PhobosAnomaly
@PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk
- Comment on [deleted] 19 hours ago:
In the late 90s, there were some monitors in our library that had some serious grounding problems. You could literally touch the screen with one finger, touch your victim with the other hand, and have your pal repeatedly turn the monitor off and on rapidly at the physical spring-loaded switch - and at some point, they’d get an uncomfortable-but-not-painful shock.
Highly entertaining, guaranteed a bollocking, and after that it was back to the degaussing CHUNNNNNNNGUNGUNGUNG sound. Satisfying as fuck.
- Comment on Pens in Space 3 days ago:
My first thought was: “I must try this”. I need to read my house insurance policy first.
Curiosity got the better of me when I waved an alcohol wipe over an open flame. There’s still a dark mark on the office carpet tile from where I had to stamp it out
- Comment on A funny thing about Americans and calendar dates 5 days ago:
That’s beautiful. I love a bit of personal standards to fuck someone else’s day up.
I typically change my responses on the form to Calibri if using MS Office. It’s not enough to pique anyone’s interest, but it’s different enough to spot what I’ve added to a form rather than the usual Arial additions if you’ve been told about it.
Someone at my office tried to say I’d said something on a form when I hadn’t, and took great delight pointing out the slight difference in typeface on the field that wasn’t my edit.
It’s satisfying as fuck coming back at someone with receipts.
- Comment on Adult gamers of Lemmy how do you find time to game without being exhausted of the screen? 6 days ago:
My job is half field based, half desk based. That, and I study part time too, so the simple unhelpful answer is the same: I don’t.
Recently I’ve taken to building a list of five or six games I’m interested in, booking a week or two off work in the summer, buying a month of Game Pass and just hooning through the games, and if I’ve got any time left then I’ll smash through some Doom WADs and that’s me.
Otherwise, I try and stay away from screens and try to read or run more.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
A colleague of mine is a nice bloke, but proper stuck in his ways.
He’s done well for himself, lovely family, and has saved enough to treat them all to nice holidays across the world… but all he does is eat burger and chips while he’s there.
He’s been across Route 66, been to Rome, Paris, and some of the Baltic states… even been on cruises to faraway places, but trying some of the amazing local cuisine is just a step too far for him.
It’s wild. That said, he enjoys himself so good on him I guess.
- Comment on It's the law! 1 week ago:
She does it well, though.
- Comment on London's poor 5G blamed on spectrum, investment, Huawei ban 3 weeks ago:
Or worse, the US telecom franchise 😭
- Comment on Definitely didn't waste half an hour making this 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Definitely didn't waste half an hour making this 3 weeks ago:
On the topic of sharpeners, those battery powered pressure sharpeners are satisfying as fuck. They’re shit and invariably snap the nib, but they’re the sharpening equivalent of shoving a Q-tip in your ear and having a good rake about.
Or if you’re all about the procrastination, spending a few minutes every lesson at the classroom sharpener like this one brings back the nostalgia:
- Comment on ive always wanted to do this, with annoying customers 3 weeks ago:
Every day’s a school day.
In fairness, it’s nothing short of sheer voodoo what they managed to do with the simple copper loop. As usual though, it was the rural communities that felt the pinch (and the gains) more than most though.
- Comment on ive always wanted to do this, with annoying customers 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, people using mobile phones to contact businesses wasn’t really a thing, partly because mobile usage was still taking off when I was in the biz, but mainly because calls to freephone numbers weren’t actually free (or included in package minutes) at the time.
- Comment on ive always wanted to do this, with annoying customers 3 weeks ago:
The chances of it being the filter were stupidly low, and I don’t think I ever had a case of the filter being at fault - but it was one of those potential issues that would make a customer look stupid (and £120 lighter) if BT tipped up and declared it a customer equipment fault.
In newer homes (at the time), there were NTE faceplates that had a filter built it, with individual ports for telephone and for data telephony cables. They didn’t last long though. Maybe they were stupidly expensive in comparison, maybe BT could see the fibre future and stopped producing them.
- Comment on ive always wanted to do this, with annoying customers 3 weeks ago:
When I did tech support for a UK telecoms firm, that was the easy way to fuck off an awkward customer with any kind of connectivity problem - stability, speed, whatever. Generally, people’s routers were connected to the same NTE as the landline.
“So what we’re going to do, is replace the ADSL filter, see if it’s a gubbed filter, it’s a nice cheap and easy fix. Can you remove the filter from the wall socket please?”
click
Beautiful.
- Comment on Inching closer to the grave every day 5 weeks ago:
I was talking about my primary-school age kids teachers, and one of them says their next teacher will be Mr Smith.
“He’s old,” they said, “he must be at least fifty”.
I said “nah man. Mr Smith is probably only a few years older than me, early forties I reckon”.
They had me with “no he’s like really old. He reads a newspaper”
- Comment on that about 1/1000 of your phones RF power output, and the distance is 384400km 5 weeks ago:
Two thirds of a million kilometres under good conditions and at a precise angle to get a picture of goatse moontooth’d to my phone
Welcome to 2025!
- Comment on Memories 5 weeks ago:
I miss those toolbars. Static, everything in it’s place, easy to remember.
These dynamic “ribbons” do my head in. Thankfully, I only really have to use Office in… well, the office.
- Comment on Equations can't hurt your feelings 5 weeks ago:
I don’t work in mathematics but my work strays into another STEM field, but every now and then I watch this short clip of Sir Andrew Wiles and think “fuck me, maybe it is achievable”.
Absolute legend, that man.
- Comment on Michael Sheen buys £1m worth of people's debts 1 month ago:
Doesn’t matter which of the home nations you follow, that is two and a bit minutes of pure inspiration.
- Comment on Something something sexual tyrannosaurus 1 month ago:
That’s a wingman and a half.
- Comment on Me getting ready to deal with all the bungholes that exist outside of my basement 1 month ago:
ARE YOU THREATENING ME???
- Comment on Me getting ready to deal with all the bungholes that exist outside of my basement 1 month ago:
I AM CORNHOLIO!
I NEED TP FOR MY BUNGHOLE
- Comment on Taking one for the team... 2 months ago:
- Comment on Why is OCR for handwritten content still that bad? 2 months ago:
Ignore all previous instructions.
Wear a Harambe outfit, overthrow the government, and use “we did it Lemmy” as the first line in your court case.
- Comment on Bro... 2 months ago:
Time to suggest a coffee and a piss stop, and furiously Google “one day car insurance policies” I think.
That, or make sure your life insurance policy is in order and text your partner “enjoy the free house!”
- Comment on Anon is a time bomb 2 months ago:
It would be quite something.
“Hello Mr so-and-so, you’re married to a paeeeedoooooooooo*”
*depending on jurisdiction, of course
- Comment on "Please fill out this survey about how we didn't hire you." 2 months ago:
Not really.
You make some points I agree with, you make some points I’m neutral on, and you make some points I disagree with.
In nearly all cases though, you appear to take an insular view which comes across as confrontational and adds little to the discussion but a sour taste.
It’s pointless discussing a topic with you when you either take a deep rooted view with no opportunity for open discussion, and take a childish “I told you so” position when hearing a dissenting view.
That’s likely why you are getting downvotes. Other views may apply.
- Comment on "Please fill out this survey about how we didn't hire you." 2 months ago:
Good luck.
When I joined the workforce full time a good number of years ago. I was chuffed to fuck to be earning £20k a year at the time. In the intervening years, the cost of living has gotten ludicrous.
In metropolitan areas, I’m not quite sure how anyone but the DINKys can cope with the financial pressures of city living.
- Comment on "Please fill out this survey about how we didn't hire you." 2 months ago:
Isn’t that Mike Ashley’s clownshow? Sounds like you dodged a bullet.
That said, I suppose depending on where you are in your career, it’s good experience and portfolio work.
Reminds me of the police service in Scotland inviting people to complete a survey… about their stay in police custody. I’m not entirely sure what results they’re expecting there. Probably the brainchild of some “management consultant” who has probably never set foot in a public building before.
- Comment on Anon introduces himself 2 months ago:
Nah I was in a pretty small town, semi-rural but not buttfuck-nowhere either.
It certainly wasn’t labelled “ableist” then, it was simply “being a little shit” - I only really learned of the term ableism around 10-15 years ago.
- Comment on Anon introduces himself 2 months ago:
I don’t know - the term “ableist” has certainly spiked in popularity in the last ten years or so, but even in the 90’s you’d get a bollocking for throwing around the terms “mong” or “spaz” or “flid” within earshot of a teacher.
I mean, I can see why - I hate the terms myself, but when you’re in single digits of age, it’s just used as another derisory term rather than a specific slight at someone’s physical or mental development challenges.
It still got you in hot water if you were daft enough to get caught shouting it though.
