hactar42
@hactar42@lemmy.world
- Comment on "And now for some golden oldies!" 3 weeks ago:
It sucked the first time music from my teen years made it on to the classic rock station. But it hurt hearing stuff from my 20s on there now.
- Comment on Anon misses his German Sheppy 4 weeks ago:
Don’t get me wrong it’s a sweet story. But all I can think of is, how long do you wait before throwing away the treat he left there?
- Comment on Tough Shit 5 weeks ago:
For those of us that pooped before smart phones, there was a book series called Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader. I could totally see them have a section dedicated to this.
- Comment on Last channel rule 5 weeks ago:
I always set the last button to the TV guide channel. It made it less suspicious if they saw the channel change. Or at least that’s what I reasoned.
- Comment on Last channel rule 5 weeks ago:
I had a similar trick. If I set the VCR to channel 4 and the TV to channel 3, it would shift all the cable channels down one. So Cinemax which was channel 14 and blocked would come in as channel 13 completely clear.
- Comment on Youtube's web UX team is a joke. 3 months ago:
The one that drives me insane is using the touchscreen on my Surface:
- Go to a channel’s page
- Click on the video tab
- Scroll through and find the video you want to watch
- Click on the video and YouTube slides to the playlist tab instead of starting the video. Every fucking time.
- Comment on It's basic science 4 months ago:
Blue Powerade slushy from Sonic on a hot summer day is the GOAT
- Comment on As Anyone Ever? 5 months ago:
Right-click, inspect, delete element
- Comment on If I wanted to, hypothetically, guarentee that I shit my pants 2 to 6 hours from now, how should I do it? 6 months ago:
I lost 7.5 lbs in one night due to that stuff. I went to the doctor because I kept having diarrhea. Turns out I was so constipated the only thing that could make its way out was liquid. I drank a bottle of that stuff and 45 minutes later…well…you know that one scene from Dumb and Dumber? Yeah, that was me for like an hour and half straight.
- Comment on HOAs suck 6 months ago:
As someone who lived in a neighborhood without an HOA, I completely agree with this. I had so many bad experiences with the neighborhood without the HOA. Aside from people not taking care of their yards or houses, including one person who replaced their grass with laminate tiles, there were much worse things.
There were constantly cars parked up and down the streets blocking your view and making it impossible for two cars to pass. We had two neighbors feuding over parking in front of each other’s houses. One of them decided to line the curb with cones. And the other would just leave their trash can out 24/7 blocking the curb.
I had a neighbor start a computer refurb business out of their garage. Which caught on fire at least 3 times. One time it caught on fire and there were so many cars parked on the street the firetrucks couldn’t make it to their house.
The neighborhood I live in now has the perfect balance. The HOA is run by a 3rd party who does not live in the neighborhood. And all rule changes require a meeting and at least half of the residents need to be in attendance before it can be taken to a vote. This keeps one neighbor from taking things over and turning into one of those nightmare HOAs you always hear about.
- Comment on Live Nation/Ticket Master won't give you your tickets unless you install their app 7 months ago:
You and me both
- Comment on Live Nation/Ticket Master won't give you your tickets unless you install their app 7 months ago:
Clicking Next redirects you to the App/Play Store
- Comment on Live Nation/Ticket Master won't give you your tickets unless you install their app 7 months ago:
It’s really sad because the artists have little to no control over this. It is the venues who are contracted through Ticketmaster.
I remember Pearl Jam suing them for this in the 90s. Unfortunately, Pearl Jam lost and here we are 30 years later still dealing with their monopolistic tactics.
- Comment on Live Nation/Ticket Master won't give you your tickets unless you install their app 7 months ago:
Sadly, I tried desktop mode in Firefox and still got the pop-up
- Comment on Live Nation/Ticket Master won't give you your tickets unless you install their app 7 months ago:
You’re talking about the same company that charges a “convenience” fee for ordering online. Then if you decide to go to buy them in person you charge a “facilities” fee.
- Comment on Live Nation/Ticket Master won't give you your tickets unless you install their app 7 months ago:
Trying to view them through your browser will bring you to this pop-up. And it says you can’t use screen shots or print outs.
The only other option is to use a mobile wallet, but that prevents me from sending my friends their tickets, since I purchased them all together.
- Comment on Live Nation/Ticket Master won't give you your tickets unless you install their app 7 months ago:
That doesn’t work anymore. If you follow those instructions you’ll receive the pop-up I posted.
- Submitted 7 months ago to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world | 109 comments
- Comment on And the most popular man in the whole Fediverse is... 7 months ago:
Had to look it up, he is the head of Threads
- Comment on Anon likes public humiliation 8 months ago:
Well that got darker than I was expecting
- Comment on Does the rest of the English speaking world generally understand what an American means when they say "soccer", or does it help to clarify by adding "football"? 10 months ago:
I’m an American who lived in England for a couple of years. Due to American media the majority of everyone understood what I meant when I said things like soccer, trunk or hood of a car, fries, etc. Words with different meanings between the two could get confusing like biscuit, chips, or pissed.
Since soccer doesn’t have another meaning I never ran into someone who didn’t know what I was talking about. However, when saying football in an American accent some thought I was referring to American Football by default.
I can only remember one instant where someone did not know what I was talking about. That was when I asked someone at work where the dumpster was and I got a blank stare. I explained, the big metal thing outside for trash and they were like, “oh the skip”
- Comment on Hits me right in the feels 11 months ago:
I did buy a house in 2008. January of 2008. Two months before the market crashed. It took me years not to be upside down.
- Comment on Net Ratings by Quarter 11 months ago:
After the last 20+ years, I’m shocked to see that much red across the board for the Spurs.
- Comment on Recommend a game for me to play with my partner 11 months ago:
My wife is not very spatial, but enjoyed playing coop Portal 2, for a little bit. Once we got to the stage where I was just telling her where to go or stand the entire time we stopped playing together.
- Comment on [deleted] 11 months ago:
Cocaine?
- Comment on How have you related pseudonymous online work/activity when applying for jobs? 11 months ago:
That’s why I have multiple accounts on platforms. One for professional stuff and one for personal.
- Comment on ‘The Marvels’ Meltdown: Disney MCU Seeing Lowest B.O. Opening Ever At $47M+ 1 year ago:
They did the same shit with their comic books. All of these overarching/crossover story lines made it so you had to do research before picking up a new title.
- Comment on I'll never not want to 1 year ago:
I’m so sorry to hear that.
But on a lighter note, I glad to see I’m not the only person with dogs that lay next to their beds instead of on them.
- Comment on PEACHES COME FROM A CAN 1 year ago:
Xennials here, can confirm, this will be stuck in my head for a week now.
- Comment on How should I handle an ex friend who feels like he needs to bully me to raise his own self esteem? (We're adults) 1 year ago:
This guy sounds like a text book narcissist. The worst thing you can do is tell a narcissist they are a narcissist. It will do nothing and will only make them double down. The best thing you can do is cut them out of your life.
I had a similar situation when I was in my 20s. Friend I had that I’ve known since highschool would always make remarks about how I got so lucky with my job. Because I was making decent money (more than him) without a degree and he was an engineer. It didn’t matter that I worked my ass off and put in thousands of hours, I was lucky.
If I would ever push back or say something he would just double down. I couldn’t bring up the fact that I didn’t have parents that paid for everything while I was in school, so I had to work and go to college at the same time. I finally realized that was just the way he was going to be, so I limited contact with him. However, his comments never went as far as what you are describing. So, I think you’re doing the right thing by just blocking him.
I highly recommend reading the book Emotional Vampires. It teaches you about the different personality types you’ll run into in the working world and how to deal with each type (when you can’t just avoid them). I wish I had read it 20 years ago.
