   "super", "ultimate", or  "plaid" level premium service to get advert free content..  That is what drove me away from cable television many years ago..

    Paywalls on news publication sites are bad enough to deal with.. 

    The ongoing arms race between YouTube and ad blockers seems to have heated up recently. It seems like on some days YouTube has the upper hand, and checkmates every attempt to avoid the ads. And then a day or two will pass and suddenly every ad they try to throw up is blocked. And then the advantage passes back to YouTube again. Folks must be working overtime on both ends...

    Trying to decide which I loathe more:
    (1) Having to sit through 30 seconds of unskippable adverts to watch a 24-second clip;
    (2) Having to sit through 30-60 seconds of unskippable and aggressively cheerful adverts before YouTube will let me watch the extremely serious news video I wanted to watch in the first place;
    (3) Those times when you agree to watch a movie on YT "with ads" and then you get five advert breaks in the first 20 minutes.

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,054
    edited July 25

    ...we cannot afford an ad blocker gap!

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  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,054
    edited July 25

    Blando Calrissian said:

    Air quality continues to be lovely. Currently among the world's worst. We hit #1 in the world a few years ago, so there's always the possibility of a repeat.

    ...air quality here about to deteriorate as there are several large wildfires to the east, 

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  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 11,510
    edited July 25

    At least the fires will stop in a few weeks.

    When I was a boy, in the middle of the last century, when the steel mills were filling the air with red smudge, Buffalo & Pittsburgh did without air.  It took decades to reign in the Steel mills.  Good air was delivered by horsecart, in big canvas bags.  All the kids in the neighborhood, would run after the air delivery cart, uphill both ways, trying to get a free whiff of the good stuff.  But all that addictive oxygen hooked us, and now I can't live without it for more than a couple of minutes.frownwink

    Non-complaint:  Weather's been good for several days.  mid-70s in the day, 50s at night, humid but not oppressive, rain for a couple hours or at night.  A/C hardly needed, which is good because the A/C is hardly capable.  Hot season here is mostly over.  Trees are already starting to lose leaves.  Winter is coming.

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  • starionwolfstarionwolf Posts: 3,670

    I thought RAM board was loose in its slot.  I removed and re-inserted both RAM boards into their slots.  Computer continued to crash randomly.  Maybe the 2.5 inch SSD is starting to go bad.

  • Sfariah DSfariah D Posts: 26,279

    I want another nap.  I am so sleepy.

     

    Wait! I think my roommate is home so I need to clean the kitchen?

  • McGyverMcGyver Posts: 7,051

    PerttiA said:

    Non-Complaint; Found myself a new girl, she was born in 2005 and only seen 230 000 km (142 000 miles). smiley
    Judging by her appearance and our 40 mile honeymoon, she has been treated way better by the previous owners than her twin sister was (RIP).
    She did cost 1350eur (including 24% VAT), but I think she was worth it.

    In official papers she has been named Opel Astra 1.6 Twinport Sport Caravan

    Thats an interesting vehicle, like a minivan without the sliding doors... I miss our van (2007 Hyundai Entourage)... it got totaled last year by someone trying to beat a light... if I were being gracious, I might say they didn't see the van turning because of the rain and it being night, but from the passengers account they sped up and made no attempt to avoid the vehicle even as they closed in. 
    We had it since our girls were babies and they pretty much grew up in it, they also learned to drive in it... I loved the fact that it was well designed and the rear seat came out so I could haul supplies and materials... I even managed to transport one of my water-features in it... pretty much the size of a large refrigerator and weighed around 300lbs... lots of summer road trips and adventures in it... it was a real bummer removing our stuff from it in the wrecking lot... like a trip down memory lane.
    My daughter was driving it with her EMT friends when she got hit... it spun around three times and hit a curb in the parking lot... despite that my daughter and her companions rushed out to aid the other driver.  They never said anything to her or the other EMTs, which was pretty crappy, but at least nobody was severely hurt. I have no idea if I mentioned that incident before... it's been a long crappy year and half and I've lost track of what I've posted and what I thought about posting and what I've written and deleted... 

    Well, I hope your new mechanical companion treats you well and you have many miles together. Good luck.

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,054

    LeatherGryphon said:

    At least the fires will stop in a few weeks.

    When I was a boy, in the middle of the last century, when the steel mills were filling the air with red smudge, Buffalo & Pittsburgh did without air.  It took decades to reign in the Steel mills.  Good air was delivered by horsecart, in big canvas bags.  All the kids in the neighborhood, would run after the air delivery cart, uphill both ways, trying to get a free whiff of the good stuff.  But all that addictive oxygen hooked us, and now I can't live without it for more than a couple of minutes.frownwink

    ...for myself growing up In Milwaukee, it was a lot of coal still used by foundries, forging plants, power plants, and for heating homes (the house i  grew up in originally had a coal furnace).  We also had a major coking plant just south of downtown that.  One of those cole fired power plants was the Lakeside Plant (the biggest in the city) that was on the lakeshore by my neighbourhood.  Over the decades most buildings in the city had acquired a dingy dark grey or even black coating of soot.  After much of the heavy industry died out and they started cleaning buildings off It was amazing to find many had exteriors made of a cream white brick that was unique to the area.  The old City (see comparison below) hall was originally made of a tan sandstone and returned to it's original state..

    When the winds were out of the south-southeast we would get all the haze, smoke, and smell from the steel mills in Hammond and Gary Indiana as well as the southeast Chicago area.

    City Hall  Before restoration.

    After 

     

     

     

  • NylonGirlNylonGirl Posts: 1,816

    McGyver said:

    it's been a long crappy year and half and I've lost track of what I've posted and what I thought about posting and what I've written and deleted... 

    At least part of it was about kombucha. And something about a beverage with moths as an ingredient. I don't know what ever became of that.

  • Sfariah DSfariah D Posts: 26,279

    I want to go back to bed.  However I am scheduled to work soon.  As in 13 minutes or so?

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 11,510
    edited July 26

    Sfariah D said:

    I want to go back to bed.  However I am scheduled to work soon.  As in 13 minutes or so?

    RUN!  (carefully)

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  • Sfariah DSfariah D Posts: 26,279

    LeatherGryphon said:

    Sfariah D said:

    I want to go back to bed.  However I am scheduled to work soon.  As in 13 minutes or so?

    RUN!  (carefully)

     I ran carefully and got to work on time.  Now on break.

  • Complaint: it looks like every country has the Olympic Opening Ceremonies geo-locked and/or behind a paywall. Even good old dependable SVT.

    Oh well. The boat thing was very creative. It looked like Dunkirk, but for sports.

  • TaozTaoz Posts: 9,940

    kyoto kid said:

    ...complaint:

    YouTube Adverts getting worse. I can't even watch a 10 minute long video without two or three advert breaks (I have not turned my advert blocker off).  There is a way to get around actually having to watch them by refreshing the screen each time the message comes up  on the screen (usually twice does it). but sometimes that takes you back to the beginning of the video and they are still a serious interruption to the flow of what you are watching. I can somewhat tolerate it during informational or news videos but it really kills the mood listening to music.

    I really have a thing against having to suddenly pay a ransom for uninterrupted content and who knows how long this will last until you have upgrade to   "super", "ultimate", or  "plaid" level premium service to get advert free content..  That is what drove me away from cable television many years ago..

    Paywalls on news publication sites are bad enough to deal with.. 

    I use one called uBlock Origin, never see any ads at all, and that's in Chrome.  It's an old version of Chrome however as they no longer offer updates for Win 8 which I'm still using, don't know if it has something to do with that.  Youtube and almost all other sites are still working fine though. 

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,054
    edited July 27

    .....yeah I'm, on 7 Pro here but lost access to that extension due to later updates (unlike with Daz, or Nvidia drivers, can't save older Chrome installer files to roll back).  I have AdBlocker Ultimate and for most sites it works fine. For those that get obnoxious, I open them in incognito mode and there I just get blank spaces where the adverts would be. Doesn't work for YouTube though

    For some odd reason tonight I didn't  receive their "anti-Advert blocker" TOS warnings and was able to watch my news videos uninterrupted.   Maybe there was an update.

    I'll see how long that lasts.

    As to paywalls, that is another situation entirely.

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  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 11,510
    edited July 28

    Non-complaint:  Weather here in western NY State has been fantastic for a few days.  50s at night, high 70s during the day, not very humid, partly cloudy, slight breeze.  Days of Summer.yes  Today has, however, turned up the heat a little.  It's 84F right now (2:15PM), but still not too humid.

    Yesterday was a reunion of another branch of the family.  Wheee..., hotdogs, macaroni salad, baked beans, and all the picnic doin's.  About 30 people attended.  We got one representative from the Florida branch.  Attendence was mostly us old people(age 65-80), and the one remaining member of the previous generation celebrating his 95th birthday at the same event.  There were two babies, no teenagers, and only four people under 30.  But nobody of the age 5-10 that I could impress with my memorized recitation of "Jabberwocky".  (It's my party trick.blush)

    And I got an opportunity to show off my collections to my Florida cousin who was excited to see it and actually knew what most of it was.  My head is two sizes larger today.smiley

    But y'know what I miss from family reunions these days?  Big homemade pies.  Nobody bakes anymore.frown  

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  • Sfariah DSfariah D Posts: 26,279

    I could be eating this pizza outside right now.

     

    but I'm afraid mosquitoes will come out while I eat.  I don't like it when mosquitoes come out.  Do you?

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  • Sfariah DSfariah D Posts: 26,279

    Is my neighbor mowing their lawn?

  • Sfariah DSfariah D Posts: 26,279

    Sfariah D said:

    Is my neighbor mowing their lawn?

     I assume that is why he is sitting on something like a riding lawnmower.

  • Charlie JudgeCharlie Judge Posts: 12,736
    edited July 28

    Sfariah D said:

    I could be eating this pizza outside right now.

     

    but I'm afraid mosquitoes will come out while I eat.  I don't like it when mosquitoes come out.  Do you?

    Don't worry the mosquitoes won't eat much of the pizza.

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  • Sfariah DSfariah D Posts: 26,279

    Just figured out that my scanner omes with software that can make PDF files from scanned pages.  I am trying to scan documents but It seems that the scanner didn't scan them the proper scale.  I figured out a way to fix that, but not until after I wasted some pages printing the documents to figure it out.

     

    I was printing sewing patterns which means it needs to be proper scale.

     

    I also need to pay attention to my popcorn before it burns!  Burn baby burn!  NO! Don't burn popcorn!

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 11,510

    Sfariah D said:

    I could be eating this pizza outside right now.

     

    but I'm afraid mosquitoes will come out while I eat.  I don't like it when mosquitoes come out.  Do you?

    No.  And I don't like it when they go in either.  Swat!devil 

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