The grumpy thread

[Zelandeth]

Oh my fscking god...

It's been a while so I'd forgotten what an utter and complete arse it is trying to set up Windows.

Housemate's laptop had got to the point of literally taking 20+ minutes to boot up to a usable state, so I called time and have stuck an SSD in it and am about to set it back up.

Was still on the original OEM Windows 7 install from 2012...

I've been at it for an hour now and I think I have *just about* got an actual bootable flash drive...

Why do I need to use a fucking special media creation tool from MS?  Why can't I just write an ISO straight to the damned thing like I have with every other OS I've installed since about 2003?!?

Why won't the tool let you select where the damned image is once you've rebooted into Windows (assuming you HAVE a working Windows install, God help you if you don't), rather than downloading all eight bloody gigabytes AGAIN despite the thing already sitting there on the desktop...

*Bashes head against screen*

I've got far too used to...

1. Download ISO image.

2. Open USB Image writer.

3. Write image.

4. Boot from USB stick.

5. Click install.

6. Answer maybe half a dozen questions then wait 10-20 minutes.

7. Done.

Every time it's been a while I forget quite how much I despise every iteration of Windows that has followed XP.

[Fumbler]

  On 07/02/2022 at 21:53, Zelandeth said:

Oh my fscking god...

It's been a while so I'd forgotten what an utter and complete arse it is trying to set up Windows.

Housemate's laptop had got to the point of literally taking 20+ minutes to boot up to a usable state, so I called time and have stuck an SSD in it and am about to set it back up.

Was still on the original OEM Windows 7 install from 2012...

I've been at it for an hour now and I think I have *just about* got an actual bootable flash drive...

Why do I need to use a fucking special media creation tool from MS?  Why can't I just write an ISO straight to the damned thing like I have with every other OS I've installed since about 2003?!?

Why won't the tool let you select where the damned image is once you've rebooted into Windows (assuming you HAVE a working Windows install, God help you if you don't), rather than downloading all eight bloody gigabytes AGAIN despite the thing already sitting there on the desktop...

*Bashes head against screen*

I've got far too used to...

1. Download ISO image.

2. Open USB Image writer.

3. Write image.

4. Boot from USB stick.

5. Click install.

6. Answer maybe half a dozen questions then wait 10-20 minutes.

7. Done.

Every time it's been a while I forget quite how much I despise every iteration of Windows that has followed XP.

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Making bootable media for Win10 has been a headache but never annoying for me. What is annoying is all the "help Windows perform better" questionnaire bollocks that the installer is mainly comprised of.

Oh, and the fact the latest update has crippled my 32 bit laptop so much it cannot run a browser and Word at the same time.

[Zelandeth]

  On 07/02/2022 at 22:01, Fumbler said:

Making bootable media for Win10 has been a headache but never annoying for me. What is annoying is all the "help Windows perform better" questionnaire bollocks that the installer is mainly comprised of.

Oh, and the fact the latest update has crippled my 32 bit laptop so much it cannot run a browser and Word at the same time.

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Think one of the big problems for me simply is that I don't use Windows...so I probably wasted half an hour trying to get the damned install media to work before giving in and restarting into Windows.  Which of course then wanted to install about 203745192973 updates because I'd not booted it in about three months and promoted me about four times to reboot while I was downloading the media creation tool...all the while badgering me about it having been too long since I had Windows Defender scan my PC and oh look you don't have antivirus software installed...just shut up already and let me get on with what I'm doing...

I've got too used to stuff *just working!*

Edit: I've also just realised that you need to connect to a MS account as part of setup...so much for my intent of handing over a clean laptop with a post it simply saying "here's your temporary password, please change it."

[somewhatfoolish]

  On 07/02/2022 at 18:38, Gerrymcd said:

Buy cheap, buy twice.

I didn't think I was even beating on it that much😂

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Vice ≠ anvil; if you want to twat things with a hammer use something else.

[AnnoyingPentium]

  On 07/02/2022 at 22:15, Zelandeth said:

Edit: I've also just realised that you need to connect to a MS account as part of setup...so much for my intent of handing over a clean laptop with a post it simply saying "here's your temporary password, please change it."

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Turn the Wi-Fi off when setting up accounts. That's how I got around it.

[GMcD]

  On 07/02/2022 at 20:34, mitsisigma01 said:

Thats the ones that keep showing up on Google ads for me .fk knows why I wouldn't go near one. Ranging from 11.99 to 39.99 ....made of cheese but ok if you need help to rip a tissue....

P.s whereabouts are you ? I have s few vices of varying sizes , mainly Record ,if IRC

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I paid £20 quid  😁 To be honest I'm not bothered about it. 

The "yer a cheap shite what did you expect" thread would have been more appropriate. 

Stay in Barrhead mate. 

[AnnoyingPentium]

  On 07/02/2022 at 22:27, Gerrymcd said:

Stay in Barrhead mate. 

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Say no more...

[LightBulbFun]

  On 07/02/2022 at 21:53, Zelandeth said:

Oh my fscking god...

It's been a while so I'd forgotten what an utter and complete arse it is trying to set up Windows.

Housemate's laptop had got to the point of literally taking 20+ minutes to boot up to a usable state, so I called time and have stuck an SSD in it and am about to set it back up.

Was still on the original OEM Windows 7 install from 2012...

I've been at it for an hour now and I think I have *just about* got an actual bootable flash drive...

Why do I need to use a fucking special media creation tool from MS?  Why can't I just write an ISO straight to the damned thing like I have with every other OS I've installed since about 2003?!?

Why won't the tool let you select where the damned image is once you've rebooted into Windows (assuming you HAVE a working Windows install, God help you if you don't), rather than downloading all eight bloody gigabytes AGAIN despite the thing already sitting there on the desktop...

*Bashes head against screen*

I've got far too used to...

1. Download ISO image.

2. Open USB Image writer.

3. Write image.

4. Boot from USB stick.

5. Click install.

6. Answer maybe half a dozen questions then wait 10-20 minutes.

7. Done.

Every time it's been a while I forget quite how much I despise every iteration of Windows that has followed XP.

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rufus is your friend here  https://rufus.ie/en/

if you dont have a pre-existing windows install handy you can make a bootable windows USB stick by actually just strategically copy and pasting the files from the ISO to a correctly formatted USB stick (note manually copy and pasting, only works if the machine supports UEFI booting!)

I do agree tho its much easier when you can just DD the fucker LOL 

  On 07/02/2022 at 22:15, Zelandeth said:

Edit: I've also just realised that you need to connect to a MS account as part of setup...so much for my intent of handing over a clean laptop with a post it simply saying "here's your temporary password, please change it."

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they burry it in the bottom left hand corner of the setup screen but there is a setup with local account option when you get to the "sign in with microsoft account" section

 

[Zelandeth]

We got there in the end.  The result is a machine that's running lightning quick and is doing everything that it needs to - currently aside from being able to see the network printers, but that's down to the peculiarities of our network I think rather than the computer - nuking our network from orbit is probably going to be one of my bigger projects for this year as some of the issues it has at the moment drive me mad.  There are a bunch of things which just don't work how they should which I want to sort.  Very little of the original kit will be left when I'm done.  Even though it will mean routing even MORE sodding network cables through the house because that's so much fun...

I did try manually setting things up for the installer on a USB stick last time I was doing this - and in doing so managed to completely brick a 32Gb USB stick, so I was reticent to mess around with the partition tables manually on there again...just rebooting and begrudgingly using the MS tool was the lesser of two evils.

[Metal Guru]

  On 06/02/2022 at 15:21, Mally said:

Ah, but it's denailed by hand!

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The word Patina is used, that doubles the price!

[Bren]

I had sinuitis and a bad chest after covid.

The antibiotics combined with my inhaler has left me with a very painful mouth - swallowing hot food and drinks is agony. The joys of oral thrush.

I swear I am turning into a giant fucking mushroom...

[grogee]

  On 08/02/2022 at 14:33, Bren said:

I had sinuitis and a bad chest after covid.

The antibiotics combined with my inhaler has left me with a very painful mouth - swallowing hot food and drinks is agony. The joys of oral thrush.

I swear I am turning into a giant fucking mushroom...

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That sucks. Or blows. I get mouth ulcers from time to time and they're just horrible. It's a continuous nagging pain which makes the thing I like doing most (eating) into a painful ordeal. 

I've tried the various potions they sell which are at best just temporary numbness and don't speed up recovery. 

[twosmoke300]

  On 08/02/2022 at 14:33, Bren said:

I had sinuitis and a bad chest after covid.

The antibiotics combined with my inhaler has left me with a very painful mouth - swallowing hot food and drinks is agony. The joys of oral thrush.

I swear I am turning into a giant fucking mushroom...

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Or just an irritable cunt ? 😂

[Bren]

  On 08/02/2022 at 16:56, twosmoke300 said:

Or just an irritable cunt ? 😂

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Already one of those

[twosmoke300]

Join the club 😂 I woke up angry today for no real reason . After a couple hours at work I had a reason ! 

[hairnet]

due to ongoings 

have to come home early from trip

not gonna be fun this next week  after what they told me (and didnt) on the phone earlier

oh fuck

 

[Spiny Norman]

  On 08/02/2022 at 14:33, Bren said:

The antibiotics combined with my inhaler has left me with a very painful mouth - swallowing hot food and drinks is agony. The joys of oral thrush.

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Apologies if teaching granny to suck eggs here but if it's the beclomethasone type, my GP told me to always rinse my mouth out with water or better still, use the inhaler before brushing your teeth in the mornings and evenings to stop those symptoms.

[Fumbler]

Had some work done on the car... dropped it off at midday Friday and most of the work was done at the end of the day. I've just received the invoice thinking it'd be £200 or something. Well nope

Fuck. Only 18% of that is parts. The rest is labour and VAT.

[mitsisigma01]

  On 08/02/2022 at 19:44, Fumbler said:

Had some work done on the car... dropped it off at midday Friday and most of the work was done at the end of the day. I've just received the invoice thinking it'd be £200 or something. Well nope

Fuck. Only 18% of that is parts. The rest is labour and VAT.

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Have you got a full breakdown of what they've not  done

[Fumbler]

  On 08/02/2022 at 19:53, mitsisigma01 said:

Have you got a full breakdown of what they've not  done

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Yes- the maths is rather confusing but I think it's how the invoice is laid out which is causing the confusion. I'll follow this up with a friendly call to the garage.

[reb]

What?

I have a windows licence?

[Bren]

  On 08/02/2022 at 19:44, Fumbler said:

Had some work done on the car... dropped it off at midday Friday and most of the work was done at the end of the day. I've just received the invoice thinking it'd be £200 or something. Well nope

Fuck. Only 18% of that is parts. The rest is labour and VAT.

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What car? What work?

[Fumbler]

  On 08/02/2022 at 20:38, Bren said:

What car? What work?

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The BX, to correct the 4 or so MoT advisories, plus 2 additional jobs (replace worn bush in rear height corrector linkage, replace binnacle lamp(s)). It turns out replacing the front brake flexis weren't as quick as they'd said it would be.

[mat_the_cat]

It's a growing annoyance that several times a week, we get post for a couple of neighbours, because of their incorrect address. Yet despite telling them multiple times going back years, it still keeps on happening!

We live in a pretty rural area, and the address is simply the house name (in our case Dolwen) followed by the nearest town, and postcode (shared by the cluster of houses close by).

The confusion arises because they keep putting our bloody house name on their address, as well as theirs! With ours being the oldest house in the area, one or two people refer to the cluster as Dolwen, although it's not on any registered address.

So we get a pissed off courier who's wasted time coming up the track to our place, then has to turn around and go to theirs. Or if we're out, coming home to a package we then have to let them know about. I honestly feel like just chucking it in the river sometimes, and see if that forces them to change.

[omegod]

Wife is watching the Brit awards, I have headphones on and can still hear the noisiest bunch of annoying utter fucking twats trying to outshout each other with unintelligible wanky cool speak 

Get in the sea you massive cunts 

Yeah, my moods not great tonight 

[purplebargeken]

Last two weeks I have been getting pains in both legs and feet at night, a dullish slightly more than an ache all over plus ice cold feet. It is uncomfortable enough to make getting to sleep difficult, plus it also wakes me up.  I suspect possible peripheral vascular issues.

However, GP feels it is linked to my slowly but steadily degenerating back.  He has requested an MRI and has given me a prescription of gabapentin, a neuropathic pain... pain killer.

I can understand his logic but this feels entirely different to the ongoing crap that I have with my spine, the arthritis and 6 knackered discs. This is not sciatica.

[Popsicle]

@purplebargeken without wishing to sound dramatic and without wishing to concern you, I was prescribed gabapentin for a smashed up hand a few years ago, its nasty stuff in my experience. Obviously I hope it agrees with you but it fucked me over big time and did bugger all to alleviate the pain. It left me in a constant bad mood, unable to sleep, mouth, eyes and nose drier than Gandhi's flip flop and most worryingly and I'm not joking, my cock stopped working.

Really hope it works for you but be observant to the side effects, particularly the bad moods. Duloxetine is a similar pill and I fared much better with that, in so much as pain relief, but it still had some shitty side effects.

Good luck with it.

[New POD]

  On 08/02/2022 at 21:08, mat_the_cat said:

It's a growing annoyance that several times a week, we get post for a couple of neighbours, because of their incorrect address. Yet despite telling them multiple times going back years, it still keeps on happening!

We live in a pretty rural area, and the address is simply the house name (in our case Dolwen) followed by the nearest town, and postcode (shared by the cluster of houses close by).

The confusion arises because they keep putting our bloody house name on their address, as well as theirs! With ours being the oldest house in the area, one or two people refer to the cluster as Dolwen, although it's not on any registered address.

So we get a pissed off courier who's wasted time coming up the track to our place, then has to turn around and go to theirs. Or if we're out, coming home to a package we then have to let them know about. I honestly feel like just chucking it in the river sometimes, and see if that forces them to change.

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The previous owner of my place has been getting demands from various places like Coventry city council, the DVLA, and HMRC. After 2.5 years I've decided to stop re-addressing them, and am now returning to sender.  I write on the front of the envelope.

Name Spelt Wrong 

97-99 does not exist. It's 97 or 99. 

99 is empty and the person you want does not live at 97 and moved in 2019. 

RETURN TO SENDER. 

[jamescarruthers]

  On 08/02/2022 at 19:44, Fumbler said:

Had some work done on the car... dropped it off at midday Friday and most of the work was done at the end of the day. I've just received the invoice thinking it'd be £200 or something. Well nope

Fuck. Only 18% of that is parts. The rest is labour and VAT.

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Yes, that does sound like a trip to Chevronics! I think last year or the year before I had a bill that was similar— the funny thing is that there was a newer C5 with lower miles, slower but more reliable engine, on the forecourt for-sale for a few hundred pounds more than the bill to fix the car. To be fair, I don’t think I could have gotten it fixed somewhere else at all and the car has been good as gold since… well until it ate it’s newish clutch for breakfast but that’s not their fault. 
 

I’m a big big fan of the place but yeah it can get expensive. I guess they are successful because they really do know how to bill hourly work but they also do know what they are doing with old Citroens. On the other hand I’ve benefitted (occasionally) from other garages clearly undercharging over the years from simple work that has gotten out of hand when things have gone wrong. 
 

I think this makes the BX a keeper now as it’s crossed an investment frontier?! I’m hoping that’s nearly everything fixed now? 

[sierraman]

  On 08/02/2022 at 19:44, Fumbler said:

Had some work done on the car... dropped it off at midday Friday and most of the work was done at the end of the day. I've just received the invoice thinking it'd be £200 or something. Well nope

Fuck. Only 18% of that is parts. The rest is labour and VAT.

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Christ. What’s their hourly labour rate?