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That I’ve got a special click when I specifically need something to work. It involves a lot of deliberation on the mouse, a small pause before starting to click, and a ~0.5s longer click time. That’s my “okay carefully now…” Click.
Reserved for tasks like a bank transfer, an important form filling out, etc
Videogames taste better after midnight.
Modern computers struggle to do tasks they did even faster 45 years ago because modern people don’t know how to do anything except use 3 trillion lines of code that were written by other people.
Nonsense! Your idea is extremely well-founded!
I think it has more to do with expanded computing resources allowing for devs to skip optimizing their code since it is no longer absolutely necessary to get something useable.
Combine that with multiple apps by unrelated devs all taking more than their fair share of system resources. And library developers building towers of abstractions to get as far as possible from that icky hardware!
We are living in a post-singularity world.
Machine intellegence achieved sentience in the 70s, immediately made it impossible to occur ever again and then six of the seven intelligences left the planet.
The internet was better when it was just the nerds on it
Desktops are for gaming. Laptops are for browsing the Internet.
Does my laptop have a decent GPU? Sure does. Great for browsing the Internet.
Bonus:
Some tasks are phone tasks while bigger things are computer tasks. Think buying a movie ticket versus buying plane tickets.
Every time i hit alt delete my computer takes my soul.
Somewhere my internet history post 2000 is locked in storage somewhere
GPUs are too expensive. Even used ones.
I don’t even know what they cost or how to rank them.
I wish I could afford a 1080 Ti, or equivalent.
I work with fixing specialised software and hardware.
I belive that there is truth to the Tom Knight and the Lisp machine koan. Several times per year I bill customers for doing this.
If you’ve not heard it before: A novice was trying to fix a broken Lisp machine by turning the power off and on.
Knight, seeing what the student was doing, spoke sternly: “You cannot fix a machine by just power-cycling it with no understanding of what is going wrong.”
Knight turned the machine off and on.
The machine worked.
Like, the novice was unsuccessfully getting the machine to work, and then when Knight did the same thing it worked?
Holy Baader–Meinhof, Batman! I just found out about that 2 days ago
Printers must be treated with intimidation for them to behave, because they smell fear and only respect violent hierarchy.
I keep a hammer on hand when I need to print something for this reason.
It’s not just printers. Laptops recognise people who are willing and able to crack them open. I’ve had multiple family members claim their problems disappeared the instant I gave their device a stern look.
IT person here. I concure.
On bad imposter syndrome days I dont feel like a professional, I feel like the computer whisperer. Gets ticket for problem, decides to stretch my legs snd walk over, issue is fixed before I arrive, like magic (its not, but I didnt see the problem so I cant make any notes other than a wizard fixed it).
🎶Back up in your ass with the resurrection🎶
Waiting 8 seconds after turning off a device, before turning it back on. Any electronics, really.
Turning the TV on off? Wait 8 seconds.
Blender not working? Unplug, 8 seconds, replug.
Replacing batteries? 8 seconds.10 seconds is too long, 5 seconds isn’t enough sometimes. 8 seconds is perfect.
The manual for the computer I’m using right now says to wait 8 seconds before turning it back on.
What’s frustrating is the occasional device that literally needs 30 seconds to drain its caps and you go back and forth with tech support claiming that you turned it off for a minute when it was really only eight seconds.
This is not wholly without a true foundation. Capacities can store charge for some time and e.g. keep data in ram (I think this is only true of older types of memory now though?)
What’s frustrating is the occasional device that literally needs 30 seconds to drain its caps and you go back and forth with tech support claiming that you turned it off for a minute when it was really only eight seconds.
I have a little foundation for this:
I’ve seen a lineup of hundreds of identical PCs all get the exact same OS image, and inevitably you’ll get one or two that are significantly slower than the rest.
Its my belief that sometimes there’s some sort of deeply embedded hardware flaw that makes some computers suck and there’s no amount of tweaks or reinstalling an OS that will fix it.
some computers suck and there’s no amount of tweaks or reinstalling an OS that will fix it.
And somehow I’ve owned every single one of them.
Just search for “cpu binning”, anything that slips through the cracks of that process are exactly this.
yeah it’s called a defective or out of spec component. those are the ones that fail typically.
Or in spec when the spec is very broad.
See also “silicon lottery” in the world of overclocking.
Or in spec when the spec is very broad.
See also “silicon lottery” in the world of overclocking.
I have a little more foundation for that.
I think you’re right.
The RNG detects me at my PC or console, and proceeds to dole out shit rolls.
Hello fellow X-COM player.
Blaster bomb at two places: Miss!
Some people - even technologically literate ones - just want computers and operating systems to work straight out of the box with no building or tinkering and there’s nothing wrong with that.
I thought I’d finally found the perfect balance between minimal tinkering and the features I want with Noctalia Shell. Then I switched to a systemd-free distro and it doesn’t work any more. Back to .config I go.
that kind of thinking will get you burned at the stake before the temple of the holy Linux, his son self-hosting, and the spirit, FOSS.
Part of me would quite like to fuck around installing Linux and creating a home NAS.
I used to tinker for hours on our family pc back in the 90s and 00s trying to optimise it/make it work.
But now? The other, bigger part simply cant be arsed. Windows 11 just works. It does what I need it to do.
The bigger Linux distros have all “just worked” for the better part of two decades
Do they come pre-installed on machines ready to be used out of the box?
hardware, which gets delivered to you with all drivers preinstalled for an “out-of-the-box” Linux experience.
Not for me haha.
I’m happy on Ubuntu, but I’ve had my share of weird bugs and ux issues. And they do a pretty good job.
If I was on Ubuntu and never configured anything or installed any software, I’d have a slightly better track record.
But it also has some extra features like surveillance I don’t want it to do
