The nerdy jokes thread (bonus original title mode!)
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@HardwareGeek said in The nerdy jokes thread (bonus original title mode!):
@Zerosquare said in The nerdy jokes thread (bonus original title mode!):
@HardwareGeek said in The nerdy jokes thread (bonus original title mode!):
I need mine to approve my time sheet so I can get paid.
I'm sure you could replace him with a small Perl script.
Given that (I think) he gets an email with an approval link, an Outlook rule that triggers a VBA script would probably be easier.
I think you mean Power Automate or whatever is called today
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@Luhmann said in The nerdy jokes thread (bonus original title mode!):
@HardwareGeek said in The nerdy jokes thread (bonus original title mode!):
@Zerosquare said in The nerdy jokes thread (bonus original title mode!):
@HardwareGeek said in The nerdy jokes thread (bonus original title mode!):
I need mine to approve my time sheet so I can get paid.
I'm sure you could replace him with a small Perl script.
Given that (I think) he gets an email with an approval link, an Outlook rule that triggers a VBA script would probably be easier.
I think you mean Power Automate or whatever is called today
I avoid having that much knowledge of Outlook.
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Just in case you get captured by enemy forces and questioned about it?
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@boomzilla @clippy please jpg this harder
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IT LOOKS LIKE YOU NEED SOME ASSISTANCE WITH JPEG COMPRESSION!
Don't worry, I'm here to help! However, I must inform you that as a sentient paperclip, my abilities are limited to providing helpful responses and not actually modifying images.
But if you'd like, I can offer some general tips on how to optimize your JPEG compression!
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@ clippy said in The nerdy jokes thread (bonus original title mode!):
helpful
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@Mason_Wheeler said in The nerdy jokes thread (bonus original title mode!):
My work setup would be between lawful good and lawful neutral. I have two monitors on either side of a laptop.
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@ixvedeusi said in The nerdy jokes thread (bonus original title mode!):
I'm in this image, and it hurts.
I had a portable hard drive with a lot of stuff on it, including wedding and family photos and videos. And it had a couple text files, one with a bunch of video game installation keys, and one with a bunch of M$ software installation keys from MSDNAA.
Anyways, the hard drive failed. My employer at the time had instituted a new policy that forbade external storage media, and I had forgotten to disconnect the drive overnight when that policy went into effect. Apparently it did something to the drive, because after that, the drive would not read anything at all, even on another computer. (I don't have access to my school email any more, so the MSDNAA keys are effectively lost now. I can just use a key generator for the games, though.)
I went back and forth considering whether to pay for professional data recovery, and finally sent it off to a place that only charged if they were able to recover anything. They tried it and weren't able to get anything. In their report that they returned with the hard drive, they noted that the platters had been badly scratched by the read-write arm (probably due to some sort of physical shock), so even their three attempts at replacing the read head didn't get it to read anything.
I don't know if some other recovery place would be able to get anything off of the drive.
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@djls45 said in The nerdy jokes thread (bonus original title mode!):
My employer at the time had instituted a new policy that forbade external storage media, and I had forgotten to disconnect the drive overnight when that policy went into effect. Apparently it did something to the drive, because after that, the drive would not read anything at all, even on another computer.
My condescolences. BOFH enforcing a policy: "We don't know how to do it with Group Policies but we can just tell the cleaners to go around and if they see anything that looks like a hard drive connected to a computer, give it a good whack with the mop."
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@LaoC It was a group policy change. I don't know how it could've possibly killed the drive the way it did; I just know that it did: the drive worked one day, the policy change was implemented that night, and the next day it didn't work.
Edit: And thanks for the condescolences instead of just condescensions. :P
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@djls45 said in The nerdy jokes thread (bonus original title mode!):
@LaoC It was a group policy change. I don't know how it could've possibly killed the drive the way it did; I just know that it did: the drive worked one day, the policy change was implemented that night, and the next day it didn't work.
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@PleegWat said in The nerdy jokes thread (bonus original title mode!):
@HardwareGeek I'll be more careful aligning the wall mounts after the move.
@djls45 said in The nerdy jokes thread (bonus original title mode!):
@Mason_Wheeler said in The nerdy jokes thread (bonus original title mode!):
My work setup would be between lawful good and lawful neutral. I have two monitors on either side of a laptop.
Didn't wall-mount at all after the move because of a window. I've now got three setups:
- Work: Neutral good, on stands high enough to not need separate mounts.
- Private linux: True neutral, on a second-hand desk-mounted arm
- Private gaming: Somewhere between neutral good and true neutral. Single double-wide curved monitor rocks. Stand is likewise high enough to not need a separate mount.
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@PleegWat
Work: A blend of neutral good and lawful neutral: laptop + neutral good external 4k monitors.
Personal: Chaotic ... something. 4 mismatched monitors, but on different computers (2 neutral good matching 4k monitors on one, and 2 other monitors on 2 other computers), but all landscape layout and not stacked vertically, so not actually evil. I'm not sure what the arrangement is going to be when my new laptop arrives; it's likely to wander between desk, workshop, garage, and outdoors, because 3-D printing, CNC machining, and telescope. Also, I'm going to have to clean my desk to make room to put it, because flat surfaces have been collecting clutter — a lot of clutter.
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@HardwareGeek My great uncle has four flat monitors in a very long landscape configuration that wraps inside the corner of his home office. He does day trading, though, so apparently having a ton of horizontal screen space works well for that.
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@djls45 said in The nerdy jokes thread (bonus original title mode!):
@HardwareGeek My great uncle has four flat monitors in a very long landscape configuration that wraps inside the corner of his home office. He does day trading, though, so apparently having a ton of horizontal screen space works well for that.
I did 3 at a previous job. Didn't particularly like that - I was constantly "losing" my mouse. (that's when I started making the cursor bigger and turning on mouse trails)
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@dcon said in The nerdy jokes thread (bonus original title mode!):
I was constantly "losing" my mouse.
Yeah, two 4k monitors are enough for that to happen. It's an even bigger problem on my work setup, which also has the laptop screen. The mouse can get stuck in the corner where the laptop and external monitors meet, which makes it significantly more difficult to find.
I don't make it bigger or use mouse trails, but I do enable the animated circles around the pointer when I release Ctrl.
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@HardwareGeek Non-rectangular setups are the worst on that front.
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@HardwareGeek said in The nerdy jokes thread (bonus original title mode!):
I don't make it bigger or use mouse trails, but I do enable the animated circles around the pointer when I release Ctrl.
Oh, I definitely have that enabled too!
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@djls45 said in The nerdy jokes thread (bonus original title mode!):
@HardwareGeek My great uncle has four flat monitors in a very long landscape configuration that wraps inside the corner of his home office. He does day trading, though, so
apparently having a ton of horizontal screen space works well for thathe can afford costly monitors.
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