Grumpy Old Man
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@NTA said in Grumpy Old Man:
Back to being grumpy: glasses. I fucking hate wearing glasses. Just another thing to carry around.
Am convinced that my eyesight is deteriorating because of it. Self-fulfilling prophecy!
Wear contacts like I do you grumpy old fuck.
Keep the glasses for cloudy days or special occasions.
On a related note I keep breaking my sunglasses.
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@MN5 said in Grumpy Old Man:
@NTA said in Grumpy Old Man:
Back to being grumpy: glasses. I fucking hate wearing glasses. Just another thing to carry around.
Am convinced that my eyesight is deteriorating because of it. Self-fulfilling prophecy!
Wear contacts like I do you grumpy old fuck.
Keep the glasses for cloudy days or special occasions.
On a related note I keep breaking my sunglasses.
They don't do contacts for progressive lenses, so that's right out. COntact in = see at a distance but can't see close up. Therefore need reading glasses. Kinda defeats the purpose!
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@Victor-Meldrew said in Grumpy Old Man:
Think of all the R&D that went into these £700 wheels...
"Put your Mac Pro on wheels with the Mac Pro Wheels Kit. The custom-designed stainless steel and rubber wheels make it easy to move your Mac Pro around, whether sliding it out from under your desk or across your studio".
Solid right. Who wouldn't want to be able to move their computer around. Fuck that's amazing
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@Machpants said in Grumpy Old Man:
@MN5 said in Grumpy Old Man:
@NTA said in Grumpy Old Man:
Back to being grumpy: glasses. I fucking hate wearing glasses. Just another thing to carry around.
Am convinced that my eyesight is deteriorating because of it. Self-fulfilling prophecy!
Wear contacts like I do you grumpy old fuck.
Keep the glasses for cloudy days or special occasions.
On a related note I keep breaking my sunglasses.
They don't do contacts for progressive lenses, so that's right out. COntact in = see at a distance but can't see close up. Therefore need reading glasses. Kinda defeats the purpose!
There are multifocal contact lenses. I share your pain though. It's either wear glasses and take them off for close up or wear contacts and carry glasses for close up.
I haven't ried multifocal lenses but probably should. -
@Machpants said in Grumpy Old Man:
@MN5 said in Grumpy Old Man:
@NTA said in Grumpy Old Man:
Back to being grumpy: glasses. I fucking hate wearing glasses. Just another thing to carry around.
Am convinced that my eyesight is deteriorating because of it. Self-fulfilling prophecy!
Wear contacts like I do you grumpy old fuck.
Keep the glasses for cloudy days or special occasions.
On a related note I keep breaking my sunglasses.
They don't do contacts for progressive lenses, so that's right out. COntact in = see at a distance but can't see close up. Therefore need reading glasses. Kinda defeats the purpose!
That's another thing which pisses me off.
Car manufacturers design all sorts of useless options like heated steering wheels, but the fluffybunnies never offer useful stuff like prescription windscreens for drivers who need glasses, do they? Useless twats.
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@Bones said in Grumpy Old Man:
@Victor-Meldrew said in Grumpy Old Man:
Think of all the R&D that went into these £700 wheels...
"Put your Mac Pro on wheels with the Mac Pro Wheels Kit. The custom-designed stainless steel and rubber wheels make it easy to move your Mac Pro around, whether sliding it out from under your desk or across your studio".
Solid right. Who wouldn't want to be able to move their computer around. Fuck that's amazing
The people buying that computer ($30,000ish NZD) wouldn't blink twice at those wheels.
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@Victor-Meldrew said in Grumpy Old Man:
@Machpants said in Grumpy Old Man:
@MN5 said in Grumpy Old Man:
@NTA said in Grumpy Old Man:
Back to being grumpy: glasses. I fucking hate wearing glasses. Just another thing to carry around.
Am convinced that my eyesight is deteriorating because of it. Self-fulfilling prophecy!
Wear contacts like I do you grumpy old fuck.
Keep the glasses for cloudy days or special occasions.
On a related note I keep breaking my sunglasses.
They don't do contacts for progressive lenses, so that's right out. COntact in = see at a distance but can't see close up. Therefore need reading glasses. Kinda defeats the purpose!
That's another thing which pisses me off.
Car manufacturers design all sorts of useless options like heated steering wheels, but the fluffybunnies never offer useful stuff like prescription windscreens for drivers who need glasses, do they? Useless twats.
The one that always cracked me up is HUDs.
Cheap as chips to provide a simple HUD for a vehicle for a long time now but manufacturers hold back on the tech to sell as an extra at a price that far outstrips the cost. -
@Victor-Meldrew although that would affect others ability to drive your vehicle (fine for some) plus it would need to be all window glass too, to enable you to see front, sides and rear...so your passengers vision would very likely be negatively affected.
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@Kirwan said in Grumpy Old Man:
@Bones said in Grumpy Old Man:
@Victor-Meldrew said in Grumpy Old Man:
Think of all the R&D that went into these £700 wheels...
"Put your Mac Pro on wheels with the Mac Pro Wheels Kit. The custom-designed stainless steel and rubber wheels make it easy to move your Mac Pro around, whether sliding it out from under your desk or across your studio".
Solid right. Who wouldn't want to be able to move their computer around. Fuck that's amazing
The people buying that computer ($30,000ish NZD) wouldn't blink twice at those wheels.
It's just so odd because they wouldn't blink twice at twice the price right?! Pr have I read that wrong,?
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@Bones said in Grumpy Old Man:
Yeah, well, fuck Google. Recently my pixel 6 at about a year old just stopped working on mobile data. Calls, texts and WiFi still worked.
Absolutely fluffybunnies to deal with and just kept sending empty empathy emails and repeatedly asking me to state when and what happened and at what intervals, despite me already stating that it wasn't intermittent and it happened immediately after a security update and stayed that way.
After me asking for an update two weeks in, they sent an email basically saying "hey we're looking at it ok and it'll take as long as it takes". Then another email every few days with me having to repeat cause and symptoms.
Traded it in after 5 weeks for £16 and got an oppo flip. Neat and won't go back.
Pixels are utter shit. Had similar problems. The battery indicator also paused at 7% and therefore couldn't update or do shit. Dude at the mobile place said they were notoriously bad. Glad I did my due diligence 🤦♂️.
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@MN5 said in Grumpy Old Man:
@NTA said in Grumpy Old Man:
Back to being grumpy: glasses. I fucking hate wearing glasses. Just another thing to carry around.
Am convinced that my eyesight is deteriorating because of it. Self-fulfilling prophecy!
Wear contacts like I do you grumpy old fuck.
Keep the glasses for cloudy days or special occasions.
On a related note I keep breaking my sunglasses.
You sound like me. I have monthly wears that you can sleep with, I take them out once a week to give the eyes a rest and wear my glasses that evening. I'm blind as fuck though, wearing glasses for me is like being in one of those 90s rap videos where everything has the fishbowl effect.
I buy $10-$20 sunglasses from the market because I'm alway losing or breaking them.
@Catogrande That sucks. Apple can be a bit hit and miss, I've had shitty service in the past. I have one mate who buys so much Apple stuff that they always just repair or replace his stuff for free.
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@Bones said in Grumpy Old Man:
@Kirwan said in Grumpy Old Man:
@Bones said in Grumpy Old Man:
@Victor-Meldrew said in Grumpy Old Man:
Think of all the R&D that went into these £700 wheels...
"Put your Mac Pro on wheels with the Mac Pro Wheels Kit. The custom-designed stainless steel and rubber wheels make it easy to move your Mac Pro around, whether sliding it out from under your desk or across your studio".
Solid right. Who wouldn't want to be able to move their computer around. Fuck that's amazing
The people buying that computer ($30,000ish NZD) wouldn't blink twice at those wheels.
It's just so odd because they wouldn't blink twice at twice the price right?! Pr have I read that wrong,?
The market for that particular computer (for the wheels) are people making content where their time is expensive. So everything is offloaded to the customer, anything that makes their workflow faster, more pleasant they will happily spend the money.
The stand fo the monitor is even more epxensive than the wheels for that computer. It's a premium design for a reason.
I wouldn't spend anything like that, but I had a client that would pay for it then sure. The wheels work great (yes I watched a demo on them to see how they justified the price).
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@Catogrande said in Grumpy Old Man:
Apple and their so called Geniuses can all get fucked.
The local Apple Store is full of kids who get paid fuck all and know a corresponding amount. Anything outside the norm utterly confuses them. I leave all the Apple shit to the Boy in our household and even he thinks it is shit - outside the Adobe stuff he uses for media editing, which seems to work reasonably well.
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@Rancid-Schnitzel said in Grumpy Old Man:
Pixels are utter shit. Had similar problems. The battery indicator also paused at 7% and therefore couldn't update or do shit. Dude at the mobile place said they were notoriously bad. Glad I did my due diligence 🤦♂️.
Was that the Pixel, the Pro, or the "a"? I've heard differeing reports about the reliability of each.
Have had a Pixel 4a and now a 6a and besides the odd quirk, no issues with the hardware or OS.
I buy the cheapest Google phone possible because it does the job for me and I don't need a ton of storage or a camera that can see atoms.
I fucking hate things like SamsungUI or whatever they call it now.
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You want poor (non existent) customer service.
Air Fucking BNB
We cancelled our trip to Napier Art Deco because uh hello National State of Emergency airport closed, roads closed, city flooded, without power and the last thing they want anyway is visitors'.
So
No refund for first night as you cancelled within 48 hours. 50% for the second night100% for nights 3 and 4. Plus we will keep the service fee. So all up congratulations you get a refund of $1,100 on an initial outlay of $3K.
There is no customer service - just an answer bot that can't deal with your complaint and closes all enquiries inside 3 hours. I don't mind the loss of money. the people we were renting off turned the apartment into emergency shelter so we gave them the $1K we got from AirBnB anyway - it's the total lack of scruples.
Same thing happened in 2020. Deco was cancelled because of Covid. Air BnB offered a full refund but you only had 72 hours to accept. My partners mother dies in those 72 hours and so I missed the deadline. Contact AirBnB Oh the offer doesn't cover bereavements so you get nothing.
I argued it with them for months and even lodged a small claims but in the end I gave up as they are so ubiquitous, if they blacklisted me my accommodation options would be very limited.
Absolute fluffybunny of a company
/GOM
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@dogmeat said in Grumpy Old Man:
You want poor (non existent) customer service.
Air Fucking BNB
We cancelled our trip to Napier Art Deco because uh hello National State of Emergency airport closed, roads closed, city flooded, without power and the last thing they want anyway is visitors'.
So
No refund for first night as you cancelled within 48 hours. 50% for the second night100% for nights 3 and 4. Plus we will keep the service fee. So all up congratulations you get a refund of $1,100 on an initial outlay of $3K.
There is no customer service - just an answer bot that can't deal with your complaint and closes all enquiries inside 3 hours. I don't mind the loss of money. the people we were renting off turned the apartment into emergency shelter so we gave them the $1K we got from AirBnB anyway - it's the total lack of scruples.
Same thing happened in 2020. Deco was cancelled because of Covid. Air BnB offered a full refund but you only had 72 hours to accept. My partners mother dies in those 72 hours and so I missed the deadline. Contact AirBnB Oh the offer doesn't cover bereavements so you get nothing.
I argued it with them for months and even lodged a small claims but in the end I gave up as they are so ubiquitous, if they blacklisted me my accommodation options would be very limited.
Absolute fluffybunny of a company
/GOM
EBay can be just as bad. Got stiffed by a seller and went thru chat bot hell until spoke to a human. They refused to pay up even though they agreed the seller was a suspect fraudster. Took them to the small claims court and they backed down pretty much straight away.
Never fuck with a grumpy old man itching for a fight with plenty of time on his hands..
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@NTA said in Grumpy Old Man:
@Catogrande said in Grumpy Old Man:
Apple and their so called Geniuses can all get fucked.
The local Apple Store is full of kids who get paid fuck all and know a corresponding amount. Anything outside the norm utterly confuses them. I leave all the Apple shit to the Boy in our household and even he thinks it is shit - outside the Adobe stuff he uses for media editing, which seems to work reasonably well.
There's an Apple store out your way?
I generally find the City store to be shit and the Broadway store to be pretty good. If the City store had done their job properly a few years ago I wouldn't have needed the most recent work done at the Broadway store.
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@Nepia said in Grumpy Old Man:
@MN5 said in Grumpy Old Man:
@NTA said in Grumpy Old Man:
Back to being grumpy: glasses. I fucking hate wearing glasses. Just another thing to carry around.
Am convinced that my eyesight is deteriorating because of it. Self-fulfilling prophecy!
Wear contacts like I do you grumpy old fuck.
Keep the glasses for cloudy days or special occasions.
On a related note I keep breaking my sunglasses.
You sound like me. I have monthly wears that you can sleep with, I take them out once a week to give the eyes a rest and wear my glasses that evening. I'm blind as fuck though, wearing glasses for me is like being in one of those 90s rap videos where everything has the fishbowl effect.
I buy $10-$20 sunglasses from the market because I'm alway losing or breaking them.
@Catogrande That sucks. Apple can be a bit hit and miss, I've had shitty service in the past. I have one mate who buys so much Apple stuff that they always just repair or replace his stuff for free.
Yeah due to my Scottish heritage I take extra good care of them so they last longer. As soon as I get home the contacts come out and the glasses come on. Occasionally if I want to try to fool people into thinking I’m smart I wear them in public. It doesn’t work though.
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Why is there always some fucknuckle in every Airport Lounge talking on their phone at the top of their voice.
Really not interested 'mate'.
Also interesting how they manage to drop into the conversation within the first 60 seconds that they're "just at the Koru Lounge"
piston wristed gibbons
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@MN5 said in Grumpy Old Man:
@Nepia said in Grumpy Old Man:
@MN5 said in Grumpy Old Man:
@NTA said in Grumpy Old Man:
Back to being grumpy: glasses. I fucking hate wearing glasses. Just another thing to carry around.
Am convinced that my eyesight is deteriorating because of it. Self-fulfilling prophecy!
Wear contacts like I do you grumpy old fuck.
Keep the glasses for cloudy days or special occasions.
On a related note I keep breaking my sunglasses.
You sound like me. I have monthly wears that you can sleep with, I take them out once a week to give the eyes a rest and wear my glasses that evening. I'm blind as fuck though, wearing glasses for me is like being in one of those 90s rap videos where everything has the fishbowl effect.
I buy $10-$20 sunglasses from the market because I'm alway losing or breaking them.
@Catogrande That sucks. Apple can be a bit hit and miss, I've had shitty service in the past. I have one mate who buys so much Apple stuff that they always just repair or replace his stuff for free.
Yeah due to my Scottish heritage I take extra good care of them so they last longer. As soon as I get home the contacts come out and the glasses come on. Occasionally if I want to try to fool people into thinking I’m smart I wear them in public. It doesn’t work though.
I can't go back to contact lenses you have to put in and take out everyday. I get annoyed doing it once a week, and the morning I need to put them in always becomes a sleep in as I can't be bothered putting them in.
