| My other favorite OS X bug |
[Nov. 8th, 2009|08:53 am] |
Hey man, I see you're trying to wake me out of the screen saver. Sorry, I don't fucking feel like it. I'll just completely freeze (except for the cursor, which will probably beachball) and you'll have to restart. Also, I won't let you ssh in so you can kill the screensaver, but I'll keep responding to ping just to fucking piss you off.
How is this even remotely acceptable? How has this not been fixed for years? And no, it's not a hardware problem, because it's happened on every Mac I've used for any length of time.
FUCK. THIS. OS. |
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| Safari, continuing Apple's proud tradition of not caring about your data |
[Nov. 7th, 2009|11:27 am] |
Safari crashed again, this time taking 95% of my tabs with it, restoring them as untitled. That's over a month (two months? I don't even know) of mental state gone. Thank god it remembers their count and which window they were in, that'll be very helpful in remembering what I had open.
My guess is that it pins tabs to history entries, so when it decides to clean them out, sorry, you're fucked, but this is just a guess; never mind how it'll fuck up in even weirder ways if you use private browsing ("so don't" being the only apparent solution).
It just crunched and ground away for a good ten minutes when I restored it as a nice added insult, probably furiously vacuuming sqlite so as to ensure I definitely will not be able to restore any of them.
I'm fucking done with OS X. The original plan was to just stick with it for music stuff, but I really hate dual booting, so I end up spending a lot of time in it anyway. Unfortunately Firefox continues to be sluggish, unstable, and feel non-native on OS X so I continued to abuse myself with Safari. I should just use bookmarks instead of opening untold numbers of windows and tabs, yes, but even more importantly the fucking piece of shit program should do its fucking job and restore its state after it inevitably shits the bed, which Firefox is capable of doing no problem. Firefox will even restore your goddamned form input and back/forward state for the tab. Safari can't even manage less than that. Perhaps different people work on WebKit as opposed to the browser itself, since that seems fairly competent. |
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| American "health care": just confuse them until they give up |
[Oct. 26th, 2009|03:00 pm] |
14:55 < drvink> oh my god i'm going to have a fucking aneurysm
14:55 < drvink> i just spent over an hour on the phone getting bounced around by these fucking health care companies
14:55 < drvink> i think i just sent my prescriptions into a void
14:56 < drvink> because my health insurance used to be (???) blue shield of california and they sent me some bullshit telling me i could only get 90-day prescriptions now through mail-order
14:56 < drvink> except now i have anthem blue cross or something?
14:56 < drvink> because it changed when...i don't even fucking know
14:56 < drvink> this is supposed to be my cobra coverage
14:56 < drvink> the first lady spent all this time trying to find my information and couldn't get anything
14:57 < drvink> until i told her it said "anthem" and not just "blue cross" (she didn't ask) and she was like "oh, we don't have access to that system"
14:57 < drvink> then i got transferred to "wellpoint"
14:57 < drvink> then i got transferred to god knows fucking who
14:57 < drvink> and they made me set up a new account, so clearly it's someone completely different from who i sent the prescriptions to
14:58 < drvink> so i have no idea why i was called in the first place about this reference number that not a single one of the three people i talked to could look up
14:58 < drvink> or if i'm ever going to get anything (probably not)
14:59 < drvink> this country is a fucking embarrassment and should be wiped off the face of the earth
Edit: After some further investigation, it is indeed my previous health insurance company that is still sending me mail, alerting me with DIRE WARNINGS that I'll no longer be able to get 90-day prescriptions anymore, so I'd better start mailing shit in RIGHT AWAY.
So, those prescriptions are probably gone. Awesome. It's not like they're important or anything. |
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