The Official Status Thread
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
I don't personally have access
Pfft. As if your Technology Distortion Field couldn't bypass that.
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@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
I don't personally have access
Pfft. As if your Technology Distortion Field couldn't bypass that.
Shh! Don't let them know! They still love me over here!
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
They still love me over here!
Clearly, they don't know you
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Status: getting request from teachers that basically are "Please do the needful"
If only I was allowed to go punch them in the face
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status: attempted to walk a person through installing Ubuntu 18. Everything was working fine until the installer finished and rebooted.
Apparently the live environment is more stable than the installed environment, as by default you can not login. It accepts the password, the screen turns black, and then you're back at the greeter login screen.
If you use Wayland apparently it's marginally better (in that you actually get logged in) but then the mouse moves at 2 FPS and typing on the keyboard has a tendency to repeat characters. Which is very bad when trying to this passwords in a terminal that doesn't show how many you've given thus far.
I would possibly ask for help, but I'm more interested in having them convince the customer that if they really need Linux that maybe we can get a newer version first.
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@TimeBandit said in The Official Status Thread:
If only I was allowed to go punch them in the face
Just tell them that their problem is trivial and left as an exercise for the
studentteacher
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Status: Caffeine is more effective when it goes in my mouth than when I pour it down (the outside of) my chest and abdomen.
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Status: Found a little Nope that @BernieTheBernie would call cute.
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Organization Login Status: Why the fuck does some login server think that today is two (or three) days later than it really is?
Error details: ID4255: The SecurityToken is rejected because the validation time is out of range. ValidTo: '21/08/2023 17:34:12' ValidFrom: '20/08/2023 17:34:12' Current time: '18/08/2023 15:54:27'
It's definitely not my machine that's at fault here...
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status Cleaning up dog puke.
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@topspin Maybe. Not my problem really, except that until they fix the time on the relevant server (which? ) I won't be using Sharepoint or Teams.
On second thoughts, that's a tremendous outcome.
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
status Cleaning up dog puke.
Did that yesterday. Couldn't figure out the initiant.
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Found a little Nope that @BernieTheBernie would call cute.
Looks like Laothoe populi:
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Status: What the bloody fuck is going on right now?!
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: What the bloody fuck is going on right now?!
Overtime. HTH.
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Status: Actual $company is tossing up MFA requirements. Apparently, they are not doing this through azure's built-in policy settings, but instead through threatening emails. Most notable changes:
- Must remove phone number
- Must set Microsoft Authenticator to "number matching" mode, and it must be the default 2FA method.
- Enable your personal email as an authenticator.
- Add security questions
This is bullshit, but apparently it's a condition of my continued employment so whatever. Tossing Microsoft authenticator onto a burner phone so I can tick that box, and stuffing BS questions and a burner email too.
Here we go...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Here we go...
Damn, I was slow, I wanted to cause some bedlam DL3!
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And we all know what that hand was doing
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@TimeBandit Actually I wanted to be the frist to reply to this .
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@Tsaukpaetra I can't do witty answers like those because I tend to forget how witty I was when I inevitably get asked <indeterminate time> later.
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@Arantor said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra I can't do witty answers like those because I tend to forget how witty I was when I inevitably get asked <indeterminate time> later.
That’s what the helpdesk exists for, to reset your security stuff because past you was a smartass.
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@Arantor said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra I can't do witty answers like those because I tend to forget how witty I was when I inevitably get asked <indeterminate time> later.
That's what KeePass is for. As far as I'm concerned, those security questions are passwords (and should be treated as such) also.
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Status: Dying probably. Stupid Eris I never heard of until yesterday.
Felt rundown Wednesday night, but seemed to be doing better Friday night, only to nosedive in short order. Starving but can't eat because an empty stomach is the only thing keeping these dry heaves dry. I just want this torture to be over already.
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Status: The contractors replaced the trims. Now they're different on each side of the window. Not differently mounted, but entirely different model. One is shiny, the other is matte. And still not straight. What are my options? I think I'll try to get some money back and hire someone else to finish the job (this team clearly lacks IQ to do it correctly), or perhaps do it myself.
As a last resort, if they insist that it's all fine, close up photos of these trims will be their portfolio in Google...
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Status: New dishwasher-stove combo has a whining coil in the power supply, which only shuts up if I pull the plug. They'll send their oldest guy (who can't hear it) to check it, won't they?
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If the manufacturer can't/won't fix it, adding hot glue in the right place can help attenuate the noise.
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@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
If the manufacturer can't/won't fix it, adding hot glue in the right place can help attenuate the noise.
Yes, but that would be "tampering" and loss of 2-year warranty.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official Status Thread:
@HardwareGeek Maybe you need this:
@Watson said in Random thought of the day:
I saw caffeine shower gel recently in a chemist. My first thought was: I can now skip my just out of bed coffee.
you’re contemplating drinking shower gel. I’ve got to admit. This is a new low.
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Status: Internet has been flaky the last few days and is now out again. They're sending a tech tomorrow to see what might have gone wrong, Hopefully it's something simple.
My nieces were here earlier this week when it blurped and they got frustrated because there's no YouTube. I told them about how, when I was their age, I had exactly 5 shows I could watch at any one time and if I didn't like anything that was on I'd go read a book or play outside. They were unimpressed.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Status error.
Status: A different status error.
Status: Am... Am I under fuzzing right now?
Has anyone else ever gotten such a crash?
Status: I'm being pranked right now, aren't I?
Status: oh? Oh no! It has spread!
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@Parody said in The Official Status Thread:
I had exactly 5 shows I could watch at any one time
I grew up in a big city (Los Angeles). We had a whole 7 channels. Sometimes, if we were really lucky, maybe we could kinda see something on a UHF station, too, but not usually.
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When I were a lad, we only had t’ four channels, and we were grateful we were. Mind you, three o’ them were static and the fourth, well, it just showed a picture of a girl and a clown puppet and some lines, but it were a better time. We were grateful to even have that.
(Yorkshire is a hard accent to pull off convincingly in text.)
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@Arantor said in The Official Status Thread:
(Yorkshire is a hard accent to pull off convincingly in text.)
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@Parody said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Internet has been flaky the last few days and is now out again. They're sending a tech tomorrow to see what might have gone wrong, Hopefully it's something simple.
My nieces were here earlier this week when it blurped and they got frustrated because there's no YouTube. I told them about how, when I was their age, I had exactly 5 shows I could watch at any one time and if I didn't like anything that was on I'd go read a book or play outside. They were unimpressed.
Roger Waters sure was depressed from having only thirteen channels of shit on the TV to choose from.
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@Parody said in The Official Status Thread:
when I was their age, I had exactly 5 shows I could watch at any one time
I remember there only being two or three, depending on time of day. Or I could listen to something "improving" on the radio.
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
@Parody said in The Official Status Thread:
when I was their age, I had exactly 5 shows I could watch at any one time
I remember there only being two or three, depending on time of day. Or I could listen to something "improving" on the radio.
We actually had a bunch of stations that came in strong when the antenna was pointed the right way: 2 CBSes, 2 ABCs, 2 NBCs, 1 PBS, and an independent that eventually became a FOX affiliate. Naturally the pairs had mostly identical schedules; even when the syndicated shows were different, they'd often be on one of the others in the outside markets.
The independent station was my childhood favorite since that's where all the good cartoons were during the week. :)
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Found a little Nope that @BernieTheBernie would call cute.
That is gorgeous.
My wife has a strange phobia of moths. So I regularly tease her about it when a moth makes it's way into the bedroom.
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@Carnage said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Found a little Nope that @BernieTheBernie would call cute.
That is gorgeous.
My wife has a strange phobia of moths. So I regularly tease her about it when a moth makes it's way into the bedroom.They're cute. I have this one visiting occasionally:
Smerinthus ocellatus, local name (we have all species named in Polish) "Nastrosz półpawik" which could be roughly translated as "raised hair half-peacock"
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
My keyboard is gaslighting me. After several typos involving missing capital Cs, I discovered that right-shift+C produces... nothing. Left-shift+C works as expected.
Issued a new laptop (though same external keyboard). Issue persists on the new machine.
Honestly, I'm surprised how often I run into this.
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Status: I don't know how much more water I can drink. It's been helping with the cough, because this shitty NyQuil knockoff "Coricidin" sure hasn't, but I still have symptoms of dehydration. But it's to the point where I'm going to start throwing up water.
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Status: Welcome to Monday. Basic things are broke and nobody here has the power to figure out how to start working out how to fix it.
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Status: The clocks work again so I can log into work resources, but my Github workflows are breaking because of weird cache failures. Oh well, at least this is a short week for me.
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
it's to the point where I'm going to start throwing up water.
Could be caused by lack of electrolytes:
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@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
it's to the point where I'm going to start throwing up water.
Could be caused by lack of electrolytes:
Yeah, this.
Try drinking something like Dioralyte/Pedialyte.
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@Carnage said in The Official Status Thread:
My wife has a strange phobia of moths. So I regularly tease her about it when a moth makes it's way into the bedroom.
Bring some spiders with you and tell her they will cope with the moths...
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@BernieTheBernie said in The Official Status Thread:
@Carnage said in The Official Status Thread:
My wife has a strange phobia of moths. So I regularly tease her about it when a moth makes it's way into the bedroom.
Bring some spiders with you and tell her they will cope with the moths...
She doesn't mind spiders at all. Or any other crawlies from what I can gather. Moths on the other hand makes her scream like a little girl.
Even if I tell her they are just goth butterflies.
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Status: I bought some 'party rings' biscuits.
For avoidance of doubt, I mean these:
Or something similar, like a specific brand of them. These were awesome when I was a kid.
The pack I bought has a thing on it clearly advertising "no artificial colours, no artificial flavours, no artificial preservatives" and while I sympathise, I want the fucking things I had as a kid that tasted good and not these pale washed out imitations that all taste of biscuit with vaguely flavoured chalk attached.
In my head I'm doing the intro to Money For Nothing...
"I want my... I want my fake colours...
(guitar riff)
Now look at them biscuits, that's the way you do it
Fake colours and preservatives
That ain't rubbish, that's the way you do it
Fake flavours and preservatives..."Or something. Just a general rant about how it wasn't as good as when I were a lad etc etc