What grinds your gears?

[Retardobot]

Exterior is buggered.

Has cracks and in some places greenery growing from it halfway up.

Water would run down the front and then come back in the window frames because the roof is flat and nothing on the edge of the roof to guide the water away from just running directly down the front. How'd he fix this? Have the roofer seal the gaps with filler, locking in the moisture, clever move...

Interior is just as stuffed. Black mould would collect on the wallpaper, if you touched it and smelled your hand it'd smell like you just stroked a wet dog that rolled in its own shit. Cracks in the roof that have actually sagged, we had resigned ourselves to coming back to a house that had a collapsed roof after a huge deluge soon after we moved in.

Water stains on wallpaper that got in through the shitty roof:


Black mould build up on the curtains:


One of the roof leaks. This is also sagging quite a bit:


And how most of the window frames were. This is in the bathroom so you can imagine that the entire frame has probably rotted from the inside out:

[Pitchey]

Have expressed an interest and asked for Builders Report so lets see what he does.

[Pyromanik]

Price by negotiation? Give 'm  a fiddy for the land. House is worthless.

[Retardobot]

I wouldn't care if the guy was a little more transparent and was just trying to get rid of it for the land, but the plot is tiny as it had been subdivided recently and the description in the auction is just pure bullshit. He's trying to pull a fast one.

[Pyromanik]

Over the air updates that 1) Don't announce their volatility 2) brick your phone 3) erase all your data while it's at it.

[Apostrophe Spacemonkey]

Over the air updates that 1) Don't announce their volatility 2) brick your phone 3) erase all your data while it's at it.

It's a security feature.

[Pyromanik]

I thought I could still get all the data from recovery, since all the apps and their data dirs were still there. The phone didn't boot because of an incompatible install (API update that wasn't made obvious on update info). Fixed that via recovery... So now I've finally got a chance, I find that most of the dirs are devoid of info. fuckers. An update isn't supposed to wipe data.

Still got contacts. SMS eventually imports (took a couple of days for some fucked up reason). But everything else is goneburger.
Thankfully all photos stored on external flash.

[Apostrophe Spacemonkey]

You have data on your phone?

All mine is in the cloud. I thought this was normal.

[Retardobot]

Just don't do a cry-baby and complain that someone hacked the cloud and stole all your dick-pic shots.

[toofast]

You have data on your phone?

All mine is in the cloud. I thought this was normal.

Yea same. Been burned before with damaged phones no longer booting, and making it impossible to recover data.

[Pyromanik]

Not everything goes into the cloud.

Also, drivers from a vendor coming unsigned. Morons.

[Xenolightning]

Don't keep important shit on your phone.

I carry a physical contact book with me at all times, I also print out important emails.

[Apostrophe Spacemonkey]

Just don't do a cry-baby and complain that someone hacked the cloud and stole all your dick-pic shots.

Don't need to steal them, I give them away.

I also print out important emails.

Then fax them.

[Pyromanik]

Don't keep important shit on your phone.

I carry a physical contact book with me at all times, I also print out important emails.

None of it was important. But I still lament it's loss.

I could have had some kind of backup service I guess (custom rom caveat emptor), but it's more a cry at shit OTA updates. Apparently if I'd had a different recovery installed it MIGHT have been ok. An in any case the last thing I'd have expected it to do is wipe all the stored info from apps that weren't contacts or sms. Maybe stop reading old version DB's or whatever, or fail to run because of some outdated API call, but not flat out remove the data (and only the data, apps all fine) from disk. Weird as fuck. But what's done is done :<

[Pyromanik]

Then fax them.

Had an incompentent head of IT boss couldn't even operate the photocopier, and faxed shit to himself.

[Pyromanik]

Windows update sucks a fat wad.

[Retardobot]

The Windows 10 update system is now a fucking joke.

I have to dig through the god damn HDD to find it to begin with, and when you find it, it over simplifies what the hell is going on.

[Apostrophe Spacemonkey]

I have to dig through the god damn HDD to find it to begin with,

I don't understand this.

[Pyromanik]

Windows 7 updated itself to a point where it can no longer check for updates.

And of course being windows update, it takes like 20 sequential runs to actually update a machine, it can't do it all at once.

So now I've a half updated system with a broken update mechanism. And the microsoft methods of fixing this (for which there are more than FIVE) all result in ... the same state.

I managed to manually install the patch I needed to get the G15 drivers working though, so that's ok. Motherfucker can stay broken. Every time I run it it bleeds the system of RAM until the entire thing grinds to a hault.

Fuck windows.

[Xenolightning]

I have to dig through the god damn HDD to find it to begin with,

I don't understand this.

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[Xsannz]

Windows 7 updated itself to a point where it can no longer check for updates.

And of course being windows update, it takes like 20 sequential runs to actually update a machine, it can't do it all at once.

So now I've a half updated system with a broken update mechanism. And the microsoft methods of fixing this (for which there are more than FIVE) all result in ... the same state.

I managed to manually install the patch I needed to get the G15 drivers working though, so that's ok. Motherfucker can stay broken. Every time I run it it bleeds the system of RAM until the entire thing grinds to a hault.

Fuck windows.

try the latest fast ring windows 10 build.. games broken because you cant switch between windows and fullscreen mode which pretty much all games do at launcg, drivers and video stuff keep uninstalling and forgettign they even existed,  fun times.

[Pyromanik]

Windows > 7 = NOPE

Time for MS to port office to *nix

[Apostrophe Spacemonkey]

Windows > 7 = NOPE

Time for MS to port office to *nix

Just upgrade already.

Windows 10 is great.

[Lias]

I'm with the monkey.

Windows 10 is great, and stable if you stick to the mainstream releases.

The broken one xssanz is talking about is the fast ring of the insider program (basically it's an Alpha version)

The release cycle looks something like this:
MS build test group  -> MS Systems Group -> MS internal (everyone) -> Windows Insiders (Fast Ring) -> Windows Insiders (slow Ring) -> Current Branch -> Current Branch for Business -> Long Term Servicing Branch

The slowest two (CBB and LTSB) are only available to business/enterprise customers, CB is "normal" windows 10, WI(SR) is "public beta" and WI(FR) is "public alpha".

[Craigor]

I should dust off my computer at home and upgrade it to windows 10...

but effort...