My approach to politics is USUALLY to boost voices I agree with and only speak on a subject if I have something I can talk about from a lived experience standpoint. I should... uh. Stick to that.
@97c2a106@cad8c0ef@5f94e68c Really not a fan of the fact I have to load their bloated-ass app for my current mouse to use the desired DPI. (another symptom of enshittification)
@c61e5f87@cad8c0ef oh, heck, HP is a GREAT example of enshittification. They used to be reputable. Their printers were *tanks*, they were *standard* in offices and computer labs. Now they're a waste of the materials used to create components, and have been for at least the past decade.
@364db023@420f26f4 I've noticed that mastodon seems to be significantly more vitriolic than twitter and I'm wondering if that's a dilution thing (I follow a ton of art accounts on twitter so Disk Horse is comparatively a smaller chunk of it) or if people are just genuinely more pissed off here. Or if it's a block thing; I was part of a block list on twitter for awhile that blocked everything trans-hostile.
@364db023@420f26f4 I vibe with the bit about the civility trap for that exact reason - i felt the thing snap shut on me in that thread.
Seeing a chunk of highly radioactive debris in my feed originating from an account I had until that point trusted has been a real "what's going on here?" moment.
Realizing I probably have the charm to do CSR work if it paid well and wasn't high pressure (hah, hah) and that, parallel to that, my writing skills and professional habits with regards *to* my writing skills add up to technical writing being a career path I should look into.
For how my mind works, the actual talking-to-a-human was the good part. Not "fun" but gratifying in the sense that progress was being made quickly and answers were immediate.
The tough part was the research I needed to bring together to make the call (which the owner did, and I collated) and the mapping and exploration I needed to do of the CA DMV phone system to get to the callback prompt.
Waiting for the callback is usually my idea of hell, but in this case it's not an "I need this fixed to live" matter for me like it was with uhaul last month and the month before, and I've had the #FFXivWrite2023 prompt to work on, so fortunately the time passed smoothly.
Todays moment of validation: CC'ed the house owner on a DMV thing, and while writing the summary-of-the-call email, received a text saying "That must have been a very annoying phone call."
For how my mind works, the actual talking-to-a-human was the good part. Not "fun" but gratifying in the sense that progress was being made quickly and answers were immediate.
The tough part was the research I needed to bring together to make the call (which the owner did, and I collated) and the mapping and exploration I needed to do of the CA DMV phone system to get to the callback prompt.
@b37cd0cf I've played it and the base game is really just kind of a condom for the DLC, so if it's your kind of game, then a bundle that includes a lot of it (and there is a LOT of it) at a reasonable price is a good way into it.
@420f26f4 (passing judgement on an entire group of people on the basis of a handful of 4chan users is... fash tactics, right out of the fash playbook.)
Today in house sitting: digging up an email I wrote yesterday as it included a detailed sequence of actions taken to navigate the CDMV phone system. I remember *none* of that at this point beyond "I wrote it down."
Thing is I think I know the option I want but I'm not *sure* as what I'm dealing with is a process that got quirked. I'm not initiating a process. A human could probably clear this up in a few seconds. If I could figure out how to route to one.
Follow-up thing is: I've dealt with the PA and MO DMVs. In person. This is *very* outside of my wheelhouse, so even with a flowchart sketched out and (hopefully) all relevant data in front of me I'm still easily flustered/discouraged. The unfamiliarity is, honestly, overwhelming.
Third attempt:
DMV: How can I help you?
Me: I'd like to speak to a human?
DMV: How can I help you? (at intervals); system eventually gives up and asks me if I'd like to speak to a team member.
List of seven options (1-6, 9), can't figure out what's applicable. System repeats the menu a couple of times then gets impatient with me and hangs up.
Thing is I think I know the option I want but I'm not *sure* as what I'm dealing with is a process that got quirked. I'm not initiating a process. A human could probably clear this up in a few seconds. If I could figure out how to route to one.
First attempt: get to a callback prompt menu. No idea how that happened; wish I could find it again as my brain stalled and I hung up.
Second attempt:
DMV: expert system rattles off a phone number that sounds like it might be useful.
Me: Can you repeat that number?
DMV: gives me a sermon about occupational licensing.
DMV: How can I help you?
Me: Not like that!
DMV: repeats sermon on occupational licensing.
Third attempt:
DMV: How can I help you?
Me: I'd like to speak to a human?
DMV: How can I help you? (at intervals); system eventually gives up and asks me if I'd like to speak to a team member.
List of seven options (1-6, 9), can't figure out what's applicable. System repeats the menu a couple of times then gets impatient with me and hangs up.
Today in house sitting (in Oregon, just to be clear): I'm about to... call the California DMV...?
(The why of this is boring and mostly revolves around time zones. It very much wasn't on my bingo card for this week.)
First attempt: get to a callback prompt menu. No idea how that happened; wish I could find it again as my brain stalled and I hung up.
Second attempt:
DMV: expert system rattles off a phone number that sounds like it might be useful.
Me: Can you repeat that number?
DMV: gives me a sermon about occupational licensing.
DMV: How can I help you?
Me: Not like that!
DMV: repeats sermon on occupational licensing.
@c626eb92@a8c07846 that wouldn't surprise me at all, honestly. My first weekend was the best high of my entire life; my baseline craving for total consciousness obliteration ceased and I felt like I was finally actually drug-free for the first time in my life. (despite having dried out six years earlier)
There's nothing like enduring multiple hours of inescapable sensory overload to make you wish you could warn past you just how much misery you're in for.
A big downside of overloaded ears being jammed into full-on ramscoop mode is that I can hear the dog barking outside, through the wall, beneath the audio file I'm trying to use to cover up the noise.
At one point back in the day I could hear a toilet running in another room under three fans set on maximum speed and VLC set loud enough to hear over the fans.
It might be time for earplugs.
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