I’m 42 years old and wrote DOS drivers for mice, joysticks, graphics and audio cards for hardware back in the day.

Oh yeah, check my comment history, I literally just dropped a modded port of Tomb Raider 1 for Debian Linux.

I’m old enough to have repaired three different original PlayStations in one night.

Riddle me this… How many screws hold together the optical assembly on an original PlayStation?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_(console)

No shit. When it came out, it was most commonly abbreviated simply as PS.

Guess you weren’t around when the system and the games came out.

And the real PS was the one that had the parallel diagnostic port on the back, what’s ya point?

The real PS was called the… PS

Where did this 1 and X shit come from?

Apparently you weren’t there when the original PlayStation came out. If you’re into nostalgia like that, you’re studying the wrong thing…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_models

Infinite money printer, obviously.

My late father went to cook a steak in his propane stove/oven one evening. Usually his steak would come out fantastic, but something went seriously wrong that evening.

The stove started smoking and stinking the place up pretty quickly. What was the problem? There was a fucking dead rat in the bottom of the oven!

Needless to say, steak was not consumed that night. Hell, even after daddy threw out the steak and cleaned out the dead rat remains, he never even used the oven again.

sudo aptitude reinstall '~i'

You’re right, hindsight is 20/20. Live and learn.

In that particular case, it wouldn’t have really mattered much anyways. When I filed that application, I filed for a particular location. No car, my transportation was bicycle only at the time.

Part of the application asked me if I was willing or able to travel further to other locations, to which I answered no. But sure enough, the interview was scheduled at their store like 10 miles away, not the local store I actually applied to which was only a bit over a mile away.

It wouldn’t have been practical at all, like what if it’s raining that morning? What if it’s crazy hot outside and I arrive drenched in sweat? Even if the weather was good that particular day, the weather is always changing. I can’t be expected to have reliable daily transportation that far away when I’m on a bicycle.

It’s challenging enough to plan a daily scheduled bicycle trip within a 2 mile radius when there’s no way to guarantee I have favorable weather conditions to ride in.

But I guess the real point of my post and question was really looking to figure out how to fix the whole issue of valid and important emails getting automatically filed as spam.

Unfortunately, according to all my research, there doesn’t seem to be any way to do that, especially when I have no clue what server to expect a response email from. I mean, you’d think the email should come from the same server you filed the application on, but apparently not.

Sigh, guess you gotta dig through the trash to get a job online anymore. 🤷‍♂️

Cya - Dave Mirra

Yeah, I’m a BMX rider too, bicycle and vehicle technician as well.

I don’t really need an online application anyways, especially if the response is gonna be auto-filed in the trash.

Fuck Google, fuck AI. Thus far, I’ve gotten more regular work by just showing up in person and showing I know how to turn a wrench and get my hands dirty.

Because your ‘information’ is completely useless and doesn’t provide any answer to my question.

Apparently Google doesn’t even have an answer or solution to the question either.

I’m not fucking stupid, I actually do know how to research things…

https://support.google.com/mail/thread/15558865/how-can-i-turn-off-gmail-filtering-completely-i-can-t-access-all-the-misfiled-spam?hl=en

Thank you for the useless information. My Google account is over 20 years old, back when GMail was still in beta testing.

How the fuck do you change the spam filter options?

How do you even change the spam filter options?

When I started my Google account, GMail was still in beta. Where the fuck are their options?

A computer voice responds…

“Select all the images that match the label: undefined”

The last time I sent a resumé in, it was on indeed.

My resumé reflected my history of electronics repair.

AT&T contacted me. I don’t know fuckall about cellular services, and my previous employers made fucking sure I never learned, by compartmentalizing.

I was the soldering technician that can solder wires about the thickness of a human hair and reball nVidia GPU chips. WTF does that have anything to do with cellular services?

I wouldn’t even know how to check my credit report, I’ve never had a credit card or anything like that.

The last time anyone ever tried to help me check whatever my credit report was, it was my ex (and now deceased) girlfriend, and all that led to was more spam mail.

I wasted 4 months of my life trying exactly that to apply for Lowe’s. I not only called twice a week, I also drove there and back, twice a week, 12 miles there and 12 back.

So, looking past my wasted time on the phone, 24 miles twice a week is 48 miles a week. For about 4 months.

48 miles * 16 weeks ≈ 768 miles of wasted travel, just to nag them and try as so many others have suggested to just be persistent.

It didn’t get me any fucking where. Fuck, it cost me more to try nagging them than if I would have just sat on my ass.

Dunno how to sell things online.

I haven’t had a bank account in almost a decade.

Why? Because my bank fucked me over and refused to accept my tax return payment. I’ve literally never been able to get a direct deposit, something always went screwy, and even the bank manager couldn’t explain why that was.

So I closed my bank account and have been cash only for the past 10 years.

I’ve actually worked for 4 banks before and never had any problem with them cutting me an actual physical check, but God forbid they actually allow a direct deposit…

Like seriously WTF?

I’d be shot in the head in less than 4 hours here.

I’d love to get back into fixing vintage electronics, but I don’t really know anyone that’s interested in buying anything more than 3 days old.

The only people I do know into vintage electronics are more or less anonymous friends that have a garage or storage shed full of the shit and not interested in any more.

Fuck, I found a totally working buisness class video projector that had an original MSRP of almost $16,000, yet I couldn’t sell it to anyone for even a mere $50, they apparently have a policy around here to refuse video projectors, working or not.