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@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
@loopback0 said in WTF Bites:
How is it sorted? Mine's sorted on CPU percentage and stuff jumps around all the time, taking a screenshot doesn't make that worse.
I was sorting alphabetically so that all of a particular application's processes were together. I was attempting to get a screenshot of everything that Slack uses so whatever is happening is happening above "S".
Ah yeah, it's the Screenshot process so it's above Slack.
Sort alphabetically descending.
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@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:Windows Snipping tool is pretty shit but at least it does not do this.
Because if you have it set to trigger on Print Screen, the process is always running in the background.
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monetization
I almost want to compare with STFC. But not enough to actually do so.
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@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
Windows Snipping tool is pretty shit but at least it does not do this. What it does do, now that I am reminded of it, is preempt all search results for "print" in the Apps menu. Want to find "Print Management"? Tough shit, "Snipping Tool" will be first in the results and sometimes "Print Management" won't appear in the results at all.
I imagine there's some usage tracking going on; I don't use the Snipping Tool and this is what I get:
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@Parody so this is a game?
Sounds more like a gambling addiction, and not a particularly fun one. Why don’t people spend that money on, idk, horse racing instead?@izzion's got the right idea. Unlike a lot of these image dispensers, though, Genshin has a halfway decent open world action-adventure game behind it. It's another way to suck people in, one that's been successful to the tune of ~$2 billion a year.
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It seems Samsung Internet Browser just removed the ability to check the certificate details of an SSL website :-(
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It seems Samsung Internet Browser has users.
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@Gustav Samsung Internet made it easy to lock incognito tabs behind an additional password, which made it good for accessing webmail... as long as you could check that your webmail had the right certificate.
Chome mobile apparently also has a feature to lock incognito tabs, but:
- You have to jump through hoops to enable it
- it's always behind the same password/biometrics etc. that were used to unlock the phone in the first place, making it useless.
- Edit: Oh, and it also doesn't work.
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@loopback0 said in WTF Bites:
@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
I'm trying to get a screenshot of something in OSX Activity Monitor, but every time I hit Cmd + Shift + 4 everything keeps jumping around on me and fucking up how I want the screenshot to look.
How is it sorted? Mine's sorted on CPU percentage and stuff jumps around all the time, taking a screenshot doesn't make that worse.
Set it to refresh every 5 seconds, hit Cmd + Shift + 4 + Space and then Return.
EscapeMetaAltCtrlShift used to be snark.
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EscapeMetaAltCtrlShift used to be snark.
Yes... because you wouldn't use Escape and Meta together.
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@Parody so this is a game?
Sounds more like a gambling addiction, and not a particularly fun one. Why don’t people spend that money on, idk, horse racing instead?@izzion's got the right idea. Unlike a lot of these image dispensers, though, Genshin has a halfway decent open world action-adventure game behind it. It's another way to suck people in, one that's been successful to the tune of ~$2 billion a year.
So It could've been an actually cool game, if it wasn't a rip-off? Shame.
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@Parody so this is a game?
Sounds more like a gambling addiction, and not a particularly fun one. Why don’t people spend that money on, idk, horse racing instead?@izzion's got the right idea. Unlike a lot of these image dispensers, though, Genshin has a halfway decent open world action-adventure game behind it. It's another way to suck people in, one that's been successful to the tune of ~$2 billion a year.
So It could've been an actually cool game, if it wasn't a rip-off? Shame.
Also if it wasn't anime-style.
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@loopback0 yeah, I looked up some screenshots and the bright colored open world looks beautiful, except for the wannabe loli shit.
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I imagine there's some usage tracking going on; I don't use the Snipping Tool and this is what I get:
I notice it on Server 2016 machines and I don't think I've ever used the Snipping Tool on those. Definitely not more than I use Print Management.
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@Kamil-Podlesak said in WTF Bites:
Train simulator with all DLCs costs over $10000
I have a few DLCs for it, maybe a couple $100, or so ( to look at my Steam account to check), all or most of which I picked up on sale for cheap. I have a few more on my wishlist, waiting for a sale. But 90+% of the DLCs simply don't interest me, much less being worth that kind of money. Same for other games; I pick and choose the DLCs that I think will make the game more interesting for me. Spending that much money on games is ridiculous, IMHO.
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So It could've been an actually cool game, if it wasn't a rip-off? Shame.
Pretty much. I'd compare it with Star Wars: The Old Republic when it went free-to-play. IMO, Genshin is better in gameplay in its genre while SW:TOR probably has better writing overall. (Caveat: I haven't fully played all the extended storylines in either.) Both have long storylines that can be played without spending money. Both have "surprise mechanics", but Genshin's are more predatory, plus it started with the modern game "play daily" mechanics (daily quests, "battle pass", etc.) that add to that addictive feel.
If you need an open world game, I hear Breath of the Wild is pretty good. It's not free, though.
@loopback0 yeah, I looked up some screenshots and the bright colored open world looks beautiful, except for the wannabe loli shit.
I like the anime style and the game's graphics in general; it's part of what got me to try the game. I don't like sexualizing children. Genshin has half a dozen characters that use the "short female" body style, but thankfully the game doesn't play that up with any of them as far as I know. (I think there's only one character who is openly flirty with you, and she's a "tall female" you get for free early on.)
I'm sure the fans aren't as restrained. :(
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@loopback0 said in WTF Bites:
Set it to refresh every 5 seconds, hit Cmd + Shift + 4 + Space and then Return.
It Just Works™
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@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
I imagine there's some usage tracking going on; I don't use the Snipping Tool and this is what I get:
I notice it on Server 2016 machines and I don't think I've ever used the Snipping Tool on those. Definitely not more than I use Print Management.
I use Snipping Tool all the time, and I get printer stuff:
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@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
I imagine there's some usage tracking going on; I don't use the Snipping Tool and this is what I get:
I notice it on Server 2016 machines and I don't think I've ever used the Snipping Tool on those. Definitely not more than I use Print Management.
I use Snipping Tool all the time, and I get printer stuff:
It seemed like a reasonable guess. Oh, well.
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@loopback0 said in WTF Bites:
Set it to refresh every 5 seconds, hit Cmd + Shift + 4 + Space and then Return.
It Just Works™
But you're doing it wrong
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EscapeMetaAltCtrlShift used to be snark.
Yes... because you wouldn't use Escape and Meta together.
Bit of a miss not to have numeric-specified bucky ( in the canonical order) on EscEsc, imho.
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If you need an open world game, I hear Breath of the Wild is pretty good. It's not free, though.
Objection, insufficient crime simulation capability.
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Phonearena has a size comparison page that lets you compare the sizes of phones and devices. By default, the size on screen was too small:
Conveniently, the site lets you calibrate it so the size matches the real device, and lets you select what to calibrate against. So naturally, I tried calibrating it with the phone that I was trying to compare:
However, back on the comparison page, it was not quite right:
So I tried calibrating it again with a credit card. That, finally, had the right result:
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So I tried calibrating it again with a credit card
A credit card can indeed "calibrate" many problems
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@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
I imagine there's some usage tracking going on; I don't use the Snipping Tool and this is what I get:
I notice it on Server 2016 machines and I don't think I've ever used the Snipping Tool on those. Definitely not more than I use Print Management.
I use Snipping Tool all the time, and I get printer stuff:
Client machine running 2016:
Brand new Server 2016 VM that is a clean slate:
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This guy works for Veeam:
On its own that seems like enough reason to never purchase their products.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvSWYwhMeAY
Notice the title of the
webinarblatant shill marketing:Backups - The 3-2-1-1-0 Rule with Veeam's backup experts
I really want to find out where they are coming up with the additional "1" and "0" from but this is too insufferable to bother.
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I don't think that Apple knows that "Max" is short for "Maximum":
Yes, I know that "Ultra" means that something is beyond a limit, blah blah blah. It is still dumb.
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@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
I don't think that Apple knows that "Max" is short for "Maximum":
I'll let you figure out which of these is "more".
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@topspin just one more example of bullshit terms in our industry but at least this one can be blamed on marketing.
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@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
@topspin just one more example of bullshit terms in our industry but at least this one can be blamed on marketing.
And since most of marketing happens over dinner & drinks, you can just use "marketing" as a euphamism for all of your spirit inspired bad ideas too
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@izzion those are unintelligible by any mind not being fed by a .25%BAC bloodstream so they are unlikely to cause long term damage.
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@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
It is still dumb.
It's less dumb than continuing on to
Vacuua
andTerata
, otoh.
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@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
I don't think that Apple knows that "Max" is short for "Maximum":
I'll let you figure out which of these is "more".
Ooh! Ooh! The one on the right!
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@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
I don't think that Apple knows that "Max" is short for "Maximum":
I'll let you figure out which of these is "more".
Ooh! Ooh! The one on the right!
What about the alternative left?
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@Gustav you're right. Being relatively unused by less than 4.68 percent is a much better reason!
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@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
I don't think that Apple knows that "Max" is short for "Maximum":
Yes, I know that "Ultra" means that something is beyond a limit, blah blah blah. It is still dumb.
Well, technically, the Max is the largest M1. Ultra is just two Max glued together, so they are technically not wrong. Maybe they should have called it the "2Max2Furious"?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
@Gustav you're right. Being relatively unused by less than 4.68 percent is a much better reason!
I worked on a project where we almost deleted a much loved feature because no one complained about it for a while. Didn't think anyone was using it.
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I worked on a project where we almost deleted a much loved feature because no one complained about it for a while. Didn't think anyone was using it.
I didn't know you worked on Firefox's FTP support.
Edit: oh wait, you said "almost".
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@Gern_Blaanston Hyper Giga Platinum Radiant Supernova Next Generation Limited Collectors Edition.
Oh wait, this isn’t Microsoft.
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Oh wait, this isn’t Microsoft.
Does it matter? Marketing is braindead everywhere.
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@topspin Microsoft is even more boring in their CPU naming. SQ1, SQ2, SQ3 with no added cool words after. But they only seem to make one model and not several within the same generation.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
@Gustav you're right. Being relatively unused by less than 4.68 percent is a much better reason!
I worked on a project where we almost deleted a much loved feature because no one complained about it for a while. Didn't think anyone was using it.
I bake in usage and latency metrics as prevenge on lazy POs on collab teams.
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@Gern_Blaanston Hyper Giga Platinum Radiant Supernova Next Generation Limited Collectors Edition.
Oh wait, this isn’t Microsoft.
Uh that'd be Pokemon. Or maybe Alienware.
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FUNCTION BEING TRICKY TO USE IS NOT A VALID REASON FOR DEPRECATION
It totally is, dude.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
I don't think that Apple knows that "Max" is short for "Maximum":
I'll let you figure out which of these is "more".
Ooh! Ooh! The one on the right!
What about the alternative left?
Well, which way are you facing, which way is the picture facing, and what day of the week is it on the Moon?
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Oh wait, this isn’t Microsoft.
Marketing is braindead everywhere.
Sure, but
Does it matter?
Yes. Yes, it does.
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We use MileIQ for tracking mileage and as a backup to onsite time logging. I frequently run into this:
There are 116 drives logged for me during that time period but none shown in the dashboard. Not to mention that showing "NaN" to end users under any circumstances is just a bad idea. Capture it and display "Error" if you must.