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[TamerVirus]

harassing some skinny beanpole man.

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[delphonso]

Dang. Got beand

[Loud Whispers]

bwned

[Grim Portent]

Gran's sick again. Might be a UTI, but won't know for sure until the test results come back. 

Plus side is she's not confused, that's always what makes it hardest when she's unwell. As is she's eating fine, walking around ok, and her symptoms seem to have lessened very quickly.

EDIT: Test results are back, she has a UTI and has been prescribed antibiotics.

[None]

feckin'

goddamn

PCManFM-QT AUGH

This stupid godforsaken file manager/desktop manager/environment/wallpaper manager/nightmare of tangled overreach

the file manager breaks on the left monitor if it is not the main monitor and is also the same resolution as the main monitor

because the wallpaper breaks only on the left monitor because it is not the main monitor and is left and is the same resolution as the right monitor

and then the main monitor breaks because all the desktop icons vanish because pcmanfm-qt wants to put them on the leftmost monitor but pcmanfm-qt still works on that monitor but only on that monitor

Fuck you, pcmanfm-qt, and LXQT, and Lubuntu by proxy. I'm jumping ship and installing Kubuntu or Xubuntu or something with more tenacity than a damp tissue. Environment collapse because of 'left monitor,' jesus christ

[delphonso]

feckin'

goddamn

PCManFM-QT AUGH

Ah yes. The Linux trouble-shooting experience.

(Good luck. I'm on Ubuntu Budgie and it's...fine. Not super my thing, so I'm planning to switch, but my dissatisfactions are exclusively aesthetic at least.)

[None]

Ideologically, I love love love linux. I love that it's just *there* to get into and everyone's got neat projects for it and your operating system is beholden to nobody and LAMP is the spine of so many web sites and services. But this FUCKING file manager mang lubuntu should never have left lxde and its filesystem should be more robust than "left monitor, panic." Shit man, I can stream arbitrary audio to my Chromecast by making it an audio sink and that's fuckin' rad despite all the other bitch fits I'd like to throw about pulseaudio (and boy howdy how about apple keyboard input crashing your audio input devices for a bitch fit)! You just can't do that on other operating systems! Wanna boot up a box without a monitor and just run a server out of it? Presto!

But, eh, I've been a software tester for a little over two weeks now, so maybe I'm growing less and less patient of software that should work at face value but crumbles as soon as assessed or as soon as something resembling an edge case rises from the amorphous blob that is the user scenario.

srsly how is "right monitor main monitor left monitorsame resolution as right monitor just happens to be a monitor" an edge case that wasn't tested for, or "the wallpaper is gone" idk

May all of your future version upgrades be painless and not require reinstalls!

[delphonso]

Totally understand - I love the openness and being able to peruse the code of stuff I use on a daily basis (and completely not understand it, but still). Not to mention how clean it all feels. Very rarely does it do something I don't want it to - but when it does...my god. My blood pressure.

I suppose that's the downside - when things are customizable and generally malleable, you feel a level of control that gets shaken by insane bugs like...building everything off the wallpaper image (baffling decision) or Budgie's window resizing issue it now has (dragging a corner send the rest of the window into a jello-like frenzy making it impossible to accurately size windows as you'd like).

[ggamer]

In the middle of week three of no (insert legal grey area downer), and my very high stress kitchen job is driving me to pick up old drinking habits. Just last weekend I had to cancel what would have been a very very fun date with a guy from an old job, bc I couldn't have driven the hour across atlanta to go hang out w him after the atrocious shift I worked 😔.

We (the kitchen staff) got chewed out by a cna...

Sorry to hear fam. Food service is a very ____ field, hope you're managing 😬

At my job, Front of house employees or management losing food and shitting on me for it is definitely the cause of ratcheting blood pressure. I'm going to have to have the "yelling doesn't increase productivity, you fucking gunsel" talk mk. v with the management at this new job I'm at. As far as I'm aware getting better communication protocols in place and increasing morale are literally the only way to combat problems like that. Which are both hard when you have management that is used to solving problems by throwing tantrums 😅.

[Eric Blank]

It's getting shittier. Corporate has decided it costs too much to have the place fully staffed, so they're curring our hours. From now on we will only have one cook and one aide on evenings, two aides on days. So even less shit will get done.

Which smells a lot like what happened at the last place I worked, where corporate stepped in and said "You're not profitable enough, cut everyone's hours!" And everyone quit, because of course you're being worked harder but get less pay because you're there for shorter periods/fewer days, so they blamed it on lower level managers (my manager), who quit immediately, so they then blamed the ED and other administration staff and fired everyone. The viscious cycle of bad decisions starts anew.

Should I stay or should I go? Honestly I don't know if I'll survive, because it means this horrid understaffed state we've been in for the last two weeks is going to be permanent. On the one hand, I get three day weekends permanently. On the other, the four days a week I do work I'm working twice as hard because I will now have two jobs to do.

[Frumple]

I mean, it definitely sounds like a sign to start sending out employment applications elsewhere?

[Dunamisdeos]

I mean, it definitely sounds like a sign to start sending out employment applications elsewhere?

+1

[Frumple]

The waffledonut sandwich (a donut put between a couple eggos) was only okay. Not bad, but not particularly impressive, either. Alas...

[Bumber]

The waffledonut sandwich (a donut put between a couple eggos) was only okay. Not bad, but not particularly impressive, either. Alas...

Only the Double Down can truly be great.

[scriver]

The waffledonut sandwich (a donut put between a couple eggos) was only okay. Not bad, but not particularly impressive, either. Alas...

Keep pushing me, old man!