Things that piss you off!

[Nodame-chan]

Something's missing in my life, but I can't understand what. Thus I can't make my life complete. And as a result I feel dissatisfied and annoyed

[Belmakar]

^ I'd say you need a boyfriend^^

Well, from my experience, the one good thing about Dell is that when something blows up (HW), they give you replacement that is better than the original. But the rest is pretty much what the topic title says.

And fixing it yourself is cool, but personally, I do not dare to open my laptop and delve into it's guts, because somehow I have no idea what laptop hardware looks like.
Sure, many calls will be about some trivial stuff, but on the other hand, if you start off by saying what is wrong, they may consider it, rather than ask 120 questions in given order with no regards to what your actual problem is. So yeah, again, what the topic title says.

I know how stupid those questions are, but I also do know from my own experience how misleading a user's problem description can be: Today, for example, I wasted 2 hours on finding a "downloading our reports is broken" bug when it was actually a "some of the entries don't get loaded, so the download button doesn't appear" bug, which appeared in a totally different module due to a timeout being too short... and there's always the case where one misses something obvious^^

When I said fixing it myself, I was actually talking about desktop PCs... I wouldn't dare to disassemble my laptop either - as long as I don't have a printout of the "how to disassemble the [insert product name here]" instructions, that is.

[megido-rev.M]

^ I see what you did there .

And yes, for some reason a lot of people just can't dig into their technical problems.

Something's missing in my life, but I can't understand what. Thus I can't make my life complete. And as a result I feel dissatisfied and annoyed

I get that feeling all too often. Mostly because I forget how I got out of that feeling occasionally, somehow <.<.

[metro.]

My Econ prof's terrible way of explaining what Y=AF(L,K,H,N) meant.

Something's missing in my life, but I can't understand what. Thus I can't make my life complete. And as a result I feel dissatisfied and annoyed

Hey! I know that feeling.
I solve it by filling my body full of alcohol and uh...meeting new people.
And running.

[Ixarku]

Something's missing in my life, but I can't understand what. Thus I can't make my life complete. And as a result I feel dissatisfied and annoyed

Hey! I know that feeling.
I solve it by filling my body full of alcohol and uh...meeting new people.
And running.

Yep, I'm familiar with this feeling too.  Get used to it, or work hard for your dreams so that you don't feel it.  I'm feeling this dissatisfaction big time at the moment, and worse, it's not going to change at all in the next 5 to 25 years unless I do something about it.  After I get done dicking around here, I think I'm going to try to write.  My New Years goal for 2012 was to get my house improvements & upgrades done, and I'm getting close to getting all of my goals for the year accomplished.  For 2013, my goal is to focus on creative endeavors, specifically a) finishing the table top RPG I've been writing since last year (really, I want to finish this in the first quarter of next year), and b) to settle on subject matter for a new novel and to actually get to the point where I'm making regular progress on it.

[metro.]

You write Ixarku? That's pretty cool. Been published?

Thankfully, I'm unhappy with my situation because I'm a student, and I want to be a real person. I'm sure I'll regret that once I get to the real world.
Grass is always greener though, right?

OnT: The fact I feel prepared for my exams, and thus have less motivation to study.

[Ixarku]

You write Ixarku? That's pretty cool. Been published?

Thankfully, I'm unhappy with my situation because I'm a student, and I want to be a real person. I'm sure I'll regret that once I get to the real world.
Grass is always greener though, right?

OnT: The fact I feel prepared for my exams, and thus have less motivation to study.

If by write you mean, come up with complex worlds & mythologies, lots of characters, plots, and generally do a ton of pre-work before getting bored and discouraged and then giving up for 6 months or a year at a time, then, yes, I do write.  Lol.  I have actually completed a novel-length manuscript from many years ago, but it sucks badly and will never see the light of day.
 
I have lots of ideas about how to write, what's good, what isn't, what works, what doesn't, how to world build and create characters and dialogue but somehow I can never settle on a story that I'm actually interested enough in to follow through beyond just the initial stages.  I know I have the raw ability to write well enough to be published, but I lack the focus and the self-discipline to carry it all the way.  And, sadly, writing is work.  To make progress, I know from experience that I need to put in at least 15-20 hours a week at it, and that's basically having a part time job on top of a full-time job and keeping up with the damn house.  I've had trouble keeping the committment, so I just end up giving up and feeling sorry for myself and slogging on through day-to-day life for a few months or years until the mood suits me again.  It's pathetic.  But I'm going to try it again.

[buchno]

That's one of the reasons my mother is going to retire early.

[Ixarku]

That's one of the reasons my mother is going to retire early.

It's a good reason.  To try to write and maintain a life & job outside of that is tough, and requires a lot of time, discipline, and patience.  There's a reason why there's a stereotype of the drunk or drugged up writer -- it's damn a stressful gig.

[elvikun]

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^ I'd say you need a boyfriend^^

Well, from my experience, the one good thing about Dell is that when something blows up (HW), they give you replacement that is better than the original. But the rest is pretty much what the topic title says.

And fixing it yourself is cool, but personally, I do not dare to open my laptop and delve into it's guts, because somehow I have no idea what laptop hardware looks like.
Sure, many calls will be about some trivial stuff, but on the other hand, if you start off by saying what is wrong, they may consider it, rather than ask 120 questions in given order with no regards to what your actual problem is. So yeah, again, what the topic title says.

I know how stupid those questions are, but I also do know from my own experience how misleading a user's problem description can be: Today, for example, I wasted 2 hours on finding a "downloading our reports is broken" bug when it was actually a "some of the entries don't get loaded, so the download button doesn't appear" bug, which appeared in a totally different module due to a timeout being too short... and there's always the case where one misses something obvious^^

When I said fixing it myself, I was actually talking about desktop PCs... I wouldn't dare to disassemble my laptop either - as long as I don't have a printout of the "how to disassemble the [insert product name here]" instructions, that is.

I know alright, but most of the stuff where user description might be unreliable or misleading is related to software -  when someone tells you about burned out GPU or broken monitor, asking them "What error number does it say on your screen" is either dementia or trolling 

I want to be a real person.

Hey there, it's nice to have dreams and all, but keep it at least a little bit realistic.

[Bob2004]

The fact I have lectures from 9AM-3PM tomorrow, without a single break. And will do every Tuesday for the rest of the semester

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^ I'd say you need a boyfriend^^

Well, from my experience, the one good thing about Dell is that when something blows up (HW), they give you replacement that is better than the original. But the rest is pretty much what the topic title says.

And fixing it yourself is cool, but personally, I do not dare to open my laptop and delve into it's guts, because somehow I have no idea what laptop hardware looks like.
Sure, many calls will be about some trivial stuff, but on the other hand, if you start off by saying what is wrong, they may consider it, rather than ask 120 questions in given order with no regards to what your actual problem is. So yeah, again, what the topic title says.

I know how stupid those questions are, but I also do know from my own experience how misleading a user's problem description can be: Today, for example, I wasted 2 hours on finding a "downloading our reports is broken" bug when it was actually a "some of the entries don't get loaded, so the download button doesn't appear" bug, which appeared in a totally different module due to a timeout being too short... and there's always the case where one misses something obvious^^

When I said fixing it myself, I was actually talking about desktop PCs... I wouldn't dare to disassemble my laptop either - as long as I don't have a printout of the "how to disassemble the [insert product name here]" instructions, that is.

I know alright, but most of the stuff where user description might be unreliable or misleading is related to software -  when someone tells you about burned out GPU or broken monitor, asking them "What error number does it say on your screen" is either dementia or trolling 

Yeah, but you'd be surprised how many people try and look up the problem first, think they've worked out what the cause is, and then when ringing up technical support, just say what they believe the cause is rather than what's actually happened - in order to avoid having to go through the tedious process that you're complaining about.

And since I'm sure there are a lot of people who would ring up and say "My GPU has died, I need a new one", even though it's displaying an error code on the screen and the problem's actually something completely different, tech support people have no choice but to go through everything with every customer. Slightly ironic, but there you go. People are idiots.

[metro.]

OnT: The fact I need to clean or study, and yet, I don't want to do either.

I want to be a real person.

Hey there, it's nice to have dreams and all, but keep it at least a little bit realistic.

[megido-rev.M]

The fact I have lectures from 9AM-3PM tomorrow, without a single break. And will do every Tuesday for the rest of the semester

Ah, the accursed Tuesdays .

[EmptyMemory]

I want to be a real person.

Hey there, it's nice to have dreams and all, but keep it at least a little bit realistic.

LOL.



OT: How long it's taking my study habits to return to me.

[1000mAh]

Brats WHO can't keep their mouths shut during class.

[Xycolian2332]

Kokoro connect

[buchno]

That Sweden's National Police Agency classifies The Pirate Bay as a child porn site, and therefore adds it to the list of sites to ban that all Sweden's ISP:s follow. If that's not abuse of power, I don't know what is.

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Det blev på fredagskvällen känt att Rikspolisstyrelsen kommer att stänga The Pirate Bay, den populära fildelningssajten, genom att klassa den som en barnporrsite i den spärrlista som svenska internetoperatörer följer.

Edit: Apparently, that article was written 2007, and because of technical issues, the date had disappeared. Huh.

[Sepukku]

Having this sloshing sensation in your stomach when you drink alot of coffee.
Ill be pissing it off in an hour.

[metro.]

That Sweden's National Police Agency classifies The Pirate Bay as a child porn site, and therefore adds it to the list of sites to ban that all Sweden's ISP:s follow. If that's not abuse of power, I don't know what is.

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Det blev på fredagskvällen känt att Rikspolisstyrelsen kommer att stänga The Pirate Bay, den populära fildelningssajten, genom att klassa den som en barnporrsite i den spärrlista som svenska internetoperatörer följer.

That's actually hilarious. iirc, the states were classifying all torrent sites as Child Porn sites in order to get the SOPA and shit pushed through.
It's interesting tbh. Lulzy, and annoying, but interesting. You have to think at least some of them believe it.

[undetz]

Isn't child porn the one thing that was deleted on TPB as soon as it came to the attention of an admin?