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Disgusting

I had a hospital customer service line direct me to that

Wtf are we doing

idk what interactions with a call centers are even needed other than: "Hey company, you fucked up and I need you to replace something"

I think retail has conditioned people to abuse the systems, which is why you want *some* friction But I feel like none of this really needs to exist anymore, and if it does your business is likely confusing/exploititve on-purpose

if I am ever calling customer service then its a tech issue that needs to be elevated to an actual engineer

I'm trying to think of something I'd call in for actual tech support though

versus it being an account/billing issue that is locking me out of something

if the thing is broken, I need it replaced I don't really think most things are worth trying to troubleshoot anymore

you've never had to call your ISP?

for account/billing stuff yes

though with the amount of issues I had with mediacom's service I did end up replacing that

worst ISP I have ever had to deal with

I've had ISP hardware issues, and the solution it always to just replace the modem/box

the hardware was never the issue

which Comcast/Verizon/Fronteir sort of just default to at this point

if it's a local cluster issue, or if you're their only customer on the street, you should probably switch services

not saying you specifically Leg, and yeah I've heard Mediacom is shit

this was a case of wires getting cut and them not fixing it for a month

then they fix it and it immediately breaks again

and then the multiple available fiber options were all the same price or cheaper

I had much better internet in Iowa after that swap than I do now

@SyrenBell thank you for the new status. My phone decided it was so important that I got a push notification for it, being one of the first things I saw this morning

i hate that discord made those into notifications

I hate that discord tells me that my push notifications are turned off every time I open it on my phone

Started playing the hit PS2 game from 2008, Fate Unlimited Codes. It reminds me of Raccoons. RIP.

I had a retard moment where I thought my PC's audio was broken. I then realized I wasn't wearing my headphones.

but you wearing headphones is literally your entire brand

Guess what alarms going off in my building

an air raid siren

Guess what alarms going off in my building

Was going off, message did not send outside

false alarm lol

The broke nigga alert was sounded

Spooky minor tech rant, since I'm not going to reinvent how the entire world works Why don't more things run just-in-time? Mostly talking about the applications layer

All apps have become heavy apps, and none of them really do lazy loading or w/e you want to call it well

There is absolutely no reason any application needs to suck down the insane level of resources when idle, beyond heavy media cacheing which itself should just be architected better

Even when they're wholly separate things, like browser extensions, they just sit there spun-up waiting for their once-monthly use And that's just something fully exposed and declaratively wasteful, under the hood there are module after module that are constantly loaded but never actually DO anything

if a part of your engine has never done anything, DON'T FUCKING LOAD IT, and if it's sat idle for hours, UNLOAD IT

And if you port to a memory efficient language, that doesn't mean you can ignore this, architect your app better

you are putting way too much faith in stack overflow majors

ig, part of me assumes it really is as simple as people are min-maxing load times above all else, and don't care if their app is crashing and a complete piece of shit while using it normally

I'd sort of guess bad coders would do it accidentally, since everything they'd do would be segmented already to keep cascading failures isolated within a big codebase

Got my first ever tornado warning

apparently there is a particularly bad storm in toronto

I lived

When I said toronto, I meant Kingston. Power out in a lot of placed, but not where I am!

I saw the weather radar about it, was it actually that big? The last update I saw was it went over a lake.

I mean, big for here

tornado's almost never happen here

I've got so much bird shit on the INside of my glass sliding door, so I can't just hose it off (and no, I've never owned a bird).

Hey how long has this heat wave been going on

Cause today marks a week of having no fucking AC

Cause the compressor for our AC unit died and we've been screwed over by two different fucking repair guys

the peak heat has only been the last day-two, should last a few more

I think the absolute peak is today/tomorrow for the East Coast

is your AC super old and hard to find parts for?

The old one that died was 2010/2011

So yes old, idk about hard to find parts

I heavily suspect the douchebag just didn't wanna work in the heat

Good luck with the heat, that is brutal not having AC

It's so hot that the freezer pops that I put into the freezer when I got home from work yesterday aren't frozen, 20 some odd hours later

uhhhh Vinny

your parents' freezer is probably broken too

define repair guy

yeah i dont have ac. working from home this week has sucked. tuesday was 94f and 90 percent humidity in my apartment all day. hasnt cooled down but at least the humidity has dropped to 50 percent

never seen an indor humidity that high, hell barely seen oitdppr humidity that high. was real foggy in the morning

Found a guy who's discord profile read "The Skibidi Ohio Rizzler of the West". Considered inviting him here for a lark, then I find out he is a fake Ohioan. So I stopped considering him.

Also don't just invite random people here lmao

Had a dream about an anime that doesn't exist, about an MC who is a noble lord of a border province. He finds a girl that is sad, so he gets her to read a book that he recomends. Little does he know that said book contains said girl's entire life story both past and present. He just thinks it's a good book to read,

The other day my brother shared with me a discovery he made. That Lucky Charms exists within Australia and where to find it. And today I have confirmed his discovery. Oh what a fool he was for telling me. For he could have gotten rich, rich, rich off of his discovery. But now I KNOW AND I WILL DIVULGE THIS KNOWLEDGE TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER

@Phijkchu_Cynnydaquil have you guys fixed your AC yet?

Yeah. They finally pulled up to finish the job Friday, around noon, and finished around 3:30-3:45

nice

I was going to say, idk how your computer hadn't melted if not

Honestly no clue, I was worried for a bit there

It took it like a champ tho so

Very large rain storm over night in NJ. Ceiling collapsed and I think like 12 people were trapped. Nearest hospital also flooded to ankle level.

had phijkchu dream where pika had barely younger brother, aunt and uncle. we were at some office building with at least regi aswell, and i want to say bopit and lamp. oika your uncle worked there as an accountant or something idk. this place was a giant labyrinth. lots of escalators, mezzanines with glass railings. very sterile looking building. there was for some reasons a couple apartments and store fronts in this building. i was trying to find us a place to sit down away from the actual business parts of the building, we walked from one end to the other. on the way back we ran into spooky, kaze, fire, and some rando friend of kaze or fire. the stuff towards the end i remember more vividly. pika had go upstairs to check on his brither who was chatting with your aunt/uncle in the accountants office. bopit had to go to the restroom, fire ran ahead and joined him. regi and i got to a dead end. realized we got seperated from the second group who i guess was just following us. we go upstairs and see pika and his brother/extended family through the window of the office they were in then finially meet back up with spoky and kaze in front of that office, on a second floor mezzanine around an atrium. there were probably other charcters i missed sorry. and pika, your new family members looked like hasan pikers brother/uncle, you got conflated with hasan piker in my dreams, for that i apologize