Boy, the ARRL does not make it easy to figure out what is in their magazine anymore, especially if you're not a current member. It used to be your magazine/newsletter was the way you recruited new members and got the news out about your hobby/cause. I think they decided it's now a profit center. 🤔

(I admit to letting my membership lapse, because they no longer send magazines unless you pay an additional premium to get the magazine... )

#hamradio #arrl #griping

Budget cuts showing at NWS Los Angeles... it was bad before Jan 2025, it's now worse. Warnings/watches being issued, but no graphics posted on their website. (maybe posted on the bad place, or the Zucker-privacy-sucker site, but not elsewhere).

#griping #NWS

ok i feel like mosquitoes love me so when i spend a lot of time outdoors in the summer i generally wear long sleeves and pants.

well, folks, i just got a mosquito bite on my EYELID

WTAF

#mosquitoes #summer #griping

Hmm, went to the *other* local LBS today to pick up some tires (special ordered online, because they don't normally carry any road bike gear), and feel like this shop's owner also has a similar "why aren't there any people in here buying ebikes" angst. I wonder if all the bricks and mortar stores around here are suffering financially, and the "random guy bicycling in for repair parts" just isn't doing it for them. (It also may be I am incorrectly reading their emotional state...) Comment today (after I picked up a few additional things on top of the already $150 order in tires) and paid for the additional $3.50 was "it probably costs me that much when you use a credit card"... which may be somewhat true -- it's probably 50 cents plus 1 to 2%. But I just bought $150 worth of stuff from them too.

#griping #BikeTooter

Trying to buy a house. Dancing around with my checkbook open. My realtor’s attitude seems to be “meh.”

We missed two houses already (one of them is my fault for not trying to drive it home) but the other was definitely her group’s. This *AWESOME* one of a kind house was for sale, and my dad was like “jeez it looks like a museum” which was exactly the vibe I loved about it.

Nope. Pending already by someone who is not us.

I’m in no mood for this.

#rant #griping #house #homeownership

“GET OUT!!!” is the absolute worst meme. not funny at all and incredibly annoying. sure hawk tuah and 21 are annoying but at least they can be funny ironically and aren’t just acoustically infuriating somehow.

#shitpost #griping #bitchingandwhining

A SAAS product I am working with has documentation with an AI-powered "search" box that hallucinates answers instead of providing plain-text search with links.

Who thought that was a good idea?

... Have they ever tried to use their own documentation?

#ai #griping #documentation

*sigh*

Well, it finally happened: DuckDuckGo implemented AI chat and summaries.

Maybe this isn't new to folks who have been paying attention, but it was new to me today.

As usual, the feature no one asked for, just destined to eat up a few more computing resources and return an extra, iffy result that I'll very intentionally ignore.

The one upside: At least you can go into the settings pretty easily and shut it off for now.

#AI #LLM #Griping #Enshittification #DuckDuckGo #DuckDuckGoAI