All right,
top of the hour.
Welcome to Office Hours with Prime.
I am your host Prime.
I just said that in like a different way.
Anyway,
uh,
if you have questions,
please drop them in the questions thread.
I'll get to them in order that they appear.
I do not currently see any questions,
but there we go.
Um,
yeah.
Ooh,
we have a question.
Question from,
um,
Balar who says,
do you have an idea of what your next task will
be once you're done wrestling the compressor need for good?
Yeah,
you can always check my,
um,
project tracking board.
Mr.
Feder,
that's my dream.
Um,
and
back.
And you'll see,
I am uh
currently working on a bunch more affection probe stuff,
but you'll also see that the general placehold of a business,
private business book has reappeared and it's currently set to medium.
It will soon be set to extra large.
Uh,
and then that'll steal like 95% of my time for a couple of months,
but we're fine.
Um,
so there,
I mean you saw yesterday,
uh,
the cube map creator was,
was,
was revamped,
um,
I actually need to
just like shove the direct link
to
that thread
to sires and moving,
so yeah.
It's just gonna be fixing.
Uh,
I say this a bunch of times.
I'm not sure if I've said it like in office hours recently though,
but like,
um,
one of the reasons why you'll see a sort of,
I don't know if it's new,
or like the approach that that Prime takes with things,
is that Prime is just,
I'm,
I,
I don't,
I know that like the moment I stop touching reflection probes,
I won't be able to touch them for like 3 to 4 months.
Due to this business work that's coming up.
And so I'm just trying to make them as best as
possible and so that's why I revamped the cue map Inspector.
I was like,
hey,
I'm not gonna be here for like months.
I doubt
anyone else on the team is gonna be here for months.
I might as well take like a
extra couple of hours to just make it look fancier,
so I did that.
It's difficult cos sometimes like there's a very clear boundary whereby
you have to stop,
um,
cos again,
you know,
it's,
it's not meant to be like a complete overhaul of how all this stuff works,
it's just meant to sort of like
smooth it over.
But you know the whole like booba kicky er gloopy thing?
It's like,
hey,
I'm just like making
um
it's just making.
Everything more
Buba rather than like right now like the like look at the old map,
old cube map supporter,
it's Kiki.
Look at the new cue map creator.
Not,
not gloopy,
cos like Gloopy's like above and beyond,
right?
It's,
it's,
um,
yeah.
Uh,
Josh asks,
what's the dog doing?
The dog,
um,
I don't know if the dog is like coping with the heat that well.
They're panting a lot on walks,
and I,
I do keep an eye out on,
on various things.
For those who do not have dogs,
uh,
you won't know this,
so I'll just tell you just in case you need to know.
Um,
if it's really sunny out
before you take your dog for a walk,
check any like pavement that's nearby or whatever,
and you need to put like a soft part of your
skin against the pavement just to double check its temperature.
Don't use your palms because your palms are like.
Us to
um touching hot things,
etc.
like uh people say like your forearm or something like that inside of the forearm,
not the outside.
The inside of the forearm is like real poopy skin,
whereas the outside of the forearm obviously is well,
well,
well weathered usually.
You just gotta,
you gotta double check cos you gotta remember that like you're wearing shoes
and and socks,
but,
but a dog not wearing shoes and socks,
like their biology is touching that pavement,
so you gotta double check it's not hot.
If it is too hot,
then
um we do a little walk and then we come back in again and
then they get grumpy at me cos they can't go on a longer walk.
And it's like,
it's a mix of
for longer walks,
it's a mix of dog,
do you wanna die?
cos like I'm dying out here,
it's too hot.
But then it's also a mix of hey,
I.
You might be OK,
Doc,
but I'm not OK,
so we're going inside.
Last night it was so hot
that I,
um,
dragged
an old air conditioner unit that I have that I,
I mean to sell.
Like I was holding it for the winter cause I knew it wouldn't sell in the winter,
winter.
Uh,
but I was holding it for the summer and I was gonna sell it here.
Like,
even if I get like $50 for it,
I don't like,
I,
I just,
I need,
the reason why I'm selling it as opposed to giving it away,
is I need someone who's committed to making it like removed from my presence.
When you give.
Stuff out for free,
sometimes people come round and they're like,
actually I know that this,
this thing is free,
but I don't want it.
But if you say like,
hey,
give me 100 bucks for it,
they come,
they look at it and they're like,
oh,
I'll give you like $80 you just go,
yes,
and then they take it out of your apartment for
you and you don't have to worry about it anymore.
It's beautiful.
But you have to charge money cos if you just say free,
people will be picky.
If you charge money,
people will be
picky still.
But then when they're like,
hey,
I'll do under $100 for a portable AC,
I'm like hell yeah,
just,
that's how much it would cost for me to.
To,
to get rid of it,
um.
Yeah,
there we go.
I've got a couple of rants actually.
Let's get through the questions,
we can do a couple of rants.
Um,
people like rents,
so we'll,
we'll get to them just after these other questions.
Um,
Golly Runi says,
did you get the business partners interested in
screen sharing rather than native Excel support.
Haven't had that conversation yet.
I said it last time,
but ask me again in October.
I know that's like a long time,
but October.
Uh,
I was asking about the temperature.
Uh,
it's actually not that bad today.
It's 27.
Uh,
27 is still too hot for me.
One of the problems as well that I have is the,
the,
the sun
glare is really bad.
Like,
I'll usually come back with a headache.
I've got like transitions glasses,
you know,
they turn to sunglasses in the sun,
but
I always think,
like,
hey,
they could probably like go several notches higher.
I do have some older prescription Sunsunglasses,
right,
they're
sunglasses but with prescription lenses in them.
Uh,
maybe I'll try those on my walk after this.
I don't need like up to date prescription for walking.
I do for like text and shit like that,
but like I'm just like walking,
I could survive.
I could probably survive on like non-prescription sunglasses.
What I actually want to look into is is contact lenses still.
Um,
I just like,
I don't think I can like touch my eye or something.
I need to head to a
uh eye doctor that due for an eye test,
get that sorted and then just like go,
hey,
tell Linda this appointment,
could you just show me to your like contact lenses person and let's have a chat.
Now I also need to get a haircut,
and that's an even bigger problem because I hate haircuts.
It took me like 30 years to figure out the reason why
I always put off haircuts was because I didn't like them.
You like growing up,
you're like,
you know,
you just do what your parents tell you,
so like,
it's like,
oh,
you know,
mother,
father's like,
hey,
it's haircut time,
you're like,
alright,
it's haircut time.
And they sit here in this chair and they're like,
well,
what do you want us to do?
And I'm like,
I honestly don't know.
I'm a kid.
What the fuck do I what do what do you,
what do you think I want?
If it was up to me,
hair wouldn't exist.
And then everyone goes like,
what do you mean everyone would be bald,
and I'm like,
no,
no.
The concept of acknowledging someone's hair wouldn't exist.
So like it wouldn't,
it wouldn't matter.
Like if I was bored,
it wouldn't matter.
If I had like a million
foot long hair,
it wouldn't matter.
Like hair just wouldn't be something that we acknowledge.
A good example of this is if you think about like dogs,
I know it's weird,
but like
there are breeds of dogs that do need regular grooming,
but there are also breeds of dogs that do not need regular grooming,
like,
like mine,
like like Feder,
like I brush him occasionally,
but that's mostly cos he likes it rather than because he needs it.
Um,
Feder just wait.
wakes up,
like,
shakes and says like,
hi,
I'm ready for the day,
and,
and no one
ever
questions him or tells him that his hair looks bad or that it's messy,
or that they don't like how long it is,
but there we go.
I was on a family like FaceTime call,
and my mother was like,
oh well,
your hair's like great you should get it cut.
And I was just like,
hey,
I add a month to the time it takes me to get it cut every time someone mentions it,
that's the,
that's the current plan,
um,
and then she just.
Mentioned it again,
I'm like,
OK,
cool,
2 months.
We've added 2 months to the length of this hair.
Uh,
but I do have business travel coming up,
so I might have to go to a hairdresser,
um,
and just
get it sorted out a little bit.
I'll be like,
hey,
take off some of the length and tidy up so I don't look like a hobo,
but,
but keep it long cos I like long hair.
OK,
cool.
I already finished the portable ACsrant anyway.
I,
um,
pushed,
I pulled the,
the spare portable AC um unit
from.
It's current like Heidi hole in the like bowels of my
apartment where it's waiting to be sold into my bedroom.
And I realised that like with some MacGyvering and some duct tape,
I could probably run its outlet vent
into a spare dryer vent hole.
So this is all at like 4 o'clock in the morning,
by the way,
I'm like cracked up.
I'm just like,
it's
very hot and I'm very tired and I can't sleep.
And so I'm like sweating profusely and just making this done.
Um,
so I checked the spare vent for the dryer and I,
I felt,
um,
fresh air coming from it,
so I'm like,
alright,
that leads to outside.
And then I looked around and it was like,
hm,
the
air vent won't reach.
But I've,
I've kind of like got halfway here now,
like I'm,
I'm in the bedroom with the AC unit holding the vent hose.
What can we do about this?
And that's when I noticed that the other vent hole,
um,
had tubing that around to sort of um
I don't know,
some sort of like weird manifoldy thing that came off the back of the of the dryer.
And it
looked detachable.
And in my haste to detach the dryer vent,
I like ripped it out of the,
the dryer vent side of it cos it was like clamped in there
and I ripped it cos this like,
uh,
this hose is basically like thick foil that you can tear.
So I've got to repair that the next time I need to use the dryer,
but anyway,
then with a bunch of duct tape and uh some adapters
that I had from historical reasons I won't go into,
I connected
the air vent.
Of the dryer
to the old AC's um exhaust pipe,
and then I went to bed,
and it was glorious,
and I,
I slept in in in in almost frigid temperatures
until like a couple of hours later,
when the duct tape gave out and the dryer vent MacGyver ring fell apart,
um,
for those who are unaware,
if you don't vent a port place or any.
AC,
but if you don't vent particularly a portable AC,
what you're basically doing is,
uh,
cooling the front of your room down,
but you are hairdryering the back of your room or whatever's behind the AC.
So I got out of bed and a half asleep days,
turned it off and then went back to bed and it's like,
I'll deal with that later.
Like,
I'll fix the dryer later.
Like I broke because I,
I broke the vent tube.
Uh,
anyway,
I have a picture.
Of the mess,
so you get to see the mess.
I have like another rent as I I have 2 more rents.
I will double check for questions just
before I proceed with additional rents though.
I'm pretty sure whatever I did last night wasn't to code,
but I really don't fucking care.
I,
it was,
it was hot.
The duct tape and wanting to sleep made this happen.
Alright,
let me catch up with questions,
uh.
Oh.
So next up from Gebo,
we have,
if we find a bug that is repeatable but only on Private World or Object Avatar,
what should we do?
Uh,
make the GB issue anyway,
but be very clear that it's only happening.
Why am I not talking?
Now I'm talking.
What the it just like muted me for no reason.
It just like,
it like muted me for no reason.
Reason.
OK,
we're back.
Um,
OK,
so Geel was asking,
where are we?
If we find a bug that is repeatable but only on Private World or Object or Avatar,
what should we do?
Make the issue anyway,
but be very,
very,
um,
clear about it.
Yeah,
Fed is barking because I have neglected his arse to go outside,
and now I'm talking.
And if I'm talking,
it means I'm awake and I can take him outside,
and so he's angry about that.
That's what's,
that's what's going on.
I'll take him outside after this,
um.
Make the GetU issue anyway,
be very clear in your GitU issue that it it's to do with a private asset,
and then,
um,
let,
let the issue know or you know,
the people working in the issue know that you'll give them the assets,
etc.
Then when someone is assigned to that issue,
they should wrap it up.
Um,
sorry,
they should,
what?
I just like read 9809's message in the middle of my speech.
Uh,
they
will reach out to you or contact you and figure it out.
The,
the inappropriate
thing to do is to DM Fruchs because like if you
DM Frus an issue number and some random like resonator package,
it,
it's not gonna make any sense and Fruits might
not actually be the person working on it.
But if you make the Issue,
you're very clearly communicating the issue like,
hey,
this is a private asset.
I wasn't really sure what to do,
but I wanted to make the issue anyway because Prime told me to do so.
The person who works on this can reach out to
me via these contact messages to get this private asset.
What you need to just keep in mind is that when I look at a new GitHub issue,
if I don't have everything on that GitHub issue to action it,
or a place.
to go to action,
it might be ignored.
So if there's a dead end,
in this case,
hey,
you can't provide the test files because they're private,
provide a route to go through to get those assets,
which is,
hey,
contact me,
and we can take a look at.
I,
but yeah,
always make it.
I'm here.
Like,
the light's turning on.
Can you guys not hear this?
Hello.
I am speak.
But the light's turning on,
but the light was turning on.
Am I here now?
Hello,
hello.
Ah.
Hello,
hello,
hello.
Oh yeah,
I'll just turn everything on and off then.
I'll be right back.
Oh,
hello,
hello.
OK,
so I've now explained uh Giel's question like 3 times,
which will be on the recording,
as will me repeatedly go like,
hello!
Like I'm down at the bottom of a well trying to get help or something,
so you get to enjoy that on them.
But
I will summarise the recording,
uh,
um,
an answer that Gear Bell can actually hear,
which is,
please make the issue anyway.
Be very clear in the description of the issue that you're having,
um,
you know,
it's a private asset and that you,
you don't want to publicly share it,
but give them,
um,
give the issue reader a path to go.
Like,
should you need this asset,
here's how you get them.
You can DM me,
you can send a pigeon here,
you can send smoke signals here,
etc.
What you want to do in making an issue,
above all the other guidelines we give you,
I know,
is to just think about.
What's gonna happen
when,
um,
just imagine taking a single sheet of paper,
printing the GA issue description on that,
and then handing it to like myself or fruits in a dark room,
cause that's what it feels like sometimes.
Like,
you read this issue and you're just like,
Great,
I have all the information I need
except a log file.
So I guess I'll just put this piece of paper over
here on the pile and move on to the next.
Piece of paper.
So you want to make sure that like every possible like dead end has a route to go,
and then like,
oh I'm so sorry,
it's a private avatar,
but if you want it,
here's how to get it,
perfect.
Um,
under no circumstances should you randomly DM Fruc's,
uh,
GitHub issue numbers though.
By all means,
like,
if it's part of a conversation,
yes,
and Frus has indicated that they're OK with it,
yes,
but it shouldn't just be like,
hi Fruits,
#1412.ru Fu.
And then like a zip file.
I think that's not gonna do anything.
That's gonna be like the most confusing message.
Um,
it might not be freaks fixing it,
it might be me fixing it,
it might be Raibi fixing it,
it might be Cyra fixing it,
it might be J4 fixing it,
it might be Gwy fixing it.
You've got so many people now,
they're all fixing stuff,
it's great.
So uh just,
just give the issue reader a path to go get that.
I mean,
technically we're team members so we could like
hypothetically reach into your inventory and pull it out like manually,
but like I don't wanna do that,
that's rude.
So we wouldn't do that,
of course.
All right,
let's move on through questions because we spent forever with a broken mic.
So no one in the chat
is like up on
um
on like code uh on um on code and building code.
Great,
excellent.
So no code inspectors are looking at my like
weirdly connected hoses and wanting to find me.
Excellent.
um.
OK,
I will answer Bala's question,
then I've got 2 more rants.
The reason why I'm doing these 2 more rants is because they're top
of mind and I don't have anyone else to talk to about them
yet cos I haven't spoken to anyone else today yet,
so you'll get the first freshest rant,
um,
after this question.
So said,
since I think you mentioned the topic somewhere in Discord,
and if you're comfortable sharing your thoughts,
what's your opinion on the Stop Killing games,
um.
So the initiative's great,
um,
any initiatives that
keep,
uh,
you know,
the power in the consumer are great.
The drama surrounding the initiative is like where I have the problem,
and,
and
I,
I say this on a lot of like topics.
There are problems on both sides of the fence,
and
everyone should just chill the hell out.
You have to start like in
in any sort of like debate or argument,
you have to start from like a neutral point.
And so while most of the people on the sort of like
ra certain someone is bad
debate are
maybe factually correct,
the way that they are addressing the audience is like really annoying.
It's like this person is a poo poo head.
I don't like this person,
let's kill this person,
let's beat this person over the head with a a bat,
like all sorts of stuff like that.
It's like,
how about like we,
we find an empathetic way to have a debate.
And like have a nice
positive conversation about um that that's what I would,
I would rather say.
Unfortunately,
the thing that makes a lot of money right
now on YouTube is what's called YouTube slop,
and YouTube slop is like,
it's sort of hard to define.
But it's where like YouTube videos are made about other YouTube videos,
and you can see it actually happening sometimes
with just like how many like people are on the screen,
and it gets ridiculous,
right?
So let's start with like layer one.
Layer one is usually the source,
right,
so it's usually a live stream,
someone playing a game,
maybe they asked a question,
they froze,
and so their webcam is on the screen,
their gameplay footage on is on the screen,
and usually their chat overlay is on the screen.
But then someone reacts to that,
like,
take,
cause they're like,
oh,
I don't like it,
so I'm gonna react to it.
And so when they react to it,
they upload a video where their webcam is on the screen
and their chat is on the screen.
And then the video and everything else I left,
I left behind is,
is on the screen as well.
And that makes a layer 2.
So layer 2,
you've got like 2 webcams,
2 chats.
But then sometimes there's like layer 3,
where someone reacts to a react.
And it's like,
cool.
Now there are 3 webcams,
3 chats,
and like it's JPEG quality
and it just gets
crazy cos I've seen up to like layer 5 and 6 on some of this drama,
and I can't even work out what's going on because there's just like a sort of like
weird
non-Euclidean collection of webcams going towards the centre,
and it's just like ugh.
But the reason why this,
this,
this works.
Currently is because
um
people find someone who they agree with,
like,
whatever you agree with,
they find someone who they agree with
and then they're choosing to get their news about the day
from
that particular person,
that particular content creator,
that particular platform,
rather than the mainstream news.
And that's why it's popular right now,
you know,
it's like mainstream news is like too thick,
too goopy,
too confusing.
So,
but,
you know,
these particular,
um,
slop creators,
I,
I watched them play Fortnite for like a million million million hours.
We've hung out
and I really like them and I like their community
and,
and they usually cover the top sort of 5 or
so news stories each day with the sort of weird,
you know,
non-Euclidean webcam duplicating,
um.
So I will continue to watch those.
And then the signal that gets sent to that creator is
I don't need to make my own content.
If I just react to content,
then I can make money.
But it's a different type of reacting,
like they're not reacting to cute cat videos anymore,
they're reacting to
like other content and in some cases it's like,
quote drama,
and then like they're getting mad at it and you're like,
are you getting mad at this quote drama because you're really
mad about it or because you're capitalising on the expenditure?
Like,
or you know,
the money that's available,
I don't know.
So anyway,
it's like,
it's a real big problem,
you can just like type into like.
Uh,
YouTube,
like,
uh,
YouTube slop content,
and there's a couple of creators that have,
have done like,
what I'm gonna call like
layer 8 analysis of it,
which is where they like,
you know,
they've removed all the,
all the weird layers of webcams,
they've usually removed all the footage and they just talk about it like it's a,
a,
a phenomenon,
and sometimes they get like psychological about it.
So I'll give,
I'll give you like a couple of example channels.
XQC is one.
Um,
I think FQC is like smarter than,
um,
he's able to portray on his,
his streams.
Um,
I don't know
anything about him.
I've just like,
every time I,
like,
every time some drama happens,
there's usually an XQC video where he's reacting to it.
Uh,
I looked into FUC's one of FUC's channels and I just saw like a,
you know,
there's a huge block of videos where it's just like reacting to
sort of other YouTube drama.
Um,
another good one would be,
uh,
Pyrocynical does that a lot.
Like Pyrocynical just like starts their stream
and then like their viewers send the videos to
watch and then they just watch them together.
And so it's not all slop,
sometimes it's like,
you know,
daily dose of internet or something,
but again it's just like it's weird,
it's like.
Let's watch TV with other people,
and that's how we get our news source.
Anyway,
I'm gonna move on now.
Um,
golly Miny says not it.
I don't know how to respond to that question,
like,
I'm gonna,
I'll tell you what,
I'll rant instead as a as a response to that one.
I'll rant instead.
Uh,
if you want more information on that whole situation about stop killing games,
etc.
um,
the best video to watch.
That I would,
I would suggest you watch is um one that I did link in off topic.
And the reason why I linked this one and this one only,
no other other stop content is because it is the
nicest
like way to have the conversation that that I think,
you know,
needs to be happening.
To maybe fix this,
uh,
so I will,
I will,
I will also link it down here,
uh,
wherever it is.
And then I'll do my two ramps.
Alright,
so here comes ramp one.
I really,
really,
really like the Scion games,
you know,
I missed all that shit.
I really,
really,
really like those games.
And so when the store,
the,
the Scion store.
Announced that they were releasing
limited edition pins,
enamel pins.
Here's here's here's the enamel pins,
right,
so there's there's,
I didn't want the patch,
I'm not a patch guy,
but I'm a pin guy.
So I wanted
Gen's Crest dice rock pin and the Starfisher enamel pin.
I know Rauvi,
who is also,
um,
a fan of this series,
has also ordered these pins and has them
in Rauvi's possession.
But I order them to the same address
that sends me
bills,
junk mail,
food from DoorDash,
Amazon packages.
Um,
3 month old birthday cards that have got lost in airmail,
uh,
you know,
all sorts of stuff like that.
They managed to get to my mailbox,
but Scion packages can't get to my mailbox.
But Scion packages are handled by the United States Postal Service,
which handles all my other mail,
and that can
get to my mailbox.
So
when this package was delivered,
the USPS tracking information said
delivered.
And I was excited,
right,
cos I like this series.
So I took my dog on a walk and we stopped
by the mailroom and I opened my mailbox and it's empty.
And this has happened before with Scion,
so I'm aware of,
like,
what's about to happen.
And so I just like exclaimed,
fuck,
really loudly.
No one was in the mailroom luckily,
cos I know what's about to happen.
Here's what's about to happen.
Prime,
for the next week,
takes photos of the inside and outside of his mailbox,
proving
that the pins are not in there.
He then sends that
to USPS and says,
like,
guys,
like this says delivered,
but it's not in my mailbox.
I've checked days,
like,
I've got photos of the mailbox.
What do we?
want to do.
And
USPS like says,
oh,
we've opened a ticket about this.
And then,
much like other ticket systems,
they close it 24 hours later with a uh an actual,
this doesn't look automated,
like it looks like it was actually written by humans,
so I appreciate that,
but still it was like,
ticket closed,
here's your response.
And the response was,
sorry,
we don't know where your package is,
um,
you'll have to fill in a USPS lost package thing.
And in that case,
that form if I filled that form in.
Then
USPS would like compensate me for the loss of,
of,
of value of those pins,
but I wouldn't get my pins,
so I'd have to reorder them.
And
so when I read that,
and like,
even though it was a perfectly OK response from the person,
I just got angry because I was like,
mail is meant to just work,
like you're meant to just get packages,
but if it goes wrong,
I have to expend so much effort,
right,
cos I don't know how to fill in one of these forms.
I'm gonna have to,
he didn't provide a link to the form,
the person who closed the ticket.
So I'm gonna have to go find this form,
fill in the details,
and for what?
So I can get
2 $26 back?
And it's gonna take forever.
Uh,
and so I
procrastinated filling out that form for a couple of weeks.
Just happens,
I just procrastinated it
and I just completely forgot about it.
And then I think like last week Friday,
I get an email from Scan and I'm like,
what?
Cyan's emailing me?
What's going on?
It's like for context,
this is like a Hogwarts letter to me,
right?
And so like I open it up and I'm like,
what's going on,
right?
And it's the
specifically the Scy merchandise store,
so not as cool.
But the Scion merchandise store,
they say your package got returned to us and we,
we don't,
we don't really know why,
like uh can you confirm your address is correct?
And,
and they um.
You know,
they paste the address that they've got on file for their,
their shipping
software or whatever.
And I look at it and I'm like,
yep.
And literally next to me on my desk is an envelope,
which is like some form of utility bill that has that exact same wording on it,
like to the letter of the address.
Like not,
like,
sometimes there's little subtle differences.
No,
to the letter is a utility bill.
And then I go back to the USPS tracking website and I see that its status has changed.
Because originally it just said delivered and I'm like,
USBS bro,
it ain't no.
But they're like,
we don't know where it is.
But then I look back at the USPS delivery website,
turns out they found it.
And what happened?
It sat in like,
I don't know,
the back rooms for like
6 or 8 days,
and then
there's just like forward,
Ford failed,
Ford expired,
For failed,
Ford expired,
Ford failed,
For expired,
and then it goes back to sender.
And so I reopened the USPS ticket,
and I'm like,
can you tell me what happened here?
Like this parcel was lost for 8 days and then suddenly reappeared back at your,
your postage centre.
And then the same USPS representative emails me back and says,
It was,
they,
sorry,
they didn't say I sighed.
They said
it was in the mailbox for those 8 days,
we checked each day.
And I'm like,
did you?
Here's my 8 days of pictures of an empty mailbox.
What happened?
And they said,
oh,
well,
after it was in the mailbox for 8 days and you made the ticket,
we took it out of the mailbox and we gave it to apartment management,
as in the people at the leasing office.
Now for those who don't know in a giant apartment building,
the people at the leasing office,
they wear the label of management,
but they,
they,
they do the minimum,
and it's not entirely their fault,
so don't hate on them.
But like they do the minimum.
Like if it's anything above and beyond,
they don't care.
Like mostly they're there to just like make you
sign your lease and then they leave you alone.
So they gave it to the management of the building.
Now this has also happened before when USPS got confused.
It's actually my last signing package when USPS got confused.
They just gave it to the leasing office and then I went to
the leasing office with an ID and picked up the mail there.
Anyway,
the leasing office didn't know what to do with it,
as in they looked at it and they looked at the address on it.
And it was like,
we don't know who this is,
bearing in mind I'm paying them rent.
So of course they knew who I am and what my apartment number is.
So they gave it back to USPS and it went
all the way back to Scion headquarters in Spokane.
So I just emailed Scion just before this and I said,
hey,
can you just like send it again?
And then I sent another like slightly angry email back to USPS and
I was just like every other package makes it to the correct mailbox.
Why does this package not make it to the correct mailbox?
Why does this company not make it to the correct mailbox?
And now I have a missed call from USPS.
It's funny when you open a ticket,
like on an email system and then they ring you,
it's like,
I don't wanna be wrong,
that's why I made a ticket.
I don't do well with phone calls.
I can't think.
On the phone.
If you give me information,
I'm going to write it down wrong.
Like,
you know,
when they're like,
could you read out your address on the phone?
Absolutely not.
I would rather write it down on like one of those like planes that
streams a message behind it and fly it over your head than write then,
like,
tell it over the phone.
I will get it wrong.
If you'd like evidence of that,
if I log into my UK bank account and I look at the address,
the address is completely wrong because my only option was to.
deliver my US address to my UK bank over the phone,
because the form on the online banking system
would not allow me to put in a US address,
despite the fact that the bank allows
non-UK residents to have a UK bank account if they're a UK citizen,
but I couldn't put a US address on there,
so I had to ring them up,
wait like fucking 3 hours on the phone
to give them the address incredibly clearly with.
and everything over the phone
for them to like
basically be drunk typing into my bank account.
Um,
so that's fun.
Uh,
so I don't know when I'm gonna get these pins.
Um,
I think they're just gonna be lost in the mail system forever.
Sometimes packages get stolen as well,
and that's because um we have such a complicated
parcel system that some of the uh contracted Amazon drivers
don't know where to put it.
Like there are,
there are like varieties of,
I know this is a huge rent but whatever,
and we're still only on rent one.
There are Amazon drivers which have like an Amazon truck.
Uh it's,
I think it's revan usually,
it's the weird ones,
they look a little bit like Teletubby houses.
Um,
they,
day in,
day out is just like deliver Amazon packages,
but then there are uh like a bunch of sort of
like other people that do it more as like gig work,
and those are the ones that.
That will deliver your package when it's like 3 p.m.
and you ordered like a sandwich from Amazon or something.
And all they have is like a high vis vest and their personal car,
so it's a little bit like an Uber or whatever.
Those people don't understand the,
the like,
the
perils of,
of,
of apartment buildings and how to manage package systems like that.
So they,
they always screw it up.
So anyway,
I've had.
Lots of parcels stolen,
missed,
and it's just like,
it's,
it's like it takes so much effort for me to just get two pins.
I,
I don't understand.
Like,
I should be able to say to the United States Post Office,
fix it,
and they should fix it.
They quite clearly know where my mailbox is.
They just don't do it.
That was rant 1.
We're gonna move on to rant 2 now.
I hope you're ready.
If you remember from,
I think,
last week's office hours where I talked about the abysmal
attempt that I made to go to the doctor,
where I got into the Uber in the wrong like location,
if you want like angry rant of that,
go listen to last week's,
but
I,
I got into the wrong Uber and so I missed my doctor's appointment.
So the,
the,
the replacement doctor's appointment that I booked.
As a follow up to this mess,
was meant to be yesterday.
Now,
last week,
sort of Wednesday,
Thursday,
Friday,
my doctor's office sent round an email.
They were saying like,
hey,
if you miss your appointment now,
there is going to be a fee.
And it was reasonable,
and I'm like,
OK,
but that now means that I am monetarily obligated to meet my doctor's appointment
objective.
Otherwise,
I'm going to be not only sad from a sort of personal level,
but also financially drained by a little bit,
only a tiny little bit.
But money is motivation,
right?
So I set my alarm,
I programme everything into my phone,
so I know where I'm going.
I like orchestrate the entire night before,
so I go to bed early,
I skip out playing games with friends,
I go to bed early,
and
I set my alarm for a reasonable time.
Half an hour before that alarm rings.
The doctor's office rings and I miss it because
I don't take phone calls whilst I'm asleep.
I just don't.
I,
sorry,
don't care.
What if it's an emergency,
I'll get to it when I wake up.
Um,
so I look at the voicemail and the voicemail says like,
hey,
uh,
your doctor has called in sick today,
and we don't know when they're going to be returned.
So it's like more of a serious illness.
We have some slots available for you 30 minutes ago,
bear in mind I'd slept.
Um,
otherwise you'll have to ring our office and reschedule.
Guess who hasn't rung the office and rescheduled yet?
Because I just,
I can't be bothered.
Like,
something went wrong in the,
like,
again,
and it wasn't my fault.
Again,
and now I need to expend effort to fix it,
and it's just like I just,
I just wanna like go to bed,
I just wanna go to bed.
Anyway,
that is,
that is the second round over,
and I don't see any digital questions,
so I'm probably gonna leave off here and just like I don't know,
like
go find
two voicemails.
Why don't we have to,
like,
why are they spamming me?
I,
I can't.
I don't know if it's like um I've looked into it,
right,
and I don't know if it's like some sort of like audio processing issue or something,
but like,
I just,
I don't understand telephones.
I,
I mean,
I know how to use them,
right?
But I do not understand
like voicemails.
They stress me out,
I miss details,
I get things wrong,
I fuck it all up.
Like if they read a telephone number to me on a voicemail then.
I won't hear that number
until I've relistened to that voicemail like 400 times.
And voicemail providers don't make it easy to like skim through a voicemail,
like you skim through a YouTube video,
and so I have to listen to basically
the entire voicemail system like multiple times,
it's like,
you know,
you hear like,
End of message.
To hear that message again press 1,
in the back of my head I'm like,
yeah,
I I listen to it again
because it was like
42,
and then I missed the next digit of the telephone number,
so I have to listen to it again.
And when I listen to it again,
I don't get the rest of the telephone number.
I just get that one digit I missed because I'm
hyper fixated on that one digit that I missed,
and the rest of the phone number like just goes like
in my head.
And so it's like,
cool,
guess I'm listening to this
this voicemail message.
6 times in a row.
Uh,
and,
and I please provide me resources to,
um,
set one of those up and I'll have it set up by the end of the day,
cause I am so tired.
Now,
of course,
my phone is now AI transcribing my voicemails for me.
Um,
Galaxy,
not Galaxy,
um,
Google,
completely different company,
uh,
Google 7 Pro,
Pixel 7 Pro.
The they like,
they're trying to do like AI voice recognition to transcribe.
The voicemails to text,
never accurate when phone numbers.
When phone numbers,
sometimes I've seen it like,
you know,
there's a 3,
and instead of 3 it said tree and it skipped like a double 3
because it's like you can't possibly just say tree tree in a sentence.
No one says tree tree in a sentence,
so it has to be a different word and so it'll just put like something random there,
and they don't like the the the transcription doesn't realise it's a phone number.
So I'm looking at it,
it's like,
alright,
so the number is 423,
and I'm like,
oh my God.
This is like,
I've,
I've record sometimes I record the voicemail
onto the the microphone you're hearing now,
like I just hold the phone to here and I
open up Audacity and I record the voicemail to Audacity,
and then I scrub through it in fucking audacity,
or sometimes I like volume boost it in audacity,
just so I can hear the telephone number they want me to ring.
It's a nightmare.
Never a dull moment,
is there?
Uh,
it's
Google,
so Android.
Alright,
just turn on the AC cos I I forgot to.
Oh,
that's actually a good question,
Goldie.
I don't I don't mind going through,
I,
I don't mind taking a look.
I'm also gonna actually,
I,
um,
I'm actually gonna go through my fun list right now cos you mentioned it.
Just I feel like let's refocus back to resin I after I
spent 20 minutes basically describing how I can't function as a human,
um.
Yes,
so my fun list
is a mix of stuff that I know I could do in one day,
combined with stuff that I want to do,
but there's also
a low priority.
So if it's like low priority or easy to do
and fun,
it goes in the fun list.
So I'm just going through the fun list and you'll see like a lot of it.
Is
like really quick things.
Some of them are quite big,
like there's feedback form,
uh,
which you can't even see because that's internal discussion 692,
but um
that's about having a more generic feedback form somehow,
um,
that isn't for bugs.
There's other stuff that like I'm,
I'm
a little bit of an expert in,
or historically a little bit of an expert in.
Um,
so as an example,
we've got issue 770,
inconsistent character width in monos spaced font rendering.
I am a little bit of an expert in monospace font rendering,
um,
in browsers,
not in unity or freak extensions,
so it'll take a little bit of alignment.
But like I at least I know this problem,
like the problem reported in this issue,
I had at like my motorsport job where I did racing.
So when you do
um racing displays for like who's,
you know,
who's fastest in the race,
etc.
a lot of times you're displaying information that
is rapidly changing because it's like lap time,
speed or like performance characteristics,
and you'll get exactly
the problem described in that hub issue,
but on your visual displays.
And so what you see is like a wiggle,
and it's where like the column width changes in your table display
because the numbers aren't monospaed correctly
and.
That can that flickering can become quite sort
of distracting and potentially damaging if it's,
you know,
um
epileptic inducing.
Uh,
so I'm I'm very familiar with the problem and had to fix it a lot
um on our race displays.
Let me see if I've just got like a picture of like one of our race displays from,
from,
from the archive room.
Our,
our products like defunct and doesn't exist anymore,
so it's kind of like difficult to find
screenshots of it.
Yeah.
Mm.
If there's one thing that like Fruits has taught me that I appreciate a lot,
it's to just like document your development and,
and don't really care,
like how rough it is,
and that's why some of the dev vlogs are just like thrown together.
Because
I have next to no dev logs from the whole motorsports software stuff and I,
it was a really cool gig.
I'm I'm,
I'm sad I don't have much more media from it.
I should be able to get one photo of these displays.
Hooray!
You have to see the back of someone's head,
but like
all of,
OK,
so ignore the people.
But those TV screens,
oh sorry,
those computer monitors,
all of them
contain software that I wrote with um the CEO of the,
of the racing company as well.
Um,
so on the left there where it says Dominic Herbertson,
64 with a green tick,
uh,
that is the technical inspection screen.
Uh,
before bikes got on track,
they have to go past a lovely lady who's her name something like Mary or Sue,
it's like,
like a,
you know,
like a
sort of more classical name.
Um,
very sweet lady who is very distractable and so sometimes she'll forget to
scan a bike and so we have to keep an eye on her.
Uh,
because like if if they don't go through technical inspection and
they're not like basically um Mary or whoever she is,
she
needs to click that check button
to be like,
I have,
I've looked at the bike,
it's not going to explode.
And if she doesn't click that button
and that bike goes out on track,
an alarm goes off and it says like,
uninspected vehicle on track.
So like
we need to keep an eye on her.
Make sure that she pushes that button.
Sometimes we push it for her.
I say it like this is happening now,
that they've changed systems now,
this was like
5,
10 years ago.
And then on the right monitor that's in the middle,
mostly occluded by by um a gentleman's face,
is uh
some of our racing displays and what looks like the incident management thing.
So we also did incident management.
So any like accidents and courses that were managed through our software.
And on the right monitor that you can barely see the right extreme right,
that is race control.
Uh,
you can see that we were starting to change over to dark mode and that's why
half the stuff is in dark mode and half the stuff is in light mode.
There you go.
I think I'm gonna go ahead and leave off here.
Uh,
I need to take this dog for a walk and probably give USPS
a call back and and send them more photos of my mailbox.
So I will speak to you soon.
Oh yeah,
the visual voicemail,
I,
I have
um.
It's like,
uh,
yeah,
I've got the,
yeah it is.
I've got the T-Mobile version
of
visual voicemail,
but of course the T-Mobile version requires me to sign into my T-Mobile account,
and I don't want to do that.
So if the one that you've linked is like a non-count version,
then heck yeah.
Yeah,
look at the rating of T-Mobile visual voicemail.
2.8.
Anyway,
uh,
I'm gonna leave off here
and I will speak to you soon.
I'm gonna go calm down.
Speak later bye bye.