totm nov 2023 Thread to discuss negative things in a very general way, just see where it goes y'know?

[AlamoVampire]

The first spam call of the day has hit.

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982…  143804032025 <screams>

983…  144904032025 <screams louder>

984…  155304032025 <screams louder at the 7th intrusion>

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987…  165904032025 10th arrives 13 minutes after 9th… 

988…  172504032025 <yeets phone into orbit>

989…  193004042025 cant even nap in peace
 

Edited Friday at 12:30 AM by AlamoVampire

[AlamoVampire]

Thursday starts with an explosive five spam calls… this is ridiculous.

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995…  105004042025 today looks bad. Looks like today is going to be obscene in numbers  

996…  115404042025 thats 7. Not even noon yet  

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999…  143104042025 im angry.

1000…  150904042025 why? 11 today… 1000 since 01262025… OBSCENE! 151204042025

1001…  151604042025 not even 10 minutes later call 12.

1003…  161104042025 thats 14 today

1004…  165704042025 15…

1005…  175304042025 not an hour goes by…

Edited Friday at 10:53 PM by AlamoVampire

[Nuke]

technical minecraft. go down the rabit hole of advanced item sorters, zero tick technology, quasi connectivity, rail wires and ultimately deciding on the crude, slow and reliable system i already designed in my creative world. now just to build it in survival. games that feel like work are wrong.

Edited Saturday at 09:52 AM by Nuke

[AlamoVampire]

I just learned something that greatly irritates AND concerns me. As some may know later this month Forza Horizon 5 will arrive on PS5. I was excited when I learned PS5 would finally get a Forza game. I used to have an xbox 360 (halo reach edition) and had played a few of the Forza games including the first Forza Horizon game. So why am I concerned and irritated? Simple. XBox players get a (this has been the case since FH5 released a few years ago) physical disc. Ps5 players do not. Worse yet you are required to have a microsoft account to even play. For some neither are exactly barriers, but this causes concern for what happens if you lose access to microsoft or other glitches… 094604062025

[Lisias]

I'm complaining about the Steam Deck updates for months. VALVe botched something very serious, and this is starting to screw more people besides me.

Well... Apparently, we have more than one problem to cope with and, obviously, my cheeks was bitten by all of them.

But I least I solved one of the problems. It's related to BTRFS and how as time goes by your real available space can be way less than the used volume space subtracted from the volume size - something due fragmentation of the chucks used to store the files. So a process relying on the intuitive process of total - used will eventually think there's way more space available then it really are, and then this process will die due out of space. Balancing the free space using a special command defrags the chunks and reclaim the space back, solving the problem.

But... Since the damned update process is 100% opaque, I never knew exactly why the Updating process was dying in the middle of the process until I had a hunch, balanced my volume and now the Updating finishes successfully - or near it, becasue now when it reaches 100%, the word "Checking" is printed on the screen and then a Error Message saying the update had failed is shown.

(sigh)

But at least now the process finishes, instead of hanging forever forcing me to reboot the rig.

If at least the updating process would be being logged, so we can audit it and see what's happening, not? At least the disk space program I would had solved two months ago.

What leads to the rant of the semester: why in freaking hell companies go to the extra mile to make things so hard to diagnose? I could had solve at least part of the problem months ago if I could find the freaking log. And if I had access to it now, I'm almost surely would know what's screwing with the process now.

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Link for future reference.

Edited yesterday at 03:18 AM by Lisias
Link for future reference.

[DareMightyThingsJPL]

My English assessment task (A video essay on Hayao Miyazaki's personal views reflected in the film Spirited Away) is due tomorrow.

I've got the video done, but the video clock in at 7 minutes, a whole minute over the maximum time. If I submit that it'll negatively affect my grade. so I'll have to cut parts out. But if I cut parts out, I may lose potential marks. 

What bugs me the most is the time limit, because it's meant to be styled like a YouTube video. However, any youtuber would tell you that you want a long-form video to be a minimum of 9 minutes long - This is because, any shorter and you won't get midroll advertisements. My complaint is highly pedantic, but if the limit were something like ten minutes I wouldn't have to cut out segments and talk super fast.

 

[ColdJ]

I do every security measure you can think of and yet someone got my Credit Card details, opened up an Amazon Account and started purchasing things with my card. Amazon never questioned that the same card was being used on 2 different accounts. What use the customer doing all the right things if the major companies don't use any common sense?

[Lisias]

7 hours ago, ColdJ said:

I do every security measure you can think of and yet someone got my Credit Card details, opened up an Amazon Account and started purchasing things with my card. Amazon never questioned that the same card was being used on 2 different accounts. What use the customer doing all the right things if the major companies don't use any common sense?

I don't know about where you live, but here we have the option to pay insurance for our Credit Card transactions. If something goes wrong, the Bank will take the hit for you.

It's kinda cheap, about the equivalent of 3 USD a month per CC (even taking in account the exchange for a weak local currency), but there're caveats - there're some rules you need to follow to avoid losing the "premium".

The very interesting bit is that since I decided to pay for this thing, I was never scammed again - they have a pretty effective algorithm to detect smelly transcations, and when in doubt, they enter in contact somehow asking if the transaction is legit. Never lost a penny since then.

One would argue that this kind of security should be standard for every CC, as every legislation I'm aware of make clear the CC operator is responsible to keep things secure but... Since the day that I could had been scammed by 1.5 times my monthly income (gross), I gave up fighting this fight and I'm paying insurance for my CCs (I have one for local transactions, and other exclusive for international ones - this makes things way easier to follow up).

[AlamoVampire]

Monday begins with one spam call

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Edited Monday at 10:33 PM by AlamoVampire

[ColdJ]

10 hours ago, Lisias said:

One would argue that this kind of security should be standard for every CC

Whoops, you are trying to apply logic to the real world. It will always dissapont you.

(Spock's head would probably explode if they had to live on Earth.)

[AlamoVampire]

Tuesday starts with three spam calls…

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1022…  165704082025 take a nap +2 spam call for the duration…

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Edited 22 hours ago by AlamoVampire

[Lisias]

On 4/7/2025 at 3:59 AM, Lisias said:

I'm complaining about the Steam Deck updates for months. VALVe botched something very serious, and this is starting to screw more people besides me.

And I will probably do it for a long time. Steam's Support is stalling me - no way a Support ticket about updating the Deck could be misunderstood as a connection problem while playing games. That, or whatever is the automated sorting mechanism they are using is a complete crap, because - DAMN - no one cares to read the data on the Ticket anymore?

Really, I'm concluding that VALVe fired some people they shouldn't in the last spending cut (and not only on R&D).

DAMN.

[AlamoVampire]

Wednesday sees two spam calls starting the day

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Edited 8 minutes ago by AlamoVampire