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Phones too. It feels like a purely anti-consumer move. I remember being baffled by my friend's mac in the mid-2000s and how if it froze, he had to wait until the batteries died because there was no way to pull the battery. Now everything is headed in that direction..
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Jan 21, 2019 18:42
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Grakkus posted:Phones too. It feels like a purely anti-consumer move. They didn't have a manual reset button? The entire bottom plastic and harddrive of my ACER has to be removed to access the battery, but there's a button that you can push with a pin to disconnect and reset the battery without taking everything apart
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Jan 21, 2019 18:57
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The Door Frame posted:They didn't have a manual reset button? The entire bottom plastic and harddrive of my ACER has to be removed to access the battery, but there's a button that you can push with a pin to disconnect and reset the battery without taking everything apart Or, failing that, holding the power button down for a long time generally forces a hard reset of everything.
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Jan 21, 2019 19:01
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IOwnCalculus posted:Or, failing that, holding the power button down for a long time generally forces a hard reset of everything. This will indeed work on all Macs, built in battery or not.
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Jan 21, 2019 19:22
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They got rid of two other devs and my manager today, hmmmmm. Perhaps it is time to look elsewhere
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Jan 21, 2019 19:41
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opengl128 posted:This will indeed work on all Macs, built in battery or not. From what I recall, this did not work 
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Jan 21, 2019 19:44
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BlackMK4 posted:They got rid of two other devs and my manager today, hmmmmm. Perhaps it is time to look elsewhere But they kept you. Congratulations on now doing the work of 4 people including all the admin with no new title or money!
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Jan 21, 2019 21:09
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SeaGoatSupreme posted:QC - you are a fantastic human bean, shy boy from chess club posted:One thing I remember from elementary school is a picture of a bean with arms and legs and a face that said Human Bean under it. It was in the nurses office and I thought it was "bean" forever because of that picture, haha. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6c1vWnF9bS4
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Jan 21, 2019 21:20
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I made it 33 seconds. Anyone beat my record?
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Jan 21, 2019 22:13
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I think that's the first film I've seen where the bad guys realize that when the good guy shoots through their cover, they, too, can shoot through their cover.
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Jan 21, 2019 22:18
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Grakkus posted:Phones too. It feels like a purely anti-consumer move. Mid-2000s MacBooks/PowerBooks still had removable batteries. It was the second gen unibody Macs that's where things changed, and they came out around 2010.
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Jan 21, 2019 22:56
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Adiabatic posted:I made it 33 seconds. Anyone beat my record? I watched it many years ago, when it was new (1990s), which is why I thought of it. There’s a newer hour-and-a-half version from 2009 that I didn’t post. There’s also a side scroller shooter mobile game, which is tolerable.
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Jan 21, 2019 22:58
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Oh poo poo yeaaaaaah thats some genuine Internet museum piece there edit gently caress 19 years ago???? CAT INTERCEPTOR fucked around with this message at 23:08 on Jan 21, 2019 |
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Jan 21, 2019 23:02
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Adiabatic posted:I made it 33 seconds. Anyone beat my record? When I get home from work tonight and get really stoned I reckon I'll be able to make it through the whole thing.
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Jan 22, 2019 00:02
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I'm still thinking about that Vikings game being 10 years ago, poo poo. Probably when I stopped caring about football too. I'm a Pats fan and even I got sick of watching them go to the super bowl every year. Last year I went home and to bed at half time then found out the Eagles won when that news finally trickled it's way to npr. Was kinda glad too. Best football memory was when I was in Seattle, like literally in the streets when the hawks won that last playoff game before they went to the sb. So many happy and drunk people beeping horns and doing drive by high fives to all the people in the streets. It was so awesome to be a part of that. Then it got weird on the ferry when the sea of neon green and blue were totally silent. Eeery.
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Jan 22, 2019 00:03
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9j8t7d-Gv4 My vote for the car-related-thread-theme-song of the month. Or whatever Dragula was in October lol.
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Jan 22, 2019 00:04
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I haven't done nights for 11 years this sucks. 6 more hours and I just want to eat everything I brought with me what a pointless loving exercise.
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Jan 22, 2019 00:04
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64bit_Dophins posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9j8t7d-Gv4 Dragula is a timeless classic for every season
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Jan 22, 2019 00:31
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The revving mustang jackass whose garage is on my building finally kept it up for long enough for me to walk out and confront him. Well, apparently this time it was one of his buddies in a 370Z, there were like 4 of them standing there. Their excuse was "oh yeah it's a stick shift", cause apparently that necessitates banging off the limiter like 12 times in a row to move a car around, right? Then he changed tacks to straight up "Well, you know, if there's a problem, you can take it up with the front office!  "I am not enough of an rear end in a top hat to be doing this kind of poo poo.
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Jan 22, 2019 01:31
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I am eating porkchops with applesauce, herb'd mashed potatoes, and pan-fried yellow beans for dinner. Just wanted to brag.
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Jan 22, 2019 02:41
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Fender Anarchist posted:The revving mustang jackass whose garage is on my building finally kept it up for long enough for me to walk out and confront him. Well, apparently this time it was one of his buddies in a 370Z, there were like 4 of them standing there. Their excuse was "oh yeah it's a stick shift", cause apparently that necessitates banging off the limiter like 12 times in a row to move a car around, right? Then he changed tacks to straight up "Well, you know, if there's a problem, you can take it up with the front office! Just call the cops om the non-emergency line and make a noise complaint. More effective than calling the front office.
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Jan 22, 2019 06:58
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I don't mind built in batteries as long as it's only a matter of unscreqing the bottom, remove a shroud and remove the batttery with some screws. But now they are gluing down batteries. Screw that.
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Jan 22, 2019 12:46
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Jesus Christ. First my wife's 2015 Fit won't start (clicks and makes ... almost a 'pew pew' noise, really), and then after starting the Impreza to see if jumping it might help (it did not), the Impreza hood will not latch. But at least the Impreza started, so I can pick the kid up from daycare while my wife is in Jersey with the Forester, which in all likelihood some fuckhead will dent and/or scratch in the parking lot and I will be loving pissed.
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Jan 22, 2019 14:37
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I've decided to take advantage of the free on site consolers at work to try and sort out the poo poo I never dealt with from my friend's murder. This weeks death made it clear I haven't done the best job putting that grief to bed.
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Rhyno posted:I've decided to take advantage of the free on site consolers at work to try and sort out the poo poo I never dealt with from my friend's murder. This weeks death made it clear I haven't done the best job putting that grief to bed. Good on you. There's no shame on asking for help when needed. tetrapyloctomy posted:Jesus Christ. First my wife's 2015 Fit won't start (clicks and makes ... almost a 'pew pew' noise, really), and then after starting the Impreza to see if jumping it might help (it did not), the Impreza hood will not latch. But at least the Impreza started, so I can pick the kid up from daycare while my wife is in Jersey with the Forester, which in all likelihood some fuckhead will dent and/or scratch in the parking lot and I will be loving pissed. If you have someone to help you, have one person hold down the latch button while the other one closes it. I had to do that on an older Nissan Altima I had. mariooncrack fucked around with this message at 15:52 on Jan 22, 2019 |
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Jan 22, 2019 15:50
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Rhyno posted:I've decided to take advantage of the free on site consolers at work to try and sort out the poo poo I never dealt with from my friend's murder. This weeks death made it clear I haven't done the best job putting that grief to bed. Outside third parties can often give you insight that you can miss when you're stuck inside your own head. Good on you, Rhyno.
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Jan 22, 2019 16:07
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mariooncrack posted:If you have someone to help you, have one person hold down the latch button while the other one closes it. I had to do that on an older Nissan Altima I had. If you've got some winter windshield washer fluid you can pour it onto the latch mechanism to help defrost it, preferably the fluid is warm from being stored inside. I've had latches freeze on me either due to recently washing or just high humidity in the air before a good freeze overnight. Liberal use of wd-40 after it's thawed will help prevent it in the future.
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meatpimp posted:Outside third parties can often give you insight that you can miss when you're stuck inside your own head. So true it hurts. meatpimp posted:Good on you, Rhyno. Very much.
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Thanks guys. I don't know if there's going to be a major breakthrough or anything, I just want to try and find a little peace on this.
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Jan 22, 2019 16:35
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Rhyno posted:Thanks guys. I don't know if there's going to be a major breakthrough or anything, I just want to try and find a little peace on this. So you're looking for... some kind of temporary sanity in this? Show us your hands.
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Jan 22, 2019 16:39
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I just never dealt with what her death did to me. I mean, it yielded a full physical turn around that ended in a 52 pound weight loss so I did deal with it in a way.
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Jan 22, 2019 16:42
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3:30 in the drat morning and the neighbors on the other side of our duplex and screaming and fighting. Sounded like someone was either coked out of their mind or being murdered or someone had a bad trip and OD'd. Called the cops. Cops knocked on their door for like ten minutes, and I think they talked to them, but I'm not 100% sure. Things got much quieter after that. I couldn't fall back asleep until 5ish, and now I'm all anxious about a confrontation when they figure out we called the cops. But, gently caress em for sounding like they were about to murder each other.
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Jan 22, 2019 16:56
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Rhyno posted:I just never dealt with what her death did to me. I mean, it yielded a full physical turn around that ended in a 52 pound weight loss so I did deal with it in a way. Bzzzt. Incorrect answer. The correct answer would have involved piss, blood, and cum. You've missed your Tool reference for the day and have been docked 5 tokens.
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Jan 22, 2019 16:56
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Well to be fair, if that had been a Salvia or Nickleback reference I'd have gotten it in a heartbeat.
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Jan 22, 2019 16:57
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Fender Anarchist posted:The revving mustang jackass whose garage is on my building finally kept it up for long enough for me to walk out and confront him. Well, apparently this time it was one of his buddies in a 370Z, there were like 4 of them standing there. Their excuse was "oh yeah it's a stick shift", cause apparently that necessitates banging off the limiter like 12 times in a row to move a car around, right? Then he changed tacks to straight up "Well, you know, if there's a problem, you can take it up with the front office! At least they don't have a 15in subwoofer blasting for 10-15 minutes every morning while they sit in their car on their phone like the guy at my last complex. It sounds like they're going to ruin both of those cars. Such is the life of the bro's car.
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There's a guy with a Z car on a lift in his garage right down the street. It's a gorgeous blue and looks near the end of what I assume is a restoration. I can't wait to see it in spring.
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Welp, my co-worker just put in a week's notice, citing our worthless Office Manager as her reason for terminating employment. This fucks me, because I too am trying to get out. However, this recent turn of events has lead our controller of 30 years to finally get it through our General Manager's head that he needs to get rid of our Office Manager (who is his ex-SIL), or she's cutting ties. She told me she wants me to step up and be trained to replace our Office Manager. I don't want to be the Office Manager. I'm pretty sure our controller realized that I'm not planning on sticking around when I said that I don't think I'm interested. She wants to follow up in "a day or two" and I don't have any offers for employment yet, because I just started looking. 
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Jan 22, 2019 18:05
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Oh, back to house chat: Are you guys familiar with the wonder of self-leveling gel-cote paint? A video popped up for it in my YT suggestions and I thought it would be crap but there were so many real world testimonials that I gave it a shot. Did all the basement trim and just knocked out the closet door down here and it's nuts. No priming, just 1-2 coats and it looks incredible. The only downside is it's a high gloss so the wife isn't too hot on using it for every other room in the house.
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T-Square posted:Welp, my co-worker just put in a week's notice, citing our worthless Office Manager as her reason for terminating employment. This fucks me, because I too am trying to get out. However, this recent turn of events has lead our controller of 30 years to finally get it through our General Manager's head that he needs to get rid of our Office Manager (who is his ex-SIL), or she's cutting ties. Yeah I work in tech support and I would not accept the position of office manager for any sum of money. A lot of employers I've noticed will offer you a management position that is 4x the work for like the equivalent of an extra $5k a year. Honestly not worth it. I'm trying to get out of my job too FWIW.
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