WTF?

This content rating is annoying as frell (notice my usage of the kiddie-safe expletive... *snerk*). Half my f-list is now collapsed into non-specific cut-tags telling me "You are about to view content that may not be appropriate for minors."?? Presumably this is because I joined back when you just had to tell them that you were over 13. You know, since I said I was over 13 more than five years ago, it would have been cool if their computer system leniently deduced that I'm probably well over 18 by now. Kind of a gesture of goodwill towards longterm users who joined under a very different atmosphere and management. But I guess I'm now forced to change my settings somewhere, and give them my data...

more LJ WTF...

So I've been reading some question and answer threads to understand their new rules, and apparently if someone else flags a post of yours as "explicit" and the abuse team agrees, it will be administratively flagged, but you won't even be notified as a journal owner that they put restrictions on your content. In this comment the LJ employee marta explains: "The Adult setting is actually only voluntary, it won't ever be forced. It's the Explicit one which could be set administratively. If an individual post is set the owner won't be contacted. But if a journal or community has the setting put on it (again, multiple flags, review, agree first) the journal owner or community maintainer will receive an email. [...]"

Seriously, what?!? So now I won't even be notified if they administratively restrict my journal content and change the labelling of some of my journal entries?!?

computer woes

So my desktop computer, which is fairly new but not under its six month warranty anymore, has a problem. Sometimes it won't boot when I turn it on. It doesn't even show the BIOS screen nor the graphics card notice. The on/off switch diode lights up, and the case fan works, however I don't see the hard disk diode blinking.

So when it happened the first time out of the blue (there weren't any signs of incipient failure the last time I had turned it on) I thought the worst, tried the turning it off and on again once to no effect, and then pulled out my computer, intending to check all cables, then open it, see whether the processor fan starts, and whether maybe just some connection is loose or too much dust had accumulated or anything. So I pull it out, wriggle all the outside cables, try once again, and miraculously it starts before I even open it. And the computer worked fine, no errors, no freezing, or anything.

So I thought that maybe it was nothing after all, clearly going with my hopes for a best case scenario, because I really don't want to spend money repairing or replacing it fully or in parts. Also seeing how it is still fairly new I didn't anticipate any such extra computer costs, I'm still recovering from buying it this spring, no matter that it was a relatively cheap one as far as computers go, but it was still a big expense for me. (I did however backup the data I hadn't already.)

But then today it fails to start again. So again I try a couple of times, futilely hoping that it might resolve itself on its own like before, then pull it out, open it, and all cable connections I can see seem fine, so I try starting it while open, and again it suddenly works, and now seems to run okay. It did give me BIOS notice that I had pressed the cold reset button too often in sequence, so clearly something registered even as the computer didn't seem to do anything.

Does anyone have any idea what produces behavior like this?