Morning peoples!
May you all have a great day!
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Good morning everyone
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Morning people of the palace
I am officially a dress size down! Altho my size 20 jeans are a tad tight, I am wearing them so that my jeans can stop falling off!
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So, I get this call an hour before my shift starts. Took them about over a minute or two to tell me their keyboard isn’t type the @ character… Even holding the phone away from my ear when they babbled on, I knew they managed to switch the keyboard layout or language. Knowing there’s no way I can get this person to change it on their own, I go to their place to fix it. Thankfully they are very close by.
I start using the trackpad on his laptop to look for the language/keyboard icon in the system tray. Instead of pointing out there’s a wireless mouse, he moves it next to my hand, causing the cursor to go flying half way across the screen just as I’m about to click. Innocent enough, but annoying as heck. Not finding what I’m looking for, I move over the the start menu. He starts mumbling about whatever, pointing at stuff on his desktop. I start waving my hand at his in a smacking motion and snap, “Let me work!”. He kept going on about something, but I wasn’t listening. After 10 seconds or so, I think I heard an audible click echo from inside his skull. “Yes, ok”, he mumbled, conveying he’ll let me figure this out.
Nice, I got him to shut up. I hope it sticks.
Ya… Region is correct, language is correct. keyboard layout… all fine. No additional languages installed or anything. Reboot, same thing. Since they’re about 15 minutes late for their zoom meeting, I load up character map so they can log in to the paid zoom account. I’ll deal with the keyboard layout thing later.
As I’m on my way out, his wife grabs me saying “it’s not working”. What? The webcam? The mic? I just showed you yesterday what to do if they stop.
Nope… Can’t log in to the zoom meeting. They send out the invite link to the meeting with probably a 64 character password and meeting ID embedded in the URL. She had the meeting up on her phone, but wanted to use the laptop. Two messages before the URL was a photo of the meeting information from the host. The same way they do for every. single. meeting.
But at this point, all the extra confusion (Oh no! A new way to log in?? I guess that means EVERY OTHER THING IN THE BLOODY UNIVERSE HAS CHANGED!!!) caused her to forget that the passwords are right under the meeting ID and host. But since that would be simple routine, she types in the participant ID at the very bottom, below the invite link that supposedly caused the fundamental physics of the universe to descend into the ultimate chaos that will eventually end up wiping humanity off the face of the earth. I should be so lucky…
/rant
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Im trying to convince my dad not to throw his phone away because we live/work in a kak signal area so his phone and mine and every fcking person who lives/works here has kak signal.
He doesnt believe me, but he has been to 4 different cellphone places and they all told him the same, but he still wants a phone to magically have signal 24/7
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Get a brick, paint a number pad on it, and a little screensaver. Can also be used to get into your car if you lock the keys inside.
Grats on the dress size btw!
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Trust me I am close to wacking the idiot with a shoe
And thaaaaaaaaaaanks 
Im very happy - but now the panic sets in - I have to buy new clothes! Bye bye money that I dont have
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Wat raak julle almal so siek van drank?
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Of all the financial problems to have, that is one of the nicer one to have.
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Oh we are not talking about debt - Im trying to clear it all but not winning right now.
And had such a laugh, a friend decided I would be perfect for a job that is opening at their company . . . .
Programming. . . . .
Mac software
I have no experience or qualifications.
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I very much doubt that this truck will be less thirsty than your car… 
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Luckily it’s for the work. Cause the one rep that drives a delivery bakkie shits his pants every time we ask him to do deliveries
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Ekt al klaar soos cash geleen by ouma vir fuel
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Morning, folks.
Sounds like a nightmare @murfle. Did you figure out what caused the keyboard problem?
Congrats, @Wyvern! Good to see you, @Havok 
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@1nF4m0u5: I used to be a teatotaller (nowadays I enjoy the occasional whiskey, pot still brandy, or CBC Amber Weiss). During drinking games I would drink Red Bull. When everyone else was passed out, I would be wired .
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Not yet. They’re in zoom meetings 10+ hours a day, so I haven’t been back. I figure I overlooked a setting somewhere due to the fact I still had sleep crusties in my eyes.
It appears to be set to a UK keyboard layout based on what I saw when I pressed all the numbers with the shift key down. I checked it out, and it looks like @ is on the single quote key. Maybe I’ll print him off a UK keyboard layout to hold him over until his meetings are over and I can take another proper look.
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That is so odd, must be some setting that they changed somewhere
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Lol, I remember my boss set his layout to UK once and then complained that nothing worked.
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Could it not also be a shortcut that was pressed? Like i have a keyboard that if i press certain keys(cant remember the button sequence) it swaps certain keys around… ie specifically
which then moves to these buttons
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I know Win-Spacebar or some combo like that switches between installed languages, but it requires more than one language to be installed…
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