This idiot posts a video of himself trying to work on his truck. Sticks his fingers right near the belt which could rip off his nail or mangle and shred his finger. Even dumber is he's wearing a glove while doing this, making it more likely to get snagged. Morons like this should just pay a mechanic, if he is a mechanic, he's a liability for the shop. 

   

https://www.reddit.com/r/MechanicAdvice/...ner_issue/

Complains about delivery services while continuing to give them money. Order's takeout and pays to have it delivered while claiming they are barely scraping by. Says food is delivered on a Escooter, complains it's not hot then proceeds to go back and double the courier's tip. Decides to make a Reddit post about it. 

https://www.reddit.com/r/Vent/comments/1...ecropping/

   

Some of these tech companies are worse than a stage five clinger or an ex who wont leave you alone. 

Ebay sends me an email asking me to "Sign in to keep my account"

"We noticed it’s been a while since you last signed in.

We plan to close your account to help keep your personal information safe. If you want to keep your account, all you need to do is sign in within the next 30 days."

Okay fine, so I try to sign in, and pretty sure it's the same computer I signed in last time btw and they hit me with this. 

   

They want me to fucking call them! No verification email? No SMS? I'm actually happy they're not asking me to setup 2FA but they want me to fucking call them? Really?

I think I'd rather let them close my account and I'll just open a new one if I ever actually need it again. Easier solution!

If you work at Ebay, I advise you to either find another job or maybe just kill yourself becuase it seems like the platform is dying. Did I mention they ruined Kijiji too?

Welcome to anyone that may stumble upon this forum. We are The Dead Internet Society. 

Obviously it is a play off a combination of the 1989 cult classic, 'Dead Poets Society', starring the beloved Robin Williams and The Dead Internet Theory. Not something I full prescribe to but nonetheless interesting. 

Are you tired of social media and the constant reposts on Reddit?. Moronic posts, bots, trolls, ads. People arguing with each other and both of them are wrong. I miss the oldschool forums, when threads went on for days and years.

So I set this up and I'll be customizing it and attempting to populate it with some seed content. Maybe someone besides bots or malicious actors will join and help by contributing. Maybe it will just be me and I'll loose interest, like most projects. 

Just thought I would write about this Dell Optiplex I acquired for free because it wasn't working. It wouldn't post on Display Port. I also had to do some other troubleshooting but I was delighted when I realized it has an i7 3370 3.4 Ghz CPU. 

The long story short here is if you have a Dell Optiplex or similar that you think is good but it wont post on Display Port, you're going to need a VGA cable and a monitor with VGA input to change the BIOS settings. For some reason, pulling the CMOS battery and/or booting it with the reset jumper removed, didn't seem to clear whatever was not allowing it to post and boot on Display Port. Here's a link if you want to try that.

I got a VGA cable from work, connected it to an old LCD TV I still have with a VGA port and boom, it posted and I could get into the BIOS configuration page. I'm not sure exactly what did it but I reset to defaults, then in the video section I switched it from "auto" (you would think this would work) to "Intel HD 4000". The CMOS battery removal or jumper should have reset to default so I think for some reason it seems telling it to specfically use the onboard graphics chip, it forced it to ouput the video signal to the right place, the Display Port. 

It also might be worth mentioning at first it didn't post on one of the display ports, I moved it to the second port, rebooted and then I saw the spash screen. 

This is something many of us have done 1000 times, except still, with some maufacturers, it's not straight forward.

I was working on a laptop, truing to get into the BIOS or boot menu to reinstall Linux Mint. I must have rebooted it a dozen fucking times before I got into the BIOS. Anyone else get irriated about this shit sometimes?

Usually it's pretty easy, sometimes when you reboot, the spash screen at post is quick but it will still tell you, hit F12 for BIOS, or Delete. Othertimes, and in this case it was a quick flash "ASUS" and it doesn't tell you what to hit and if your not fast enough, it moves to startup. 

So I reboot and I'm hitting F12 and then Delete, nope, and can't CTRL ALT Delete now so there is the desktop. Okay reboot, try it again, nope, too slow I guess, or I'm hitting the wrong one first. Desktop again...welll at least the boot time is fast on this machine (way faster than my last desktop, that's another story..).

At one point I was trying F2 as well, just to see if I can get to the Boot Menu but that didn't seem to work either.

Alright I better Google to see exactly what key I need to press. It could be Del, F12, F2, Google even says sometimes it's Esc. It would be nice if everyone could just agree on one fucking key. 

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Anyways it's not even a big issue, it's just another thing you have to Google that you really shouldn't have to, just tell me what key it is at the spash screen and I would have it first try. Maybe I can be a bit dumb, unprepared or rushed but I've installed Windows and Linux probably 1000 times by now. I really shouldn't have to be rebooting and hitting random keys a dozen times before I can get a boot menu or BIOS.

/end rant