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I wasted half a day on fixing my mother's PC. More precisely Firefox. It opened every few minutes an error message that its profile couldn't be loaded. However it was all caused by Kaspersky Anti Virus. Deactivating it made it not complain again.
Saturday, 13-Jul-19 17:35:19 UTC from web- Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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@adiwan Desktop Linux distros are fine but after a while but I got tired of FrankerZing with them. I'd rather use my computer to make stuff than have tinkering with it be an end unto itself, because it makes me crazy.
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@thismightbeauser I know. ChromeOS lacks the customization and the hardware itself is too expensive for what it's worth. My mother doesn't need to configure it, I need it whenever there is a problem.
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@adiwan I guess being shunned has put me out of practice with fixing family computer problems.
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Oh, BTW, just to make sure. No I am not saying some particular mother is dumb. I am saying that there is no virus defender capable enough to prevent mothers from making dumb moves.
What is a dumb move ? Ehh...
Ohh, free Ipod !Saturday, 13-Jul-19 18:42:34 UTC from web- Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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SITH TROOPERS !?! You are going to take something out of the old canon you made un-canon and pretty much make it look like someone dropped a Duck-Helmet Storm Trooper into the wrong vat of paint ?!?
Go home Disney, you are drunk !
That advice is coming from ME ! Someone with both a really positive deposition towards the hard stuff, and also someone who painted the first Ork ( W40K ) with the wrong primer causing him to look ruggid, badass, awesome, and of African descent.Thursday, 11-Jul-19 21:45:06 UTC from web- Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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@drinkingpony Oh, ehmm, by the way, skip to the 3 minute mark unless if you want the salty unrestrained super right 'funny' opinions of a sock-puppet that was intentionally made just to be all that.
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@drinkingpony As a consumer of the new canon (having all the comics that came after the switch) and having only glimpses of experience with the old canon I'm heavily biased. As far as I have gathered the old canon is guilty of several stupid things like clones of Palpatine and Luke and such that appears to be fan-fictiony as well.
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@adiwan You forgot the clones of Luke named Luuke and Luuuke ( no really ).
But yeah, fair point. All movies have severe faults and cracks in them. However it took Disney only 2 mainline movies to break the fandom. The two biggest sides seem to be those who absolutely love it and defend it so hard till their mind seems to break ( warning, 2 hour podcast of someone whose mind seems to break defending the movie https://youtu.be/bXs0LXqK2SM ). Those who still come out with movies why it all sucked and why it is all going to hell. I am not even sure if that 'side' is actually truthfull when they shout 'Please make Brie Larson a Jedi, let it all die !' or not.
Meanwhile I like to see myself as in the middle and heavily in the minority.
Imagine a kid creating a beautiful sandcastle on a beach only to come back the next day to find out that there is now a squatter playing with 'your' sand castle. Surely you can share, right ? But part of me still goes "You know, this could have been better
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"BELLY BUTTON !!!" someone behind multiple computer monitors suddenly spouted out as if just finding Waldo in a notorious book.
followed by "Aw shucks... go back to your posts people, this is normal for me... I could not come up with a word like 5 hours ago and... Well, here we are"Wednesday, 10-Jul-19 21:54:39 UTC from web- Jonathan Chouinard and darkw00d like this.
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@drinkingpony "umbilical cord scar thing"
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I need to use hot sauce more often. My taste buds are not as tough as they used to be.
Thursday, 11-Jul-19 16:23:32 UTC from web- Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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@adiwan Yeah you really should. I am pretty sure they are a staple to the food pyramid.
If not they should.Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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I wonder if my eggs are still good?
Thursday, 11-Jul-19 01:52:22 UTC from web-
@drinkingpony Good to know, I shall attempt this!
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@scribus They say you should freeze them if you're not planning on having kids before you're 35, but supposedly that's a myth... idk
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@thismightbeauser Well, I just hit 36 last month, anyway, so... lol
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What I read : "Stepladder kink"
What I my brain came up with : [ inserts image ]
No seriously, I think I should not google that, ever. I can almost guarantee me that I am better off not knowing what a 'Stepladder kink' actually is. http://rainbowdash.net/url/874880
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You know what I would appriciate ? for when I turn my computer to sleep and start meditating or sleeping or something you normally do in silence that my computer does not randomly decide "Hey you know, this would be a great time to do my updates"
Then after the updates it goes back to load all the things that were previously open, such as YouTube tabs I had put on pause to listen to / watch later. But I guess getting shocked to wide alert on http://rainbowdash.net/url/874866 while Angry Joe rips some game a new one, while at the same time ERB's "Steven Spielberg vs Alfred Hitchcock" and Luis Rossman does a RIP&TEAR on a poor piece of electronics, all together fight for dominance of my speakers.
By Celestia's beard I loathe Windows 10. >_<
Wednesday, 10-Jul-19 17:03:05 UTC from web- Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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@drinkingpony Uh, maybe? Windows 2000?
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@scribus Yup, that is the non dev name of the same beast that haunted me in my dreams for so long I do not even care to remember.
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@drinkingpony I just recall it as a more or less bright spot between the troubles of 95, 98, and everything past 7. It just worked for me, in a way the OS hasn't since. Well, XP didn't completely suck. But I liked 2000 better. Wonder how Free DOS is holding....
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i'm taking a bet that as of last week i've officially had more hernias in my life than most of you
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@tiff Gastrointestinal hernia ? Man those are the worst. I mean I think they are called that, I might be confusing it with the umbillical cord scar thing hernia.
Ohkay why can I not come up with the word for that thing now ? I mean it is only joked about like 50K times in SciFi how clones do not have them. Ughh...Jonathan Chouinard likes this. -
@drinkingpony I just heard it referred to as a fat hernia or an inguinal hernia I think
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@tiff Oh those hurt just as bad as one for your back, if not worse since you can actually deal with inflamation around the area of obstruction. You have my sympathies.
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"Smash capitalism !!!"
But within the same breath
"Buy our merch !"
Raises eyebrow, Twitter is full of dumbdumbs.Monday, 08-Jul-19 18:01:50 UTC from web- Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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@scribus Yes but those mooks are going to say "I smashed capitalism, I smashed it good" not "I paid $8.99 to smash capitalism"
I do not think you should make it too obvious on that front.
Imagine what would happen if happen if Delaphine went "Buy my filthy bathwater and secure your place in loserdom" as a sales pitch. I mean, we are all thinking it, but it was not the sales pitch.Jonathan Chouinard likes this. -
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@mrmattimation Wait, I am not allowed to criticize things I deem worthy of... Well lets be honest here, I just rant usually.
You are judgeing me for that ?Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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TIL : Facebook has an algorithm at work so it knows when you poop.
Now I would really like to have that just so I could plan movies around my bowel movements using science rather than just my gut feeling.Monday, 08-Jul-19 22:48:04 UTC from web- Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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I love Kurzgesagt. http://rainbowdash.net/url/874843
Sunday, 07-Jul-19 21:33:08 UTC from web-
@thismightbeauser meh needs to be about 20% cooler.
Still whoops Paramount's attempt though.Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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"don't FrankerZ about your slow ass internet speed"
Why not ?
"still better than what we had during the war"
... John... You are 12...Sunday, 07-Jul-19 15:25:36 UTC from web- Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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9 hours of sleep over 3 days. Numb headache. Heavy eyes. Insomnia during the day. Too much to watch. Spiderman Far from Home, Stranger Things Season 3, Amphibia... The day has not enough hours for enough sleep and work and leisure combined.
Friday, 05-Jul-19 15:30:34 UTC from web- Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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@adiwan Go to bed silly Brony. Everything has a pause button, sleep does not. At 3S/D I would not even be able to hum the Star Wars theme, I would probably hum the Spiderman theme or something.
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@drinkingpony Try to program with that amount of sleep.
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@adiwan While (!dead){eat();sleep();code();fun();}
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ITT: post things about USA, but only ones you like #4ofjuly http://rainbowdash.net/attachment/874822
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@mrmattimation Celebrate fireworks day in front of whatever residence he sleeps at throughout the entire night.
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@mrmattimation ... Goldsboro, North Carolina, 1961, two KM39-ers, those are about 190 Fat Man a piece ... History is fun :D
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@mrmattimation wut
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Hmm, Well, Extra Credits did it again. This time they tried to jam the idea of "Nazi's are bad people !" into their talk about video games so hard that they are now about receiving 20 thumbs down for every 6 thumbs up.
Meanwhile, yeah I agree with the general message behind what they are saying. We must stop trying to normalize the idealisms of Nazi's. However to blame Video Gamers is Jack Thompson levels of insane to me, especially if you see how the arguements are formed.
Heck I am sure that the fact that there is a president in the U.S.A. who is being called a Nazi like clockwork is doing harm to 'normalize the Nazi's' than a game called "The life of Erwin Rommel, the VR experience"
No use looking that up either, I just had to think of a stupid game title and I had a brain fart about Fennec Foxes earlier...Wednesday, 03-Jul-19 23:23:30 UTC from web- Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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@drinkingpony Honestly all they can achieve with this is getting nazis to be seen positively in the long run. Think jews for example, they were universally disliked up until wwii, the nazis screwed up so badly with it than they became a group you can't criticize in most of the western world.
More so since what they call "nazis" have nothing to do with what an actual nazi is. Trump is a good example, he might have not delivered on most of the stuff he promised, but anyone else would be laureate after as US president being one of three main actors in the end of the korean war and restart of diplomatic relationships between the DPRK and the USA. Give it a few decades, and once the groups that screech about Trump cease to exist, he'll be seen in an overwhelmingly positive way in historical retrospectives. If these idiots conflate the words "nazi" and "trump", the logical conclussion is that he's a nazi, and therefore nazis are a boogeyman, okish people that are hated by fanatical groups. -
@nerthos You know, I agree with you. But you should probably go watch the video. Heck go with the straight up reply video of this guy https://youtu.be/KngleLumR_U .
I guess the biggest problem is that EC thinks that we should stop to normalize the Nazi's. Those being ACTUAL Nazi's and their ideology, by being extremely patronising to the point of nausea in Multiplayer Games.
Also to tinker with the matchmaking system to do the opposite of rewarding Nazi's. Which is just a system so insane that the moment you write it down you realize that you punish ALL players because your game has Nazi's in them.
Also it was stated that because 'safeguards are being eroded', you might not go off of a website like stormfront because you do not mind playing as Hanz Mit Der Flammenwerfer in some game.
But the birth of a meme, the absolute beginning. "There you are, playing a game, and all of a sudden bam you're a Nazi, you did not ask for this" is golden. I mean, you did buy the game.
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It feels so weird to be on SPC with some of the people from here, but half a decade after, all of us old and wise now. But I'm thankful for those connections, and for this place's uncanny ability to bring to light the most interesting people.
Who could have predicted that we'd go from bronies to shamans and wizards.Wednesday, 26-Jun-19 19:21:32 UTC from web- awlxaĺan likes this.
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@drinkingpony I don't really even get the big problem with drag. It's loud and over the top, sure, but it doesn't have to be sexy or kinky.
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@thismightbeauser Doesn't matter. There is shock and awe. Does not matter if they even raise concerns you agree with or not. I am just annoyed that it makes a large enough stink that I hear the screeching harpies on both sides of the arguement and it makes me sigh.
"Please just let me enjoy my Pizza without both Gordon Ramsay and Massimiliano Alajmo screaming at me about the existance of Pineapple." is what I am essentially saying.Jonathan Chouinard likes this. -
@drinkingpony Gossip generally sucks.
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Had to do a double take on this. I thought the spam bots were advertising "Illuminati Face Paint"
Tuesday, 02-Jul-19 10:50:06 UTC from web- Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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Just imagine me typing and hating on everything in the episode while trying to steer clear of major spoilers ( or at least anything I think people give more than a rodent's buttocks about ), then ultimately sighing deeply and saying that I'm going back to do some more "mega-loathe-soldering". Which is just like normal soldering except I am doing it out of frustration and it clears my mind, such a purgative excercise. Like meditating, only at the end you get to have something to show for it.
Monday, 01-Jul-19 22:33:26 UTC from web- Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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Oh for the love of eating solid food... Which is really a thing everyone takes for granted and I am pretty sure Bronn would be able to tell you everything about if he actually breaks his jaw in the books. I digress.
Just saw S8E5 of GoT. There is SO MUCH wrong with this episodes I can not begin to explain. Though if I had to begin somewhere willy-nilly I guess I would say that Sandor ( The Hound ) and Gregor ( The Mountain ) 'finally' fight. I do say 'finally' because that is just what I wanted (( SARCASM )). So in the fight Gregor slowly takes off armor by one means or the other untill Sandor is finally smart enough to stab him in the eyesocket, at which point the one who is stabbed just pulls it out.
So Sandor just jumps at Gregor in a full on tackle hug scenario and breaks through the remainder of the tower wall and fall to their doom.
Then in the "Making of the episode" they talk about how Sandor overcame his fear of fire to kill a bigger foe.
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What I would like to know is how in the world I lost a LED belonging to a DIY kit. Perhaps more importantly, just what do I need to know in order to place a LED in a circuit ? If I look at the diagram/scematic of the thing it seems to pretty much jam a LED and a 10K resistor straight between DC12-18 and what I can assume is ground. But who am I kidding, I have no idea how to read this.
Monday, 01-Jul-19 22:21:21 UTC from web- Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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Funny English word: buttress
Saturday, 29-Jun-19 14:30:06 UTC from web- Scribus and Jonathan Chouinard like this.
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In the past few days I watched S8E3 and S8E4 of Game of Thrones. To say that I am agitated would be downplaying it.
No spoiler version would be : Logic is thrown out the window to make cool scenes. Consistency of powers and weaknesses are all over the place, Bran uses his superpowers of watching past present and future to browse designs of wheelchairs, Characters get to do AMAZING feats when the camera is not directed at them directly, you see way too many things die to things you can not see, you also see way to many things not die to things you can see and then randomly dissapear just so the audience will scream out the name of their favorite character to see them absolutely fine in the next shot, characters acting stupid for no reason, characters betraying the previous 7 seasons by means of storytelling. But perhaps the biggest 2... granting every tactician an anyeurism thanks to excessive facepalming... and do not even get me started on Resident Evil goes Game of Thrones. #rantThursday, 27-Jun-19 23:58:07 UTC from web- RDN's Lucifer and Jonathan Chouinard like this.
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It's so hot that I sublime.
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@adiwan 1773 kelvin ?
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@drinkingpony 1337 K
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@adiwan Aye, I was thinking that, but then it would leave a whole lot of Ca₅(PO₄)₃ for sure tho. Also other trace elements I am sure...
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TIL you can make a snake vomit up his or her prey by applying hand-sanitizer. Which I guess is only really useful for when a snake eats its own tail. Or when a really big one eats my leg and then find out "Well this was a really good idea until I realized that there are 4 legs and a torso to deal with as well"
Thursday, 27-Jun-19 09:59:52 UTC from web- Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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"It's like some company sells you a bomb to test your house against earthquakes" - ( https://youtu.be/y_bbX_Ch1Z8 )
You know what I would rather have seen ? This guy showing us cheap ways to implement a cheap protection or tester against these things. I mean the "USB Killer Tester" pretty much looks like a SMD Keramic Condensator and 2 wires that come out of it ( see 1:45 of this vid and https://youtu.be/MW1mk68YdJM )
Nothing against this YouTuber but I imagine that a lot of children watch his stuff. I mean, remember when Linus Tech Tips talked about this too ?
... Well in the very least I now have more reasons to X-ray USB devices. Unless if that is somehow bad for their data.
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obliterate my cherryy mr president
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@mrmattimation I would be shocked if this was not a title somewhere behind the curtains.
Which is a joke that would only make sense if you are old enough to remember those movie-rental places.
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I couldn't resist and bought a Rapsberry Pi 4B with 4GB RAM.
Monday, 24-Jun-19 13:25:47 UTC from web- Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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@adiwan Hmm, hdparm... now my nightmare is complete. I remember tinkering with that and super redacted outings of suffering and destruction
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@drinkingpony I remember when there used to be a bug in the Linux Kernel that would stop the disk too often and overload it. You had to use hdparm to reset it every time you started or woke the computer. Good times.
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@thismightbeauser Well, at least then I kinda know I was not insane for going insane.
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Imagine reading this ( http://rainbowdash.net/url/874767 ) and after finishing it realizing that it is
Tuesday, 25-Jun-19 10:47:17 UTC from web- Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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Between 50 and 65 % of all networks suddenly vanished.
Either my ISP is acting up or IT-Thanos just snapped his fingers.Monday, 24-Jun-19 13:26:13 UTC from web- Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
