Little Things You Hate

[pink poodle]

I was followed home by a BLF thug when we first moved to WA for a project, the old intimidate shit they pulled back then. Made it really obvious. I drove to a vacant house we had been shown as a possible renter. Parked on the drive. They sat in their car opposite. I grabbed the junk mail and walked around the back. They drove off. I went home. A week or so later I got a text at 1am saying we know where your daughter goes to school. Arseholes.

Yeah there is shit cunts everywhere. That's a shit move. A similar thing happened to a union organiser here a little while back where some people associated with a large construction and land holding company from (sort of) overseas paid him a rather unfriendly visit. That wild West no rules bull shit is fucked up. L


I live in an interesting part of town here, and have spent a long time existing in the shiftier areas. When I ride home from work, if I come across a suspicious character within the vicinity of my house I'll often add a few extra bits of riding to avoid any make. My last house was a funny one. I had a fellow (actually a really good street and DJ rider, but also a mad meth head) who befriended me. He was pretty keen to find out where I lived but never had the pleasure. He made the mistake of asking a young fellow from half a street away who also rode bikes and had (when a teenager) learnt some DJ stuff from me at Glenbrook if he knew where I lived...the young fellow had become a bad man by that time, but a loyal one. Over here all my neighbours are retirees that don't like the bats.


Still if you aren't there when they pay a visit, we'll Ni point overthrowing and make sure your insurance is current. I'm glad I don't own a dog anymore. Last couple didn't do strangers very well and I would hate to come home to a brutalised pet that was trying to protect my junk.

 

[indica]

BLF thug

rapist

 

[The Duckmeister]

BLF Arseholes.

Bludgers & Layabouts Federastion. Those knuckle-dragging troglodytes would protest and blockade any legislation or work contract that would require them to actually do any work, and anyone who did actually do any work was likely to have a lynch mob thrown at them.

 

[pink poodle]

People who wander on trains...why not take a seat like everybody else? Oh you want to walk back and forwards like a fuckwit? I see...

 

[mas2]

Microsoft Windows updated and changed my background. I went to change it back and there's a note telling me to sign into Onedrive and it will automatically back up my background. It's the incremental/subtle ways programs are all trying to get on the micropayments gravy train.

Another one is Acrobat Reader. You used to right click and rotate the PDF. Now if you do that it pops up and tells you to buy Acrobat Professional. However, you can still use the shortcut keys but if you are new to the program you wouldn't know what they are.

 

[beeb]

Microsoft Windows updated and changed my background. I went to change it back and there's a note telling me to sign into Onedrive and it will automatically back up my background. It's the incremental/subtle ways programs are all trying to get on the micropayments gravy train.

Another one is Acrobat Reader. You used to right click and rotate the PDF. Now if you do that it pops up and tells you to buy Acrobat Professional. However, you can still use the shortcut keys but if you are new to the program you wouldn't know what they are.

Good tip on the rotate shortcut - didn't realise that worked. Ta.

And further to your other gripes is the "AI" shite that Microsoft is loading into all their programs lately where it auto-corrects/auto-completes sentences, except not to what I'm trying to type.

 

[Haakon]

Good tip on the rotate shortcut - didn't realise that worked. Ta.

And further to your other gripes is the "AI" shite that Microsoft is loading into all their programs lately where it auto-corrects/auto-completes sentences, except not to what I'm trying to type.

Microsoft always inspired rage and frustration but the whole server based model is extra horrible. And we use in the government systems too, which I find a little interesting. Given the fuss they always make about security and stupid login requirements, putting the entire public service’s business on MS servers seems like an odd decision…

MacOS is become more annoying with Appleid login needs for everything. My older iMac is now already denied from current versions of the OS and when it becomes too old to use im going to Linux…

 

[pink poodle]

the "AI" shite that Microsoft is loading into all their programs lately where it auto-corrects/auto-completes sentences, except not to what I'm trying to type.

That shit is everywhere. I'm not sure if my typing would be better or worse without it. New phone is killing me!

 

[Flow-Rider]

I was followed home by a BLF thug when we first moved to WA for a project, the old intimidate shit they pulled back then. Made it really obvious. I drove to a vacant house we had been shown as a possible renter. Parked on the drive. They sat in their car opposite. I grabbed the junk mail and walked around the back. They drove off. I went home. A week or so later I got a text at 1am saying we know where your daughter goes to school. Arseholes.

All the union reps when I was in Port Hedland (about 2013) were Bikies. They may have been on the take as they only protected certain people on site.

 

[dancaseyimages]

Microsoft always inspired rage and frustration but the whole server based model is extra horrible. And we use in the government systems too, which I find a little interesting. Given the fuss they always make about security and stupid login requirements, putting the entire public service’s business on MS servers seems like an odd decision…

MacOS is become more annoying with Appleid login needs for everything. My older iMac is now already denied from current versions of the OS and when it becomes too old to use im going to Linux…

Linux Mint or another flavour?

 

[Haakon]

Linux Mint or another flavour?

Having a life means less time to waste dicking around with the myriad dumb arse errors and c rashes on windoze….

Been using Ubuntu on personal lappys I just have for travelling. Although I once did a presentation on some of our IT capabilities we helping them with to Thai government peeps in Bangkok on my ancient dell pos I had lying around home, running Ubuntu and open office… Because our IT department wouldn’t give me a work laptop to take. Not a good look as my audience were all sitting there with whiz bang latest and greatest stuff lol! But it worked

 

[tubby74]

getting to the end of a long project. looking forward to the finished piece being ready and the last bolts are too short. its only a $3 packet of bolts form bunnings but its F$ing annoying when i just wanted it done.

 

[Freediver]

Linux Mint or another flavour?

I've been on various flavours for over 20 year now. The last 10 have been on Ubuntu and drama free.

 

[Jabubu]

I'd consider trying out Linux as most of the tools I use are web based - Photopea, Figma, Parcel, Slack but I don't have time to deal with any potential bullshit that might crop up.

 

[ozzybmx]

I'd consider trying out Linux as most of the tools I use are web based - Photopea, Figma, Parcel, Slack but I don't have time to deal with any potential bullshit that might crop up.

Too many things that might have you going 'FFS'

My bro tried to talk me into it 15yrs ago... Not sure what he uses now.

Shit that things are built for a couple of operating systems.

 

[Freediver]

I'd consider trying out Linux as most of the tools I use are web based - Photopea, Figma, Parcel, Slack but I don't have time to deal with any potential bullshit that might crop up.

Put which ever distro floats your boat on a USB stick and give it a try from that. That way you can give it a try without putting anything on your hard drive.

 

[Mr Crudley]

Put which ever distro floats your boat on a USB stick and give it a try from that. That way you can give it a try without putting anything on your hard drive.

My pet hate is that there are too many choices which makes it harder to choose which distro you want to run with. I have been using Unix and then Linux for a long time for work since pretty much 95% of all the products I've supported have used it in one form or another and generally all CLI. I'm no coding nor OS guru but I more so have had to wrangle/integrate to external systems to get things working.

I have dabbled with the home desktop releases out of interest. Tried Fedora, Debian and Ubuntu then Mint- nothing too obscure. I also have Puppy Linux on a very old laptop which goes well. It has usually ended in tears due to small issues overall so I mostly parked that idea for future days. Things like LibreOffice compatiblity with M$ Office or native video/audio driver support wasn't so great a few years back. The core features seemed to be fine but somewhere along the way you inevitably get a spreadsheet running a macro or some fonts that just don't work well once you start trading documents or spreadsheet or other niggling problems like browser support where scripts, extensions or screen rendering just didn't work as well as they do in Windows land. I *should* put more time into it and not throw my toys but have no immediate need to keep fiddling either.

Linux mint is pretty polished and is pretty impressive overall. I ran it on VM firstly then moved it to an old machine here with Virginia 21.3 which I keep updated just to see how it all evolves. Since I have no machines that will qualify for Windows 11 then running Mint at home one day seems more likely. I just want it to work and look after itself without having to faff around under the bonnet and drop to CLI where possible. I have little interest in spending time to babysit a home OS Feature parity is getting closer though.

I would like to keep as much of my own personal stuff under directory called /mrcrudley and just keep that backed up. If the OS or hardware dies then restoring that directory will save most of what I need to get going quickly aside from reinstalling applications which Mint snapshots might be able to tackle anyhow. Keep It Simple, Stupid FTW!

 

[bear the bear]

Not a little thing... for those that know this road and crossing

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[slowmick]

what a fucking mess

 

[dancaseyimages]

Not a little thing... for those that know this road and crossing

Cyclist dies after crash on Lady Denman Drive in ACT’s second fatal collision for 2024 | Riotact

A cyclist died after a collision with a car on Lady Denman Drive in the second fatality recorded for ACT's…

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Sometimes people don't wait for the lights whilst on their bikes there either, which myself on a motorbike with a car tailgating can lead to some heart stopping moments. I think they need those warning lights like they have before some crossings which flash yellow if someone has pressed the button so cars are prepared to stop, more signage to warn that you are coming up to lights as I know that one and the other one closer to ANU some people run the red light, especially turning left and maybe they dont see it in their rush to get somewhere.