Technological/practical "backward steps" we all just accept now

uh, peloton?

at two libraries recently i have had to view microfilm on a new gizmo that's plugged into a computer.

I have to explain to people how to use these days every day btw.

lord, i'm sorry.

mention of treadmills reminds me how my efforts to get a real cheap basic pair of earbuds for the gym went awry, when the ones i bought turned out to have some little track forward/advance button somewhere along the cord, which would get jogged by the swinging motion of said cord when i was moving on the elliptical machines. this would trigger the movie i was watching on my tablet to pause and/or start over.

Kindle - footnote links

the fucking ability to mail everyone in your organisation by pressing the wrong fucking button once

No viral epidemic has ever spread with such speed and intensity as the email which has been mistakenly sent to 500 people and subsequently 'reply all'-ed by 200 of those people.

that's how radioshack went bankrupt iirc

I am beyond thankful that there are more steps involved at my place.

The last time someone did that, the server almost went down due to 3,000 replies of "take me off this thread" and people replying all to tell everybody to stop replying all.

I had to create a filter to send the emails to the trash bin for an entire day

oh jesus the first response is from the sec gen

right im off to the fuckin pub fuck this

Just be grateful that you are not the lady in my workplace who somehow managed to copy the entire department on an email about mashing her husband's face into her boobs.

wow bragging

Okay, yes, it was me. Me and my wonderful boobs.

3,000 replies of "take me off this thread" and people replying all to tell everybody to stop replying all.

seen this happen several times too. it's good to know there's ppl dumb as rocks yet still managed to not be fired by my employer. setting that bar wayyyy low.

P sure there are rocks functioning at a level that would outpace some of my esteemed coworkers.

please remove me from this thread thks

mick, it looks like you may have replied all by mistake. In future, please only reply all intentionally, as I have with my response to you. Thx.

I'm not sure this thread was for me

Rhonda???????

STOP CLICKING REPLY ALL

lmao silby

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_storm

Kindle - footnote links

― Ste, Thursday, 5 December 2019 14:20 bookmarkflaglink

jfc i am ready to do violence after trying to handle that shit. good call.

please, i know people have said this already, but can people plaese stop replying to this thread as its clogging up my inbox thx!

lol

/Kindle - footnote links

― Ste, Thursday, 5 December 2019 14:20 bookmarkflaglink/

jfc i am ready to do violence after trying to handle that shit. good call.

xxxp the email storms where people just joined in on the chaos by sending broccoli and pizza recipes... that's the good stuff

STOP REPLYING ALL GODDAMMIT

no the world needs more horny emails

Rhonda's alive?

didn't we expense flowers to her memorial?

xp Kindle footnotes... are they not in a little popup box when you click the number in the text? Or, worst case, take you to the long note with a back button for where you were? If not, you're probably dealing with a file not properly formatted for your reader. Calibre could probably make it behave. But yeah it's all a lot of messing around ennit

Ingredients

APPLE FILLING

2 lb / 1kg Granny Smith Apples( green apples), weight before peeling1 tbsp white flour1/2 cup / 110g white sugar2 tbsp lemon juice (or water)1/2 tsp ground cinnamon

TOPPING

1 cup / 90g cup rolled oats / oatmeal (quick cooking is ok)1 cup / 150g white flour1 cup / 175 g brown sugar (loosely packed)1/2 tsp baking powder1 tsp cinnamon powder1/2 cup / 125g unsalted butter, meltedPinch of salt

TO SERVE

Vanilla ice cream

Instructions

Preheat oven to 350F/180C.

Peel apples, then cut into 1.5cm/ 3/5” cubes.

Place apple in a bowl. Sprinkle with flour, sugar and cinnamon, then pour over lemon juice. Toss, then spread out evenly I'm a 1.5 litre/1.5 quart baking dish. 

Place Topping ingredients in a bowl. Mix until clumps form, like wet sand (see video). Spread over the apples, crumbling with fingers if required to get that crumbly topping.

Bake for 30 to 40 minutes or until golden brown. Remove, cover loosely with foil to keep warm and let stand for 10 minutes before serving (let's the apple filling come together).

Serve warm with vanilla ice cream!

after one of those mass email debacles someone in IT always needs to do fun metrics on the incident.

"emailing you all this survey, pls reply back to me with the reason you hit reply all on the last email storm"

yeah, footnotes on a kindle seem fine? you click and they appear? Seems like an improvement to physical books for me, where it's much easier to lose track of where you were when looking at a footnote. Though now this is making me wonder what reading Infinite Jest on a kindle is like.

xxxp

__born stupid
__became stupid (drugs/alcohol/head injury/lab experiment/etc)
__troll
__all the cool kids were doing it
__unable to control body (ie, you're a "spaz". requires doctor's note)

Xpost Lotsa dimples in the Kindle

To: Grannistopher Percival Danger
CC: company mailing list

Mr Dainger, you were meant to send your reply to just me, but you have instead replied all. Also you did not checkba box.

BUY A KOBO AND STOP EMAILING ME

ALL HANDS MEETING, MANDATORY, 10AM FRIDAY
RE: REPLY ALL EMAIL FW: STOP REPLYING FW: THIS IS CRAZY
MICROSOFT TEAMS INVITE FORTHCOMING

WHAT TIME ZONE?

Atlantic

halifax fat cats

im in IT

it was....a survey

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_storm

― DJI

"An email storm (also called a reply allpocalypse)"...

missed opportunity to find some use for the phrase "reply alpaca"

The Reply to all debacle is similar to people on Twitter tweeting about 'X' saying "omg can't believe X is trending please stop talking about X"

re the kindle footnotes, it's usually the tiniest of asterisks that I have to click. And so I guess fat fingers or small fonts are to blame. Also in a real book I don't have to click anything!!!

(I'm talking about the notes that appear at the bottom of a page, as opposed to the ones you have to jump to the back of a book for btw)

ok this is kind of cool. my kid's home sick, on the couch under a blanket, and i'm wfh. he's listening to radio 4 through the alexa. it's desert island discs and one of the choices was public enemy 'rebel without a pause' and my kid goes 'alexa, play songs by public enemy' - suddenly 'fight the power' is on. that's pretty rad.

When I first got my alexa i used to get up in the morning and shout Alexa play some jazz!

tracer yr kid is now on an international terrorism watch list, sorry to report

I still treasure the memory of the day in my first IT job that someone moderately important emailed the entire organisation (presumably accidentally) a video of themselves skydiving, naked

btw this was in the 90s when video files were large (video compression in its infancy and not the default option for home video editing software) and network bandwidth was not - the entire infrastructure ground to a halt all day and people trying to check their email over dialup became very irate