Other What's ruining your life right now?

I just don't get it. I mean it's bad enough leaving dog crap around but to go to the effort of putting it in a bag and then leaving it, especially in the woods, in plastic?!? I mean just wt absolute f?

 

EDIT: Nvm. You already had the update in the bottom of the article.

 

I said mainly not only, and I edited my post before you replied. Not trying to be confrontational, just informational, we're saying the exact same thing except you have a further example of i386 packages they're still supporting (CUPS).

 

No need to worry about your printer until 2030 now!

 

The apparent refusal of bit-tech to delete my account...

 

You may want to PM @MLyons about this otherwise you'll just keep adding more posts to the posts you're trying to get removed.

Edit: post edited to remover username

 

As @adidan says, message a mod or admin directly as that's the best way to get it sorted out.

 

From what I remember of forums deleting an account is almost impossible, or on certain BB types causes serious problems. You can't just remove a user and all of their posts without wrecking something.

In future I suggest not signing up to anywhere if you feel you want to vanish along with everything you posted when you've had enough.

 

I seem to recall this being discussed a while ago, and this being the reason that accounts are anonymised.

But, yeah, admins/staff are the ones to take this up with. Send a formal GDPR request to The Media Team, if you feel you have to - privacy policy is here: https://www.themediateam.net/privacy/

 

Something close to it has been done on these very forums before, or at least users have had their names changed to "deleted user x". I think you'd have to go through and edit all of your posts out, though, and any quotes of your posts would still show (along with your original name iirc).

 

Hang in there Crappy, don't lose heart.

 

Indeed and it is a massive ballache. Years ago someone sent me death threats online. I spoke to the guy who ran the forum who I knew, who obviously decided to side with the guy. Not only that but the guy was putting my name (full name and address) on the forum along with his threats. He was a drunken fool, but that isn't what bothered me. What bothered me was Google, and the fact that what I used to do (emulation) caused me not to get jobs in Atlantic City as they saw me as a threat.

Any way, the guy who ran the forum didn't give a toss so I went to another friend of mine who was hosting the forum. He deleted it. Like, the whole thing. I didn't ask him to, but he wasn't happy. So, the same person who ran the forum who I really had no problem with apart from the fact he would not remove my details and put in a filter to stop people saying my name in a sentence thought he would be clever and spent the next 48 hours setting up a new server with another host and uploaded the forum again. This time the hosts gave him a choice. They either delete my account and all of my posts or they would remove it completely again. This time another mate of mine who was an admin on there talked some sense into the forum owner and yeah, it took them about a week to manually go back and delete (well edit and remove all text from) my posts one by one by one. Then they renamed the account and put a filter in (much to their distaste).

However, no one has slandered, defamed or threatened Mr H so I just think it is all totally unnecessary. Maybe it will be a lesson as I said, not to go places you just want to up and vanish from without a trace because it really isn't that easy.

And that was then when life was nowhere near as busy as now. Screw would I want to edit and remove over 1300 posts.

 

Well, I think that if he wants to be "deleted" then that's his choice. Not for us to decide if it's necessary or unnecessary, is it?

And yeah, your point about things being permanent on the internet is a valid one, but the point that I was trying to make is that users have been deleted from these very forums in the past (***** is one name that springs to mind). So if someone feels strongly enough about it that they too want to be deleted then fair play to them. But as I said earlier, the way to expedite that is to message the admins directly.

 

I feel your pain. Last year I spent two weeks painting, sanding, buffing and wet sanding a bike. It was the best work I had ever done with spray cans. I literally spent an entire day just removing the paint from the welds with a Dremel wire brush and dental pick.



Beautiful root beer candy by HOK. I then started to build it ,installing the cranks first. I was so proud of myself I gave them a victory spin in smugness, only to very quickly realise that I had not fitted the spacers. So the arm came whizzing around and twatted the frame, taking it right down to bare metal



As you can see out of frustration I then spun it back the other way. So now it has two "oops" stickers on it. But yeah, totally just wanted to sob.