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@Zecc said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: It's so much fun teaching people that have used computers for years how to use a computer. Bad enough they can't understand they need to download programs to view some file types, now they suddenly don't even know how to close a window anymore.
I suffer from the opposite problem, of people who close and reopen windows instead of simply switching applications.
I got into ANOTHER debate with someone who was appalled I don't close my tabs regularly!
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status: fucking with the Google ass. Asked it to sing me a song. This is what it came up with.
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@Tsaukpaetra Any response I could make to that would have to go in the .
Filed under: If you can't say anything nice, ...
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra Any response I could make to that would have to go in the .
Filed under: If you cant say anything nice, ...
It's apparently the only song it knows. Well, except the birthday song...
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@HardwareGeek If you won't, then I will. That is such a shitty song.
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
That is such a shitty song.
Well, yes, but it's also propaganda, and that's where it gets into territory.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
I put the preview pane on the bottom instead of the right in Outlook.
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
I don't close my tabs regularly!
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Status: Delivery distortion field has relented, but only after I shouted at an Amazon representative, cancelled my order, and got it elsewhere.
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Updated to macOS 12.0.1.
Everything worked perfectly fine until the update, now I have multiple issues.
First, it decided it apparently didn't want to go to sleep anymore1. Came back to it in the morning and didn't have to log in after opening the lid. Battery / usage log said it had been on the whole time. Technically it even says the screen has been on, which would suck, but I'm not sure whether the screen had turned off when I closed the lid. After some experiments, even manually selecting sleep mode didn't change that, but did turn off the screen at least. So I dediced to reboot. ()
Next issue is that since then it doesn't want to wake up correctly anymore. Twice now (once this morning) it had issues where network connectivity was extremely bad. Speed test suggested something like 50k bandwith, but other devices on the same network confirm that the router is connected at 50Mbps. So that's 3 reboots in one week.All that to get a shitty wallpaper. Fuck, I hate updates.
1An issue that I felt was just a fact of life with Windows or Linux laptops, but had indeed always "just work[ed]" with macbooks. So I just close the lid and never turn anything off.
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Updated to macOS 12.0.1.
Everything worked perfectly fine until the update, now I have multiple issues.
When will you learn?
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Updated to macOS 12.0.1.
Everything worked perfectly fine until the update, now I have multiple issues.
When will you learn?
I update as rarely as reasonably possible, and everyone always yells at me.
There was a time before mine when the 's used to say "never change a running system". Now everything has updates multiple times a week!
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
Twice now (once this morning) it had issues where network connectivity was extremely bad. Speed test suggested something like 50k bandwith, but other devices on the same network confirm that the router is connected at 50Mbps.
Mine does this too - although a speed test usually shows 20-30Mbps and turning the WiFi on/off fixes it and it goes back to the proper speed for a while.
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@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
Twice now (once this morning) it had issues where network connectivity was extremely bad. Speed test suggested something like 50k bandwith, but other devices on the same network confirm that the router is connected at 50Mbps.
Mine does this too - although a speed test usually shows 20-30Mbps and turning the WiFi on/off fixes it and it goes back to the proper speed for a while.
I'll try that next time it happens. I think I tried turning wifi off/on unsucessfully, but I might not remember correctly.
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
Everything worked perfectly fine until the update, now I have multiple issues.
Summary of my update to Android 11...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
Everything worked perfectly fine until the update, now I have multiple issues.
Summary of my update to Android 11...
Sounds like the summary of anything you touch
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Did they make Windows 11 after saying Windows 10 would be the last Windows just for the Spinal Tap reference?
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
Everything worked perfectly fine until the update, now I have multiple issues.
I.e., a completely routine update.
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Status: Pleasantly surprised that Windows did not reboot in the middle of the night without my permission. It wants to update a network driver, and I forgot to tell it not to yesterday.
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@Tsaukpaetra Who the hell puts the preview pane anywhere but the bottom?
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
I get told I "don't have enough HTML experience,"
You have 5 years (or whatever) of experience instead of 1 year of experience >5 times. Obviously, the latter is better.
I have ten years of experience taking that data in that format and bringing it over here to this format. The ways and means change slightly, but that is all I have done. The only thing I can credit to my name is that I haven't been cursed at recently for doing it and QA rarely throws it back at me.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
Close tabs? What does this mean?
I guess it's once you're done drinking at the bar, you close your tab than pay the balance
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@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
turning the WiFi on/off fixes it and it goes back to the proper speed for a while.
@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
I think I tried turning wifi off/on unsucessfully,
According to @loopback0, you did it the wrong way. You have to turn it on, then off and you'll have a working 0kb/s connection
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Status: I felt like replying to another one of @Gąska's posts but I think I need to rate-limit my -posting to longer intervals.
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@topspin the important part is that I got the notification, right?
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Pleasantly surprised that Windows did not reboot in the middle of the night without my permission. It wants to update a network driver, and I forgot to tell it not to yesterday.
Well, it didn't reboot without permission, but it's forcing me to reboot with the power button. It froze completely while I was taking a dump, and it won't respond to keyboard or mouse.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
while I was talking a dump
Stand by while I think of the best way to utilize this typo.
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
while I was talking a dump
Stand by while I think of the best way to utilize this typo.
*** STOP: 0x00000041 Beginning dump of physical memory. Physical memory dump complete.
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
Stand by
I don't know about you, but I sit while I'm taking a dump.
Also, typo fixed.
Also, posted from phone, so I can blame autocarrot (whether it really was, or not).
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// This should never happen..
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*edit you win this round giphy
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra Who the hell puts the preview pane anywhere but the bottom?
People that have more than ten messages or so, I guess.
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status: building my reputation. Today the phrase overheard: "how did you manage to break it I've been using it for two years without issue!"
Well old man, leave your PC on for more than eight hours and I'll show you....
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
how did you manage to break it
Oh, you'd be amazed.
How do I break it? Let me count the ways.
I break it to the depth and breadth and height
My aura can reach, even when out of sight
... I break it with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life; and, if God choose,
I shall but break it worse after death.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
how did you manage to break it
Oh, you'd be amazed.
How do I break it? Let me count the ways.
I break it to the depth and breadth and height
My aura can reach, even when out of sight
... I break it with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life; and, if God choose,
I shall but break it worse after death..... I think i should Commission someone to singify that.
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@Tsaukpaetra There's probably a song setting of the original poem, although my paraphrase distorts the scansion slightly in the third line, and of course I didn't bother paraphrasing the rest of it (because it doesn't really lend itself well to the subject at hand).
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New approach. "There's updates available."
Checks...
Updates to iMovie.
Uninstalls iMovie
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@topspin Uninstall all the things.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
status: fucking with the Google ass. Asked it to sing me a song. This is what it came up with.
The point of the Google assistant is that it talks, right?
Does it pronounce the emojis?
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@GuyWhoKilledBear said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
status: fucking with the Google ass. Asked it to sing me a song. This is what it came up with.
The point of the Google assistant is that it talks, right?
Does it pronounce the emojis?
Nope! Totally skips over them! Let's see if I can record it...
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Apparently my screen recorder is incapable of recording audio output. Yay another thing that broke in the upgrade.
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status: well that wasn't fun. Was wondering what the fuck some car was doing just before I get home. Turns out this deaf couple had ran over a black dog. Finished dying while still under the vehicle.
Pleasant dreams tonight! 😒
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
status: fucking with the Google ass. Asked it to sing me a song. This is what it came up with.
I'll add this to the pile of "Reasons to never reenable the Google Assistant."
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Status: Working hard.
Not working hard on anything useful, but it's the effort that counts!
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@Zecc said in The Official Status Thread:
@error said in The Official Status Thread:
Upgrading to Windows 11. What could go wrong?
You might succeed and get Windows 11.
Is that as dangerous a that disease caused by a virus of unknown origin?
And how can it be cured? Or will it stick with you forever? Like "Long Windows 11"?
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
Around 2007, I bought a pair of leather gloves online for a comic-con costume. 14 years later, that company started sending me e-mail
adsspam.I can totally relate. Not 14 years, but after a gap of a few years, I started getting daily spam from a company I bought something from once, as a birthday/Christmas/something-or-other gift for my daughter, because she wanted that specific item (an iPhone case, which is a thing I have absolutely no use for myself). Also, I once, probably 6–7 years ago, bought a USB microscope (not a very good one) on eBay, and now I continually receive ads for various optical industrial measuring equipment.
But people who buy a guitar often get infected with "guitar acqusisition syndrome" and buy many more guitars...
Why do you think people are immune against Toilet Seat Acquistion Syndrome?
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@TimeBandit said in The Official Status Thread:
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
Close tabs? What does this mean?
I guess it's once you're done drinking at the bar, you close your tab than pay the balance
You are approaching the correct place. But the actual point is different: orthography.
Of course, you should close the tap after filling your beer glass.
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@BernieTheBernie I recognise that toilet seats have different properties when in use, just as guitars do, and that some of these properties will affect the usage experience beyond mere aesthetics, but I would suggest the inconvenience of switching toilet seats is more than enough to insulate someone of average intelligence against hot-swapping.
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@Atazhaia said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Working hard.
Not working hard on anything useful, but it's the effort that counts!
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@Arantor said in The Official Status Thread:
hot-swapping
I just imagined someone swapping toilet seat mid-action.
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@Applied-Mediocrity Yes, now it's more hysteric I say.
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@Arantor said in The Official Status Thread:
@BernieTheBernie I recognise that toilet seats have different properties when in use, just as guitars do, and that some of these properties will affect the usage experience beyond mere aesthetics, but I would suggest the inconvenience of switching toilet seats is more than enough to insulate someone of average intelligence against hot-swapping.
Normally I would google this just to find that guy who has done this. You know just to prove if you think of it someone is already doing it on the interwebs. This time I have chosen not to. I'm not sure I want to run the gauntlet of google images for this.
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