AThing4String

@AThing4String@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨if you quit a job you didn't like or was toxic, didn't the financial hit scare you?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like everyone deserves at least one job related “fuck you” style moral victory in their lives and that qualifies for sure.

  For me it was when the WORST manager I have ever had called me back a year after I quit to ask me to come work for her again and got to laugh in her face and tell her I’d have happily accepted half the pay at her place to scrub toilets as long as it wasn’t working with her, but instead I was making double what she paid me to do my dream job.

  I’ve never done cocaine, BUT I’m pretty sure I know what it feels like.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #2895: Treasure Chests⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No, no, people will give up if it’s just one. You need to do two chests, marked #1 and #3. Film a #2 being buried also, but dig it up immediately.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‎ ‎⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Shirtposting

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hyundai unveils car tires with built-in, push-button snow chains⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Also they were HORRIFICALLY unreliable, to the point where my mechanic’s actual quote was “Folks, I’m not in the habit of talking myself out of a $10,000 paycheck, but this car is not worth it.” 30 minutes before we walked in his door it was working fine, by the time he went to drive it to the bay it wouldn’t start, and never did again.

  It wasn’t even paid off yet.

  To say nothing of the fact that one had to drop the engine to get to the alternator, the electrical blew itself out twice in the 4 years we owned it, very few of the features worked with any competence, and we just got our 3rd or 4th safety recall for it (or whatever is left of the parts at the scrapyard).

  Consumer Reports rated its reliability as a six - not out of ten, but out of ONE HUNDRED.

  Absolute lemons.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Beeper reverse-engineered iMessage to bring blue bubble texts to Android users⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  needing to ask people what 3rd party chat service they prefer

  Yeah Signal’s great and all, but my spouse’s family refuses to use anything but WhatsApp, half my family uses FB Messenger while the other half use Discord (and they are feuding about it), the older folks in my hobby group refuse to learn anything but the default text on their phone (that group chat is an unmanageable NIGHTMARE), and anything from work uses teams…except the US folks who use slack, and now my friends want to get me on Signal, too?(Relevant XKCD.)

  The solution to my problem is not yet another messaging app. I just want ONE inbox!

  I’ve been pretty happy with Beeper so far. There are some features that aren’t quite as good as using each app natively, yet, but I think they’re off to a great start considering the sheer scale and variety of interfaces they’re working with. It even gives me tools to deal with the hobby chat anarchy, and now I can send default SMS messages from my computer!