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System Admonisher, tech support in Hampshire, UK. A screeching voice of the minority. I read your email.

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faassen, to history
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I recently reread the novel 1984, written in 1948 by George Orwell. It's famous.

It's interesting to see how much its own time informed it.

In the 1984 London, rocket bombs crash into the city regularly and are shrugged off almost casually. Bizarre!

But 3 years before the novel was written, V2 rockets still crashed into London.

1/n

#history

proactiveservices,
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@faassen My late father was a young man during WWII and when he had time off from working or serving, he would sometimes lay in a park and would see the V1s fly over London. The way he told that story made it feel very casual.

halla, to random
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I love lentils, and I love chickpeas, so when today's lunch place offered lentil soup with chickpeas, I didn't hesitate.

It turned out to be a watery concoction made from stock cubes and maggi liquid, with a handfull of lentils and chickpeas added, and a dollop of over-age yoghurt.

It wasn't worth the effort of spooning it up, so no lunch for me today. It wasn't even worth complaining about, because I wouldn't have been able to say anything that wouldn't be sarcastic.

proactiveservices,
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@halla if it's any consolation I managed to carbonise some food so badly the other day, that it was reduced to a homogenised slurry of fundamental elements. Let's just eat out today.

proactiveservices, to random
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I shouldn't have to drop into bcdedit to get windows to tell me that the reason it's stuck in a recovery boot loop (with no logging) is that ntoskrnl.exe is missing.

something went wrong :( is about as useful as microsoft get these days.

proactiveservices,
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@srtcd424 I'm going to have to give up and beg for a hint on that one!

proactiveservices,
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@srtcd424 You know I think I've seen reference to LILO over the decades but hadn't ever looked it up.

proactiveservices, to random
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Would photo software please stop objectifying women in their software screenshots?

It's 2024.

proactiveservices, (edited ) to random
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When opening Windows Store (hah!) and navigating to the Updates pane, the "Get Updates" and "Install Updates" buttons...

ghawkins, to random
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The latest BT Group results have quietly slipped into the report that the #PSTN retirement project has now slipped 13 months to the end of January 2027

proactiveservices,
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@ghawkins No need for fanfare when we all knew it was going to happen!

i_lost_my_bagel, to random
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I fucking hate retroarch

proactiveservices,
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@i_lost_my_bagel it is just fine with tossing all the changes we painstakingly made without a peep about saving them :-(

proactiveservices, to random
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@RL_Dane you're a happy #KDEConnect user - does yours still automatically reconnect after say, sleep / switching WiFi networks? It appears that I have to now issue a kdeconnect-cli --refresh before it reconnects.

There's half a dozen bug reports about it not automatically reconnecting since November time.

(between Kubuntu and Android here)

proactiveservices, to random
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"My emails look ludicrous, ex-Post Office PR boss admits"

We've all been there, but the rest of us in rather different circumstances.

proactiveservices, to random
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The 11th #curl user survey is now up. Responding is the least you can do for the most widely-used hobbyist software in the worlds!

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2024/05/14/curl-user-survey-2024/

bagder, to random
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What's (open source) maintaining?

proactiveservices,
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@bagder If you manage to achieve all of this for long enough: "Celebrating birthdays".

bagder, to random
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If you would listen to this #curl presentation next week, what question would you ask me?

proactiveservices,
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@bagder What do you tell your friends (e.g. at social events), and how do they respond?

bkero, to random
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Does anybody I know on here have experience cycle touring in England? I'm headed to EMF Camp at the end of the month and it sounds really fun to simply cycle there (from London). I have many questions.

proactiveservices,
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@bkero Yes. Ask away!

saramg, to random
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Oil: Fuck, I'm hot...

20year old Pyrex: It's fine, I can handle you.

Also the Pyrex:

proactiveservices,
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@saramg They always break in the most suspicious of ways.

proactiveservices, to random
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Hardware key support and breach checking are not optional features of a password manager.

saramg, to random
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Watching Star Trek TNG Season 1 and good... god... I don't even know where to start. This show is NOT holding up. Like, on so many levels. And I have 't even gotten to Code of Honor yet.

proactiveservices,
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@saramg It is soooo janky to begin with. The weird shouting is so outlandish that I laugh at it every time...I'm glad it improves so much!

i_lost_my_bagel, to random
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anyone got any wallpapers?

proactiveservices,
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@i_lost_my_bagel https://beta.digitalblasphemy.com/wallpapers-by-year/
I used to subscribe back in the XP days.

i_lost_my_bagel, to random
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how hard would it be to make a windows 7 sidebar gadget

proactiveservices,
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@i_lost_my_bagel with memory leak for the true Microsoft effect. Ironically I think that was in the CPU/RAM speedometer-style gadget.

revk, to random
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I sometimes forget the easter eggs I have on domains.

Like https://windows.me.uk

LOLOLOL

proactiveservices,
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@revk I think this applies to bowling proficiency as well, I reach a brief peak betwixt which I'm useless except for comic relief.

0xDEADBEEF, to rant
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Whoever likes abstractions, indirections, reflexions, injections can all go /dev/null themselves, Ren & Stimpy style.

proactiveservices,
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@0xDEADBEEF "can crawl inside their own belly button"

vwbusguy, to random
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RAID5 is not a backup.
RAID5 is not a backup.
RAID5 is not a backup.
RAID5 is not a backup.
RAID5 is not a backup.
RAID5 is not a backup.
RAID5 is not a backup.
RAID5 is not a backup.

I haven't said it enough times, but I hope someone who needs it will get this message before it's too late.

  • Someone who has had to troubleshoot 3 failed RAID5's in the last week in his dayjob

proactiveservices,
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@vwbusguy RAID5: Now you really need a backup.

jvcleave, to random
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Get 4X performance by plugging your thunderbolt drives into the correct ports

proactiveservices,
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@jvcleave get 576x performance by not using a hard drive that's SMR.

yakkoj, to random
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Finding my Windows product key used to be a simple matter of viewing COA sticker that has more elaborate protection than a country's money.

Now I had to DDG "windows 11 product key finder". Fortunately, there's a built-in command that gives me it.

But then there's a registry key with it, and that product key is DIFFERENT

To quote Henery chicken hawk doing Foghorn impression: One of these things, I say ONE of these things, has GOT to be my product key!

proactiveservices,
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@yakkoj I've known brand new computers, from the Windows 7 era, which had one key in the registry and one on the chassis, and sometimes only one was valid!

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