Piss & Moan Table

[Zorba]

I understand all of that. The question is, why would the insurance company not be proactive, is this not what we pay for? And before I am asked, yes fallen trees and their removal are covered under my policy, but only the 1/2 that has already fallen will be covered. The tree is literally split in half, I just can't see the logic.

That's easy. They're waiting for the other half to fall, and hoping they can blame "rot" for it and not pay out. That's what InsCos do.

 

[MtPockets]

The tree is literally split in half, I just can't see the logic.

There IS no logic when it comes to insurance companies (or the govt)....
Bend us over at every chance, then use every excuse in the book to NOT pay.

 

[1o1proof]

There IS no logic when it comes to insurance companies (or the govt)....
Bend us over at every chance, then use every excuse in the book to NOT pay.

Your exactly right, I just needed to vent I suppose.

 

[AOSJ]

6'-3" here.

I've been trying to drop weight for 2 years. Get up lift weights, 264. Get up ride my bike, 264. Count calories and work out, 264. Don't work out, stay up late drinking with friends on weekends and eat whatever I want, 264 lbs.

It sucks. I ride my bike 20 miles 3x a week, run every other day. Same weight. 1000 miles riding this year so far and can't lose a pound. Must be an 56 year old thing.

I'm about ready to lift my way to 265-300 lbs and see if my waist goes down. At least I'd have muscle to show for it.

I'm too old to do 2 x a day of cardio and lifting. Can't recover.

have you had any labs done? any chronic medical problems other than being heavy?

 

[TJ Jim]

Just love how well DEET products work

 

[cliffish]

So my town has been giving out beach/park permits for free to residents for at least the 58 years I have lived here. Now they switched to a online registering system. The local rangers will just drive by and scan your plate. I have no problem with that, but of course they are now charging $5 per car every year to pay for the technology...a $150 fine if not registered. Just another money grab on top of everything else we pay here is this Commiefornia east.

 

[KennethS]

We have a national forest permit use area that used to be a free 6 month pass, just stop by the ranger office and fill out a form to get one.
Then it switched to an online form, with a $6 processing fee.
Now it has changed to $60 for the 6 month pass.

 

[Zorba]

So my town has been giving out beach/park permits for free to residents for at least the 58 years I have lived here. Now they switched to a online registering system. The local rangers will just drive by and scan your plate. I have no problem with that, but of course they are now charging $5 per car every year to pay for the technology...a $150 fine if not registered. Just another money grab on top of everything else we pay here is this Commiefornia east.

But its "Technology"!! Which means its better, right?

 

[bucky]

I understand all of that. The question is, why would the insurance company not be proactive, is this not what we pay for? And before I am asked, yes fallen trees and their removal are covered under my policy, but only the 1/2 that has already fallen will be covered. The tree is literally split in half, I just can't see the logic.

It’s an issue you know about and it’s your responsibility to mitigate it. If it falls they may not cover it due to your negligence.

 

[sab]

Almost two years back, I bought a high-end Lenovo gaming laptop - not for gaming (I have no use for gaming), but for 3D modeling and scanning. I bought an extended warranty for it when it expired, and recently the left shift key stopped working. My warranty includes next-day, in-home service, so I called, went through an hour of troubleshooting, and was finally told it needed a keyboard (duh!) They set up a repair case. My next-day service turned into "in two weeks" service because the parts were out of stock.

So, Thursday, the tech showed up. I was at work, but Mrs. sab was there at home to babysit the tech. He spent four hours there, and when he left, he said that I'd need to have my Bitlocker keys at startup. I asked him why changing a keyboard would require those keys, and he said, "well, in addition to the keyboard, they sent a new motherboard." Huh? Ok. Weird.

Thursday night, I got home, entered the Bitlocker keys, and started using the laptop. Immediately, I noticed that the touch pad no longer worked. I tried everything I could think of to get it working, but it just didn't work. My immediate thought - the tech didn't re-connect it. No bid deal - I have an external mouse. I called tech support and reported the problem. After another 30 minutes of trouble-shooting, they recommended sending it in for service. I told them that I paid for the premium extended warranty to get next-day, in-home service, and that's what I expected. They agreed to send a tech out again - with another new motherboard. They want to be sure that the new motherboard isn't the problem.

And then it got worse. By the end of the evening, I realized that the sound no longer worked, but the worst problem - the battery won't charge. By Friday morning, it was dead. And that's where I'm at - waiting on a second appointment to fix all these problems that popped up after the shift key was fixed. Hopefully I'll get an appointment Monday, and hopefully with a smarter technician. I do everything on my laptop, and it sucks to not have it. I'm typing this on my work laptop, but it's locked-down, and it's not a very robust setup, so I can only do basic things on it.

I guess computer service is like all other service these days - terrible!

 

[Zorba]

Why is it when I see an article of clothing I want, its never my size?

 

[chili_pepper]

Almost two years back, I bought a high-end Lenovo gaming laptop - not for gaming (I have no use for gaming), but for 3D modeling and scanning. I bought an extended warranty for it when it expired, and recently the left shift key stopped working. My warranty includes next-day, in-home service, so I called, went through an hour of troubleshooting, and was finally told it needed a keyboard (duh!) They set up a repair case. My next-day service turned into "in two weeks" service because the parts were out of stock.

So, Thursday, the tech showed up. I was at work, but Mrs. sab was there at home to babysit the tech. He spent four hours there, and when he left, he said that I'd need to have my Bitlocker keys at startup. I asked him why changing a keyboard would require those keys, and he said, "well, in addition to the keyboard, they sent a new motherboard." Huh? Ok. Weird.

Thursday night, I got home, entered the Bitlocker keys, and started using the laptop. Immediately, I noticed that the touch pad no longer worked. I tried everything I could think of to get it working, but it just didn't work. My immediate thought - the tech didn't re-connect it. No bid deal - I have an external mouse. I called tech support and reported the problem. After another 30 minutes of trouble-shooting, they recommended sending it in for service. I told them that I paid for the premium extended warranty to get next-day, in-home service, and that's what I expected. They agreed to send a tech out again - with another new motherboard. They want to be sure that the new motherboard isn't the problem.

And then it got worse. By the end of the evening, I realized that the sound no longer worked, but the worst problem - the battery won't charge. By Friday morning, it was dead. And that's where I'm at - waiting on a second appointment to fix all these problems that popped up after the shift key was fixed. Hopefully I'll get an appointment Monday, and hopefully with a smarter technician. I do everything on my laptop, and it sucks to not have it. I'm typing this on my work laptop, but it's locked-down, and it's not a very robust setup, so I can only do basic things on it.

I guess computer service is like all other service these days - terrible!

While I realize laptops serve a purpose (I do have one, an even older Lenovo - I could rant about the OS, another time), I've been buying components and building desktops so as to avoid all that. It's typically cheaper, you get more power for the dollar and you know exactly what you've got.

I say typically, maybe historically is a better word. Given current component prices, mostly processors and memory, building your own computer may well be a thing of the past (and I'm not convinced this is totally by accident). The industry is following the money, and that money lies in data centers and AI, consumer computing isn't getting the love.

 

[Zorba]

While I realize laptops serve a purpose (I do have one, an even older Lenovo - I could rant about the OS, another time), I've been buying components and building desktops so as to avoid all that. It's typically cheaper, you get more power for the dollar and you know exactly what you've got.

I say typically, maybe historically is a better word. Given current component prices, mostly processors and memory, building your own computer may well be a thing of the past (and I'm not convinced this is totally by accident). The industry is following the money, and that money lies in data centers and AI, consumer computing

When I worked IT, I told my clients: "If you need a laptop, buy a laptop. But if you do NOT need a laptop, by a desktop. Cheaper for equivalent performance, far less trouble, more reliable." Then I point around the lab at all the laptops that were in for service of one sort or another - 10 to 1 at least vs a desktop. Yes, I have a laptop, two of them actually. Take one of them on trips, otherwise I use my desktop.

Oh, and run Linux - you'll thank me later.

 

[Weasellee]

So my town has been giving out beach/park permits for free to residents for at least the 58 years I have lived here. Now they switched to a online registering system. The local rangers will just drive by and scan your plate. I have no problem with that, but of course they are now charging $5 per car every year to pay for the technology...a $150 fine if not registered. Just another money grab on top of everything else we pay here is this Commiefornia east.

I have 4 cars, do i need 4 passes?

 

[chili_pepper]

When I worked IT, I told my clients: "If you need a laptop, buy a laptop. But if you do NOT need a laptop, by a desktop. Cheaper for equivalent performance, far less trouble, more reliable." Then I point around the lab at all the laptops that were in for service of one sort or another - 10 to 1 at least vs a desktop. Yes, I have a laptop, two of them actually. Take one of them on trips, otherwise I use my desktop.

Oh, and run Linux - you'll thank me later.

You can build pretty small, yet powerful, desktops these days. Well, you could until maybe a year ago...

The last desktop my employer sent me a few years back was literally 1/8th the size of the previous. Sans peripherals, it's a fair bit smaller than the laptop. Even with a small display, keyboard and mouse, not bad for portability. Now I'm not really "surfing the web in coffee shops" portable, more "I need this in the garage to do diagnostic shit on my car" or "prefer to 'CAD it' while field-measuring rather than sketch it by hand to draft later on", for context. I don't connect to public networks with it, ever.

Yes, well aware of Linux, and would if I could (have in the past for fun), but many of the programs I run require a Windows OS. Powerful CAD, 3D modeling, rendering and animation software is essentially non-existent in the Linux world. For the record, I despise M$ and have for a very long time, I think they make shit software, have shit business ethics (oxymoronic as that may be) and what some might call a dangerous monopoly...but I digress. The aforementioned laptop may well get some flavor of Linux in the near future.

 

[TJ Jim]

Why is it when I see an article of clothing I want, its never my size?

Have you tried the Big & Tall women’s shop?

Sorry just figured you were looking for a skirt or dress and, well you know……

 

[Westtown Willy]

There IS no logic when it comes to insurance companies (or the govt).... or women, especially women that work at insurance companies (or the govt)...
Bend us over at every chance, then use every excuse in the book to NOT pay.

fixed that fer ya

 

[Westtown Willy]

So, my central air broke on the first hot day back in 2020, I called my AC guy who told me due to ‘Covid’ he didn’t have access to any parts, suggested I call him back in a few weeks. By the time a few weeks elapsed, I had acclimated to the hot weather & never called him back, to this day. I grew up without AC, never lived in a house with it or slept in an air conditioned room until I was about 25 & moved in with my girlfriend. When we later got married & bought our house, it didn’t have air but I agreed to have the ducts run… we did that in 1999. She bolted in 2011 but the air continued to work through 2020. Truthfully I wasn’t a big fan, I found it caused breathing issues at night, but I was used to it & it never occurred to me to just shut it off until it broke. Once I reverted back to my earlier Tarzanesque life I realized how much more I liked it. Yea it gets a bit sketchy at times during heat waves but I’ve got it all down to a science.

All of that leads to the piss & moan part. My daughter never visits in the summer as she is an absolute AC junkie. Last year she had to come home for a week however, so in anticipation of that I bought a window unit. As it turned out, she had to cancel the trip so the thing was never hoisted into the window. She’s coming home tomorrow for two nights to visit her new nephew so I broke the thing out to begin installation procedures & the first thing I read is:

“Scan to connect and download the SmartHQ App, then sign in, create an account, and UPDATE APPLIANCE SOFTWARE”.

Are you fucking kidding me, I already want to throw this fucking thing out the window.

 

[MtPockets]

“Scan to connect and download the SmartHQ App, then sign in, create an account, and UPDATE APPLIANCE SOFTWARE”.

Are you fucking kidding me, I already want to throw this fucking thing out the window.

I'm right there with you (and @Zorba), this app based bullshit and "smart" this and that can suck my left nut.

I hate to say it out loud but I genuinely fear for what my kids and Grandkids have waiting for them.

 

[Westtown Willy]

I'm right there with you (and @Zorba), this app based bullshit and "smart" this and that can suck my left nut.

I hate to say it out loud but I genuinely fear for what my kids and Grandkids have waiting for them.

you know what, the world they're growing up in already requires a QR code to take a piss so they won't know the difference, & as I sit on my rocking chair bitching around the clock about all this fuckery they'll just shake their heads & call me a crazy old man...

Speaking of @Zorba , I read 'Against the Machine', yea it's all in there...