The Whining and Bitching Thread

[zabu of nΩd]

My phone is pretty much fucked. Last week it started glitching/freezing and now its to the point where its barely usable.

At first I thought it was the battery being constantly low, but I charged it up and it is still getting worse. I cleared my app cache and all that shit and still nothing improved.

Honestly I think it might be a porno virus (I get those notifactions a lot on pornhub and generally I assume theyre scams but im sure some of them are real. I really hope this isnt from dropping my phone a lot because if thats the case im fucked.

Google "factory reset" and try that. If it doesn't work, replace the battery.

 

[Bloopy]

Factory reset and then keep bloated apps to a minimum. Eg. use Messenger Lite instead of regular Facebook Messenger if you can (it has no call features and I think it's Android only).

 

[zabu of nΩd]

Fucking Open Office! My files have been losing some of my recent edits after I save them. I don't know if this is a bug in Open Office, one in the Google Drive desktop sync I leave running (I know the sync process can prevent files from getting updated), or some kind of Windows malware, but I'm fucking done with this shit.

I've been reluctant to use Google Docs for everything I write, because it doesn't save local copies by default, which means no backup if Google happens to glitch out and lose all my files. Aside from that risk, though, Google is just too convenient and reliable for me to want to bother with anything else. I'll just have to get in the habit of exporting local copies from it...

 

[-CC-]

I’d say the risk of losing files locally as opposed to cloud storage is infinitely larger. There are many failsafes in place for recovering data on their end. All it takes on your end is some spilled coffee or a power outage.

If you want an easy solution to keeping a copy locally and on Google, use Drive File Stream. It’s pretty convenient.

Edit: never mind it seems you are already using it. I misread the post.

 

[zabu of nΩd]

I’d say the risk of losing files locally as opposed to cloud storage is infinitely larger. There are many failsafes in place for recovering data on their end. All it takes on your end is some spilled coffee or a power outage.

If you want an easy solution to keeping a copy locally and on Google, use Drive File Stream. It’s pretty convenient.

Edit: never mind it seems you are already using it. I misread the post.

Yeah, I've already lost many files due to local-only storage, and I already use Google Drive to store basically all my documents now. What I'm saying is I've still been editing many documents locally (and then syncing them with Google Drive), and that's the part I'm ready to give up on, because I've managed to lose data that way too.

On top of that, I'm paranoid that any file, no matter where it is, can be hacked / destroyed by a software bug, so once in a while I look for convenient failsafes to add to my storage practices. I have a lot of paper backups too -- it'd be nice if I could afford to hire Iron Mountain like big companies do, but alas I'm stuck with my Canon printer.

 

[Bloopy]

If you don't edit your documents at the Google end, you could keep them elsewhere and manually echo them to your Google Drive folder using something like Microsoft SyncToy. Which is a little silly if your computer only has one hard drive and the documents take up a lot of space. Or if you forget to do it. But otherwise it'd prevent Google's sync process from fucking with them.

Also, have you looked into LibreOffice as an alternative to OpenOffice?

 

[zabu of nΩd]

If you don't edit your documents at the Google end, you could keep them elsewhere and manually echo them to your Google Drive folder using something like Microsoft SyncToy. Which is a little silly if your computer only has one hard drive and the documents take up a lot of space. Or if you forget to do it. But otherwise it'd prevent Google's sync process from fucking with them.

Also, have you looked into LibreOffice as an alternative to OpenOffice?

I'm suspicious that any sync app which acts as an intermediary between different companies' software can fuck documents up, especially if the document editor uses lock files (which I've seen Google's sync app especially choke on).

I don't want to use LibreOffice, or any other freeware bullshit. Document editors are very hard to build right, and the less frequently they're updated, the more of a malware liability they become. I've lost trust in all but the big companies' editors, and for now Google Docs is the cheapest I know of.

 

[Bloopy]

I've used SyncToy for years, but only ever in echo mode and not syncing in both directions. Even if a file is open just for reading by another program it errors on it because it wants exclusive access. Whereas other sync programs might read a file that's in use and about to be re-saved.

I know all its quirks and probably wouldn't rely on any other sync app. Only time it didn't do its job was when I tried to use 2 USB hard drives interchangeably with only one folder pair set up. It does keep empty folders even if you delete them, and occasionally hasn't removed files I'd deleted/moved (but that may have been due to me re-configuring). Also it's a bit slow.

 

[viewerfromnihil]

I primarily use a Chromebook, so I live off of Google Drive and haven't died yet.

 

[Krow]

Hot water heater went out yesterday evening. Pilot light will not light whatsoever. Cleaned the pilot line and still nothing. Dont think its the thermocouple because I cant get a flame at all.Tinkered with it a bit and I think the thermostat quit working. Decided to try and fix it since its natural gas and the only components that actually do shit seem to be the thermostat control and the burner. Have to wait for the new thermostat until Wednesday. Will be good and sick of cold showers by then.

 

[The Butt]

Not gonna lie my life is kind of crumbling around me (now-ex-girlfriend dumped me last week, said she wants the apartment or to live as roommates. naturally im gonna fight it and get the place but meh), and I'm just sitting here working, getting high, playing pokemon go and making suicide jokes to cope lmao.

shits fucked.

 

[Satanstoenail]

Not gonna lie my life is kind of crumbling around me (now-ex-girlfriend dumped me last week, said she wants the apartment or to live as roommates. naturally im gonna fight it and get the place but meh), and I'm just sitting here working, getting high, playing pokemon go and making suicide jokes to cope lmao.

shits fucked.

Chin up there old boy. Here, perhaps this picture of Beyoncé power lifting will make everything ok.

 

[viewerfromnihil]

Not gonna lie my life is kind of crumbling around me (now-ex-girlfriend dumped me last week, said she wants the apartment or to live as roommates. naturally im gonna fight it and get the place but meh), and I'm just sitting here working, getting high, playing pokemon go and making suicide jokes to cope lmao.

shits fucked.

Sorry to hear bud. It being polished off with conflict won't make it easier (which reminds me that I should just avoid ever moving in with a girlfriend, since I'm rather insufferable). On the bright side, it didn't happen in the cripplingly depressing winter months.

 

[Krow]

Hot water heater went out yesterday evening. Pilot light will not light whatsoever. Cleaned the pilot line and still nothing. Dont think its the thermocouple because I cant get a flame at all.Tinkered with it a bit and I think the thermostat quit working. Decided to try and fix it since its natural gas and the only components that actually do shit seem to be the thermostat control and the burner. Have to wait for the new thermostat until Wednesday. Will be good and sick of cold showers by then.

Mission accomplished. Took a while and a little frustration but got it up and running around 11 last night. Big relief.

 

[PrincessHades]

Not gonna lie my life is kind of crumbling around me (now-ex-girlfriend dumped me last week, said she wants the apartment or to live as roommates. naturally im gonna fight it and get the place but meh), and I'm just sitting here working, getting high, playing pokemon go and making suicide jokes to cope lmao.

shits fucked.

Sorry if I seem like an asshole but I hate it when I hear about women breaking up with some guy and wanting their house. Thats fucking entitled.

If its not something that's irreparable I would say to see if you can work things out with her before fighting over the apartment. I hope everything works out for you.

 

[Funerary_Doom]

@The Butt: dude that really sucks. I hope you get the apartment. Honestly, whoever is breaking up should be the one to go. It just seems right. But I do know people aren’t really concerned with doing what’s right. The situation sucks dude, I hope you get the apartment and eventually feel better to move on after this.


I’m actually afraid of the dark too. I’ve spent my entire life sleeping with other people in the room. I used to share a room with my sister and my baby-sitter (I call her my aunt but we are not related). Now I sleep with my boyfriend most nights. However, when he works late I find that I can’t shut the light off or else I’d completely lose my mind. Also, I find that my body naturally wakes up at 3 am, mostly to check to see if he’s home (which he usually is by that time) and because I have bad nightmares so I need to wake up especially when I sleep by myself. A close friend of mine passed away last summer, and I swear when the lights are off there’s somebody (or thing) in the room with me. I have a ridiculous imagination and I feel she was really upset after passing because she was battling lupus for over ten years. She was just about to finish her nursing degree. Eh. She’d come to my head, moreso her anger I guess, and other crazy stuff.

I know ghosts aren’t real, but I guess there’s a small tiny part in me that believes otherwise. That or I’m a tad bit off.

 

[Master_Yoda77]

I pretty much can't sleep with someone else in my bed, unless it's a queen/king size and there is enough room.

 

[Dak]

I pretty much can't sleep with someone else in my bed, unless it's a queen/king size and there is enough room.

Funny on infinite levels.

 

[The Ozzman]

I pretty much can't sleep with someone else in my bed, unless it's a queen/king size and there is enough room.

So how much do you weigh then?

 

[Krow]

To be honest if you're a fully grown adult male, I'm not sure how you could even sleep in a bed smaller than a queen size without feeling like you're in a child's bed without even taking into account someone else there.

I feel like yoda is trying to bring skanks home to a race car bed or something though.