WTF Bites
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@boomzilla WineHQ rates it platinum. Maybe that means almost playable.
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@timebandit said in WTF Bites:
I'm so tempted to scream "COULD YOU GET OUT OF THE WAY YOU STUPID FUCK, please"
One of these days, I will. I'm old. I'm entitled. Fuck you.
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@timebandit Aw shit. (looks) Well, all my money's still there. For now.
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@timebandit son of a fuck i hope my money's still there
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@dcon Are you sure it's your money you're looking at ?
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@timebandit said in WTF Bites:
adding that please at the end
Of course, it's the Canadian thing to do.
It's like saying "sorry about that" right before punching some asshole in the face
I thought you were supposed to say that afterwards...
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@timebandit said in WTF Bites:
@dcon Are you sure it's your money you're looking at ?
The numbers looked right.
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I thought you were supposed to say that afterwards..
No, it's fun to see the confused look on their face when they say "about what ?" just before you punch them and say "That!"
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@topspin winehq rates ssds silver
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@sockpuppet7 said in WTF Bites:
@topspin winehq rates ssds silver
Holy fuck, you weren't joking. Who of you did that?!
To be fair, winehq only rates compatibility. Something that sucks this bad on Windows can't get much worse on Wine.
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@pie_flavor said in WTF Bites:
@bb36e E_NO_REPRO
https://i.imgur.com/RIi6R76.png
It's looked exactly like this across every updateIs that weird hexagonal aligment a windows thing, something you did yourself, or in any way related to that "HexChat" tile?
I did that because I like it. The alignment is in units of 1/4 icon rather than in units of 1 icon.
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@timebandit said in WTF Bites:
You have Steam on Linux ?
Ever heard of SteamOS?
Guess what it is based on.
Debian GNU/Linux, of course.Isn't that also the reason that it was fantastically useless?
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@greybeard said in WTF Bites:
The bald eagles I usually see are in Canada.
When I was on vacation in Vancouver this summer, I watched a Canadian bald eagle pick a shark out of the water, murder it, then eat it's guts in front of everyone.
Our bald eagles will fuck you up.
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Me, for the past two days:
"WHY THE FUCKING HELL DOES THIS LISTVIEW NOT UPDATE WHEN I ADD ITEMS TO THE DATASOURCE FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK!!!!!!!!!"
Me, just now:
ListView.DataSource = TheSource; ... TheSource = GetNewSourceCollectionThatIJustAddedShitTo();
.............................................................. goddamn it lorne.
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@topspin That's when you give them the joy of lifts by pressing the other 14 buttons as you exit. Bonus points for doing it very slowly while staring them in the face.
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A 6 minute ad? You've got to be kidding me, YouTube?!
They just want me to get up and tap the skip button.
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A 6 minute ad? You've got to be kidding me, YouTube?!
They just want me to get up and
tap the skip buttoninstall an adblocker.FTFY
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A 6 minute ad? You've got to be kidding me, YouTube?!
Ladies and gentlemen, I present your "Better Ads"!
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@topspin @Tsaukpaetra I have on multiple occasions gotten hour long ads that were literally just convention talks. One of them I remember you have to normally buy the talk from the guy who gave the talk to even see it, so getting it as an ad is an interesting marketing strategy.
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@coderpatsy said in WTF Bites:
A 6 minute ad? You've got to be kidding me, YouTube?!
They just want me to get up and
tap the skip buttoninstall an adblocker.FTFY
I use an adblocker wherever I can, but adblocking doesn't work for the iPhone YouTube app. (Just like playing a song in the background still doesn't work in 2018.) I don't see 6 minute ads after a 3 minute song when I watch in on the desktop.
It's actually interesting that it works on YouTube at all. They serve the ads from their own servers, so I don't know why URL blacklisting works here.
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@coderpatsy said in WTF Bites:
A 6 minute ad? You've got to be kidding me, YouTube?!
They just want me to get up and
tap the skip buttoninstall an adblocker.FTFY
I use an adblocker wherever I can, but adblocking doesn't work for the iPhone YouTube app. (Just like playing a song in the background still doesn't work in 2018.) I don't see 6 minute ads after a 3 minute song when I watch in on the desktop.
That's because iPhone sucks dick. On Android I use OGYouTube to block ads.
It's actually interesting that it works on YouTube at all. They serve the ads from their own servers, so I don't know why URL blacklisting works here.
YouTube's just HTML with video sources. It's not a conventional ad blocking mechanism and does involve a bit of JS fuckery, but it directly stops there from being an ad.
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@tsaukpaetra I put up a hour long Robots in the News video as an ad once.
YouTube gave me free credit, and it got through their ad approval, so why not? I hope it annoyed a lot of people.
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@pie_flavor said in WTF Bites:
That's because iPhone sucks dick.
True. So does my "smart" TV that doesn't block YouTube ads.
On Android
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@blakeyrat said in WTF Bites:
@tsaukpaetra I put up a hour long Robots in the News video as an ad once.
YouTube gave me free credit, and it got through their ad approval, so why not? I hope it annoyed a lot of people.
\/ And here's Boomzilla to tell me all my ideas are stupid \/
I'd like to hear how that idea wasn't pure genius.
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@blakeyrat said in WTF Bites:
why not?
I hopeit annoyed a lot of people.I think you answered your own question
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On Android
Is there a particular reason? It's certainly better than iPhone.
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@pie_flavor In some metrics, not in others.
You also use Chrome and I user firefox, so .
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@pie_flavor In some metrics, not in others.
You also use Chrome and I user firefox, so .Which metrics are those? The only thing that's better about iPhone is iMessage, and that's just because stupid fucking Verizon won't adopt RCS.
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@pie_flavor said in WTF Bites:
@pie_flavor In some metrics, not in others.
You also use Chrome and I user firefox, so .Which metrics are those? The only thing that's better about iPhone is iMessage, and that's just because stupid fucking Verizon won't adopt RCS.
I'm sure this has been discussed elsewhere ad nauseam. Off the top of my head:
- comes with an out-dated OS out of the box
- shitty UI
- made by a company whose sole source of income is profiling you for ads.
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@pie_flavor said in WTF Bites:
@pie_flavor In some metrics, not in others.
You also use Chrome and I user firefox, so .Which metrics are those? The only thing that's better about iPhone is iMessage, and that's just because stupid fucking Verizon won't adopt RCS.
I'm sure this has been discussed elsewhere ad nauseam. Off the top of my head:
- comes with an out-dated OS out of the box
false (especially compared to the years-behind iOS)
- made by a company whose sole source of income is profiling you for ads.
ad hominem
Good show.
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@pie_flavor said in WTF Bites:
ad hominem
"Corporations are people"
Good show.
Did you miss the bus? I'm not out to make an argument to convince you to get an iphone. You started with "iPhone sucks dicks". Go enjoy what you like.
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@topspin He probably also never used an iPhone for an extended period of time. I really don't miss the Pixel to be honest.
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@blakeyrat any statistic on how many people watched it to completion?
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@heterodox said in WTF Bites:
If you want to go down you press the button for down. Then the elevator will stop on your floor on its way down, not on its way up. This is not hard!
I will say there's one rare exception. If you're at a special event like a con and there's a big event on a floor above you, every single elevator going up may be packed too full for you to get on by the time it gets to you. In that case you ride the elevator down and back up again to get there (or take the damn stairs, of course, but I've been in hotels where the stairs are for emergency exits only).
I've been in that situation with a shuttle bus. The busses going in the direction that we wanted to go were completely full and didn't stop. And the busses going in the opposite direction were completely empty.
But since the bus drivers were assholes, they didn't let us board and ride it back to the start so we could stay on to where we wanted to go. They thought we walked from the start to the stop that we were at so that we could bypass the line at the start (we didn't -- we parked further along, because there was no parking left at the start).
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@sockpuppet7 One of these maybe?
No... more like
I'm guessing. And with a laptop that doesn't have a RS-232 serial port, so he's using a USB serial port adapter.
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@topspin He probably also never used an iPhone for an extended period of time. I really don't miss the Pixel to be honest.
Don't know why people can't just accept "People like what they like and it doesn't have to be a logical choice." Personally I use both an iPhone and a Pixel and prefer the Pixel.
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@coderpatsy said in WTF Bites:
A 6 minute ad? You've got to be kidding me, YouTube?!
They just want me to get up and
tap the skip buttoninstall an adblocker.FTFY
I use an adblocker wherever I can, but adblocking doesn't work for the iPhone YouTube app. (Just like playing a song in the background still doesn't work in 2018.)
It does work, just shell out a few bucks for Red subscription.
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@pie_flavor said in WTF Bites:
On Android
Is there a particular reason? It's certainly better than iPhone.
So an operating system is better than phone? Go home, @pie_flavor, you're drunk.
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@pie_flavor said in WTF Bites:
On Android
Is there a particular reason? It's certainly better than iPhone.
So an operating system is better than phone? Go home, @pie_flavor, you're drunk.
iOS is what runs on iPhones and iPhones run on iOS. Welcome to the World of Apple.
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@pie_flavor said in WTF Bites:
@pie_flavor In some metrics, not in others.
You also use Chrome and I user firefox, so .Which metrics are those? The only thing that's better about iPhone is iMessage, and that's just because stupid fucking Verizon won't adopt RCS.
Serious question: have you ever used an iPhone for an extended period of time? Like, not just playing with it in a store, but actually use it, day in day out?
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@pie_flavor said in WTF Bites:
@pie_flavor said in WTF Bites:
On Android
Is there a particular reason? It's certainly better than iPhone.
So an operating system is better than phone? Go home, @pie_flavor, you're drunk.
iOS is what runs on iPhones and iPhones run on iOS..
No shit, Sherlock.
You just had to walk right into this one, didn't you?
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have you ever used an iPhone for an extended period of time
Speaking for myself here, no. When I've looked at such things, the lifetime cost of the associated contracts has tended to make me look elsewhere. I don't mind springing a bit of cash up front for the phone, but I'm cagey as heck about ongoing charges…
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have you ever used an iPhone for an extended period of time
Speaking for myself here, no. When I've looked at such things, the lifetime cost of the associated contracts has tended to make me look elsewhere. I don't mind springing a bit of cash up front for the phone, but I'm cagey as heck about ongoing charges…
I appreciate that.
My general point was, that more often than not, flamey posts about how Android is better than iOS are written by people who never used the other.
And even if that's not the case here, another iDiots vs. design-impaired flame war would just be a useless and depressing thing.
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@pie_flavor said in WTF Bites:
@pie_flavor In some metrics, not in others.
You also use Chrome and I user firefox, so .Which metrics are those? The only thing that's better about iPhone is iMessage, and that's just because stupid fucking Verizon won't adopt RCS.
Serious question: have you ever used an iPhone for an extended period of time? Like, not just playing with it in a store, but actually use it, day in day out?
No, but my dad did for his most recent, and now broken, phone. He's going to get another Android now, because of how absolutely shit it's been.
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have you ever used an iPhone for an extended period of time
Speaking for myself here, no. When I've looked at such things, the lifetime cost of the associated contracts has tended to make me look elsewhere. I don't mind springing a bit of cash up front for the phone, but I'm cagey as heck about ongoing charges…
I don't have ongoing charges. I spend 10€ a month for the data package, which I can cancel anytime, but then I wouldn't need a smart phone.
I don't see how this is related to iPhone vs android phone.
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@pie_flavor said in WTF Bites:
@pie_flavor said in WTF Bites:
@pie_flavor In some metrics, not in others.
You also use Chrome and I user firefox, so .Which metrics are those? The only thing that's better about iPhone is iMessage, and that's just because stupid fucking Verizon won't adopt RCS.
Serious question: have you ever used an iPhone for an extended period of time? Like, not just playing with it in a store, but actually use it, day in day out?
No, but my dad did for his most recent, and now broken, phone. He's going to get another Android now, because of how absolutely shit it's been.
Oh, fuck you, kid.
I'mma go enjoy my Sunday and ignore your flamebait trolling.
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have you ever used an iPhone for an extended period of time
Speaking for myself here, no. When I've looked at such things, the lifetime cost of the associated contracts has tended to make me look elsewhere. I don't mind springing a bit of cash up front for the phone, but I'm cagey as heck about ongoing charges…
I don't have ongoing charges. I spend 10€ a month for the data package, which I can cancel anytime, but then I wouldn't need a smart phone.
I don't see how this is related to iPhone vs android phone.It is, because iPhones are more expensive, which increases the cost of your plan.
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@kt_ Cost of the phone doesn't increase the cost of my plan. My provider doesn't know I have an iPhone as I didn't buy it from them. Also, Samsungs phones are pretty expensive too.