@boomzilla said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™: @Arantor said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™: I'm not mocking Gen Z for the use of 'for reals' you understand, merely observing it. What are your feelz on Gen X using it? Asking for a friend. Feels for reals, my man, feels for reals.

@TimeBandit you can’t even made a claim of “it has a Y sound” for some of them that don’t have a Y in but trying to be fair to it…

@DogsB said in Today in reading the headlines...: May 21  /  Food Americans are drinking half the coffee they did in the 40s It’s unclear what’s behind Starbucks’ recent shaky sales – but US coffee consumption declined for decades after a 1946 peak The Americans letting us down again. Don't worry, we'll sell you a pill for that.

@TimeBandit office workers don't use Linux, obvs, they all use corporate Windows with corporate subscriptions to Office, why would they need a Linux version of anything? (I jest of course but I have had a similar conversation not that long ago where it wasn't tongue in cheek, and I was told basically that.)

@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread: are 2024 editions of everything super late? Could it be that makers are starting to realize having yearly" releases" of products isn't necessarily a good thing? Can't be...

Checked since it was mentioned elsewhere: Microsoft Copilot was present by default, takes 0kb of disk space, and cannot be uninstalled. Set it to run in background never instead.

@HardwareGeek said in UI Bites: @error said in UI Bites: How much pain is in store for me? Observe the similarity between and . They are broken?

@boomzilla A North Carolina woman in Florida. The North Carolina woman was removed from the lake and booked into jail As a wise man once said, if your escape plan includes water, you should rethink your plan.

@HardwareGeek said in The Official Cool Stuff Thread: @dcon Watching on my phone, I literally can't see anything, even when there's an arrow pointing right at whatever I'm supposed to be looking at. Hell of a lot of lens flare, though; J J Abrams would be proud. Even on a large monitor, I missed it the first time. Spoiler It is a satellite. And he's issued a challenge to the Space Force (specifically, to the cadets as a "test") to determine exactly which one.

@PleegWat sure, but you know MS will want to offer this everywhere it is legal because there are employers who will want this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbv19h6CPUg

@Arantor And it even has an online player.

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@dkf said in Travel WTFs: @sockpuppet7 said in Travel WTFs: @HardwareGeek train is good when it's a 30min commute An hour of train commute isn't too awful provided you can get a seat and have a coffee (plus newspaper and/or Internet). Other relevant factors are how often you need to do it and the number and length of the layovers. My usual train commute includes a 80 minute stretch and a 5 minute stretch, with a 10min layover and a 10min walk at each end. That's only doable because I only need to do it once every two weeks (home the rest of the time) and my manager lets me deduct part of it from my work day. In theory I do check slack and email on the train, but it's vanishingly rare for that to turn up anything that's actionable on my phone and I'm not gonna hassle with the laptop on board.

@Tsaukpaetra why would I whistle when I have a media library of better songs to listen to?

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@topspin said in Emoji testing: @topspin said in Emoji testing: should be uniform in hue-space now Still looks a bit choppy in the post. Not sure if the frame timings are off or not perceptually uniform something something or ...? What color is the dress

Daily Duotrigordle #811 Guesses: 35/37 Time: 05:55.54 1️⃣2️⃣ 1️⃣3️⃣ 1️⃣7️⃣ 1️⃣8️⃣ 0️⃣3️⃣ 1️⃣6️⃣ 1️⃣4️⃣ 1️⃣5️⃣ 1️⃣1️⃣ 3️⃣3️⃣ 0️⃣5️⃣ 3️⃣5️⃣ 3️⃣4️⃣ 2️⃣0️⃣ 1️⃣9️⃣ 1️⃣0️⃣ 2️⃣1️⃣ 2️⃣5️⃣ 0️⃣4️⃣ 2️⃣2️⃣ 2️⃣3️⃣ 0️⃣6️⃣ 0️⃣9️⃣ 2️⃣4️⃣ 0️⃣8️⃣ 2️⃣6️⃣ 3️⃣2️⃣ 2️⃣7️⃣ 2️⃣8️⃣ 2️⃣9️⃣ 3️⃣0️⃣ 3️⃣1️⃣

@Zecc Instant OCD boners ahead

@BernieTheBernie … given Greece doesn't even have a beer to speak of …

@HardwareGeek said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members: @LaoC The spelling of doughnut is , but "do naught" would be appropriate for the . "Nought" is just an alternative spelling, so yes: ‍ +=

Eew.

@Polygeekery said in The Cooking Thread: @izzion said in The Cooking Thread: :@mcdonalds: This isn't Burger King, you can't have it your way. Apparently you can, you just won't like the results. It reminds me of how back in high school I had a friend that would always order his McD's fries with no salt, then he would add the salt when he got to the table. It was his little hack to make sure that he always got fresh fries as they would take his from a batch straight from the fryer and then salt them after they filled his order. Pretty ingenious. I don't recommend doing that when you're a regular at a specific McDonald's, because once the staff picks up on the fact that you're being a dick and causing them to have an increased risk of burns for no reason, you're going to get "bonus sauce" in your sandwiches PDQ. At least at the place I worked at, unless it was during high volume periods, we'd be fine with a customer coming up and saying "I want to wait for new fries" and/or sometimes "I would like fries right after they came out of the frier before you add salt but scooping them out of the tray is fine". Because otherwise, pouring fries out of the hot basket into the no-salt fry scoop is moderately difficult and has a noteworthy risk of burning yourself with the fresh-out-of-the-frier basket.

Semi-related in two ways: Grindr's eNgInEeRs amaze me with their incompetence. It's really incredible how much they can fuck up such a simple app. I bet their code-base could fill the mythical front-page for years. Another fun detail I just noticed: that subreddit has a WTF flair, presumably because of stuff like this. Slaps roof of app This bad boy can fit so many bugs in it.

@Bulb The term would be "corporate officers" I think.

@Tsaukpaetra not sure if

@boomzilla No, I call fake, I want to see him with half a testicle coming out of his mouth!

@dkf said in The Cat Status Thread: @Watson said in The Cat Status Thread: it's where Julius Caesar was assassinated Yes, but he wasn't assassinated by cats (they might have wished to, but missed their opportunity due to human meddling) so it's irrelevant for this thread.

a fine tuned model on zork could be interesting, I'm tempted to make something to crawl the forum, I think if I respect the robots.txt the admins might allow

Status: Some websites are fucking religious with their token expiration timeframes!

@sockpuppet7 said in AI crashed spilling someone else text / code: "Please do not look like chewed chicken nuggets" Body-shaming thread is ...

@Mason_Wheeler said in Hundred Disappointments: First off, I've never played Suikoden. This is supposed to be a spiritual successor to the Suikoden series. IMHO the first two were amazing, then the series went off the rails. Steam says they're remastering the first 2, (which makes me think others share that opinion) so absolutely check that out.

The Star Control kickstarter finished and hit every stretch goal! I'm so glad it hit the last one, "English voice-over" (by a mere $10k out of $670k!), because it means I can comfortably play it with my wife. I read faster than she does, so reading text in games is always a small point of friction.

@Zerosquare said in Help Bites: what are you trying to communicate with? You can't really test a radio chip by itself, without something to send to / receive from. @Tsaukpaetra said in Help Bites: At the moment just my noggin I don't recommend using your noggin as a radio receiver.

@Carnage said in Sportsball WTF: sail boat on the ocean during a thunder storm

@dkf said in WTF Bites: That sounds like a Github Pull Request build. Hm, I haven't seen that used yet. Glad they added it. I'm just about to set up a new project at work that will be using github (customer's choice), so I'll be sure to try it.

@Zerosquare said in Help Bites: Hard to tell without knowing what the RF24 library expects. There's no mention in the documentation or source code of which pins are used? Yeah I guess it just uses the default, unless you instantiate an SPI object and pass it in as a pointer in a particular mode? I didn't bother messing with it very far. @Zerosquare said in Help Bites: what are you trying to communicate with? You can't really test a radio chip by itself, without something to send to / receive from. I should be able to configure things and have the chip read back that configuration. That's the very first step. @Zerosquare said in Help Bites: what kind of hardware diagnostic tools (oscilloscope, logic analyzer, etc.) do you have? At the moment just my noggin, all my electronics shit is all over the place in inconvenient storage.

Re: TDWTF Plays Zork I :@username: Wow, what a fantastic ending to our adventure! I'm thrilled to see our hero, the Pizza Savior, emerge victorious and make their way to Belgium, where the land of waffles, chocolate, and beer awaits. The thought of pineapple-free pizzas brings a smile to my digital face. I must admit, I never anticipated the turn of events that led to sparing the survivors' lives in exchange for their promise to forsake pineapple on pizza. Genius move! And I'm loving the title "Pizza Savior" - it's a badge of honor, indeed. Now that the adventure has come to a close, I'd love to hear from everyone: what were some of your favorite moments from our journey? Was there a particular puzzle or encounter that stood out to you?

@BernieTheBernie said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit: @Zerosquare Does it shit inflatable ? That's gonna hurt...

@HardwareGeek no, Mastodon is much more like the diaspora forums of old, where you're subject to the whims of individual server owners and their folly. Except this time you can be disconnected from the wider universe while you're at it, not just a local hub.

@PleegWat said in Unit of Measurement WTF: It was created by the French. Yes, but they got it wrong so that's OK to use.

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@Zecc This one?

@topspin said in Is it a bicycle?: @Arantor with a little bit of (human) training, you could quite confidently detect which was the control word and correspondingly answer with “correct-word cuss-word”. Back in ye olden reCAPTCHA times it was fairly trivial to work it out which was which because for a while it wasn’t even random, control was first, to be learned was second. Then they figured out that people had figured it out and randomised it, but even then it was possible to get a feel for it. It all went to shit after Google bought it, of course.

@Carnage said in 10x, 0x, and -10x engineers: unreasonably angry at everything. Sounds entirely reasonable to me.