Finally, I have something serious to complain about. I don’t remember the last time it was so blindingly obvious that the world is completely filled with idiots. There’s a thing going around the world called the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19). It’s severity is about the same as a cold. Maybe a flu. And the world …
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Short version: Walmart Photo took my money, did not print the photos I asked for, and flat-out refused to either give me back my money or print the missing photos. Long version: I went on an awesome, long trip in the summer. It resulted (after filtering) in 400 photos. Which, after shopping around, I printed …
Continue reading Walmart Photo shamelessly ripped me offI usually cringe and avoid the people who (primarily out of ignorance) talk about how bad communism was, how crazy governments in south america are, how terrible it must be to live in China. I don’t engage in those conversations because I’m the only one who’s actually experienced what they’re complaining about, and it’s pointless …
Continue reading Your government is not better than any otherThere are licence agreements, disclaimers, waivers, and other such crap that exists because there are lawyers, who later become judges. I get that and I don’t know of a solution for it, that’s not what this post is about. It’s about this, which I just received in the mail from Enbridge (from a flyer about …
Continue reading Can we stop with the benevolent bullshit please?I was looking for a script like this and for some reason was unable to find one. I’m sure every sysadmin has something like this, but maybe not. It’s helpful for cases when you have only one server without any kind of load balancing and one day it simply runs out of memory (or disk …
Continue reading Monitor linux server memory/filesystems and email/reboot when lowThis sewing machine came with the house I bought, and it came with a manual. But it’s missing the bobbin case. I couldn’t find any information about it, not who made it, not where to get parts, nothing. But I found someone who really wanted the manual, cause they had the machine with no manual. …
Continue reading Beaumark 2300, 3100, and 3300 sewing machine manualI don’t think I need add anything to this comedic manual page from my sewing machine: Too bad it doesn’t have an entry for the actual problem – missing bobbin case.. but maybe I can guess.. replace bobbin case? :)
Continue reading Awesome troubleshooting guide from a past ageI’m going to Moscow in a couple of months, and we bought the tickets a while ago. More recently I’ve randomly discovered that I need a visa to travel to Russia. I’m glad I know people who know these things, it would have been very annoying to arrive there and be told we’re not allowed …
Continue reading How to get a tourist visa to travel to Russia from CanadaI figured at some point after heartbleed (after sites had time to get themselves patched) I should change all my passwords for valuable services. I’m doing that now and I was shocked by a couple where it wouldn’t let me change my password because the new one was too complex :) The last time I …
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