The shorthand I use in my head for how SFAs interact with tickets is: look, but don’t touch. (When acting as SFAs for purposes of this forum - obviously it will be different if you’re actually working the ticket queues.) I know there are exceptions, but does that seem fair as a general rule?
That’s why it’s an exception. It isn’t a General Rule, but an exception in very specific cases.
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Makes decaff.
Finally! Final Fantasy 10’s toughest story boss knocked over. Suffer in sorrow, Yunalesca.
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I’m keeping an eye on this game, looks like fun,
CYBRLICH and the Death Cult of Labor, it’s on steam.
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That deserves an invisible flag for disgusting.
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I found Sins/jecht final form insane hard.
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It’s been snowing all day. It’s super fine stuff, so we’ve only got a couple inches to this point. It finally looks like winter again.
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Kyz a warlock they already put fel fire in the forums drinking water.
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I’m looking forward to those encounters, too. But now that I have the airship, I can do some stat grinding first.
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And preferably in that order.
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so today marks 18 years of wow for me
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I am not far from 18 years myself since I started playing WoW. Just a couple more weeks. I can’t remember the exact date though, but it was about a week after the launch of the Burning Crusade.
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Mid bc for me started as a warrior named shrieker.
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I hit 13 years this past November. I joined during Cata patch 4.2 – shortly before the patch that introduced transmog. Kyzera was my first character and has been my main ever since.
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Truth be told, I have no idea how many years I’ve been here. It was pre-Wrath, I remember waking up super early the day Wrath launched to grab a copy at Walmart. But my first account is floating around out there somewhere, unattached to any Battle.Net.
I’m sure someone may have long-since compromised it. One day I might be curious and go fishing for it.
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For those with a steady eye on the “tech bro” side of things:
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You’d be surprised at how easily the Google assistant gets turned back on. I’ve had it happen at least half a dozen times from doing normal activities on my phone. I’ve pretty much determined that any time you give any app access to your microphone, the assistant turns itself back on as well. It sucks that the only truly “safe” way to deal with this is to make life as hard on yourself as possible (with regard to phones anyway) and just turn the damned phone/tablet off entirely.
And with AI on a meteoric rise, having an active microphone that you can’t turn off while leaving the rest of the device on is just begging to have your voice recorded for illicit purposes.
Then there’s the human factor in maintaining technology, in this case, the CA DMV’s website functionality. I just tried to renew my disabled placard online, first on my phone, then on my PC. Neither worked. On the phone, the QR read portion went normally, but submitting the initial form that the browser brought up failed with “unable to receive response from external source”, so I tried with my PC. Got further and could fill out the next form with my name and DOB. However that page had two problematic areas: the reCaptcha and the actual submit button. reCaptchas are notoriously disabled unfriendly, especially on mobile devices but even on PCs are still iffy at best. Took several tries to get through it but I finally did. Then I clicked submit. Page sat there with its changing PlayStation-like circle/rectangle/triangle “progress/wait” picture for several minutes. During that time the recaptcha timed out (I saw it change from verified to expired on the page itself behind the wait picture). Then in the end the page popped up an error stating “Something is wrong with the page. Contact the Administrator”. Uh, yeah, I can surely contact the administrator to …oh wait, I can’t since this is an undisclosed third party the DMV is using to host the services. And my grandpa is going to have to go through the same thing with his placard as well. And the DMV does not allow in person renewals.
One thing I’m seeing a pattern with though, is that a lot of services will not work at all on Firefox, only on the two browsers that support only manifest v3: Safari and Chrome. Any browser supporting both v2 and v3 get reduced or no functionality. Even PG&E explicitly states it supports only those two browsers.
And I get to finish this post on my phone while barely getting a signal because the power is out again. I’m gonna just get a UPS for my cable modem and router so I can at least potentially maintain internet access, or at least so I don’t have to manually reboot the cable modem a second time after an outage because the initial bootup isn’t done properly and the router has a snitfit over it.
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