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Rant Thread
- Thread starter Duuuuuuuude
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but its a splendid idea
Work makes me change the PIN on my iphone every 90 days. Cant be one used previously. If I'm at my desk when I change it, I can write it down, but sometimes I'm out doing something and can not write it down. I changed the PIN last week and since I do not use this phone very much, of course I forgot the pin. I input too many wrong pins trying to figure it out, so it wiped itself.
Now to log in and set this thing up, I need the network password for my email. Here's where it gets more fuckin fun. I forgot that too. How can you forget something so important you might ask? Well, we can't use our name and password to log in. We have to use our ID card, which has a different pin (that never changes I might add). We change the network password once every 90 days or so and dont ever use it for anything else. So here I sit...can't change my network password because my phone is locked. Cant unlock my phone because I dont know the network password.
Now to log in and set this thing up, I need the network password for my email. Here's where it gets more fuckin fun. I forgot that too. How can you forget something so important you might ask? Well, we can't use our name and password to log in. We have to use our ID card, which has a different pin (that never changes I might add). We change the network password once every 90 days or so and dont ever use it for anything else. So here I sit...can't change my network password because my phone is locked. Cant unlock my phone because I dont know the network password.
hate password changes
Yeah... every damn thing is PIN#, ID#, password, multi-step verification, etc, etc. Sucks. Or in the case of my phone.. I miss just having a damn phone. Google is cancer.
Google's mantra when they started was "don't be evil". However, that didn't last too long when they realized that you cannot be a subversive data mining company and not be evil.
I love it when you are getting ready for a trip, and the day before you leave make sure all of your vital apps (house security, cameras, HVAC, etc...) are up to date, and that you can log into them. Without fail, the day after you leave, all of those apps dump a major update that require your user name and password, which you do not have.
First-world problem rant...
So... you have something you want to buy in mind. You take your time to do the research, you talk to people that have this item, you get your monies in place, you commit to the purchase, and when you go to pull the trigger you find out that every is out of stock for two months?
Yup, that is me with the VP Optic kit.
So... you have something you want to buy in mind. You take your time to do the research, you talk to people that have this item, you get your monies in place, you commit to the purchase, and when you go to pull the trigger you find out that every is out of stock for two months?
Yup, that is me with the VP Optic kit.
I don't understand Vanquish's desire to develop more products when they can't keep up with the demand of their current catalog...
I searched through 10 pages of eBay 1.9 beadlocks, lucked into the LAST 2 remaining sets of SSD Steel D-Hole wheels on 30% off, and from the same retailer their LAST 2 sets of Pro-Line Trenchers on 40% off, ordered them, got notified by USPS that they were delivered to my parcel locker, went down to mailbox to get the key for the locker - NOT there. Apartment has nothing to say, guess I'll be waiting in line at the post office to have them try to track them down - if they can't find them, I suppose I can file a claim - but it would just get my money back, and not get me the products I spent so much time searching for at those prices. Too good to be true!
Oh, yeah - and I found out something went wrong with my rent auto-pay (which usually pays out on the 28th of every month) - my complex waited until today to give me first notification that they had not gotten the money. I have no idea why it was only set up to pay out through April, so all I could do was bite the bullet, pay the late fee, and set up the auto-pay again - this time to go on until I manually turn it OFF! And we had heavy storms roll through this morning that knocked out my power TWICE while I was teleworking - once while I was on a call with a customer, helping with their IT issues. Argghh...
hnoroian
Rock Crawler
After years of finally reading all of this, this thread sucks.
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hnoroian
Rock Crawler
My Jeep was randomly getting the death wobble again. I've played with caster, toe, retorqued everything, changed tires, added sector shaft brace, installed Dynatrac balljoints, then even got a whole new axle due to my dealership's screw up. Each change might make it better for a while, then it would slowly start to come back.
Thinking back, it first occurred after a Moab trip. Right before that Moab trip, I installed a Synergy drag link and Fox steering stabilizer. I figured F it, I'll upgrade again. Bought a Cav Fab 2" aluminum setup with 2.5 ton tie rods, a Fox ATS adjustable stabilizer, a TMR Customs billet mount, and a stabilizer bolt kit, and alignment set from Metalcloak. I took all my measurements, removed the old Synergy setup, installed the Cav Fab stuff, torqued everything down, greased it, put in the cotter pins, bolted the stabilizer to the axle, and........F*^K!!!! Wrong bolt to attach stabilizer to mount. Its a proprietary bolt that TMR makes. Cost almost $60 after shipping and I wasted half a day since I had to revert back to the Synergy.
Last Friday I got the Cav Fab setup installed with the ATS. Drives much better and for now anyway, the bump steer and death wobble is gone.
Thinking back, it first occurred after a Moab trip. Right before that Moab trip, I installed a Synergy drag link and Fox steering stabilizer. I figured F it, I'll upgrade again. Bought a Cav Fab 2" aluminum setup with 2.5 ton tie rods, a Fox ATS adjustable stabilizer, a TMR Customs billet mount, and a stabilizer bolt kit, and alignment set from Metalcloak. I took all my measurements, removed the old Synergy setup, installed the Cav Fab stuff, torqued everything down, greased it, put in the cotter pins, bolted the stabilizer to the axle, and........F*^K!!!! Wrong bolt to attach stabilizer to mount. Its a proprietary bolt that TMR makes. Cost almost $60 after shipping and I wasted half a day since I had to revert back to the Synergy.
Last Friday I got the Cav Fab setup installed with the ATS. Drives much better and for now anyway, the bump steer and death wobble is gone.
I can't find my slipper eliminator plates! My own fault, with my messy desk havin' a**.
Bike shop rant...
More than any other hobby I have been in, bike shop sales people and mechanics automatically treat their customers like they haven't got a clue as to how a bike works, the parts that go on them, or how to use them.
- I went to two local bike shops looks for a chain stretch guage. Both places they told me what the tool does. This tool is fairly specific, and specialized to what it does, so if a custom comes in looking for one, it is a fairly safe be the customer knows what it does. This would be like going into Ace Hardware, asking for a plunger, and the sales guy telling what it does...
Speaking of Ace Hardware... Some Ace rants...
• The greeter creeps me out. I don't need someone in my face as soon as I walk it the door. I understand this is a corporate mandate, but it is still annoying as hell.
• Ace personifies the idea behind the brick-and-mortar fee. If it is a nut, bolt or bracket, they likely have it, but you are going to likely pay through the nose for it. Sure, you can buy it on line for a lot cheaper, but it you don't want to wait a week for it, you'll pay for it. 3mm and 4mm hardware is a great example, especially stainless. But, this is to be expected, and not my rant...
--- So, when you are looking for the right hand threaded, left handed monkey bolt, and you are searching all of the bins in Ace for it, it might seem comforting to have a sales associate offer some assistance. Now, if told them what you are looking for (or showed them, given you had one and needed more), and if they went right to the bin that had that part, all would be good. However, when you show them what you are looking for and they start scanning the bins, just like you were doing before the sales person showed up, that is VERY annoying.
• Last Ace rant, but this one might just be me... When talking about clear flexible tubing, I am used to calling it Tygon tubing as a general term, understanding that "Tygon" is, in fact, a company name. Whenever I ask for "Tygon tubing" in any Ace I have been in, they look at me as though I just asked for an XL can of half-inch double-lock monkey nuts.
More than any other hobby I have been in, bike shop sales people and mechanics automatically treat their customers like they haven't got a clue as to how a bike works, the parts that go on them, or how to use them.
- I went to two local bike shops looks for a chain stretch guage. Both places they told me what the tool does. This tool is fairly specific, and specialized to what it does, so if a custom comes in looking for one, it is a fairly safe be the customer knows what it does. This would be like going into Ace Hardware, asking for a plunger, and the sales guy telling what it does...
Speaking of Ace Hardware... Some Ace rants...
• The greeter creeps me out. I don't need someone in my face as soon as I walk it the door. I understand this is a corporate mandate, but it is still annoying as hell.
• Ace personifies the idea behind the brick-and-mortar fee. If it is a nut, bolt or bracket, they likely have it, but you are going to likely pay through the nose for it. Sure, you can buy it on line for a lot cheaper, but it you don't want to wait a week for it, you'll pay for it. 3mm and 4mm hardware is a great example, especially stainless. But, this is to be expected, and not my rant...
--- So, when you are looking for the right hand threaded, left handed monkey bolt, and you are searching all of the bins in Ace for it, it might seem comforting to have a sales associate offer some assistance. Now, if told them what you are looking for (or showed them, given you had one and needed more), and if they went right to the bin that had that part, all would be good. However, when you show them what you are looking for and they start scanning the bins, just like you were doing before the sales person showed up, that is VERY annoying.
• Last Ace rant, but this one might just be me... When talking about clear flexible tubing, I am used to calling it Tygon tubing as a general term, understanding that "Tygon" is, in fact, a company name. Whenever I ask for "Tygon tubing" in any Ace I have been in, they look at me as though I just asked for an XL can of half-inch double-lock monkey nuts.
89Industries
Quarry Creeper
Get the Pedro's chain checker. Bike shop isn't going to have one for sale anyway and will have to order it. Or the Shimano.
I'm with you on the hardware. I used to have a good Ace hardware with tons of the weird bolts and hardware and would go just to browse through the bins trying to help figure out ways I could design andmake stuff. Now my local ace with good selection has two even older guys than me who don't let people look in the drawers and will scold you if you dare to try. And they have no clue about metric hardware yet still try to tell me I'm wrong.
I'm with you on the hardware. I used to have a good Ace hardware with tons of the weird bolts and hardware and would go just to browse through the bins trying to help figure out ways I could design andmake stuff. Now my local ace with good selection has two even older guys than me who don't let people look in the drawers and will scold you if you dare to try. And they have no clue about metric hardware yet still try to tell me I'm wrong.
