• OpenStars@piefed.socialEnglish
    1115·
    10 days ago

    It’s a good thing that little black line protected me from seeing the word “fucking” on the internet.

    Wait a minute… FUCK! 🤪

  • kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zoneMEnglish
    54·
    10 days ago

    I may have found ways to make computers not work but in the process I usually find ways to make them work again. Its a cycle

    Computer works -> I get bored -> I mess around -> it no longer works -> I fix it -> repeat

    • Agent641@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10·
      10 days ago

      In the words of Tommy Edison, “I have not failed, I have simply found 1000 ways to make a computer not work.”

    • spujb@lemmy.cafeOPEnglish
      113·
      10 days ago

      literally real. windows refresh and sandbox or atomic system components have been huge for me for this reason as it encourages me to mess around.

    • Cenzorrll@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      10 days ago

      I just broke my backup server upgrading to trixie, so I got to see if my backup of my backup server was backed up properly (it wasn’t) and if I could bring it back up again (I could).

      There’s zero reason I should be updating this device. It does two things, offers an NFS share to a server, then creates incremental backups of what that server puts on there.

    • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      2·
      8 days ago

      i’m not sure it’s even possible to learn computer without make computer not work, even memorizing the entire arch wiki isn’t going to help that much unless you’ve actually had experience with the things it talks about

    • D_C@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      12·
      10 days ago

      You can’t say fuck on the internet.

      Just look at the meme, even that daren’t say fucking!!
      Censor your comment at once or I’ll cunting cry tears of blood!

      • spujb@lemmy.cafeOPEnglish
        44·
        10 days ago

        yeah my guess is it was done (not by me of course) intentionally to throw off optical character recognition but still be human readable

        kind of like hentai so yeah the comparison is apt lol

    • spujb@lemmy.cafeOPEnglish
      68·
      10 days ago

      eighth comment like this 🤪 (image was taken from a site that regularly censors based on OCR and i didn’t care to go to elon musks nazi website to get the og sorry; also no hate i just think the pattern is funny) can we get to ten!

  • ouRKaoS@lemmy.todayEnglish
    321·
    10 days ago

    Gasp! Is that a naughty word!? My delicate sensibilities!

    Anyways, i probably have an AI data center’s worth of tech lying around my house because of one project or another. Some broken, some old, some saved from the trash, some held together with load bearing thermal paste… You know, a perfectly normal setup.

  • omgboom@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    29·
    10 days ago

    I spent hours today trying to figure out why my computer wouldn’t boot, an update had changed my boot configuration to raid mode.

  • Wugmeister@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    301·
    10 days ago

    I am of the opinion that it takes intelligence to be stupid. I had a friend in high school who had some undiagnosed cognitive difficulty that made him a bit slow overall. He struggled in school and was always failing one of his classes because he just couldn’t learn fast enough. However, his common sense was better than anyone else’s that I’ve ever met, and he was my most reliable friend. Sure, he didnt make many smart decisions, but he’s never made a really boneheaded decision as far as I know. I got in the habit of running my ideas past him:

    Me: “I’m thinking of doing [insert absolutely insane idea]. It should be cool.”

    Him: “That doesn’t seem safe, and it’s also illegal.”

    Me: “Huh. You’re right. I won’t do that, then.”

    I can credit my survival to adulthood to this guy. He may not able able to tell you what day of the week it is while standing in front of a calendar, but he was the least stupid man I have ever met.

      • Wugmeister@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        12·
        10 days ago

        Last time i spoke with him almost a decade ago. He was working in the Walmart stockroom and may have single-handedly changed their dress code policy. At the time, Walmart required all employees to either wear khaki pants or a skirt. Since he was in the stockroom khaki pants would cause his enchanted forest to become unpleasantly swampy. So, he started wearing a skirt to address the problem. This worked, and he got the other guys to follow his lead since it was an obvious and effective solution to their problem.

        Management was pissed, but couldn’t penalize them for not following the dress code. This was about a year or so before Walmart began allowing their employees to wear shorts.

      • Wugmeister@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        2·
        10 days ago

        I also used to play d&d (actually, mostly other rpgs) with him back in high school, and he had a natural talent for dismantling any campaign put in front of him. I eventually got fed up and did a sandbox campaign to stop him from derailing all my stories, which he promptly derailed with no effort. He did make me a better GM in general, and we always had fun.

    • Frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      7·
      10 days ago

      This was my thought with 3D printers. One I would leave mostly alone so it’d run reliably, and another to tinker and do weird shit on.

      Now I have 2 broken 3D printers.

      • _stranger_@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        10 days ago

        Quantum. In the sense that any computer both will and won’t work up until you interact with it, at which point the waveform collapses and it resolves. If you are Very Computer this always resolves to bad, but sometimes(!) you can turn the bad into good.

  • sad_detective_man@leminal.spaceEnglish
    25·
    10 days ago

    it’s true, 100% of the stuff I learn is in service of making a 10-year-old GeForce 980 run increasingly unstable, modded, and unholy builds of games. it’s not a matter of will it BSOD, just a matter of when do I not want it to BSOD

    • spujb@lemmy.cafeOPEnglish
      5·
      10 days ago

      at this point the Very Computer are essentially artists, creating unique artifacts of computing feats that are reflective of their own passion. mad respect to yall frfr!

      • sad_detective_man@leminal.spaceEnglish
        2·
        10 days ago

        just installed Atomic Heart, so about to give that a go. Just finished Claire Obscure which was amazing and fucked me up. The Alters is pretty good, almost done with it. Eden Ring Nightreign was kind of a let down. Tried Echo and that was interesting. All these are games I’m just running on the old hardware to prove I can.

        On the side I have long running Skyrim and Cyberpunk projects with the individual goals to make both of those games actually good.

        Also Elden Ring and an emulator with Armored Core 4/5 and Bloodborne which I will never uninstall until I die

        Got anything you’d recommend? I’m obviously a story-RPG slut

        • Jimbo@pawb.socialEnglish
          4·
          10 days ago

          If you can do cRPG gameplay, Baldur’s Gate 3 goes without saying, but I would also like to point out Pillars of Eternity 1 and 2, very underrated imo like almost all Obsidian games

          • Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
            3·
            10 days ago

            Avowed does expand the world of PoE a little bit if that interests you. Its set several hundred years after the events of 2 though.

          • sad_detective_man@leminal.spaceEnglish
            3·
            10 days ago

            I DID love BG3. Could not get the FRS looking good on my setup but the game made up for it. I’ll look at Pillars for my next wizard game mood. 👍

              • latenightnoir@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
                1·
                10 days ago

                I’m convinced it was all due to cut content, feels like they tried to stitch together disparate parts of what used to be a coherent whole (see accessing a mansion through a guard tower and such…).

                • sad_detective_man@leminal.spaceEnglish
                  2·
                  10 days ago

                  probably. I remember by the time they announced they were done working on it the game had already past open beta for like four years. I was actually one of the people who ordered the early draft copies so I’ve seen the story writing and dialogue take some wild rewrites, usually in response to player feedback. sometimes very minute details. part of me thinks there was just too much stuff to tie together at the end and they ran out of time but another part of me wouldn’t have been surprised if the devs were just tired and ready to move on.

    • Aggravationstation@feddit.ukEnglish
      3·
      10 days ago

      A lot of the time if I try to make something slightly more convenient and remove a manual step it fails and I’ve added two extra steps when trying to save one but can’t be bothered to put it back to just one for like a month.

    • da_cow (she/her)@feddit.orgEnglish
      2·
      9 days ago

      Last time I had Arch on my laptop I had a problem, where pipewire would crash if I didnt had an audio output for like 2s. So every time I wanted audio for something I had to restart it through the console.