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submitted 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) by activistPnk@slrpnk.net to c/rant@feddit.uk

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/37042303

A builder who renovates homes sent me a huge quote for a big job by emailing me a link to a website apparently using some fancy platform they outsourced to for the simple job of giving a work quote. The idiots could not possibly fuckup a simple task so badly. I try to visit the link and get a CF block page because I use Tor.

Must say, it’s sad that there are so few Tor users in the world that perhaps they never had a customer of a customer who uses Tor. And likely many Tor users don’t even bother with activism.

What I did (and what all should do)

Left them a voicemail saying “can’t reach your quote because I am blocked. Plz print it out, fold it up, stuff it into an envelope addressed to me, and pay the postage to send me the quote the old-fashioned way”, in so many words, b/c obviously they¹ are incompetent with technology. Will be extra funny if there are gen Z office workers who cannot handle the job of printing a doc and mailing an envelope in the post. I will be happy if they have to pay postage to send me a quote as a penalty for outsourcing to an incompetent tech supplier who cannot handle a simple job of passing along a quote.

¹ by “they”, I mean both the contractor and the outsourced firm. It’s fair enough that the builder is incompetent with tech. Absolutely unacceptable that the firm they outsourced to is incompetent. Competency with technology is their fucking JOB.

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submitted 11 months ago by yeah@feddit.uk to c/rant@feddit.uk

what the actual fuck. It's based on linux right, it has a nice little terminal. Can't mount my NAS by NFS. Have to use SMB. Shitty fucking SMB which has now taken ownership of the files I've moved over and I can't work out how to work with my folders now.

that is all. screams into the void

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"on accident" (feddit.uk)
submitted 1 year ago by blackn1ght@feddit.uk to c/rant@feddit.uk

Why the fuck do I keep seeing this so much? I swear I see it online all the time now.

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submitted 2 years ago by blackn1ght@feddit.uk to c/rant@feddit.uk

It has a child lock mode so the settings and start button don't do anything when the child lock is enabled.

But the power button still works and is next to the start button.

My 2 year old daughter pressed the power button 1 hour into the 1hr 30min cycle and now because everything is wet, starting the cycle again means it's going to take nearly 4 hours.

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The weather. (feddit.uk)
submitted 2 years ago by blackn1ght@feddit.uk to c/rant@feddit.uk

Yes, this is cliché, but Jesus Christ the weather is terrible at the moment. It feels like it's been constant rain for months, and even when it's not raining it's grey and miserable and cold.

I just want to take the kids out on our bikes but it's always raining or threatening to. I genuinely think this has been the wettest several months that I can remember, May and June are usually decent but now it's constant fucking rain.

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submitted 2 years ago by blackn1ght@feddit.uk to c/rant@feddit.uk

I'm not talking 65 or 60mph, but toddling along at what seems to be 40mph for absolutely no reason?! If you don't feel safe driving faster than that, get off the motorway!

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