@Arantor
Don't buy a “Welcome” mat. It counts as an invitation to vampires, allowing them to bypass the usual restriction against entering a home.
SirTwist
@SirTwist
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RE: WTF Bites
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RE: Windows 10 is crap once again
I happen to have a USB microscope.
Here's an LCD (HP LA2405WG). The "grainyness" is due to the anti-glare surface.
This one is a Galaxy Note 8 ("Super AMOLED")
It's 4:30 in the morning, so both are on night mode, so increased red.
Same magnification, allegedly 250x.
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RE: Lime scooters
We don't have scooters here but we have bikes. Though, despite the news article announcing it, there isn't actually anywhere in town you're supposed to park one (Unserviced Area: This area is unserviced by Lime. Please do not leave your vehicle here.)
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RE: The curious case of the time-travelling SQLite CLI
@Zecc Is the file located somewhere subject to the VirtualStore? That means in the program directory if installed in either Program Files, or or somewhere under system32.
The service will be reading the real db, since it's probably running under one of the common service accounts, but the shell is 32-bit and therefore subject to virtualization. Try elevating sqlite3.exe.
Check for stuff in %userprofile%\AppData\Local\VirtualStore
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RE: The Official Status Thread
@Tsaukpaetra At least it doesn't silently truncate it and then use the full entry when you try to log in.
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RE: I hate printers, with a passion
@Arantor Except then the EU will mandate a filesystem driver ballot and require them to bundle the GPL driver and Paragon's driver and let the user choose which one they want to use.
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RE: I hate printers, with a passion
@dangeruss said in I hate printers, with a passion:
you're likely to upgrade to a version of windows that doesn't have a compatible driver anymore before you need another toner.
That’s why you spend just a bit more and buy one that supports PS (or something compatible like Brother’s BR script). Then you can just switch to generic PS printing if you can’t get drivers anymore.
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RE: The Official Status Thread
@Zerosquare Shit, I'm old enough to remember when MSDN came in the mail in a box of CDs.
I still have the last CD & DVD set in a pair of binders in my desk at work.
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RE: Useful error messages.
5 indeed.
Windows error numbers. 5 is Access Denied and 8 is Not Enough Memory. If you're saving to a USB flash drive, maybe it's dieing.
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RE: WTF Bites
@Bulb They saved a buck or two using cheap WiFi chips that can't simultaneously run client and AP mode.
Or that's just Tizen for you.
Both equally likely.
Latest posts made by SirTwist
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RE: The Official Status Thread
@HardwareGeek Hope you bought a direct solar filter for it too.
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RE: WTF is happening with Windows 12? And nothing else
@Arantor We must be on different versions of Earth. This is another one I've never seen and I've updated two personal laptops and at least 3 work devices using the store with no problem.
Unless it's only non-oem installs? The personl ones were an ASUS and a Dell laptop, and the work ones were all Dell devices as well.
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RE: The Official Status Thread
@Atazhaia said in The Official Status Thread:
Disabling the “sleep when lid closed” in Windows is however not a satisfactory solution, as then it wont automatically do that when “undocked” either. Or turn off the built-in monitor with lid closed. So, yeah, Windows is as per usual doing it all ways of dumb.
Well, here I am arguing with you again, but what the fuck are you on about? There is a seperate setting for when on battery or external power, and every laptop I've seen in at least the last 20 years turns off the screen when closed.
Windows even flips the icons on the desktop around to the way they were last time it was plugged into the monitors with the lid closed (well, except when it loses its shit and rearranges by name, but it can do that even without rearranging the screens. Like when your desktop is on the server and the network connection drops momentarily.)
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RE: WTF is happening with Windows 11? And nothing else
@Arantor But it doesn't fuck up the association. I tried two different Win11 PCs that never had any other 3D software installed. Creating an empty .stl file and attempting to open it pops up the app selection dialog. Suggested apps are 3D Viewer, Paint 3D, and Print 3D.
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RE: WTF is happening with Windows 11? And nothing else
@hungrier You installed some shit software that fucked up the association and it's somehow Microsoft's fault?
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RE: WTF is happening with Windows 11? And nothing else
@remi said in WTF is happening with Windows 11? And nothing else:
But yeah, the bottom line is that icons move randomly around and it's easier to stop trying to worry about them and just hunt the one you want whenever you need it.
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RE: The Official Status Thread
@Tsaukpaetra If it's not a brand-new drive, the "empty space" may actually contain sensitive data as well.
If it's a brand-new computer and you haven't used it yet and don't care about plausible deniability, feel free to encrypt data only. Future data will be written encypted and deleted data will remain encrypted.
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RE: In other news today...
@DogsB So the same thing I've been doing with my Samsung device for six years already? I suppose Apple will "invent" it in 2025 now.
Yes, the original version "required" the DeX dock, but it was swiftly followed by third-party devices that supported DeX mode just as well. Now of course you just need a usb-hdmi adapter or wireless display for the phones, and the higher-end tablets don't even require an external display.
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RE: The Official Status Thread
@Arantor No, it means they only sprayed "traditional" pesticides all over it. At least for left-pondian "organic."
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RE: The Official Status Thread
@Zerosquare Shit, I'm old enough to remember when MSDN came in the mail in a box of CDs.
I still have the last CD & DVD set in a pair of binders in my desk at work.