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Clbull

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  • Andrew just wants to open his files on Windows 10

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  • Can't say much about iPhones because the last time I used iOS was about a decade ago, but I'm not a fan of Apple for how often they ask you to sign in to your Apple ID just to do anything on the App Store.

    As for Android, learning how to open an app's settings menu to force stop it and clear its cache is a godsend. It solves about 99% of technical issues I may face.

  • Andrew just wants to open his files on Windows 10

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  • For the record, this was for a customer service outsourcer I used to work for. I wasn't directly employed by Associated Newspapers and I'd say a good deal of the internal managerial and pay issues I had were down to my employer, not the client. Only thing I miss about that place were my colleagues. I had made some life-long friends in that place and there were a lot of great people who came and went.

    As for management, one or two team leaders aside, they were a clique of nepotistic assholes.

    I was fired from that job nearly three years into my employment (long after we lost the AN contract and I moved to a different campaign) for 'capability' reasons, after they dragged me through a month-long PIP and disciplinary process for failing to hit targets. Our whole email team was failing to hit performance targets and I was effectively scapegoated and bullied out of the company by a team leader who didn't like me. In retrospect it was the best thing to ever happen to me, because had I not been sacked, I'd probably still be there on min wage and not working in commercial finance today.

  • The worst pick-up line I've ever gotten

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  • Boo is the best dating app I've used outside of Facebook Dating. It's still pretty shitty though, and I wholly agree with your criticism about the discussion threads.

    Actually gamifying the use of their app as a social media platform to gain further privileges on the dating side of the app is a genius idea though, but it's executed so poorly. If it had the high quality discussions of Lemmy/Reddit, or the plethora of edgy memes you find on 9GAG, Facebook, iFunny, etc, then it could be a game changer.

    I could go on a massive rant about how Tinder is dogshit and every other dating app has been bought out and transformed into yet another Tinder clone by greedy monopolistic cunts who the Federal Trade Commission should have shut down years ago, but I've already wasted a lot of my energy ranting about my shitty experiences before.

    Maybe we wouldn't have an incel epidemic if the modern dating experience wasn't so awful for men.

    As I've said before, Facebook Dating is the best experience I've had, and that's primarily because Mark Zuckerberg is more motivated by harvesting all your personal information, not by suckering you into paying 4 times the price of a WoW subscription just to see who liked your profile.

    Kippo is even more hilarious. Nearly every profile is just trying to recruit you to watch their E girl twitch stream or onlyfans and is not interested in dating.

    Sounds like Okcupid to me. I get a lot of matches on there, but they're all either:

    • Scammers trying to lull me into a crypto investment scheme.
    • E-girls using the platform to plug their OnlyFans
    • African and South-East Asian ladies who discovered GPS spoofing and are on the prowl for a Western husband and the means to a green card.

  • The worst pick-up line I've ever gotten

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  • ACCIO BUM!

  • Andrew just wants to open his files on Windows 10

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  • It's absolutely the same mindset as boomers complaining about technology these days because they don't want to learn how to download a mobile app.

    I'm really not too sure about that.

    Used to work in customer service for a major right wing (Daily Mail) newspaper, and that included tech support for their rewards club website, their newspaper reading Android/iOS/Kindle Fire app, and their bookshop website.

    Pensioners struggle with technology and I really don't think it's just stubbornness and ignorance. I genuinely think that your ability to learn and remember things diminishes greatly as you grow older.

    It was one of the worst jobs I worked in, not just because trying to explain how to do basic things like open a web browser, type in a URL or force stop and clear the cache on an Android app to a 90+ year old is like pulling teeth, but because we were paid like crap, treated like children by management, treated like shit by a lot of customers, and because we used to get a lot of editorial calls from people thinking we could put them through to a journalist so they could spout their often bigoted views. So glad I work in accountancy now. The worst customer support jobs are the ones where callers frequently go full Karen on you.

  • Andrew just wants to open his files on Windows 10

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  • He could alternatively go to...

    Stackoverflow or Superuser, where the answer will be "use the search bar you imbecile, locked."

    Quora, where every question is blatant rage bait like "my 14 year old son got a B in his test. I took away his PS5 and chained him in the basement as punishment but his grades aren't improving. How can I make him better at math?"

    Yahoo Answers which is dead, and was basically Quora before Quora was a thing.

    Or Reddit, where you can't even post on 95% of subs without hitting a minimum karma threshold and where some basement dwelling mod will likely ban you for breaking hidden rule #263, then modmail mute you for 28 days without reply if you try to appeal.

    I think any Q&A site is absolute dog water now.

  • Mcafee accidentally made users call the devs of SQLite and complain.

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  • John McAfee would be spinning like a rotisserie chicken in his grave. Or at least he would be if McAfee Software hadn't already turned to shit long before his death.

    So the temp files are still identified, but anybody smart enough to figure out the code is also likely smart enough to know that calling the developer will not help get rid of the file.

    Don't underestimate the stupidity of your average person.

  • French parliamentary election: Marine Le Pen's far-right National Rally (RN) projected to win first round, beating the leftist NPF alliance and Emmanuel Macron's centrist Ensemble

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  • National Rally are basically the French equivalent of the British National Party, and they are right wing as fuck.

    When they're leading in the polls, you know that Sarkozy, Hollande and Macron fucked up hard.

  • The "xylo" is greek for wood

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  • As opposed to a xylophone made of dicks, which is a cockenspiel.

  • How much should an organisation reveal about a data breach?

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    • Date that the breach occurred.
    • What parts of the system were accessed.
    • What data was compromised and if any of it is sensitive.
    • If any of this data was encrypted/hashed and what algorithm was used (i.e. I'd be far less worried about having passwords that are bcrypt hashed exposed compared to ones hashed with SHA1 or stored in plain text.)

  • Is everything the worst?

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  • Unless they pull off some kind of paramilitary overthrow of the German government (and last time I checked their co-leaders didn't have an army of brownshirts to do their bidding) I cannot see Alternative fur Deutschland taking power in Germany. They actually lost vote share and support from other far right European parties when they spouted borderline Nazi views recently.

    Reassemblement National on the other hand... Macron was stupid to call a snap parliamentary election, and if Marine Le Pen can make it to 2027 without being driven out by political scandal, she'll probably be the next French President.

  • What is your favorite time of the year?

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  • I'd have to say winter.

    Spring is horrendous when it comes to pollen allergies and gets really bad around April.

    Summer is similarly bad for hayfever sufferers, but also too hot and peak season for wasps and hornets.

    Autumn can be nice but that's overshadowed by being born in the same month as a lot of birthdays fall on (yes, a lot of people fuck during the Christmas holidays.) plus September is the one month that's very restricted in terms of me taking time off because we have to prep the year-end accounts at work.

    Winter on the other hand... It's cold, it gets dark early, it can be pretty quiet, and there is nothing that beats the feeling of eating a turkey roast feast on Christmas Day, or going to a Christmas market and drinking mulled wine.

  • What's your favorite underrated band?

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  • Petrol Bastard.

    They call themselves 'Tesco Value Prodigy', yet when I see them put out tracks like these, I'm surprised they don't have much of a following.

  • For the dudes here... What "girl" song you secretly love?

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  • Wrong Impression - Natalie Imbruglia

    Two Become One - Spice Girls

    C'est La Vie - BWitched

    Ain't No Mountain High Enough - Diana Ross

  • If you didn't have to work, how would you spend your time?

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  • I have a friend who worked his ass off as a teenager and had founded a moderately successful IT business from the back of his garage. He sold his share of the firm at 21 and walked away with a seven digit bank balance.

    He's one of those self-proclaimed alpha males who did a lot of stuff like playing video games a lot, martial arts (black belt in two martial arts), gym, partying, etc. He would also still work from time to time, not out of necessity but rather boredom

    Unfortunately age and a nasty case of long COVID caught up with him, so he's mainly going back into IT.

  • What was your first operating system or Linux Distribution?

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  • Windows 3.1, 98SE, XP, 7, 8.1, 10 and now 11.

    I did once use Ubuntu for a few weeks but this was after someone at school goaded me into acquiring a copy of Norton PartitionMagic to try and merge two awkwardly partitioned drives on my computer, which then nuked my C:\ partition. I didn't have a backup copy of Windows XP to reinstall from so I had to go open source.

    Needless to say, we didn't remain friends after that.

  • Simple question: Are you a nice person?

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  • 75%. I have my moments, plus it's hard to stay nice when there are so many assholes in the world.

  • Apple expected to enter AI race with ambitions to overtake the early leaders

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  • I'm actually worried about the next few years.

    All it takes is for a deep learning algorithm to learn and perform menial tasks better than humans and that is it. Suddenly whole industries of workers could be made redundant, which would spike unemployment rates. We are not ready for that.

    And before you say Universal Basic Income will save us, UBI is little more than a leftist pipe dream that would bankrupt any nation that tries to pursue it as an actual policy.

  • California socialite Rebecca Grossman sentenced to 15 to life for killing 2 kids in crosswalk

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  • I have a lot of questions about this that the article doesn't explain. How fast was she going? Why was she speeding? What was the speed limit on the road? Was alcohol involved? And why isn't my country anywhere near as harsh when it comes to vehicular homicide?

    EDIT: an earlier article also linked does explain most of this.

    • 81mph, presumably in an area with a 30mph speed limit
    • Apparently consumed two margaritas according to witnesses even though she was not criminally charged for a DUI. Likely that it was seriously strong tequila and triple sec consumed.
    • Showed zero remorse for the fact she ended lives.