The grumpy thread

[loserone]

On 31/01/2024 at 19:03, eddyramrod said:

Well fuck streaming, how old am I?  15?  NO, ffs, I'm 65 (in April)

Our neighbour who is helping sort out floor is 65.

 

He's done a fair amount of digging already, yesterday after he finished I gave him a hand sorting his gutters, and then we spent 15 minutes looking for the best deals for him for Spotify / Amazon music / YouTube music.  Then he set up a VPN to see if the prices would be lower in different countries 👀

 

You can change to streaming if you want to Eddy.  You don't have to, but it does make listening to most music a lot easier and it is far superior for driving.  Not sure you can say it's only for teenagers though.  Even I am closer to you age than to a 15 year old.

[Lacquer Peel]

12 minutes ago, loserone said:

Our neighbour who is helping sort out floor is 65.

He's done a fair amount of digging already, yesterday after he finished I gave him a hand sorting his gutters, and then we spent 15 minutes looking for the best deals for him for Spotify / Amazon music / YouTube music.  Then he set up a VPN to see if the prices would be lower in different countries 👀

YouTube Music Vanced, most of the features of the paid version but for free. 

[Zelandeth]

8 hours ago, beko1987 said:

Yep it's one of my nightmares too and it came true yesterday 😂

Tried a few free trials of stuff, Partition Magic found the stuff but I couldn't recover from the trial, so I hit reddit and found something called DMDE which worked! It's only folder by folder in the free tier but all videos restored! Will go through the rest of the drives later, or pay for £16 for a year and be able to do multiple folders at once rather than folder by folder. 

Turned a nice quick reinstall into a long job, but could be worse! I don't even need the flipping drives really, once their backed up they could go.l but my case is so big they don't need to... 😂

I did unplug everything in the end 

But only after I'd deleted the drives 😂 I'm so used to flattening oem drives with no care I merrily deleted the partitions. Then went to set the new partitions on the new drive (300gb windows 1.4tb another) and went "why do I still have a 2tb partition? Oh fuck that's not a partition". I should have realised 2 steps before but never mind, all sorted now 🤞

R-Studio I think was the package that allowed me to successfully recover about 75% of my data back in 2007 when Windows XP nuked itself and the FAT while trying to install a service pack.  That was a "sector-by-sector try to string bits of the files back together" job though which took days to run!  That was the point at which I realised I'd been a bit lazy in my backup regime.

These days I have a physically separate drive with a backup of my home folder on which is synced once every week via rsync, and an external drive which has the same but is physically unplugged except for when a backup is being performed.  Plus all my photos are backed up to Google photos as well - as that's probably the most important thing to me these days as family memories are in there and you can't replace those.

A few "I'd be properly broken if I lost these" things are archived on other media as well.  Yes I'd still be screwed if the house burned down, but I all honesty if that happened I imagine I'd have bigger things to worry about.

[beko1987]

5 hours ago, Zelandeth said:

R-Studio I think was the package that allowed me to successfully recover about 75% of my data back in 2007 when Windows XP nuked itself and the FAT while trying to install a service pack.  That was a "sector-by-sector try to string bits of the files back together" job though which took days to run!  That was the point at which I realised I'd been a bit lazy in my backup regime.

These days I have a physically separate drive with a backup of my home folder on which is synced once every week via rsync, and an external drive which has the same but is physically unplugged except for when a backup is being performed.  Plus all my photos are backed up to Google photos as well - as that's probably the most important thing to me these days as family memories are in there and you can't replace those.

A few "I'd be properly broken if I lost these" things are archived on other media as well.  Yes I'd still be screwed if the house burned down, but I all honesty if that happened I imagine I'd have bigger things to worry about.

I've now got FreeFileSync installed. Created a dedicated share on Unraid for it and gave it the file path and it's syncing across now! 

I can then save that job as a batch file, and I'm hoping the windows scheduled task stuff is smart enough to let me run it on, say, shutdown. PC isn't on every day, would be more helpful for it to sit and run before the pc shuts down, I'd have turned the screen off and walked away by then so that's easy! If not, back to the drawing board. 

I did think earlier I'm now running off an ssd used in a mates gaming rig, if it died there'd be zero diagnosis, no point even starting to cry, at least with a mech drive you know if it's alive. And now I've backed up the files I needed (anyone want my years license key for the software I used? 😂) I'll format the drives and probably not need them. I'll strip the case down and remove the 1tb and probably bin it, will keep the 2tb for torrent dumps and stupid stuff but only because I can... 

I've also got a cold storage not unlike yours. Once a year I fetch the 4tb drive I keep in a proper HD box with HD padding (from the new 8tb I swapped it out for) and it gets plugged in with my USB-sata adapter and I'll copy+skip existing the photos I've taken of the kids and etc. No hoover/YouTube stuff or the torrented media, just the irreplaceable stuff. Then it's powered down and back in the loft. Unraid parity can save me otherwise 🤞🤞🤞(and my parity is greater than what I use so it'll be a 1-1 clone hopefully 😂) 

Or I should get on the pc and do my editing backlog and get it back off onto the unraid anyway, but I've sat at the pc too much now to want to go near the thing 

[beko1987]

I shouldnt have set the share to use the cache initially though... 

Realised im trying to move 3x it's size through it... Mover invoked 

[chaseracer]

On 03/02/2024 at 00:04, LightBulbFun said:

the "best" ones are scooter boys in completely dark clothing, at night of course...

FTFY.

[New POD]

Noticed a little issue in my daughter's bedroom in the corner.  Little evidence of a leak

started to investigate. Removed some Wall paper to find the lining paper covered in mould.

and investigate more. Under the pink painted lining paper on the outside wall the plaster was pretty damp. 

 

Took off the lining paper on the party wall. 

And scraped off the mould

Looks like there's some sort of small leak from the corner of the loft conversion above, which starts about 50 cm in from the outside wall, and has found an outlet right at the corner. 

Roofer, coming Tuesday. 

[Pieman]

On 31/01/2024 at 19:03, eddyramrod said:

One thing I specifically asked about was a CD player.  No sir, you won't get one of those now, cars are set up for streaming.

Well fuck streaming, how old am I?  15?  NO, ffs, I'm 65 (in April) I've only just got the hang of CDs and I want to play them.  Progress, hey?  

That's just made me realise that I've completely stopped listening to the radio or CDs while driving in recent months, and I don't have any music or streaming services on my phone.  I've been driving in silence (except when using Google Maps for navigation) for months now and hadn't noticed.

Maybe music and radio are just another thing I've added subconsciously to the list of things that only serve to annoy me in life.

[MikeR]

F..... Roads in Arnside ... 

[Jazoli]

11 minutes ago, MikeR said:

F..... Roads in Arnside ... 

Its not just Arnside the roads are in a terrible condition everywhere in Cumbria, I drove up to Shap on Friday and on one stretch just outside Kendal near Selside there were four 2" deep by 2ft long potholes and several much deeper smaller ones right on the apexes of a couple of corners, it would have been lethal on a bike.

[MikeR]

36 minutes ago, Jazoli said:

Its not just Arnside the roads are in a terrible condition everywhere in Cumbria, I drove up to Shap on Friday and on one stretch just outside Kendal near Selside there were four 2" deep by 2ft long potholes and several much deeper smaller ones right on the apexes of a couple of corners, it would have been lethal on a bike.

Just found a smaller ding on the rear wheel , so my front wheel is awaiting a mating session with a lump hammer and a new tyre in the tyre shop . Despite a quick check over yesterday that big ding did a good hide and seek ...

[myglaren]

5 hours ago, Pieman said:

That's just made me realise that I've completely stopped listening to the radio or CDs while driving in recent months, and I don't have any music or streaming services on my phone.  I've been driving in silence (except when using Google Maps for navigation) for months now and hadn't noticed.

Maybe music and radio are just another thing I've added subconsciously to the list of things that only serve to annoy me in life.

The CD changer in the Mazda doesn't work (according to my son, I haven't tried it) and the aux connection didn't work when I tried that, although that could be the phone.

No USB connection so can't use my music dongles,

Need to try and pair the phone, one day.

Radio works but I don't like radio and it is very strange as far as selecting stations goes.

So like you I drive in silence.  Not that I drive it much, only about 250 miles in January.

[New POD]

1 hour ago, MikeR said:

F..... Roads in Arnside ... 

New glasses not the right prescription 🤔😄🤯

[MikeR]

1 hour ago, New POD said:

New glasses not the right prescription 🤔😄🤯

It was hiding in a puddle , the bits of broken road lying around should of given it away , live and learn 

[New POD]

1 hour ago, MikeR said:

It was hiding in a puddle , the bits of broken road lying around should of given it away , live and learn 

What an arse.

In the words of dave sexton. Never drive or ride through a puddle. If you have to, assume its 3 foot deep. 

[Rustybullethole]

Focus had had some big love of late in terms of time and money put in which makes this rather disappointing.

Was parked up at the time and bus has just smashed the shit out it. Bollocks. 

[Back_For_More]

That sucks big style fella - I'll be honest though, with the hill you're on and the shitty parking I've seen I'm not surprised this happened eventually...... 

I take it this will be an easy resolve though..... 

[Rustybullethole]

19 minutes ago, Back_For_More said:

That sucks big style fella - I'll be honest though, with the hill you're on and the shitty parking I've seen I'm not surprised this happened eventually...... 

I take it this will be an easy resolve though..... 

Pain in the bum but hey nobody hurt so only metal. Probably an insurance wright off by the looks though track rod end and mirror should make it reet 👍 This happened in Woolwich outside her work as witnessed by a colleague and fortunately with the fault driver being a stagecoach employee should be an easy enough resolve. 

Ive sorted our road out nicely by parking a mobile chicane in the shape of a late 80's caravan on it. Works a treat. 

[High Jetter]

Home insurance renewal quote is a 50% increase on last year's premium. The joy of comparison sites beckons....

[eddyramrod]

7 hours ago, MikeR said:

F..... Roads in Arnside ... 

As @Jazoli said above, the roads around here are a disgrace.  If you're around Barrow while you're here....

[MikeR]

3 hours ago, New POD said:

What an arse.

In the words of dave sexton. Never drive or ride through a puddle. If you have to, assume its 3 foot deep. 

but I managed to miss the lamp posts that were in plain sight

[fairkens]

4 hours ago, eddyramrod said:

As @Jazoli said above, the roads around here are a disgrace.  If you're around Barrow while you're here....

They're turning me in to a miserable fucker but every pothole I see round here I take a picture and fill out the Council's online form. Fair play to Leeds City Council, its almost always been filled in within a couple of days. Not that the repairs last long at this time of year...

[iainrcz]

Had to spend money 😔

[SunnySouth]

On 05/02/2024 at 12:35, Rustybullethole said:

Focus had had some big love of late in terms of time and money put in which makes this rather disappointing.

Was parked up at the time and bus has just smashed the shit out it. Bollocks. 

Jesus, he’s done a proper job on that

I trust he was honourable and stopped etc?

[New POD]

On 04/02/2024 at 22:40, New POD said:

Noticed a little issue in my daughter's bedroom in the corner.  Little evidence of a leak

started to investigate. Removed some Wall paper to find the lining paper covered in mould.

and investigate more. Under the pink painted lining paper on the outside wall the plaster was pretty damp. 

 

Took off the lining paper on the party wall. 

And scraped off the mould

Looks like there's some sort of small leak from the corner of the loft conversion above, which starts about 50 cm in from the outside wall, and has found an outlet right at the corner. 

Roofer, coming Tuesday. 

Looks like it's a £3k job🤔🤯

[warch]

I finally snapped with the builders working next door. They've had the radio on so loud we can hear it in our house (we both work from home). 

I got the usual arrogant dick swinging arrogant attitude from the sort of cunts you usually get in these sorts of jobs (graduate of the University of Life etc etc). No hint of apology or contrition. 

The thing is the building industry have spent years trying to improve their image with the general public, things like starting work in residential areas at a reasonable hour (this lot start at 7.00), not pissing off neighbours by for example playing loud music and learning how to deal with the public. I've worked on building sites, quarries etc for decades so I'm usually fairly clued up on acceptable site behaviour. 

I'm minded of the bloke who dug a trench across my dad's front garden to locate a water pipe (that my dad had already told him was on the opposite side of the lane), then did a shit job of reinstating it leaving clods of clay all over the place. He did struggle to get the digger going again after my dad had topped the diesel tank up with water overnight.  

 

[Rustybullethole]

3 hours ago, SunnySouth said:

Jesus, he’s done a proper job on that

I trust he was honourable and stopped etc?

Yes made a hell of noise by all accounts. Was witness by her colleague and a load of parents dropping their kids at the school so is as bang to rights as it gets. Bus stopped some way up the road, Ange felt the driver was pretty nonchalant about it all though stagecoach themselves have been great so far. This is good news as our insurance have proven themselves to be really quite shit. 
 

[Jazoli]

2 minutes ago, Rustybullethole said:

Yes made a hell of noise by all accounts. Was witness by her colleague and a load of parents dropping their kids at the school so is as bang to rights as it gets. Bus stopped some way up the road, Ange felt the driver was pretty nonchalant about it all though stagecoach themselves have been great so far. This is good news as our insurance have proven themselves to be really quite shit. 
 

Stagecoach were great with me when they battered my Van which had similar damage (lwb sprinter) they got it sorted at a local bodyshop and provided a hire van.

[Rustybullethole]

35 minutes ago, Jazoli said:

Stagecoach were great with me when they battered my Van which had similar damage (lwb sprinter) they got it sorted at a local bodyshop and provided a hire van.

I hold high hopes though fear it falls into uneconomical repair. Have sourced a replacement from these pages whilst we wait and had been planning on downsizing to something a bit more frugal anyway so maybe a blessing in disguise. If we can get book back on it then that would double what i paid for it. Fingers crossed.

[dozeydustman]

I'm fed up of the permanent snots, catarrh and sore throats I've had since my last lot of Covid (end of September last year). Know-all receptionist at the doctors' not interested as "that's something the pharmacy can help with". Pharmacy happy to sell linctus etc but "You really should see your doctor as your symptoms are persistent". I've tried home made honey, lemon and hot water, I'm drinking plenty of plain water (2-3 litres daily), I get my 5 a day, do anywhere between 15 minutes and 1 hour of exercise daily and it won't shift.

Round and round in this loop since the start of January. Had a blood test in November and my liver function is not normal, but the GP says not dangerously so as only just out of normal ranges.

To top things off the least crap programme available on the TV at the moment is 'Everybody loves Raymond'.