The Official Status Thread
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official Status Thread:
@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
water from a fountain
The what now? Is that American thing, perhaps? Not that there's a good chance one could ever find one by following the signs.
The ones we have are even designed for waterbottles!
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
The ones we have are even designed for waterbottles!
I must one day travel to this mythical land of great wonders!
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
Since my Oculus Quest browser doesn't support extensions, I figure I can just MitM inject my content scripts and scrub ads.
Soon you'll start hating HTTPS.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official Status Thread:
To illustrate, let me quote the opening passage from The Long Dark Tea-Time Of Soul:
It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on Earth has ever produced the expression "as pretty as an airport". Airports are ugly. Some are very ugly. Some attain a degree of ugliness that can only be the result of a special effort. This ugliness arises because airports are full of people who are tired, cross, and have just discovered that their luggage has landed in Murmansk (Murmansk airport is the only known exception to this otherwise infallible rule), and architects have on the whole tried to reflect this in their designs.
They have sought to highlight the tiredness and crossness motif with brutal shapes and nerve jangling colours, to make effortless the business of separating the traveller for ever from his or her luggage or loved ones, to confuse the traveller with arrows that appear to point at the windows, distant tie racks, or the current position of Ursa Minor in the night sky, and wherever possible to expose the plumbing on the grounds that it is functional, and conceal the location of the of the departure gates, presumably on the grounds that they are not.
By this, you know that Douglas Adams used to travel through London Heathrow airport a lot.
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I got some not-so-subtle hints from my parents yesterday that they'd like a granddaughter.
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
I got some not-so-subtle hints from my parents yesterday that they'd like a granddaughter.
My parents have somewhat given up since my younger sister had one a few years ago.
Still gotta make an heir at some point.
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Status: White Christmases are much dreamier when the storm front comes through on the 23rd
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@izzion It's 5° celcius here and raining,
FileUnder: thank you climate changes
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@TimeBandit 23.6 Celsius here
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Happy Boxing Day!
For those who aren’t in the know, it’s that annual holiday after Christmas where you go out and pick a fight with a kangaroo. Always pays to be vigilant around here.
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@kazitor Mind the dropbears.
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
@error said in The Official Status Thread:
Since my Oculus Quest browser doesn't support extensions, I figure I can just MitM inject my content scripts and scrub ads.
Soon you'll start hating HTTPS.
It's not a problem if you can insert a cert into the trusted root store. Which. I can't.
Fuck.
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Status: Steam seems to have somehow figured out that I'm not still playing Deus Ex, after 9 days of "playing" it 24 hours/day.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Steam seems to have somehow figured out that I'm not still playing Deus Ex, after 9 days of "playing" it 24 hours/day.
Or your key got banned for botting
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@TimeBandit said in The Official Status Thread:
@izzion It's 5° celcius here and raining,
FileUnder: thank you climate changes
When did you leave and why didn't you tell us?
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
I got some not-so-subtle hints from my parents yesterday that they'd like a granddaughter.
And there is a 1 in 1000 chance that even with 10 kids you won't fulfill your parents wish...
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Or even less, if your female child doesn't identify herself as a a daughter
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
@error said in The Official Status Thread:
Since my Oculus Quest browser doesn't support extensions, I figure I can just MitM inject my content scripts and scrub ads.
Soon you'll start hating HTTPS.
It's not a problem if you can insert a cert into the trusted root store. Which. I can't.
Fuck.
Ah, the wonders of root!
I wonder if Magisk is available for it?
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Status: Something I ordered from the distant, exotic foreign land of the United States, has now shipped via a service called "Pitney Bowes". Apparently this is an extremely slow shipping service, since the estimated delivery date is Jan 20.
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@hungrier It's basically one of the companies that does "partner shipping" via the US Postal Service (like stamps.com or the like) for people who don't want to buy their own shipping materials or buy their own shipping labels.
And with how the USPS has been recently...that estimate sounds about right. I've had something stuck in the Philadelphia regional distribution center with no movement for over a week now, that was supposed to be a gift for my daughter for the holidays...
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@e4tmyl33t Pitney Bowes also receives welfare from some state governments that just can't be bothered to use the USPS directly.
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@e4tmyl33t said in The Official Status Thread:
I've had something stuck in the Philadelphia regional distribution center with no movement for over a week now
I have a package that left the Chicago international distribution center today after getting there on December 19th
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@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
Pitney Bowes
*triggered*
Ah, I see you went with the standard service. Not the expedited service.
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Yeah. Shipping from (or to) the US is expensive enough as it is.
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Dear Spammers,
Diana doesn't want $4000 instant loan. Please stop sending her offers to my phone.
Sincerely,
Not Diana
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Picross status:
Not as popular as it would appear.
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
Dear Spammers,
Diana doesn't want $4000 instant loan. Please stop sending her offers to my phone.
Sincerely,
Not DianaI keep getting phone calls that start off "Vivian? ..." Don't know what he says after that since I go "fuck you" and hang up.
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
Dear Spammers,
Diana doesn't want $4000 instant loan. Please stop sending her offers to my phone.
Sincerely,
Not DianaAnd I'm not interested in Bitcoin, so you can stop sending me those 5 emails per day in Dutch [?].
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Reviewing an internal document prior to it's presentation next week. Sadly it's marked NDA Restrictions, but I think I can get away with disclosing this:
It features a Discourse logo with a big red over it.
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@Luhmann said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zecc said in The Official Status Thread:
in Dutch
Excuseer, foutje.
There is no excuse for Dutch.
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The automated phone system cheerfully informed me that there are zero callers in the queue ahead of me... and yet, I am on hold.
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@error Please hold, your call is important to you.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@Luhmann said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zecc said in The Official Status Thread:
in Dutch
Excuseer, foutje.
There is no excuse for Dutch.
Laughs at @HardwareGeek in Dutch
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
The automated phone system cheerfully informed me that there are zero callers in the queue ahead of me... and yet, I am on hold.
Zero callers ahead of you in the queue. There is not yet an available representative to take your call, but when there is, you'll be first in line!
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
The automated phone system cheerfully informed me that there are zero callers in the queue ahead of me... and yet, I am on hold.
"Your call will be answered on Monday when our operators are back from vacation. All the idiots took vacation at the same time and the stupid supervisor didn't double check <pause> Oh. I'm still recording? <click>"
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@error said in The Official Status Thread:
The automated phone system cheerfully informed me that there are zero callers in the queue ahead of me... and yet, I am on hold.
"Your call will be answered
on Mondaynext year when our operators are back from vacation. All the idiots took vacation at the same time and the stupid supervisor didn't double check <pause> Oh. I'm still recording? <click>"
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status Installing Ubuntu on a real machine (instead of just a VM). This will be the first time I've used it on a 4K touch laptop.
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Status: I like when you have a week off but everything you could use during that time is scheduled to arrive no sooner than Thursday before midnight.
Replacement door handle for the one that broke off the car? EOD Thursday.
Storage totes to continue the battle against General Disarray? EOD Thursday.
Garbage truck to empty full cans so I can throw out more? Next Tuesday.
Adobe Premiere that works on Windows 7? Who knows.
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I thought it was a really low price for Adobe Premiere, but then I saw it was Adobe Premiere Elements (aka the lite version). Let's hope you don't get a DVD-R with a cracked version on it instead of the genuine stuff, and it doesn't require activation from a server Adobe already turned off.
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
Storage totes to continue the battle against General Disarray?
Ha! The General is a better strategist than you and your totes will ever be!
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@Zerosquare I specifically looked up when the activation stuff started and this was reported to be the last version before it became significantly more onerous.
@HardwareGeek Always one step ahead of me it seems...
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@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
and it doesn't require activation from a server Adobe already turned off.
I'm a little worried about that with moving some old software off one machine (being retired) and to a new one (arrived today). (FileMaker 8 and Acrobat 8)
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@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
I thought it was a really low price for Adobe Premiere, but then I saw it was Adobe Premiere Elements (aka the lite version). Let's hope you don't get a DVD-R with a cracked version on it instead of the genuine stuff, and it doesn't require activation from a server Adobe already turned off.
It's 11 years old and way out of support so let's see - probably has a better chance with the cracked version
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@loopback0 The version that I really liked was Adobe Premiere 4. Sadly, at the time, disk space was at a premium so I was forced to delete the installer afterwards. That's not the worst of it though. I had installed the 16-bit version. To a Pentium Pro running Windows 98SE. I guess I can copy it off easier but who knows if it'll play nice with either 2000 or 32-bit 7. Really tragic because it's an incredible piece of software that I just never found a comparable timeline interface* for in any of its competitors last I looked.
*The timeline shows two video streams and either two or three audio streams. You can actually build a video frame by frame. That's a huge deal if you're using it for animation vs editing movies. God I wish I had the time and energy to do animated work these days.
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@Zenith If you didn't insist on using hideously old software, DaVinci Resolve is pretty good and runs on Windows 10 for free.
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
it's an incredible piece of software
It was also pretty buggy (as expected from Adobe ; it might still be).
And even if you could find it somewhere, it probably wouldn't you much good, given it won't be able to read or write any half-modern video format (IIRC it supported QuickTime and AVI using Video for Windows codecs, and both have been obsolete for a long time).
OK, you could use something like ffmpeg to convert back and forth to an older format, but it would be a bit ridiculous, even for us .