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  • 8 years ago
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    Level 7

    achensherd is now level 7 with 25,045 XP.

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  • 8 years ago
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    Red Eye Jedi

    Viewed 150/150 snaps! Congratulations achensherd on this achievement!

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  • 8 years ago
    Comment achensherd

    I didn't really even care about ads until I noticed some sites I frequented (e.g. Wikia) were so bogged down by them that sometimes they'd cause my computer to hang and/or Chrome to crash. Only then did I go, "Enough is enough!" and block them. I mean, seriously, maybe the advertisers don't care or have a clue, but the sites should know, right? Don't the people running them look at them from time to time to see how they're running, or do all the site owners have monster rigs and fat connections and don't notice the ads are making their sites nigh-unusable for people with lesser hardware and connections? Is the ad money for the large, resource-sucking ads that much better and/or worth the diminished user experience?

  • 8 years ago
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    Busy Bee

    Maintained a 7 day login streak 2/2 times! Congratulations achensherd on this achievement!

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  • 8 years ago
    Comment achensherd

    Yeah, I think that might have came later or in an update, because when I was trying to change it at the time I don't remember the interface providing or linking to any kind of formatting reference. The site you linked would've been mucho helpful.

  • 8 years ago
    Comment achensherd

    About the time format thing: I'm not against customization. Being able to make the time format look however you want is awesome. However, in my case, all I wanted to do was change the default 24-hour time format to a 12-hour one. That was it. And that took Googling "how to change time format in Linux Mint" and copying and pasting %a %b %e, %l : %M %p to do. Was that hard? No. But it wasn't intuitive (or at least it wasn't to me), and in my opinion shouldn't have been necessary for something like that.

  • 8 years ago
    Comment achensherd

    Apologies in advance for exuding some of the frustrations I've had with Linux in my comment below.

    As a Windows user who has tried to make Linux work both at home and at work, when it works it's a beautiful, fresh experience, but when it doesn't work is when it's a PITA that completely nullifies whatever free and open benefits it may have. And before anyone asks, the most recent experience I had was with Linux Mint 17 Qiana (hereafter referred to as LM), so it's not exactly one of those "you had a problem with Linux a long time ago; it's not like that now" situations.

    What broke it for me this most recent time? Printer support. LM detected my printer just fine, but getting it to print from it the first time was literally a nightmare. For whatever reason, asking it to tell the printer to print a one-page document caused it to spew out endless pages of hex characters. Why? Who knows. I then spent about an hour trying to make it stop doing that, which really tested my Google-fu because all I could find were user accounts of similar instances that occurred on prior versions of LM, with fixes that were no longer completely applicable or working.

    Eventually I did something with an ndiswrapper setting (after everything else had failed) and got the printer to work properly. All good now, right? Nope. It only printed, say, 90% of the time. That remaining 10%? The printer just sits there for no apparent reason and refuses to print until I power cycle it. Well, 90% is still pretty good, right? "A" for effort? Well, when Windows-anything can get it to print 100% of the time, anything less especially in an active work environment where people are waiting for documents to print is unacceptable.

    Well, that's just LM. You should've tried [insert distro name here]. Also, [insert your least favorite brand] printers are known to be dodgy with Linux in general. If you had a [insert your favorite brand] printer, you wouldn't have had to go through what you did. Lastly, ndiswrapper? Why would you do that? Newb mistake. All you had to do was open the command line and--

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    So, was that the only thing? That one printer experience? No, it did the same with the networked printer (different brand) in my boss's office, and I had a darn fun time explaining why her printer was spewing out endless pages of hex characters. Anyway, no, printer problems weren't all. Prior to trying out LM at work, I tried LM (16, I believe) at home, and there I was faced with not being able to login sometimes because all I'd get is a black screen and a blinking cursor. And yeah, there was a fix for that, but... just look at it from a Windows user's point of view. You're kicking my ass right at the door! I can't even turn the knob without using a command line!

    Damn it, Linux! I want to like you! I really do! I don't try to all-in with you at home or introduce you to my work for shits and gigs, but when I have to %a %b %e, %l : %M %p you just to make you give me the time in a format I'm familiar with, you done fucked up now!

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  • 8 years ago
    Level Up achensherd

    Level 6

    achensherd is now level 6 with 15,665 XP.

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    • Custom Banner You now have the ability to upload your own custom banner for any of your tribes.
    • Tribe Membership The maximum amount of tribes you can join has been raised by 5 to a total of 65.
    • Save Credits The maximum amount of save credits you can store has been raised by 2 to a total of 22.
  • 8 years ago
    Achievement achensherd

    Hat Trick

    Maintained a 3 day login streak 5/5 times! Congratulations achensherd on this achievement!

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  • 8 years ago
    Comment achensherd

    Customer service work. I'm done at the end of August. Then I'm going to be doing a different kind of customer service work (servicing clients as a paralegal), but at least it won't have anything to do with retail.