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Where is the Random Thread of Randomness stuff that doesn't belong in other threads thread?
- Thread starter Mirah
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Colonel Kira's Left Tit
Bearded Belly of Bajor
Port 79 lickin' good!
CaptainWacky
I want to smell dark matter
It took me 5 posts too far this time.
Volpone
Zombie Hunter
"I'm just a simple caveman. Your ways are strange and frightening to me. ..."
Had some time so I sat down to do some bookkeeping. Got some money I need to get invested. To me, that entails filling out an investment slip, writing a check, and putting a stamp and return address sticker on the envelope and mailing it to the brokerage. But Vanguard managed to cut that avenue off for me ages ago, so I fumbled onto their Website and stumbled to where I could buy shares. Except the bank account I wanted to use isn't linked to my investment account--the one that is doesn't have enough money in it. So I fought with setting up the new bank but in the end they have to make some little deposits to it and then I have to log back in and tell them the amounts before I can use that bank account.
I did find investment forms for 3 of my other stocks but 1 of them was a specific offer that had to be executed by 2021 so I went to their Website and proceeded to set up an account. Except after proving I'm not a robot they had to send me a confirmation code to either the phone number I haven't had since 2019 or the e-mail I haven't had since 2023. So I e-mailed customer support and now I've got to wait on that. Now I don't know if I have the energy to write checks for the 2 investments I can still do the Olde Fashioned way--and it is almost dinnertime.
Had some time so I sat down to do some bookkeeping. Got some money I need to get invested. To me, that entails filling out an investment slip, writing a check, and putting a stamp and return address sticker on the envelope and mailing it to the brokerage. But Vanguard managed to cut that avenue off for me ages ago, so I fumbled onto their Website and stumbled to where I could buy shares. Except the bank account I wanted to use isn't linked to my investment account--the one that is doesn't have enough money in it. So I fought with setting up the new bank but in the end they have to make some little deposits to it and then I have to log back in and tell them the amounts before I can use that bank account.
I did find investment forms for 3 of my other stocks but 1 of them was a specific offer that had to be executed by 2021 so I went to their Website and proceeded to set up an account. Except after proving I'm not a robot they had to send me a confirmation code to either the phone number I haven't had since 2019 or the e-mail I haven't had since 2023. So I e-mailed customer support and now I've got to wait on that. Now I don't know if I have the energy to write checks for the 2 investments I can still do the Olde Fashioned way--and it is almost dinnertime.
Volpone
Zombie Hunter
When I get to heaven, I'm going to ask Alex Trebek what made him shave the moustache off. Because I'm in exactly the opposite boat. I had a goat' literally half a lifetime ago. Lately facial hair has become fashionable and I attempt to grow one and the best I can do is get to where it is long enough that I notice it being annoying. Most of the time I get to where I can see it in the mirror in the morning and go "nope, that's not me."
On a related note, I did Stargate: SG-1 cosplay and it took forever to get around to the desert uniform. I actually have the trousers from OIF. Now that I think about it, I probably have to take my name and MARINES off from above the ass-pockets. And up to Season 5 they just used a 3 color desert pattern MA-1 jacket. I've got a cheap Airsoft MP5 so I could stay screen-accurate--except for the verdamt vest. The vest is custom made. And it is, truthfully, terrible. Eventually I just bit the bullet and got a coyote brown tactical vest with the right pattern of pockets. And tonight I was drunk enough that I decided to finally put the whole thing on. The look was slightly off for a number of reasons (no knife, no canteens, couldn't find boot bands so I just tucked the trousers into the boots, I was looking droonk) but it wasn't bad. But the damned facial hair was the straw that broke the camel's back. Dull-eyed red-faced disheveled hobo with a wino beard doesn't say "elite special forces".
On a related note, I did Stargate: SG-1 cosplay and it took forever to get around to the desert uniform. I actually have the trousers from OIF. Now that I think about it, I probably have to take my name and MARINES off from above the ass-pockets. And up to Season 5 they just used a 3 color desert pattern MA-1 jacket. I've got a cheap Airsoft MP5 so I could stay screen-accurate--except for the verdamt vest. The vest is custom made. And it is, truthfully, terrible. Eventually I just bit the bullet and got a coyote brown tactical vest with the right pattern of pockets. And tonight I was drunk enough that I decided to finally put the whole thing on. The look was slightly off for a number of reasons (no knife, no canteens, couldn't find boot bands so I just tucked the trousers into the boots, I was looking droonk) but it wasn't bad. But the damned facial hair was the straw that broke the camel's back. Dull-eyed red-faced disheveled hobo with a wino beard doesn't say "elite special forces".
CaptainWacky
I want to smell dark matter
Volpone
Zombie Hunter
You know, starting around 2002 the "features" of software--particularly from M$--have become increasingly what we used to call "malware". I remember when XP came out and there was an outcry over the "registry worm." Prior to that you got a laptop with the OS already installed or if you built a desktop, you went to a store and bought a CD with the OS on it, installed it, and punched in the little "key" that was on a sticker in the CD case. Starting with Windows, as the software installed, it would go out and contact a server at Microsoft and send it information from your computer. If the server didn't like the information, it killed the install. That's a worm or a virus. Enough people bitched about it that M$ had to go back to a key--for awhile--but eventually they snuck in the registration server and the frog got a little closer to boiling.
Fast forward to today, when I just spent about a half hour trying to scan a document with my document scanner. The installed tool I tried to use wanted me to log on or create an account with HP. Next I went into Printers/Scanners and tried to make things work from there. It tried to get me to install M$ Scanner from the M$ Store. While it was trying to do that it also tried to get me to download a half-dozen games. So I closed that out and went to the HP site and plugged in my information. The HP site then took me to...the M$ Store to download the HP Scanner--and a half dozen games. So while that was downloading I went and downloaded the M$ Scanner as well (because I thought I already had the HP app and if this new app wanted to create an account...well it could go fuck itself). I don't remember which one I ultimately wound up using but in the end it told me it had created the file in "Scans" and when I had it show me the path "OneDrive" was in there somewhere. I thought I'd pretty thoroughly killed all links to OneDrive a year ago, when I was unfucking this computer--maybe I did and this is just a folder called "OneDrive" on my local C drive. But why is the fucking default for a scanner to send my personal information (this was a form to change my telephone number with one of my stocks) off to some server someone else controls? Especially when this computer has, like, a sixteen gazillion terabyte hard drive?! Fuck. You don't even have to scrunch up your eyes or twist your head for that to look like malware. It is. It is fucking malware that is stealing your sensitive personal information.
The Unabomber was right, damn it.
Fast forward to today, when I just spent about a half hour trying to scan a document with my document scanner. The installed tool I tried to use wanted me to log on or create an account with HP. Next I went into Printers/Scanners and tried to make things work from there. It tried to get me to install M$ Scanner from the M$ Store. While it was trying to do that it also tried to get me to download a half-dozen games. So I closed that out and went to the HP site and plugged in my information. The HP site then took me to...the M$ Store to download the HP Scanner--and a half dozen games. So while that was downloading I went and downloaded the M$ Scanner as well (because I thought I already had the HP app and if this new app wanted to create an account...well it could go fuck itself). I don't remember which one I ultimately wound up using but in the end it told me it had created the file in "Scans" and when I had it show me the path "OneDrive" was in there somewhere. I thought I'd pretty thoroughly killed all links to OneDrive a year ago, when I was unfucking this computer--maybe I did and this is just a folder called "OneDrive" on my local C drive. But why is the fucking default for a scanner to send my personal information (this was a form to change my telephone number with one of my stocks) off to some server someone else controls? Especially when this computer has, like, a sixteen gazillion terabyte hard drive?! Fuck. You don't even have to scrunch up your eyes or twist your head for that to look like malware. It is. It is fucking malware that is stealing your sensitive personal information.
The Unabomber was right, damn it.