BeardedSingleMalt

I swear I’m the only one who can’t do dark mode anything. it genuinely bugs my eyes and I start seeing what can only be described as burn-in if I use dark mode for more than a could minutes.

webcrawler was my first.

I once got called in to diagnose why it took 5 minutes to open up a single Excel file. The PC itself was a little dated and underpowered, but the file size was huuuge…like hundreds of MB.

It finally opened. There was ugly table-formatting…to the entire spreadsheet. Colored cell borders, alternating background fill, text and font formatting applied to every single cell; columns A-IV and rows 1-65,536. I pointed that out and said the only way to fix is start a new one and not apply the formatting, or to try and remove it from all the cells. She outright refused because she liked the way it was. So I left, and she went back to looking at pictures of her cats

One thing to note, pihole also blocks ads in you’re using wifi from your phone. If I’m playing a game or whatever that has “watch this ad for…” half the time I have to switch off wifi or else it’ll claim the ad failed and won’t give the item.

Boss: What’s the status of such-and-such project

Me: It’s waiting on you, I sent you the status update 2 weeks ago, you replied to it saying you’ll review it by the end of the day. I even sent you a follow-up email on it last week

I’ve said it in other threads, but these “free” anti-virus software packages are there to use scare tactics to get you to upgrade to paid versions and other products. I used avast, and avg in previous PCs and every other day it was popups

If you’re attractive and flirt with the carny, they’ll probably give you a prize without playing, or at least upgrade you to a better prize for barely hitting the wall. Then you can brag to other people how easy it is to win and they just need to try harder.

[Ding] Roll Credits!

Our CIO who recently retired was often famous for justifying low/no raises or bonuses by saying “Well, money isn’t everything” and yet still buying an airplane to casually fly

One thing I’ve found is it’s good at blocking ads via mobile gaming. The downside is if those ads return rewards in-game.

There was a demo for a music video maybe 10 years ago, Day Day - Backseat, the video seems to have since been scrubbed from the internet and the best I could find was a thumbnail. The only things I can remember about it are the lyrics went something like “if your driver needs a rider…then you put it in my backseat” (yes, its about exactly what you think) and the guy singing it looked like a cross between Geordi LaForge an Lady Gaga.

I’m convinced the current influencer body standard for women (huge asses, giant lips, etc) was some joke by plastic surgeons and they just rolled with it

Was flipping through the channels the other day and the question was something like “What is the last place you want to spend new years?”

The person sad “Jail” and of course he collapses into the podium Whaaa. And of course it was the #1 answer.

He meant to say HIPAA. In sort, series a laws for patient protections which include looking at a patient’s record to get their phone number for personal reason.

15 character minimum passwords that expire every 90 days and require MFA to remote in from home with 3 separate login sessions just to get to your PC, along with stripped down rights for everyone, even IS. The rights are so strict that if you wanted to, for instance, update a trusted application like Notepad++ because a recent exploit was found which would be a security concern, you can’t use the auto-update feature of the application; you have to download it manually from their repository, and run it using a special admin account created for you that doesn’t have an associated email address but also has a 90 day password requirement. But you wouldn’t been able to use their repository 6 months ago because we block any IP address outside the US and their previous service was located in UK, so if you wanted to keep that piece of software up-to-date with security and vulnerability patches (which they’ve harped on a number of times before) you’d have to find alternative download services located in the US regardless of how shady.

I wish I was joking.

This is how they justify their jobs.

Knowbe4? That’s who we use and their stuff is pedestrian

Ah yes, my old manager. Has to be the one talking at any given moment, her meetings always go at least 15 minutes over because she spends half the time talking about every mundane thing her kids said, if there’s a meeting/call and 8 seconds of silence she has to make some kind of comment only she thinks is funny and forcefully laugh at it, and her own team members can’t give a project update without her talking over them to repeat what they already said or to add info that isn’t relevant.

Reminds me of when Circuit City was finally going out of business and they were having a liquidation sale. There were some TVs I was looking at and they were regularly priced at like $800. They had STACKS of those TVs they couldn’t move.

Then CC was going out of business and was going through liquidation. The same TVs were being advertised as MSRP $1,299 but 25% liquidation pricing and people were buying 2 at a time.

You don’t even need to nuke the drains. Just cover them up. I had drain flies coming out of my shower drain for weeks and couldn’t figure out how to stop them initially. Read online to block the drain for a couple days when it’s not in use. I just covered the drain with a sink plunger and they were gone.