Other What's ruining your life right now?

No internet access.

My line dropped to ~5Mbps last night, so I reported it to Plusnet. Engineer is due tomorrow.

However, this morning, I'd be overjoyed to have that measly 5Mbps.

 

Exactly how ruining remains to be seen but I've just come back to my PC to find it dead as a doornail. Switching it on results in the case fans spinning for half a second and then... nothing.

A fun evening / weekend of troubleshooting awaits. I suspect the PSU as the most likely culprit but everything was working fine an hour ago.

 

It was the PSU. Dug out my absolutely ancient CoolerMaster SilentProM 500W from the attic, plugged that in, and Bob's your uncle.

Only annoyance is that said ancient PSU is an ATX unit and my case only takes SFX PSUs, so there's something of a Heath Robinson "external PSU" setup going on just now. But I'm just in time for Black Friday so time to grab an SFX unit (probably a Corsair SF750).

 

They're good PSUs, I've been running three of them for years. Their PSUs are just about the only Corsair products I'm happy to recommend.

 

It's been a while, but when I took the failed SFX PSU out of the case, I was actually surprised by just how small it is compared to the ATX unit I've just plugged in. Just crazy.

 

I'm not going to make any sort of childish joke.

 

black friday week of course

 

Is that in response to the comment about Mrs Crap's box? She got some deals on?

 

Keep having bad dreams, waking me up an hour after falling asleep.

 

Happy days, new PSU received and installed. Well, not entirely happy days as wrestling the Corsair braided cables was a massive pain in the hoop. I love my M1 but there just isn't much room to work in and these braided cables were not the most flexible I've ever seen. Job done for now though, I can get the side panels back on so I'm declaring great success at this point, and I'll come back to it for proper cable management when I have more time and am feeling a little more Zen!

Fake edit: oh ****, I've just realised that I hadn't actually secured the PSU to the bracket inside the case, so it was just hanging there, held up purely by the rat's nest of braided cables directly beneath it

 

Got turned down (after a lengthy process) for a job that would've been really interesting and more home location centric.

It's a combination of technical and sales, and I'm struggling to meet the sales side of things, mainly because I can't get a sales related job to get experience on the old CV. Never had a problem talking to customers though, and always get good feedback.

 

Currently in Hospital waiting room for a flexible cystoscopy.

 

Googled it, crossed my legs, best of luck.

 

Disclaimer: I am speaking from a purely selfish perspective, as someone who has come out of multiple “Once In A Lifetime Global Economic Crisis” events not only unscathed but also earning more money… I am well aware of how extremely crappy it has been over the last 15-20 years for people who are not so fortunate as I, and I am not intentionally wishing for more misery to be heaped upon others…

At this point I think I’m pretty much split 50/50 between: “continue enduring an ‘AI’ infested, slop-filled daily life”; and, “let it all collapse right ****ing now and burn the global economy to the ****ing ground along with it”.

First thing I see this morning when I log on is our “technical lead” asking for a review & feedback on their pull request for an “AI Architect Persona” config.

It’s seven thousand lines of AI generated MarkDown and YAML slop across twenty files.

@Gareth Halfacree said it best yesterday:

 

Fark, same here. Eeesh!

Good luck, @Big Elf , have... fun?

 

Yeah good luck bud, didn't dare Google it.

Anything ending 'scopy' sounds invasive and cyberpunkery.

 

I also searched for it, and… hope all goes well.

 

Big Elf whips it out to a call of "we're gonna need a longer cystoscope"