Me: It doesn't have a tail so I'm pretty sure it's a hamster.
Tech Support: Okay fine. Right-click the hamster…

I’m gonna need everyone in security to internalize this.

Hell, my local country fair (y’know, the place where you can submit your veggies to go on display and get judged and get ribbons and shit) is requiring online registration.

Guess how many people that’s locking out? How many of the people whose submissions are what keep the exhibitions going don’t have emails or cell phones?

If your solution doesn’t work for my friend who can only be reached via landline phone or mail, it doesn’t work.

It's been about 15 years or so since Microsoft's first version of the Windows Media Creation Tool, and the latest version STILL needs to run while logged into an Administrator account, even when downloading and writing to a USB thumb drive.

"Run as Administrator" from a Standard User account STILL isn't good enough.

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Periodic reminder: Make backups, check that your backups are actually what you think they are, and test your backups.

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For the first time in what feels like forever, or at least since HP brought Compaq all those years ago, I found an HP laptop that did NOT need me to remove, buy, and replace the rubber foot strips in order to take it apart! An HP Laptop 15-fc0037.

The bad news? It came to me because its SSD (M.2 NVMe) died so suddenly and so completely, out of warranty, that the firmware diagnostics said nothing was installed.

Every now and then on my wanders around Glasgow, I come across one of these upside down T-shaped keyholes on the door of a Victorian building. It's for an Odell Night Latch Key, of the type shown on the right.

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#glasgow #odelllatchkey #doorfuriture #keys #locks

1960s: the computer when programmed correctly can perform trillions of operations without a single mistake:

Pentium fdiv bug era: in some rare cases excel may let a bug in the CPU slip past.

LLM era: we rolled 6x10E9 dice and days have 37 hours, finger count is random, your files were deleted lol.

ai genned posters are like the flora and fauna that evolved to appear poisonous to be avoided

Today Excel bugged me again to rate it, and when I tried it told me I was ineligible to submit a review.

Once again I am asking for all technology to be cast into the sea immediately or sooner.

we removed the slop that microslop inexplicably added to comic chat because we are part of the fuck off ai code movement? github.com/theAlexes/comic-cha

fun fact: both Redox OS and Haiku OS explicitly ban llm contributions
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