Posts made by accalia
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RE: WTF is happening with Windows 11? And nothing else
@Arantor said in WTF is happening with Windows 11? And nothing else:
@accalia said in WTF is happening with Windows 11? And nothing else:
then after Apple got away with it they decided that Professional branded devices only need one USB port for power and data..... and other laptop manufacturers followed suit....
Um, my MacBook Pro has 2x USB-C sockets? (It wasn’t my choice, work bought it. Paltry 8GB RAM is a bigger headache for me.)
I sit corrected on the count of ports.
Lenovo on the other hand had decided the laptop they'd make would only have one USB port..... for reasons......
/shrug ah well, it's wiped and validated and now off my desk and in the hands of someone else making it there problem
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RE: WTF is happening with Windows 11? And nothing else
@Gern_Blaanston said in WTF is happening with Windows 11? And nothing else:
But only one USB port. My old laptop that was built when Windows 7 was new has four.
blame Apple. they were "Brave" enough to delete the headphone port on their phones, because who uses headphones anymore?
Not me that's for sure.... I dont' use headphones at all.... :rolling_eyes_so_hard_i_get_a_migraine:
then after Apple got away with it they decided that Professional branded devices only need one USB port for power and data..... and other laptop manufacturers followed suit....
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RE: WTF is happening with Windows 11? And nothing else
@accalia said in WTF is happening with Windows 11? And nothing else:
so i had to create a local account
i've been informed that i could have entered audit mode and that would have let me install the drivers i needed.....
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i didn't know thataudit mode existed
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it's still fucked up that the keyb, trackpad and wifi didnt' work in Win11 OOBE when they did out of the box with the Win10 OOBE
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even if i did know it existed the whole one usb port and no on hand hubs would have made it difficult to do anything if the built in keyb and trackpad continued to not work in audit mode....
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RE: WTF is happening with Windows 11? And nothing else
@Zerosquare my reaction exactly. no idea why the keyb wouldnt' work in the installer.... but it's windoes, by now i'm not surprised.....
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RE: WTF is happening with Windows 11? And nothing else
Wiping and recycling a laptop this weekend.
had windows 10 on it from factory. had reinstalled windows 10 on it and it had proper trackpad and wireless support from the bare ISO.
secure erased the nvme drive in linux then booted up the windows 11 ISO because it's gonna be supported for longer and the laptop had SIGNIFICANTLY above minimum specs for win11
windows 11 did not have bundled drivers for the keyboard, trackpad and wireless.... menaing that i could not get the laptop online, because it only has one USB port and i needed that for the keyboard to get through the installer and i didnt' have a hub on hand...
so i had to create a local account and windows 11 does NOT want you to do that.....
like at all.
fuuuck that was annoying to do.
got to desktop and the keyboard started working but the resolution was stuck at 800x600 (or there abouts i didn't actually check... but it was tiny resolution), so i could plug in a USB ethernet dongle to get it online for drivers with just keyboard navigation.
first pass of windows update got me...... wifi, but no trackpad and broke USB
Second reboot and windows uupdate got me trackpad and usb back, but broke wifi.
third reboot got me, wifi, usb, and trackpad but no keyboard..... and in consolation prize apparently this laptop has always had a touchscreen but never had the windows 10 drivers for it?
fourth reboot got me a BSOD with impressive graphical corruption. in retrospect i should have taken a picture but i was too annoyed at the process to think to do that.
fifth reboot got me to the desktop after a BIOS update that took three hours and FIFTEEN REBOOTS to apply fully. all devices working and everything.
ran sysprep to remove the temp local user and get it prepared to donate and.... now OOBE has all the drivers and is running at proper resolution.
why did a laptop that had perfect drivers for windows 10 built into the install ISO have so much trouble with windows 11.....
ah well.... i'm once again down to a single windows device..... my work laptop, and i'd swap that for linux in a heartbeat if i was allowed to. but i'm not and i dont' trust it on my network so it goes wifi only on the isolated guest network with access to nothing but the internet and i access it via an IPKVM
but yeah. what the actual fuck windows 11..... how did you make the install process even worse than your OS?
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RE: Shipping Antipatterns
@Steve_The_Cynic said in Shipping Antipatterns:
EDIT: Aaaaaaaannnnnd I got by @accalia ... Bah.
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RE: The Official Status Thread
@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
@accalia How short is that door? Or how tall is that hallway/room?
uhh... the door is 80 inches tall. so.... uhh.... a bit over two meters?
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RE: Wow! "NEW" Microsoft Teams!
so... here's a fun one.
i use a three monitor setup. vertical communication monitor on the left, two horizontal productivity monitors to its right.
so the monitor that has pixel 0,0 is 1080x1920 and the other two monitors are both 2560x1440.
New teams is currently actively refusing to stream any resolution of monitor or window other than 1080x1920. doesnt' matter which monitor or window i pick to share..... it streams a 1080x1920 video with whatever monitor or window i selected pinned to the center and any overhangs cropped off....
i have no idea why it does this. but if i move my monitor layout so one of my 1440p monitors contains pixel 0,0 the problem goes away.
Old teams didn't have the issue, but work has disabled that app somehow so i can't authenticate to it so new teams it is..... yay?
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RE: Programming Memes Thread
@TimeBandit said in Programming Memes Thread:
i feel somehow you have attacked my life points directly and reduced them to zero....
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RE: 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™
@Zerosquare said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
@accalia said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
not in this SFW thread.
You pinged?
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RE: 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™
@HardwareGeek said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
@accalia said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
i can five you an opinion
What would it take four you to five us your opinion of six?
hmm....yeah. six should be enough. let me just get out the casting couch....
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RE: 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™
@Atazhaia said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
@Luhmann said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
@Atazhaia said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™:
a good facial is always nice
that's not what she said
You sure? @accalia what’s your input?
hmmmm... i can give you an opinion but not in this SFW thread.
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RE: Art Wars: The AI Menace
@HardwareGeek said in Art Wars: The AI Menace:
you know....... i'd like to see an artist actually do a study where they legit draw AI style art
like they draw what looks at first glance like a perfectly nromal piece of art, but then you look closer and it's got all this wrongness about it.... and it's the exact sort of wrongness AI art has, but you can see the brush strokes the shading the infill, and it's clear that it's not an AI that's generated this..... someone actually made this art look like that on purpose.
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RE: Targeted advertising fail
@Tsaukpaetra said in Targeted advertising fail:
Youtube doing A/B again. Suddenly #shorts don't deserve channel names anymore!
that infuriates me.... with all the fake channels and reposters of other peoples content i sure as fuck want to know the channel name before i click on a short.....
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RE: The Official Status Thread
@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
@accalia said in The Official Status Thread:
@TimeBandit said in The Official Status Thread:
@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
User unfriendly.
could be worse. could be actively user hostile like apple is.
What do you mean by user-hostile? Apple has graciously allowed us to spend $1500 to use their hardware and software.
and made that hardware all but impossible to repair, forcing you to go to apple to fix it
ifwhen it breaks,and they constantly break their software so that if you rely on an old app that hasn't been updated in a few years prepare to have it no longer work,
and lets not even get started on their malicious compliance with the new EU regulations. there's literally no way to interpret what they're doing there except as malicious compliance.
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RE: The Official Status Thread
@TimeBandit said in The Official Status Thread:
@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
User unfriendly.
could be worse. could be actively user hostile like apple is.
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RE: Killed by Google
@Atazhaia said in Killed by Google:
@accalia At least for accessing my work stuff from home (or elsewhere) I can just use a Chrome profile tied to my work account and that’s that. They can send me an SMS for 2FA if I try to log in from a new device, though.
SMS for 2FA is also acceptable...... until they sell the number or start spamming me..... it hasnt' happened yet, but i'm expecting it to happen soon....
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RE: Killed by Google
@Arantor said in Killed by Google:
@accalia :this_is_the_way.apng:
it's not that i dont' trust my coworkers not to click on a cryptolocker link and infect my network through the VPN..... but i dont' trust my coworkers not to click on a cryptolocker and utterly hose the work network.
so the work laptop stays air gapped, able to talk to the internet but none of my other PCs. sure, none of them are running linux nor serving SMB shares so any locker or malware prooooobably wouldn't get in, but why risk it?
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RE: Killed by Google
@ixvedeusi said in Killed by Google:
@topspin said in Killed by Google:
I don't want to carry a second phone
... what do you mean, "carry"?
I'd sure as hell not lug that thing around, it could stay at my desk which would be the only place I'd need it.
and if work or school is going to dictate i need an app on my phone to access my work then they will have to fucking buy me a phone to put the app on cause that shit ain't gonna go on my personal device and demand local admin and lockout and remote wipe of my PERSONAL phone.
I'll let you get away with a TOTP code in my authenticator app because i had that app anyway and it uses zero communication or network to do its thing, but a bespoke piece of
shitwareapplication? fuuuuuuck no is that going on my personal phone. i ain't even letting that onto my personal network. it's going on the guest wifi which is isolated to be able to talk to the internet and NOTHING else, just like the work laptop do. (Thanks IP KVMs and Manageable VLANS on my router.) -
RE: WTF is happening with Windows 12? And nothing else
hhhmmm.....
i need to put togehter a fake activate windows thing that says something like 'activate ArchLinux' and get it to run on my work laptop as a fake overlay. i should be able to get something working fairly easily with some powershell.... a transparent always on top window tigh hit detection disabled so clicks always go through to the window underneath? yeah that could do it....
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RE: Sportsball WTF
@izzion said in Sportsball WTF:
@accalia said in Sportsball WTF:
@izzion said in Sportsball WTF:
Can't wait for
the arguments over whether a game was influenced by the ad rotation at a critical momentthe court to get hacked to display porn.oh, i bet it won't get hacked. i bet it'll be @Tsaukpaetra coming in for some maintenance and plugging their laptop into what they think is an external montior while they work and it auto plays some absolute degenerate furry hentai porn.
... wait... no.. that would be what it'd do if i plugged my laptop in. oopsies. :D
Man, I feel bad for @Tsaukpaetra catching strays... not even in a sort-of-normal thread like something about bronies... but the all out degeneracy of sportsball!
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RE: Sportsball WTF
@izzion said in Sportsball WTF:
Can't wait for
the arguments over whether a game was influenced by the ad rotation at a critical momentthe court to get hacked to display porn.oh, i bet it won't get hacked. i bet it'll be @Tsaukpaetra coming in for some maintenance and plugging their laptop into what they think is an external montior while they work and it auto plays some absolute degenerate furry hentai porn.
... wait... no.. that would be what it'd do if i plugged my laptop in. oopsies. :D
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RE: The Official Status Thread
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Oh that's right, I love the part where it will install all the shit, and then subsequently uninstalls it as part of the "install updates during install which saves time" portion.
i see Ubuntu is moving to the Microsoft model of installers.
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RE: WTF is happening with Windows 12? And nothing else
@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF is happening with Windows 12? And nothing else:
@accalia said in WTF is happening with Windows 12? And nothing else:
also subscriptions will be easy to sign up for and almost impossible to cancel, because of course they will be.
gee, allowing users to cancel services they dont' want or nead easily could cost companies money.... quelle suprise.
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RE: WTF is happening with Windows 12? And nothing else
@Arantor said in WTF is happening with Windows 12? And nothing else:
@accalia said in WTF is happening with Windows 12? And nothing else:
monetize their install base
They should just make it a subscription and be done with it already.
I predict that they will have multiple tiers of subscriptions. including one you can absolutely sign up for post install, becasue why get the license fees from an employer when you can ALSO get employees to pay for subscripotions that the company would otherwise reject.
also subscriptions will be easy to sign up for and almost impossible to cancel, because of course they will be.
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RE: WTF is happening with Windows 12? And nothing else
well..... shiiit.
I was gonna make a joke topic about windows 12 being KDE because... well because the LOLs...
but when looking for a screenshot to illustrate it...
apparently, no it isn't a joke, it's actually happening we're pretty sure maybe? it was supposed to be february, then Q3, now '25 we think?
uhh.... anyone want to put over/under odds on exactly how many microtransactions that Microsoft will put into the OS? or maybe what sorts of new dark patterns they'll introduce to monetize their install base more?
EDIT: on and to top it all off, someone else already made the topic i wanted to make!
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RE: TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML)
@TimeBandit said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@accalia said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
i preferentially code in JS for fun! :D
oh, sorry. should i have said "and profit"?
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RE: TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML)
@Gustav said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@accalia said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
(5)
thanks to only having millisecond resolution i still get the same answer out the far end of the math :P
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RE: TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML)
@Gustav said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@accalia said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@Gustav it's the target framerate for what i was no0stalgic about.
No it's not because your reasoning is wrong, but even if it was right, it's still not because you derped the math.
1000 ms in a second.
NTSC framerate of 29.97(5) frames per second.
one divide the other
33.3611342786 ms per frame (33.3667000334 if you only use 29.97 fps)
only have milisecond resolution so....... 33ms per frame it has to be. yes that makes me a little faster, but best i can do without running into kneeling fox issues. :P
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RE: TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML)
@Gustav it's the target framerate for what i was no0stalgic about.
there are of course other standard, but this is mine. ;D
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RE: TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML)
@hungrier said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@accalia said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
29.975 frames per second
If this is running on a computer, that's not really a relevant frame rate
scrolls upNTSC Snow
-giggles- you are correct it's not relevant to computers... but that's still the target frame rate.
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RE: TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML)
@Arantor said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@accalia when I do sit and write JS, I like that I have so much flexibility available to me, but at the same time I also completely hate it.
agreed. and i preferentially code in JS for fun! :D
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RE: TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML)
@Arantor said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
The wonderful world of JavaScript.
there's so many ways to do what can be done, no one ever stops to ask if it should be done. :D
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RE: TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML)
@Zecc said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@accalia said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
setTimeout(() => { /* * */ setInterval(() => { /* * */ }, 33) }, 250)
Wait, what?
yeah. i was a derp and forgot about body.onload so i used a short timeout to set the interval. it works. and is shockingly performant, unless you're trying to record your screan as that makes just about any video coded dump core into its pants having to deal with "pure" random
really if i had more spoons i'd have done the whole thing requesting proper animation frames so the processing time of the image would be taken into consideration when targeting 29.975 frames per second..... instead of just setting 33ms interval and calling it good. but.... :kneeling_fox.png:
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RE: TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML)
@TimeBandit said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@accalia You made me copy the code, save it to a file, then open that file in a browser.
You should be proud
i'm impressed. kneeling warthog is proud. curiosity must have been stronk.
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RE: TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML)
@TimeBandit said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@accalia said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
Snow.html
Thanks but no thanks
not that kind of snow. :P
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RE: TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML)
@accalia said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
Was bored and nostalgic.... so i whipped up this lovely thing.
very fun to full screen browser instances across all your monitors and call someone over to take a look at this weird thing your PC is doing.
okay so it's far more dark arts of javascript than HTML but it's in an HTML file so i'll let it pass.
now i wonder if i can do a similar thing to make it play white noise like i remember from childhood.....
oh... BOOOOO! the CSP settings on this site block the script if you click that link,....
fiiiine...
<!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <title>NTSC Snow</title> </head> <body style="position: absolute; top: 0; bottom:0; left: 0; right:0; margin:0; overflow:hidden"> <canvas id="snow" style="width: 100%; height: 100%;object-fit: fill;" width="480" height="320"></canvas> <script type="text/javascript"> setTimeout(() => { const snow = document.getElementById('snow') const ctx = snow.getContext('2d') const numValues = 480*320 setInterval(() => { let toFetch = numValues; let data = [] while (toFetch > 0){ const tmp = new Uint8Array(Math.min(65536, toFetch)) crypto.getRandomValues(tmp) data = data.concat(Array.from(tmp)) toFetch -= tmp.length } const img = ctx.getImageData(0, 0, 480, 320) let dot = 0 for (let i = 0; i < numValues; i++) { const offset = 4 * i img.data[offset] = data[i] img.data[offset + 1] = data[i] img.data[offset + 2] = data[i] img.data[offset + 3] = 255 } ctx.putImageData(img, 0, 0) }, 33) }, 250) </script> </body> </html>
edit => remove old bitmasks from development that don't get used as 1 bit snow looks wrong
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RE: TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML)
Was bored and nostalgic.... so i whipped up this lovely thing.
very fun to full screen browser instances across all your monitors and call someone over to take a look at this weird thing your PC is doing.
okay so it's far more dark arts of javascript than HTML but it's in an HTML file so i'll let it pass.
now i wonder if i can do a similar thing to make it play white noise like i remember from childhood.....
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RE: Commuting WTF Thread
@boomzilla said in Commuting WTF Thread:
well old One Eye does have to get to work somehow....
i wonder if that's Hugiin or Muniin? i never could tell the two of them apart.
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RE: Killed by Google
@HardwareGeek said in Killed by Google:
(But without the typos. )
:calping_hnads:
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reluctantly :capling_hansd:
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RE: Killed by Google
@pcooper said in Killed by Google:
Those exist on desktop.
if it was just that i'd probably get a hardware device. they exist too.... but desktop versions are also valid.
@pcooper said in Killed by Google:
Well, I just told mine I don't have a phone and they got me a hardware token.
I currently use a TOTP app and that's worked fine for the past five years.... and if i get locked out my response is likely to be "Look if you're making me get an app on my phone to access work you're fucking buying me a phone and data plan for that cause work shit aint' going on my personal phone. you got away with hanging out on my TOTP authenticator app cause that is passive and has no web connectivity.... you aint' getting away with an app that needs one byte of network traffic"
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RE: Killed by Google
at this point.... if it wern't for the fact that i need a TOTP authenticator app.... and work is forcing microsoft authenticator down my throat..... i would be seriously looking into getting a dumb phone. or just.... not having one at all. email works fine. the number of times i make phone calls in a year was..... seven in 2023. and five of those were span calls i picked up because they spoofed a number that looked a lot like a friend's.
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RE: Windows in the Wild
@TimeBandit said in Windows in the Wild:
@accalia at least, this one won't reboot without your consent while you're using it
this is true, but its security features are rather lacking. the bugs just come on through like it's not even there.
.... come to think of that that's actually not a downside, that's just feature parity.