Berkeley anybody who requires Chrome (or any specific browser) to use a basic website. In the ear. With a pike. Or a chainsaw on a stick.
It is utterly un-berkeleying-acceptable, and the only thing that can compound such a maneuver is to not state the requirement, and to have your CSRs tell folks to try again later. Two go-rounds of CSRs before finding someone who knew that the issue was that I wasn't using Chrome.
I have since uninstalled it. "Don't be evil." It shouldn't have been difficult.
The entire premise of the Internet is that any device which "speaks" the related protocols can communicate. Anybody whose general-purpose (e.g. browser) software breaks that premise is trying to annex the Internet. Jail time is probably a bit much, but could we at least not reward them?
In reply to Jesse Ransom :
I've been telling people for probably about a decade at this point that the worst browser monopoly to ever exist was right now, with Chrome. At this point everything else is a rounding error, and half the competition is Chromium-based anyway. Google's actually being way less evil than they could be with that amount of power.
In reply to Jesse Ransom :
Like my work? WE have to print out THEIR pay stub. They require Chrome. I won't out that crap on my computer. There's a reason I haven't seen a single pay stub since I started there 20 months ago.
In reply to Jesse Ransom :
That's initially why I refused to join Facebook. Any website that keeps its data in a walled garden unsearchable by outside crawlers is suspect. It's anathema.
An inspection software package that I used to have to use (AS1) said that you had to use Chrome. Turns out Firefox worked just fine 
All sorts of automobile manufacturers use a solid rear axle. All of them have a wheel bearing at the end of the axle. Many of those axles have a drum style parking brake inside the rotor hat.
Toyota, you can absolutely eat a bag of dicks for your 4Runner design. Of all of it. Park brake, bearing, wheel studs, all. Berkeley you, you Toyota morons.
Mndsm
MegaDork
11/15/24 10:47 p.m.
In the immortal words of CJ-
Awwwww E36 M3 here we go again.
Today started out pleasant. We journeyed to the land of the mouse, as swmbo had to wield the scepter of discipline on her day off (and despite my input, she did NOT think a cattle prod from tractor supply was appropriate) so I spent the morning sunning myself near bay lake listening to the filthiest deathcore I could on my noise cancelling headphones. Then- I remember, there was an Oakley merch drop today. Something I don't talk about much is, I've become a bit of an Oakley collector, specifically of their clifden frame. Two EXTREMELY limited pairs were due out today. I managed to hit on both at retail, and they sold out in under 20min. Things are great! Then, while walking around Disney springs to kill time after she's beheaded a few subordinates, and waiting for my PT to tear my arm off, we start discussing Thanksgiving dinner. I've long given up food cravings. One of the more permanent side effects of my weight loss is...I just don't care anymore. It's all kind of the same to me. If I get good food, I do enjoy it a great deal but, I don't go bananas about meals like I used to. So, Thanksgiving is 100% her circus and her monkeys. She's decided oxtails, mixed root veg puree, some kinda shark coochie board, cranberry orange bread pudding, and.....I don't even remember. Doesn't matter. As we're planning ingredients and stuff she says.....
"I wonder if Ari and Ryan would like to come over for dinner". Note- ari and Ryan are the sum total of non grm people that I have voluntarily let into my home without a financial transaction or some kind being involved. Ari has two kids from a previous marriage. That's four.
Next thing I hear is "ari says she can come over on Friday" oh.....berkeley. berkeley me sideways. I've just been voluntold I'm helping clean my entire motherberkeleying house and probably helping prep and cook a meal I don't necessarily want because swmbo got a wild hair. Plus aris kids, they're fine I guess- they've had a hard go, but they're loud, and they're mean to each other and the one of em has no berkeleyin boundaries and likes to open doors and I have a lot of cool E36 M3 in rooms with closed doors and yes I realize I'm that guy right now and I just don't care. Other people stress me out, man.
I did have a small laugh though, they said they bring drinks. I've got enough liquor on my shelves to start my own store. It'll be funny to watch that play out.
I messed up my finances this month. My mortgage is set to autopay on the first of every month. Well this month I didn't have enough money in my checking account and the payment failed. So I moved some money around and paid it as soon as the funds were available.
But then I see that the mortgage company "auto retried" the payment a day before I paid it, which went through. I received no notification that it was paid or that they were going to do that.
So now I'm overdrawn again because it was paid twice. And of course I had to use their stupid "auto assistant" chatbot before talking to a real human except that no human is available because it's the weekend.
Adulting berkeleying sucks
ShawnG
MegaDork
11/16/24 2:17 p.m.
I don't care about two apes, beating the hell out of each other for "entertainment".
Time is finite and I'm not going to waste it on that.
I was hoping the Tyson fight would be a bit better
In reply to Antihero :
Jake Paul is probably gonna challenge Jimmy Carter next, since he seems to only fight old folks
Streetwiseguy said:
All sorts of automobile manufacturers use a solid rear axle. All of them have a wheel bearing at the end of the axle. Many of those axles have a drum style parking brake inside the rotor hat.
Toyota, you can absolutely eat a bag of dicks for your 4Runner design. Of all of it. Park brake, bearing, wheel studs, all. Berkeley you, you Toyota morons.
Done. Finger for scale. Compress the hold down springs with safety wire, slide the shoes on them after picking up the hold down retainer a dozen times. What avstupid design...and I've worked on French cars.
I always think to myself, this was slapped together on an assembly line, how did they do it.
Toyota clearly stuck the assembled backing plate/shoes assembly on the axle then pressed the bearing over that.
It turns out that knowing the why isn't always all that helpful.
gixxeropa said:
In reply to Antihero :
Jake Paul is probably gonna challenge Jimmy Carter next, since he seems to only fight old folks
It was kinda sad to see Tyson not able to move much but it was very sad to see Paul not able to do much against a guy 31 years younger than him.
tester (Forum Supporter) said:
In reply to BoxheadTim :
Sometimes you need to pay the man. I think this situation qualifies.
I've come to that conclusion by now. Now if only the man would actually get back to me so I can schedule a consultation that I can pay them for...
And in an unrelated, travel rant - dear rental car companies, how about trying to have some cars at hand that you can rent out based on the bookings that people made with you? And then maybe even have working cars, so people don't have to stand in line 2x 30 minutes because the first car you gave them didn't work?
In reply to Appleseed :
I'd be an ass and make them put chrome on their computer I use for their work or make somebody in payroll or HR print it out for me. But I'm good with being an ass when necessary.
In reply to Pete. (l33t FS) :
It would work if you pulled the cable out of the body.
Still stupid.
secretariata (Forum Supporter) said:
In reply to Appleseed :
I'd be an ass and make them put chrome on their computer I use for their work or make somebody in payroll or HR print it out for me. But I'm good with being an ass when necessary.
I was there 5 days a week, for the first 3 weeks trying to log into another BS part of the company to pick are health plan. You have 30 days to choose, or you default to the cheap one (completely useless.) With the help of the shop manager, I figured out how to log in, with 2 days to spare.
HR couldn't help me. At all. The regular HR person works from home. Email communications, only. Will not answer her phone. The other two are neatly as impossible to get a hold of. When you finally remind them of the problem (this is at least the 10th time I've brought the issue up) they look at you like you asked them a calculus problem.
" Oh. It looks like you will have to contact Paperless Pay." No, it looks like YOU are going to have to contact Paperless Pay. We are doing your damn job printing out patstubs on our own time, and or own dime, the least you could do is help me do your job. I don't want to involve the Labor Board, but I might have to.
Its beyond frustrating.
Mndsm
MegaDork
11/16/24 9:52 p.m.
Mndsm said:
In the immortal words of CJ-
Awwwww E36 M3 here we go again.
Today started out pleasant. We journeyed to the land of the mouse, as swmbo had to wield the scepter of discipline on her day off (and despite my input, she did NOT think a cattle prod from tractor supply was appropriate) so I spent the morning sunning myself near bay lake listening to the filthiest deathcore I could on my noise cancelling headphones. Then- I remember, there was an Oakley merch drop today. Something I don't talk about much is, I've become a bit of an Oakley collector, specifically of their clifden frame. Two EXTREMELY limited pairs were due out today. I managed to hit on both at retail, and they sold out in under 20min. Things are great! Then, while walking around Disney springs to kill time after she's beheaded a few subordinates, and waiting for my PT to tear my arm off, we start discussing Thanksgiving dinner. I've long given up food cravings. One of the more permanent side effects of my weight loss is...I just don't care anymore. It's all kind of the same to me. If I get good food, I do enjoy it a great deal but, I don't go bananas about meals like I used to. So, Thanksgiving is 100% her circus and her monkeys. She's decided oxtails, mixed root veg puree, some kinda shark coochie board, cranberry orange bread pudding, and.....I don't even remember. Doesn't matter. As we're planning ingredients and stuff she says.....
"I wonder if Ari and Ryan would like to come over for dinner". Note- ari and Ryan are the sum total of non grm people that I have voluntarily let into my home without a financial transaction or some kind being involved. Ari has two kids from a previous marriage. That's four.
Next thing I hear is "ari says she can come over on Friday" oh.....berkeley. berkeley me sideways. I've just been voluntold I'm helping clean my entire motherberkeleying house and probably helping prep and cook a meal I don't necessarily want because swmbo got a wild hair. Plus aris kids, they're fine I guess- they've had a hard go, but they're loud, and they're mean to each other and the one of em has no berkeleyin boundaries and likes to open doors and I have a lot of cool E36 M3 in rooms with closed doors and yes I realize I'm that guy right now and I just don't care. Other people stress me out, man.
I did have a small laugh though, they said they bring drinks. I've got enough liquor on my shelves to start my own store. It'll be funny to watch that play out.
I have...an addendum.
Preparations have started. My lone contribution will *likely* be potato chip krispie bars with dark chocolate ganache. I'm work shopping options. I think I need to add sea salt to the topping, marshmallow cuts nearly all the salt out of the chip and dark chocolate really sells with sea salt. Theres ALSO a cinnamon/Chile option I'm working on....so who knows. I did buy a second batch of maraschino cherry goods to make those, so these could end up cherry topped too.
We also need new dishes. We've been eating off of ikeas cheapest offering for the better part of a decade at this point and they are BEAT. I can't serve food to people on these things.
My rant? Swmbo didn't appreciate my idea of a menu overhaul, where we promise the oxtails and the whatever else we're serving, and make all the crazy E36 M3 you see in food crimes from the 70s. Ham loaf, savory jello, tuna pineapple surprise...... She said no.
Shame on me for trying to load the dishwasher while you rinsed the dishes. Clearly I'm being an shiny happy person.
ShawnG
MegaDork
11/17/24 8:57 a.m.
Depression can kiss my ass.
In reply to ShawnG :
Yup. I go from things are ok. I'll get this done, I have a plan. To that fell apart, berkeley everything.
Streetwiseguy said:
In reply to Pete. (l33t FS) :
It would work if you pulled the cable out of the body.
Still stupid.
You'd also have to fight the bearing, which I have only ever been able to remove by burning the outer race off so I could cut a notch in the inner to air chisel it until it cracked.
I'll have to remember the idea of safety wiring the spring closed, though. That's genius.
It's November 17th. People have their Christmas tree up already!
