The Official Status Thread
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Status: the song "turning Japanese" applies to her right now...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
Let's hope it wasn't that kind of mold: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1951_Pont-Saint-Esprit_mass_poisoning
Sensors detected standard green mold, nothing too dangerous...
Status: that's twice! Culprit identified and set to destroy.
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@Tsaukpaetra Coincidentally, I had some moldy food in my lunch today.
I bought some fresh fruit at Trader Joe's a few days ago. I don't usually shop there, but I needed on specific item, and on the way in I noticed some fruit that I rarely buy because it's too expensive; they had it for a remarkably reasonable price, and it was actually ripe, unlike typical grocery store produce, which generally more closely resembles baseballs than anything edible.
The trouble with fruit that is actually ripe is that it spoils fairly quickly. I've had to throw out a few apricots; the cherries have fared a little better, so far, but they're going fast, too.
Anyway, I had some cherries in my lunch. I bit into one that, externally, wasn't obviously bad, only to be greeted by the unmistakable and very unpleasant taste of mold. Yuck.
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I don't know what I expected...
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Status: plugged in an old Logitech C920 I've had laying around, and after Windows installed drivers I was greeted with this thing sliding onto my screen:
why is this a thing that can happen from plugging in a new device on a fresh Windows 10 install?
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@LB_ said in The Official Status Thread:
why is this a thing that can happen from plugging in a new device on a fresh Windows 10 install?
Because Logitech writes the drivers, not Microsoft? I got the same type of thing for my printer and one of my external hard drives.
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And unlike previous versions of Windows, Windows 10 seems to love (re)installing manufacturer bloatware. I did some cleanup on a laptop to remove all the quasi-useless software installed by Lenovo, and was surprised to see that on next boot, Windows "helpfully" started downloading and installing some of it back.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: the song "turning Japanese" applies to her right now...
She doesn't look Japanese to me...
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@remi: I can understand the , but that's a bit sad. There are schools and small non-profit organizations that would gladly accept older hardware. Not to mention people interested in retrocomputing.
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@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
Windows
"helpfully" startedwas told via a UEFI rootkit to downloading and installing some of it back.FTFY .
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@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: the song "turning Japanese" applies to her right now...
She doesn't look Japanese to me...
A little hard to operate the camera in the position I was in and get a good picture.
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Status: On the plus side, maintenance is forcing me to go to bed at a reasonable hour. On the minus side, I shouldn’t have spent that time working on the next crafting leve tier... blue balled myself right at the apex of the MSQ.
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Status: Who was it that was advocating for systems to divulge usernames because deliberately hiding them served no purpose?
Fuckers.
Edit: And in case someone believes that it's a reasonable username for someone to pick:
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@Tsaukpaetra Sign In Challenge? Is that some new Twitter trend?
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@Tsaukpaetra I confess, I don't understand the purpose of this post. Is it to point out that random "security questions" get generated for nonexistent usernames?
Yes, that's how it's supposed to work.
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@heterodox said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra I confess, I don't understand the purpose of this post. Is it to point out that random "security questions" get generated for nonexistent usernames?
Yes, that's how it's supposed to work.
No, I've just been spending years off and on trying to get into my account that (after a side comment from my father) I decided probably doesn't actually exist.
After mentioning it when he opened a letter saying money is going to be sent to the government (or something) I told him "Yeah, I get emails every year or so telling me I have money but I can't get it."
Apparently I need to use this thing called a "call" and "talk to someone".
Edit: Example email:
Which, by all intents and purposes, seems to indicate I have an account (online at that!) that I'm expected to log into in order to interact with this company.
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@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
retrocomputing
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
I have an account
Oh, and also this message:
Which is stupid, wrong, and deceitful. What it really means is that the information was wrong. Probably. The system is actually not unavailable. Know how I can tell? Let's try it three times:
Oh, now the information is wrong? No, what it really means is that I've been temp-banned from the form.
I called the automated system. Asked me for my account number twice, then dumped me when it claimed it was going to transfer me to an agent. Apparently the automated system doesn't know that the office is closed right now.
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@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
@remi: I can understand the , but that's a bit sad. There are schools and small non-profit organizations that would gladly accept older hardware. Not to mention people interested in retrocomputing.
Meh. I mean, there some obvious here, yes, but OTOH I'm not really sure schools etc. are really interested in bog-standard desktop hardware that is more than 15 years old. Sure, there are probably schools deep in Africa or wherever who don't even have that, but then I had to remove RAM sticks to make it boot, I know that the MB has some issues with its battery (even when I was using it fairly regularly, it always complained about dead battery, even immediately after plugging a new one), at least one of the disks that I scrapped was nominally 320 GB but actually only had 150 or so GB assigned to partitions because (if I remember correctly) at one point it started to fail and I managed to keep alive for a few more months by only using bits of it etc.
So while in theory, someone else could reuse that hardware, practically speaking I am not sure it would really be a nice gift.
As for retro-computing, 15 yo is probably not old enough to be really interesting, and it is also likely very common, so anyone who's looking for that could find one anywhere.
So there wasn't really much to motivate me to find an alternative use. Although everything is still stacked in the garage, scheduled for the next trip to the recycling centre but that may yet take a few months (the is strong here as well), so if someone wants it, they can have it.
The disks have been drilled through so they are probably even more useless, although again if someone wants to have fun with them, be my guest.
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@remi said in The Official Status Thread:
have fun with them
The magnets make excellent key holders. Would recommend!
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@Tsaukpaetra That's actually a good idea. I might try and see how hard it is to get to the magnets.
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@remi said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra That's actually a good idea. I might try and see how hard it is to get to the magnets.
Not very, but be extremely careful, they're very powerful neodymium and will snap hard in most assemblies if you're not watchful during extraction.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@remi said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra That's actually a good idea. I might try and see how hard it is to get to the magnets.
Not very, but be extremely careful, they're very powerful neodymium
Well that's the only reason to try and get them, isn't it? If I wanted cheap and not-very-powerful magnets, I wouldn't bother with dismantling disks.
and will snap hard in most assemblies if you're not watchful during extraction.
That should be OK, since I don't have any interest in keeping any other part of the disk I can apply as much force as needed to pry them away
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Status: GSM PDU stuff is just horrible
Q: How does:
D4E2940A
becomeTEST
?
A: 7-bit septets encoded into 8-bit octets...backwards
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@LB_ said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: plugged in an old Logitech C920 I've had laying around, and after Windows installed drivers I was greeted with this thing sliding onto my screen:
why is this a thing that can happen from plugging in a new device on a fresh Windows 10 install?
My Razer mouse did the same thing. Except the dialog/installer thingy once showed up halfway through a Windows 10 install, during the "Copying files to disk" portion, when I didn't even have a desktop yet!
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@Parody said in The Official Status Thread:
and one of my external hard drives.
Shirley that should be using the generic USB storage driver
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Everything that uses Cloudflare seems to be returning 502s. Even their status page won't load.
Edit: Well, at least the status page has come back to life
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@Cursorkeys: isn't Cloudflare a service that is supposed to prevent outages?
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@Luhmann woo tanya donelly and kirsten hirsh
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@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
@Parody said in The Official Status Thread:
and one of my external hard drives.
Shirley that should be using the generic USB storage driver
It also has encryption that is made available by installing a special driver and then the software from a virtual CD otherwise hidden on the drive. It will happily remind you of this each time you plug in the drive unless you disable it. Windows 10 still installs the driver whether or not the rest is enabled.
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@LB_ said in The Official Status Thread:
why is this a thing that can happen from plugging in a new device on a fresh Windows 10 install?
Because Windows auto-installs device drivers, as expected. However "device drivers" and "crappy shovelware that comes with the product and enables a few token proprietary features" are not easily separated.
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@Captain congrats on the wedding and the little Captain!
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Status: Mindlessly wandering around Times Square before heading back to the airport.
Contemplating taking something back home for my peanut butter addiction. Oh look, they even have diabetes-flavored candles:
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Status: Best. Vacation. Ever.
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@heterodox said in JavaScript integers are very limited:
I think for most people who haven't gotten [the 1903 rollout] by now, it's due to "incompatible software". I verified this was the case for me with the Update Assistant.
I'll probably take my time updating that software; I don't mind that much.
Finally updated. First thing I noticed:
That's pretty cool. Should alleviate a lot of complaints, I should think.
Edit: Looks like updates can be paused for up to 35 days. This is probably something that already existed (that number sounds familiar) but they've made it more prominent.
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Best. Vacation. Ever.
FYI, Vacation pics thread over there ---> https://what.thedailywtf.com/topic/26660/vacation-pics-and-nothing-else
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Best. Vacation. Ever.
Tomorrow I'm flying out for my first vacation in two years.
I expect it to be very, very hot though.
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@Captain
Do you know how much work it is to generate screenshots that aren't spoilers?
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@izzion I know, you have to get out the wooden table and everything.
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
@Captain
Do you know how much work it is to generate screenshots that aren't spoilers?Especially because everyone is so on edge about spoilers after the launch.
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@Benjamin-Hall
Also, I don't have a good new glamour yet.
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@izzion Tru dat.
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Status: Employee opened a fake invoice email and followed the link...then got suspicious, closed everything, and called me to make sure everything was still OK. They're finally learning :single_tear:
It would have been better not to open the email, but I'll take what I can get
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@Cursorkeys said in The Official Status Thread:
They're finally leaning
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Status: So long, and thanks for all the
fish alcoholhot dogs. Now back home to Germany.Also, on the way here I was seated in Comfort+. I didn’t remember booking that but thought “oh well, maybe I have.” This time around the boarding pass told me “seat assigned at gate”. Huh? Never had that before.
All the way back in row 33, no comfort+ for me. :I_am_disappoint:E: That’s 5 inches I’m going to miss.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official Status Thread:
@Cursorkeys said in The Official Status Thread:
They're finally leaning
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My language learning program gave me the sentence to translate to English:
Yo no habla con abogados.
I do not speak with lawyers.
There are several acceptable translations for abogados: lawyers, attorneys, solicitors, barristers, etc., and one very common feedback is the suggestion of a synonym or or idiom the translators have overlooked.
I want to suggest the alternative translation "reprehensible slime mold," but this sentence already has 199 comments, most of which have been deleted. I fear my suggestion would not be taken seriously, and my comment would join the ranks of the deleted.
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Status: My phone has succumbed to salt-water damage.
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