That time my computer stopped recognizing my printer and wouldn’t print.
I read dozens of webpages, went all through the operating system, and went to the horror of IRC to get tech help.
I even reinstalled the OS.
Then I got down under the desk on my hands and knees and found the printer cable unplugged and laying on the floor. 🤦
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A neighbor is getting NorthState (fiber Internet, TV, phone if you want it). The installer van is on the street. For a short time, this will make up for running that loud leaf blower for hours at a time. 👍
They had Spectrum. Spectrum’s wiring is so bad on this street that the jacket on their coax has been shedding in my yard for years. In certain parts of the street, it’s hanging so low that a person could reach up and grab it. If I get tired enough of cleaning up the shedding, I’ve thought about taking a hoe and yanking it down to the ground. It probably wouldn’t make a difference.
What is this? Browser not supported. You must use… one of them is Firefox… and I’m using FIREFOX! It won’t let Vivaldi in either.
Is this 1995 again? You must use Internet Explorer?
I mean grow up. What nutcase wrote that site?
I know little of what I do, but running Twitter and Facebook as web apps on Linux Mint works well. Use Vivaldi browser to have the separate profile option.
— opens right up into the site all logged in
— isolated profiles
— no cookie mixing
A big one is that it solves Twitter’s compulsive refresh problem.
I like it.
As if WordPress weren’t a mega PITA already, the WP mobile app on Android has gone crashy.
It has been so long since I touched an FM radio that I was unaware of what had happened on that band.
I have a rental car for work for a week, and it has a digital-capable FM radio. Surprise to me, many stations come up as “HD,” and there are multiple channels per frequency. Old news to many, I assume, but my dislike of a chattering car radio wore me down long ago.
Some of the old local stations, like 98.7 Simon (formerly named KISS FM and WRQK), actually have a decent alt channel with deep cuts and low commercials.
I won’t be tuning in much due to now preferring only road noise and myself making noises while I drive, but at least the FM band seems a little better now.
As for subscription radio, like Sirius, I don’t use it unless I get a rental car, and it’s turned on for free. It’s just not my thing. Some Internet subscription music services, like Deezer and Digitally Imported, I do like and I will stream those through the car radio.
I have been curious about UbuntuDDE, which is Ubuntu with the Deepin Desktop Environment (DDE). DDE is the desktop environment of the Deepin Linux distribution.
“Deepin is the top Linux distribution from China, devoted to providing a beautiful, easy-to-use, safe, and reliable operating system for global users.” (Wuhan Deepin Technology Co.,Ltd)
It is supposed to be “Beautiful and Wonderful,” so I had to see it. I downloaded the image and booted live from USB stick.
It really seems to be beautiful and wonderful. I played with it for a few, took this screenshot of the default desktop, then went back to my usual system, which is Linux Mint with Xfce desktop.
I didn’t spend much time with UbuntuDDE due to being very pleased with what I already use. I can keep it in mind for the future.
I saw a “comp sci” Twitter user with 17K followers chastise another user for not returning a “fillable” PDF form filled out on computer as asked. Instead the recipient printed/used a pen/scanned, then returned it. I’ve had to do this same thing many times.
A fillable PDF assumes:
— the recipient has a certain level of tech expertise
— is using official Adobe software or gets lucky with something else
— that the person even knows that PDFs can be “fillable”
— has a desktop computer to sit down to. “Filling” a PDF form on mobile would be a feat.
My office abandoned “fillable” PDFs due to high failure rate. Even Google Forms works better.
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Sometimes I interrupt my shitposting to do political deep dives and shell peanuts. As one dives into things, the feeling of isolation gets larger.
Look at that gorgeous Linux desktop on old computer. Goes well with delicious peanuts.
This site is nice. Sounds of aging technology, like modems negotiating a connection over copper phone line.
Windows 95 start-up melody is there. I still have it on my modern Linux desktops, saved and passed along from one hard drive to another since I got my first Windows machine in 1996.
AOL Instant messenger is nice, also ICQ. I still use ICQ. The default sound is still “uh oh!”
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