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Psychobilly

🧀Muenster
Spam musubi is not a bad thing. Although a little salty but add Mt. Dew and you're golden

Yeah it's for sure salty, but generally fried with Black Pepper and I'm on that haha. I kind of wonder if soaking it in Whiskey or something would help; Add some caramelized wood sugars or something.


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May have already uploaded some of these but that's OK :)

Fun side note for fans of Magic: The Gathering; First two images were designed by some of the same people who worked on Magic :)
 

dstroy0

Zeroes and Ones
Oh man I love/hate github actions. What do you do when you don't know anything about an environment? Iterative troubleshooting, my least favorite kind!

At least it does stuff on its own now, like build binaries that don't work yet cause I did relative pathing instead of absolute pathing and no path awareness. Gotta fix that before I release the library hahahahaha. The docs work though! InputHandler documentation

Here's what I'm bitching about:
fuck that workflow in particular!
 

dstroy0

Zeroes and Ones
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The statement in the for loop isn’t correct but I’m still dying why the fuck is this funny? Don’t tell anyone I do this all the time in C++11 shhhhh you’re the security risk not my void pointer! Types are for losers! My naming convention is two alpha characters in ascending order and I write to overlapping memory regions.


Fox Tv Fire GIF by Bob's Burgers
 

Psychobilly

🧀Muenster
Well, today was quite a day so far! I got to my Mom's house, and she was telling me about some updates she saw, which, on the phone I said just to close them until I came today and could take care of it. Or so I thought; Instead when I got here, this site, and a bunch of others wouldn't load saying the connection timed out.... OK, odd, I'll look into this, and spent a while digging through the Firewall thinking momentarily this was the culprit, even though no settings seemed to have changed....

So I spent a while digging, and eventually, I had to *CRINGE* *GAG* call tech support.... Actually I had my Mom do that but then she made ME talk to them.... I used Opera and saw some DNS error messages, and I'm like wait, I disabled everything and tried and it still didn't work, this is on their end....

Tech support of course seemed to try the SAME shit I had already done... Explaining I'd done this already did NOT help... And being her internet and phone use the same "modem" (It's a router....Come on now.... Thing doesn't even have Modulation Demodulation....) so of course tech support ended our call when they reset it....Even though I'd done that BEFORE having my Mom call them up.

They called back, and asked me, once the connection was back up, so try web sites (Like theirs....Which worked fine) and eventually I think they realized it was in fact on their end and not this one.... They were working on doing a check list on their end, and after the "modem" reset, and it reconnecting and not actually fixing it, they were working on something else, and when I came back in from smoking, I loaded up phenohunter, and it worked!

Wife called on her break and was on the phone with me long enough for me to tell my Aunt that I only call tech support to inform them when THEY have a problem cause I'm a dick like that LOL.

I was meaning it as a joke of course. I did kind of enjoy though when a tech had to show up on site to fix something or install something, and seeing a command line load when they started one of my computers. No start button for you bro, tell me what you need to happen and I'll do it for you. Every once in a while, you'd find one who knew what it was and think it was cool :)

At least I didn't get the "It's a 1d10T error" or a "code 15"..... (Problem is about 15 inches from the monitor)
 

OldG

Elite Hobbyist
I was a tech person...25 years ago.
Retired 2019 after 35 years in a steel plant...as the tech/upgrade person.
Now....do not mess with my fucking progams with your upgrades or i am going.....back woods.
 

Psychobilly

🧀Muenster
I was a tech person...25 years ago.
Retired 2019 after 35 years in a steel plant...as the tech/upgrade person.
Now....do not mess with my fucking progams with your upgrades or i am going.....back woods.

I haven't done tech support as my job for some years now, which, is probably good.... I realized early on I was NOT a people friendly worker and I'm not so sure I hit the mute button in time every time I heard something that I thought was ridiculous LOL.

I now enjoy being in the Woods more than a Server room haha. Maybe that's why oldschool Unix engineers always had hiking boots on.
 
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