I would never in a million years purchase or play a fishing video game but if a nonfishing video game has fishing in it (AC, Zelda, Harvest Moon, some mmos) I will fish in that game all the live long day. I am a fishing fiend in nonfishing video games. And i will still never, ever buy an actual fishing game. Ever. 🤷
fan saga (2/2)
10/15 - GPU fan arrives. This is not the part they were supposed to send so it does me no good. I call back and they say they'll overnight the correct part so it'll arrive by today.
10/17 - I still don't have a tracking number because they haven't shipped the damn part which means that it's impossible for this to arrive before I need to leave for the airport and I'm stuck with this problem for an extra 2 weeks (at least).
I am not happy with how System76 has handled this.
So here's the time line on the fan saga: (1/2)
10/5 - Fan starts failing in the morning. I call System 76 tech support. They agree that it's a bad CPU fan that needs to be replaced. I'm up front about my upcoming travel and the need to get this dealt with before I leave the country but that's still far enough off that it should be fine.
10/10 - I still don't have a tracking number and someone on the support ticket suggests not sending the part until I'm back. The shipment had already gone out.
@neal In that spirit, here's a cat @kit_ty_kate found in the Marrakesh airport, which humans cannot enter without a valid boarding pass (or piece of paper which states that one is entitled to a boarding pass on entering the airport). We saw the cat in a room which humans can't enter without a passport.
Maybe the hotel will have a cat for me. I stayed in a place like that once (cat showed me the way to my room on check in, sometimes tried to get into the room when I was heading out, had to let it in from the balcony once and am not sure how it ended up out there, and it hung out with me in the lobby while waiting for the ride back to the airport).
why organize tech workers?
> why organize? don't you, as a software dev, get paid enough?
1. no, i don't
2. without my knowledge or consent, things i've made have killed people, and my only options were to shrug or quit
3. work should not give you PTSD
4. worker rights and communal welfare is about more than pay. it's about power dynamics, accountability, representation, and taking the craft back from the profiteers who readily dispose of us
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