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@HardwareGeek said in WTF Bites:
@BernieTheBernie said in WTF Bites:
fortune
was fun...:(
You need a better database!
Mine also has none installed, but at least tells you where it looked.
root@namp:~ # fortune -o No fortunes found in /usr/share/games/fortune:/usr/local/share/games/fortune. root@namp:~ #
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In reality it's a passthrough to a folder
Ah, yeah, you don't want sys stuff on those...
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@Tsaukpaetra Amiga stuff is generally very sane and well behaved, it just gets woefully confused on big drives. I don’t map the entirety of C: to it, just the folder I care to give it as a base.
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You need a better database!
Yeah.
fortune
wasn't installed at all by default in WSL, so Isudo apt install fortune-mod
ed it. I didn't bother looking for any additional data for it.
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The operating system knows that the volume BraveNewWorld has a total of 4GB - of which '3339M' is free. (In reality it's a passthrough to a folder, the drive is a 500GB drive with 120+GB free so it's already lying about the drive size)
But as you can see, the Workbench installer is confused about the amount of space I have.
dos.library returns drives sizes as an
unsigned long
, so somebody clearly used their brain. The Installer Script thing that came with the system was a really cool idea, too, so much more consistent and transparent than the MS way of just having an EXE file do whatever for installation, but it just doesn't have an unsigned type.
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Of course there's no "remind me never" option.
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@error but also, how TF can such extensions in developer mode “harm your device”?
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@error but also, how TF can such extensions in developer mode “harm your device”?
Probably the same way opening arbitrary
programswebsites can.But maybe more because developer mode might not do something the non developer mode doesn't not do?
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@Tsaukpaetra proof if any more were needed that the web is fucking broken and can we please go back to simpler times where shit just worked without all the nonsense?
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Of course there's no "remind me never" option.
Taking a wild guess at shitty UIs: try to just click the cross at the top right.
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@Tsaukpaetra proof if any more were needed that the web is fucking broken and can we please go back to simpler times where shit just worked without all the nonsense?
Ah, yes, the times of RealPlayer and Flash ...
But I digress, of course I agree with you.
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@Tsaukpaetra proof if any more were needed that the web is fucking broken and can we please go back to simpler times where shit just worked without all the nonsense?
Ah, yes, the times of RealPlayer and Flash ...
But I digress, of course I agree with you.There are times I want to go before that, before any of that.
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RealPlayer
Serious question: What was so bad about it? I liked it. It had one major advantage over anything else that I'm aware of. Any video you could watch, you could save locally to watch offline. No download blocking; no plug-ins that will download the video, but only super-low-res unless you buy the paid version of the plug-in.
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@HardwareGeek from what little I remember: everything!
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@HardwareGeek Mostly remember flash in the late days, where trying to install the flash player would try to give you McAfee (or whatever) as well. Dunno if RealPlayer ever did the same thing.
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@HardwareGeek said in WTF Bites:
What was so bad about it?
It was well-known for aggressively hijacking file associations. I think it also used included advertising.
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@Zerosquare said in WTF Bites:
it also used included advertising
Did the ads also suffered from the buffering issue?
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@TimeBandit said in WTF Bites:
@Zerosquare said in WTF Bites:
it also used included advertising
Did the ads also suffered from the buffering issue?
Of course not. They were preloaded while your previous song was buffering so that the ads could play at highest quality without delay.
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@HardwareGeek it also had a habit of crashing the browser in my experience.
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Of course there's no "remind me never" option.
Sounds like they're following Facebook Messenger's notification options on the phone.
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Of course there's no "remind me never" option.
At least they're being honest that they wipe out all your "stop nagging me" settings with every update
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Oh, Zoom...
edit: The black is just my editing to blank out the actual chat.
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@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
The push to Azure and AWS cloud computing also annoys me. I have yet to do a cost analysis on it where it is not significantly more expensive. I am certain that there are use cases where it makes sense, but none of them are ones which we work with.
Just ran across this https://a16z.com/2021/05/27/cost-of-cloud-paradox-market-cap-cloud-lifecycle-scale-growth-repatriation-optimization/
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Oh, Zoom...
It always astounds me how you can fuck up a webpage just because it's running in Linux.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
It always astounds me how you can fuck up a webpage just because it's running in Linux.
It's not a webpage, it's their app.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
It always astounds me how you can fuck up a webpage just because it's running in Linux.
It's not a webpage, it's their app.
Isn't zoom using electron?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
It always astounds me how you can fuck up a webpage just because it's running in Linux.
It's not a webpage, it's their app.
Isn't zoom using electron?
I'm just thinking of things like Teams that have a standalone app and a real webpage. I'm pretty sure you can Zoom just on a webpage too.
Let's go have a webniar about it...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
It always astounds me how you can fuck up a webpage just because it's running in Linux.
It's not a webpage, it's their app.
Isn't zoom using electron?
I'm just thinking of things like Teams that have a standalone app and a real webpage. I'm pretty sure you can Zoom just on a webpage too.
Let's go have a webniar about it...
I'm pretty sure teams is also electron. And that makes it a local webpage.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
It always astounds me how you can fuck up a webpage just because it's running in
LinuxLniux.FTFY
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Isn't zoom using electron?
Yes, as far as I can tell, it is. And that just makes it worse, because there is very little difference between electron running on windows, electron and electron running on linux/x11 (I'm not sure it runs on linux/wayland too, but if it does, there's very little difference to the app too).
I'm just thinking of things like Teams that have a standalone app and a real webpage. I'm pretty sure you can Zoom just on a webpage too.
Teams don't have a standalone app. They have a webpage and webpage wrapped in electron. You can use both on just the webpage (and both will prod you to install them, but if you just want to join an effing meating, there is no effing reason to).
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
It always astounds me how you can fuck up a webpage just because it's running in Linux.
It's not a webpage, it's their app.
Literally the same thing. Just that the "app" may potentially be able to call out to things like external dlls.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
Literally the same thing.
We all know that - I had my "user" hat on. I installed something, I click a separate icon, it launches something that isn't running in my browser. Therefore, it's a standalone app!
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Actual rant at the link.
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@boomzilla said in WTF Bites:
Actual rant at the link.
My inner systems admin is wrinkling his nose contemptuously at the marketing people unable to make their computers do anything more complex than send spam email.
Though if their IT department really is using some bespoke "SSO launcher" and it's not just the marketing drone's lack of computer IQ, then I might allow that is
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@izzion lusers are real.
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Status: I don't know, is the health threshold exceeded?
Seems to me that 64k pending allocated sectors and 2k uncorrectable sectors would be a Bad Thing.
Adding Optane to my "Really actually really shit" list.
Somehow this user was able to get by with this zombie drive because all this was abstracted away and buffered on the poor Optane drive (which is miraculously still quite healthy, apparently)!
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@boomzilla if you can't measure it, you can't manage it. Also though, if you rely on self-reporting, you can't measure it.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
Somehow this user was able to get by with this zombie drive
Was this user you?
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@loopback0 said in WTF Bites:
@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
Somehow this user was able to get by with this zombie drive
Was this user you?
No. This is a ticket for a user that complained that Bitlocker "made their drive slow" and so they started decryption whereupon it got stick at 58%.
Apparently, Optane hid the facts so well that the user couldn't tell the difference between a dead drive and a Ok drive that occasionally froze all the time.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
Wait, you can toggle it?
I don't really know what that does, but yes, it flips back and forth.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
Somehow this user was able to get by with this zombie drive because all this was abstracted away and buffered on the poor Optane drive (which is miraculously still quite healthy, apparently)!
What would it take for those tests to say that the drive is not OK?
(Windows is itself good at hiding that drives are failing/failed, buffering things up until you run out of memory. I don't blame users for having no idea what's going on.)
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
is the health threshold exceeded?
For you or for normal computer usage?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
it flips back and forth.
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What would it take for those tests to say that the drive is not OK?
Excellent question!