| Scary_Guy | I'm not addicted, I can stop anytime I want to. I just never want to :D | 09:27 |
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| Scary_Guy | also "let's shame people for being human" or let's not and mind our own damn business | 09:28 |
| jrwren | non-sequitur or misdir | 12:39 |
| cmaloney | Good morning | 12:56 |
| rick_h_ | party | 12:58 |
| jrwren | feels like it should be friday, but its only Thursday. | 13:05 |
| cmaloney | Heh | 13:21 |
| cmaloney | I'm not sure any day feels like they day it should be. | 13:21 |
| Scary_Guy | feels like four Mondays, then a Friday usually | 13:53 |
| rick_h_ | teaching my wife what an "editor" is today...feels like a monday | 13:56 |
| cmaloney | Heh | 13:56 |
| cmaloney | which sort of editor? | 13:56 |
| rick_h_ | "I thought that was only there for taking notes" | 13:56 |
| cmaloney | Oh nice | 13:56 |
| rick_h_ | she couldn't connect to starbucks wifi and found an askubuntu post using "sudo nano /etc/hosts" | 13:56 |
| rick_h_ | which she didn't have nano on the machine so it said command not found, though it might have been because she missed the space after nano and before the / | 13:57 |
| rick_h_ | so I told her to replace nano with gedit, I knew it was on there | 13:57 |
| rick_h_ | and that brought up "what is this doing, what's a 'gehdit'" | 13:57 |
| rick_h_ | anyway, now she thinks if she goes back to windows she'll be able to fix these things herself | 13:58 |
| cmaloney | Woo hoo | 13:58 |
| rick_h_ | have at it | 13:58 |
| jrwren | a mac would never have the issues. :p | 13:58 |
| rick_h_ | she went ubuntu because she was so mad at windows | 13:58 |
| rick_h_ | :P | 13:58 |
| jrwren | it would just have other issues. | 13:59 |
| rick_h_ | all computers do | 13:59 |
| jrwren | like... why is my kernel using 2.5GB of my memory? | 13:59 |
| cmaloney | a mac would not want to connect to the wifi without a dongle | 13:59 |
| jrwren | mac used to get better with every release. now it gets worse. | 13:59 |
| rick_h_ | it's just funny having "I should be able to fix these things myself" followed directly up by "I don't want to learn how all this works. I don't have time for that" | 14:00 |
| rick_h_ | had to do the "what would your parents do in this situation?" | 14:00 |
| rick_h_ | and her realize that's what folks do. Either learn or go to geeksquad once a month | 14:00 |
| cmaloney | It's like a confirmation for computers | 14:01 |
| cmaloney | Welcome to the congregation; now you get to know all of the dirt | 14:01 |
| jrwren | hey, i feel like she does. shit should just work. | 14:02 |
| jrwren | at least in the linux case, you haven't paid for anything | 14:02 |
| jrwren | but with windows and mac, i've paid thousands over the years for shit that doesn't work quite right. its infuriating. | 14:03 |
| rick_h_ | yea, but I mean "this wifi thing doesn't work with the google wifi system starbucks bought and installed ..." | 14:03 |
| rick_h_ | I mean, at some point the various permutations/layers involved is untenable to always work | 14:04 |
| jrwren | i literally never have problems connecting to wifi on my apple devices. | 14:04 |
| jrwren | i realize that is only my experience and is annecdotal, and yet... it keeps be running this apple junk, because as bad as it is, I know its worse elsewhere. | 14:04 |
| rick_h_ | yea, they've narrowed down a layer of the moving parts on their end by dictating the hardware set | 14:05 |
| rick_h_ | linux/windows hasn't been able to do that | 14:05 |
| rick_h_ | meh, I just figure stuff won't always work | 14:05 |
| rick_h_ | so I asked her where the mifi was because that's known to work and she'd be off to the races vs looking up askubuntu stuff | 14:05 |
| jrwren | lemme guess. its at home :) | 14:06 |
| rick_h_ | :) | 14:07 |
| rick_h_ | which is where she's back at now that she can't work from the starbucks | 14:07 |
| rick_h_ | anyway, very monday feeling | 14:07 |
| jrwren | yeah. that sucks. | 14:08 |
| rick_h_ | with the rain to help give it that proper monday overcast | 14:08 |
| jrwren | i just get so angry at macos kernel_task CPU and memory usage. its infuriating. | 14:08 |
| cmaloney | rick_h_: Have you been to the Starbucks to see what they're doing? | 14:27 |
| cmaloney | I mean, not today, but in the past? | 14:28 |
| rick_h_ | cmaloney: yea, they want you to create an account and sign in so I just mifi now. I refuse to do the account stuff | 14:28 |
| cmaloney | Oh fuck that shit | 14:28 |
| cmaloney | what's the point of going there then if they're going to try to track you | 14:29 |
| rick_h_ | yea, exactly | 14:29 |
| cmaloney | I had my "I want to be a hermit and leave tech behind" moment yesterday | 14:30 |
| jrwren | only just now? | 14:35 |
| cmaloney | looked online at how to enable DnD on an individual cordless phone (Panasonic cordless. Yes. shut up). | 14:35 |
| cmaloney | and found a video | 14:35 |
| cmaloney | the video literally was just some cutesy animation oabout how thos woman twas frustrated that she would get calls in the night | 14:36 |
| cmaloney | no instructions, no nothing. | 14:36 |
| cmaloney | 2 minutes of animation saying that it was possible and nothing else | 14:36 |
| cmaloney | and a list of model numbers of phones that support it | 14:36 |
| cmaloney | https://channel.panasonic.com/contents/12462/ | 14:36 |
| jrwren | on youtube, right? | 14:37 |
| jrwren | i click on that, click play, and my work macbook pro plays it at full audio now matter what audio adjustment I set it to. | 14:38 |
| cmaloney | Oh that's nice | 14:40 |
| waldo323 | jrwren, it heard you talking about how it just works i guess | 16:41 |
| jrwren | yeah, i dunno WTF. | 17:12 |
| jrwren | its super crazy tech day. everything is broken. | 17:12 |
| cmaloney | heh | 17:23 |
| cmaloney | I think it's karma saying "don't get cocky". ;) | 17:24 |
| jrwren | oh no. i complain about EVERYTHING | 17:24 |
| jrwren | i pretty much hate everything. | 17:24 |
| cmaloney | Have you considered knitting? | 17:25 |
| jrwren | i have! | 17:26 |
| waldo323 | rebooting is often a good option for our users, tends to fix things/finish applying patches | 18:39 |
| jrwren | ;-; | 18:42 |
| cmaloney | blergh | 18:48 |
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