For when shit happens but you aren't exactly looking for a conversation about it. This is not a replacement for such posts on CCBHomogang.
Quote from: DiscoBallClock on March 03, 2021, 06:21:34 AM
we've been in lockdown since mid-january and this is to go on until april aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
pcat started a wordle game and when it came time for the big reveal he ghosted us
like a mighty Dungeon Master intent on murdering the player characters of his most competent friends, I was hurt on a personal level when you so effortlessly solved my most difficult puzzle
maybe if when I encounter a frustrating, nonsensical bug on something that should just FUCKING WORK THE WAY IT'S FUCKING SUPPOSED TO I just record it and post it here, I'll feel better:
#1:
google reverse image search gives you "visually similar images" and if you're curious about one and want to know what it is, clicking it just redirects you to images.google.com
https://imgur.com/Nuzmgf4
have you clicked up your butt
SHIT THIS WAS THE BITCHING THREAD SORRY I THOUGHT IT WAS HOMOGANG
#2 the recently closed tabs list in safari for ipad jumps back to the top when you try to scroll down. there's a history of like 100+ tabs in there that you just can't look at, I guess
https://imgur.com/AlLVHGp
also I just realized the word "twink" is visible in one of the tab names in that video and I don't feel like rerecording it
so to clarify, it's just somebody on twitter whose display name contains the word twink, and it was this post:
(https://i.imgur.com/OjIUNhzh.jpg)
hehe
not that I don't look at twinks, I mean
#3 my bluetooth headphones just stopped connecting, so I had to reset them
and, while resetting them, the button you have to press to reset them got stuck
*toilet flush*
I have literally never had bluetooth headphones go a month without issue, ever. they are such a horrible idea. they just do not work. they don't do the thing they're supposed to. they are worse than regular headphones. you should not, under any circumstances, get bluetooth headphones. I am seriously considering never buying another apple product as long as I live, because they got rid of the headphone jacks, and it was stupid and I hate them. Tim Cook can eat my shit and I hope Steve Jobs is burning in hell
#3.5 seriously fuck apple
if their shitty product breaks while under warranty, the process is, they send it off to a mysterious warehouse that will FUCCKING LIE and say that you got it wet when you goddamn know you didn't because you haven't been able to leave the fucking house since you got it, and there is no mechanism to challenge this short of filing a lawsuit.
next time, they tell you, shell out hundreds of dollars for "applecare+". if anything happens, including the product getting wet, they'll cover it no questions asked... for the additional charge of 29 fucking dollars, more than the cost of an actually good pair of headphones that you'd rather be using
fuck apple. they hate you, and they are trying to destroy love and happiness, because they are bad. I hope Tim Cook is having a bad day. I hope he gets testicular torsion and when the doctors go to fix it they accidentally rip his balls off
I hope Tim Cook gets diarrhea while walking down the stairs and he slips on his own diarrhea and he dies from falling down the stairs and shitting himself
I hope Tim Cook goes to hell and hell is a locked room with a keypad to get out and he knows the passcode but he can't put it in because the keypad only has one button because it was designed by Stupid Fucking Asshole Tim Cook the Button Hater and the useless mechanism to reset the keypad requires him to press the button and the button gets stuck so he stays locked in the room forever with diarrhea and the room slowly fills up with his diarrhea but he can never stop shitting and he can never take his pants off because his shitty pants were designed by Idiot Asshole Bitch Tim Cook the Button Hater and you have to issue a verbal command to get them off but it's not working so he has to reset them and the only way to reset them is to stop shitting yourself for five minutes and he can't
i had bluetooth problems but my bluetooth5® headphones work amazingly. I turn them on and they automatically reconnect and the battery lasts forever and charges fast and mmmmmmmwah
i have had so many bluetooth problems on linux but these headphones made me forget about them!! :) :) :) :) :)
so this week i took my $1000 laptop to work with some $6 earbuds and fuck me if i didn't waste my entire god damn lunch break not studying my videos because i forgot to get the earbuds working on the laptop at home first it was the most frustrating shit and i can't even hate tim cook about it (but will choose to)
I forgot to mention that I was having a bad day one time so I plugged in my REAL headphones with a REAL cord and they sounded like dog shit. I'd just gotten used to them. My old bluetooth headphones sounded worse than those and I just assumed it was all bluetooth, but bluetooth 5 is coolaroonie i guess
Quote from: PhantomCatClock on February 01, 2022, 09:51:14 PM
i had bluetooth problems but my bluetooth5® headphones work amazingly. I turn them on and they automatically reconnect and the battery lasts forever and charges fast and mmmmmmmwah
YEAH THAT'S HOW IT USUALLY GOES FOR ABOUT THREE WEEKS
have you tried only spending $20 on them
I actually may have changed bluetooth software whatsits at some point. I was really pulling my hair out at the time, on my desktop computrix
it's not really apple or bluetooth I'm mad at, it's the fact that at some point everything electronic became a delicate fucking rose petal carved out of milk chocolate that will shatter forever if gazed at with an impure heart
and once that happens, you are not allowed to fix it. it will self-destruct
a fucking button got stuck. you know what's supposed to happen when a button get stuck? you smack it and it starts working again. and if that doesn't work, you get a screwdriver, open it up, wiggle stuff around, put it back together, and it starts working again. and if that doesn't work, you find the part that doesn't work, buy a replacement, take out the broken part, and put in the replacement part
what happened to that? why is my ability to quietly enjoy music instead at the mercy of the fickle whimsy of a wizard's magic crystals?
remember batteries
I recall once, a stranger's cell phone battery had died, and neither of us had a charger, so I opened my phone up, and he opened his phone up, and we switched batteries, because that was just something you could do back then, because they're batteries WHY WOULD YOU NOT BE ABLE TO CHANGE THEM what the fuck did steve jobs do to this planet
also I spent $0 on them, they were a gift, but that's neither here nor there
and I may or may not be bitching about this here because I don't want the person who got them for me to feel like it was a bad present
it was, though, I never would have asked for these. they might as well have gotten me a rolls royce. don't fucking buy people expensive ass shit that they didn't ask for that's also high maintenance and also sucks, wtf
mac powerusers generally have an easier time switching to linux due to the similarities
prove you really like the power to repair by getting a computer you have to repair ALL THE TIME!
(it really isn't that bad, just kind of a bitch to get how you like it in the first place. To this day there are a few things I insist on recreating from the Mac UX, like the keyboard™®©®©™Þ...æÆþÞ˚¬ḗå¯ and the annoying IT'S FIVE FIFTEEN voice)
where were w
oh yeah
fucking right to repair though
what a weird time for computers. am I the only person who's been confusedly applauding microsoft, recently? i still don't trust them but damn. OH AND HP LOST THE INK CARTRIDGE LAWSUIT HAHAHA FUCKERS
your two new replies happened while i was typing that and i realise now how irrelevant it was
the most expensive thing i got in the last year was a $200 sweater
i won't bitch about it because it's good tho
airline food
Quote from: PhantomCatClock on February 01, 2022, 10:42:50 PM
am I the only person who's been confusedly applauding microsoft, recently?
yeah, I... god damn it, microsoft has been fucking nailing it. assholes.
(https://i.imgur.com/dpdQqxN.jpg)
apple's most expensive headphones fill with water and die if you wear them for too long
so do real apples tho
it's called art imitating life (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhQ5hAt4QgU)
after looking at the logs, it says here your mac was considering changing your formats to the metric system, YYYY-MM-DD, and GMT+1, but it didn't need to.
Europe to date!
*crowd booing*
all that crowd ever does is derail the official bitching thread to complain. i hate that crowd.
ever the Russian Space Pencil enthusiast, I still use the OEM wired headphones with my Google Fone™ and the only time they stopped working it was because of impacted lint in the USB-C port
my laptop still has a standard headphone jack (and failing DVD drive) but it turns 9 this year lmbo 🤧
ps I loled at the tim cook posts
the kosmonaut died and russia uses fisher space pens now. they ordered ten thousand in the 70s
I have some weird ones. I have apparently evolved vibrating bodyparts, which would ordinarily be awesome, they're just the wrong parts.
My right eye. There's (what I think is) twitching a good ways under my pupil, almost always under the lid. It twitches so fast and for such long periods that I honestly feel like there's something under the eyelid, crawling, at times. You know when there's a slow leak in something, but you can't feel or see where it is, so you pour water on it and you can see the bubbles springing up over the leak? It feels like the bubbles are under my eyelid. Pretty violent sometimes, tickles.
Left ear. This has been going on for years and I don't know what the fuck it is. What the FUCK is it? It feels like.. man, I don't even know. It feels like something is crawling on the little flesh plank outside of it. Tingling, vibrating, twitching very fast..? I know it isn't what it feels like, but it FEELS LIKE something is alive and crawling on my ear hole tip. Every night, usually, and sometimes (less frequently) during the day. This has seriously been going on for 5+ years and only two or three times have I rolled over JUST right to where it goes nuts. You know when something inside your ear covers your.. hearing.. organ..? Like an aperture closing. Kinda feels like the sound of going under water. This would like state switch between NORMAL and THAT two times per second. Very weird, and it felt physical, like a shutter was being slammed against my deep inner ear super fast. That happened again last night and actually prompted this OFFICIAL 2022 BITCHING because it's been so long I forgot about that.
I also wear a big plush blindfold (because it has bluetooth speakers in the ears that are flat so I can lie on my side) and I worry that these are ameboids living on it and my right eye recently and left ear forever ago got infected with blindfolditis. I actually have no idea what either are and they're obviously both not serious, but after so much of it, even a WILL AS STRONG AS MINE starts to worry from time to time, you know
for what it's worth, some time ago i had what felt like an "untrustworthy insane cartoon character" eyelid twitch almost every day for months, but it cleared up
the ear thing, who knows, people have a lot of different kinds of ears. i don't think it's bluetooth headphone disease, though, because if it was you'd be hearing the connect and disconnect noises
yeah eyelid jumping is pretty normal, it used to happen to me all the time
actually come to think of it it's kinda weird that it stopped. hasn't happened in over a decade probably hm
ear thing sounds weird though
I'm thinking maybe, you got some kinda weird ear thing?
I feel like you probably considered that it might be ear wax but in case you haven't, have you been checked for ear wax?
one time I had ear problem and it was like
a clunky crunchy staticy sound if I turned my head a certain way at certain times
and it turned out that was ear wax
there's was no vibrating though that I can remember
the doc took a look and flushed my ears out with a mix of warm water and hydrogen peroxide, and it turned out the culprit was a particularly tenacious bit of wax on my ear drum that needed some special medicine to remove it, which it turned out is sold over the counter you can just get in the ear section at walgreens. it comes in a box with a little... uh what is an eye dropper/turkey baster called when it's not used for eyes or basting turkeys? is there a general name for squirty bulb tubes? anyway it came with one of those and I had to put a few drops in for like two days and repeat the warm water thing and eventually the wax just loosened and fell out. very unpleasant
definitely have been told every time I get my ears checked that I have more earwax than I should, so that scans
and yeah the eyelid thing. I'm not as worried about that but it is weird that it's the bottom lid, and kind of right in the middle of it. I know it's a muscle or whatever but it's hard to convince my instinct lizard brain that isn't isn't a bug (or at least a lash) under the lid. Have had an eyelash get stuck and that was at least easy to get out since they're so thick, but I buzzed my head one time like a month after I'd buzzed it last and got a normal hair in it, and that was hell because it was so short that it was hard to remove, plus irritating to the point of lots of reddening
I guess I only even griped about it because I've been inside so much my sun sensitivity is through the roof and I saw a nightlight flashing like a strobe light that was definitely on my end, not the actual light. Only happened once but every time it's something new my first thought is "this is it, i'm finally going blind"
Have you ever just like
been along for the ride in your own body
my night vision is usually excellent but it does take a good while for my eye ...film? to reset to the point for this excellent night vision to actually kick in. Had a bright red light next to a huge dark portrait (black background, black and blue striped shirt, white kid face) and it was doing weird shit while I couldn't actually see it yet, like my brain was interpreting it from my peripheral vision as some kind of weird demon face, so I looked directly at it expecting that to solve the issue, but it really kinda didn't since it was so hard to see. "Whoa, this is cool," thinks I, keep staring at it.
Or, like, getting very easily reproducible vertigo, and you just keep doing it because teehee mortal coil funny my sensory inputs are malfunctioning, instead of stopping and resting like a sane person would
it's a good thing i don't do drugs i'd probably overdo it right away
Quote from: PhantomCatClock on April 20, 2022, 05:53:49 PMHave you ever just like
been along for the ride in your own body
yeah
that's pretty much the definition of depersonalization
right but for fun