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• Post #4058791

  Omg I am such a freaking nerd. I almost wrote bytes with a y instead of bites with an i. Yes I totally did. And this isn't the first time that has happened to me. The really dumb part is, I of course learned bite with an i in elementary school, but learned byte with a y much later, when I started getting curious about computers. I guess I expected the earlier one to stick more, but it clearly hasn't.

• Post #4058790

  Ugh, what has Youtube gone and done now? On some pages videos are just headings, not links. You can still press enter on them to watch, but link-specific actions of course don't work. But if I go to youtube.com and search, the search results are links. For now anyway.

• Post #4058789

  Okay so I got an e-mail question for you all. For literally over a decade now, I've been using GMail's web interface as my main E-Mail driver. But recently it has crossed an annoyance threshold with me and I am seriously done with it. It is high time I set up an actual E-mail client. That way I can potentially use my secondary e-mail without having to fight with another web interface. So I'm on the hunt for good, simple and accessible Windows E-mail clients. I decided t...

• Post #4058788

  Well dang. I just learned something stupid but useful. So tubes of oitment, paste etc. often have caps that have a little pointy thing on top. Ever since I was a kid I wondered what that point was for, and now I know. If the tube came with a seal, that point on the cap can break it, no external tools needed.

• Post #4058787

  Windows is just weird sometimes. A particular program, on the rare occasion, will decide not to launch after I reboot, and instead will throw a cryptic error that Google can't help me fix. It always fixes itself after a restart or two. I have my theories as to possible triggers, but honestly if my hunches were actually correct, I should be having this issue a lot more often. So yeah I'm just going to leave it at Windows being weird. I'm not that fussed about it, that&am...

• Post #4058786

  Nothing makes me save my work faster than remembering the last time I forgot to save my work. I swear, if there was a contest for reflexively hitting control s the millisecond I am prompted, I think I might have a serious shot at being a winner, or at least runner-up. Lol

• Post #4058785

  I realize that AI is a very serious thing and needs to be responsibly used and discussed at length. But damn I am getting so very sick of hearing everyone's opinions on AI every time something new comes out. If AI was used, the haters will hate. If AI is not used, people praise the thing for being such a genuine product, made in the spirit of the good old days. If AI use is not disclosed, suspicions run rampant about whether it was used or not. I honestly feel sorry for people who dare t...

• Post #4058784

  I wish Youtube would start showing videos as links again instead of just headings. But it's been this way for a while now, so I guess I should soon quit hoping. Lol

• Post #4058783

  I just stumbled across a Youtube video that was literally posted over 20 years ago. not a recent reupload either, it's a genuine 20-year-old video. That's cool and all, but what's not so cool is that when I first discovered Youtube and started surfing through videos, that 20-year-old video would have practically been new. Damn I feel old now.

• Post #2886455

  Well, it's pretty much official. Getting a new phone on Sunday, as my current phone (IPhone XS) has really crappy battery life now. It can't even hold charge for a day, and battery health is at 75 percent. Not to mention it tops out at IOS 18. So, I plan to upgrade to the IPhone 17e. I know I will totally be wowed by the battery life alone, and probably the better speaker too. Lol. I don't expect much day-to-day stuff to change, but it'll be interesting to see wh...

• Post #2886454

  Lol, so apparently if something on your computer is taking too long or appears stuck, the sollution is to quit looking at it. As soon as you do, it will magically fly and be done in a few seconds/minutes. This just happened to me when defragging one of my huge spinning drives. I was looking at it for a few minutes and it was stuck at pass 2 0 percent. 10 seconds later it was at pass 4, yes 4, and a few seconds after that it was done.

• Post #2334845

  I'm not much of a coder, but I dabble enough in coding to know the good feeling of designing a system, implementing it, and watching it come together and do what I want. It's even more amazing to have some confidence that I got the fundamentals down and hopefully won't have to touch them ever again, so now I can concentrate on higher level stuff that is easier for me to understand. When bugs come up (and they will), I'll have an easier time telling what I goofed u...

• Post #2334842

  So, a nerdy observation about the robo guards in Super Liam. A number of people want to know what are they saying? Well, the mystery is about to be solved! As it turns out, the roboguards actually speak English. But backwards. To understand it, you have to play the audio in reverse. If you do, you will hear the phrase: fascinating eating plants. Here's another nerdy fact about that sound. That short clip Super Liam uses is taken from the Science Fiction Sound Effects library by John M....

• Post #2334841

  Sometimes, when I am typing about how I use a thing, I accidentally end up typing that I sue it instead. Sure. I'll get right on that law suit. Rofl

• Post #2334840

  If all goes well, in 2 weeks I'll be getting a new laptop. Well, it's probably over 5 years old now, but it'll be way better than the dinosaur of a laptop I currently have. I have no idea on the hardware specs. All I know about it, is it has some version of Win10, and NVDA is installed. Won't be surprised if a bunch of other junk is on it too, but I'll cross that bridge when I get there. I'm kind of excited to see what it's like, but I&am...

• Post #2334839

  Okay so, I know a lot of people hate apps that are basically web pages. I have my reasons for not liking them too. I am not intending to criticize people's opinions here, nor am I out to convince people to change their minds. But. Let me tell you, when shit hits the fan and your primary PC dies, things can change quickly. In my case, I'm stuck using an ancient dinosaur that's running Windows 7, at least short term. Said machine cannot run Discord natively, and even with w...

• Post #2334838

  Wellp, I'm half switching from Brave to Firefox. Youtube is being really annoying with Brave. Some videos don't play and will outright freeze the page. Firefox with UBlock Origin works perfectly. Also... I am skeptical that this is purely an ad-blocking issue, since the same thing is also happening with Microsoft Edge, which has no ad blocks in place. In fact, it has more than once played an ad, then tried to play the video and frozen. *sigh* What ever happened to the world I gr...

• Post #2334836

  Ugh, I know for some, this is going to come off as petty and ranty, but it really is starting to irritate me when people use the term 'sound font' to refer to the set of instrument sounds that early video games use for their music. That is not what a sound font is. A sound font is a very specific file format, with its own history and usage, not a general-purpose term that applies to all music. For those who don't know what I'm talking about, here's an ana...

• Post #2334835

  I was running on like 3 hours of sleep yesterday. Somehow powered through the morning, then took an hour nap and powered through the afternoon, but by 7:00 PM I was beat and decided to turn in. Couldn't actuallly fall asleep though because my brain was still pretty active (a frequent issue of mine). Just as I was starting to doze, my dad calls me and talks my ear off for a half hour, even though I told him I was sleep deprived, so yeah I was pretty annoyed. I was thinking, damn it, will...

• Post #2096925

  Idle scrolling through Masto timelines can be... Entertaining? Or at least it kills time. But do yourself a favor, and don't scroll through your own post history. If you're anything like me, you'll see what an emotional pile of bagggage your thoughts are. It just doesn't feel nice. Makes me wonder how the hell my friends put up with me sometimes. Lol

• Post #770410

  Probably an unpopular opinion, but if someone is asking for help, the last thing anyone should be telling them is "Quit being lazy and figure it out!" Or "Google it for heaven's sake, it's right there!" If that is all you feel like saying, do everyone a favor and say nothing. Yes, I know there are times when we wanna just tell a particularly whiny, overly dependent person that they need to carry their own weight and learn to help themselves at...

• Post #294044

  So a couple days ago, a few people were messing with this MacinTalk speak window thing for Windows. But it doesn't seem to be public yet. My curiosity is peaked though. So if possible, can someone please send me a link to download it? Thanks!