The presenter is retired, and apparently he just has a really old PC that hasn’t been updated. But yeah, gotta do a test run before. The venue also isn’t sophisticated enough to properly do audio through room speakers. Have to hold the mic up to the laptop.

@Demolishun So sorry for your loss. We cremated our Golden because our yard wasn’t diggable for a grave. For this one our yard was more diggable but we still had 4 people using a pickaxe to get to the required depth of 2 feet. We built and decorated a pine box and wrapped it in a thick plastic and felt table cloth to protect it from rotting in our wet climate. My only worry now is when we eventually move and the next homeowners want to dig a pool. 😢 Maybe I’ll warn them after the house sale papers are signed.

I didn’t know images were broken. Wish I could upload a photo. My dog was so cuddly, gentlemanly, and pure. Best little office, couch, and road trip buddy ever.

@CaptainRant It was frowned upon to refuse to join in. “We need team players.” “We’re a family.”

I have a family. They’re at home and related to me. Ya’ll are just people I know from work.

@retoor It’s weird that it falls down in this one thing.

It just recently hit $100,000.

Related…

@Hazarth This. It’s a devil’s bargain. If I’d have known how this would go, I’d have found a way to be independently wealthy by 30.

I’m a shit coder. I have this mental block I’ve never been able to shake where I don’t know where to start and what to type to start any project. AI has _saved my bacon_ in that I can ask it to help me get started and it does. Amazingly well. But it’s still not smart enough to just tell it to create all the code for a full application. Humans are still needed for that. For now.

@feuerherz Yup. After 28 years, making websites and helping dozens of people run their businesses is exhausting.

You have money. I want some of that money. I will trade my skill and experience for it. But within limits. And with a likely chance of getting more of that money, and more prestige and time off, the more value I provide.

It’s too late for me. Save yourselves.

@Wisecrack I lived in a really cool time and in a stunningly beautiful area of the Southwestern U.S. There are nights when I can’t sleep that I relive that era and place in my mind and wish I could go back. So much about today is amazing but also so, so screwed up.

This is righteous indignation and justifiable as self-defense.

I’m more referring to my capacity to completely forget unused EC2 instances.

@jestdotty Disney’s latest lame attempt at wokifying Star Wars: “The Acolyte”. Lesbian space witches that use the Force to get pergananant.

@Ranchonyx Partly my fault. Once I get going I want to check off all the boxes and be done. ✅

I can proudly say I haven’t watched one episode! But from what I’m hearing, these two things go very well together.

@AlgoRythm Further validating why I use Brave. It’s incredible how many marketing and tracking cookies and scripts some sites impose on their users.

@Parzi Oh! I just saw that after my response. THANK YOU SO MUCH! I’m gonna download this and see if I can make it work!

@Parzi Yes, that was the exact software I used. Core memories unlocked of our “computer room” at home in the late 80s and early 90s. Wish I could find the actual .exe and such to try to run it on an emulator. Lost to history, I’m afraid.

@dontbeevil Several months ago I spilled soda all over the keyboard of a Mac a client had lent to me for a job. I cleaned it up but figured that it was going to stop working soon. It never stopped working. Doing the same to a regular PC laptop will pretty much guarantee you have to replace it. The right to repair issue is different for everyone. If you don’t know what you’re doing, right to repair is useless and you’ll be taking it in anyway. I’m at the point where I don’t get paid to repair my own shit so I take it somewhere else and let them deal with that. I’d rather do that and spend the downtime doing stuff with my family and enjoying life. I used to really like digging into the hardware but not anymore.

@Fast-Nop Which of these are still issues? Or are they all from 5 years ago?

@Fast-Nop I must be an outlier. Since I’ve switched to Mac (2016), I’ve had zero failures with them. And if I have a question I can get a person to help me via Apple Support phone or chat within minutes. Or I can go right to the Apple Store for help (never have to). With Windows or Linux, I’m at the mercy of online forums, blogs, and videos (or the nonces at BestBuy). Every Windows machine I’ve still got or have bought for various needs has had a hardware or OS incompatibility or issue within one year. Linux Mint just failed due to a hardware incompatibility after a version update on one of my old Windows machines so now I have to reimage it or choose another distro.

It’s my wife’s only work laptop. About 6 years old. Never happening. We’ll just have to buy her a new one at some point.

@NeatNerdPrime Cable is fine. Tried other cables and same pattern of behavior.

@dontbeevil 100% sure. Every other machine has no issues. I think it may just be the specific video hardware/driver/OS on this HP. Just maddening that it works fine 50% of the time and totally janky the other 50%.

Wait…ostream’s gone? No more car rants?

@Tonnoman I just assume that every device and OS is compromised. It’s how I get through my day keeping the paranoia at bay.

@dontbeevil I can no longer find even a reference to WordPublisher in any search. It was DOS “shareware” written by a small company (not Microsoft at all) that came to me in the mail on a 5 1/4” floppy back in the late 80s/early 90s. I remember using it for a degree of WYSIWYG formatting to write school papers and such, which is what I’m trying to resurrect. There’s probably no hope of getting it restored completely. Very strange format that seems to truncate or obfuscate the actual content of each file.

@jfuginay Seems to be the same using that command as opening the file in Sublime.