The Official Status Thread
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Status: I've been DVRing Law & Order on BBC America (why is that the only cable channel currently on Sling that is syndicating the good L&O?) and they've been running spots for the upcoming Dr Who special for over a month now.
Can they just run the special and get it over with already?
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
Can they just
run the specialstop Doctor Who and get it over with already?
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@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
Can they just
run the specialstop Doctor Who and get it over with already?I mean, they have killed the Doctor over a dozen times by now...
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Status: Just now noticed that my login/email for an online store I was having shopping problems with was wrong.
I had my email for them before as "{First Initial}{Middle Initial}{Last Name}@gmail.com", and decided to change it up to do the +label, so I ended up changing it to "{First Initial}{LastName}+{store}@gmail.com". It's been that way for at least 4 years now, and I'd never noticed that I hadn't gotten order confirmations or shipping notifications (since I only order maybe 1-2 times a year).
Worse, since I just tried ordering something and had an issue yesterday, I went to their Support site, where I had to fill out a help ticket and then gave them the email address to contact me at which I had copied from the login and didn't notice the typo then either. They at least seemingly did partially fix the problem by refunding me the loyalty points, but any other resolution or response they're expecting will never come.
I guess me just redoing the order is hopefully enough. I also guess at least I have it corrected now, and wouldn't have noticed if I hadn't decided to pay via card instead of via PayPal.
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Status: filled with rage
UPS shipped my PC parts to the town next door and then back to NewEgg. This is already off to a great start.
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@PleegWat but since it always just spits out more-or-less ass-pulls, correct input isn't so important anymore.
And who would dare to question any (wrong) outputs if the holy machine has produced it?@error_bot xkcd machine learning
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
Wanted to waste an evening playing PC games.
Instead wasted an evening diagnosing why my laptop doesn't think I have a discrete Nvidia GPU.
Probably been an issue since Windows 11 upgrade. :theres_your_problem.svg:
After trying everything from firmware updates to driver updates to hard resets to UEFI settings to physically cleaning the ports...
The thing that finally worked? DOWNgrading the graphics drivers to an older version.
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
DOWNgrading the graphics drivers to an older version.
Makes sense. Always use the Studio drivers if you want "stable".
In theory.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@error said in The Official Status Thread:
DOWNgrading the graphics drivers to an older version.
Makes sense. Always use the Studio drivers if you want "stable".
In theory.
So you got one to let the smoke out, using Studio drivers? If so tell them, they may give you money.
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
The thing that finally worked? DOWNgrading the graphics drivers to an older version.
It's almost baffling how "make things as they were before" is one of the last, not first, things people try when troubleshooting a computer problem that didn't happen before.
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@Gustav said in The Official Status Thread:
@error said in The Official Status Thread:
The thing that finally worked? DOWNgrading the graphics drivers to an older version.
It's almost baffling how "make things as they were before" is one of the last, not first, things people try when troubleshooting a computer problem that didn't happen before.
It wasn't the way it was before. I started with no driver. I installed the latest driver.
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Status: Futurama subtitle: Not a substitute for human interaction.
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Futurama subtitle: Not a substitute for human interaction.
Fuck human interactions!
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Futurama subtitle: Not a substitute for human interaction.
Fuck human interactions!
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Status: At the start of this year, a certain idea took hold in my mind. It was almost an obsession as I continued to be distracted by thoughts of all the different things it could do and have. But I was too busy to do anything about it except write stuff down. (I might have posted about it here in this thread at the time)
Once I had more time to work on it, I… didn’t. The thought of making assets sounded time-consuming and not particularly appealing.
I am pleased to announce that, as of this weekend, work has commenced Let’s see how long the momentum can be maintained. Trains are supposed to be notoriously hard to stop…
In fairness, I didn’t possess a superomegamazing tablet at the time
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@kazitor Looks better than anything I'd draw, that's for sure.
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@Zecc
But of course – you do not possess the magic slab through which all images are intrinsically enhanced.
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Status: do I exude the appearance of incompetence?
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@Tsaukpaetra What has your QA field broken this time?
Ed. This isn't the questions thread.
You're starting to sound like Gribnit, Ed.
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My new favorite meme. No, I won't explain the joke.
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@Gustav Funny Stuff topic is
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@loopback0 people in that thread have a tendency to complain about things not being funny.
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Sure, now that's a concern
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@Gustav said in The Official Status Thread:
@loopback0 people
in that threadhave a tendency to complainabout things not being funny.FTFY
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official Status Thread:
What has your QA field broken this time?
Nothing. I was simply told I don't get fucks because I don't appear competent enough. Or something.
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@kazitor said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zecc
But of course – you do not possess the magic slab through which all images are intrinsically enhanced.Kind of. This is one of those convertible laptops and it came with a pen; but in practice I only use the tactile screen when wiping off fibers or specs of dust that make the cursor go crazy.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official Status Thread:
What has your QA field broken this time?
Nothing. I was simply told I don't get fucks because I don't appear competent enough. Or something.
Have the ponies stopped screaming, Clarice?
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official Status Thread:
What has your QA field broken this time?
Nothing. I was simply told I don't get fucks because I don't appear competent enough. Or something.
Have the ponies stopped screaming, Clarice?
... What ponies?
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Status: Oh...
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@Tsaukpaetra You broke Google Maps. I don't think rebooting you will fix that.
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@Tsaukpaetra That red shirt, though?
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra That red shirt, though?
That's my corporeal self. I foolishly set my badge face as my profile picture.
Figured they might not want to have any hints, you know?
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
@error said in The Official Status Thread:
Wanted to waste an evening playing PC games.
Instead wasted an evening diagnosing why my laptop doesn't think I have a discrete Nvidia GPU.
Probably been an issue since Windows 11 upgrade. :theres_your_problem.svg:
After trying everything from firmware updates to driver updates to hard resets to UEFI settings to physically cleaning the ports...
The thing that finally worked? DOWNgrading the graphics drivers to an older version.
Whenever I have some free time, I've been meaning to run Display Driver Uninstaller and hopefully unfuck my somewhat-working-but-with-weird-issues system that doesn't let me update or even interact with the currently installed drivers without hard locking the entire computer
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@kazitor said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zecc
But of course – you do not possess the magic slab through which all images are intrinsically enhanced.I have one but I think using it might actually dehance my digital art
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Status: Speaking of sites that fuck with Paste....
Imma murder the bitch that decided to intercept the clipboard so hard it completely ignores whatever is in memory for whatever it wants.
Fuck you, Sharepoint!
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Fuck you, Sharepoint!
Have some standards and self-respect!
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Status: UPS's new trick to fake "on time" delivery is for SurePost to record "delivered to post office" as "delivered." I went looking for the Cuphead game that was supposedly delivered this afternoon and it was only after I dug into the progress details that I saw that.
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Status: If you say you encountered an error... POST THE FUCKING ERROR! You're right there looking at it, the ability to screenshot is well within your means, please, for the love of all personal home pages out there, do the needful before I have to fish it out of you!
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
If you say you encountered an error... POST THE FUCKING ERROR! You're right there looking at it
Maybe not. Maybe it fled.
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status I don't know why but after Nicholas Cage’s recent run of films he's retroactively made his older films better.
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@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
status I don't know why but after Nicholas Cage’s recent run of films he's retroactively made his older films better.
Well observed, I hadn't even noticed that. But, I have somehow gone from merely "hating all but one Nic Cage movie" to actually liking that one movie. Not so far as remembering the name.
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Status: I think its fucked.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilF5AAf41s0
TR;DW: It's a secret message from planet Nibiru. The scarab (Ancient Sumerian symbol of god) is a clear giveaway.
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@Applied-Mediocrity Amusing. I'm pondering how the printer decided to decode 8-bit characters in the extended range so consistently. 🤔
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
its fucked.
Yeah, S.M.A.R.T. says there's two reallocated sectors. On an SSD! If that's not a bad sign I don't know what is.
It's apparently a shit-cheap drive, model FNX256MORM for the morbid.
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@Tsaukpaetra Does anybody on this plane speak
JiveMarlett?
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@Tsaukpaetra Cyrillic has several incompatible layouts (CP 1251, CP 866, KOI-8, ISO 8859-5) that all have Cyrillic characters in different places of the extended range.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: I think its fucked.
When Windows 9x was a thing, this glitch happened when GDI resources were very low, which wasn't that hard to trigger accidentally.
But doing so on a Windows NT-based OS requires @Tsaukpaetra‐level abilities.