The No Complaint too Trivial Complaint Thread

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  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    food here!!

    1st thing cooking meatloaf, they didnt bring the fresh salsa, thats okay, can add italian seasoning

  • starionwolfstarionwolf Posts: 3,670

    Time for me to reboot my computer to clean these files from my computer.  Maybe I should use an Apple Macintosh computer to browse the internet.

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  • XyetztXyetzt Posts: 27,486

    I am waiting for my taxi inside but sitting near a window.  It is cold out. Here it is.

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,282
    edited January 2018

    Temp got up to a high today of 10F.   Haven't opened door.  Just looked out at the thermometer and snow on the porch and decided to leave it there.

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  • Complaint:  Microsoft's new solitare game now has guaranteed winable hands.  That's terrible!

    You can still lose guaranteed winnable hands, it's just your fault rather than being thrown into an unwinnable situation. Windows Solitaire had only one unwinnable game before.

    I don't know which game you were playing but I've run across many games of Windows7 "Klondike" 3-card draw that playout out in the first few rounds despite backing up and trying all alternate plays.  And the point of my complaint is that if the company claims the game is winnable then if I can't win, then I'm forced to admit I'm a failure rather than just blame fate.  It's no longer fun if I have to work at it.

    I was misremembering about Freecell, the other popular Windows solitaire. I get wanting to blame the hand, I sure did. :D

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,282
    edited January 2018

    Snowed in and busying myself today fixing a sick Win10 machine.  One of my own. sad  All of a sudden it just started flashing screen about every 5 seconds and when I reboot it would display message "cannot start remote desktop..."  ???  Scary!  I tried all of Win10's wonderful fix-it utilities, like "Reset", and "Repair" and even "Restore" from both backup and from system image,  all to no avail.  I ran diagnostics that were fat dumb and happy.  My personal files are on a separate disk so I'm not worried and besides that machine is mostly a test machine anyway.  Nothing critical on it.  Finally gave up and used Win10-Home DVD to rebuild from scratch after re-formatting the "C:" drive.  Took hours to finish the updating! frown  Finally after the last automatic upgrade I was all ready to login and there was nothing on the screen.  surprise  Finally figured out that when the system finally got all of its software installed it switched the primary video output to the HDMI cable despite it being connected to my TV and not selected for viewing, leaving the DVI cable monitor just staring blankly at me.  That wasted a good hour of reboots and head scratching. angry  Finally figured it out and all seems well now.  I think that computer is flakey.  It's an old Vista machine upgraded to Win7 and then to Win8 and finally Win10 and the hardware is nearly 10 years old, but it does have a dual-core CPU, 8GB RAM, a modern Nvidea graphic card and new 1TB storage.  Worked fine under Win7 but the Win10 on it has always been a little flakey.  It wigs out now and then. sad

    Picture below is my "Network Cockpit".

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  • XyetztXyetzt Posts: 27,486

    My hands and feet are dry.  Well the skin is dry.

  • PetercatPetercat Posts: 2,324
    Mistara said:
    worst part, i'se craving red velvet cake, and i didnt order any cake, cookies, ice cream, or candy; all the things makes life worthwhile

     

    Great. Just great. Now I have to fire up the oven and bake a Red Velvet Cake. Thanks a bunch. :)

  • XyetztXyetzt Posts: 27,486

    CMS does not want to start today complaint/

  • PetercatPetercat Posts: 2,324

    Snowed in and busying myself today fixing a sick Win10 machine.  One of my own. sad  All of a sudden it just started flashing screen about every 5 seconds and when I reboot it would display message "cannot start remote desktop..."  ???  Scary!  I tried all of Win10's wonderful fix-it utilities, like "Reset", and "Repair" and even "Restore" from both backup and from system image,  all to no avail.  I ran diagnostics that were fat dumb and happy.  My personal files are on a separate disk so I'm not worried and besides that machine is mostly a test machine anyway.  Nothing critical on it.  Finally gave up and used Win10 home DVD to rebuild from scratch after re-formatting the "C:" drive.  Took hours! frown  Finally after the last automatic upgrade I was all ready to login and there was nothing on the screen.  surprise  Finally figured out that when the system finally got all of its software installed it switched the primary video output to the HDMI cable despite it being connected to my TV and not selected for viewing, leaving the DVI cable monitor just staring blankly at me.  That wasted a good hour of reboots and head scratching. angry  Finally figured it out and all seems well now.  I think that computer is flakey.  It's an old Vista machine upgraded to Win7 and then to Win10 and the hardware is nearly 10 years old, but it does have a dual-core CPU, 8GB RAM, a modern Nvidea graphic card and 1TB storage.  Worked fine under Win7 but Win10 on it has always been a little flakey.  It wigs out now and then. sad

    Picture below is my "Network Cockpit".

    Is that a comfy chair? Where can I find one?
    I'm sitting in one I ordered online, BIG mistake.
    Never order furniture online, you won't know if you like it
    until it's assembled, and then you can't return it.

  • XyetztXyetzt Posts: 27,486

    Part of me wants to study the inside of my eyelids but the other part of me still has enough coffee in me not to want to do that.

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 42,206
    NVIATWAS said:
    kyoto kid said:

    ...trying to figure out Blender makes mine go critical mass.

    Vlender is insanely powerful but the UI was developed by engineer, not UU/Human factor people.   Last time I used it I got a headache from grinding my jaw.  Someone needs to redesign the UI, but that's a year-long full-time project.  Not to mention many users used to the UI have screamed when they threaten to revamp it.  Sad.

    ...yeah I remembered that, back in 2013 I believe, when Andrew Price (the "Blender Guru") porpoised a major overhaul of the UI to make it much more friendlier to newcomers. I watched his entire vid series on the project as we extremely excited, until it was shot down in flames (not just figuratively) by the community during the Blender Conference that year.

    ...will somebody fix the dictionary in the spell checker so it actually suggests the proper corrections to common typos like "teh"/"hte" ("the" ) and "whne" ("when")?

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 42,206
    Mistara said:

    food here!!

    1st thing cooking meatloaf, they didnt bring the fresh salsa, thats okay, can add italian seasoning

    ...homemade burritos tonight. (made a big enough batch for 4 dinners).  Dead bird in yellow curry with rice for tomorrow.

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 42,206

    Snowed in and busying myself today fixing a sick Win10 machine.  One of my own. sad  All of a sudden it just started flashing screen about every 5 seconds and when I reboot it would display message "cannot start remote desktop..."  ???  Scary!  I tried all of Win10's wonderful fix-it utilities, like "Reset", and "Repair" and even "Restore" from both backup and from system image,  all to no avail.  I ran diagnostics that were fat dumb and happy.  My personal files are on a separate disk so I'm not worried and besides that machine is mostly a test machine anyway.  Nothing critical on it.  Finally gave up and used Win10 home DVD to rebuild from scratch after re-formatting the "C:" drive.  Took hours! frown  Finally after the last automatic upgrade I was all ready to login and there was nothing on the screen.  surprise  Finally figured out that when the system finally got all of its software installed it switched the primary video output to the HDMI cable despite it being connected to my TV and not selected for viewing, leaving the DVI cable monitor just staring blankly at me.  That wasted a good hour of reboots and head scratching. angry  Finally figured it out and all seems well now.  I think that computer is flakey.  It's an old Vista machine upgraded to Win7 and then to Win10 and the hardware is nearly 10 years old, but it does have a dual-core CPU, 8GB RAM, a modern Nvidea graphic card and 1TB storage.  Worked fine under Win7 but Win10 on it has always been a little flakey.  It wigs out now and then. sad

    Picture below is my "Network Cockpit".

    ...nice setup. 

    I'm getting there. Second desktop on the way (16 GB).  Main system to get 24 GB and a bigger primary drive, once the other one arrives so I can get online for troublehooting purposes during the full update.  It will also get a 2.93 GHz 6 core Westmere Xeon upgrade as well, four more threads should help a bit in the rendering dept.  Next, need to order that backlight element for the old notebook. Still also need one of those high back "command chairs".

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 42,206

    CMS does not want to start today complaint/

    ...I've been having trouble with it since installing the 4.9 beta.

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 42,206
    Petercat said:

    Snowed in and busying myself today fixing a sick Win10 machine.  One of my own. sad  All of a sudden it just started flashing screen about every 5 seconds and when I reboot it would display message "cannot start remote desktop..."  ???  Scary!  I tried all of Win10's wonderful fix-it utilities, like "Reset", and "Repair" and even "Restore" from both backup and from system image,  all to no avail.  I ran diagnostics that were fat dumb and happy.  My personal files are on a separate disk so I'm not worried and besides that machine is mostly a test machine anyway.  Nothing critical on it.  Finally gave up and used Win10 home DVD to rebuild from scratch after re-formatting the "C:" drive.  Took hours! frown  Finally after the last automatic upgrade I was all ready to login and there was nothing on the screen.  surprise  Finally figured out that when the system finally got all of its software installed it switched the primary video output to the HDMI cable despite it being connected to my TV and not selected for viewing, leaving the DVI cable monitor just staring blankly at me.  That wasted a good hour of reboots and head scratching. angry  Finally figured it out and all seems well now.  I think that computer is flakey.  It's an old Vista machine upgraded to Win7 and then to Win10 and the hardware is nearly 10 years old, but it does have a dual-core CPU, 8GB RAM, a modern Nvidea graphic card and 1TB storage.  Worked fine under Win7 but Win10 on it has always been a little flakey.  It wigs out now and then. sad

    Picture below is my "Network Cockpit".

    Is that a comfy chair? Where can I find one?
    I'm sitting in one I ordered online, BIG mistake.
    Never order furniture online, you won't know if you like it
    until it's assembled, and then you can't return it.

    ...found one about a month ago at a second hand store in excellent shape.  They only wanted 15$ for it. If I had a car to get it home, I'd be sitting in it now.  Not wanting to order one online but see no other way to have one delivered without havng to pay a fortune at some office supply store.

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 42,206

    Part of me wants to study the inside of my eyelids but the other part of me still has enough coffee in me not to want to do that.

    ...did that until late morning myself.

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,282
    edited January 2018
    Petercat said:

    Snowed in and busying myself today fixing a sick Win10 machine.  One of my own. sad  All of a sudden it just started flashing screen about every 5 seconds and when I reboot it would display message "cannot start remote desktop..."  ???  Scary!  I tried all of Win10's wonderful fix-it utilities, like "Reset", and "Repair" and even "Restore" from both backup and from system image,  all to no avail.  I ran diagnostics that were fat dumb and happy.  My personal files are on a separate disk so I'm not worried and besides that machine is mostly a test machine anyway.  Nothing critical on it.  Finally gave up and used Win10 home DVD to rebuild from scratch after re-formatting the "C:" drive.  Took hours! frown  Finally after the last automatic upgrade I was all ready to login and there was nothing on the screen.  surprise  Finally figured out that when the system finally got all of its software installed it switched the primary video output to the HDMI cable despite it being connected to my TV and not selected for viewing, leaving the DVI cable monitor just staring blankly at me.  That wasted a good hour of reboots and head scratching. angry  Finally figured it out and all seems well now.  I think that computer is flakey.  It's an old Vista machine upgraded to Win7 and then to Win10 and the hardware is nearly 10 years old, but it does have a dual-core CPU, 8GB RAM, a modern Nvidea graphic card and 1TB storage.  Worked fine under Win7 but Win10 on it has always been a little flakey.  It wigs out now and then. sad

    Picture below is my "Network Cockpit".

    Is that a comfy chair? Where can I find one?
    I'm sitting in one I ordered online, BIG mistake.
    Never order furniture online, you won't know if you like it
    until it's assembled, and then you can't return it.

    Yes.  I love this chair.  I don't know the manufacturer without looking up the receipt but I got it at Office Max on sale.  It is one of their better chairs.  I'd seen it and tested it in the store for months and drooled over it.  It has a five point base instead of just four, it has arm width and arm height adjustments.  It has seat tilt, back tilt and seat height adjustment.  Is rated to support 250 pounds (I'm about 230#), and it's plenty wide enough for me.  I looked a long time for a replacement to my old cheap chair that got wobbly and finally popped its pneumatic seat support.  blush.  So, when I saw this one on sale for $100 off  I bit the bullet and bought it as my self-birthday present two years ago.  It is of course not real leather (sigh) it is "bonded leather" (which is to leather as plywood or particle board is to wood) but feels nice and there's plenty of padding.  However it does suffer from planned obsolescence (like most things these days).  It's two years old now and already the  inner sides of the two arm pads have developed a 1 inch crack in the material. sad  But the stitching has held nicely and it looks great, and is very comfortable once I got all the adjustments just the way I like them. 

    Ah, found my owner's manual and a web page https://www.officedepot.com/a/products/494164/Realspace-MFMC400-Bonded-Leather-Multifunction-Managerial/?cm_mmc=PLA-_-Google-_-Chairs_Seating-_-494164-VQ6-51194688356-VQ16-c-VQ17-pla-VQ18-online-VQ19-494164-VQ20-75212232356-VQ21--VQ22-624116545-VQ27-10575763676&mrkgcl=1104&mrkgadid=3115158961&rkg_id=h-7d4c935602be1d0934d4fd4f4f636913_t-1515296287&adpos=1o1&creative=51194688356&device=c&matchtype=&network=g&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIwtTEvvbE2AIVAoGzCh3SAggUEAYYASABEgI_SfD_BwE

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  • PetercatPetercat Posts: 2,324
    kyoto kid said:
    Petercat said:

    Snowed in and busying myself today fixing a sick Win10 machine.  One of my own. sad  All of a sudden it just started flashing screen about every 5 seconds and when I reboot it would display message "cannot start remote desktop..."  ???  Scary!  I tried all of Win10's wonderful fix-it utilities, like "Reset", and "Repair" and even "Restore" from both backup and from system image,  all to no avail.  I ran diagnostics that were fat dumb and happy.  My personal files are on a separate disk so I'm not worried and besides that machine is mostly a test machine anyway.  Nothing critical on it.  Finally gave up and used Win10 home DVD to rebuild from scratch after re-formatting the "C:" drive.  Took hours! frown  Finally after the last automatic upgrade I was all ready to login and there was nothing on the screen.  surprise  Finally figured out that when the system finally got all of its software installed it switched the primary video output to the HDMI cable despite it being connected to my TV and not selected for viewing, leaving the DVI cable monitor just staring blankly at me.  That wasted a good hour of reboots and head scratching. angry  Finally figured it out and all seems well now.  I think that computer is flakey.  It's an old Vista machine upgraded to Win7 and then to Win10 and the hardware is nearly 10 years old, but it does have a dual-core CPU, 8GB RAM, a modern Nvidea graphic card and 1TB storage.  Worked fine under Win7 but Win10 on it has always been a little flakey.  It wigs out now and then. sad

    Picture below is my "Network Cockpit".

    Is that a comfy chair? Where can I find one?
    I'm sitting in one I ordered online, BIG mistake.
    Never order furniture online, you won't know if you like it
    until it's assembled, and then you can't return it.

    ...found one about a month ago at a second hand store in excellent shape.  They only wanted 15$ for it. If I had a car to get it home, I'd be sitting in it now.  Not wanting to order one online but see no other way to have one delivered without havng to pay a fortune at some office supply store.

    Go to the office supply store and find one you like, then get on their website and order it. Or Newegg.

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 42,206
    Petercat said:
    kyoto kid said:
    Petercat said:

    Snowed in and busying myself today fixing a sick Win10 machine.  One of my own. sad  All of a sudden it just started flashing screen about every 5 seconds and when I reboot it would display message "cannot start remote desktop..."  ???  Scary!  I tried all of Win10's wonderful fix-it utilities, like "Reset", and "Repair" and even "Restore" from both backup and from system image,  all to no avail.  I ran diagnostics that were fat dumb and happy.  My personal files are on a separate disk so I'm not worried and besides that machine is mostly a test machine anyway.  Nothing critical on it.  Finally gave up and used Win10 home DVD to rebuild from scratch after re-formatting the "C:" drive.  Took hours! frown  Finally after the last automatic upgrade I was all ready to login and there was nothing on the screen.  surprise  Finally figured out that when the system finally got all of its software installed it switched the primary video output to the HDMI cable despite it being connected to my TV and not selected for viewing, leaving the DVI cable monitor just staring blankly at me.  That wasted a good hour of reboots and head scratching. angry  Finally figured it out and all seems well now.  I think that computer is flakey.  It's an old Vista machine upgraded to Win7 and then to Win10 and the hardware is nearly 10 years old, but it does have a dual-core CPU, 8GB RAM, a modern Nvidea graphic card and 1TB storage.  Worked fine under Win7 but Win10 on it has always been a little flakey.  It wigs out now and then. sad

    Picture below is my "Network Cockpit".

    Is that a comfy chair? Where can I find one?
    I'm sitting in one I ordered online, BIG mistake.
    Never order furniture online, you won't know if you like it
    until it's assembled, and then you can't return it.

    ...found one about a month ago at a second hand store in excellent shape.  They only wanted 15$ for it. If I had a car to get it home, I'd be sitting in it now.  Not wanting to order one online but see no other way to have one delivered without havng to pay a fortune at some office supply store.

    Go to the office supply store and find one you like, then get on their website and order it. Or Newegg.

    ...those cost a lot more than 15$.  Remember I am on a fairly tight fixed income.

  • PetercatPetercat Posts: 2,324
    kyoto kid said:
    Petercat said:
    kyoto kid said:
    Petercat said:
     

    ...found one about a month ago at a second hand store in excellent shape.  They only wanted 15$ for it. If I had a car to get it home, I'd be sitting in it now.  Not wanting to order one online but see no other way to have one delivered without havng to pay a fortune at some office supply store.

    Go to the office supply store and find one you like, then get on their website and order it. Or Newegg.

    ...those cost a lot more than 15$.  Remember I am on a fairly tight fixed income.

    Where can you find one online for $15?
    Or am I misunderstanding?

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 42,206

    ...In my earlier post I mentioned I recently found a really nice full back office chair for 15$  at a second hand shop that was in excellent condition.  The trouble is at these places the buyer is responsible for transporting it. I don't have a car nor drive, and it would have been just a bit unwieldy and dsruptive to take home on the bus or tram.

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,282
    edited January 2018
    Petercat said:

    As luck will have it, the price came down $90 overnight! surprise  Get yourself down to OfficeMax or OfficeDepot (actually the same company) and test it. enlightened

    I noticed on the web page for that chair that there is a link to another suggested but higher priced and bigger name  (Serta)  chair.  But it hasn't got half the adjustments and doesn't even admit what the material covering is. frown 

    I like my chair despite just now discovering that only my seat is "Bonded Leather", which explains why my arm covers are cracking, they're probably "Pleather" (plastic leather)  But the cracks are quite minor and non-intrusive because it's just the insides which flexes considerably and is forced to bend acutely in a short distance when I rest my arm on them.  The arm top and outside are just fine, as is the seatback covering and bonded leather seat which show no distress at all.

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  • Practicing with the new dFormer.  Samuel is normally a neat freak and would never just leave a shirt draped over the couch, but I couldn't resist trying out the draping effect.  The yoga pants also have the dformer on, which fixed some puffing at the ankles that had been bugging me. 

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  • XyetztXyetzt Posts: 27,486
    kyoto kid said:

    CMS does not want to start today complaint/

    ...I've been having trouble with it since installing the 4.9 beta.

    Okay.  Glad I am not the only one having that problem

    kyoto kid said:

    Part of me wants to study the inside of my eyelids but the other part of me still has enough coffee in me not to want to do that.

    ...did that until late morning myself.

    Daddy likes to say that he likes to study the inside of his eyelids.  I finally did that and it was fun.

  • nicsttnicstt Posts: 11,715

    South Texas got hit with a cold snap this weekend, with the first real hard freeze in a long time.  It was 35 degrees when I went into work this morning, bundled up with my two layers of coats and gloves.  I was expecting a somewhat heated building to work in.

    The temp inside the office was 55 degrees when I got in at 8 am.  By the time we got off work at 5, it had managed to get up to 66.  The heater is set to 75.  It was very cold all day.  I huddled over my little floor heater in my hoodie and scarf and cried everytime I had to go to the frigid fridge we call the Ladies restroom.  We got a ticket into facility to come out and inspect the heater but we're not the only office with a non-functional heater.  The office of the warehouse, for example, was 36 degrees at 7 am.

     

    Though, Hubby had it pretty bad too.  His office doesn't even have heaters.  At least his area of the building is right smack dab in the middle, away from any windows.

    yuk.

    Although it was plenty cold enough first day back; i was first in, i turned both heaters on, and left my coat on.

    I took it off reluctantly a couple of hours later.

  • nicsttnicstt Posts: 11,715
    kyoto kid said:

    ...I remember having it snow as late as mid May in Milwaukee.

    Okay reminds me of a joke which I will embellish and name the dude Jake and make it take place in Wisconsin.

    Jake grew up hearing stories of when both his father and grandfather on their 21rst birthday walking across the lake near his grandfather's home and drinking their first legal beer.  He decided that he will try on his 21rst birthday.  On that day he went out on the lake to get his first legal beer.  He almost drowned though.  He went to his Dad and grandpa and asked how did they not drown when crossing the lake. His grandpa exclaimed what were you thinking?  His Dad said son it is July.  Both my dad and I have January birthdays.  The lake was frozen on our birthdays.

    laugh

  • nicsttnicstt Posts: 11,715

    Back up now but recovering from withdrawal -- No Internet, no phone, & no TV for the last 7 hours

    Sleep does that I've noticed. cheeky

  • nicsttnicstt Posts: 11,715

    Snowed in and busying myself today fixing a sick Win10 machine.  One of my own. sad  All of a sudden it just started flashing screen about every 5 seconds and when I reboot it would display message "cannot start remote desktop..."  ???  Scary!  I tried all of Win10's wonderful fix-it utilities, like "Reset", and "Repair" and even "Restore" from both backup and from system image,  all to no avail.  I ran diagnostics that were fat dumb and happy.  My personal files are on a separate disk so I'm not worried and besides that machine is mostly a test machine anyway.  Nothing critical on it.  Finally gave up and used Win10-Home DVD to rebuild from scratch after re-formatting the "C:" drive.  Took hours to finish the updating! frown  Finally after the last automatic upgrade I was all ready to login and there was nothing on the screen.  surprise  Finally figured out that when the system finally got all of its software installed it switched the primary video output to the HDMI cable despite it being connected to my TV and not selected for viewing, leaving the DVI cable monitor just staring blankly at me.  That wasted a good hour of reboots and head scratching. angry  Finally figured it out and all seems well now.  I think that computer is flakey.  It's an old Vista machine upgraded to Win7 and then to Win8 and finally Win10 and the hardware is nearly 10 years old, but it does have a dual-core CPU, 8GB RAM, a modern Nvidea graphic card and new 1TB storage.  Worked fine under Win7 but the Win10 on it has always been a little flakey.  It wigs out now and then. sad

    Picture below is my "Network Cockpit".

    I feel for ya.

    I'm on a backup pc, well the MB, RAM and CPU; I installed it after removing the new components.

    Second time in about 3 months I've had nearly 60,000 errors on a memtest; I'm tempted to believe it isn't purely a RAM issue. Scan (who I bought it from) are currently figuring out what is wrong.

    ... So far, it's definitely RAM, but...

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