the daily rant

[Armyvet25]

my 5 yo laptop went black with 3000 pictures in various folders ....... many are still on my phone, but I'm pissed!....... and I know better than to not have things backed up

it may just need a video screen...... or not

remove the hard drive, can be linked to another computer via cable as a stand alone hard drive not an operating system. Then the files can be transferred, I do this on my computer, in fact when i build my computers I have multiple hard drives and back each drive with files/info from the others, to including partitioning larger hard drives to emulate multiple hard drives.
Very seldom do the hard drives corrupt to a total data lost and can be accessed this way.

 

[Armyvet25]

To expand....I only use one solid state drive for powering up the computer, etc to speed everything up, but i don't store any files on it, think of like storing music on an USB vs a vinyl record, the record has it etched in place vs digital data, the digital date can be completely lost in an instant, whereas the vinyl record can potentially store the data unharmed for generations. digital tech though advanced and helpful can be corrupted much easier due to elements etc.

 

[padam]

my 5 yo laptop went black with 3000 pictures in various folders ....... many are still on my phone, but I'm pissed!....... and I know better than to not have things backed up

it may just need a video screen...... or not

One TB usb drive that can be encrypted.

 

[Armyvet25]

One TB usb drive that can be encrypted.

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great for storing large quantities of data, but still subject to complete data loss if corrupted, I only use the old school spin up hard drives even if stand alone for data storage, and back them up. Now if you need to access the stored files frequently, I'd also use a usb device like you suggest in addition to my other drives.

 

[Cranky]

My Home Owners has gone up +150% in two years with zero claims history. That's even after I cut the amount of coverage and reduced replacement value of interior content down to the absolute minimum in 2023. Their explanation? Inflation and raising cost of construction material and labor. I can guess that maybe they are trying to get rid of me. I will be obliging them.

Been here 41 years with no claims.....aholes.

 

[Armyvet25]

Been here 41 years with no claims.....aholes.

I own a 100+ yr old home and it's material/labor cost and greed. Not what you paid but cost to replace in a most severe claim of rebuilding the home they tend to use for justification, but reed in in there somewhere

 

[Cranky]

I own a 100+ yr old home and it's material/labor cost and greed. Not what you paid but cost to replace in a most severe claim of rebuilding the home they tend to use for justification, but reed in in there somewhere

Mine is turning 49 real soon. I didn't build it but watched it go up. Had no idea I'd be living in it years later.

 

[Photon440]

my 5 yo laptop went black with 3000 pictures in various folders ....... many are still on my phone, but I'm pissed!....... and I know better than to not have things backed up

it may just need a video screen...... or not

Hopefully you can take it apart to get at the hard drive and recover from there. IF it has a removable drive. My wife's Surface laptop died last year and the drive was just a chip soldered into the mother board and was unrecoverable.

 

[eldubb440]

stay with me........ the computer that went dark, I stuck it in the box the new computer came it and stuffed it in the closet

tonight, the new computer shits the bed! pretty much like the other one

I phukked with it over and over, a couple small lights would come on the keyboard, sometimes....... basically nothing

I can't just return it, it has sensitive passwords saved for some important stuff.......... so I need to buy another computer, change all my passwords, ect.......then return the pos

so I go to the closet cause I want to put it in the box......... I take out the old one, and because I have nothing to lose, I plug it in to the charger

battery had gone to zero sitting in the closet, after a couple minutes, I push the power button........... and here I am!

 

[eldubb440]

back to the rant, cause it's legit..........at this point I have the better part of a full day invested.......and not done, I have a new pos computer and I'm out a few hundred bucks

I guess I should back up my pictures

 

[DynaBro]

One of the most aggravating aspects of rising insurance costs is seeing the industry up close from inside. It's not a job to these people. It's a lifestyle. Constant flying across the country or even the ocean (London) for a single lunch. Just lunch with a client. They can't do this stuff on Skype or whatever because that's not the industry behavior. So untold fortunes are burnt on airline tickets, tips, hotels, transport, expensive dining, golf outings, booze, etc. and the costs are passed on to us, the retail lever consumer, so the CEO of Company1 can have a Skybox at the Lakers games and the broker from Company2 can sit front row at Wimbledon and be surrounded by colleagues that rely on his thumbs up to place their policies and financial instruments. But everyone involved essentially dine out at fancy places for a living. That's what they do for work. Technically they work insane hours, but half of it is getting drunk and well fed and making small talk with their peers from other companies while doing a project and paying for none of it. We pay for it. Every protected industry (services you cannot live without) is like this. Rife with waste, fraud and abuse except it isn't any of that: it's fully legal write-offs taken to their extreme limit. None of it is necessary. None of it. Every rich guy I meet with zero personality, style, or anything interesting to say got rich in insurance. Such a scam.

 

[MarPar]

One of the most aggravating aspects of rising insurance costs is seeing the industry up close from inside. It's not a job to these people. It's a lifestyle. Constant flying across the country or even the ocean (London) for a single lunch. Just lunch with a client. They can't do this stuff on Skype or whatever because that's not the industry behavior. So untold fortunes are burnt on airline tickets, tips, hotels, transport, expensive dining, golf outings, booze, etc. and the costs are passed on to us, the retail lever consumer, so the CEO of Company1 can have a Skybox at the Lakers games and the broker from Company2 can sit front row at Wimbledon and be surrounded by colleagues that rely on his thumbs up to place their policies and financial instruments. But everyone involved essentially dine out at fancy places for a living. That's what they do for work. Technically they work insane hours, but half of it is getting drunk and well fed and making small talk with their peers from other companies while doing a project and paying for none of it. We pay for it. Every protected industry (services you cannot live without) is like this. Rife with waste, fraud and abuse except it isn't any of that: it's fully legal write-offs taken to their extreme limit. None of it is necessary. None of it. Every rich guy I meet with zero personality, style, or anything interesting to say got rich in insurance. Such a scam.

I'm in the wrong business

 

[padam]

I'm in the wrong business

I agree. I have all of the qualifications except the money.

 

[69conv]

13 of the 15 big insurance companies are owned by relatives of congress. Why do you think its mandatory to have insurance?

 

[YY1]

That's why I have the least amount of coverage and the highest deductibles I can get.

...and never file claims.

...and I put the difference into a "self insured" account and use that for any major repairs.

I can also use that account for major purchases as long as I pay it back.

It takes discipline, but all that money stays with me, for my use, rather than with "them" and me having to beg for it to be paid back if something happens.

 

[HawkRod]

As some of you know, I have a 1969 Corvette that fell into my lap for a price I couldn't refuse, so I have made that a (near) daily driver. The car is a small block 350 car, with PS, PB, TH400 auto, power windows and factory A/C. I've been working to get everything working just like it should. The last thing needed is the A/C. These cars had a problematic A/C component called a POA valve. I replaced this with a POA replacement and did a huge amount of work replacing nearly everything as well as cleaning stuff (even though it was very clean inside). This replacement POA has a pressure switch that cycles the compressor ON at 42 PSI and off at 22 PSI.

The switch doesn't turn the compressor off properly at the low pressure. It turns it off, then on, off, on, and continues cycling like this maybe 20-40 times before it finally "lets go" and turns off the compressor. It is beating the crap out of my compressor clutch. I have watched the pressures and everything else works like it should. If I manually activate the compressor while watching the pressures my A/C blows 42 degree air and works great.

But to fix this? First Old Air Products is telling me that even if I replace the switch (which requires removal of all Freon) it might still work poorly. So they are recommending I buy a separate thermal switch that's cost me around $55.

Why the he77 should I have to spend $55, plus all the hassle and Freon/ evacuation costs to fix something that THEY built and sold me but doesn't work??? Grrrrrr.....

 

[Richard Cranium]

As some of you know, I have a 1969 Corvette that fell into my lap for a price I couldn't refuse, so I have made that a (near) daily driver. The car is a small block 350 car, with PS, PB, TH400 auto, power windows and factory A/C. I've been working to get everything working just like it should. The last thing needed is the A/C. These cars had a problematic A/C component called a POA valve. I replaced this with a POA replacement and did a huge amount of work replacing nearly everything as well as cleaning stuff (even though it was very clean inside). This replacement POA has a pressure switch that cycles the compressor ON at 42 PSI and off at 22 PSI.
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The switch doesn't turn the compressor off properly at the low pressure. It turns it off, then on, off, on, and continues cycling like this maybe 20-40 times before it finally "lets go" and turns off the compressor. It is beating the crap out of my compressor clutch. I have watched the pressures and everything else works like it should. If I manually activate the compressor while watching the pressures my A/C blows 42 degree air and works great.

But to fix this? First Old Air Products is telling me that even if I replace the switch (which requires removal of all Freon) it might still work poorly. So they are recommending I buy a separate thermal switch that's cost me around $55.

Why the he77 should I have to spend $55, plus all the hassle and Freon/ evacuation costs to fix something that THEY built and sold me but doesn't work??? Grrrrrr.....

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The POA valve should be renamed to the POS valve.

 

[68BabyBlue]

I'm in the wrong business

The lawyers who work for the insurance companies feed at the trough as well. When I was doing my in house counsel time, it drove me crazy to see them raking in the big billable hours, for doing nothing more than delaying settlement payouts. Not once in the years I worked that job did a case actually make it to trial. Insurance defense was my career of choice when I started law school, but I didn't pull the grades needed.

A big reason I stayed with the in house job as long as I did was sharing the food and drink on the expense accounts of the insurance lawyers. When we did a deposition or settlement conference, they picked up the tab.