What grinds your gears?

[Lightspeed]

Originally Posted by MadMax

Christmas day 2022 my mitsi 380 sprayed coolant all over the engine bay as a result of a stuck thermostat.

Christmas day 2023 the temp gauge is going up n down

I'm travelling next weekend

My mitsi only breaks down when I'm on a date. 🤷

[MadMax]

So, reliable?

[MadMax]

Radiator shop found blown head gasket. Have had the car for maybe 18 months. Replacement thermostat was done while still under mechanical warranty.

[StN]

Quiz night last night.

Tie breaker question was :

How many days is a year on Venus?

I indicated <1.

Lady comes up - "What number do you want here?"

StN "Less than 1"

Lady "It needs to be a number"

StN "Ok, round it up to 1..."

Lady "You want 1?"

StN "Yeah".

Answer provided : 224.

Oh, you Terran centric primate, you meant how many Earth days in a Venusian year?

FFS.

A Venusian sidereal day is retrograde 243 Earth days. That is the slowest rotation of any planet and indeed longer than a Venusian year of 224 Earth days. 224/243 ~ 0.9218

[wazza]

haha

[MadMax]

This gimp at work that’s so incompetent, I feel like he’s bullying me with his stupidity. Or if I’m not bullying him with all the detail I need to keep sending him?

Me: A printer is down - do you know about it? Here’s a screenshot (showing errored print jobs and a non responding web interface). Log a fault as you’ll have the serial number

Gimp:you can get the serial number from the web interface.

[Ab]

Stoolie is nerd of the day!

[Ab]

Oh fuck you

https://www.npr.org/2024/04/01/12420...search-history

Google will destroy the private browsing history of millions of people who used "incognito" mode in its Chrome browser as a part of a settlement filed to federal court on Monday in a case over the company's secret tracking of web activity.

[StN]

April 1st must be a horrendous sate when being in PR when you have a juicy story that can't wait a day.

[Cyberbob]

I'd love a little collection of "Big Tech are actually all evil assholes" where we find out about them doing something stupidly unethical, but only find out about it because they're now stopping to do it.

Google Will Stop Providing Law Enforcement Data on Which Users Were Near a Crime

Uber says it has ended its tracking of users after they complete their rides

Facebook will no longer psychological experiment on users by filtering their feed to make people feel more positive or negative

[MadMax]

^ wasn't there a story of a courier driver that happened to be in the same location of some crime in Aussie and ended up being accused of it?

I can't find the example atm, aside from one in Florida who was jailed for 6 days. In this case, he'd borrowed the actual murderer's phone to look for work and used it to sign in to his "gmail" account. That just raises more questions.