The Official Status Thread
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Status: When I disable Amazon Drive in the Task manager Startup tab, it still runs at startup. I can't find any shortcuts in any Startup folders, and it didn't used to behave this way, so I can only assume there's some other way to run stuff at startup that I don't know about and that Amazon Drive has for some reason started using now when they didn't use it before.
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra If only someone on this forum could have told you that Lenovo's are shit.
I should revisit that thread and also add that now the fingerprint reader, the one good feature of that shit laptop, has stopped working.
Oh. Well, since there's no thumbprint reader, no worries about it not working!
So far it seems fine, pretty much the only bloatware installed on the base image was McAfee, Cyberlink disk whatever, and the standard OEM "Register me now!" nagsware. Well, that I could tell. Still wiped it.
Sorely disappointed at their version of Synaptics control panel, I can't configure the button zones, tap zone, scroll zones, practically nothing. WTF. And of course, the standard drivers are all like "Oh you know, these aren't supported, you should really use the custom ones we did your your manufacturer!" Because fucking touchpad configuration is a special task only they can really do...
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Status: I just spend three hours trying to write an explanation of the Y-combinator in answer to a question posted by Gavino on the comp.lang.lisp group last week.
The Y-combinator. To Gavino.
WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH ME?!?!?!?!
Trying and failing, I might add, and not because he didn't understand me (he hasn't replied yet, though it's a good bet he wouldn't), but because after two attempts to explain it, I realized I didn't understand it as well as I thought I did.
But even if I did understand it, it's fucking Gavino. I'd have better odds of successfully explaining it to @SpectateSwamp than to that idiot.
Filed Under: Also, my spellar and gramming seem to have taken a real nose dive lately.
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@lb_ said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: When I disable Amazon Drive in the Task manager Startup tab, it still runs at startup. I can't find any shortcuts in any Startup folders, and it didn't used to behave this way, so I can only assume there's some other way to run stuff at startup that I don't know about and that Amazon Drive has for some reason started using now when they didn't use it before.
You actually trust default Windows utilities? Hahahahaha. Why don't you already have SysInternals Suite downloaded?
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra If only someone on this forum could have told you that Lenovo's are shit.
I should revisit that thread and also add that now the fingerprint reader, the one good feature of that shit laptop, has stopped working.
My old potatoputer was a Lenovo. At one point something stopped working, and I was certain it was the power board (it wasn't). To take off the back of the computer, you had to remove the keyboard and the optical drive first, because why not. Further steps to remove the power board included removing the hard drive, the motherboard, the fan, and the display half. It's a single goddamn ribbon cable, going into the bottom of the motherboard, and its circuit board is anchored to nothing but the case. But no, let's thread it through everything in existence, including the laptop hinges. Which retards designed this?
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Update: In a fit of pique, I decided to load that loose cannon and roll him in the direction of the Trolleybus Garage.
Please don't hate me for this. I know he's nuttier than Swampy, but it should be worth a lot of
Speaking of @SpectateSwamp, now we just need to drag Terry Davis into the group and our journey to the Wacked Side will be complete!
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Status: The dog looks relaxed.
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
@lb_ said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: When I disable Amazon Drive in the Task manager Startup tab, it still runs at startup. I can't find any shortcuts in any Startup folders, and it didn't used to behave this way, so I can only assume there's some other way to run stuff at startup that I don't know about and that Amazon Drive has for some reason started using now when they didn't use it before.
You actually trust default Windows utilities? Hahahahaha. Why don't you already have SysInternals Suite downloaded?
I do, and I do. It hasn't made a difference. In the past, this used to work fine:
So would you mind telling me what I need to do with some Sysinternals program to get the same effect?
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@lb_ said in The Official Status Thread:
@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
@lb_ said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: When I disable Amazon Drive in the Task manager Startup tab, it still runs at startup. I can't find any shortcuts in any Startup folders, and it didn't used to behave this way, so I can only assume there's some other way to run stuff at startup that I don't know about and that Amazon Drive has for some reason started using now when they didn't use it before.
You actually trust default Windows utilities? Hahahahaha. Why don't you already have SysInternals Suite downloaded?
I do, and I do. It hasn't made a difference. In the past, this used to work fine:
So would you mind telling me what I need to do with some Sysinternals program to get the same effect?I figured it out. In the Windows 10 Fall Creator's Update, the Restart option uses
shutdown /g /t 0
instead ofshutdown /r /t 0
, and since Amazon Drive registers to be restarted with the/g
flag, it gets launched at startup despite all such options being disabled.EDIT: Of course it doesn't help that Amazon Drive resets its own built-in run-at-startup option to the on position when you run it.
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@lb_ said in The Official Status Thread:
In the Windows 10 Fall Creator's Update, the Restart option uses
shutdown /g /t 0
instead ofshutdown /r /t 0
Wat.
TIL a new shutdown switch...
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@tsaukpaetra Yeah it was added a while back. From
help shutdown
:/g Full shutdown and restart the computer. After the system is
rebooted, restart any registered applications.
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@lb_ said in The Official Status Thread:
@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
@lb_ said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: When I disable Amazon Drive in the Task manager Startup tab, it still runs at startup. I can't find any shortcuts in any Startup folders, and it didn't used to behave this way, so I can only assume there's some other way to run stuff at startup that I don't know about and that Amazon Drive has for some reason started using now when they didn't use it before.
You actually trust default Windows utilities? Hahahahaha. Why don't you already have SysInternals Suite downloaded?
I do, and I do. It hasn't made a difference. In the past, this used to work fine:
So would you mind telling me what I need to do with some Sysinternals program to get the same effect?You would use the autoruns program? It lists everything that is told to autorun, in every single way.
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
@lb_ said in The Official Status Thread:
@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
@lb_ said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: When I disable Amazon Drive in the Task manager Startup tab, it still runs at startup. I can't find any shortcuts in any Startup folders, and it didn't used to behave this way, so I can only assume there's some other way to run stuff at startup that I don't know about and that Amazon Drive has for some reason started using now when they didn't use it before.
You actually trust default Windows utilities? Hahahahaha. Why don't you already have SysInternals Suite downloaded?
I do, and I do. It hasn't made a difference. In the past, this used to work fine:
So would you mind telling me what I need to do with some Sysinternals program to get the same effect?You would use the autoruns program? It lists everything that is told to autorun, in every single way.
Well, every single way known at the time it was last updated, in any case....
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
@lb_ said in The Official Status Thread:
@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
@lb_ said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: When I disable Amazon Drive in the Task manager Startup tab, it still runs at startup. I can't find any shortcuts in any Startup folders, and it didn't used to behave this way, so I can only assume there's some other way to run stuff at startup that I don't know about and that Amazon Drive has for some reason started using now when they didn't use it before.
You actually trust default Windows utilities? Hahahahaha. Why don't you already have SysInternals Suite downloaded?
I do, and I do. It hasn't made a difference. In the past, this used to work fine:
So would you mind telling me what I need to do with some Sysinternals program to get the same effect?You would use the autoruns program? It lists everything that is told to autorun, in every single way.
Well, every single way known at the time it was last updated, in any case....
Well, given that Microsoft is the one that updates it, I'd imagine that it is reasonably likely to stay updated to the latest release of Windows.
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
@lb_ said in The Official Status Thread:
@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
@lb_ said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: When I disable Amazon Drive in the Task manager Startup tab, it still runs at startup. I can't find any shortcuts in any Startup folders, and it didn't used to behave this way, so I can only assume there's some other way to run stuff at startup that I don't know about and that Amazon Drive has for some reason started using now when they didn't use it before.
You actually trust default Windows utilities? Hahahahaha. Why don't you already have SysInternals Suite downloaded?
I do, and I do. It hasn't made a difference. In the past, this used to work fine:
So would you mind telling me what I need to do with some Sysinternals program to get the same effect?You would use the autoruns program? It lists everything that is told to autorun, in every single way.
Well, every single way known at the time it was last updated, in any case....
Well, given that Microsoft is the one that updates it, I'd imagine that it is reasonably likely to stay updated to the latest release of Windows.
Hence why even modern games today require DirectX executables last updated in 2010.
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Hence why even modern games today require DirectX executables last updated in 2010.
If modern games are using DirectX 9, it's only because their developers intend to someday port to some shitty-ass platform like Nintendo Switch.
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Hence why even modern games today require DirectX executables last updated in 2010.
If modern games are using DirectX 9, it's only because their developers intend to someday port to some shitty-ass platform like Nintendo Switch.
I don't know. I can't seem to find the option "this is a VR game intended to only be compatible with Windows 10. Use DirectX 10 or better and shutup" in Unreal Engine. I'm sure as a developer this is entirely my fault and I should be blamed for the Engine's stupidity.
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@tsaukpaetra I'm sure that's some biting insult, but I can't parse what you wrote and I no longer care.
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra I'm sure that's some biting insult, but I can't parse what you wrote and I no longer care.
Yeah yeah just tell me what a stupid moron I am and get on with yourself.
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@tsaukpaetra Actually after I sift it around in my brain a bit, I think you're replying to:
- People only use DirectX9 if they plan to port to a shitty gaming system like a tablet or Nintendo Switch or something
with:
- This game engine that publishes to shitty gaming systems like tablets and Nintendo Switch and something uses DirectX 9!
In which case, touché.
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Status: Farewell Houston, see you next year.
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Status: I beat Cuphead. 111 deaths. It was fun.
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@magus said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: I beat Cuphead. 111 deaths. It was fun.
*internal screaming*
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Status: Et tu, Gmail?
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Status: Spec change, times I receive as an ASCII byte-stream now can now be invalid times (hour 25 etc..) to signify they are 'off'. I use LocalTime currently, which due to lack of imagination doesn't have an OFF or FILE_NOT_FOUND constant built in. I foresee writing a wrapper with an isOff property and adjusting a ton of logic is my task for this morning. Debated Null Object Pattern but that feels wrong, it is set to a value, but that value isn't a time really...
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@cursorkeys Find whoever put that in the spec. Kill them. Find whoever approved that spec change. Kill them, too.
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@cursorkeys Does it at least tell you what invalid time to expect? Or is it free to choose a new invalid time each message?
That's a shitty spec. They couldn't have just added a boolean field?
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
@cursorkeys Does it at least tell you what invalid time to expect? Or is it free to choose a new invalid time each message?
Thankfully yes, there are three not-a-time constants that mean various kinds of 'off'.
@weng said in The Official Status Thread:
@cursorkeys Find whoever put that in the spec. Kill them. Find whoever approved that spec change. Kill them, too.
@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
That's a shitty spec. They couldn't have just added a boolean field?
There is a lot of times sent over and adding that many bytes would have caused issues on the hardware side. I did some token grumbling but I can see why it makes more sense for me to do more work on this end.
Finished the changes, after realising I'd need a new Time Picker too so users could actually see and set these new options. It looks ok-ish.
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@cursorkeys said in The Official Status Thread:
There is a lot of times sent over and adding that many bytes would have caused issues on the hardware side. I did some token grumbling but I can see why it makes more sense for me to do more work on this end.
Maybe they should do their design up-front, instead of shipping a broken design and making all their customers suffer when they fix the brokenness in a stupid way.
Oh wait, nobody does upfront design anymore, silly me. You can just barf out ass and "fix it later".
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@blakeyrat Or, since adding fields is apparently out if the question, these are formatted ascii fields. The word "off" would consume no extra bits.
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@weng No, but since it's something dealing with time I'd half expect whatever's parsing said fields to take numeric input only and would barf on non-numerics, presumably in either a hilariously spectacular or subtly data-destroying way.
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@e4tmyl33t Except it's more likely being fed into something sane that checks to make sure it's a REAL date/time, and it's easier to check to see if the entire was of byes equals some sentinel value than to intentionally look for specific out of range values.
Further, hour 25 actually exists... So an intentional out of range value there is ungood.
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[root@localhost src]# git clone https://<GitLab host>/myrepo.git Initialized empty Git repository in /usr/src/myrepo/.git/ Cannot get remote repository information. Perhaps git-update-server-info needs to be run there?
ETA:
[root@localhost src]# git --version git version 1.5.2.2
Yeah, I don't think the problem is with the server. Bollocks.
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Status: Playing Middle Earth: Shadow of War.
I quite like it so far but they included one major annoyance from the previous installment: Those bloody damn fucking speeches by the Orc leaders.
Yeeees, I know how important you are and how pretty you look in that dress. Shut your gab and let me kill you.
It's especially annoying when you get three of them in one place.
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@hardwaregeek said in The Official Status Thread:
Anyway, it's old, so we bought a new (refurbished) Dell from Newegg that seemed like a pretty good value for the price.
And.... the battery won't charge. It's been stuck at "32%" for days. But that seems inaccurate, because it immediately dies if unplugged. Followed the Dell troubleshooting guide:
- Yes, the power supply is indeed plugged into a working outlet.
- The laptop says it is plugged in and charging.
- It says the battery is perfectly healthy.
- It detects a genuine Dell 130W charger.
- Charge with the laptop completely powered off, so BIOS/OS settings can't interfere.
- Reflash the BIOS. Wait, ? I shouldn't have to do that to a brand new (ok, newly refurbished) computer that I just bought.
It looks like it may be RMA time. :(
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@hardwaregeek said in The Official Status Thread:
130W charger.
Dafuq? How big is the brick on that monster?
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@e4tmyl33t I'm not sure; my son took it to school with him this morning, so I don't have it available to check. But comparing it to his 90W "universal" charger (that won't even power on the new laptop), I'd guess it's probably about 10x10x2 cm. (The 90W is 10x7x2.) For all us 'Muricans, that's 4x4x0.8 in.
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Dell 130w charger. Assorted desk shite for scale.
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@hardwaregeek the Dell 130w charger is nowhere near that big.
I make mine 3x6x.75 freedom units (my ruler is a pica stick and therefore graduated in inches)
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@weng said in The Official Status Thread:
the Dell 130w charger is nowhere near that big.
Fair enough, since you have one on hand to measure. I thought I remembered the brick as being approximately square.
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@heterodox said in The Official Status Thread:
[root@localhost src]# git --version git version 1.5.2.2
Yeah, I don't think the problem is with the server. Bollocks.
Surprisingly painless to compile git 2.14.2 on this decade-old operating system. Had to remove HTTP[S] support since libcurl was missing definitions, but I didn't need that and other than that... cloning down fine now via SSH. Okey dokey.
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@e4tmyl33t said in The Official Status Thread:
No, but since it's something dealing with time I'd half expect whatever's parsing said fields to take numeric input only and would barf on non-numerics, presumably in either a hilariously spectacular or subtly data-destroying way.
You could compromise and serve a "date" like 00000000, 00000001, 00000002 for your three sentinels. All numeric, all nonsense-dates.
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@weng said in The Official Status Thread:
Further, hour 25 actually exists... So an intentional out of range value there is ungood.
Moreover, many/most time libraries will take something like: 2017-13-02 and automatically "fix" it to 2018-01-02.
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@rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
Yeeees, I know how important you are and how pretty you look in that dress. Shut your gab and let me kill you.
It's especially annoying when you get three of them in one place.The Batman Arkham-series inspired combat = good. The fact that the game turns into quick-time events halfway though = awful. Does it still have the fucking QTEs? Fuck QTEs.
The first time I tried to play the first game, their RNG fucked-up somehow and the orc bosses always glommed together in groups of 5 all the time. My buddy was like "oh no you have to just watch and wait for one to split off" but they never would. I actually streamed it to him and he was like, "oh, ok, wow, yeah your game is fucked." Before then he thought I was just being a whiner about how hard the game is. (Not knowing that what I was seeing wasn't typical or intended). I restarted, and it was fine on the second try.
Same thing happened to me in Xcom: Enemy Unknown, where in a single mission it introduced to me 3 alien races I'd never seen before, then due to bugs failed to position the camera to show me the big laser-blaster one was about to nuke half my troops. RNGs hate me. Also broken cameras hate me.