First World Problems

2022-09-07 09:06:25

#10551

SuperJail Warden: Gone Forever; +640|3935

I contacted Hilton. My account says the room was "late cancelled" in their system. No charge. I think something is wrong.

When I bought the room, the front desk person said the cheapest room was $115. When I went to pay for it, it said $245. I didn't complain because SluttyConfession and all. The room they gave me had 2 beds. I would not have asked for two beds. I wonder if they messed up giving me the room and the workers cleaned it up by cancelling the reservation.

The online rep was like "let me open a case for you about the situation since you said you stayed." I said nope. That's all thank you

2022-09-07 09:07:56

#10552

unnamednewbie13: Moderator; +2,053|6987|PNW

Smoke from someone's garbage-laced leaf burn or a housefire somewhere ruined the laundry out on the line. Will have to run it through another wash, and soon.

Unless I want to go around smelling like the newest concept men's deodorants. "Axe Dumpster Fire."

2022-09-07 09:12:17

#10553

Dauntless: Admin; +2,249|6958|London

Nice! Hope you got away with that mac

My AmEx card shows I've paid my bill 5 days ago (on auto pay) but they haven't taken the money from my account. I'm sure it'll go through eventually but I'm hoping I've hit some kind of 1 in a billion technical glitch jackpot. It's a pretty huge bill so this would be amazing, probably not

2022-09-09 08:33:42

#10554

SuperJail Warden: Gone Forever; +640|3935

They didn't have any more pumpkin spice at DD.

Last edited by SuperJail Warden (2022-09-09 09:50:22)

2022-09-09 16:11:35

#10555

unnamednewbie13: Moderator; +2,053|6987|PNW

Extremely tertiary email I made on yahoo years ago was wiped for inactivity. Didn't even send a notice to my linked email.

I don't remember what all was on it. Pretty sure a couple "important" messages for a digital hoarder like me. Went to see if there was a restore option and found an article written by someone mourning ten years of lost messages, in her first adult email. F to pay respects.

(No restore option that I can find.)

FWP: now I have to get over the feeling that I lost anything important, as well as look up how many months of inactivity it takes yahoo to deactivate now. Would hate to lose more important, unimportant junk.

2022-09-09 16:28:55

#10556

SuperJail Warden: Gone Forever; +640|3935

Photobucket sends me an email every other day warning me to take the hotlinks down or they will shut off the account. They have been doing this for three years now. I want them to delete the account. One of us will give in.

I wish I had access to my MSN email from 2000-2004.

2022-09-09 20:25:32

#10557

unnamednewbie13: Moderator; +2,053|6987|PNW

I just downloaded and deleted all my photobucket stuff from the account like a year ago.

2022-09-12 15:35:26

#10558

SuperJail Warden: Gone Forever; +640|3935

They don't teach kids cursive anymore

Last edited by SuperJail Warden (2022-09-12 15:35:43)

2022-09-12 15:47:14

#10559

uziq: Member; +493|3668

forget cursive, i read that lots of gen-z’ers don’t even have desktop PC literacy. stories of new office workers who don’t know anything about file management or file discipline. they’ve spent their entire lives on smartphones and tablets. playing PC games off desktop launchers. the idea of having files and extensions and directories is new to them. lol.

2022-09-12 15:55:54

#10560

SuperJail Warden: Gone Forever; +640|3935

I have two 14 year old twin brothers who don't know how to copy and paste. I had to teach them. Apparently their reading level is like first grade. I put a sticky note on their Chromebooks to remind them CTRL C, CTRL V.

They are actually good looking. Breaks my heart knowing that they are going to convince some poor girl to let them shoot inside her and their poor reading and writing skills will pass on to another generation.

2022-09-12 16:06:37

#10561

uziq: Member; +493|3668

i mean obviously literacy and numeracy are fundamental skills but i can understand knowledge gaps in fast-moving tech. my generation didn’t know how to use terminals or DOS; i only faintly remember using a ‘BBC’ or amstrad computer or whatever and executing very basic instructions to make it do things. that stuff was already fading out in the early 90s.

imagine being born after 9/11. you’re in a fully digital age. almost a web 2.0 native, even. internet forums were already past maturity then. IRC was a retreating 90s relic. imagine explaining to a 15 year old today that, instead of tiktok or social media, we got home and logged onto anonymous chat rooms or weird instant messengers ~*~wiTh NaMeS liKe tHiS~*~ and spoke in highly abbreviated txt spk and special code for hours every evening. imagine trying to explain to them the emotional significance of ‘you’ve got mail!’ or the MSN dings.

hell, i’ve barely used a desktop PC or windows platform, like one might encounter in a corporate environment, in the last decade. only a minor diversion back into nostalgia gaming in lockdown. i’ve had Mac OSX devices for my 20s. there’s no CTRL+ALT+DEL on those things. the file architecture is very different (or it was more so, at least). i wouldn’t be able to troubleshoot a windows PC if that was my entire tech experience.

2022-09-12 16:18:25

#10562

unnamednewbie13: Moderator; +2,053|6987|PNW

Mac's unedited post was about people who don't indent paragraphs.

Re: handwriting, it was always my impression that the quantity of homework assigned made all forms of handwriting more rushed. Take a -1 for harried penmanship but be able to get to your other ten assignments before 11 pm? No-brainer, really. Schools taught print and cursive when I went, but never focused on optimizing quality, speed, or or correcting poor ergonomics. F in chat for lefties' hand cramps. Handwriting is still common enough that I think it and calligraphy should be available as an elective.

2022-09-12 16:23:05

#10563

uziq: Member; +493|3668

you shouldn’t indent your paragraphs on an actual manuscript for submission. it’ll piss off your editor. insider tip there.

indenting a letter? sure. remember to write your address and the recipient’s address in the right areas of the heading too. all very important.

i actually write people letters and postcards occasionally; i can’t imagine this ‘skill’ is relevant for 95% of people. even the cover letter for job interviews is going the way of the dodo.

2022-09-12 16:26:51

#10564

unnamednewbie13: Moderator; +2,053|6987|PNW

You can honestly do a lot of your own Windows troubleshooting just by googling whatever error you're getting. Techs do it all the time. You run into issues fixing a thing that wasn't the problem, or when a solution unexpectedly perpetuates the problem (Windows Update, I'm watching you).

I imagine if I were born in 2005 and fixing my laptop today, I could go onto a search engine and find most of what I'd need the same way as most fat, old computer geeks do. Insisting you wouldn't be able to is really a self-imposed limitation.

Of course, that doesn't stop me from dropping off a piece of equipment to have someone else work on it when I just can't be assed.

2022-09-12 16:27:33

#10565

unnamednewbie13: Moderator; +2,053|6987|PNW

uziq wrote:
you shouldn’t indent your paragraphs on an actual manuscript for submission. it’ll piss off your editor. insider tip there.

indenting a letter? sure. remember to write your address and the recipient’s address in the right areas of the heading too. all very important.

i actually write people letters and postcards occasionally; i can’t imagine this ‘skill’ is relevant for 95% of people. even the cover letter for job interviews is going the way of the dodo.

Mass-shooter's manifesto I think it was. Is there a style guide for that?

2022-09-12 16:30:08

#10566

SuperJail Warden: Gone Forever; +640|3935

My signature has degraded. Whenever I go to vote they make me sign a book that shows a picture of my first voter signature in 2008. All neat cursive. Very readable. I now sign so many damn things that I my signature is now a scribble. Totally unreadable. I am not sure if people could even tell the first letters of each word without knowing my name.

I wish I didn't need to sign when I try to buy something with a card or pay a bar tab.

2022-09-12 16:34:37

#10567

uziq: Member; +493|3668

the breivik manifesto had big ‘high school book report’ energy about it, iirc. lots of images plopped in it with poor formatting. scant regard for good typesetting. sad!

we are indeed living in an era of unprecedentedly good tutorials and online advice. youtube especially. lots of dark arts like graphic design and music production, which seemed super secretive and high tech in the 2000s (remember those ‘specialists’ making basic forum signatures?) are highly accessible now. but i guess things like file management, as with good handwriting, are a matter of best practice and not one-off google searches. the tech team at my publishing house are forever sending around email asking people to be mindful of good file/folder discipline, etc.

2022-09-12 16:40:15

#10568

unnamednewbie13: Moderator; +2,053|6987|PNW

SuperJail Warden wrote:
My signature has degraded. Whenever I go to vote they make me sign a book that shows a picture of my first voter signature in 2008. All neat cursive. Very readable. I now sign so many damn things that I my signature is now a scribble. Totally unreadable. I am not sure if people could even tell the first letters of each word without knowing my name.

I wish I didn't need to sign when I try to buy something with a card or pay a bar tab.

My sig looks like doctor scrawl when I don't intentionally give myself a few seconds to write it out.

uziq wrote:
i actually write people letters and postcards occasionally; i can’t imagine this ‘skill’ is relevant for 95% of people. even the cover letter for job interviews is going the way of the dodo.

Most of my writing is work-related. I like things in a big notebook, rather than a tablet I have to keep scrolling around on. I'll acknowledge that it's probably not typical. I've seen people older than I am scribbling notes on their androids.

I try and make it legible, though the quality has still fallen off from when I was in school, starting from the Times of Great Homework and going down from there. Part of the reason why I like picking up on different alphabets is the process of just writing the characters out. It's like a newgame+.

uziq wrote:
the tech team at my publishing house are forever sending around email asking people to be mindful of good file/folder discipline, etc.

Been there, done that. A hopeless endeavor imo. You're trying to change people's habits.

Last edited by unnamednewbie13 (2022-09-12 16:43:26)

2022-09-12 16:49:38

#10569

SuperJail Warden: Gone Forever; +640|3935

I still write notes and on the board in cursive because it is easy. I wrote a bathroom pass and the kid said "you have nice handwriting." I was like "huh?" "They never thought us how to write like that." "Cursive?" "Yes "
...
All of the recent 19 year old political mass shooters either (A) were in special ed or (b) were in community college. I think we can stop a lot of mass killings if we require a 4 year degree and a letter written in cursive.

2022-09-12 17:30:49

#10570

KEN-JENNINGS: I am all that is MOD!; +2,978|6847|949

SuperJail Warden wrote:
My signature has degraded. Whenever I go to vote they make me sign a book that shows a picture of my first voter signature in 2008. All neat cursive. Very readable. I now sign so many damn things that I my signature is now a scribble. Totally unreadable. I am not sure if people could even tell the first letters of each word without knowing my name.

I wish I didn't need to sign when I try to buy something with a card or pay a bar tab.

Yeah when you're a newly minted adult, signing your name is generally still somewhat novel. After 10 years of it, you're gonna dumb it down. I don't want or need to spend 10 seconds signing my credit card receipt.

2022-09-12 17:53:18

#10571

unnamednewbie13: Moderator; +2,053|6987|PNW

That the act of writing my name out on non-digital media has become a little alien. Like, who is this person? At least I don't think I've absently written date and period below since my early 20s.

2022-09-12 17:55:42

#10572

SuperJail Warden: Gone Forever; +640|3935

Acrobat is cool. It has a signature feature. Just click and drag your signature.

2022-09-12 18:18:27

#10573

KEN-JENNINGS: I am all that is MOD!; +2,978|6847|949

Or get your digital signature authorized in Adobe so it has its own certificate that you can validate against. Just make sure to verify the signature against the certificate. Especially important if there are people in your department forging digital signatures on purchase requests...

2022-09-15 01:28:16

#10574

uziq: Member; +493|3668

snapped the nose arm on my fancy schmancy glasses. expensive mistake. was a hot and muggy day and the metal bent like butter.

now the challenge of finding a capable jeweller or optician who can solder it back on. not sure my korean vocabulary stretches to this sort of thing.

2022-09-15 16:28:32

#10575

unnamednewbie13: Moderator; +2,053|6987|PNW

Can one of your friends there help?

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