The Official Status Thread
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Status: Dammit, I hate when I accidentally click "Submit" instead of "Save"
Queue a half hour of "oh shit oh shit oh shit I gotta fix this!" combined with "fuck why u no compile fast enough!"
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Status My work laptop is being reimaged for McAfee-based reasons. As I was offsite today I needed a laptop so was loaned a Thinkpad X-something.
The trackpads on the current Thinkpads are fucking awful. No idea Lenovo were smoking when they made them.
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Also the Ethernet port is upside down so that the clip is on the bottom and you need to lift one side of the laptop up to remove the cable.
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@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
@ben_lubar Then you have plenty of time to go to the hospital and give @apapadimoulis
his missing finger backthe fingerProbably why it's missing.
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@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
The trackpads on the current Thinkpads are fucking awful.
My work laptop is a several-year-old W-something and the trackpad on it is horrible as well. At least it's an alternative to the horrible nipple tucked in between some of the keys.
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@hungrier I'm sure Thinkpads used to have non-terrible trackpads. Maybe I imagined that and they've always been terrible.
Lenovo can certainly manage it - I have a Lenovo Z70 here at home and the trackpad is fine.
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Status: I managed to test the horrible thing we're making, at least in some small ways. I did my positive and negative tests, and when I was ready, checked them in. The positive tests fail on the build server. And there aren't external dependencies. AAAAARGH!
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@loopback0 The best trackpads I've seen are the clickable glass ones on Macbooks. Some PC manufacturers are doing similar ones, but from what I've seen they aren't as good.
I think newer Macbooks have a different kind of trackpad as well, which I haven't used yet.
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@aliceif said in The Official Status Thread:
Win.
For Samsung. Base price is now $99 higher.
It's not like they were going to price it lower than the iPhone/Pixel anyway.
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@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
I think newer Macbooks have a different kind of trackpad as well, which I haven't used yet.
They're brilliant on both the current and previous generation.
Most laptop manufacturers (including Lenovo) get it varying degrees of right, it just goes wrong on (current?) Thinkpads.
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@aliceif said in The Official Status Thread:
Win.
For Samsung. Base price is now $99 higher.
I'm planning to get a Galaxy S7 soon. (I have an S5)
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@aliceif Why not wait a bit and get one of the re-released refurbished Note 7s? There's no way that could go wrong, right?
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@hungrier
I hear they'll be really hot deals.
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@izzion Their sales will blow up
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Status: BAND-MAID really is good. But not better than their name.
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@aliceif said in The Official Status Thread:
I'm planning to get a Galaxy S7 soon.
That's what I have. Been pretty happy with it (S4mini prior to that)
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Belgium the notification spam from the likes thread. Belgium the spam, and Belgium the asshole who's generating it.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
Belgium the notification spam from the likes thread. Belgium the spam, and Belgium the asshole who's generating it.
.... What do you expect? It's the belgium likes thread!
Somewhere around here someone made a script to auto-clear those...
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@accalia said in The Official Status Thread:
@RaceProUK said in The Official Status Thread:
@accalia said in The Official Status Thread:
they are sexy robots with very short skirts......
i wish the skirts were longer, or that 2b went for pants instead.Does not correlate with
@accalia said in The Official Status Thread:
Such a perverted vixen.
just because i'm perverted does not mean that i don't respect consent.
Being a protagonist in a third person camera video game is pretty much the same as consenting to have someone look at your (clothed) butt.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Somewhere around here someone made a script to auto-clear those...
It's posted in the likes thread somewhere if feel adventurous ...
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Status: you would think there would be an easy lightweight method of taking the microphone input of one Windows computer and playing it on another with low latency.
No?
Well dammit I guess I'll just use VLC and suffer second-long delays...
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Status: Go away.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
you would think there would be an easy lightweight method
No.
taking the microphone input of one Windows computer and playing it on another with low latency
Hahahahaha!
No.
Or use something like skype, google hangouts or webex (with one end's mic muted). They suck, but they suck less than trying to figure out how to make a low latency audio stream work from first principles; that's genuinely hard (properly requiring fun and games to get the data to your program with low — or at least consistent — latency and then pushing the data over RTP).
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@RaceProUK said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Go away.
We still have 729 days to pester you. :-)
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@Mikael_Svahnberg said in The Official Status Thread:
@RaceProUK said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Go away.
We still have 729 days to pester you. :-)
sticks paws in ears
LA LA LA LA I'M NOT LISTENING LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA!
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@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
Being a protagonist in a third person camera video game is pretty much the same as consenting to have someone look at your (clothed) butt.
see..... the thing is..... i'm not actually sure she's wearing anything under her skirt.... if she is it's either really tiny or flesh colored, and.... well i'm just not feeling a game as aswesome as that deserves a protag made of
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@accalia Maybe she's like Barbie under what little she wears: no genitals, just a trademark
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@BLUBAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I have traveled here from IRC to say........
HELLO! would you like some porn? maybe a toy? The phone number of a doe i know who can show you a good time? Just ask!
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@Perverted_Vixen Is it bad I recognise your avatar?
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@RaceProUK said in The Official Status Thread:
@Perverted_Vixen Is it bad I recognise your avatar?
I'd say that's actually a good start that you recognize me!
the more perverts the better!
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ahe he he he he he he he he he he.........
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/me is always wary when @accalia starts giggling like a schoolgirl...
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@RaceProUK said in The Official Status Thread:
/me is always wary when @accalia starts giggling like a schoolgirl...
it's when i start laughing like a mad scientist that you should worry.
because that's when i'm doing mad science.
when i giggle i'm either being mischievous or i thought of a new fart joke.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
Belgium the notification spam from the likes thread. Belgium the spam, and Belgium the asshole who's generating it.
.... What do you expect? It's the belgium likes thread!
Somewhere around here someone made a script to auto-clear those...
Search for this (including a set of quotes around it), and you should find it pretty easily:
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@accalia said in The Official Status Thread:
when i giggle i'm either being mischievous or i thought of a new fart joke.
Usually by messing with me
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@RaceProUK said in The Official Status Thread:
@accalia said in The Official Status Thread:
when i giggle i'm either being mischievous or i thought of a new fart joke.
Usually by messing with me
only about 20% of the time.
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Status: Got my extra USB-A ↔ USB-C cable. One less thing to haul back and forth between work and home. :)
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Status: Saw a water tower that I've never seen before on my drive to work today. Rather odd, considering that I drove the same route I've been driving for years and the water tower most definitely did not look new...
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@anotherusername IOW, you put more attention to what his happening on the road instead of the surrounding
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@anotherusername said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Saw a water tower that I've never seen before on my drive to work today. Rather odd, considering that I drove the same route I've been driving for years and the water tower most definitely did not look new...
was it because there was a tree that recenely fell or was felled that used to block the tower from view?
or maybe this is the first time in years that you were..... more than 25% awake on the drive into work?
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
USB-A ↔ USB-C
Does it actually charge your device? I've had really bad luck with those things, even those on https://usbccompliant.com/.
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
USB-A ↔ USB-C cable
Is there such a thing as a male USBA to female USBC adapter? I couldn't find one Googling around earlier, and couldn't find anything, just stuff going the other way (USBCm USBAf).
My only experience with USBC so far has been an Insignia tablet (piece of shit; don't ever buy one) that came with a double-ended USBC cable for charging, so if I wanted to use that cable with any of my equipment it would need a USBAm USBCf adapter.
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@TimeBandit it's a friggin' water tower. And not that far away from the road, actually. Kinda hard to miss.
@accalia nooooo? I don't think so...
I CAN'T FIND IT IN GOOGLE EARTH... OH GOD, WHAT THE FUCK...
Wrong side of the highway to really be able to see it on my way home, so I'll have to keep an eye out tomorrow and see if I can spot it again...
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@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
Is there such a thing as a male USBA to female USBC adapter?
Couldn't find one either. You better just buy a cable, it's not expensive
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Status: A bunch of high school kids are here for a tour. I'm almost tempted to volunteer to go
check out the girlsherd a group of them around the facility, but it's been ages since I've given a tour and I'd have to reinvent my script from scratch as I went along... eh, I think I'll pass...
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@TimeBandit It's all at this point since I don't have anything with USB-C (I returned the crappy tablet). But it seems like a no-brainer to make an adapter like the one I described.