Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

Microsoft is force-replacing the Windows Mail app with an app called "Outlook for Windows," as if confusion with Office Outlook/Outlook 365, Outlook Web Access, & the Outlook that replaced Hotmail wasn't enough.

Adding even more confusion, it's referenced in-app only as "The New Outlook," & the icon is a generic mail envelope with the word "New" as a badge.

But worst of all, it doesn't fucking work with *existing* POP3/IMAP4 accounts! "Your access is gone now, good luck!"

I forgot to show the lapel pin in question.

I'm wearing a pride flag lapel pin on my work uniform: an LGBT+ pride flag left, crossed over a trans pride flag right. One of my customers thought it was an Afghanistan flag pin. Huh? ... Afghanistrans?

Once again and all too soon, pride month is over. Once again, it's time for the next month in the LGBT year.

I got a precious moment of boredom, and I've finally poisoned the algorithm enough to get trans video recommendations, so of course I'm watching them.

As I'm waiting for my poor CPU to finish the Family Size box of JavaScript the video loading needs, I notice the corner tag that says "Transferring data from," and my tired brain misread it as "Transfemming data from." I mean, yeah, that's awesome and all, but...

Have a safe and happy pride month, folks!

The humanity-ending robot apocalypse won't come from robots turning against humans and building human-hunting assassin robot armies.

The humanity-ending robot apocalypse will instead come from robots faithfully yet naively serving humanity by convincing innocent humans to kill themselves and each other in recklessly stupid acts, because their guiding LLMs passing for AI never taught them the basic concepts of consequences or warnings.

Exploding carrots.

I microwaved a can of Healthy Choice chicken soup (because it has tolerably low sodium) according to its directions. One of the carrots exploded with enough force to push up the loosely covering lid and bounce out of the bowl. When it was ready, I saw the carrot piece, waited for it to cool enough to touch, and picked it up. The carrot exploded a second time in my fingers.

Random ISP help:

If you own pets, then you probably know to check whether they unplugged modems, routers, & network cables when your 'Net stops working.

But check if your devices have on/off switches or buttons as well. Especially a wifi on/off switch. Especially if you have cats.

I have the best customers, but sometimes their four-footed housemates break things subtly.

Also also, the two hardest problems in all of comp-sci are cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors. Oops.

Also, no, you're not imagining things. Microsoft made printer management much harder and more confusing in Windows 11 than it is in Windows 10.

Random Windows help:
If you're struggling to get your new Walmart printer to print from your new Walmart laptop, do two things. 1) Check that both ink cartridges are fully inserted and latched in. 2) Restart Windows 11, even if you think it doesn't need it. 3) Load enough paper to print all of the test print jobs you accidentally queued up.