I did this when out with a friend the other night. It was a neat party trick so they could stay in touch with their sister. First time I’ve used it in years of having the phone.

Mine is already water resistant up to a couple feet. No case needed for a coaster.

It would be tempting to have a QR code or nfc tag to stick on appliances that goes direct to a manual on a self hosted service. Would be nice so it’s always easy to get to and specific to the device.

A lot of those are very dependent on which tech is in the key fob. They can easily copy old hid prox which just broadcast the UUID of the fob, but struggle with newer tech that does a challenge and response.

If your car is old enough to have a tape deck, they have cassettes that connect via Bluetooth. Just about perfect sound quality since there is no interference.

Yet somehow I still love Married with Children.

Then just don’t answer? Why is it so hard for people to understand that just because I call doesn’t mean you need to answer. You’re busy and will respond later, that’s what voicemail is for.

It’s like getting a very long notification for a message. You can either reply now (by answering and talking) or reply later by just ignoring the call and responding in whichever manner you prefer later.

I don’t understand why people think a call has to be answered.

Jalapeno rings at del taco.

Sliced jalapeno, breaded and fried. Served with a ranch-esqe sauce.

Simple and so fucking delicious.

Mk2 is my favorite. My dad had one when I was growing up. My brother then had a mr-s until he totaled it. Now I’ve got a MR-S as well. I love the car. A little under powered at times, but I almost never have the top up. In the mk2, I’d probably have the t-tops off the whole time as well.

Honestly, worth it. The cars are so much fun.

Yup. And afaik Lego will replace the broken pieces for free.

I don’t care that I’m a 30 something man. I’ll sing that and Complicated at full volume.

These boots were made for walking

It’s raining men

Man! I feel like a woman!

Tons of great “girl” songs that I’ll belt when they come on. Besides all the Broadway and show tunes that I love.

Music is music. A good song transcends girl or boy.

Which is such a poor attitude. Just because someone is bad in one subject doesn’t apply to every subject. English, math, and history were all GEs. What use does having an English major be weeded out by their ability to do stats or calculus?

Or a psych major because they have no particular interest in pre-silk road civilizations?

Oh totally. Outside of a few festivals where I took it three nights in a row, typically I was only rolling at a show maybe once a month. I couldn’t imagine doing it frequently or having an urge specifically to roll.

Their profession.

I didn’t go to medical school and am in a different industry than them.

Ecstacy.

Some of my happiest times were rolling at a concert. Im empathetic, happy, social, and my anxiety is pretty much gone.

If they’ve got a control booth in the middle of the venue, that’s usually where I want to hang out. Best audio/visuals right where the guy engineering it is listening to it

As an IT director, I encourage my techs first action to be to connect to the clients machine and ask them to “show me what’s happening.” Then they aren’t to interrupt the user until they complete their explanation except to ask for clarification.

You can see all the steps leading up to the error, the users workflow, typically the desired end result, and the error message.

You also are building rapport with the user making them feel listened to. Far too often I see techs assume something else is the issue, “fix” that, call it done and the user gets frustrated.

Even if you can’t fix it, like so many user issues, at the very least the support experience is a positive one for the end users. Sometimes it’s just that a specific preference isn’t in an applications options or they need to change a step in their workflow. But at least the end users was listened to and their experience and frustration was validated.

If you have metrics or surveys, it’s always interesting to hear a user write in that the issue was not resolved, but they were extremely satisfied.

I completely agree.

Back when I was taking GEs I had an ancient history class that I just couldn’t get. One visit to the professors office hours and he basically guaranteed me a decent passing grade as long as I did the final essay.

His job was to teach and help students pass. He knew his subject wasn’t everyone’s passion and was super chill about it.

One caveat of this, is in my experience it was younger TAs running 100 level classes that were the strictest. They for whatever reason didn’t have the experience or self-awareness to know that their teaching method didn’t align with every student.