A place to rant about things that wind you up ( keep it clean lol)

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Betsy said:
It seems I may need a new laptop. The screen in my current laptop suddenly started flickering and jumping about like a badly tuned TV. I haven't downloaded anything on it that I shouldn't have nor have I clicked on any dodgy liinks in emails. I restarted it and that didn't change anything. Son no 3 assured me that if I get a new laptop all my photos will be safe and can be transferred to the new one. I hope so as I have hundreds of piggy photos and videos on there as well as all my photos of eBay stuff too. Just have to hope I remember all the passwords!
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That's an expensive nuisance. Sometimes it's worth trying to get it repaired, if it's not really old ( in computer terms!) or wasn't a cheap basic model.
If it's still usable you could try to save all your photos to a USB stick or SD card before it fails totally.
 
@Betsy assuming it's the screen itself that's the issue (just going off what you're saying, I realise I'm not there to look at it) you could probably hook it up to an external monitor or screen and use that to get any info you want off the laptop. Doesn't have to be a computer monitor, it could also be a TV.
 
You can also get all your files off in safe mode, or something similar no had to do that when my old laptop decided to take a turn for the worse 😭
 
Dog and cat-sitting for a family member. There were bad storms since I stopped at their house earlier today and one of their dogs 💩 all over the house. :vom:
 
Argh the one day that I actually have plans that I was really looking forward to and I get a bad endometriosis flare. I have been awake on and off all night in pain and because it's been about 2 years since I last had a flare my prescription painkillers are out of date
 
Vacuum cleaners, and husbands that clog them up with hay then dont tell you until you would like to vacuum the stairs then realise there is no suction!
But there is an annoying narrow, twisty and non-removable pipe in my Dyson that needs cleaning by poking a wire coat hanger through it on a regular basis to remove the furry hay clogs.
There is clearly a good reason why Dyson isnt going to space with all the other billionairre tycoons and his designs might have been innovative 20 years ago but this vacuum cleaner has a serious design flaw, that coupled to my husband's design flaws and a house knee deep in hay are blighting my friday afternoon!
I might just buy a Shark I hear they are good? We are buying a new car next week so what the heck a new fancy vacuum cleaner isnt going to make much difference to piggy daddy's rapidly decreasing bank balance!
 
PigglePuggle said:
Vacuum cleaners, and husbands that clog them up with hay then dont tell you until you would like to vacuum the stairs then realise there is no suction!
But there is an annoying narrow, twisty and non-removable pipe in my Dyson that needs cleaning by poking a wire coat hanger through it on a regular basis to remove the furry hay clogs.
There is clearly a good reason why Dyson isnt going to space with all the other billionairre tycoons and his designs might have been innovative 20 years ago but this vacuum cleaner has a serious design flaw, that coupled to my husband's design flaws and a house knee deep in hay are blighting my friday afternoon!
I might just buy a Shark I hear they are good? We are buying a new car next week so what the heck a new fancy vacuum cleaner isnt going to make much difference to piggy daddy's rapidly decreasing bank balance!
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I changed from dyson to shark years ago and highly recommend! Not once has it clogged with hay unlike my old dyson!
 
We've been looking at shark, hmmmm maybe worth another look? My current Dyson may not have any original parts left if I have to replace much more on it! It doesn't owe me anything now I've had it so long but it will need replacing soon but it's such a decision 😳
 
We went for shark. Our Dyson was still fairly new at the time but it's rubbish in comparison! Moneysavingexpert had an offer on them not long ago but it might have ended by now
 
PigglePuggle said:
But there is an annoying narrow, twisty and non-removable pipe in my Dyson that needs cleaning by poking a wire coat hanger through it on a regular basis to remove the furry hay clogs.
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I had these metal braces that were meant to be part of the bed construction but just wouldn't fit (IKEA beds are notorious for this. I've put together several, it's always those metal braces). Turns out they're useful for poking through the hoover's metal tubes, so I'm kind of glad I kept them. It did take me far longer than I'd like to realise the funny noise from the hoover was because the tube was blocked though :doh:
 
We inherited a dyson from my sister. It was okay, but I found the (similar to Henry) hoover my husband brought from work was much better. The dyson was reserved for hay hoovering but it’s been sat in the corner for a looooong time…
 
PigglePuggle said:
I might just buy a Shark I hear they are good? We are buying a new car next week so what the heck a new fancy vacuum cleaner isnt going to make much difference to piggy daddy's rapidly decreasing bank balance!
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A Shark is highly recommended here too! I bought one last year and it's the best purchase I've ever made. If it ever does clog up (unlikely) practically everything comes apart so it's easy to unclog. The only downside is it comes with so much packaging!

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Betsy said:
A Shark is highly recommended here too! I bought one last year and it's the best purchase I've ever made. If it ever does clog up (unlikely) practically everything comes apart so it's easy to unclog. The only downside is it comes with so much packaging!

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Boxes can be recycled for piggy fun 🤷🏾‍♀️
 
Betsy said:
A Shark is highly recommended here too! I bought one last year and it's the best purchase I've ever made. If it ever does clog up (unlikely) practically everything comes apart so it's easy to unclog. The only downside is it comes with so much packaging!

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Ollie quite likes the look of all the cardboard bits of packaging, he loves very complicated cardboard treat puzzles on a Sunday afternoon! He likes things he can stamp on and edge and flip firing blueberries into the air and showering himself in porridge oats :)
 
If anyone ever needs cardboard boxes for anything, come say hello. I have an entire cupboard filled with flattened boxes. Any excuse to get rid of them, and as for hoovers...mine is a £30 white thing that you could barely fit a guinea pig inside let alone two and has no brand name and is an absolute little beast of a thing. Argos don't sell them any more I don't think, more's the pity!
 
I can be an absolute idiot.

So GOG sent me an email to say I could have free games. Well it's free, why not, GOG does this fairly frequently. So I click the link and I need to log in and I'm trying to input my password and I realise I can't remember what it is. Well fine, I go to get a change password email sent out. But I'm trying a few email addresses and none of them are coming back as being accounts there, and I'm panicking because what email could it be?

It couldn't possibly be the same email address they sent me the free games email to, could it? :doh:

I also realised afterwards that I had the right password but it was saved under an old email address and GOGs UI can be bloody awful so I didn't realise my browser was setting my email to what it had as default, but was the wrong email address. Had to go and delete the original autologin details and reset it. But imagine that. Panicking because you can't remember what email address your account is under when you clicked the link in an email they sent you in the first place. God I'm a muppet sometimes.
 
Lorcan said:
I can be an absolute idiot.

So GOG sent me an email to say I could have free games. Well it's free, why not, GOG does this fairly frequently. So I click the link and I need to log in and I'm trying to input my password and I realise I can't remember what it is. Well fine, I go to get a change password email sent out. But I'm trying a few email addresses and none of them are coming back as being accounts there, and I'm panicking because what email could it be?

It couldn't possibly be the same email address they sent me the free games email to, could it? :doh:

I also realised afterwards that I had the right password but it was saved under an old email address and GOGs UI can be bloody awful so I didn't realise my browser was setting my email to what it had as default, but was the wrong email address. Had to go and delete the original autologin details and reset it. But imagine that. Panicking because you can't remember what email address your account is under when you clicked the link in an email they sent you in the first place. God I'm a muppet sometimes.
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See your point @Lorcan about the email address but rest assured that you must be very cyber-tech minded cos the rest of your post was far too technical and modern for my old skool menopausal lady brain to follow any further than "its something to do with computers, probably" lol :)
Hitting control/alt/delete is the limit of my tech knowhow, then swearing, switching off and on again, slapping the computer with a flipflop then phoning my daughter in desperation offering a laptop swap until she hits F10 or something...!
And yes I do have a science PhD but... from the old days like 2008 where formatting a word doc and searching on google was classed as advanced IT skills :)
 
PigglePuggle said:
See your point @Lorcan about the email address but rest assured that you must be very cyber-tech minded cos the rest of your post was far too technical and modern for my old skool menopausal lady brain to follow any further than "its something to do with computers, probably" lol :)
Hitting control/alt/delete is the limit of my tech knowhow, then swearing, switching off and on again, slapping the computer with a flipflop then phoning my daughter in desperation offering a laptop swap until she hits F10 or something...!
And yes I do have a science PhD but... from the old days like 2008 where formatting a word doc and searching on google was classed as advanced IT skills :)
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I get that from my dad. He wouldn't allow me to not know what I was doing with a PC because it meant I didn't have to harass him every 30 seconds when something broke, which in the days of Windows 95 and 98, happened frequently. That week we were staying in Dorset in June, my nan asked my dad if he'd take a look at her laptop because she couldn't get it to connect to her printer.

I still remember his face when he got started. She never updated that laptop - he had to remove all the media stuff, images etc, and find a pen drive to put them on. His original plan was to reinstall but we couldn't find a big enough drive to put a bootable installation on, so instead he took off the disposable media and saved it elsewhere, and then began the updates. Those took two days. And he said my nan does the same thing as my mum, thinks the updates would take too long and just ignored them.

That said, I have no idea what I'm doing with Word and Excel. You've got the jump on me there.
 
Lorcan said:
I get that from my dad. He wouldn't allow me to not know what I was doing with a PC because it meant I didn't have to harass him every 30 seconds when something broke, which in the days of Windows 95 and 98, happened frequently. That week we were staying in Dorset in June, my nan asked my dad if he'd take a look at her laptop because she couldn't get it to connect to her printer.

I still remember his face when he got started. She never updated that laptop - he had to remove all the media stuff, images etc, and find a pen drive to put them on. His original plan was to reinstall but we couldn't find a big enough drive to put a bootable installation on, so instead he took off the disposable media and saved it elsewhere, and then began the updates. Those took two days. And he said my nan does the same thing as my mum, thinks the updates would take too long and just ignored them.

That said, I have no idea what I'm doing with Word and Excel. You've got the jump on me there.
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Ok well my friday night confession is...
I paid a chubby colleague who understands Word WITH £30 OF ARTISAN LUXURY FUDGE to format my thesis and get the contents page list auto-linked so the page numbers on my thesis matched the sub-headings on the title page! I'm a fraud, with zero computer skills but good confectionary connections :)
 
PigglePuggle said:
Vacuum cleaners, and husbands that clog them up with hay then dont tell you until you would like to vacuum the stairs then realise there is no suction!
But there is an annoying narrow, twisty and non-removable pipe in my Dyson that needs cleaning by poking a wire coat hanger through it on a regular basis to remove the furry hay clogs.
There is clearly a good reason why Dyson isnt going to space with all the other billionairre tycoons and his designs might have been innovative 20 years ago but this vacuum cleaner has a serious design flaw, that coupled to my husband's design flaws and a house knee deep in hay are blighting my friday afternoon!
I might just buy a Shark I hear they are good? We are buying a new car next week so what the heck a new fancy vacuum cleaner isnt going to make much difference to piggy daddy's rapidly decreasing bank balance!
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The days on I had was the worst vac I’ve ever had, it literally fell to bits, treat yourself, get a new one 😆
 
Lorcan said:
I get that from my dad. He wouldn't allow me to not know what I was doing with a PC because it meant I didn't have to harass him every 30 seconds when something broke, which in the days of Windows 95 and 98, happened frequently. That week we were staying in Dorset in June, my nan asked my dad if he'd take a look at her laptop because she couldn't get it to connect to her printer.

I still remember his face when he got started. She never updated that laptop - he had to remove all the media stuff, images etc, and find a pen drive to put them on. His original plan was to reinstall but we couldn't find a big enough drive to put a bootable installation on, so instead he took off the disposable media and saved it elsewhere, and then began the updates. Those took two days. And he said my nan does the same thing as my mum, thinks the updates would take too long and just ignored them.

That said, I have no idea what I'm doing with Word and Excel. You've got the jump on me there.
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Google and having a play with them is the best way to go. I’ve had to learn PowerPoint and can now do some fancy slides!
 
I've lost the tweezers. So I use tweezers when I'm threading the sewing machine because they're useful for grabbing the thread when it's just gone through the needle, to pull it through the correct way. I threaded the machine. I put the tweezers down. The machine and I aren't friends today because it keeps unthreading itself, but whatever, I'll thread it again.

Where are the tweezers? They're not on the table, the machine, the bookcase, the floor, the chair...how the hell do tweezers disappear into thin air? And I have another pair that are nowhere near as useful because the alternate pair is much more...springy. Getting them to close and stay closed is awkward. Please come back, tweezers.
 
PigglePuggle said:
Ok well my friday night confession is...
I paid a chubby colleague who understands Word WITH £30 OF ARTISAN LUXURY FUDGE to format my thesis and get the contents page list auto-linked so the page numbers on my thesis matched the sub-headings on the title page! I'm a fraud, with zero computer skills but good confectionary connections :)
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Was the colleague chubby before you joined the faculty? :P

Word should recognize text with 'Heading' style selected as a heading, and then nested sub-headings for 'Heading 2, Heading 3, Heading 4' etc, when it generates a table of contents from the Reference > Table of Contents context-menu. Thereafter, it gets a bit confused if you then change anything, or it might decide the ToC should be on page 43. Not sure how it handles multiple tables, either.
 
Lorcan said:
There's a joke in there about programmers and software in general, I just know it.
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:) It's one of the reasons I've become a neo-luddite. When I was younger I couldn't understand why people didn't want to be on the cutting edge, now I've prematurely aged to just want things to stay the same. Case in point: Firefox - every aesthetic change breaks something.
 
WarOperations said:
Was the colleague chubby before you joined the faculty? :P

Word should recognize text with 'Heading' style selected as a heading, and then nested sub-headings for 'Heading 2, Heading 3, Heading 4' etc, when it generates a table of contents from the Reference > Table of Contents context-menu. Thereafter, it gets a bit confused if you then change anything, or it might decide the ToC should be on page 43. Not sure how it handles multiple tables, either.
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WarOperations said:
Was the colleague chubby before you joined the faculty? :P

Word should recognize text with 'Heading' style selected as a heading, and then nested sub-headings for 'Heading 2, Heading 3, Heading 4' etc, when it generates a table of contents from the Reference > Table of Contents context-menu. Thereafter, it gets a bit confused if you then change anything, or it might decide the ToC should be on page 43. Not sure how it handles multiple tables, either.
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Eh?
 
WarOperations said:
:) It's one of the reasons I've become a neo-luddite. When I was younger I couldn't understand why people didn't want to be on the cutting edge, now I've prematurely aged to just want things to stay the same. Case in point: Firefox - every aesthetic change breaks something.
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Welcome to why I haven't used Firefox since I was a teenager. There's too much upkeep involved there for what is just a web browser. Extra features are all well and good but if you're not going to use them, what's the point? I'd rather go play with a Linux distro - same idea, but much more entertaining, and more educational, too.

All this focus on new hardware and new software means nothing if you're not using that hardware and software. The power in my PC would be useless to most people, and nowhere near enough for others. Hah, he says, as he looks at his keyboard where the backlight is set as an equaliser. Little amuses the innocent :bal:
 
Betsy said:
Eh?
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I know, I'm a hypocrite.
Lorcan said:
Welcome to why I haven't used Firefox since I was a teenager. There's too much upkeep involved there for what is just a web browser. Extra features are all well and good but if you're not going to use them, what's the point? I'd rather go play with a Linux distro - same idea, but much more entertaining, and more educational, too.

All this focus on new hardware and new software means nothing if you're not using that hardware and software. The power in my PC would be useless to most people, and nowhere near enough for others. Hah, he says, as he looks at his keyboard where the backlight is set as an equaliser. Little amuses the innocent :bal:
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Agreed x1000.
 
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