SPAM random annoying things

[SilverHood]

I fucking hate clock changes. Feel like dogshit this morning.

Every year. On a population level it must cost us so much in lost productivity.

So the US changes much earlier than the rest of the world, and we have this strange twilight zone where the time difference with the UK is only 4 hours for 3-4 weeks. It makes a mess of everyone's calendar. They're looking at removing it entirely in the US, which I think is the right move. Either permanent DST, or none at all.

 

[Raven]

I fucking hate clock changes. Feel like dogshit this morning.

Every year. On a population level it must cost us so much in lost productivity.

Didn't notice it until I got in the car, and the clock was right.

I think they should just put it forward an hour from now and then leave it alone. It would be dark for fewer rush hours, fewer people will need a light on. Winter is a write-off for daylight, so who cares.

 

[Scouse]

So, I noticed one of my guinea fowl was lying down this afternoon. Bit weird, but then a couple of others were. I figured she might be asleep.

Went out a couple of hours later, she was still there. So went over to have a look - she'd just started producing eggs and had prolapsed her guts out of her backside, with a half formed egg through there. A few of the other guineas looked liked they'd been up to have a peck.

Went to try to grab her and she ran away from me - trailing her guts. That must have hurt. But she hit a fence, so I managed to grab her, unweight her guts a bit and get her back to the house where "tools" were available. The poor fucker pretty much started to die of uncontrollable pain just as I was handed a knife.

Blood all over my shoes too.

Well. At least dinner tomorrow night will be nice.

 

[Embattle]

Adding AI to my Powerwall 2:

 

[Deebs]

I have AI on my system but turned it off, I have mine set to maximum self consumption and when the batteries get down to 25% import from the grid so I have power during brief power cuts. As I am a nerd I am looking at a small gennie to hookup to the platform cos I can and it supports one. Remember all this is for when the zombies come.

 

[Embattle]

It isn't just that it is AI, which I already think in most usage cases so far is pointless, but it is telling me nothing of any use.

 

[MYstIC G]

I have AI on my system but turned it off, I have mine set to maximum self consumption and when the batteries get down to 25% import from the grid so I have power during brief power cuts. As I am a nerd I am looking at a small gennie to hookup to the platform cos I can and it supports one. Remember all this is for when the zombies come.

Generator noise attracts z0mb0rs

 

[Embattle]

Local councils adding even more houses outside of a local plan, even though they waste loads of money creating them and getting locals input.

 

[Raven]

Massive first first problems, but my settings on my ~£1100 graphics card RTX 5080, for my ~£90 game (Battlefield6) says "Show less settings" rather than "fewer" and it really irritates me.

 

[Lamp]

Tesco - one Litre bottle of Bacardi £33
Amazon - exactly the same £17

 

[Tom]

The salesman for my heat pump install kept talking about how their app is "powered by AI" and I couldn't be bothered telling him that I don't want AI, that it's shite for almost everything, and that it's just a fancy name for software.

 

[Deebs]

I wish AI would just fuckoff, we are not at Star Trek/Star Wars levels of tech.

 

[Scouse]

I wish AI would just fuckoff, we are not at Star Trek/Star Wars levels of tech.

I love it. Gonna post in the AI thread why.

 

[Ormorof]

I wish AI would just fuckoff, we are not at Star Trek/Star Wars levels of tech.

It’s getting there, I’m using voice chat to talk to and organise the agents. Let’s see how long that lasts the house of cards seems to be wobbling with all the new rate limits

 

[Scouse]

Storm fucking hello Dave.

Getting battered in the rain and wind by flying animal housing and flying tree branches.

Poor animals

 

[Raven]

I'm still randomly bothered that we have to name every bit of wind. It's April ffs...

 

[Deebs]

I'm still randomly bothered that we have to name every bit of wind. It's April ffs...

Sometimes I name my wind "Follow-thru".

 

[Tom]

When the delivery guy leaves £700 of designer radiators just lying outside your front door for anyone to steal.

 

[DaGaffer]

For various reasons, I don't have adblock on Youtube (because of the inevitable faff), so I have to witness the sheer retardedness of whatever the hell passes for an algorithm on google ads. At the moment I basically get three ads; 1. Dryrobe. This is remarketing because I bought my wife a Dryrobe a year ago. I don't need another. 2. Endless fucking sitdown tai-chi AI generated bollocks. Because I'm now in the age range. 3. Swimming pool cleaning robots. Google knows where I live. I do not have a swimming pool.

And here's the thing, if you block the ad, Google says "you won't see this again". You fucking will.

I actually have a budget for digital advertising. Even though I can see sales generated from digital advertising, I have no fucking idea how based on the evidence of Google's utter shittiness with my own eyes.

 

[Gwadien]

For various reasons, I don't have adblock on Youtube (because of the inevitable faff), so I have to witness the sheer retardedness of whatever the hell passes for an algorithm on google ads. At the moment I basically get three ads; 1. Dryrobe. This is remarketing because I bought my wife a Dryrobe a year ago. I don't need another. 2. Endless fucking sitdown tai-chi AI generated bollocks. Because I'm now in the age range. 3. Swimming pool cleaning robots. Google knows where I live. I do not have a swimming pool.

And here's the thing, if you block the ad, Google says "you won't see this again". You fucking will.

I actually have a budget for digital advertising. Even though I can see sales generated from digital advertising, I have no fucking idea how based on the evidence of Google's utter shittiness with my own eyes.

Main question is - Do you allow your wife to wear the dryrobe anywhere that is outside of some sort of swimming place?

and yeah, I don't get it either - I'm sure it used to be way better in the past, but now it appears that if I spend a couple of weeks shopping and umming and arring over different products, the adverts are minimal.

As soon as I buy the thing I suddenly get bombarded by adverts from the people who sold me the product.

It just feels weird because it's a straight up waste of money that I could have off what I bought :O

 

[Scouse]

For various reasons, I don't have adblock on Youtube (because of the inevitable faff),

I only watch youtube on the PC. Never on the phone. Adblock plus and ublock origin.

I tried to watch it on the phone the other day, and I just couldn't bear it. I don't know how people live with adverts any more. If they found a way to enforce adverts I'd stop watching TV completely.

 

[DaGaffer]

Main question is - Do you allow your wife to wear the dryrobe anywhere that is outside of some sort of swimming place?

She actually goes swimming...in the sea, every day. Yes, winter and summer. It's a thing. A thing for insane people, but definitely a thing.

and yeah, I don't get it either - I'm sure it used to be way better in the past, but now it appears that if I spend a couple of weeks shopping and umming and arring over different products, the adverts are minimal.

As soon as I buy the thing I suddenly get bombarded by adverts from the people who sold me the product.

It's actually called remarketing but it's not supposed to work that way. Dryrobe's back end order management/CRM isn't talking to their front end marketing platform. It's not that uncommon, but Dryrobe must have served me about a trillion ads by now, so it's not working lads, give it up ffs.

It just feels weird because it's a straight up waste of money that I could have off what I bought :O

Different pot of money

 

[Tom]

I only watch youtube on the PC. Never on the phone. Adblock plus and ublock origin.

I tried to watch it on the phone the other day, and I just couldn't bear it. I don't know how people live with adverts any more. If they found a way to enforce adverts I'd stop watching TV completely.

Revanced on mobile. No more ads.

I believe if you set your VPN to Albania, where online ads are banned, you also don't see ads.

 

[DaGaffer]

I only watch youtube on the PC. Never on the phone. Adblock plus and ublock origin.

I tried to watch it on the phone the other day, and I just couldn't bear it. I don't know how people live with adverts any more. If they found a way to enforce adverts I'd stop watching TV completely.

We actually cancelled our tv boxes last month. We no longer have broadcast TV in the house. We were paying 20 odd quid a month for occasional background noise. Also cancelled Disney+ but we've still got Netflix/Apple and Prime because of deliveries.

 

[Scouse]

Revanced on mobile. No more ads.

Merci.

I don't use a VPN tho

We actually cancelled our tv boxes last month. We no longer have broadcast TV in the house. We were paying 20 odd quid a month for occasional background noise. Also cancelled Disney+ but we've still got Netflix/Apple and Prime because of deliveries.

Good job. I've not paid for any TV since the early 2000's. I've got prime because of deliveries too, but when they started putting in ads we stopped watching.