The Official Status Thread
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Oh for fucks sake, what does it take to
shut Windows Updates uptell me what the fuck you want?!?!??!??!What FEATURES are DISABLED that is preventing INSTALLATION???!?!?
Holy shit!
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
the thing that really matters is net salary and monetary value of benefits
This. And how much respect others around you have for your professional abilities and judgement.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Oh for fucks sake, what does it take to shut Windows Updates up?!??!
I believe you need an exorcism.
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@Tsaukpaetra It's the usual Windows helpfulness. Like when I couldn't update to 1803 and Windows just told me "A driver is incompatible." Ok, Windows, how about telling me WHICH driver is incompatible? You know, to give me a chance to fix this problem? Nope! Because the Microsoft attitude towards customers is
nowadays.
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@Atazhaia said in The Official Status Thread:
It's the usual Windows helpfulness.
No doubt.
I guess I'll trawl through DISM.log and hope it doesn't declare
C:\Windows
to be invalid or something...
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@Atazhaia said in The Official Status Thread:
Microsoft attitude towards customers is Something happened :( nowadays.
FTFY.
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@Gribnit said in The Official Status Thread:
@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
stuck in a rut there and never left
That this correlates to the strongest apparent overall marketing success factor for Microsoft products very closely may be a coincidence.
The other two platforms don't have good 3rd party support? I can't find a good notepad++ replacement. I've given up on xplorer2 and baretail replacements. I can't even display a window across two screens in Mac.
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@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
I can't even display a window across two screens in Mac.
Get bigger screens.
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@Atazhaia said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra It's the usual Windows helpfulness. Like when I couldn't update to 1803 and Windows just told me "A driver is incompatible." Ok, Windows, how about telling me WHICH driver is incompatible? You know, to give me a chance to fix this problem? Nope! Because the Microsoft attitude towards customers is
nowadays.
I've had that happen with Linux and MacOS as well. It's a general problem.
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Status: moved my OneDrive folder to the D: drive, then moved everything else inside it. Because that's apparently the easiest way to backup my shit to the 1TB of space I have there.
This backup program "Veeam" has a free edition which claims to support OneDrive backups, but it only lets you backup the C: drive.
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Status: "why is my internet so slooow!"
sees own previous post
"Oh, right, the 500GB OneDrive sync"
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@Rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
@Atazhaia said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra It's the usual Windows helpfulness. Like when I couldn't update to 1803 and Windows just told me "A driver is incompatible." Ok, Windows, how about telling me WHICH driver is incompatible? You know, to give me a chance to fix this problem? Nope! Because the Microsoft attitude towards customers is
nowadays.
I've had that happen with Linux and MacOS as well. It's a general problem.
The Apple school of error messaging, as they were the ones who started with the idea that users can't be allowed to be scared by cryptic numbers or error messages, because it's more "user-friendly" that way. I wish MS could learn from Apple's good ideas instead of Apple's bad ideas when it comes to OS design.
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Status: After last weekend’s “I need to get all this stuff done by end of Monday” stress, I’ve swung to the opposite extreme of “so bored I’m binge watching the worst season of American Horror Story yet.”
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STATUS: I'm pretty sure I just lost the game of life.
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@sloosecannon said in The Official Status Thread:
STATUS: I'm pretty sure I just lost the game of life.
There are less than three people in your surroundings or more than five?
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@sloosecannon said in The Official Status Thread:
STATUS: I'm pretty sure I just lost the game of life.
This one or Conway's?
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@sloosecannon said in The Official Status Thread:
STATUS: I'm pretty sure I just lost the game of life.
This one or Conway's?
The one where if you lose completely, you die...
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@sloosecannon said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@sloosecannon said in The Official Status Thread:
STATUS: I'm pretty sure I just lost the game of life.
This one or Conway's?
The one where if you lose completely, you die...
Sounds like you need a rule mongerer...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@Atazhaia said in The Official Status Thread:
It's the usual Windows helpfulness.
No doubt.
I guess I'll trawl through DISM.log and hope it doesn't declare
C:\Windows
to be invalid or something...I thought "Let's try turning it off and back on again, perhaps repairing in the process?"
Fuck it, I'm done.
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Today I found this in my inbox.
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
Would rather be making my 42082…
And it is made. It's glorious. And big. And detailed. And so smooth-running too. One or two tricky bits to do (especially joining the upper body to the lower) but mostly fairly easy if one follows the instructions carefully. (It's much easier to do a good job of a build of it than with a 42055, which seems to be a very difficult model to not introduce excessive friction into by accident.)
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@pie_flavor It’s in the spec.
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
Would rather be making my 42082…
And it is made. It's glorious. And big. And detailed. And so smooth-running too.
Friend of mine just ordered a big-ass Super Star Destroyer, but won’t let me help build it.
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
a table tennis table (that sounds stupid)
Sounds awesome to me. But it would have to be in an actual room so as not to disturb others.
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@chozang said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
a table tennis table (that sounds stupid)
Sounds awesome to me. But it would have to be in an actual room so as not to disturb others.
In the basement. I believe it’s far enough away from the offices so as not to disturb anyone.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Fuck it, I'm done.
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"We're not installing it, because it's already installed!"
Fine, but, removing it doesn't make it removed!
What the shit????
Funny enough, the CBS log says the same thing when deleting the feature. So, no matter what, the feature is always in the state it needs to be regardless of conditions?
I truly wish it were more verbose in telling what condition it was checking. This is utter bullshit.
Edit: I can repeatedly uninstall something without repercussion indefinitely!
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@Weng said in The Official Status Thread:
Based on similar photos I've seen, this is normal Asia Pacific railroad behavior.
I always have my sceptic-snopes-doubt goggles on. On the surface it looks like a "lol funny brown people do dumbs!". But then when you stop and think about it-- there's no way that train is moving. There's too many people without hand-holds. The conductor's view is completely obscured. Too many people are standing in or on the-- whatever the wheels and choo-choo gears are call on a train engine.
And most of them are either waving at the camera-- thus acknowledging it's there and breaking the illusion that this is a candid photo taken of a regular crowded train-- or they're all facing the same direction and waving/posing.
It looks more like a world record / publicity stunt / intentional crazy picture.
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
PhpStorm is a perfect PHP IDE
Now I know you're lying.
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@Lorne-Kates Why's that?
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@Jaloopa said in The Official Status Thread:
@Lorne-Kates said in The Official Status Thread:
Well, there's your problem. There aren't any PHP IDEs.
And just what do you call Notepad?
A "strip away all non-text data and formatting ctrl-v ctrl-a ctrl-c environment."
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@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
I've actually taken to writing more reviews since these idiots started bugging me for them. All of them 1 star complaining about being prompted.
So let me get this straight...
Microsoft nags you to leave a review for Google Chrome-- their competitor-- even though Microsoft knows that nagging pisses off lots of people and will, more often than not, lead to someone leaving a spiteful bad review.
Yeah, that make sense.
:tin_foil_hat:
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@stillwater said in The Official Status Thread:
foosball table
I worked in a small company that had a foosball table because "Google does this so cargo cult amiright". Also an air hockey table.
A small company. As in a small office. As in basically one main office space. Meaning ain't nobody fucking playing a loud-and-disruptive-as-fuck game like foosball or air hockey while people are working.
People can always play after office hours.
Sure, I'll totally stay in the office, unpaid, after hours, to play a table game. I'd much rather do that than go home and spend time with my family. Great office perk, yo.
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@stillwater said in The Official Status Thread:
Win 10 pro for 13 dollars? Is this Legit?
The site you quoted has numbers in the URL so-- no.
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
Today I found this in my inbox.
Ask him to code a fractal.
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
@Lorne-Kates Why's that?
Using "perfect" and "PHP" in the same sentence for ANYTHING.
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@Lorne-Kates said in The Official Status Thread:
A "strip away all non-text data and formatting ctrl-v ctrl-a ctrl-c environment."
I use the JS console for that.
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@Lorne-Kates said in The Official Status Thread:
Meaning ain't nobody fucking playing a loud-and-disruptive-as-fuck game like foosball or air hockey while people are working.
Foosball isn't so bad, but air hockey is loud. The plastic puck seems almost perfectly designed to transfer acoustic vibrations to air. Dance Dance Revolution is also loud. Both are clearly audible even through closed office doors. And yes, people do play them while people are working, or did when they were available.
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@anotherusername said in The Official Status Thread:
@Lorne-Kates said in The Official Status Thread:
A "strip away all non-text data and formatting ctrl-v ctrl-a ctrl-c environment."
I use the JS console for that.
If I'm just doing a single line (copy a weirdly formatted line of text), I do WIN-R, then the above.
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@Lorne-Kates said in The Official Status Thread:
@Weng said in The Official Status Thread:
Based on similar photos I've seen, this is normal Asia Pacific railroad behavior.
I always have my sceptic-snopes-doubt goggles on. On the surface it looks like a "lol funny brown people do dumbs!". But then when you stop and think about it-- there's no way that train is moving. There's too many people without hand-holds. The conductor's view is completely obscured. Too many people are standing in or on the-- whatever the wheels and choo-choo gears are call on a train engine.
And most of them are either waving at the camera-- thus acknowledging it's there and breaking the illusion that this is a candid photo taken of a regular crowded train-- or they're all facing the same direction and waving/posing.
It looks more like a world record / publicity stunt / intentional crazy picture.
"Train surfing is a common and usual way to ride trains in countries such as India, Bangladesh and South Africa, where this type of riding by trains is compelled due to the high population density and severe overcrowding of trains."
That single picture may be fake (but having spent way too much time in rail museums, I can tell you that nobody is actually in contact with any moving parts) but it is definitely a thing in general.
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@Weng said in The Official Status Thread:
but it is definitely a thing in general.
Oh no doubt it's a real, well documented thing. It's that photo in particular that takes "a thing that happens in other countries", then exaggerates it just to laugh at "tehm weird foreigners".
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@Weng said in The Official Status Thread:
having spent way too much time in rail museums
Not possible.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@Weng said in The Official Status Thread:
having spent way too much time in rail museums
Not possible.
You're right. Anybody would die of boredom before it got near that
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@Lorne-Kates said in The Official Status Thread:
People can always play after office hours.
Sure, I'll totally stay in the office, unpaid, after hours, to play a table game. I'd much rather do that than go home and spend time with my family. Great office perk, yo.This. I used to work at a place where the layout was shaped like an "L" and the corners being workplaces and whatnot and the angle was where the coffee machine and foosball table sat. Very noisy. People played often, noise was interfering with work and eventually there was a note on the wall later saying "please don't play during workhours blah blah thank you" and then someone went "Oh fuck you it gets too late in the evenings I am not staying back to play foosball. It's there to relax when am working. Not after"
Here comes the kicker. The CEO went "You're right. It's there to relax while you work, so here's what we're gonna do. Everyone works till ~2 pm. Foosball and relaxation time till 5:30 pm. We resume work and wrap up at 9"
GET.THE.FUCK.OUT.OF.HERE
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@Lorne-Kates said in The Official Status Thread:
Using "perfect" and "PHP" in the same sentence for ANYTHING.
"PHP is a perfect example of bad design"?
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@Zerosquare Not even, there are some aspects of it that are suited to its intended environment. Recognising its stateless environment and supporting session variables as an alternative is an example (however poorly implemented you might think that is).
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
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Stop trying to fight The System. You're only hurting yourself. The sooner you accept that, the happier you will be.
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@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
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Stop trying to fight The System. You're only hurting yourself. The sooner you accept that, the happier you will be.
I'm trying to not fight the system though. This is a fresh fucking install for fucks sake! 🍶
And I really don't want to scrap and recreate this piece of shit, moving over keys and encryption tokens was dodgy enough!
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Youtube gave me an ad for "Bending Reality".
What's that, a new AR game? A metaphor for improving yourself? Nope, a course on literally "bending reality" with the power of your expanded consciousness.
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
Today I found this in my inbox.
I sent you the only copy I have! Send it back!
STATUS I have 3 days holidays left. I think I might just take every other Monday off for the rest of the year.
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@anonymous234 said in The Official Status Thread:
a course on literally "bending reality" with the power of your expanded consciousness
It's considered normal to assist your “expanded consciousness” with a bottle of bourbon.