Nah, this was happening on our work network as well. TGR forums has some serious backend issues still.Quote:
Originally Posted by Thaleia
Printable View
Nah, this was happening on our work network as well. TGR forums has some serious backend issues still.Quote:
Originally Posted by Thaleia
My dad keeps sending me Medium articles even though I don't subscribe and can't read them (which I've told him). Today I reminded him I couldn't read an article he sent and he screenshotted it (on his phone) and texted it to me as a series of like a dozen screenshots. Trying to think of a nice way to say that I _could_ read it that way but I really don't want to.
Just be grateful that your dad is tech savvy enough to do that.Quote:
Originally Posted by dan_pdx
Medium article: "why some old people struggle with tech"
https://medium.com/technology-taxes-...h-4deba6a685e5
Sent from my SM-S901U using Tapatalk
Dang. That’s a great article. Prolly woulda been great to read this a while ago when I was dealing with my M-I-L who HATED change.
True, true. Not sure I could do it myself. Gotta teach him ctrl-A, ctrl-C, ctrl-VQuote:
Originally Posted by old goat
What is Medium? Never heard of it. The paywall popup makes it sound like I have to pay $5 month to read amateur scribbles from hacks and kooks.
An 80 year old has been using tech for 20 years or more. If they're having trouble it's not because they did things differently all their life. It's because their mind is going. And have you ever tried to text with arthritic fingers?Quote:
Originally Posted by toast2266
It's faster for me to just re-enter the site, at least on a laptop.Quote:
Originally Posted by PB
It's also annoying when the cursor stops working, but reloading the page fixes that. (But it doesn't work for the 45 second thing.
Lately I've been having intermittent problems loading web sites--sometimes have to reload once or twice. I've done all the troubleshooting--empty cache, etc--without any success. As best as I can tell the problem is at the ISP level, which is not surprising.
Pretty much, basically it's like paying to read TGR.Quote:
Originally Posted by riser4
TBF, there are some journalists, pundits, etc. on the platform that might be worth paying for, but I've never been interested enough to ante up.
I've got Norton on my phoneQuote:
Originally Posted by Thaleia
which version... 1.0 or 2.0?
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/...0,190,281_.jpg
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ER-zrk-UUAIZeSp.jpg
https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...fbbf8209fd.gifQuote:
Originally Posted by KQ
I haven’t used thr website in a while. Adblocker always. Tapatalk or THR app on the phone. There are some glitches but not awful. Adblock for Safari for real abusive websites.
That took some serious effort to come up with, but well worth it.Quote:
Originally Posted by m2711c
Can't they at least wait til Halloween? FFS
Attachment 501848
Sent from my Pixel 8 using Tapatalk
Our HD set up their Xmas display in September while they still had Halloween up too.
I took a walk last night through my neighborhood and was impressed with the amount of tacky Halloween shit people have out.
Don't you mean still have out?Quote:
Originally Posted by The AD
HD says it's Christmas season Bro.
I guess they bought the Halloween shit last month to make sure they had it before the HD switchover. To be honest I was amazed people had Halloween decorations up a full three weeks before Halloween. Remember the good old days when a couple jack-o-lanterns was sufficient?Quote:
Originally Posted by pfluffenmeister
Like back when Halloween was only for kids?Quote:
Originally Posted by The AD
That started in the 50's and ruined the holiday IMO. Can we take it back hundreds of years to the Samhain celebration and make it for pagan adults again? I want big Samghnagan bonfires with friends, cattle sacrificed, chats with dead grandparents, pies left on windowsills for the dead, death sentences for anyone committing a crime during the festival, some heavy drinking and lotsa feasts. I want to feast! Let's welcome the darker half of the year aka ski season with gluttony and alcoholism like our relatives did.Quote:
Originally Posted by Meadow Skipper
My birthday is Halloween, and I have always had mixed feelings about it. I appreciate the festivity, and general good will among neighbors. But the commercialism is gross.
I don’t love putting up and taking the crap down, but we do it as a family.
I will say, I have seen some epic concerts on my birthday!
That sounds like a lot of fun. I'll supply the cattle and pies.Quote:
Originally Posted by muted reborn
10/31/86 at the Kaiser was a top 10 for me.Quote:
Originally Posted by rideit
It's annoying when the house gets down to 60° and you go to kick the heat on and the furnace won't fire.
https://archive.ph/Quote:
Originally Posted by dan_pdx
Tell *him* to stick the URL in and send you the archive.ph link.Quote:
Originally Posted by skaredshtles
At a minimum it will keep him busy for awhile trying to figure it out.
:D
Agreed. The family fun is cool. The partying is cool. Eight foot inflatables spiders on your front lawn? A bit over the top.Quote:
Originally Posted by rideit
Why would home Depot carry so much of it if we're not supposed to buy it and put it up?!?!?
Halloween: the day kids put on masks, and adults take theirs off.
My wife took boxes of Halloween crap to the thrift last week. Bless her heart.
She can keep the uber-tacky Xmas stuff tho, because it pisses off the asshole neighbors. People in our neighborhood are very big on tasteful. We're not.
My Halloween annoyance is when people hang dummies up swinging from a noose. I’m a relatively well adjusted individual but that shit triggers me, I hesitate to call it PTSD, but I have some type of response to it. I can’t imagine someone putting a dummy in a chair with its head blown off and a pistol in its lap, or mommy laying in the driveway with an empty bottle of pills next to her, it just seems weird to me. Have fun and decorate however you want but understand it’s not the most awesome thing to see for a lot of people.
Ok, but real talk, cluster flies annoy me. I’ve spent hours caulking every crack I can find and applying poison inside and out, but those little fuckers still find their way in. At least they all die quickly now, but this time of year I vacuum up a pile of them every afternoon at the bottom of a few of my windows.
I forgot this annoying episode. During that really active northern light show Thursday night I went up to the top of the hill I live on to where it's an open north view. I wasn't the only one, there were 10 or more cars and people walking around. I guess this bothered people and the houses we were looking over started turning on all their lights then started flashing them :cussing: fukkers
Time to aim high beams in their front windows.,Quote:
Originally Posted by gravitylover
For some this was a bucket list kind of a night and then they go and do this? I’m really not of fan of people lately.Quote:
Originally Posted by gravitylover
My wife and I say something similar at least once a day.Quote:
Originally Posted by Buzzworthy
The blisterpack on Energizer CR3022 batteries. JFC. It's a wonder I'm not bleeding right now.
And if I was bleeding opening the damn band-aid package whilst bleeding always annoys me...but I know it just my stupidity.Quote:
Originally Posted by ötzi
Getting back from a five day backpacking trip in the Grand Canyon and wife tests + for the 'VID.
At least she didn't come down with it just before...