Posts made by Gern_Blaanston
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RE: Today in Blakeyrat is always several years behind in every tech trend news...
@HardwareGeek said in Today in Blakeyrat is always several years behind in every tech trend news...:
I bought myself a thing:
Ball Screw Motion
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RE: WTF Bites
@Gern_Blaanston said in WTF Bites:
@BernieTheBernie said in WTF Bites:
@Zerosquare said in WTF Bites:
so I'm going to go with "used memory off of eBay" as the source of the problem and you didn't get what you thought you were paying for.
Yes.
"used memory off of eBay" is almost never a good idea.
Don't worry, it was only underwater for a few hours after the hurricane knocked out power in the entire region.
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RE: WTF Bites
@BernieTheBernie said in WTF Bites:
@Zerosquare said in WTF Bites:
so I'm going to go with "used memory off of eBay" as the source of the problem and you didn't get what you thought you were paying for.
Yes.
"used memory off of eBay" is almost never a good idea.
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
Here's a picture of me when I was younger
Every picture of you is a picture when you were younger
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RE: I, ChatGPT
@sockpuppet7 said in I, ChatGPT:
@Zerosquare said in I, ChatGPT:
@Bulb said in I, ChatGPT:
Stock photos don't contain unphysical elements.
Stock photos aren't always above nonsense, either:
I've seen that picture before and I just realized that she might be Milana Vayntrub who became famous about 10 years ago doing some television commercials for AT&T.
I guess she got her start in stock photos.
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RE: UI Bites
@BernieTheBernie said in UI Bites:
A few months ago, I applied for a job at %company%. Today I received an email from them telling me that they still have my data, and would delete them in 2 weeks. But I may extend that for another couple of years by clicking blah blah blah.
Noting unusual, GDPR crap.
But the subject line of the email was more interesting:Deine Bewerbung als %jobTitle%
%funnyComment%
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RE: UI Bites
Every now and then I will encounter a retarded website that only works properly with Chrome, so for those instances I use Brave as my chrome-ish browser. It works OK and doesn't suck any more or less than any other browser.
But then today I noticed something. I wanted to re-size the browser window and make it a little taller, so I did what I've done with every program since forever, grab the top of the window and drag it up to make it a little taller.
Except, I can't grab the top of the window. I can grab the sides or the bottom, but I can't grab the top of the browser window.
I eventually discovered that I grab one of the top corners and re-size the window that way. But still ... How/why do you even do something like that?
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RE: Quotes Out of Context
@Applied-Mediocrity said in Quotes Out of Context:
Couldn't agree more with @Gern_Blaanston:
People really need to STFU
Yeah .... but then .... this place wouldn't exist and I would have to do actual work .... so there's that.
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RE: I, ChatGPT
@Bulb said in I, ChatGPT:
@Zerosquare It is, of course, dumb, and was clearly shot with the soldering iron cold, but it was physically arranged and photographed.
Which makes it even worse, in my opinion. SOMEONE involved in creating that picture should have had enough working brain cells to recognize the problem.
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RE: The Official Status Thread
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
and tall poles for the athletic competitions
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RE: I, ChatGPT
A.I. - Got the artificial, still working on the Intelligence part
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RE: Random Thought of the Day
@da-Doctah said in Random Thought of the Day:
Wondering if Marvel will ever incorporate this character into the MCU (her title ran for 28 years):
From the Wikipedia page for the character: Millie Collins has no superpowers. She is a talented model, actress, and businesswoman. Across the Millie the Model comic book series, Millie's beauty allows her to attract everyone's attention.
If Barbie can have a movie, why not Millie? She could even date some of the Marvel superheroes.
Seems like a missed opportunity.
Or I'm just crazy.
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RE: I, ChatGPT
People really need to STFU about A.I., but of course they won't, so now the backlash is starting.
A documentary that makes no mention of A.I. is being accused of using A.I. and I suspect that accusations like this will become standard for every shitty movie/television show/news article and every sloppily photoshopped picture.
Netflix has used what strongly appears to be AI-generated or -manipulated images in a recent documentary about a murder-for-hire plot involving a woman named Jennifer Pan that took place in Canada back in 2010.
The images that appear around the 28-minute mark of Netflix's "What Jennifer Did," have all the hallmarks of an AI-generated photo, down to mangled hands and fingers, misshapen facial features, morphed objects in the background, and a far-too-long front tooth.
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RE: The Official Status Thread
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
.... a famous instructional video about Dallas.
Debbie Does .... ?
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RE: The bad jokes topic 🐴🍹👨
@HardwareGeek said in The bad jokes topic 🐴🍹👨:
@Gern_Blaanston said in The bad jokes topic 🐴🍹👨:
My grandmother was born on 11/11/11
Your grandmother is 2012 years old? Or 12 years old? Either way,
11/11/1911.
Died a long time ago.
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RE: The Official Status Thread
♫♪♫ White socks ♪♫♪
♪♫♪ Black crocs ♪♫♪
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RE: The bad jokes topic 🐴🍹👨
My grandmother was born on 11/11/11
For non-Americans, that's 11/11/11
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
@da-Doctah said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
We all know the answer to #3 here in Arizona. It's Kari.
Smallest lake? Or worst?
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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: The Official Status Thread
@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
WTF? Oh yeah, when ubuntu goes to sleep, it logs me off and kills all processes.
Probably some IT security that makes the machine "more" "secure".
It's not just secure, it's MORE SECURER !!
More Securer ©2024 Canonical
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RE: I, ChatGPT
@loopback0 said in I, ChatGPT:
@Arantor said in I, ChatGPT:
@HardwareGeek pay peanuts, get monkeys. They will learn that if you don’t pay the money you get crap results.
They didn't learn that with buying cheap developers from 3rd world countries, they won't learn it with AI-generated code.
They DID learn. The problem is, they just don't care.
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RE: The Official Status Thread
@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
Where do you even find those devices?!In Tsaukpaetraland, hardware finds you.
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RE: The Official Status Thread
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Drive B ? Is that a 68 GB floppy disk in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
@Arantor said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Reminds me of the time Weird Al did “Smells Like Nirvana” with the proviso that unlike its inspiration song, you can actually hear the words.
When Weird Al did that song parody I had never heard the original. Then one day I was in my car listening to the radio and that song came on (the original Nirvana version). And ....
Holy shit, he's right. I can't understand any of the words.
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
@boomzilla said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Gern_Blaanston FYI, it sounds the same to people who like them.
Weird Al Yankovic needs to hire the guy who made that video. Those lyrics are fantastic.
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RE: The unofficial offical bad pun of the day thread
I broke up with my girlfriend Ruth, so now I'm just living my life ruthlessly.
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RE: Things that remind you of WDTWTF members
@boomzilla said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
Working here sucks, but, that guy Ted does bring in some pretty good snacks.
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
You kick a 60 yard field goal AND hit a cheerleader in the head.
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RE: The Official Status Thread
@BernieTheBernie said in The Official Status Thread:
@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
status feeling old.
I am actually
trans age
.
Yes, I am: I feel like 70 yo. And I look like that, too.Mentally, I feel like I'm 18.
Physically, I feel like I'm 118.
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RE: WTF Bites
"may attract a fee."
No thanks. I'll settle for the .... less attractive version.
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
He's eating lunch. What's your fucking problem?
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RE: WTF is happening with Windows 11? And nothing else
I'm dual-booting Windows 10 / 11 but I find myself going to Windows 11 less and less. It has very little to offer and just isn't worth the aggravation.
I didn't like Windows 10 when it first came out but Microsoft made some improvements and eventually it became (sort of) usable. I was hoping that the same would happen with Win11, but Microsoft is going in the opposite direction, especially with this ads-in-the-Start-Menu bullshit.
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RE: WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else
@topspin said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
... I'm quite convinced that if any of this were true, they'd just have a fucking official button in the UI that turns it off and keeps it turned off, without resetting or adding new exceptions or only applying to a small part of that garbage. Turn telemetry off, all of it, forever. No excuses.
You don't seem to fully comprehend the insanity that is rampant in Windows.
What you have described is what SHOULD exist. Everyone using Windows wants it and agrees that it should exist.
But it doesn't exist, and probably never will because almost everything that Microsoft has done, post-Windows 7, has been ridiculous, absurd, contradictory, pointless and/or just outright stupid.
For some unknown Microsoft is completely and absolutely dedicated to making Windows as terrible as possible. And doing a damn fine job of it.
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RE: WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else
@loopback0 said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
@Arantor said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
the Win11 stuff
Windows 11 is just Windows 10 without the ability to put the taskbar in weird places
Windows 11 is just a brand name, like "XP" and "Vista".
Windows 11 is still just Windows 10.