done and done, it's time.
woo's is good! I may save that for mid-Summer.
woo's is good! I may save that for mid-Summer.
The "official" complaint thread.
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I work with fucking morons. Get in a van, see an O-ringed screw fitting with yellow paint on it in the door tray. I knew instantly that it was the pressure release from the bottle jack. grabbed the jack, yep missing the screw and all the hydraulic fluid leaked out. 4 ton jack is now a steel paperweight. idiots
Just get some jack oil at harbor freight and fill it up. Fixed a bunch of “broken” jacks by adding oil.
Ford did a pop rivet where the fill port should be unless I can use the pressure relief screw hole to fill it.
Bummer. You could grease a drill bit and drill it out or maybe pull the pump part out. I’m sure it’ll go in the bleed port but will take a while if ya can’t force it in there.
Word is now crashing when I try to save a file to pdf, this is sub-optimal.
You could try installing a PDF printer driver instead and "print" it. Does CutePDF still exist?
Just copy and paste a screen cap into adobe
Sent the file to a colleague, same issue, Word hangs when saving to PDF.
Printing to PDF however worked for me when I tried that during my troubleshooting.
Stupid technology.
upload to Google Docs, export from there?
As per my post above, it worked when I print it to pdf, it hangs when I attempt to save as pdf...
PC Load Letter?
Adobe Acrobat/Reader has been a piece of crap for me for the past few years. Could be my corporate core load but my last company used Bluebeam Revu, I really liked that package.
I was out of ribbon on the dot matrix.
Call store in Williston.
"Got two T105 batteries?"
[female voice] "Yeah."
"I'll be up this afternoon to pick them up."
"OK."
Drive to store.
Guy behind counter: "My wife's out for the afternoon and she does all the money stuff, can you come back?"
"Got two T105 batteries?"
[female voice] "Yeah."
"I'll be up this afternoon to pick them up."
"OK."
Drive to store.
Guy behind counter: "My wife's out for the afternoon and she does all the money stuff, can you come back?"
"Sure. Give me the batteries, and I can return at my convenience and hand your wife money stuff."
The trail conditions at WestBay were too grippy.
HIDDEN STOBS
Wife's personal Dell laptop is less than 3 years old and I noticed last night the battery is horribly swollen. Dell website appears to tell you good luck if you're out of warranty.
New 3rd party replacement is about $100 and I haven't even checked YT to see how much of a pain to replace.
New 3rd party replacement is about $100 and I haven't even checked YT to see how much of a pain to replace.
Let me guess, an XPS? Lots of small bolts to deal with, otherwise not that hard. Finding a reliable aftermarket battery is a crapshoot though.
Latitude 7389, I'll take suggestions on good battery source rather than me picking at random if you've got one.
Dell should make their laptops from cardboard. Will make it easier to recycle them when they shit the bed every 2 years.
I wonder how many battery posts I've made over the last year about this.
According to my Dell rep, they know it's a problem and rolled out system/bios updates recently (last year or earlier this year, I forget..) to help prevent it from happening.
Which warranty do you have? We were also told, because of these known problems, as long as the laptop is in warranty, it will be replaced. Normally the battery is under warranty for only one year.
We won't mention the fact that my Dell Inspiron 15 7000 Series has been happily chugging along since October of 2015...
It only had a year of warranty, expired August 2019 IIRC. I think I did bios and driver updates for her sometime last year.I wonder how many battery posts I've made over the last year about this.
According to my Dell rep, they know it's a problem and rolled out system/bios updates recently (last year or earlier this year, I forget..) to help prevent it from happening.
Which warranty do you have? We were also told, because of these known problems, as long as the laptop is in warranty, it will be replaced. Normally the battery is under warranty for only one year.
Currently using a 9 year old Dell Latitude, one of my old work laptops which was written off through age.
I have had a Dell laptop for work since 2000 with a 2 or 3 year refresh cycle. Haven't had a single one that did not have at least one major hardware failure. Now I have always used my laptops in industrial environments, getting picked up and moved around multiple times a day and often placed on a crate to connect to a machine so they do live rough lives. However my latest laptop showed up during the pandemic and largely hasn't moved from my dining room table and the HDMI port shit the bed within the first month.
My older ones have been bullet proof, newer ones not so much. I only just sold an ancient 2008ish vintage one that someone wanted an XP laptop for car flashing stuff.
It rained somewhere in the range of 8” to 14+” on my local trails in 72 hours and is now raining again. WTFF.
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I got one in 2010 for grad school, thankfully with the 3 year warranty. It ate 4 mother boards, 3 HDDs and one battery.
It hasn't rained in way too long on our local trails and it is now not raining again. WTFF. 
I really don't have any. Dell replaced the first battery under warranty (proactively), two years later, it's capacity was unsatisfactory so I bought a NOS one off ebay IIRC - and returned it a week later because it showed severe deterioration after only a dozen cycles. Then got some other no-name crap (I suspect all "aftermarket" XPS batteries are QA rejects while Dell does not sell the originals anymore) and just live with it.
Why the fuck do old people demand receipts for even the most inane purchases?
Just another item to fill a shoebox that the kids will have to deal with when they kick it.
