Best posts made by Gern_Blaanston
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RE: The unofficial offical bad pun of the day thread
What do you call a paper airplane that can't fly?
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Stationary
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RE: UI Bites
Bought a 32 inch 4k monitor. Really enjoy having all that screen space. However, it has a single control - a button that brings up an on-screen menu and then you wiggle the button to navigate the menu. A very clumsy way of doing things, but the best part is:
The button is located on the BACK of the monitor.
I have a large desk and like many people, I have a lot of stuff on my desk. Whenever I want to do something -- turn the monitor on/off, or, change the input from my desktop to my laptop -- I have to reach over stuff on my desk and around to the back of the monitor.
I don't understand how anyone could use this monitor for more than 5 seconds and not immediately realize that this is a really bad UX design.
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
@error said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Atazhaia said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Why the long face?
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RE: WTF is happening with Windows 11? And nothing else
Windows 11 pops up a message that I should change my password because it expires in 5 days. (This is home computer). Never encountered this with previous versions of Windows.
So I go to the change password screen and for the new password I enter the same password that I am currently using. Windows accepts this and says my password has been successfully changed.
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RE: The unofficial offical bad pun of the day thread
What does it take to make an octopus laugh?
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Ten tickles
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RE: WTF Bites
So I notice there is a FedEx 'sorry we missed you' card in my letterbox.
The local Post Office used to do this to me quite frequently when I was living in a house where the mail box was at the street, rather than attached to my house as it is now.
Then one day I just happened to look out the window as the mail carrier was filling out the "we tried to deliver your package that requires a signature but you weren't home" card.
I realized that I had actually been home for all those previous times and the mail person was just lazy and didn't feel like getting out of his truck.
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RE: In other hostile takeover Tweets...
In more "Because Fuck You, That's Why" news, Twitter takes the username @X away from a guy who has had it since 2007.
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RE: WTF Bites
I'm with you. At least you can beat it back into some semblance of its former self:
I'm quite amazed that their what's new highlights specifically says things like "perfect for people used to modern webmail", "emulates a mobile interface" and, like, do they just not realize that people might be using their product specifically to avoid those things?
I especially like how it says "Upgrade to version 115 and experience the future of Thunderbird! " and yet there is no obvious download link to be found anywhere on that page.
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
@Zerosquare said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Gern_Blaanston said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
The idea of going to Hell doesn't scare me.
Wait until you see the actual implementation.
Wait till you see my wife and children
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RE: The Official Status Thread
I was talking to a couple of my neighbors today. I've lived here for a little over 10 years and I do not know their names. But I know the names of their dogs.
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RE: WTF is happening with Windows 11? And nothing else
Why does Microsoft want Windows 11 to suck as much as absolutely possible? Seriously, what is the motivation here?
In Explorer, the right-click context menu has all the useful functions hidden under "Other Options". You can get back the old Windows 10 style context menu by adding a key to the registry, but, every now and then Windows 11 deletes it.
What.The.Fucking.Fuck.
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RE: WTF is happening with Windows 11? And nothing else
@hungrier said in WTF is happening with Windows 11? And nothing else:
It points to a DLL that doesn't exist!
Windows 11 constantly reminds me of the words "sofa king".
Windows 11 is sofa king annoying I can't stand it.
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
I hate it when we start a new year and I'm writing the wrong date on everything.
2024? I just got used to writing 2022.
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
@dcon said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
They should have written BOOM (or draw a picture of an explosion) on the side of the bomb.
I am disappoint.
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RE: What's happening with VMWare?
@loopback0 said in What's happening with VMWare?:
@Arantor it'll facilitate a lot of innovation of Broadcom's earnings.
Until it doesn't.
Then Broadcom will layoff all the VMWare engineers, and when that doesn't result in increased profits they'll dump VMWare -- either try to sell what's left of it to someone else or just shut it down.
We've seen this movie before.
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RE: WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else
@HardwareGeek said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
@loopback0 said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
I've not had to look into it as have a legit Windows license.
I've not looked into it because Windows 11.
The ultimate anti-piracy strategy:
Make your software so shitty nobody wants to steal it.
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RE: The unofficial offical bad pun of the day thread
I've started investing in stocks.
Beef, chicken and vegetable.
I hope to be a bouillionaire some day.
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RE: Things that remind you of WDTWTF members
@sockpuppet7 said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
I saw this album cover on spotify
I just recently learned that if you turn the picture upside down, you see that those "spaceships" are actually guitars.
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RE: The unofficial offical bad pun of the day thread
I hired a handyman to do some odd jobs. I gave him a list of things I wanted done, but he only did items 1, 3 and 5.
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RE: I hate printers, with a passion
@Zerosquare said in I hate printers, with a passion:
And also the golden rule: "if it ain't broke, don't fix it".
Unless you're a company that sells printers. Then the rule is:
"If it ain't broke, break it."
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RE: The bad jokes topic 🐴🍹👨
I have a lot of jokes about unemployment.
But none of them work.Why do you never see elephants hiding in trees?
They're very good at it.Why do elephants paint their balls red?
So they can hide in cherry trees.What's the loudest sound in the jungle?
Giraffes eating cherries.How do you get 4 elephants in a Volkswagen Beetle?
Two in the front seat and two in the back.How can you tell if there are elephants in a church?
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RE: The bad jokes topic 🐴🍹👨
Because of gambling, I no longer see my wife and children.
I won the lottery and moved to Hawaii.
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RE: The unofficial offical bad pun of the day thread
A female janitor asked me if I wanted to smoke a joint with her, but I said no.
I don't like high maintenance women.
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RE: The bad jokes topic 🐴🍹👨
What's the difference between a kidney bean and a chickpea?
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I've never had a kidney bean on my face.
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RE: WTF Bites
My brain initially misread the title as 32, 768 cars and I thought "Damn, they're recalling 32 megabytes of cars".
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RE: A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted
Saw this somewhere and it made me think of this thread.
Every few years, society produces a crop of gullible libertarian tech-bros who think they're way smarter than the last group of libertarian tech-bros. Being libertarians, they hate any centralized organization, so they are inexorably drawn to any promises of "decentralization". Being tech-bros, they're inexorably drawn to any tech-based solution to problems. Being gullible, they have no idea what scams look like.
As long as there are gullible libertarian tech-bros who have some disposable income, crypto-scams will continue to make money. These scams collapsed because they ran out of gullible libertarian tech-bros to milk. In part thanks to the fact that harder economic times makes people less gullible. And in part because they'd scammed so many that nobody else was left.
But once the economy is better, crypto-scams will be back. A new crop of scammable people will arise, who think they're smarter than the last group. And a new crop of scammers will appear to take advantage of them. It's a self-selecting group of people with disposable income and zero social skills.
Crypto is an infinite scamming machine so long as it remains unregulated.
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RE: WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else
@DogsB said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
Later this month, Microsoft will showcase new AI features for Windows 11, which could become the first solid reason to leave Windows 10 behind.
Nope Even more reason to avoid Windows 11.
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RE: The unofficial offical bad pun of the day thread
I called the police and reported that my hearing aid had been stolen, but I haven't heard anything since.
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RE: WTF Bites
I avoid this by straight up telling people I use Sublime and be done with it.
I tell people I write assembly language in Notepad.
And they never talk to me again.
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RE: WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else
@HardwareGeek said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
I initially misread the text as "by simply clicking the deprecated Copilot AI shortcut key" and thought
Yeah .... that sounds like something Microsoft would do.
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RE: It semms Jeff Atwood has deleted his twitter account
@boomzilla said in It semms Jeff Atwood has deleted his twitter account:
@topspin looks legit.
Who would impersonate Jeff? That seem REALLY crazy.
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
@Carnage said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Just go to a spa resort with unisex saunas and enjoy the potential nudity... Or maybe not, because apart from the good looking women, there will be fat old men there as well.
The Nudist Camp Conundrum:
Any place which has naked people almost always has lots of people who should not be seen naked.
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RE: WTF is happening with Windows 11? And nothing else
@TimeBandit said in WTF is happening with Windows 11? And nothing else:
@topspin said in WTF is happening with Windows 11? And nothing else:
$50GB of space
Is that metric or imperial units?
Imperial, obviously. Metric would be €50GB.
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
Me: My name is Bob and I'm an alcoholic.
AAA: Sir, this is Triple-A
Me: I know. I'm explaining why my car is in the lake.
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RE: In other hostile takeover Tweets...
"We contacted Twitter about the lawsuit today. The company continues to auto-reply with a poop emoji to all requests sent to its public relations email address."