Tursi Posted June 23, 2021 Share Posted June 23, 2021 8 hours ago, digdugnate said: I came across this thread on Reddit this morning and was like 'yikes!' I've been burned so many times by friend-of-a-friend transactions -- both as the provider and the customer -- that I'm extremely hesitant to do them at all anymore. The middle man always ends up leaving the implication (inadvertantly!) that a favor is being done where a job is the intent, and things go south. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wierd_w Posted June 24, 2021 Share Posted June 24, 2021 (edited) Maybe I am (un)lucky-- I just keep getting fingered to do data recovery from broken/bricked android phones. I usually do a cursory check on their phone model to see if a custom recovery is available or not, and if the answer is no, I tell them no, I wont accept the job. A fastboot capable phone can boot the custom recovery from ram, and then I can use an ADB session to pull all the data out over USB. Still, I have to remind my "repeat offenders" that this service would cost them an extraordinary amount of money to have done professionally, because of the time involved, and that they should be more careful with their devices. Showing them industry rates for data recovery is pretty sobering sometimes I find. If I had to actually do raw sector recovery from damaged drives, then do a RAID scrub or something-- as in, actual enterprise data recovery because somebody did not do a proper server deployment (because too fucking cheap. Anything mission critical MUST have not only fault tolerant RAID based storage, but also full local mirror, incremental backups, AND a disaster recover site with scheduled deltas. No, that is NOT optional. If you are not doing that, because you think it costs too much, then you are not doing things right. End of discussion.)-- I would not be polite about the pricing. I have better things to do than sit around with gddrescue trying to nibble and sip sectors off that broken ass spinning rust, and if you are going to make me do that, you are going to pay me properly. (Especially since each stage of the process can get screwed up by any of the others not being done right, meaning I have to invest enough storage to house entire disk images even after restoring them to new media, because the RAID scrub could fuck up-- meaning I basically need to hardcore make space available to do the restoration work, which is added hassle and liability for me..) Simply because I wipe asses for a living does not mean I can be abused. I totally AM a trained SAN admin, and totally DO know how to recover enterprise data, I just totally WILL demand proper rates for doing it. Edited June 24, 2021 by wierd_w 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GDMike Posted June 27, 2021 Share Posted June 27, 2021 Never get ripped off for a product, get a written agreement for return... Like sears used to offer 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HOME AUTOMATION Posted June 28, 2021 Share Posted June 28, 2021 The modern way... Though you should keep a long stick handy... ...to poke them with, so you can be sure that their sleeping! 1 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wierd_w Posted June 28, 2021 Share Posted June 28, 2021 Ahh Yes. The venerable KidStoned chewable Valium. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jrhodes Posted June 28, 2021 Share Posted June 28, 2021 1 hour ago, GDMike said: Never get ripped off for a product, get a written agreement for return... Like sears used to offer AKA, How to give toddlers their first case of whiplash. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+OLD CS1 Posted June 28, 2021 Share Posted June 28, 2021 There is a line. I am going to take that line, douse it with gasoline, gunpowder, nitroglycerine, and gummy bears, and light it up. 2 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wierd_w Posted June 28, 2021 Share Posted June 28, 2021 (edited) Holy shit. Yes CS1, that deffo crosses the line. (Especially since that is NOT a UV resistant package, and chloroform turns into phosgene, a VERY POWERFUL nerve gas that also causes pulmonary edema, on exposure to UV.) Edited June 28, 2021 by wierd_w 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GDMike Posted June 30, 2021 Share Posted June 30, 2021 (edited) Ok, he's free! Time for TI-99 40th commercial part 2. Edited June 30, 2021 by GDMike 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+OLD CS1 Posted June 30, 2021 Share Posted June 30, 2021 7 minutes ago, GDMike said: Ok, he's free! Time for TI-99 40th commercial part 2. Count me in for a whole new set of inappropriate jokes. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HOME AUTOMATION Posted June 30, 2021 Share Posted June 30, 2021 1 hour ago, OLD CS1 said: Count me in for a whole new set of inappropriate jokes. ...Not before me, you don't! --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Back in action... ...Courvoisier anyone!!! 2 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+arcadeshopper Posted June 30, 2021 Share Posted June 30, 2021 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HOME AUTOMATION Posted July 1, 2021 Share Posted July 1, 2021 ...So much more appropriate. 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GDMike Posted July 1, 2021 Share Posted July 1, 2021 (edited) 8 hours ago, OLD CS1 said: Count me in for a whole new set of inappropriate jokes. Hey hey hey Edited July 1, 2021 by GDMike 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+OLD CS1 Posted July 1, 2021 Share Posted July 1, 2021 Pudding Pops. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HOME AUTOMATION Posted July 1, 2021 Share Posted July 1, 2021 (edited) OK, now you've gone too far. ...And this is me talking! Edited July 1, 2021 by HOME AUTOMATION 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+OLD CS1 Posted July 1, 2021 Share Posted July 1, 2021 17 minutes ago, HOME AUTOMATION said: OK, now you've gone too far. Not what you think. Just a late-night programming session. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HOME AUTOMATION Posted July 1, 2021 Share Posted July 1, 2021 Yes, now I need to get my mind out of the gutter. ...And find my prescription lenses! 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+OLD CS1 Posted July 1, 2021 Share Posted July 1, 2021 30 minutes ago, HOME AUTOMATION said: ...And find my prescription lenses! At one time during my previous lives in a cubical zoo, I got hold of a set of no-script 0-mag glasses. So, just glass in a frame, essentially stage glasses. Once I got people used to seeing me wear them around the building I would start "forgetting" them. Someone would bring me something to look at and I would tell them to get back with me because I cannot find my glasses. To be fair, it was usually people from other sections bringing me stupid nonsense, unrelated to my job or tasks, at which I had no business looking (trying to get me to do their jobs for them.) 1 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Ksarul Posted July 1, 2021 Share Posted July 1, 2021 9 hours ago, HOME AUTOMATION said: Yes, now I need to get my mind out of the gutter. I'm not sure my mind would be able to survive outside of the gutter. . .it has been down there for a loooooooong time. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HOME AUTOMATION Posted July 1, 2021 Share Posted July 1, 2021 Uh-Oh, I hope I'm not horning-in on your Devil-act... ...I hate it when I do that: 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Schmitzi Posted July 2, 2021 Share Posted July 2, 2021 3 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HOME AUTOMATION Posted July 2, 2021 Share Posted July 2, 2021 On 6/30/2021 at 8:17 PM, GDMike said: Hey hey hey Nah nah nah 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+acadiel Posted July 3, 2021 Share Posted July 3, 2021 ? 3 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HOME AUTOMATION Posted July 3, 2021 Share Posted July 3, 2021 Meow! ...I just love those pointy little ears! 2 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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