Posts by sebacoustic

Also my web cam already offers 100% absolute face visibility, I consider this the absolute baseline functionality of *any* web cam.

Calling BS on this gem:

> Logitech said: "With MX Brio, users experience 2x better face visibility

Re: Tesla warp erp

> Will never understand how it came to dominate the market.

probably to do with an army of sales people, driving around in cars, helps with that.

Re: if only "Vision Pro" was easier to turn into an insulting portmanteau

You win 1 internet for the day for that: *Vision Pro*stitutes

Re: Its a Test

>why they didn’t just load a mass dummy instead

they ran out of Elon's old Tesla S's?

Re: US Presidential Requirements: Why 35 and Born in the US?

wisdom comes with age like cancer comes with smoking: it's a statistical process and not guaranteed to happen in every case.

Cases where it didn't happen: my cigar-smoking heavy-drinking uncle of 82 years, and DJT.

Thanks, I'll self-identify a milli-millionaire from now on

Re: For dev eyes only

I added a "I'm feeling lucky" checkbox in a dialog for ourt internal software which can speed up your workflow a lot by performing checks giving only a pass/fail but not persisting any detail as to why. Works great because 90% of the time people already know it's going to pass.

This was supoposed to get a "proper" name before it went into production but of course did pop up before users' eyes. We were informed that is "unfprofessional", and the checkbox is now called "Quick mode" and nobody understand what it does.

Re: For best results, use a password generator that can give you a long, random string"

so you're saying I should not use "letmein" any more but "keepothersout" is more secure? Ah, i get it now.

Re: Great. We're getting there

Arguably dd/mm/yyyy is just almost as boneheaded as mm/dd/yyyy. My colleagues in Taiwan use yyyy-mm-dd regularly, that makes good sense as it sorts correctly, Excel date conversion or not.

Re: Equal Pay

Yay, if they had those £800m they could even pay Larry with the change!

Re: Just the text

>15k vs 4k is a fart in the wind these days.

So you'd give someone £15k for £3k and a fart? Where do I apply?

With email, sending attachment more than 3x oversize is a lack of courtesy, unless excused by ignorance

Re: "reduce task switching across windows and tabs to help stay focused"

"focused" as in "focused on making money for Micro$oft"

Re: Retrofit?

Thing is, it's quite hard to find and get to those defunct satellites in orbit.

May I quote the venerable D Adams:

“Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.”

Re: That's not how IQ works

Where did you get the idea that IQ works? It's completely wrong.

I did own a copy of Nextstep 3.3 and ran it on my tricked-out 16MB 486 but when linux grew up some in 1996 or so, I switched over to red hat then debian. I used WindowMaker and was all excited about GnuStep in the early 2000s but kind of turned away from it when other things came up... Nice to see it's still alive. And I do appreciate the NeXTStep look, and still think the vertical menu in the left corner is the correct idea, and miller columns for browsing hierarchical structures, are good. I wish Nautilus had miller columns, I think I'd used them as default probably.

Re: All your QWERTY belong to us...

Yes all very well. My brother's in Germany and not an expert but has Mint on some ageing laptop, ran into trouble when during a fault at an early stage the machine hadn't loaded the German key map yet, bu t his root password had symbols from the german keyboard, GAAAAHH!

I advised to stick to letters/symbols that are common to both US and German keymap for a root PW....

Re: putting in perspective

*money* being the operative word.

I hope the passengers' estates will be on the hook for all the rescue effort expenses, once they have given up, or succeeded.

Re: Still waiting for DAB+ in my smartphone

> DAB isn't known for.. well, anything good.

In fact it's an anagram of BAD

Brexit and the Tories are terrible but the "my enemy's enemy is my friend" logic doesn't always work. "Brexit", "Tories", and "Microsoft" all score high on the "terrible" scale, but playing one off against the other is a transparent ploy.

It was funny hearing the MS big cheese cry crocodile tears on the Today programme though.

Re: What the hell is shimmering?

Simmering, as in "chips frying": that was my true experience, my work computer (Dell workstation laptop with Fedora) used to go 100%CPU / fans whining, regularly at 4pm, with Teams being the culprit. Not sure what was going on but a "kill -9" would always sort it out.

Was the official "Teams beta" (rpm or flatpak, can't remember) from Microsoft at the time.

Now using the "PWA" in chrome, works pretty well. Compared to the "Skype for Business" we had before, it's light years ahead.

Re: long-term Windows users are used to this and will barely notice

I principle I think it's a good idea to do install pending updates on shutdown, because that's when you just professed your intention to not use the computer for a bit.

Of course, no actual downloading should take place during the process, just installing pieces that have already been downloaded ion the background as you worked. Fedora does just that: install off-line updates, and it works fine, just a small number of niggles: 1) have to enter disk encryption passphrase during the restart that precedes the install 2) on my laptop, shutting the lid will suspend the update, it's be cool if it could get on with that as I pack up and go home.

Is Windows 11 more helpful in this regard? I doubt it but would be delighted to hear otherwise.

Re: Well certainly putting the "bin" in binance then

The giant never said that. He just said he'd smelled "the blood of an Englishman" and pronounced his intention to eat him.

Had he smelled any other nationals, he _might have_ eaten those by preference.

chatGPT

that's just what an advanced AI would say though...