What Irked You Today?

[JollySipper]

On 10/1/2025 at 10:39 PM, JollySipper said:

Napster is a shadow of it's formally awesome self here lately...... The name of the company has changed hands a bunch of times in the last few years, each company kinda making it their own. It's most recently been rejoined with it's parent company, but it's being sued for royalties right now........ I was wondering why my listening history showed the correct songs, but not them being from the correct album. It would show the album being some compilation of sorts, like "90s Hits!" or "Classic Rock!" or some sort of album name. I guess they were using a legal loophole to skip out on a bunch of royalties.....

It's funny, they have all of Metallica's albums, it seems...........

So, I have learned that Napster is getting an overhaul....... They are making it 'more AI driven' according to articles. It's funny, I had a question about something so I sent them an  email. The response I got was robo-generated and didn't even answer my question! Hopefully they'll get it together....... On the plus side, I'll get to learn how to interact with the AI, which might come in handy elsewhere. 

[Rob Hall]

Didn't realize Napster still existed... 

[JollySipper]

Yep! It's no longer a file-sharing app, it's a music streaming site now! It's been a great service up until very recently.........

Edited Thursday at 05:23 PM by JollySipper

[89AKurt]

3 hours ago, Rob Hall said:

I dropped Verizon 5 years ago after almost 20 years with them.   Mint Mobile (a T-Mobile company) is way cheaper per month, only drawback is I have poor signal in some rural areas. 

I would love to, but I live in rural AZ, and there are still some areas where NOBODY gets a signal because of no tower.

Took only 3 trips down the highway to the analog store with kids working there (let the jokes about me being technically challenged begin), used their land line phone to talk to someone in Asia, managed to get my phone turned back on.  Verizon totally screwed up. 🤬  At one point I needed to recall the four digit number when I got my account decades ago, somehow I pulled out the number, it was the license plate number for the car I had at the time!  Otherwise I would be SOL.  Good thing I don't live way out of town, or have to rely on it for work.

[slusher]

fell Monday im really sore was checked out by paramedics who helped me get up..⬆️ 

[Ace-Garageguy]

Ran out of argon-CO2 mix this AM.

There's another not-my-MIG in the shop but I don't want to tie it up or run back and forth getting it for intermittent work, so I came home to check the two bottles here, and if they're flatlined, I'll have to get the bottle from my other MIG at the other shop.

Just don't want to have to pay for a full fill right now.

So...I think I'll eat my sammidge sitting down for a change.   

Edited Thursday at 07:10 PM by Ace-Garageguy
punctiliousness

[johnyrotten]

2 hours ago, Ace-Garageguy said:

Ran out of argon-CO2 mix this AM.

At least it's not 4:30 on a Friday. 

[Ace-Garageguy]

Pretty much swore off buying anything on eBay unless absolutely necessary, but tried it today and the stupid tinkering and "fixing" things continues unabated.

I will never understand why so much effort by idiots with no clue is put into "improving" things that worked just fine before...

But that seems to be pretty much where we are as a society now.

[Tim W. SoCal]

In the U.S, at least, it used to be that planned obsolescence of a product was looked at as a crime. Now, thanks to PC technology, planned obsolescence seems to have besieged everything including repair and maintenance parts for current model cars that were produced by the millions.

[Tim W. SoCal]

On 10/24/2025 at 9:27 AM, Ace-Garageguy said:

I will never understand why so much effort by idiots with no clue is put into "improving" things that worked just fine before...

In attempt to "legitimize" and "justify" their jobs so they will continue to receive their paychecks...