The grumpy thread

[loserone]

24 minutes ago, bobdisk said:

@tobyd Why do some pics come out like this, with a "no entry" sign ? 

Because they're hosted in Google photos and sharing/hotlinking is turned off.   Nowt to do with the forum.

 

Jake needs to download the pics and upload them here or somewhere else which allows embedded image hosting

[High Jetter]

15 hours ago, jakebullet said:

don't charge a cleaning fee.

120% agree. Cost of cleaning should be built into the total cost, it's not like cleaning after a guest is optional FFS. Judging by their review of you, they are very green round the gills and will either have to wise-up smartish or give up the idea.

[Mally]

Just back from Spain,  day 2 test Neg. Day 5 test to release Neg, so got free to roam certificate.

But. Contacted by test and trace on day 4.  'You are a contact isolate until the end of your 10 days. Must be the plane, only place I've been.

So by day 9,  I'll have x3  PCR neg results, a free to roam cert,  and still be tied in the house.

[Chas4545]

For me,  countdown is ruined. 

[jakebullet]

I was saying to Ma the hedge looks brown & dead where I've trimmed it, don't understand why 'cos same cutter etc as usual. "Oh!" She says, "that'll be because I sprayed it with weedkiller. It stops it growing you know".

FFS! Yes it would do that. 

[R1152]

People who send text messages to landlines - especially messages containing a confirmation link.

It's not hard, people - only send a text message to a number that starts 07...

[High Jetter]

^^^ Had one the other day...trying to translate mechanical Mary's  'six-hundred and fourty-seven thousand, one-hundred and twenty-three' for a landline number in one go is not easy - why can't she just say 647123 FFS?

[Tadhg Tiogar]

Feckin' self-built desktop PC has failed after seven years. The price of its replacement (another customised desktop) feels like daylight robbery - most expensive component in it seems to be Windows 10.

[High Jetter]

@Tadhg Tiogar I got my PC from PC Specialist, I specified no OS. It came with Win 10 home, but I already had a £40ish Win 10 Pro disk waiting. Their configurator is easy to use, PC has been in use for 9 months, chuffed with it. Can get you spec and price if you want.

[Remspoor]

21 hours ago, jakebullet said:

Don't think we left it that bad:

I wanted to like them for having hopeless shitheaps under a cat piss tarp:

I suppose if they have a presence on Google maps you could leave a review there. With the comment about the charge and the photo to prove it was clean. Just ensure there is no wiggle room form them if they respond.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

1 hour ago, High Jetter said:

@Tadhg Tiogar I got my PC from PC Specialist, I specified no OS. It came with Win 10 home, but I already had a £40ish Win 10 Pro disk waiting. Their configurator is easy to use, PC has been in use for 9 months, chuffed with it. Can get you spec and price if you want.

Thanks, but already forked out for the replacement. Will note for future reference. 

That money had strong sentimental value. 

[R1152]

1 hour ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

Feckin' self-built desktop PC has failed after seven years. The price of its replacement (another customised desktop) feels like daylight robbery - most expensive component in it seems to be Windows 10.

Can you put the HDD in another machine, or is it that that's failed? 

(which reminds me - backup time tonight) 

[Tadhg Tiogar]

17 minutes ago, R1152 said:

Can you put the HDD in another machine, or is it that that's failed? 

(which reminds me - backup time tonight) 

The boot drive (which is SSD) failed. I only realised when I came back to it and found the thing trying to start using Win XP.....

[High Jetter]

So your data is safe on a HDD or two, great.

[R1152]

1 hour ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

The boot drive (which is SSD) failed. I only realised when I came back to it and found the thing trying to start using Win XP.....

That's worrying, given how many people are migrating to SSDs these days... 🤔

[Fumbler]

8 minutes ago, R1152 said:

That's worrying, given how many people are migrating to SSDs these days... 🤔

I'd point out that failure rates aren't all that high from what I've seen. I've got a 64 gigabyte SanDisk SSD that's been running nearly every day for the last 5 years. Unfortunately they're not all that recoverable like mechanical hard drives.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

33 minutes ago, R1152 said:

That's worrying, given how many people are migrating to SSDs these days... 🤔

 

23 minutes ago, Fumbler said:

I'd point out that failure rates aren't all that high from what I've seen. I've got a 64 gigabyte SanDisk SSD that's been running nearly every day for the last 5 years. Unfortunately they're not all that recoverable like mechanical hard drives.

The SSD which has ceased to be has lasted 7 years. Dunno whether that's the average lifespan for something produced back then.

[Fumbler]

5 minutes ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

 

The SSD which has ceased to be has lasted 7 years. Dunno whether that's the average lifespan for something produced back then.

It's done rather well. I don't think their service life is all that large as SSDs, like most flash memory storage, has a limited number of read/write cycles that it can do before wearing out the electronics inside.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

35 minutes ago, Fumbler said:

It's done rather well. I don't think their service life is all that large as SSDs, like most flash memory storage, has a limited number of read/write cycles that it can do before wearing out the electronics inside.

That's what a friend with network systems experience said, so I guess that must be the life cycle of early SSDs.

SSDs made now may* last longer*

[Bren]

Reset the SD1's timing. It ran but badly. It would not idle. I attempted to adjust the timing but now it just wont start.

This car is sucking the life out of me. I don't think it will ever go back on the road.

[High Jetter]

Unadjust it?

[Tadhg Tiogar]

2 hours ago, Bren said:

Reset the SD1's timing. It ran but badly. It would not idle. I attempted to adjust the timing but now it just wont start.

This car is sucking the life out of me. I don't think it will ever go back on the road.

 

22 minutes ago, High Jetter said:

Unadjust it?

If it ain't broke.....

[High Jetter]

It ran badly. Adjusted, didn't run. Unadjust it, should run badly again. Try something else.

[GrumpiusMaximus]

On 7/14/2021 at 9:14 PM, Fumbler said:

I'd point out that failure rates aren't all that high from what I've seen. I've got a 64 gigabyte SanDisk SSD that's been running nearly every day for the last 5 years. Unfortunately they're not all that recoverable like mechanical hard drives.

Unexpected failures on SSDs really aren't all that high.  SSDs will have a finite lifetime based on their read/write cycles like you've said but most HDDs will eventually fail mechanically.  On balance, I'd expect an SSD to last longer.  I've experienced a number of HDD failures and the only major SSD issues I've had are due to the drive being disconnected and data then being corrupted (which has just resulted in a reimage of the machine).

HDDs in laptops nowadays is just a silly idea really.  I'm always frustrated when I come across a laptop at work with an HDD because the performance difference is so noticable.  In particular,  it's the randomness of HDD failures I hate.  A tiny drop of the device and it can completely bork it but two feet might not and it entirely depends on the angle and what the head is doing at the time...

[Tadhg Tiogar]

3 hours ago, GrumpiusMaximus said:

Unexpected failures on SSDs really aren't all that high.  SSDs will have a finite lifetime based on their read/write cycles like you've said but most HDDs will eventually fail mechanically.  On balance, I'd expect an SSD to last longer.  I've experienced a number of HDD failures and the only major SSD issues I've had are due to the drive being disconnected and data then being corrupted (which has just resulted in a reimage of the machine).......

My two SATA HDDs have so far lasted almost twice as long as the failed SSD ...

[GrumpiusMaximus]

44 minutes ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

My two SATA HDDs have so far lasted almost twice as long as the failed SSD ...

That may very well be the case.  Like I say, HDD failures are unpredictable because of the number of failure modes they have.  On average I find SSDs to be much more robust and reliable, individual instances notwithstanding.

[Shirley Knott]

I saw the light re SSD's in March 2020 when during the first lockdown began. I bought a refurbished Windows 10  Dell business laptop for £80 on Ebay, despite only having a 120G drive and 4g ram it was waaaay faster than the higher spec machine it replaced. I liked it so much I bought my wife an identical one from the same seller- A year and a half on they're both still going and plenty fast enough for the basic browsing we use them for.

Meanwhile, flushed with the success of the laptops, I swapped the 250g HDD in the desktop upstairs for a Crucial SSD (£25 at the time)of the same size. After a fresh install of Windows 10 the difference was profound, it boots in under 5 seconds. Crucial actually provide a  free programme to check lifespan amongst other stuff, and after a year of solid use it's at 94% life left... Read into that what you will.

TLDR- I tried an SSD and was so impressed with the difference it made, I switched every machine in the house to running them within a 6 month period.

[Spiny Norman]

I've lost count of the number of SSD devices in USB/SD drives I've binned over the years, but I've never had a spinning disc fail. The drive on my most-used desktop (a refurbed business Dell) had been run for 5 years with about 200 start-ups when I got it , one of these machines that's never switched off, yet it continues to run fine.
 

[cobblers]

 Another "customer" in Ireland this time has sent us a box of scrap, unrepairable electronics and declared the value as 3000 euros (cos thats what they would have cost new)

Another ~£600 bill from DHL for VAT despite me saying to them (by email and over the phone) time and time again "NEVER SEND US ANY PARCELS THAT ARE DUE CHARGES WITHOUT GETTING OUR AUTHORISATION"

In total they claim we owe them many many thousands of pounds in duty and VAT for parcels that were sent to us completely unsolicited, with the customs forms filled incorrectly.

It's really getting me down because I'm absolutely working flat out anyway and don't have the time to try and sort this bollocks out. I think we've wasted three days already with the last lot, and now more!

 

DHL are cunts, and also in this case, brexit too. 

[Shirley Knott]

3 minutes ago, Spiny Norman said:

I've lost count of the number of SSD devices in USB/SD drives I've binned over the years, but I've never had a spinning disc fail. The drive on my most-used desktop (a refurbed business Dell) had been run for 5 years with about 200 start-ups when I got it , one of these machines that's never switched off, yet it continues to run fine.
 

I've had a couple of HDD fail, but paradoxically never an SSD. Admittedly my experience of the latter is relatively short.