I hate printers, with a passion
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@pie_flavor said in I hate printers, with a passion:
you wouldn't be @levicki if you weren't partly objectively wrong about literally everything you say.
Partly?
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@pie_flavor said in I hate printers, with a passion:
@levicki said in I hate printers, with a passion:
@pie_flavor said in I hate printers, with a passion:
@levicki Yeah, I'm sure the, like, five people who bought surround sound and use it for gaming having to wait a week until they can use it is totally gonna make them switch to Apple.
So in your opinion what is current Windows user base demographic? Is it just gamers at this point? Because games are obviously the only thing that uses multi-channel sound, there are no audio professionals working on DAWs and creating surround content on Windows.
And even if it was "only gaming, and that can wait" what about people who are competing? Should they cancel their tournament entry and lose money because Microsoft can't keep their shit together for 2 weeks without breaking things that should never break?
Hell, by your logic, nothing anybody does on Windows is important enough to demand some quality assurance so next time when Winodws Update breaks that MRI scanner you need for your urgent brain surgery don't come here to complain that you have to wait for a patch.
It is ridiculous how much hate people can spew against free and open source software when it doesn't work, but the software they paid for can be broken as shit and they won't admit it because that would mean they wasted their money and nobody wants to admit they are stupid. At least be fucking consistent.
Nobody fucking uses surround sound for video games.
Maybe on Earth-73. Here in our world, it's pretty standard setup for non-shooters.
Why do you think Microsoft was so late to find out?
My guess is shitty QA.
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I don't care that he's wrong - lots of people are Wrong on the Internet, but he's so unfunny he makes the whole thread unfunny, and then it turns into a vapid argument and no one is amused.
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@levicki said in I hate printers, with a passion:
By the way, if your PC mainboard fails good luck licensing your Windows copy after you replace it on your own.
I used to believe that too.
But then, last year, I replaced the motherboard in my home computer. Since I build my own I just went to NewEgg and bought the same board that I had. Put it in, booted up, and Windows 7 was fine. I didn't even have to re-install anything.
In all fairness, I did "cheat" slightly and re-flash the BIOS using a little trick I learned several years go.
Sadly, Windows 7 won't even install at all with the motherboard for my new Ryzen 3700, so I'm stuck with this shitty Windows 10.
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@error it's exactly like reading the garage: huge swaths of tedium I don't even bother to read. Which is the shittiest way to "troll".
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@levicki said in I hate printers, with a passion:
when Winodws Update breaks that MRI scanner
I sincerely hope nobody is using Windows 10 with auto updates for a MRI scanner. Even if the botched updates weren't a problem, using a consumer-grade OS with uncontrolled updates for critical medical equipment is insane and very probably illegal (not to mention that the license explicitly excludes such usage).
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@Gąska said in I hate printers, with a passion:
My guess is shitty QA.
Considering Microsoft has foisted QA into the lay users, what did you expect?
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@Zerosquare said in I hate printers, with a passion:
@levicki said in I hate printers, with a passion:
when Winodws Update breaks that MRI scanner
I sincerely hope nobody is using Windows 10 with auto updates for a MRI scanner. Even if the botched updates weren't a problem, using a consumer-grade OS with uncontrolled updates for critical medical equipment is insane and very probably illegal (not to mention that the license explicitly excludes such usage).
Tell that to Carestream. Also, see Re: Status Thread.
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@error said in I hate printers, with a passion:
I don't care that he's wrong - lots of people are Wrong on the Internet, but he's so unfunny he makes the whole thread unfunny, and then it turns into a vapid argument and no one is amused.
You're not wrong. It doesn't help that other people take the bait and juvenile insults get thrown back and forth. Makes me feel like the forum's not even worth taking a look at when I get home from work.
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@heterodox said in I hate printers, with a passion:
Makes me feel like the forum's not even worth taking a look at when I get home from work.
I do feel like we need new blood. The song has become quite stale....
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@levicki said in I hate printers, with a passion:
Because let's face it, if they keep breaking things with those shitty updates we are going to spend most time reinstalling Windows anyway. At some point we may even forget how it feels to be actually using computer to do something productive instead of being its maintenance slaves.
"We" as in "you", maybe. Most people don't reinstall their system every five minutes for no reason, like you seem to do.
By the way, if your PC mainboard fails good luck licensing your Windows copy after you replace it on your own.
I did it twice. No problems.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in I hate printers, with a passion:
Tell that to Carestream.
sigh
Just like Rule 34, I knew someone, somewhere, had to be doing that. I just really, really wanted to believe it didn't exist.
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@MrL said in I hate printers, with a passion:
Most people don't reinstall their system every five minutes for no reason, like you seem to do.
Even I have not really needed to recently. So much so that I forgot to download the latest ISO until a week ago when I needed it...
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@Zerosquare said in I hate printers, with a passion:
had to be doing that.
Have you gotten to the point in Status thread where I mentioned their go-to resolution for problems is to set the security to
Everyone:Full Access
and to disable the firewall?
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Great. This means there's a possibility that some guy on the Internet got a copy of my brain. Thanks a lot for reminding me how much reality resembles a Black Mirror episode.
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@Zerosquare said in I hate printers, with a passion:
there's a possibility that some guy on the Internet got a copy of my brain.
Hey, so long as they don't attempt to load up mine. I have some really odd security checks in the kernel-set that somewhat rely on wetware idiosyncrasies to validate and verify authenticity.
Actually, I'm rather curious what would happen. Not even I know further than a type 3 identity reset and chassis re-key...
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@error said in I hate printers, with a passion:
@pie_flavor said in I hate printers, with a passion:
you wouldn't be @levicki if you weren't partly objectively wrong about literally everything you say.
Partly?
He's less wrong than "Windows doesn't suck".
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@Zerosquare said in I hate printers, with a passion:
I sincerely hope nobody is using Windows 10 with auto updates for a MRI scanner.
That depends. The most common configuration I've seen with lab instruments (not conceptually that different to an MRI scanner) is that there's one computer actually attached to the instrument, which is heavily locked down and only permits actions that it believes are safe (this would be the regulated bit with MRI), and another computer that runs the general control and analysis software that runs ordinary Windows and which talks to the other one over (direct computer-to-computer) ethernet. There's technically no safety issue, as you can't ask the system to do any unsafe operation (the embedded processor just tells you “no” if you try) but Windows update can still cause delay and annoyance.
Our fix for these things is to put them behind one of our more aggressive firewalls.
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@dkf When I just read your post I wanted to make a meme out of it, but you've already edited it before I could find the template. Good job.
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@levicki said in I hate printers, with a passion:
I am so sorry to dissappoint you, Princess.
gasp Senpai noticed me!
being funny is obviously more important to you than being right.
Now you're getting it.
Hint: I come here to laugh and/or complain, not to fight assholes
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@levicki said in I hate printers, with a passion:
If liking Apple products is a cult then liking anything Microsoft is a fucking Stockholm syndrome.
Duh.
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Every time I see this topic title I hear this song in my head:
Key lyric: I hate L.A. swine with a passion
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@levicki said in I hate printers, with a passion:
Oh I am so sorry to dissappoint you, Princess. I'll try to be more funny in the future just for you. I'd appreciate some pointers on how to be wrong and funny, because being funny is obviously more important to you than being right.
Most people don't find "being right" and "not being a cunt" to be an either-or proposition.
Also, the more strident you are about something, the more likely it is that you're wrong. This effect isn't unique to you but it's particularly pronounced.
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@heterodox said in I hate printers, with a passion:
Most people don't find "being right" and "not being a cunt" to be an either-or proposition.
YMBNH
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@error said in I hate printers, with a passion:
Hint: I come here to laugh and/or complain, not to fight assholes
You even get to laugh at assholes out assholing each other!
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@levicki said in I hate printers, with a passion:
@DogsB said in I hate printers, with a passion:
You even get to laugh at assholes out assholing each other!
Isn't that the whole point of this forum?
It's more of a support group.
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@error said in I hate printers, with a passion:
I come here to laugh and/or complain, not to fight assholes
you do that in your spare time?
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@Luhmann said in I hate printers, with a passion:
@error said in I hate printers, with a passion:
I come here to laugh and/or complain, not to fight assholes
you do that in your spare time?
If you want to know more about my spare time, ask me in the lounge.
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@error No.
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@levicki said in I hate printers, with a passion:
but that it might also affect other audio software and Microsoft is either not aware yet or doesn't want to admit it?
You might also be a total retard and don't want to admit it.
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@error said in I hate printers, with a passion:
@Luhmann said in I hate printers, with a passion:
@error said in I hate printers, with a passion:
I come here to laugh and/or complain, not to fight assholes
you do that in your spare time?
If you want to know more about my spare time, ask me in the lounge.
Only if it involves a bot that talks dirty. Actually as a feature request for your bot. Eliza!
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@levicki said in I hate printers, with a passion:
@pie_flavor said in I hate printers, with a passion:
You might also be a total retard and don't want to admit it.
And you might try being nice for a change, instead of being an ass towards all people here all the time.
Unless you also one of those who come here only to laugh (presumably at others they consider inferior), and complain (when something is not to their liking)?
This is you
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@pie_flavor said in I hate printers, with a passion:
Nobody fucking uses surround sound for video games.
Don't call me nobody, it's rude.
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@SirTwist said in I hate printers, with a passion:
@pie_flavor said in I hate printers, with a passion:
Nobody fucking uses surround sound for video games.
Don't call me nobody, it's rude.
Oh, that's you. You should run for president, I hear you're better than Trump at a lot of things.
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@topspin Without watching the video, I can't help thinking of the story of Odysseus and the cyclops with "Nobody poked my eye out".
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@levicki said in I hate printers, with a passion:
But I just love how people immediatelly assume I am an idiot
Not immediately, only after you've spent weeks carefully convincing us that you're an idiot
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@Jaloopa said in I hate printers, with a passion:
@levicki said in I hate printers, with a passion:
But I just love how people immediatelly assume I am an idiot
Not immediately, only after you've spent weeks carefully convincing us that you're an idiot
Also, assume? And while I'm at it, I'm disputing that it takes weeks to reach this point.
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ITT: pots and kettles.
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@topspin calling each other almost black but in need of a little cyan?
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@kazitor said in I hate printers, with a passion:
@topspin calling each other almost black but in need of a little cyan?
As evidenced, you can’t call someone black at all without any cyan.
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@topspin said in I hate printers, with a passion:
As evidenced, you can’t call someone black at all without any cyan.
You can Justin Trudeau.
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@topspin said in I hate printers, with a passion:
@kazitor said in I hate printers, with a passion:
@topspin calling each other almost black but in need of a little cyan?
As evidenced, you can’t call someone rich black at all without any cyan.
FTFY
Filed under: A black without cyan is a poor black, indeed.
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@topspin said in I hate printers, with a passion:
@kazitor said in I hate printers, with a passion:
@topspin calling each other almost black but in need of a little cyan?
As evidenced, you can’t call someone black at all without any cyan.
It's like printing red without any yellow ink: you could perhaps fake it poorly with just magenta, but why would you? Especially since we both know the cartridge is still half full anyway.
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@kazitor said in I hate printers, with a passion:
the cartridge is still half full anyway.
The printer reckons it's half empty.
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I was going through some archives and found this relevant to this thread's interests:
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@levicki said in I hate printers, with a passion:
Yeah, the one where Windows can't find its way out of a wet paper bag, much less a printer unless it talks to the mothership first and downloads 100+ MB of drivers, not to mention crappy printer vendor applications that get installed and run on startup whose only purpose is to waste resources on your PC to remind you to buy their toner or ink.
Hold on. I'm not sure I've ever seen this happen. Are you sure you know what you're talking about?
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'Member when engineers studied ENGINEERING?
2013
Was that tag line added later, or did they randomly use this meme years before South Park made it a meme?
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@sloosecannon non- response:
You're conflating two things. Nowhere do printers require you to use the manufacturer drivers. In the past, the generic windows update ones limited what you could do (for example, no duplex). But even then you could grab just the driver installer off the manufacturer's site and everything was just peachy. I've also never had to do even that with Windows 10. Just point it at the IP and go.
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@hungrier said in I hate printers, with a passion:
Was that tag line added later, or did they randomly use this meme years before South Park made it a meme?
To the best of my knowledge, it wasn't added later. It wasn't among those archives imported from elsewhere.