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I see someone tried a "free***** credit report" site. Or porn. Or shopped at Home Depot sometime in the past year. Or something in between. One gripe I have with USAA is they don't show $1 preauthorizations (which is what you got hit with) for their debit cards - their online banking assumes that's from a gas pump, and 99% of the time, they're right. And actually show the full gas pump price immediately after you hang up the nozzle. Some scammy companies will run a $1 preauth to make sure the card is valid, then force a charge through for a lot more a week later. They actually have at least 30 days to do that from the day of the initial preauth. USAA does have several forms of credit monitoring you can purchase, but the most expensive version is $12.95/month. The gripe I don't have: they sent me a letter in the mail, emails, and plenty of warnings every time I logged into online banking, starting about 2 weeks ago, stating they had figured out my debit card had been compromised by a retailer (pretty safe to assume Home Depot, since I've been there a lot). Then sent a new debit card. That was pretty surprising. New debit card showed up a couple of days ago, with the typical new debit card stuff, along with a letter stating essentially "we figured out your card was compromised in some kind of unnamed hack; it was at a retailer you do business with, here's a new debit card". randomidiot fucked around with this message at 11:40 on Oct 1, 2014 |
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Geirskogul posted:Funny thing is, I have never tried a site like that (though I've stopped others, like my parents, from making that mistake for years), and my USAA card is exclusively for money to get diverted from my paycheck to, then withdrawn for rent at a wells fargo bank. Except a few times I used it with Amazon and retail purchases, but the last non-rent use was well over two years ago (maybe a home depot a long time ago, but I doubt it). Probably why they never notified me of any compromise. Either way, I'm out enough for rent, and probably won't have it for a week at least, and rent is due tomorrow. Yay. Sucks, but USAA tends to be really good about that kind of stuff.... after the charge has finalized anyway. They won't be able to do anything until then.  Mom, dad, and stepmom are smart enough not to fall for that without at least asking around a bit. Stepdad constantly buys into get rich quick poo poo and "FREE***** STOCK MARKET QUOTES".  I had a lot more typed up, but it's basically venting about get rich quick poo poo, computers, and people who refuse to take advice (then get angry).
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If it makes you feel better, I've been trying to nurse along a 9 year old battery for entirely too long. It'll start the car if it hasn't sat more than 24 hours, and if it's not winter. And I've managed to jump start some much bigger stuff pretty recently by just connecting the cables and not starting my own car. It was more of a "how long will this drat thing last?" game for a bit, then we had some unexpected household expenses come up. Now it's "oh gently caress don't you dare die before my next 3.. okay fine, 20 paychecks". e: it's the only battery I've had last past 4 years, which is why I'm doing the "how long will it actually last" bit.
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cursedshitbox posted:oh haaaay. Something new to piss on and ruin. Couple of steps ahead of you. meatpimp posted:What's the number? I could use a fake ID... I didn't know you owned a rape van. CornHolio posted:No that'd be a fart. Why is it the older I get the less I trust farts? 
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So my boss and I were talking about his moving to a new store - Friday is his last day at my store. He mentioned he wasn't planning on taking anyone with him - then said "unless you want to go with me". We discussed it briefly, and agreed to talk a bit more about it next time I see him. Between what I know of the incoming GM, and knowing my boss is going to a much busier store with a smaller + denser delivery area (and a lot closer to home)... yeah, we're going to discuss it. Geirskogul posted:I also got a cooler master storm quickfire xt keyboard with cherry mx green switches in it, and it's a loving beauty to type on. Like an IBM model M, but slightly less noisy. Went from an average of 85wpm to 100 or so after a quick 20 minute adjustment period. I know that it's no STR with his 120wpm hyperspeed typing, but I'm still really happy about it. Oh, you.  I'm probably closer to 80 on the keyboard I have now, but this year has been the destroyer of keyboards for me, so I refuse to drop more than $15 on one. I'm on my 3rd or 4th so far. meatpimp posted:
 OFFICER 13 INCH posted:Signed up for amazon prime to look for something to send the gf while she's in treatment in LA. Amazon was like hey bro you wanna send that poo poo coast to coast in 18 hours from order to confirmed delivery? For $3.99? Bullshit you can, I loving dare you. Prime is pretty awesome like that, though I still have major issues with them not allowing you to pick what carrier gets it. When I lived in dorms, UPS and Fedex could deliver to the dorms (they'd drop packages off at the front desk, front desk would call me and let me know I had a package), but not to my PO Box. USPS could deliver to a PO Box that the university paid for, clear across campus - but not the dorms. I learned the hard way that even selecting overnight sometimes still means USPS.. which was more than a bit annoying with a semester's worth of textbooks getting returned by USPS. Granted, that's kind of a unique situation, but it's pretty common in a dorms.
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Negromancer posted:I really need to stop leasing the POS cable modem from comcast and just buy my own and pick up one of those AP's. Any recommendations for cable modems? I have never looked into buying one before. Motorola Surfboard. Wal-Mart even carries them. Older models were pretty terrible when they started including built-in wifi, newer ones are solid. If you buy used, make sure it's new enough to support DOCSIS 3.0. IOwnCalculus posted:I got DD-WRT micro running on what I think was a v5 at one point. I never used it as anything more than a wireless client bridge but it worked alright when my network was all 802.11g. I still have one running micro as well. I think it's a v6? I haven't used it as more than a wireless bridge in 6 or 7 years though - it used to be used for a network-enabled bluray player (that said "wifi ready*" on the box *if you drop an extra $100 on a model-specific wifi dongle that's long discontinued, thanks sony). I did find that almost all of my issues with it could be fixed by just setting it to reboot itself once a week. I have a N300 Netgear router running Tomato now, I've had it about 5 years  it might have been a samknows whitebox at one timemariooncrack posted:I thought he wanted to try to get his life together and thought he was spending way too much time here on SA. Rhyno also left that bookface thing. It's made it hard for me to stalk him. Liquid Communism posted:Used to be Tier 1 support for those guys, and I can say gently caress MEDIACOM with feeling and venom. The poor bastard on the other end of the phone was flat lying to you, though, their TOS doesn't say poo poo about external routers, just that they won't offer support for them. You can use your own cable modem/gateway too, which is why I swapped the piece of poo poo they gave me for a Netgear C3700 NAS that I had lying around. I've been tier 1 for one ISP, "tier 2" for Roadrunner/TWC, and actual tier 2 for Frontier. Every ISP I've worked for, and used, had the same policy - use your own router if you want, just know we won't hold your hand if you break it. Unless it's Frontier, then they'll tell you that they'll support it if you pay an extra $20/month for premium tech support, then give a halfassed attempt while trying to upsell you on identity protection. Then try to upsell on antivirus. Then try to upsell on backup software. Then keep trying to upsell. Then somehow drop the call if you were in danger of ruining your average call time for the day. We have a movie theater here that has full table service in the theater. They call their white russians "The Dude's White Russian". I always manage to rack up something stupid like a $50 tab every time I go there, between food and drinks. Pham Nuwen posted:In this thread I'm never sure if "trashy assholes" refers to people or actual assholes. Hey man, don't judge me for going a few weeks without manscaping. I'll handle that before we go out again. Yeah uh, it may have been something worse. I woke up today to a bed completely soaked in sweat (at least I hope it was sweat), and I've had menopause-style hot flashes all day.  Which is also why nobody has been subjected to any of my posting today.OH poo poo IT'S EBOLA ISN'T IT You Am I posted:OMFG that avatar 
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Ebola chat. Was watching the local news earlier. They showed a shot of the sign in front of the apartment complex of the family that's been quarantined. Okay fine, there's still several hundred apartments there. Then zoomed in on the sign that has the building number. A lot of older apartments here have an individual street address for every building - that sign actually had the full street address on it along with the building #, so you no longer need to google the name of the property to get an address. Then they zoomed in on the front door, clearly showing the actual apartment number, and the anchors kept repeating the apartment number.  Then interviewed parents at a nearby school. One parent said she wanted to know "where these people live". If she caught that broadcast, she got her wish. Looks like they've edited the clips that are online to remove that parent's comments, but there's still a lot of video online showing their address. .... they also interviewed a lot of people who live in the same apartment complex. There was a lot of anger. I feel really bad for that family, they're likely going to be victims of a lot of poo poo once the quarantine is lifted/cops leave. I'm used to seeing a full address for criminal stuff in a small town, not so much giving out the address of a family dealing with diseases in one of the largest metro areas in the US.
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Pretty sure what I have is the flu and not food poisoning at this point. 102 fevers are not fun, neither is hallucinating (when you haven't done something that you expect to cause hallucinations anyway). If you need me, I'll be in the darkest nearby corner shivering and drenched in sweat. Caught this on the weather channel a little while ago. Not sure if it's the fever that made me think it was hilarious, or the fact he walked up in front of a camera and spent a solid 10 seconds straightening his tie and giving a thumbs up, not realizing he was already live.  mafoose posted:Providers in my town will blacklist a modem if it is tied to a delinquent account. Because of this, none of the local retailers allow you to return a modem. That's.... usually if it was a modem issued by the ISP. I hope that's still the case anyway. But yeah, they're cheap enough brand new, I think a current Motorola Surfboard (which includes a 4 or 5 port switch and wifi) isn't much more than $60 at Wal-Mart. It's not cheap, but it's a hell of a lot less than what I once paid for a 2400 bps modem.  fake edit: just checked. $69.99. Shipped free, or pick up in-store for free. Likely can be found a bit cheaper if you have a Fry's or Micro Center in your area. randomidiot fucked around with this message at 10:29 on Oct 3, 2014 |
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I just saw someone post on facebook about ordering pizza in the middle of yesterday's storm. And bitching about how long it took. ARE YOU loving KIDDING ME?!?!?  I had something a lot longer and bitchier typed up about what I've gone through trying to get orders out on time, but it boiled down to "ring doorbell just as tornado sirens go off, customer tells me I'm loving crazy and makes me shelter with his family for 15 minutes, walk out afterwards to find my car missing almost all of its glass and moved several hundred feet, customer got free pizza for a long time". randomidiot fucked around with this message at 12:19 on Oct 3, 2014 |
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Damnit. You quoted the pre-edit. But yeah, my ears were already popping when I hit the doorbell, my radio was blasting a tornado warning while I was driving out there, and the weather went from "freaky calm but a really weird dark green sky and almost no light at 3pm" to "hailing sideways" in the time between my ringing the doorbell and them opening the door. I was really stupid when I was in my early 20s (okay still really stupid, just more experienced). Don't ever want to be that close to something like that again. I love storms until they're trying to remove the building I'm in from its foundation. And it's also how I learned why it's so important to carry anything beyond bare minimum insurance. I've been caught in several bad storms since then, while doing delivery. These days I pull into the first thing I can find with a roof (usually gas station), then call the customer and tell them "hey there's baseball sized hail, I'm stuck, I'm gonna be a few minutes late, unless you want to drive your S Class over here in this poo poo". So far everyone has opted to wait the 10-20 minutes for the hail to stop. edit: huh, watching the news right now. One entire ISD (Arlington) is closed due to storm damage, much of another one (Dallas) is closed due to not having power at schools, and an entire university (UT Arlington) is closed for the same reason (no power). I never lost power, but my insurance companies are going to hate me. Roof damage, garage door damage, car damage, fence damage, tree damage, broken windows on the house. edit 2: okay, damage I've found so far: all 3 cars damaged to some degree (Avalon is the closest to being totaled at first glance - broken windshield, sunroof sits funny, rest of it looks like the surface of the moon, has a bit of interior water intrusion). A chunk of the shingles from the house's roof are missing, gutter peeled off in a couple of areas, garage's overhead door is sitting odd and has a lot of dents. One tree doesn't know how to tree anymore, another is leaning at a non-tree angle. Backyard fence has a funky lean going, we won't even discuss the gates, driveway (which is behind the house) is covered in tree poo poo and random car poo poo. At least it's only straight line wind damage instead of tornado.
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Viggen posted:Which reminds me, I need a gas chainsaw. Best "haunted house" I remember as a little kid had someone dressed up as Generic Killer #905, and used a gas chainsaw as a prop (chain removed). Always wanted to do that. Bet that I'd spend less on candy NEXT year. Last year about this time, I drove past a house with a really ugly guy spray painting halloween decor in his front yard. Drove past a few days later... lots of decor up. Guy was building more. A few days after that.. see a sign with a URL. Turns out this guy spends (possibly tens of) thousands every halloween to scare the poo poo out of his neighborhood, right down to chasing people (briefly anyway) with a chainsaw.  I wish he was my neighbor Geirskogul posted:ACVW is love, ACVW is life. I thought love what what made a subaru a subaru. bandman posted:My old Protege ran like poo poo on anything but the cheapest NGK or Denso plugs. My 4Runner uses a wasted spark ignition system and says to only use twin electrode plugs and the only ones that work right are the OEM NGKs or Densos. My car seems to hate NGK - which irritates me, NGK is my favorite brand. It was detonation city until I went back to OEM AC Delco plugs. Also a wasted spark system, but doesn't use twin electrode plugs. 
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Terrible Robot posted:That's awesome, do you remember what th URL was, by any chance? I didn't. but googling the street name and halloween turned it up. http://www.halloweenspookshow.com/ Website isn't exactly great, and hasn't been updated in over a year. Pictures from 2012 are here. Unfortunately it's a (large) gated community with guards, you can't just drive in to see the place. It used to be part of my delivery area. randomidiot fucked around with this message at 06:06 on Oct 4, 2014 |
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some texas redneck posted:Ebola chat Someone has moved them into a house rent-free "at an undisclosed location". I'm really glad someone stepped up and did that for them - they'd otherwise be hosed once the quarantine was lifted, and just guessing by where they were living, it's not a family with a lot of money. Their apartment is in a very rough area (speaking from semi-personal experience, have had several friends who lived on the same street, and used to work about a mile away). randomidiot fucked around with this message at 06:40 on Oct 4, 2014 |
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Every pizza place I've worked at has a very strict "nobody can take the day off" when it comes to halloween. Usually the same for Superbowl and New Years (both eve and day). I'm going to have to say something like "sorry, family reunion" or some poo poo.
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Holdbrooks posted:Also you cover their rear end way more than you should. Holy poo poo, you ain't kidding. New GM started today. 2 drivers and a FOH manager/server walked out. The only reason a 3rd driver (me) didn't walk out is said driver doesn't have enough in the bank to coast on for a bit. Another shift manager quit at the end of his shift. I got so pissed off that I basically took every back road on every delivery just to stay the gently caress away from the place for at least twice as long, and basically idled down every road once I'd dropped off orders. I'm trying to forget today ever happened. What a loving shitshow. Got called in 2 hours early (which means I actually clocked in an hour early), got held 2 hours late, on what was already a 9 hour shift, and cussed out and called a "loving dick" for refusing to stay until close (when I loving opened AND came in an hour early). There is not enough booze, drugs, anything in the world to make me forget today ever happened. gently caress. This. Place. Putting in my 2 weeks notice next time I work. randomidiot fucked around with this message at 04:55 on Oct 5, 2014 |
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Holdbrooks posted:The car is a 2007 civic EX coupe and Google tells me that it has disc all around. What is a good budget pad and maybe rotor,if they are trashed, to go with? I am only familiar with high performance poo poo on my cars. Also anything special I should know about doing it I have never worked on a Honda. It should have drums in the rear. Also, parts will be different between ABS and non-ABS, manual and automatic transmission, body styles, and even trim level. I had the worst loving time buying brake parts for my 96, and never understood why Honda did that. Only different thing about them (beyond the "we're going to use 10 different kinds of rotors/pads on the same model depending how it's optioned" poo poo) is the rotors, from the factory anyway, have a couple of screws attaching them to the hub. If they're still there, they'll be seized. They're only there to help during the original assembly, drill them out and forget they existed. randomidiot fucked around with this message at 17:39 on Oct 5, 2014 |
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Hey, if someone could make the room stop spinning, I'd really appreciate it. I'm ready to puke over here. Not sure if it's the ear infection, or the new paula deen (beetus) meds. Either way, I got halfway to work when the tilt a whirl started up. Used my last AAA call for the year getting my car towed home, pretty sure the driver thought I was hammered. T1g4h posted:most tweets are pretty similar to what came out of STR's rear end after his rancid turkey incident. Dribble is pretty appropriate No, no it's not. "Spraying like a fire hose full of liquid dookie" is more like what came out of my rear end. But that could have been mistaken for a post by Viggen.  BrokenKnucklez posted:Is it normal to not hate an ex but still think they are a lovely person? I don't sit around and bad mouth my ex all day every day. Nor do i bring it up in conversation. But I don't care for her either and still think she's a bitch. Absolutely. Actually, I think a lot of people are lovely, and try not to think about them - I don't hate them, I just don't want to associate with them. NitroSpazzz posted:Hotel wifi...for 15euro a day it should be able to handle netflix or youtube. I just want to zone out to Archer episodes, eat (crappy) delivery sushi and drink beer The last hotel I was in charged $5 per day (I think) for the wifi. And it felt slower than dialup. Wound up tethering to my phone, which wound up pulling 50+ mbit. I couldn't even finish a speed test on the hotel wifi because of the packet loss. alternate.eago posted:I never got one, although I can only imagine. My reaction was essentially "you want to put that inside a human?!".
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 Dementia is one of the hardest things in the world to to watch, and it's one of the few things that truly scares the poo poo out of me. I can handle my body failing, but the thought of losing my mind just scares the hell out of me. My grandfather on my dad's side died in his 50s from it (I was young enough that I have only a couple of memories of him); my grandmother on my mom's side lived until the day after her 93rd birthday. She was at the point that she could barely speak, and would start shouting Jingle Bells at random. Rancid deli meats chat - still feeling like death. Stepped on the scale a little while ago and found out I've lost close to 15 pounds, in about a week. I needed to lose that weight, but I was hoping to lose through a healthier method. Gonna hit up the doctor in a bit.
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 You'll have to settle for one situp though. It's gonna take a bit, and there's a good chance I'll poo poo myself in the process. (I'm sure I'm missing some kind of movie reference..) randomidiot fucked around with this message at 14:25 on Oct 8, 2014 |
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Nothing like waking up and having to projectile vomit.. didn't even have enough time to grab the garbage can. I just bought this comforter too. 
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Cat Terrist posted:It might be Ebola. I can't find a local channel that isn't running  breaking news about ebola. Even when I went to get food earlier, several radio stations were all broadcasting the press conference.I mean, I did want to see the news, but everyfuckingthing is either about oh poo poo ebola hide your kids hide your wife hide yourself, or sports. They didn't give it this much coverage when the first guy had it, and his death this morning was basically a tiny blip on the news.. but now that a first responder might have it everyone is completely losing their poo poo. It probably is ebola in my case. BRB going to Viggens to share. CharlesM posted:You're still sick from that??? Yes, you need to go to the doctor!! Honestly I'm pretty sure it's something else, I felt a lot better for about a day ... (then I made the mistake of eating at work) (starting to feel better... I actually managed to eat today!) It doesn't help that my insurance is a very restrictive HMO. There are exactly two urgent care clinics covered by my plan within 100 miles (neither are even in the same county that I live in). My normal doctor is on vacation for a couple more days. Only other option is ER. I'll take that option if I still feel like death tomorrow. randomidiot fucked around with this message at 23:25 on Oct 8, 2014 |
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Patient 4 posted:Sorry about the Ebola. Thanks man. So your place or mine tonight?
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Patient 4 posted:I thought we were partying at viggen's? We are.... after the sexytimes end. poo poo, that was a secret, wasn't it? Also you're gonna have to drive, I've barely slept in the past few days. Goober Peas posted:I have the perfect movie You should google "piercing blowout".  (been there done that)
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Pham Nuwen posted:
Incredibly hot. Beyond that, it's about like any other sprawling metro area. There's a Six Flags there. As others mentioned, Austin isn't far at all, and IMO Austin is a lot more unique. There's a lot of absolutely beautiful roads near Kerrville. Not really high speed roads, just "holy poo poo where did all these trees come from" roads. meatpimp posted:Wow, I didn't know you did bottom. Only if you don't hold cans of energy drinks for size comparison while we make videos. randomidiot fucked around with this message at 00:08 on Oct 9, 2014 |
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Holy poo poo yes, the parks. Those, and the thunderstorms, are the best part of living here. Dirt cheap to camp in the state parks, and a lot of them even have cabins (ranging from "a roof and 3 walls" to "air conditioning, power, and a fridge").
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Darchangel posted:No poo poo. Cancer and dementia/Alzheimer's are my big fears. My maternal Grandmother has frontal-lobe dementia, and my wife's paternal grandmother is forgetting stuff. Not Alzheimer's, but her short-term is going. It hurts to watch. I've got one other remaining grandparent (paternal grandmother, and she's still going strong, thankfully), but this is my wife's last. Sucks. My grandmother that passed a couple of years ago was my last. Supposedly it skips generations.. so I probably won't have to watch my parents go through it. Just myself. That kinda scares me. My dad is about to break 70. I think his mother died in her 40s - she died almost a year before I was born, from cancer. His dad died, as mentioned, in his 50s. The good news is pops is still kicking rear end, taking names, and pissing people off by lighting up a cigarette after he kicks their rear end at tennis. Dementia scares me far more than cancer. At least with cancer, your mind is (usually) intact, you're just stuck watching your body fall apart. With dementia, you have little to no idea that your brain moved out and left the do not disturb sign on the door. Pham Nuwen posted:My maternal grandmother is my last grandparent left alive. She has Alzheimer's... I think the death of my grandfather almost 20 years ago meant that she spent too much time doing the same thing every day, living alone in her house. At this point, she doesn't recognize her children sometimes The last couple of years that my grandmother was alive, she frequently called me by my uncle's name, occasionally by an aunt's name.
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Welp, appetite returned with a vengeance today. Thank gently caress, I've been beyond weak, and dropped over 10 pounds. Got a burrito with habanero sauce. Apparently I either lost my tolerance for spicy food in the days that I couldn't eat, or they put 50 extra habaneros in their habanero sauce. I'm sitting here staring at it. I've managed 5 bites, but every time I take a bite I want to run away and hide. This is a burrito place that I visit at least twice a week, and I always get their habanero sauce on my burritos/tacos/etc. I think I'm just gonna order a pizza. keykey posted:Just gave it a shot and uhhh.. It's a thing.. There's a reason I haven't touched Linux again in close to 16 years. First is driver support. The manufacturer didn't have any Linux drivers, so I went to the chip set source and got a Linux driver there. Second, I had to extract it then run the make command in terminal, after 10 minutes of monkeying with it it finally worked. If the terminal has to be one of the first things a user touches, it's a failed OS. That is what alienates Linux from being anywhere close to being a viable option for 99.9% of the users out there. It's fine for web/mail/radius pool server environments, aka areas where computer nerds will be operating and maintaining the machine, but for home use forget it, it really offers absolutely nothing over any other OS. The last several times I tried Linux, I didn't have to hunt down a single driver. Everything just worked, straight out of the box. Even an obscure USB wifi dongle, even a wifi printer. This is a home-built PC, and (Windows) drivers for it have been sometimes hard to find even on the motherboard manufacturer's website. I didn't have to track down a single driver for Linux. Still use Windows, I've spent way too much money on games to ditch it. keykey posted:After using for a bit, it looks like it's trying really hard to skin itself like OS X, but it's still all Linux-y under the shined up turd. In that case, I really hate to tell you what OSX is based on. (unix and bsd - not quite linux, but still related) General_Failure posted:File sharing is a goddamn mess. I don't even know if it's possible to do Windows sharing without opening smb.conf with a text editor at least once. File sharing is a mess even in Windows, outside of server environments. And uh.. my Win 8.1 desktop only gets rebooted when Microsoft pushes a "gently caress you" update that forces a reboot. I never thought I'd ever defend Windows (this is coming from someone who was once an official beta tester for OS/2, and hated anything and everything from Microsoft), but I've gone months between reboots on this PC. I think I'm sitting at about 3 weeks right now. 8's UI loving sucks without Startisback, but it's stable. And a bit quicker than 7 was. randomidiot fucked around with this message at 23:26 on Oct 9, 2014 |
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Cat Terrist posted:What? No it's not. It's dead easy. Not for us. I can click share, it says shared, but everything either times out (the usual response) or after a few minutes says I typed in the wrong homegroup password. The only things I wanted to share was movies/tv/music anyway. Plex handles that pretty well, and handles streaming to set top boxes like butter. Probably doesn't help that most of the computers here are running XP.
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Fucknag posted:IM GONNA FLUNK THIS DEGREE AND LIVE UP TO MY PARENTS' EXPECTATIONS OF DISAPPOINTMENT Welcome to the club. Where should I send your membership card?
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You could be 36 and couch surfing. Also weed's the only reason I've even been able to hold food down in the past few days. Very, very, very stale weed; I bought an 1/8 6 months ago and still haven't finished it. I want to puke when I smoke it, but it kicks the nausea into the next state.
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N is for Nipples posted:STR is old enough to be my dad. I wish he was, he's such a good role model.
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Oct 10, 2014 04:24
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leica posted:Depends where you are really. On the Gulf Coast of Florida it's where the money is. This. Friend of mine has a felony and can't really get much outside of hospitality or food service, so he's mostly been working for resorts in Miami. His reported income this year will easily be at least triple (likely more) than mine.
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Cakefool posted:the loudest thing in the house are the farts coming from the kids room I managed to wake myself up today with one of the most satisfying farts I've ever had. It was nearly 10 seconds of pbbbbbbtttttBRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP, followed by a very loud "ahhhhh" (and maybe a bit of checking to make sure I didn't poo poo myself). My stomach felt absolutely amazing afterwards, and I'm pretty sure I'll never feel the same thing again. randomidiot fucked around with this message at 06:00 on Oct 10, 2014 |
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Oct 10, 2014 05:57
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Maksimus54 posted:My life is really super decent. Horrible stuff doesn't happen too often and I usually find a way to trudge through it. But to add to the depression here I bought a 98 Integra LS for my girlfriend and acted a fool when I went to inspect. Broke all the rules on how to buy a used car and am paying for it now. The point of the story is now the car is running ok, new tires have been purchased but the alignment is so bad I'm really worried something is damaged beyond a reasonable amount of repair and we are approaching our limit on how much more to put into this car. Tell me it will be ok AI The upside is Integras are fun to drive in anger, and pretty easy to work on. They're essentially a Civic with a DOHC. Also uh, the lower control arms are the first thing to bend when you nail a curb. Might wanna check those out. keykey posted:We have a cocker spaniel that's as dumb as a bag of hammers. We have a collie that still can't figure out how to back up; he gets stuck in a corner and starts barking to get someone to help him if he can't turn around easily. He also refuses to actually poo poo/piss in the grass for some reason; the back patio is not something you want to walk on without shoes. He's very sweet, but I'm guessing he got dropped on his head a few times before we got him. Have a picture of him and my cat checking out... something. I want to say it was a squirrel, but I took this picture years ago. 
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Oct 10, 2014 17:35
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Well, I thought I was feeling better. For less than a day. I'd like to offer a hearty to whatever the gently caress I have. Except I'm too weak.The upside: I haven't poo poo myself today. Yet. The downside: 103 fever and hallucinations that are on par with large doses of LSD (this is coming from someone who's ingested enough LSD for entire countries).Gonna do the ER bit. Have a friend on the way to drive me, no way in hell can I navigate even a parking lot right now.
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Oct 11, 2014 03:34
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Terrible Robot posted:drat man, hope you get well soon, 10 days is a long time to be that sick. Holy poo poo it's been 10 days? gently caress. But yeah. Should have gotten medical attention a lot sooner. I loving hate going to the doctor in general, I'm THAT GUY that only goes moments before dying. Still waiting on my friend to get here. I think the only time I've had chills like this is when I had the flu... randomidiot fucked around with this message at 04:00 on Oct 11, 2014 |
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Oct 11, 2014 03:56
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Yeah. I know this. I'm waiting for a friend to show up to drive me to the hospital. edit: just talked to him. he's a few minutes away. edit 2: friend showed up. on my way to annoy an ER staff. randomidiot fucked around with this message at 04:07 on Oct 11, 2014 |
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CharlesM posted:Um be careful I don't like going to the doctors but that was really pushing it. I'm glad you're on the way now. Well, the ICU in this place isn't pretty. But the bed is comfortable. I want to track down whatever keeps making ding sounds in the hall and smash it, but I'm tangled up in wires and tubes. 
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