Other What Makes Your Life, Meh?

When searching on Google (probably Bing too, maybe others) and don't want AI crap, curated cards or sponsored links, swear. Instead of "who is Gareth Halfacree" try "who the **** is Gareth Halfacree." 90% of what you search you'll get reddit results first.

 

SearXNG was one of those "other projects out there that do a similar thing to Whoogle" I mentioned . I'd thought about setting up Whoogle a while ago, but it kinda fell by the wayside. I'll try and keep SearXNG in mind, but I need to do a bit of a revamp of my homelab setup.

But this...

... seems, at least in the very short term, to be a quicker solution. Especially on mobile.

PSA for anyone else interested, by the way: udm14.org is the 'safe search' version that strips swears; udm14.com is the 'NSFW' version.

Edit: fluffed up the links by thinking that the forum software was smart enough to properly parse a URL which was partially in italics. Should’ve just done it in BBCode in the first place…

 

I started using Startpage as my search engine a little while ago and it seems to do a decent job of finding stuff.

 

Buyer purchased a DARK GREY renovating shoe cream... Had a ton, very popular and fly out most days.

I've given up on humanity now... I really have. Hard to judge the ton of the message but they almost seem shocked by the results??

 

I think they want compensation for doing something stupid.

 

There’s another one, who shouldn’t be allowed to do things alone…

 

Pulled the tyres out of the garage prior to the fitter arriving - found screws in the shoulders two tyres and a slice in the sidewall of another. Faaaaark!!!

Just shelled out £600 for new all seasons/tracking/balancing etc... *sigh*

 

I've just let it be known, on Tom's Hardware's forum, that I think Trump deserves no respect because he is a dangerous lunatic. Any bets on how long it will take them to ban me?

 

Don't think so but, they don't like politics, like other Future sites and, one of the moderators demanded that Trump be addressed, President Trump. Red rag to a bull there...

 

So, Orange man-baby won't fly then?

 

Oh come on now, you know better than to go off gallavanting around other forums...

Just stay here where it's nice, cozy, and comfortable. Go on, put your feet up - I'll put the kettle on and get a brew going.

 

I sold my house. which you would think is a What makes my life great post. But we have been out bid on 5 houses in the last 2 months. So we have 6 weeks left or im living with the inlaws

 

Well that's a surprise, Tom's mods didn't ban me, just deleted the post.

 

Bought a domain from IONOS last year with plans to build a website. Not long after, I got a call from IONOS pushing their "Ranking Coach" product. I was told that if I didn’t like it, I could cancel and wouldn’t have to pay the £12 per month. Thinking I was going to deliver this website in a few months I thought it might be worth a crack.

A few months later, my website plans fell through, so I went to cancel the subscription — only to find that the £12 a month fee was actually a 12-month contract. Cancelled anyway and planned to contact IONOS to complain since I was never told it was a contract, and that cancelling wouldn’t stop the payments.

Today, I’ve just been charged £36 for the same product I still haven’t used. When I contacted customer services, I was told the first six months was a promotional offer at £12 before it jumped to £36 per month. So now I'm locked in for a year, paying £288 in total... At no point was I told about the £36 a month increase — because if I had been, I definitely wouldn’t have agreed to it in the first place.

So now misled about the contractual agreement and the promotional pricing. Customer services have agreed to cancel the contract and payments as a gesture of goodwill but will need it to be open to go down the complaints route. What a load of BS and doesn't seem like an isolated incident on IONOS part.

 

That's not great, I think they have some sharp practice going on.
I signed up for something similar but managed to escape quickly as it wasn't all that it seemed.
Again, more money than initially suggested

 

I work in a HR office as systems admin, had to report myself to HR after telling someone in HR not to get involved in every personal conversation after they tried to get involved in one of mine when I was having a bit of fun with a colleague/friend when she tried to but in being a little rude/aggressive which was not wanted.
She then proceeded to ask if she was allowed to speak when anyone else spoke to her

So amazing how immature HR people act.
The HR manager is happy with my report

 

I actively try not to fall into the “HR is only there to protect the company” trope. But good god the people working in HR make that really hard sometimes…