The Official Status Thread
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
They need to see some documents to verify my identity.
But that's -ist!
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
Total time: 3 hours 20 minutes. And that's just license renewal, no test or anything.
I once waited in line at the DMV just for them to tell me they don't do driver's licenses there and I needed to go to the DPS instead.
Weird state. Or, don't wear bring a bullwhip. Livestock driving is different. Or, don't take the tank for the driving test, and why do you own a tank.
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Status: Let's see how well I can fuck up the deployment for today...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Let's see how well I can fuck up the deployment for today...
Ever heard of the Jenkins Folder Plugin?
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@Gribnit said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Let's see how well I can fuck up the deployment for today...
Ever heard of the Jenkins Folder Plugin?
Yes. However, the person who set up Jenkins before me.... did not.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
I can fuck up the deployment
It went... well!
Granted, all I was doing was changing a
float
column toint
in two tables, and refreshing a bunch of static files.Gotta leave a note for myself that the default environment is set up deceptively intentionally for some fucking reason...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
I can fuck up the deployment
It went... well!
Granted, all I was doing was changing a
float
column toint
in two tables, and refreshing a bunch of static files.Gotta leave a note for myself that the default environment is set up deceptively intentionally for some fucking reason...
It's not intentional. They really were that dumb. Sorry.
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
I don't even know what a kernel panic on a macbook looks like. No hyperbole
Doesn't look like anything. POOF! System is booting.
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@Gribnit said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Let's see how well I can fuck up the deployment for today...
Ever heard of the Jenkins Folder Plugin?
Lerooooooy!...
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
Real ID.
I haven't bothered yet. I don't have a problem carrying my passport if someone needs that. So I last renewed my license by mail.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Let's see how well I can fuck up the deployment for today...
OH
RUN FOR THE HILLS!
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
Real ID.
I haven't bothered yet. I don't have a problem carrying my passport if someone needs that. So I last renewed my license by mail.
I was like exactly 2/3 through the thousand that got the option so I went with the forehead tattoo.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Granted, all I was doing was changing a
float
column toint
in two tablesRounding off those fractions of a cent?
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Granted, all I was doing was changing a
float
column toint
in two tablesRounding off those fractions of a cent?
Since there were never any cents to begin with it wasn't too hard.
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
- be me
- have overpriced optical gaming mouse
- mouse has weird jitter problems for months
- try everything from reinstalling drivers to mouse firmware to recalibration
- start shopping for replacement mouse
- comparable model costs ~$100
- jitter gets worse
- try blowing on the optical sensor (like a NES cartridge)
- works like new again
Status: Currently using two mice. At the same time.
I fairly recently bought two ergonomic (vertical) mice, one right-handed and one left-handed. (I'm fairly ambidextrous and switch back and forth to minimize RSI.) I bought replacements for my previous mice because the button switches wore out and got flaky.
The right-handed one moves the pointer reliably, but the buttons are flaky as heck and often require more force than normal and/or awkward finger positions to actuate. The LMB, in particular, will either not click or double-click; getting a normal single-click is a dice roll, and the dice are loaded against it. Forget even trying to drag; the release is almost guaranteed to register as a second click. It's very much not ergonomic — worse than a normal, non-ergonomic mouse — when it takes up to 10 actions to do what a non-broken mouse would do.
The left-handed one has buttons that work reliably and comfortably, but the optical sensor won't move the pointer at all. (Yes, I've tried blowing on it.) It's never worked, since I first unboxed it.
So one mouse to move the pointer and the other to click.
is at least partially the for not returning the when I first discovered the problems.
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@HardwareGeek I was doing something similar with mouse and trackpad before my one weird trick that Razer hates.
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zenith Someday I want to build a MAME cabinet.
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Murica! Fuck yeah!
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Granted, all I was doing was changing a
float
column toint
in two tablesRounding off those fractions of a cent?
Since there were never any cents to begin with it wasn't too hard.
We could use a :winking_really_hard emoji:. Maybe a 3-panel zoom?
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
currently it's a watchdog process that loses communication with the window manager and panics
OK, that's a soft panic. I've seen them (on my previous machines) occur when something causes the display controller process to hang or page out. That's extremely difficult to do normally; it's a highly active process that pins a lot of its memory (for obvious reasons; it's talking to the display hardware). The watchdog itself is a special memory-locked very high priority process and ensures that if things get in a bad state, things are restarted so that you get a sane recovery (I know there's something similar in the Radeon drivers on Windows, except those can be restarted without killing the session in some cases). Given that it sounds like it might also be associated with heat management issues (definitely a problem with the Intel-based macbook pros, and possibly an issue in other versions) it could be that the heat problems caused the CPU to switch into reduce-heat mode (the CPU massively slows down and that shows up in the system monitor as a huge system CPU load) and together with what you're running, it ended up pushing things hard enough that the watchdog was missed too many times. Which triggers the forced restart.
I'm not saying for sure that that's what happened, but it's a highly plausible explanation given the symptoms and my experiences of system design and past misbehaviour in macOS. If that's it, the heart of the problem is running things too warm, and that's probably in turn due to inefficiencies running the third display (there have been weird HW issues relating to that for years; I don't know the full story). Plus whatever overall environmental stressors you've got around (I hear it's been a bit warm in the Pacific NW recently). All it took then to trigger the crash was a random concatenation of minor circumstances to push things over the edge. Does only using one external display make things easier and more reliable?
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
It's never worked, since I first unboxed it.
Is there any protective foil covering the sensor?
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@PleegWat said in The Official Status Thread:
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
It's never worked, since I first unboxed it.
Is there any protective foil covering the sensor?
As far as I can tell, the sensors in both mice are identical.
Edit: @HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
The left-handed one has buttons that work reliably and comfortably
Since I posted that, the "back" button on the left-handed mouse has stopped working.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@PleegWat said in The Official Status Thread:
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
It's never worked, since I first unboxed it.
Is there any protective foil covering the sensor?
As far as I can tell, the sensors in both mice are identical.
Sounds like a problem with your position measurements.
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
Status Macs just work, right?
Except I've had more kernel panics on my MacbookPro over the last year than I have had blue screens (or other total system crashes) in Windows 10 across two PCs, including one that's frankensteined. After "upgrading" to Big Sur, it now has a hard kernel panic if it goes to sleep for more than about 5 minutes.
I don't even know what a kernel panic on a macbook looks like. No hyperbole.
I've seen it a happen a couple of times I think in 6 years across 3 different Macbooks, not that it's recognisable as obviously a kernel panic.
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@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
recognisable as obviously a kernel panic.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
Maybe. I'm considering, once I move into my new place, having two separate desks/keyboards/monitor setups, one for work and one for my personal machines. The KVM isn't really saving me much effort at this point, and I'm not even trying to hot-swap. I only swap in the evening once I'm done with work and then in the morning (back to work config). Currently, that involves unplugging the 3 usb and one HDMI from one machine (or the dock, since macs only have USB C, and I need a network cable as well) and switching them, plus the one HDMI that actually behaves with the switch.
i have separate keyboards and mice for work and personal computers, but they share the same desk. Two of my three monitors are connected to both computers and I just switch the inputs on the monitor, and the remaining monitor always shows my personal desktop.
I unplug the dock (with power) from my laptop just to make sure it goes to sleep, but otherwise no cables need removing from anything.
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Status: So many messages I don't know what to do!
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: So many messages I don't know what to do!
Maybe use a terser language. How are you at gzip while speaking?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: So many messages I don't know what to do!
I'd say "don't use Google Voice" but that doesn't really help your current situation.
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@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: So many messages I don't know what to do!
I'd say "don't use Google Voice" but that doesn't really help your current situation.
I read “so many messages” and took a glance at the screenshot, mistaking that “reload” button for being a message bubble he sent with the messenger. “To reload the page?! ”
I was at the same time appalled and not surprised how regarded Google technology is.
Filed under: admittedly I’m tired
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: So many messages I don't know what to do!
Doesn't take much to trigger this in Chrome. I can't regularly log into my pay stub website, which shows 4 transactions on the landing page by default.
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
I was at the same time appalled and not surprised how regarded Google technology is.
Yeah, there's literally no excuse for any app, regardless of how newfangled it is, to run out of memory displaying text messages.
Filed under black dot of death
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
I was at the same time appalled and not surprised how regarded Google technology is.
Yeah, there's literally no excuse for any app, regardless of how newfangled it is, to run out of memory displaying text messages.
Butbut... Someone has to load those 34235MB of javascript to make the text bounce on the 3rd blue moon of the year.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Apparently I got a badge for a question I posted being viewed 1k times.
It's 3 years old.
Status: I got the "Community Moderators closed your question as Off Topic" badge!
It's 1.5 years old.
This question gained awareness because the default Stable version of MariaDB now enforces a read-only status for tables that use that
ROW_FORMAT=COMPRESSED
flag until the user comes and fixes it, and this utterly breaks NextCloud (Which foolishly tries to force this option on every table, but only if you're allowing theutfmb4
collation or whatever for emoji support).I raised this issue years (apparently) ago, and they just shrugged and said "well don't do that".
Now there's urget tickets to try and get it fixed because user's systems are literally breaking at this very moment.
What a wonderful world we live in!
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
I bought replacements for my previous mice because the button switches wore out and got flaky.
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
Since I posted that, the "back" button on the left-handed mouse has stopped working.
I've said it before, but mice switches are pretty easy to replace ; so unless it's a really cheap mouse, repairing makes sense. And you're @HardwareGeek, so you can't use the "but I don't have a soldering iron" excuse
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@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
you can't use the "but I don't have a soldering iron" excuse
What about the "I don't know where it is; it could be in any of about 20 bins of tools in the garage" excuse?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
This question gained awareness because the default Stable version of MariaDB now enforces a read-only status for tables that use that ROW_FORMAT=COMPRESSED flag until the user comes and fixes it, and this utterly breaks NextCloud
Which presumably forces users to whinge at NextCloud so they change things.
Hasn't MariaDB had a better way to handle compression on InnoDB for years?
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@HardwareGeek:
E_KNEELING_WARTHOG_EXCEPTION
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@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
Hasn't MariaDB had a better way to handle compression on InnoDB for years?
YES! And that was my veiled poke back then too.
MariaDB deprecated the flag some time ago and just now the "Hey, we really want people to stop using this" came around, the next major will get rid of it completely I believe.
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@Tsaukpaetra Also forcing compression on all tables by default seems stupid too but I'm not really familiar with NextCloud to make a proper judgement.
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@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra Also forcing compression on all tables by default seems stupid too but I'm not really familiar with NextCloud to make a proper judgement.
Yeah. It only does that if you want utf8mb4 (i.e. emojies I guess) support. Otherwise, it doesn't fucking care whatsoever.
I have the feeling that whoever coded that line was like "Oh, characters might take 4 bytes each? better compress it then!" and nobody challenged them on it. Ever.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
I have the feeling that whoever coded that line was like "Oh, characters might take 4 bytes each? better compress it then!" and nobody challenged them on it. Ever.
That tricky extra byte...
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
you can't use the "but I don't have a soldering iron" excuse
What about the "I don't know where it is; it could be in any of about 20 bins of tools in the garage" excuse?
Completely valid. Also valid excuse to be (yet) another.
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Status: An unusual increase in humidity has been detected. Is it raining?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: An unusual increase in humidity has been detected. Is it raining?
No, I'm pissing on your leg.
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@Gribnit said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: An unusual increase in humidity has been detected. Is it raining?
No, I'm pissing on your leg.
That might explain the smell...
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Status: Blue screen. Yay for open files with unsaved data
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theres a problem with ur sytem
Sorry, do you mean your system or ours?
ur system
:internal_facepalm:
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
Now the Konami X-Men game (plus some crappy Data East Marvel games nobody asked for) is up for preorder and they want $700.
I know that $700 is way less than an actual cabinet would've cost back in the day but it's still a big investment for one game.
Perhaps the X-Men® license costs more than the TMNT® one?
Four player isn't the best way to play the X-Men® game anyway. You'd want to get a six player version with two screens (or an ultrawide one).
@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
Why can't I just buy these old games on the Switch for $50?
Sounds like a real losing proposition for one arcade game you can emulate on almost anything.