[Rant] Minor Rant III: For a Few Hollers More

Jay

Jay

PatrThom said:
Only 3 and a half years to go, and you'll be able to put her in school.
Coincidentally, it is probably also the most likely divorce window. Just warning you.

--Patrick
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3 nights of fail.

Gonna revert to Phase 1 bed tonight and hope for the best.

But yeah, this shit ain't healthy for everyone and my wife is "on her period" so that crutch is on full throttle the last 3 days in terms of effort emotionally and physically. Hasn't helped a bit.

3 nights in a row I held a noisy bouncing ball of heat... ain't sleeping good at all.
 
GasBandit

GasBandit

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I'm only putting this in the minor rant thread because it sounds so petty, but I'm really really pissed off about this. The lollipop update has crippled my phone. Android Lollipop SUCKS. My battery life is practically cut in half, everything my phone does is slower and clunkier, they tried to take away chrome's tabs (who the fuck though it would be a good idea to hide your tabs among the last 30 fucking apps you opened in the app list... does anybody actually even use that stupid thing?), three quarters of the time "ok google" now completely fails and when it DOES work it's slow and stutters. Seriously, my brand new LG G3's performance now is worse than my old Droid 1 in several areas. The notifications area looks like total ass because they try to fan out the notifications like cards, which means you can't fucking read any of them except the one "on top." Also since upgrading to lollipop, using a proxy on wifi now makes the phone incapable of communicating with any google server, which means google now, "ok google," youtube, etc etc etc all fails.

And it's not like windows where if you get a bad update you can just uninstall that update, oh no. If I want my phone back, I have to fucking factory reset it with a kitkat rom. I didn't want to have to deal with the hassle of rooting my phone this time, and under kitkat, I DIDN'T!

Anybody reading this who is still on kitkat and has been wondering about upgrading to lollipop, DON'T. It will FUCK your phone in the ass with a sandpaper condom. Somebody at google really screwed the pooch on this update and needs to get fired. Needs to get beaten up. Needs to get gored by an elephant and then trampled by said elephant.
 
Chad Sexington

Chad Sexington

GasBandit said:
I'm only putting this in the minor rant thread because it sounds so petty, but I'm really really pissed off about this. The lollipop update has crippled my phone. Android Lollipop SUCKS. My battery life is practically cut in half, everything my phone does is slower and clunkier, they tried to take away chrome's tabs (who the fuck though it would be a good idea to hide your tabs among the last 30 fucking apps you opened in the app list... does anybody actually even use that stupid thing?), three quarters of the time "ok google" now completely fails and when it DOES work it's slow and stutters. Seriously, my brand new LG G3's performance now is worse than my old Droid 1 in several areas. The notifications area looks like total ass because they try to fan out the notifications like cards, which means you can't fucking read any of them except the one "on top." Also since upgrading to lollipop, using a proxy on wifi now makes the phone incapable of communicating with any google server, which means google now, "ok google," youtube, etc etc etc all fails.

And it's not like windows where if you get a bad update you can just uninstall that update, oh no. If I want my phone back, I have to fucking factory reset it with a kitkat rom. I didn't want to have to deal with the hassle of rooting my phone this time, and under kitkat, I DIDN'T!

Anybody reading this who is still on kitkat and has been wondering about upgrading to lollipop, DON'T. It will FUCK your phone in the ass with a sandpaper condom. Somebody at google really screwed the pooch on this update and needs to get fired. Needs to get beaten up. Needs to get gored by an elephant and then trampled by said elephant.
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My phone updated to Lollipop months ago, and if I could have warned you, I would have. It is not good.
 
GasBandit

GasBandit

Staff member
Chad Sexington said:
My phone updated to Lollipop months ago, and if I could have warned you, I would have. It is not good.
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I don't know why I upgraded. There was nothing wrong with kitkat, I was 100% satisfied with it and my phone. But the damn thing kept hassling me "hey there's a system update" and there's no "shut up, go away, and never talk to me again" button on that shit, so I finally wheezed "FIIIIIINE, just get outta my face" and let it do its thing.

OH THE REGRET.
 
GasBandit

GasBandit

Staff member
Welp, I managed to flash my phone back to initial factory state with Kitkat. Now I get to spend the day messing with accounts and reconfiguring it back to how I like it. Sigh.

Still already better than Lollipop though.
 
Dei

Dei

My husband claims that Lollipop's .1 will be better. Our phones still haven't updated to Lollipop, I'm going to assume because it's bad.
 
jwhouk

jwhouk

CrimsonSoul said:
Right now there is a bug where of you send an iPhone a certain text with unified characters or turns it off
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But if you ask Siri to read the message, you can delete it, apparently.

EDIT - The exact workaround:
  1. Ask Siri to “read unread messages.”
  2. Use Siri to reply to the malicious message. After you reply, you’ll be able to open Messages again.
  3. In Messages, swipe left to delete the entire thread. Or tap and hold the malicious message, tap More, and delete the message from the thread.
 
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Ravenpoe

Ravenpoe

jwhouk said:
But if you ask Siri to read the message, you can delete it, apparently.

EDIT - The exact workaround:
  1. Ask Siri to “read unread messages.”
  2. Use Siri to reply to the malicious message. After you reply, you’ll be able to open Messages again.
  3. In Messages, swipe left to delete the entire thread. Or tap and hold the malicious message, tap More, and delete the message from the thread.
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Or just turn off imessage. When I worked in cellphones, so many headaches went away just by turning off imessage.
 
Sparhawk

Sparhawk

We turned off our imessage simply because we have unlimited text messaging, why use data for something that is free otherwise.
 
sixpackshaker

sixpackshaker

One of my users came in this morning to find her laptop covered in water after the roof collapsed in her office. Then she turned it on... DAMMIT WHY!!!!
 
David

David

For the second time in a relatively short period, a friend with a long-term boyfriend has confessed feelings for me (different girl each time). I told her to talk to her boyfriend about their issues and break it off first before talking to me about anything that might happen between us.

I don't know what I'm doing, but it's apparently making me very attractive to the "feels trapped in a dead-end relationship and wants to seek fulfillment elsewhere without breaking it off" demographic of women.
 
A

Anonymous

Anonymous

I think I may have had a psychotic/mental break/episode this morning. I cut. I have never done that before. It crossed my mind once, years ago - that's what got me on antidepressants the first time, but I've never actually done it.

And just in case any folks are squeamish about this stuff - spoilers!

It's fascinating. I wasn't particularly sad or upset at the time. I wasn't feeling much of anything. Nor was my brain foggy. I wasn't curious about it, or wanting to cause myself pain, or wanting or needing to feel something. I just cut. And I did, oddly, feel better after. Not relieved, not happy, but better. Calmer maybe? No, that's not right either.

For the record, it stings. Like a paper cut, but it lingers more - even hours afterward. And there's more of a welt around the incision. And it takes longer than you might expect for any visual sign to appear at all, though I assume that that is dependent on the amount of pressure applied. I think I may need to test that later.

Why now, I wonder. I've been on mood stabilizers for months, and they seem to be working. The frequency and severity of suicidal thoughts has drastically decreased. And I'm technically in therapy (on the wait list, because I'm not high risk). Nothing's changed at work or at home. Though I did just now get off the phone with my mother, and wheedled out of her that she's having suicidal thoughts (and I think has been for months. Chronic pain will do that to you.) and refuses see that that's an issue and reuses to talk to any one. I wonder if I can refer her to mental health services over the phone....


Anyways, just needed to vent, I'm not going to doing anything rash.

Back to work.
 
Hailey Knight

Hailey Knight

Another mouse has found its way in. And unfortunately since we no longer have big male rats pissing up the place to mark their territory, this intruder has been going over to the girls' cage to scavenge food they kick out.

Which increases the area it might be in, so I'm not sure where to put the traps. I guess I'll stick them between the rat area and the kitchen--either rodent or human is going to make the kind of mess that attracts pests.

Ballsy little fucker. I first saw him while cooking, he scooted around the corner and under the fridge. Then, while I laid the fucking trap, he scooted back out and around the same corner. Last I spotted him was here at the computer, hopping from the stove to the fridge. He doesn't seem to care whether we can see him or not.
 
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