I'm going to have a rant about our vacuum cleaner.
I'm doing it here because I know you lot won't laugh at me, judge me or question my life choices

It's a very first world issue - I know that.

Here goes:
Some, or many years ago, She decided we needed a new vacuum cleaner and She knew that a Dyson was absolutely the dog's doodaas. It was expensive, but, honestly, it'd be worth it.

Within a week of having it, She declared it too heavy for her.
Since then I've looked after the vacuuming - which is quite a satisfying job.

But - here goes - Every Bloody Time I use that retched Dyson Vacuum it needs dismantling because there's dirt in one of its 10,000 mysterious crevices. Yes, dirt - what cleaners are meant to deal with.
I swear it spends more time in pieces trying to find the next blockage than vacuuming.

No - I'm not going to replace it - it works when it works, and it's got a very good suck on it, when it's sucking. It'd be a waste to ditch it.

Thanks for listening.

> You owe it to yourself to read the following thread as tonight’s entertainment
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:t4x2ruk2qmob2b2cx55h4v7r/post/3lwagiglxps2b

So maybe posts from Bluesky look exactly like this.

Um, no. If that's the best you can do to try and get me to follow that link, you just failed

#rant
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Wordpress rant: after 4 hours of online research on why I was locked out of my website which I am admin on, it came down to a bad plugin. Deleted the plugin and all is fixed. It’s ALWAYS a plugin lol #wordpress #rant #blogging

So, hier habt ihr es: DAS perfekte Symbolfoto für Docker, Kubernetes & Co.

Ganz ehrlich: Mich nerven schon lange die Symbolfotos mit Seecontainern, die für Softwarecontainer herhalten müssen

© Raimond Spekking / CC BY-SA 4.0 (via Wikimedia Commons)

Facebook motto:
Move fast and break things.

A slogan turned mantra, translating to:
We move fast and break your things.

APIs, services, devices, communities, ecosystems… the planet.

Personal computers have existed for more than 40 years by now. I expect people that work with them in their everyday jobs to be at least a little bit capable of using them properly. If I get a pdf from the local town administration asking me to add my personal details and send it back to them, I want that to be a fillable form. I don't want to have to print it, fill in their questions and then scan it (which they probably expect people to do).

Fortunately I'm computer literate enough to add some text with inkscape and export back to pdf.

Poner la radio y escuchar a los tertulianos decir que el ganado es la solución a los incendios.
Hay que joderse y rejoderse mil veces

La ganaderia emite tanto CO2 equivalente como TODO el transporte mundial junto.

Que exasperante... a quejarnos del calor y los incendios pero el chuletón al punto que no nos lo toquen.
#cabreado #rant

German "quality"
I distance myself from being a german. This is disgusting. /Spit
Welded by an robot, inspected by a welding engineer (not me!) complained by me, told this is top notch...

My friend asked me what I think the 2020s will be remembered for the most.

My answer was that it was the decade the younger generations of adults realized they all got scammed, and that our parents essentially sold us a fake dream of prosperity, then closed the door behind them when they squandered their own prosperity, giving us nothing.

Nothing cool, unfortunately.

Just bullshit.

Why the hell do people drink #alcohol?

I decided to have about four of those for the first time in forever while hanging out with friends for a birthday.

Wine is delicious, but I seem to be very sensitive to getting a #hangover as I wasn't even really tipsy, and you'd think I downed 3 Four Locos last night with how much my head hurts.

It was fun and nobody was getting slammed for once, which isn't a party I'm used to.

We drank wine and played Cards Against Humanity.

Shut the fuck up already about staying hydrated

I'm going to die from getting hit by a car while in a crosswalk, or micro plastics, not dehydration

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Close to where I live there is a house called “Farfaraway.”

Fucking nonsense. No frame of reference whatsoever and it certainly isn’t far far away from me when I pass it.

I’m a disproportionally enraged by this.

A very fine rant about software names with plenty of folk chipping in their opinions.

https://retro.social/@ifixcoinops/114982598034239717

STM32 Rant #6 - ST DESTROYING HAL?

Is ST destroying HAL? In this video I will be ranting about ST's bizarre decision to force ThreadX down our throat.

#STM32 #Rant #STM32CubeIDE #STM32CubeMX #STM32World #ThreadX #USBX

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__aNM72-3A4

Random Wikipedia #criticism (rant?)...

One of the things that bugs me about (English) #Wikipedia is how aspects of it are controlled by, for lack of a better word, #pedants, without consideration of the actual #readers - without considering the purpose of an encyclopedia.

One example of this is how, when an article features aspects of another language or dialect - for instance, something from Old English, or Arabic - where the reader will not be familiar with how to pronounce something presented transliterated to a modern Latin/English alphabet, or with a word shown in a non-Latin script entirely.

It used to be common in reference works to give a simple #pronunciation key that was at least close to the correct pronunciation, but was easily understood by a normal literate reader. You know; the stuff that looked like "ED-joo-KAY-shun" or "SHEH-joo-ull" or whatever.

Well, that's not good enough for Wikipedia most of the time. Instead, they give the pronunciation in International #Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), so you get stuff like "æɪ" and "aʊ" and "/ɔː/".

These are absolutely more #accurate guides to how a word should sound. And they are absolutely, completely #useless and #uninformative to 99% of people reading the article.

You know who already knows and is completely comfortable reading #IPA?

#Linguists. Students of language.

You know, the people who *already know* how to #pronounce the words. The people who don't actually need it.

#FFS.

Need to vent, sorry. I just reached the top of frustration for today!!!!1111oneoneone

The entire fucking day I have been busy preparing the servers (again) for new backup and staging for disroot. And, boy it’s been going horrible. Working with old server is just such a fucking pain. I feel like an alchemist or some nuclear physicist Those machines are so fragile, that one minute everything is fine and the second it’s not booting. Or the memory breaks or some other shit…. I have bunch of the oldies and parts and trying to ducttape two working and stable servers and it’s fucking impossible! Not to mention no fucking firmware available anywhere (g11) cause dell decided to just remove ‘em (no mirror no nothing, just gone and fuck you!).
And now just as I thought I was ready to install OS, one just started spinning Fans like crazy and got slow as hell, probably due to faulty cpu or ram. And second one, upon adding secondary SAS cable, just stopped POSTING! Fuck! I hate this old shit!!! It’s been great but it’s time to annihilate ‘em and throw it into a bin damn it! Wasted entire day on this and looks like I have not move a bit. Didnt do a mountain of other work piling up in the meantime, I just could spend entire day in bed playing games and doing nothing and I would be in the same place I am right now after working the entire day! Feel like crying myself to sleep right now, with a pillow over my face screaming until oxygen cuts off! #rant