The Official Status Thread
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
status sigh
xcode is updating. All 7.59G of it.4 day weekend!
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
status sigh
xcode is updating. All 7.59G of it.4 day weekend!
It's done. Somehow the install only took about 5 or 10 minutes. I was astounded!
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
status sigh
xcode is updating. All 7.59G of it.4 day weekend!
It's done. Somehow the install only took about 5 or 10 minutes. I was astounded!
That means it didn't actually do it and is lying in wait to pounce when you least expect it!
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
That means it didn't actually do it and is lying in wait to pounce when you least expect it!
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@ChaosTheEternal said in The Official Status Thread:
I'm also unsure how it would pop out without breaking or being broken while it is holding the video card down.
Never say never; I'm sure some motherboard manufacturer will come up with a way for it to be a feature.
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@Parody said in The Official Status Thread:
@ChaosTheEternal said in The Official Status Thread:
I'm also unsure how it would pop out without breaking or being broken while it is holding the video card down.
Never say never; I'm sure some motherboard manufacturer will come up with a way for it to be a feature.
Could have sworn that existed, for not walkable hot swappable PCIe cards, was in a caddy tray or something.
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Status: Really annoyed when people try to force-inject pieces of reality into a fiction that's not their own and try forcing others to conform to their opinions.
Bruh, if this was any way similar to real life, a member of the top leadership of the government would absolutely not be bothered to personally visit an enemy of the state in their prison cell with a single solitary guard for months on end in a personal attempt to study them and keep them alive (it's more stupider the more detailed I get, so I'll leave it at that).
But nah, let's focus on the reaction of a guard instantly escalating to death threats simply because said person collapsed on the ground (outside the cell, mind you) after begging the prisoner to "stay with me" in tears. That's totally more important than, you know, the unknown monster in the cell being allowed direct access from a head of state.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
force-inject pieces of reality into a fiction
Hey guys, did you know? It's a guard's job to jump at shadows!
It's also apparently completely reasonable to assume a demonstrably-nearly-dead creature in a prison cell who has failed to show outward aggression since being put there for months should be assumed capable of effortless escape while still bound in said cell despite all evidence to the contrary.
I can't believe I was trolled into this "argument"....
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Status: Firefox 84 is trying my patience. I had it on a work computer, 32-bit version and all, and it was great. What gives?
I've never had so many dead controls. This is when you click in a textbox and nothing happens. No caret, no focus change, no keyboard events, and it stays that way until the page is reloaded.
Pages are also drawing big black boxes all over the place. If I scroll while watching a YouTube video, I get a big black box that covers 75% of the video, most of the playlist, and intermittent chunks of the comments. I can whipsaw the scrollbar around and maybe disappear it but another false move will bring it right back. Right now, my tabs, the five of them, are all black because, I don't know, aliens?
Plus it’s getting really old having to keep open tabs under ten. I get it, 4GB of RAM may as well be 4K, but a few of these sites are deliberately used because they were designed before every asshole put their very special episode of Hello World in a 64-bit Node container.
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
big black boxes all over the place.
Hey, when did you steal my Windows 11 computer?!?
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Status: Annoyed. The wire for my headphones (plugged into the top-facing front headphone jack on my computer's case) somehow got wrapped around one of my office chair's casters despite the giant guards on them that attempt to prevent this from happening. The resulting accident bent the plug and damaged the jack enough to make the computer think the headphones are plugged in all the time. I bent the plug back and the headphones still work for now, though I have to manually tell the computer whether I want sound to go to the speakers or the headphones.
The wire isn't removable on this headset and the little I/O board on the case isn't available as a replacement part.
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@Parody The plug itself is probably ok-ish. I believe it's supposed to short contacts when ground part is inserted (or see resistance between ground and mic parts). With some soldering you could maybe put a small manual switch, ugly as it is
Or maybe with sufficient number of reinsertions the contacts will separate... with certain risk of not coming into contact again.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official Status Thread:
Or maybe with sufficient number of reinsertions the contacts will separate... with certain risk of not coming into contact again.
Could very well work. I was thinking of gently bending it a bit the opposite way with a spare 1/4" to 1/8" adapter to see if that'd help separate whatever contacts are in...contact.
I miss having front-facing I/O; the forceful disconnection event might not have damaged anything. It'd also be easier to see exactly where the stupid USB-C port is.
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
Firefox 84
Use Firefox 93 64-bit version on Windows 7. Works fine on WTD.
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@BernieTheBernie said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
Firefox 84
Use Firefox 93 64-bit version on Windows 7. Works fine on WTD.
Or, just an idea, just use current Firefox?
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@BernieTheBernie said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
Firefox 84
Use Firefox 93 64-bit version on Windows 7. Works fine on WTD.
Or, just an idea, just use current Firefox?
That goes against his whole "making things more difficult than they need to be" ethos.
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Edit: If somebody want to do some good with ChatGPT, they should put it in a browser to fix hipsterscript bugs and replace the typical DIV salad with functional tables. Adding real features that I actually want instead of endlessly churning shit that I don't care about would be a real change of pace. I'd have no problem updating to that version!
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
Firefox 84 is trying my patience
You honestly expected a "modern" website to work on ancient software?
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@dcon I increasingly see breakage for versions like FF 113 because “it’s not Chrome” just like the bad old days of “it’s not IE”. Same shit, different decade.
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
replace the typical DIV salad with functional tables
Why do you seek the impossible?
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Why do you spend time playing with half-broken machines running half-broken software?
Filed under: rhetorical questions
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
replace the typical DIV salad with functional tables.
Why do we want either of them? What's wrong with using plain old
<p>
for paragraphs?
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@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
Why do you spend time playing with half-broken machines running half-broken software?
Filed under: rhetorical questions
Because his completely-broken machines won't run his completely-broken software. Duh.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
replace the typical DIV salad with functional tables
Why do you seek the impossible?
Need I point you back to my coding challenge that you’ve yet to complete and practically nobody else has dared to even try?
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
replace the typical DIV salad with functional tables
Why do you seek the impossible?
Need I point you back to my coding challenge that you’ve yet to complete and practically nobody else has dared to even try?
Look boy, I can't even think enough to sleep correctly, I have no capacity to try/
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
Firefox 84 is trying my patience
You honestly expected a "modern" website to work on ancient software?
Software developers calling December 2020 releases ancient is like a toddler calling a kindergartner old. What word do you use for actually ancient stuff? Really really really really really really ancient?
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
Firefox 84 is trying my patience
You honestly expected a "modern" website to work on ancient software?
Software developers calling December 2020 releases ancient is like a toddler calling a kindergartner old. What word do you use for actually ancient stuff? Really really really really really really ancient?
Mythical.
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
Firefox 84 is trying my patience
You honestly expected a "modern" website to work on ancient software?
Software developers calling December 2020 releases ancient is like a toddler calling a kindergartner old. What word do you use for actually ancient stuff? Really really really really really really ancient?
Curmudgeonly
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Status: This installation of FF84 also has an interesting bug where it will stack multiple copies of the same screen's worth of content on top of each other to create something to scroll through. In other words, five logon panels, all of them with dead controls. You know, because reasons.
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@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
Why do you spend time playing with half-broken machines running half-broken software?
Filed under: rhetorical questions
Why are you questioning our career choice?
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
Firefox 84 is trying my patience
You honestly expected a "modern" website to work on ancient software?
Software developers calling December 2020 releases ancient is like a toddler calling a kindergartner old. What word do you use for actually ancient stuff? Really really really really really really ancient?
Stable.
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@Arantor said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
Firefox 84 is trying my patience
You honestly expected a "modern" website to work on ancient software?
Software developers calling December 2020 releases ancient is like a toddler calling a kindergartner old. What word do you use for actually ancient stuff? Really really really really really really ancient?
Stable.
Red HatDebian
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Status: decided Telepéage is still not worth it for someone who probably visits France for a few weeks most years, despite the introduction of sections which are more of a hassle to pay in any other way.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Why does nothing appear broken?
You didn't touch that world yet
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@TimeBandit said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Why does nothing appear broken?
You didn't touch that world yet
:@Thanos: I see a world in need of balance...
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@error Don't fall for it. The travel agent used that same stock photo when I was trying to book a trip to The World Without JavaScript. It was lovely but it can't be both places.
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
The World Without JavaScript
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
The World Without JavaScript
I have a very strong feeling that in a world without JS we'd instead have some other abomination that's just about as bad, just in a different way. Annoyance is, it seems, a conserved property of systems.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
@error said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
The World Without JavaScript
I have a very strong feeling that in a world without JS we'd instead have some other abomination that's just about as bad, just in a different way. Annoyance is, it seems, a conserved property of systems.
A world without Javascript would be where Shockwave became dominant.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
@error said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
The World Without JavaScript
I have a very strong feeling that in a world without JS we'd instead have some other abomination that's just about as bad, just in a different way. Annoyance is, it seems, a conserved property of systems.
A world without Javascript would be where Shockwave became dominant.
Which seems to me a worse fate.
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Status: Apparently ServiceHow has been updated?
Got a shiner now!
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@ChaosTheEternal said in The Official Status Thread:
I'm waiting for the shipping label
The support guy at iBuyPower has assured me I should be receiving the label by the end of the day, despite the RMA email on May 31 saying the label "can take about 24hrs to arrive", and me having to tell them on June 2 that it had yet to arrive.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
I have a very strong feeling that in a world without JS we'd instead have some other abomination that's just about as bad, just in a different way. Annoyance is, it seems, a conserved property of systems.
A world without Javascript would be where Shockwave became dominant.
Not necessarily. There were other contenders in that space; it was a very slim chance that JS won, and it was that way several times. There was a great deal of happenstance involved.
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@ChaosTheEternal said in The Official Status Thread:
@ChaosTheEternal said in The Official Status Thread:
I'm waiting for the shipping label
The support guy at iBuyPower has assured me I should be receiving the label by the end of the day, despite the RMA email on May 31 saying the label "can take about 24hrs to arrive", and me having to tell them on June 2 that it had yet to arrive.
Hey! Give that Delivery Distortion Field back to @HardwareGeek!
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
@error said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
The World Without JavaScript
I have a very strong feeling that in a world without JS we'd instead have some other abomination that's just about as bad, just in a different way. Annoyance is, it seems, a conserved property of systems.
:zwj: H2G2
there’s another theory which states this has already happened.
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
@error said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
The World Without JavaScript
I have a very strong feeling that in a world without JS we'd instead have some other abomination that's just about as bad, just in a different way. Annoyance is, it seems, a conserved property of systems.
:zwj: H2G2
there’s another theory which states this has already happened.I almost thought about quoting that myself.
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@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
@ChaosTheEternal said in The Official Status Thread:
@ChaosTheEternal said in The Official Status Thread:
I'm waiting for the shipping label
The support guy at iBuyPower has assured me I should be receiving the label by the end of the day, despite the RMA email on May 31 saying the label "can take about 24hrs to arrive", and me having to tell them on June 2 that it had yet to arrive.
Hey! Give that Delivery Distortion Field back to @HardwareGeek!
should simply create a label and arrange a pick-up. I'm sure that will be met with no obstacles whatsoever