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@mott555
It's the built-in defense against the Hacker OS
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Anything can be unsafe if used unsafely.
Our nanny society is trying to fix that for us.
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I don't know if Outlook for Linux exists. And I'd be afraid to try it, to be honest.
It does in a web browser! (Which really doesn't look much different from the installed version running on Windows...)
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@mott555 Hey look! Windows is making a come back at the end there while Linux continues down!
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@mott555 Hey look! Windows is making a come back at the end there while Linux continues down!
That was after I rediscovered Windows 3.11 installed in DOSBox.
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That was after I rediscovered Windows 3.11 installed in DOSBox running on Linux.
FTFY
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Status: Finished a live-remote-troubleshooting session, in which for a particular user the application in question would crash when opening a file, but wouldn't for anyone else.
The resolution? Make the "monitor" 3px taller.
No, really. The software apparently opens up a MDI window of a specific size, but can't if the available space in the MDI can't fit it. And if it can't, it pops up a completely unrelated error message about database columns and hard-crashes.
Two months of back-and-forth troubleshooting came to a close when I joined their session in a mirror and thought "Huh, their window is abnormally small. I wonder...."
I hate developers, I guess.
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Just managed to print and perma-delete a bunch of emails because Firefox stole focus while I was typing in the password to my password manager application.
I hate computers.
I hate focus stealing for this very reason. You might not even realize what stupid pop up you just dismissed and what damage it caused.
I have KDE configured to aggressively prevent focus stealing, but not at the highest level. One time I had a warning message in some stupid ANSYS program that I need to disable focus stealing prevention for it to work correctly. To which I obviously replied “ NO U! ”
Love when this aligns.
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@TimeBandit said in WTF Bites:
That was after I rediscovered Windows 3.11 installed in DOSBox running on Linux.
FTFY
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
And if it can't, it pops up a completely unrelated error message about database columns and hard-crashes.
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@TimeBandit said in WTF Bites:
Still, it's good to have options i guess.
Yes. And not many laptop can handle 64GB of RAM (last time I checked).
I'm getting there - I've got 32 right now, and am using it.
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@levicki Oh, man, what I could do with 73.
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@pie_flavor said in WTF Bites:
I've got 32 right now, and am using it.
Maybe you should close that Discourse tab
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@pie_flavor said in WTF Bites:
@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
And if it can't, it pops up a completely unrelated error message about database columns and hard-crashes.
Well it's not a hardcoded message. It's just that the failure-to-create-a-window error didn't get caught up in the create-a-window code, and fell up to the open-a-document code somewhere else where bad assumptions about failure were had.
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My superglue is trying to escape its container or something
However, despite the weird bulging bits that I was sure was glue exploding out of the thing and drying, the glue still comes out the business end normally. I guess I'll just keep using it then.
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@levicki said in WTF Bites:
Did it also lose its black color on the edge where your palms are resting against it like mine?
Hasn't been an issue in the three and a half years i've had it.
i do need to get new keycaps because i replaced the original set (i got the ultimate edition casuse that was the only one that still had stock with the MX brown keys. i like the blues, but not for office environment) and..... i did not buy quality replacements
@levicki said in WTF Bites:
overall product design quality (especially ergonomy) is a for that much money.
got Work to pay for it so........ /shrug/
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My DasKeyboard4 doesn't have a Windows key either. It's got a Paragon Interrupt key that Windows interprets as a Windows key, so that's just a different key cap. :-P
Still, it's good to have options i guess.
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Is way less effort that way. And I like taking the less effort approach.
Funny you should mention management.....
Moving down in the world these days?
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Who posts graphs with unlabeled axis?
Funny enough, since I drew it up in LibreOffice it took a bit to figure out how to turn off the labels. Last time I did charts in a recent version of Excel, it took me a long time to figure out how to turn labels on.
The secret to charts of wildly clicking on different areas until the right side appears. This has never appeared to be a repeatable process.
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In today's "Why did you name your JS library the way they named their PhotoShop alternative GIMP":
The powerful, in-browser CSV parser for big boys and girls
Who's Your Papa?
Lil' Papa (minified) for production use
Fat Papa (un-minified) for development
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@TimeBandit said in WTF Bites:
Internet Explorer for the win!
To win the award for browser that sucks most?
What do you mean, "browser"? "Internet Explorer is a compatibility solution", says Microsoft
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@levicki said in WTF Bites:
I don't know if Outlook for Linux exists. And I'd be afraid to try it, to be honest.
I hear it works under Wine.
I'd definitely need harder liquor if I had to work with it.
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@TimeBandit said in WTF Bites:
Internet Explorer for the win!
To win the award for browser that sucks most?
What do you mean, "browser"? "Internet Explorer is a compatibility solution", says Microsoft
At least better than the Linux people who insist that text "browser" that runs on CLI is the only way to go.
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@TimeBandit said in WTF Bites:
Internet Explorer for the win!
To win the award for browser that sucks most?
What do you mean, "browser"? "Internet Explorer is a compatibility solution", says Microsoft
At least better than the Linux people who insist that text "browser" that runs on CLI is the only way to go.
Depends on Where do you want to go today?™
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Doing all or none of the above, and complaining about it online.
AKA the TDWTF way.
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@TimeBandit said in WTF Bites:
@pie_flavor said in WTF Bites:
I've got 32 right now, and am using it.
Maybe you should close that Discourse tab
Glass houses 'n all, cos this forum is using two. Then I've got two windows of IDEA and one of Rider open, two Minecraft clients and one server open (on a 250-mod modpack), and Discord.
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@Luhmann I knew where to find it in Excel 2007, but not in Excel 2016. They moved the cheese on me.
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They moved the cheese on me.
In 10 years application interfaces could quite change yes.
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@levicki said in WTF Bites:
@loopback0 said in WTF Bites:
You have an OOO set when you appear to be in the office - I think the notification is reasonable.
No it's not reasonable because Outlook has no way of knowing whether I am in the office or not. It can't even know the person operating the mouse and keyboard is me.
It has a way of knowing - it asks.
There should be no notification during OOO period. Why do you need to be notified when it is going to expire and get turned off automatically just like you set it?
I imagine that literally no-one ever in the history of Outlook has set the date wrong.
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When your Chromebook or Chromebox approaches its built-in expiration date, it will warn you that it's time to go buy a new device entirely. Not long after that, it will refuse to apply any further security or feature updates. In addition to leaving users vulnerable to unpatched security exploits, this means that constantly evolving services such as Gmail will eventually stop working entirely.
I guess they got a free preview of what will happen when Google drops the whole project. ""Canary", indeed.
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@Zerosquare said in WTF Bites:
Users on the Canary or Dev builds of ChromeOS got a nasty shock last week.
Poorly grounded electrical appliances debate is
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@loopback0 said in WTF Bites:
I imagine that literally no-one ever in the history of Outlook has set the date wrong.
You’re computing the utility function wrong. Say there’s N people who set the date wrong and get reminded by that feature, who don’t matter because they’re idiots, and there’s one person who’s personally inconvenienced by it.
So the utility of this is: N*0 - 1*∞Clearly, it should be removed!
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will warn you that it's time to go buy a new device entirely. Not long after that, it will refuse to apply any further security or feature updates.
WTF?!
At least the first part they can pretend is in the users best interest. But cutting them off from updates without any reason for it, how is that defensible?!
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@Zerosquare said in WTF Bites:
When your Chromebook or Chromebox approaches its built-in expiration date, it will warn you that it's time to go buy a new device entirely. Not long after that, it will refuse to apply any further security or feature updates. In addition to leaving users vulnerable to unpatched security exploits, this means that constantly evolving services such as Gmail will eventually stop working entirely.
I guess they got a free preview of what will happen when Google drops the whole project. ""Canary", indeed.
I'm pretty sure that is illegal in the EU.
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@topspin Probably by "we don't have the resources to support all that outdated hardware"
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@Carnage it probably also causes cancer in California.
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@Mason_Wheeler Hmm, okay, I read that as cutting it of from updates that would otherwise also work on that device. Maybe I’ve misunderstood.
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I read that as cutting it of from updates that would otherwise also work on that device. Maybe I’ve misunderstood.
Yeah I read the article the same way you did, as it explicitly says:
Not long after that, it will refuse to apply any further security or feature updates.
But Google's own support page says that the updates won't be provided.
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It isn't clear. I understood it the same way @topspin did.
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@levicki said in WTF Bites:
Why can't people leave the well enough alone?
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@levicki said in WTF Bites:
In 10 years application interfaces could quite change yes.
And usually not in a good way. Why can't people leave the well enough alone?
@loopback0 said in WTF Bites:
It has a way of knowing - it asks.
Asks whom?
I imagine that literally no-one ever in the history of Outlook has set the date wrong.
But why I have to suffer those notifications because someone else is retarded? Why? Why can't I tick the "I am a responsible adult and I double-check everything I do, especially calendar dates, I don't need a fucking software nanny, I promise not to sue, now piss off!" checkbox?
I'll bet that every notification is like a stabbing pain right in the liver. What horrible people they are to sentence you to eternal torture. No, not people - monsters.
The blakeyisms abound.
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Never undock1 a Linux laptop while it's powered on, I guess. It will not respond to keyboard input, the mouse moves but cannot click, and hard reboots don't fix anything. I'm stuck at the login screen with no way to proceed.
1At home, it sits folded up while plugged into a USB 3.0 hub that has everything on it, so it's practically a dock.
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hard reboots don't fix anything
I was going to ask if you turned it off and on again, but then I remembered that only fixes things for Windows because Windows has the memory of a goldfish. Linux has the memory of an Elephant so a reboot doesn't fix things.
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@mott555 Well, if I'm really fast, I can get 3 or 4 keys into the password box at bootup before it quits responding to keyboard input. That's really weird.
I tried to get into GRUB and boot in text-only mode, but Dell hijacks the key combo to show GRUB... I wish I had an SSH server installed on this thing.
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@mott555 Fixed by plugging in an HDMI monitor. How does not having an external monitor cause it to quit accepting keyboard/mouse input?
EDIT: And it freezes when I unplug it. Sweet. I have a laptop I can't use as a laptop. Time to knock Linux down a few points on that OS chart I made earlier.