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1 day agoMe, connecting to the speaker and opening up pornhub: “it’s showtime”
Midnight Wolf
Hello! Some info about me is up on my website: https://wreckedcarzz.com/
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Cake day: August 23rd, 2023
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Because I’m surely not the only one going ‘why would I want change, I paid with plastic’: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_quarter
Copied from my website (I hate companies who don’t give a fuck):
Hilton (2023): both HGI @ BWI and the Twitter representatives + upper management put money way before the safety and experiences of a disabled customer, and provided a pittance of redemption - but they are so happy that I’m a loyal diamond-level customer. Talk is cheap and Hilton loves to use it, but not much else. Hello, Marriott!
Details copied here for simplicity
First and foremost: if you take nothing else from this review, do not stay here. I stayed here twice for a total of 4 nights and both stays were marred by incorrect room types and poor customer service. This extends to Hilton HQ as they were insultingly uninterested in making things right.
I’m a disabled individual who booked one king size bed with roll-in shower for both stays, and had booked several months in advance. When I arrived on day 1 of stay 1, I walked in to check-in as the mobile ability was unavailable, only to be told that check-in wouldn’t be available for some time. After dragging my exhausted self back to the car and getting food, I was checked in automatically around an hour later, so I returned to the hotel, got keycards from the front desk, and headed to our room. I was greeted by an incorrect room - an accessible tub instead of a roll-in shower - but my +1 suggested that we try to make it work. Spoiler warning: when you are disabled and are given incorrect accommodations, you are going to have a bad time. It was both difficult and dangerous for me, even with assistance, to shower. But as we had dinner and decided to get some sleep, the two of us crawled into bed; and it collapsed.
So, after being confused and colorful language was exchanged, we decided to investigate what happened and attempt to mend it. Remember now that it’s almost 1am, I haven’t slept in 25 hours, I’m barely capable of basic daily functions and me and my +1 are trying to, non-destructively, mend a bed. We find that the support slats are woefully inadequate and in short supply, with only 6 on each side of the bed (my cheapo frame at home has double that, and they are better secured as to avoid this problem). After a few minutes we get the bed apart, shift and adjust and reinstall the slats, and reassemble the bed. At checkout I received a survey and detailed these issues, and received an email supposedly from the management apologizing for my troubles, thanking me for being a diamond member, but offering nothing but empty words.
On day 1 of stay 2 a week later, I was again unable to do mobile check-in and was presented with a message to ‘simply come to the front desk’. Worried but with a day-long drive ahead of me, I started the road trip. When I arrived at midnight, I was told that they just needed to see my ID (why? I was just here without that requirement) and then they gave me the keycards and off we went. Except, the room I was given this time wasn’t even an accessible room. It was a standard corner (read: ikea-tiny sized) and the air was ripe with weed. As a standard room used a shower-tub combo that I cannot get into, my +1 went down to the front desk while I stayed behind (as walking is difficult and slow). When they were gone I surveyed the other customers of the hotel, and while I don’t want to make assumptions, I got the feeling that there was illegal adult activities occurring just two rooms away, with people coming and going and some individuals hanging around the door in the hallway.
When my +1 returned a few minutes later they had good news, we’ve been moved to a different room a few doors down. When we arrived and opened the door, we saw that it was a ‘suite’ (read: a living room space with couch and TV, alongside the standard basic bedroom and bath). Fine by me, and this room actually has the correct accessible bathroom. Both of us noted how the air was stale and smelled ‘dusty’, like it hadn’t been used in quite some time. As I fell in bed, well past 1 in the morning, my +1 made an announcement.
“There’s a hole in the ceiling.”
Let’s recap: first stay, wrong room, bed collapsed upon sitting on it; second stay, wrong room, room not accessible, replacement room unusually stale, replacement room has hole in the ceiling. We aren’t done yet, by the way. Morning came and when we checked out, we alerted the front desk clerk about the (now apparent) water damage, hole, and sagging ceiling, who acted like we were just bothering her lunch break. She also had a tone with a customer who called in.
Never again.
Resolution: I was given 10k Hilton points - a value of roughly $40 at the location this all occurred at - which is unacceptably low (I was looking for a 1-night refund) given what happened. I plan on downgrading or outright canceling my Hilton credit card with American Express, as after I use my accumulated points I will cease to be a customer due to the lack of empathy and compassion, at all levels at this property as well as HQ; not just for a loyal customer, but a disabled one.
Btrfs is what I run too actually (on a spare ThinkPad) with xubuntu, but the management/scheduling through… TimeShift? Is unreliable. I always need to remember to manually take an image. And I have no idea what the process is if the system is unbootable, since to recover I need to boot and get to TS…
I totally forgot about TS and how btrfs works with it until now. Which tells you how often I manually take an image…
But what if the router is what dies?
dun dun duuuuunnnnn
One reason I’m not running Linux on my main box: it’s a fucking nightmare to do a full disk image. I run Macrium Reflect on windows and there is nothing for *nix that I can find that does it easily, and while the system is live. I don’t want to shutdown, find the flash drive, plug it in, boot, image the drive (and my backup drive is encrypted by bitlocker so I’d need to partition the drive and get luks or something…), reboot, and repeat every day and also remember to delete old images.
Yeah sure I can ‘back up’ user data but that’s not the issue, I don’t want to spend a few days getting my system back to the exact config it was before. I already have documents with commands and settings and it’s doable but awful. With windows and macrium I can intentionally fuck the system six ways from Sunday and have it back how it was this morning in 30 minutes. I need that ability on Linux, it baffles me that it’s not a thing.
I never said it was universal - I gave a contrast to their own example.
LibreWolf, IronFox
First paragraph: correction, it was made by fucking other people. That isn’t a positive thing, I should point out (I mean I shouldn’t need to point it out, but here we are). Taking advantage of others for personal gain is a terrible thing. Going back a comment, the fact that you are proud of this amassed wealth is deplorable.
The rest of your comment isn’t worth the time to read it.
See last sentence. “I got mine, fuck y’all lmao”
Me, a self-taught 25y+ IT wiz with hardware, software, networking, and programming
My parents, doom-scrolling fox news and asking me how to send an email
If I died they would slowly starve, absolutely helpless for anything beyond basic human function. “how do I open a pdf”, “why do I have 4 passwords for 1 website”, “I went to [domain 2] and it is different from [domain 1] and no it’s not because I clicked the first entry on Google” [spoiler alert, they blindly clicked the first entry on Google], “plex isn’t working, what do you mean check the wifi, I thought we had unlimited wifi”, “how do I check the home phone voicemail”, “how do I redeem cash back on my credit card”, “how do I order pizza from dominos”, “I made an account” [for a site I have a family account setup for already], “I paid for a year of a streaming service without testing the free trial and I can’t stream anything”, “why can’t we play [streaming service we don’t pay for]”, “why does this say ‘ad blocked’ when I try to click on this shady email”, “the home security system went off after I disabled the back door, went outside, then closed the door, then came back in - I don’t understand” [the system armed when they shut the door behind them, then came back in and boom], “why does this say I’m out of cloud space” [14 gigabytes of pointless emails]… And that’s just from recent memory! And this is a constant stream of basic things. I can’t even get them to reliably reboot devices before they are out of ideas. Literally helpless.
All boomers did was successfully take everything for themselves, and didn’t learn a damn bit in the process.
1·7 days agoIt’s not what you’re looking for, but might be useful: https://github.com/aj3423/SpamBlocker
I use mine as my main number, though I ported away from GV (Project Fi, using GV as the backend) years ago
…but you don’t drift with 4WD (in this scenario), you change to it because of the uneven terrain that comes with an outdoor mixed-environment like a playground, where one can traverse concrete, grass, dirt, mud, sand all in a few seconds. Locking differentials are a plus if the vehicle has them, especially in sand for this situation.
E: also the skyline is technically awd as I don’t believe you can disengage the 4WD. 4WD implies the ability of 2WD and possibly a low/high range gearbox. It bugs me that the show uses the term 4WD for this.
Ah, I’m not running 11 yet. I’m one of the holdouts still on 10, I upgraded as soon as it was available and then restored from an image to 10. I fear I need to get pushed to it at EoL, since my home rig has two sound cards, a keyboard, and a mouse that are configurable only in windows. But fuck, I’m dreading the day, as I hate the start menu, the possibility of ads in explorer, the context menu is stupid and is not accessibility-friendly, I can’t keep the taskbar at the top, the settings are getting more obtuse…
So yeah that could explain why I’ve not seen it before myself :p
I don’t think I’ve ever had that happen - maybe it’s a group policy thing or something?
Half a penis lengthwise, or…?
This is it. OP is just dumb. “omg it’s restarting when it said it was at less than 100% and I can’t fathom why that would be, I told it to shut down reeeEEEEE”. I used to think this was job security (“my system got corrupted and it’s totally not because I’m an idiot”) but as the years go on I yearn to simply drop filing cabinets on their heads.
“but I don’t even have a yard”
Me, starting up my monster truck just shy of the DMZ: “challenge accepted”