WTF Bites
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@Parody Yeah, the XP games are good.
The Vista ones are acceptable but have these weird dependencies that make copying them to other computers unfeasible.
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@Parody Microsoft has one trillion employees but their productivity output is so low (because everyone is rewriting the start menu, including Ballmer himself by acting as a chair throwing RNG) they can’t write three simple card games without having to outsource that.
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@topspin I also thought it was a mistake when they outsourced the card games to KaibaCorp, which made them needlessly complicated.
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@Parody Yeah, the XP games are good.
The Vista ones are acceptable but have these weird dependencies that make copying them to other computers unfeasible.Back in the day, I put the Vista versions of those games on my XP machine. I don't recall if I had to do anything special, but they worked just fine
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including Ballmer himself by acting as a chair throwing RNG
I can't stop laughing at this.
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@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
I nearly posted this in the "Unexpected Backfires" thread, but this has a wider audience.
For the past couple of years I have had occasional issues with my YouTube subscription. A few times a year I would get advertisements in my feed, like I would if I did not subscribe to YouTube Prime, or whatever the hell they call it. Nothing too horrible but still annoying considering that I pay specifically so I do not get ads. I would contact support, they would look into it and shortly thereafter it would be resolved. This happened perhaps a half dozen times in two years, if I had to guess. I assumed it was some random error, perhaps a spotty connection causing odd issues, whatever.
So a couple of weeks ago this happened again but it got coupled with advertisements in videos also. Constantly. I check to make sure some payment method had not expired but nope. All was good there but it was as though my subscription had lapsed. At first I thought that it was worse than that. Like, so many fucking ads. Then I fired up YouTube in an incognito window and it was roughly the same. How the absolute fuck does anyone watch YouTube in the app without a subscription???
What was really odd was that I had all the other features of YouTube Premium. Videos would keep playing if I locked my device. I could download videos for playback later. Etc. But just so many fucking ads.
I contacted support several times. They said they would look into it. Kept getting ads. So many fucking ads.
So I looked for other solutions. Hey, turns out that if you use YouTube in Brave Browser it blocks all the ads and you can keep listening while your device is locked. I even preferred the UI of their mobile site versus the app.
So fuck YouTube Premium and their ads every five minutes. A lot of the creators I watch had their monetization pulled so they aren't losing anything so I am pretty sure that I am going to drop YouTube Premium altogether. Fucking hell, YouTube without an ad blocker is just insufferable.
The height of YouTube ads, officially: this is how they force you to pay for a subscription like Netflix - Royals Blue
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Ha!
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I realized a while back that in my lifetime I have had many OS's get borked while under my care, necessitating a reinstall of said OS. Of all of those I do not recall a single time that Linux got fucked where it was not my fault. Other than hardware failures (which for these purposes I am considering that to be no-fault) every single time the Linux pooch got screwed I was to blame.
On the other hand, I do not recall a single time where a Windows install got fuckticated where it was my fault. It was always just a mystery. Things were fine, now they are fucked.
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@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
every single time the Linux pooch got screwed I was to blame
same here.
And every time, I was able to fix it without having to re-install
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@Benjamin-Hall said in WTF Bites:
@LaoC generally that's supposed to be the surge rating. That is, if a surge delivered less than that, it wouldn't get through to damage the plugged in stuff. Theoretically. But probably it will.
And if you sue them, they'll just say "obviously the surge was bigger".
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@TimeBandit yeah... I surmised these properties about 30 years ago, but, I imagine all that snow is distracting...
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@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
Fucking hell, YouTube without an ad blocker is just insufferable.
Well .... DUH!
- uBlock Origin.
- Zero ads. I can't even remember the last time I saw an ad anywhere on YouTube.
- Google still makes a gazillion dollars a year.
- Problem solved.
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I love "The Right Opinion"s videos but fucking hell, four hours and fifteen minutes?
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@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
I love "The Right Opinion"s videos but fucking hell, four hours and fifteen minutes?
After glancing through their videos, I don't think I'd want to spend 4 minutes learning who the heck all these people are, much less hours per video. (I only recognized a couple of them.)
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@hungrier Visual Stupido update: It's now doing the same thing for arrow key navigation. I think it's time to exit and restart
How large are the files you're editing? Some time ago I was mucking about with teeny-tiny 4MB+ savegame JSON in VS2019. When it finally opened them at all, it was totally unusable, not entirely unlike your case. I reasoned that VS is total shit at editing JSON and got {$otherproduct} instead
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@Parody Microsoft has one trillion employees but their productivity output is so low (because everyone is rewriting the start menu, including Ballmer himself by acting as a chair throwing RNG) they can’t write three simple card games without having to outsource that.
In this case it was the Windows division pushing the games over to the Gaming division and letting them deal with it however they wanted. Theoretically this lets more specialized developers handle the projects. Besides, the Start
MenuScreen folks had biggersquaresTiles to worry about.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in WTF Bites:
@hungrier Visual Stupido update: It's now doing the same thing for arrow key navigation. I think it's time to exit and restart
How large are the files you're editing? Some time ago I was mucking about with teeny-tiny 4MB+ savegame JSON in VS2019. When it finally opened them at all, it was totally unusable, not entirely unlike your case. I reasoned that VS is total shit at editing JSON and got {$otherproduct} instead
Not very big, maybe a few hundred K at most. It was a localization file (e.g.
{ "CancelButton":"Annuller" }and it worked just fine after restarting VS. But for whatever reason, before I had restarted VS got into some mode where it would have to think really hard about each keypress and then do it twice.
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@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
I realized a while back that in my lifetime I have had many OS's get borked while under my care, necessitating a reinstall of said OS. Of all of those I do not recall a single time that Linux got fucked where it was not my fault. Other than hardware failures (which for these purposes I am considering that to be no-fault) every single time the Linux pooch got screwed I was to blame.
On the other hand, I do not recall a single time where a Windows install got fuckticated where it was my fault. It was always just a mystery. Things were fine, now they are fucked.
I've had linux shit the bed on upgrades, and DisplayLink has also been a bit iffy in the past.
But yeah, I greatly prefer Linux because it generally just stays working until you fuck it up.The last thing I had herpaderp for no apparent reason in windows was DirectDisplay refused to work while there was a USB-C dock plugged in. Why? Fuck knows, but it just didn't work. It had been working before, and just stopped working., When I unplugged the dock, it started working again, and it's kept working since.
I guess the driver system somehow confused USB-C displays with the plugged-into-the-GPU-display that was trying to use directdisplay....
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DirectDisplay refused to work while there was a USB-C dock plugged in. Why? Fuck knows, but it just didn't work.
Did the dock have a DirectDisplay logo? Do you think they litter packaging with logos to make it look nice?
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DirectDisplay refused to work while there was a USB-C dock plugged in. Why? Fuck knows, but it just didn't work.
Did the dock have a DirectDisplay logo? Do you think they litter packaging with logos to make it look nice?
No, it didn't. Nor did it have a DisplayLink logo, even though it uses that driver.
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DirectDisplay refused to work while there was a USB-C dock plugged in. Why? Fuck knows, but it just didn't work.
Did the dock have a DirectDisplay logo? Do you think they litter packaging with logos to make it look nice?
No, it didn't. Nor did it have a DisplayLink logo, even though it uses that driver.
The neat thing about high peripheral diversity and thick hardware abstraction is that WinModem style shit can be pulled with much less visibility.
Maybe they'll pay up on licensing, who knows what the vig is by now tho.
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(e.g.
{ "CancelButton":"Annuller" }
: There's only one "l" in "Annuler".(
: Wiktionary claims it used to be spelled the way you wrote it, but that spelling is no longer considered valid. So I guess you can play the 
card.)
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@Zerosquare :who_nose: I just thought of a generic example and didn't have the file at hand. Whether it's old, incorrect or the fr-ca variant
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@Zerosquare said in WTF Bites:
(e.g.
{ "CancelButton":"Annuller" }: There's only one "l" in "Annuler".(
: Wiktionary claims it used to be spelled the way you wrote it, but that spelling is no longer considered valid. So I guess you can play the card.)The Dutch phrasing is "Annuleren". I have never seen that word or anything like it used other than on computer interfaces.
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Google Translate seems to be under the impression that Annuller is Danish for Cancel.
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Google Translate seems to be under the impression that Annuller is Danish for Cancel.
I believe it's also cancel in norwegian. In Swedish you need an a at the end for that. But for computer interfaces, Swedish use "Avbryt" instead.
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@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
I realized a while back that in my lifetime I have had many OS's get borked while under my care, necessitating a reinstall of said OS. Of all of those I do not recall a single time that Linux got fucked where it was not my fault. Other than hardware failures (which for these purposes I am considering that to be no-fault) every single time the Linux pooch got screwed I was to blame.
On the other hand, I do not recall a single time where a Windows install got fuckticated where it was my fault. It was always just a mystery. Things were fine, now they are fucked.
I've had linux shit the bed on upgrades, and DisplayLink has also been a bit iffy in the past.
I'm not sure whether it changed in the past years but when I last looked (trying to build a Linux based multi-seat kiosk thing around 2012) DisplayLink was closed proprietary shit and the Linux driver was based on reverse haxx0ring
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@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
I realized a while back that in my lifetime I have had many OS's get borked while under my care, necessitating a reinstall of said OS. Of all of those I do not recall a single time that Linux got fucked where it was not my fault. Other than hardware failures (which for these purposes I am considering that to be no-fault) every single time the Linux pooch got screwed I was to blame.
On the other hand, I do not recall a single time where a Windows install got fuckticated where it was my fault. It was always just a mystery. Things were fine, now they are fucked.
I've had linux shit the bed on upgrades, and DisplayLink has also been a bit iffy in the past.
I'm not sure whether it changed in the past years but when I last looked (trying to build a Linux based multi-seat kiosk thing around 2012) DisplayLink was closed proprietary shit and the Linux driver was based on reverse haxx0ring
There used to be a proprietary driver at least. I haven't checked lately
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@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
Fucking hell, YouTube without an ad blocker is just insufferable.
uBlock Origin displays the total number of things that it has blocked on a page. So I kept a tab open on YouTube all day. Unfortunately, once you go over 1,000 uBlock just displays: >1k
So, apparently YouTube was throwing shit at me at the rate of 100+ per hour.
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@Gern_Blaanston ABP has a current count of
953955958961 — I just clicked to focus that window.Edit: I refreshed the window to pick up recently posted videos, which reset the counter to 0. After ~1.5 hours, it's back up to 565 and counting.
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@Gern_Blaanston Probably related to how much you need to turn around the USB connector before it goes in?
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@Gern_Blaanston said in WTF Bites:
64GB USB Flash Storage with 360°Rotated Design
WTF is "360° Rotated Design"?The metal part can go around the thing 360 degrees. It's a cheap man's cap.
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@Gern_Blaanston said in WTF Bites:
@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
Fucking hell, YouTube without an ad blocker is just insufferable.
uBlock Origin displays the total number of things that it has blocked on a page. So I kept a tab open on YouTube all day. Unfortunately, once you go over 1,000 uBlock just displays: >1k
So, apparently YouTube was throwing shit at me at the rate of 100+ per hour.
Seems legit.
So far I've been happy with YouTube via Brave browser when on mobile. It isn't feature complete vs the mobile app but good enough.
Fuck YouTube Premium. They can suck a goat dick. I'm over it. Most of the channels I like have been demonetized anyway.
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Status: What the hell is this possibly useful for?
In other words, three jacks that all connect to the same line.
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@Gern_Blaanston said in WTF Bites:
64GB USB Flash Storage with 360°Rotated Design
WTF is "360° Rotated Design"?It's what happens when you write trivialities in grandiose marketing Chinese and shove it through $TRANSLATOR.
I've seen worse.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
Status: What the hell is this possibly useful for?
In other words, three jacks that all connect to the same line.
Only one step back from the good old hub. Genius.
Would be nifty if you could at least use it for ethernet sniffing, but no …
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
Status: What the hell is this possibly useful for?
In other words, three jacks that all connect to the same line.
Only one step back from the good old hub. Genius.
Would be nifty if you could at least use it for ethernet sniffing, but no …In theory that might be possible? It basically looks like an Ethernet star but not isolated, so...
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@Tsaukpaetra 360* is the dumbest choice though. That's a nop. Besides, it doesn't look like it would stop at 360*, you can spin it indefinitely. (Well, until it falls apart; I've been handed similar looking ones, and there's definitively a decent chance of that happening.)
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
Status: What the hell is this possibly useful for?
In other words, three jacks that all connect to the same line.
Only one step back from the good old hub. Genius.
Would be nifty if you could at least use it for ethernet sniffing, but no …Hubs are half-duplex. This is, theoretically, full duplex.
This is also $14. A quick google returns 5-port ethernet switches as cheaply as €10.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
Status: What the hell is this possibly useful for?
In other words, three jacks that all connect to the same line.
Only one step back from the good old hub. Genius.
Would be nifty if you could at least use it for ethernet sniffing, but no …Hubs are half-duplex. This is, theoretically, full duplex.
This is also $14. A quick google returns 5-port ethernet switches as cheaply as €10.
Yes, but this one apparently has 0W power consumption. Think about the costs saved - especially these days!
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@Kamil-Podlesak said in WTF Bites:
@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
Status: What the hell is this possibly useful for?
In other words, three jacks that all connect to the same line.
Only one step back from the good old hub. Genius.
Would be nifty if you could at least use it for ethernet sniffing, but no …Hubs are half-duplex. This is, theoretically, full duplex.
This is also $14. A quick google returns 5-port ethernet switches as cheaply as €10.
Yes, but this one apparently has 0W power consumption. Think about the costs saved - especially these days!
This, but more unironically. Think about the power plug/cable saved. (Or can the switches power themselves via PoE?)
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@Kamil-Podlesak said in WTF Bites:
@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
Status: What the hell is this possibly useful for?
In other words, three jacks that all connect to the same line.
Only one step back from the good old hub. Genius.
Would be nifty if you could at least use it for ethernet sniffing, but no …Hubs are half-duplex. This is, theoretically, full duplex.
This is also $14. A quick google returns 5-port ethernet switches as cheaply as €10.
Yes, but this one apparently has 0W power consumption. Think about the costs saved - especially these days!
This, but more unironically. Think about the power plug/cable saved.
Oh yes. And one less cable to trip over.
(Or can the switches power themselves via PoE?)
Some do, but in the $14 price range. Worse thing is that you still need some PoE power source, which is in 99% cases not available.
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Or can the switches power themselves via PoE?
Isn't PoE ≤100mbit only?
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Or can the switches power themselves via PoE?
Isn't PoE ≤100mbit only?
Passive, sure. But the Real™ ones do support gigabit.
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@Gern_Blaanston said in WTF Bites:
@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
Fucking hell, YouTube without an ad blocker is just insufferable.
uBlock Origin displays the total number of things that it has blocked on a page. So I kept a tab open on YouTube all day. Unfortunately, once you go over 1,000 uBlock just displays: >1k
So, apparently YouTube was throwing shit at me at the rate of 100+ per hour.
Analytics stuff? I just opened a tab and looked at the uBlock log:
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
What the hell is this possibly useful for?
The only thing it's good for is
. You don't have to move the wires.
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The only thing it's good for is
.You say that like it's a bad thing. Don't dis the
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