I don't hate this phrase, but it definitely didn't exist X years ago, and you hear it every day now:

"getting your steps in"

fargon wrote:

I am signed up for a class tomorrow at 930 AM, at the library. 1 on 1 training on my pixel book. I'm Exited.

How did this go?
 

Super annoying. It's a technological miracle that it works, but unless you ASKED for it...

...

Here's one: Microsoft Teams. Unread messages are sorted to the top, in bold. When I've read all the messages, there's nothing in bold. How, then, is it possible for there to be AcTiViTy I need to know about? The little, useless notification bell slowly accrues a "red number" that I am compelled to pay attention to. When I click on AcTiViTy it's all things I've already seen in messages I've read, like, that someone gave me a "thumbs up" reaction. Nobody needs this. Fire the ƒucking guy who thought this was a good, useful feature. All it does is distract me and take minutes away from my lifespan.

Flint wrote:

My instance of Word was logged into my personal Microsoft account, somehow?? There's no possible scenario where I could have manually done that ...

The plot thickens?

I Googled a tech question, it was (of course) answered in a Reddit thread. I clicked on the link and was reading the thread, then the page refreshed. What's happening, I wondered..?

Oh, no big deal. It was just LOGGING ME IN WITHOUT ASKING. Who/what is doing this??

I HAVE A [HOME COMPUTER USE CASE] AND A [WORK COMPUTER USE CASE] 
I DO NOT WANT THEM MIXED. I DO NOT USE THEM FOR THE SAME THINGS

 

Yeah, hey so my organization doesn't even have licensing for Copilot on their Office enterprise.

My instance of Word was logged into my personal Microsoft account, somehow?? There's no possible scenario where I could have manually done that, especially because I don't even know my MS login, I've only ever used it to log into Minecraft.. ON MY HOME COMPUTER. And my instance of Word at home does have the Copilot option in Word/Options, and it is DISABLED. So Microsoft decided to magically log my work Word into my home account and TURN ON the feature (THAT'S TURNED OFF ON THAT ACCOUNT), while NOT having the option in Word/Options to FUCKING TURN IT OFF ON THIS COMPUTER. Myself and the whole IT department couldn't figure this out for nearly an entire 24 hours.

AND NOT ONE SINGLE PERSON IN THE  FUCKING WORLD EVER ASKED FOR ANY AI BULLSHIT TO BE INSTALLED ON THEIR FUCKING W O R D  P R O C E S S O R 

And I guess you're completely fucked if this happens to you and you're a University student who gets failed out of their class for using AI.
 

MOTHERFUCKING COPILOT IN MICROSOFT WORD FOLLOWS MY CURSOR AROUND. YOU CAN'T TURN IT OFF, YOU CAN'T DISABLE IT, YOU CAN'T UNINSTALL IT. I'VE WASTED THREE HOURS OF MY LIFE ON THIS INSTEAD OF THE FUCKING THING I WANTED TO TYPE INTO A BLANK FUCKING DOCUMENT NOT HAVE A MOTHERFUCKER AI PIECE OF SHIT THAT NOBODY ASKED FOR FOLLOW MY FUCKING CURSOR AROUND THE ENTIRE TIME I'M TRYING TO CONCENTRATE ON TYPING IN A FUCKING B L A N K   W O R D   P R O C E S S O R    D O C U M E N T 

HOW COULD YOU FUCK THIS UP SO BAD?? 
DO I HAVE TO USE NOTEPAD TO TYPE ANYTHING NOW?!1


 

This is like how we had a fully functioning solar power farm that was more efficient than a coal power plant, that we dismantled after the start of WWI, over a hundred years ago.

emails like this break my brain

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Tom Petty, who portrayed Lucky Kleinschmidt on television's King of the Hill, teamed up with Roger McGuinn (of the Byrds) to write and perform this song, KING OF THE HILL, on McGuinn's 1990 album.



The TV show, King of the Hill, didn't come out until 1997, and Tom Petty didn't appear until 2004.


In 1987, 17 years before he appeared on King of the Hill, McGuinn and Petty recorded this demo..



Organ, Piano, Synthesizer: Benmont Tench
Bass, Harmony Vocals: Howie Epstein
Drums, Percussion: Stan Lynch
Guitar: Mike Campbell
12 String Guitar, Lead Vocals: Roger McGuinn
Guitar, Lead Vocals, Harmony Vocals: Tom Petty
Writers: Roger McGuinn and Tom Petty
 

It rains most of the year in the PNW, but when the sun finally comes out, it's like heaven on Earth.
I'm trying to walk as much as I can, and it turns out there's an awesome taco truck, like a block away from my office. 

Sunshine, carnitas and tamarind Jarritos :-)

Anybody else have the luxury of food trucks within walking distance?

We have this thing called "bottle drop" which are these green bags you buy, and print barcode labels linked to your account, you dump the bags down a chute and they apply everything in it to your account. I checked mine recently, there's $300 in it.

To add context: I live in the county and they don't pick up my recycling. Seems like if they did, they could be turning a profit on it?

Nobody asked for curved screens on phones. What is the expected benefit of this?

50% of the time I pick up my phone, while watching a YouTube video, my fingers, grasping the sides of the phone, touch the portion of the screen that is ON THE SIDE OF THE PHONE --and "click on" a different video.

What is the payoff that outweighs this huge problem that is obviously going to happen? And how are we supposed to pick up our phones? Knock them over with a gust of wind and attach a suction cup to the back?