Bonehead

That’s exactly the kind of question this community was created for.

Now this is proof…if you’re ever in trouble and need to hide, just remember that the homeless are invisible to most people.

That’s a Priority 4 Severity 4 ticket. I wouldn’t bet on it being completed until sometime during the next epoch.

I learned a long time ago that the manufacturer doesn’t matter much on the long run. They all have a bad model occasionally. I have 500GB Seagate drives that still work, and some 1TB drives that died within a year. I’ve had good luck with recent WD Red 4TB drives, but my 2TB Green drives have all died on me. I had a some of the Hitachi Deskstar drives that worked perfectly for years when no one would touch them because of a bad production run. I currently have a Toshiba 8TB that I had never heard of before, but seems to be rock solid for the last year.

Pick a size that you want, look at what’s available, and research the reasonably priced ones to see if anyone is complaining about them. Review sites can be useful, but raw complaints in user forums will give you a better idea of which ones to avoid.

Dammit…I nearly ate the onion.

Yet the stock price is still going up. And still no one is talking about it except you. No one cares. Even I forgot about this.

Seriously, just let it go. You were wrong. That’s not a bad thing unless you make a big deal about it, like you are right now.

Turn it upside down, slap the bottom a few times, and it’ll open right up.

As someone that was in Tier 3 Support for more than a decade, I get it. The squeeky wheel gets the grease. Users need to complain, or things won’t get fixed. But that’s the catch…there needs to be enough people complaining to move that Priority 4 feature request up a few notches. One person complaining isn’t going to move that needle. So you have to look at other options. Doing it yourself is always an option. So is complaining in an open forum to see if other users are complaining about the same thing, and hopefully one of those people try fixing it. Or you can just look for another tool. Yes, it sucks, but when you can’t fix it yourself then what else can you do? The popular application will eventually win. Hopefully it’s the one you want to use so that it gets continuing support.

I think that yelling at developers to make something for you is where the problem lies. You can try asking nicely, but ultimately other priorities have to be dealt with first. Until there are enough people asking for the same thing, this will always be the case. But you can always be the change that you want to see. Even if it’s a ugly shitty GUI, as long as it does what it needs then other people should start using it. And then you can start dealing with all the user requests to add functionality that you never planned on. Or you can just tell them that this is the tool you made, and if they want more than they can create it themselves.

Things become a lot more muddy when you actually get in the dirt to fix things. It’s easy to yell from the sidelines, but actually fixing things isn’t as simple.

Edit: To everyone except OP, downvoting this dude isn’t going to help anything. He’s asking valid questions from a point of view that’s 20 years out of GUI development. A lot has changed that isn’t obvious to someone that hasn’t actually done it for that long. Education should be more important than downvoting someone with an unpopular opinion in a forum for unpopular opinions.

I actually did make some GUI apps, with Visual Basic, back in the day.

A lot has changed in the 20 years since VB was used for GUI application development, especially on the OS side. It’s not that GUI development had regressed, it’s that everything else has gotten more complicated. It’s not about being pretty, it’s about complying with all the new security and testing requirements to make a functional application.

If you think that GUI application development should be simple, you could try creating a GUI wrapper around these CLI tools. I’m sure lots of people would be willing to test it for you.

Yes, but the last one is a comedy.

Human sacrifice. Dogs and cats living together. Mass hysteria.

Extremely well, apparently.

Well I guess that block you put on me was a lie. Look, if you want to hate on drag queens, that’s your choice. If you want to express that opinion to the internet, you’re going to encounter people that disagree. Responding with insults and false accusations only makes you look like an asshole.

If you really wanted to understand, you wouldn’t be pushing back so hard when someone points out your misunderstandings. Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to go watch the 1995 cult classic “To Wong Foo, Thanks For Everything, Julie Newmar” featuring well known male actors acting as men acting as drag queens. Have a nice day.

Then just don’t watch them. No one is forcing you to watch a drag queen show. No one is forcing you to interact with drag queens. And no one forces you to post about how much you dislike drag queens. This entire situation is your own creation.

You’re offended only because you want to be offended so you tell everyone else that you’re offended. I hope this was everything you dreamed it could be…

Seriously? Do actors offend you as well? It’s an act. Just a show. They dress up as a character and perform for people. It’s literally no different than Tom Cruise pretending to be an international super spy that is the same height as everyone else. If you can’t understand that, it’s because you refuse to understand that.

You’ve already stated that you don’t wear makeup. Already they aren’t representing you. They are representing themselves.

Don’t be jealous just because they can pull off looking more woman than you can.

Drag queens are men who present female stereotypes for fun, i dont like this

And there it is. This is all just so you can shit on drag queens. Trolls are gonna troll…

Rule of acquisition #162: Even in the worst of times, someone turns a profit.

If Pat is problematic, how is treating Link the same way not a problem? Especially since we know Link’s full story and that he is not trans in any way? At least Pat was progressive enough to show two people of unclear gender and sexuality in a happy monogamous relationship even though everyone around them was treating them like a joke. That was pioneering for the time, and is part of the reason why trans and other non-cis people are becoming mainstream today as the Gen X and early Millennials like me grew up with that and are now gaining positions of influence.

Link on the other hand is definitely male, and has never been shown to display anything but male behaviors despite looking slightly androgynous. But that’s more because he also belongs to an Elf-like race that are typically dipicted more androgynous. Then again, he’s also a video game character and not a real person, so he likely has no opinion about how he’s depicted. So I guess it’s ok to make jokes about him being trans? That’s probably more of a question for actual trans people.