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I guess I should explain. I was feeling this vibe: Every time AI is useful, we hosed up in some way. If AI seems smart, it's only because we are so dumb. If AI is useful, it's because we're not there helping each other, or because somebody was so greedy it ruined something basic. moist banana bread fucked around with this message at 07:10 on May 19, 2024 |
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The three types of App store release notes: - actual release notes (nerd apps only) - "bug fixes and performance improvements"  - "tee hee our app elves have been hard at work changing everything and moving things around for no reason! We know you're gonna love it!!!" 
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May 19, 2024 09:13
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This isn't a new observation but those 3 drawer sterilite organizers got way flimsier. I have one from 10+ years ago and it's more stable and looks better than my newer ones.
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May 19, 2024 10:06
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Windows 10 updated overnight without my permission. Folders now look different, I can't get rid of this stupid redundant "quick access toolbar" which wasn't there last night, it renabled a load of settings I didn't want, like animations. It keeps changing my stupid start menu, docker desktop now opens at startup and then crashes until I end task it, and I had to click "don't give me ads" six times before it would even let me back into windows. Also my scroll wheel no longer works properly, it now scrolls veeeerrryyyy slooooowwwwllllyyy or waytoofast, because it's hosed with my trackpoint drivers or something. I told it not to update, and it updated anyway.  Also, in updating, it closed the programs I had left open. That I had left open on my closed laptop. gently caress you, windows. It makes me genuinely upset. Edit: It's changed my "my computer" folder to look different, and oh look, it also reinstalled edge. gently caress you, I had updates off, I had updates disabled in three different places. And it updated anyway and now everything is messed up.
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May 19, 2024 10:20
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Nettle Soup posted:Windows 10 updated overnight without my permission. I used to spend all sorts of time de-bloating and customizing my OS and desktop environment and now I hardly even bother with it. My login screen? Desktop background? It's whatever they've decided it's gonna be today. I'll lock my computer and turn off the lights to go to bed and then watch as it loudly restarts and blasts the dark room with bright monitors. I just don't have it in me to fight it anymore but at least I don't have a smart TV because holy poo poo those look like absolute nightmares
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May 19, 2024 10:34
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Windows for games, compatibility, and when you must. Kubuntu or Mint or whatever for when you want to just have your own system.
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May 19, 2024 11:07
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My blood sugar was crashing, I ate an orange and some yogurt and feel somewhat better now. I also found the folder full of stuff I used to disable it last time. (Ribbon Disabler worked) In terms of something that's gotten better, blood sugar monitoring! I'm bluetooth enabled now and it's awesome, never do a stupid fingerprick test again!
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May 19, 2024 11:18
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Nettle Soup posted:My blood sugar was crashing, I ate an orange and some yogurt and feel somewhat better now. I also found the folder full of stuff I used to disable it last time. (Ribbon Disabler worked) hey that's cool but how does the bluetooth smell your blood i don't like the implications
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May 19, 2024 11:22
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pod6isjerks posted:This isn't a new observation but those 3 drawer sterilite organizers got way flimsier. I have one from 10+ years ago and it's more stable and looks better than my newer ones. All plastic is poo poo now. I had 1-10 year old SMD reels, high user reels from before covid and high user reels after covid, and the quality of the plastic of a fuckin surfacemount component tape reel through the ages was something to behold, especially in real-time.
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May 19, 2024 11:58
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pod6isjerks posted:hey that's cool but how does the bluetooth smell your blood i don't like the implications Weird chemicals under the skin!
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May 19, 2024 12:58
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The imgur app is really hosed. It's impossible to upload multiple images, what most often happens is if I try and upload 3-4 pictures is I get maybe two of them in my imgur account and they're duplicates of one photo.
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May 19, 2024 14:29
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Atopian posted:Windows for games, compatibility, and when you must. I threw my old GPU into my unRaid box and pass it through to a Windows vm just to stream games and apps to myself if I can't get them working in Linux. 
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May 19, 2024 15:44
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Nettle Soup posted:In terms of something that's gotten better, blood sugar monitoring! I'm bluetooth enabled now and it's awesome, never do a stupid fingerprick test again! enjoy it while it lasts as that's definitely going to be broken with an update, abandoned, or forcibly have a subscription attached eventually
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May 19, 2024 15:46
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Squatch Ambassador posted:I threw my old GPU into my unRaid box and pass it through to a Windows vm just to stream games and apps to myself if I can't get them working in Linux. I haven't had to run Windows to play a game in years, but I don't play those battle royale multiplayer games that refuse to run unless some rootkit DRM anti-cheat bullshit is installed. The best part is when those games don't work in Windows either, and the instructions for fixing it are basically "edit these registry keys that turn off a bunch of OS security features".
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May 19, 2024 15:47
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When companies started charging you for doing their admin work for them. I used to be able to buy cinema tickets direct from the website and just pay the ticket price. Now there's a charge for doing it this way. And it isn't even a one-off charge, it's per ticket despite it being one transaction. Dickheads.
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May 19, 2024 15:47
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RIP Piper security camera. They finally went dark a few months ago, but that was years after they went out of business. I think RIM (Blackberry) bought them out, and for some reason maintained their network for years. An online security camera with no subscription! Such a thing will likely not be seen again.
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May 19, 2024 15:50
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Relyssa posted:enjoy it while it lasts as that's definitely going to be broken with an update, abandoned, or forcibly have a subscription attached eventually I mean it already has a sub attached, in that the arm things need to be changed every two weeks and each sensor is around £50, but at least for now I get them on the NHS.
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May 19, 2024 16:19
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The webcomics/manga aggregator I use has decided to add a delay to new releases and a countdown suggesting I go to the translators site to read it. Don't worry if this post means nothing to you, you can be sure I am right to be annoyed.
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May 19, 2024 19:42
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Nettle Soup posted:Windows 10 updated overnight without my permission. It won't solve all of these issues unfortunately, but have a look into Windows 10 LTSC. It's an edition of Win 10 without most of the annoying stuff that won't get any 'feature' updates. It gets security updates until like 2032 too.
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Atopian posted:Windows for games, compatibility, and when you must. Linux is good now. If you don’t specifically need unique, windows- or Mac-only software, there is probably a Linux out there for you.
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Saving myself for Windows 12
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Insanite posted:there is probably a Linux out there for you. yeah found your problem there
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Hippie Hedgehog posted:... only documented on a very obscure Sharepoint page that was un-findable using the internal search engine. Getting a thousand yard stare here. "Ok carrionman, to find the ALNATS procedure go to (campus) then (department) then the folder called "new 2017" Then "computer stuff" followed by "systems" "students" "new students" "monitoring" "reports" "how to guide" loving boomers and computers.
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pod6isjerks posted:I used to spend all sorts of time de-bloating and customizing my OS and desktop environment and now I hardly even bother with it. My login screen? Desktop background? It's whatever they've decided it's gonna be today. I'll lock my computer and turn off the lights to go to bed and then watch as it loudly restarts and blasts the dark room with bright monitors. I just don't have it in me to fight it anymore but at least I don't have a smart TV because holy poo poo those look like absolute nightmares Haha I do this too. I reinstalled this week because system interrupts were becoming like %5 cpu time. It's an old computer with known bad RAM that bsod's randomly, so why bother? redshirt posted:
Raspi with a webcam? Not very convenient if you needed much of a setup though. moist banana bread fucked around with this message at 05:48 on May 20, 2024 |
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May 20, 2024 05:39
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Linux sucks and anyone who recommends it also sucks.
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moist banana bread posted:Haha I do this too. I reinstalled this week because system interrupts were becoming like %5 cpu time. It's an old computer with known bad RAM that bsod's randomly, so why bother? Who hosts the footage?
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"listen you're gonna have to install like 20 distros and probably reinstall the distro you like 20 times because you installed poo poo in the wrong order, but there is a linux out there for you" im a stupid dipshit that loves computers who will do that most people are not stupid dipshits like me
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redshirt posted:Who hosts the footage? Well locally I assume we can record in a loop to an HDD or something, but yeah I don't know about setting up remote access. I'm basically assuming someone has thought of this. Hey guys. Chat GPT says I can just charge this LiPo as a NiMh, sounds good right? 👍 (I'm not going to)
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They've perhaps mortally wounded the iOS YouTube app by super duper aggressively pushing Shorts, all up in your grill, as soon as you open the app. The whole screen is filled with Short shart as soon as you open the app. Then scrolling down there's like 5 normal recs and then another full screen of bastard Shorts nonsense. Truly a dark day for humanity
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There is literally not a single phone app I've ever used that didn't suck. The Awful App is about as close as anyone's come simply because it's content presenting information in a simple table with nothing else. App designers cannot help themselves. Also, I have few nice things to say about Windows, and zero nice things to say about MacOS, but this hits the nail on the had as to why I don't recommend Linux to anyone: Insanite posted:there is probably a Linux out there for you. Its maintainers are its own worst enemies.
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May 20, 2024 08:05
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I will never have sex again
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pencilhands posted:I will never have sex again teen witch fucked around with this message at 09:39 on May 20, 2024 |
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May 20, 2024 09:36
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pencilhands posted:I will never have sex again … for no good reason?
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Some goon recommended Bound as an app for playing audiobooks and it's pretty good in the way that Awful is. It does the thing, and that's it. Firefox app seems to work well
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I got it fixed, using ribbon disabler and then resource hacker to remove the "command bar". Now I'm trying to reboot and it tells me it's installing updates. OK fine, how much worse can it be? I have all the stuff to fix it now anyway. Ten minutes later: could not install updates, undoing changes. Finally restarts, continues undoing changes for another ten minutes. This was exactly why I had the poo poo disabled, windows, gently caress off! Leave my decade old laptop alone!
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May 20, 2024 11:35
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Been meaning to post this for a while now The Far Side page-a-day calendar this year forces Saturday and Sunday to share a page. Wonder how much they saved by removing 52 pieces of paper? These calendars were a thing years ago, disappeared for a long time and then were brought back last year. It's been a good nostalgia hit but I think I'll skip it in 2025.
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They take the good oil out of my peanuts and they put bad oil in.
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Quadramind posted:They take the good oil out of my peanuts and they put bad oil in. oil is stored in the nuts
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I have started writing documents as draft emails to no one in outlook because it auto saves without having to deal with onedrive. hahah
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I just tried to buy tickets to an upcoming show featuring Eugene Mirman. The app wanted me to do captchas before letting me check out. I failed three of them in a row (bicycle, fire hydrant, traffic light). gently caress you, guess I'm not buying tickets
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