mrgoosmoos

@mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows users keep losing files to OneDrive, and many don't know why⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  yep, it’s absolutely infuriating that they do that shit. you do some work around to make shit actually function, and then they just go change it on you without actually adding the functionality you needed

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨who's gonna tell him?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  one of the vocally pro-nazi people I still have on Facebook did a paper at university on “Elon Musk: a case for transformational leadership” and has that posted on his company website. he also has clippy as his fb pp, and his profile tag line or whatever has “I am devoted to the well being of the people”

  it’s an interesting mix of beliefs

  mind you this guy is Canadian. he’s gradually been becoming more and more right-wing because he has been radicalized by his view of the left through mainstream media. however when it became clear that he was pro-Nazi was when he posted about how the people who were calling Nazis Nazis have blood on their hand for Good’s murder and that it was entirely clear it was justified self-defense

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I properly and safely clean smartphone?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  do you live in a sterile lab, or do you like, every go outside and touch grass?

  just curious

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I properly and safely clean smartphone?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve done that with all my phones since BlackBerry

  well I usually use luke cold water

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Whoever invented the 12-hour clock never doubted that people will always know if it's day or night⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  one thing that I’m proud of my team at work for is just defaulting to using 24hr time when adding timestamps to filenames. I require datestamps, but there are no rules on timestamps if there are multiple files for that day. and a few of them just started appending the time in 24 hour format. I was so proud.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  stop funding their bullshit

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK police blame Microsoft Copilot for intelligence mistake⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  paywall

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Annual merit increase⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  last year we got a COL adjustment only, company wide, due to he trade situation. I accepted that, it’s better than laying people off. my work output responded in kind, however, after a very high output past year.

  the business has had a year to handle the trade situation. this year I am owed my merit raise from the year previous (lol they’re not gonna do fuck all about that) and a merit raise for 2025. let’s see what I get.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft may soon allow IT admins to uninstall Copilot⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I still have a some sway at work regarding tech stuff, and I know roughly half of my team feels at least half a strongly as I do about how shitty Microsoft is. there are a couple programs for which we need to use Windows, but I could see us at least exploring how to not use windows anymore. It’s just too difficult to do our goddamn jobs

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨QWERTY Phones Are Really Trying to Make a Comeback This Year⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  because we have a spreadsheet for group trips and I’m checking off the items I bought

  why would I want to do that on a separate list and then transfer that information to the spreadsheet afterwards, when I could just do it directly?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨QWERTY Phones Are Really Trying to Make a Comeback This Year⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  not very convenient to use in a grocery store, though

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jensen Huang says relentless negativity around AI is hurting society and has "done a lot of damage"⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  thanks for the detailed reply. the proof is in the end product - as long as it is used with an appropriate understanding of its output, anything can be useful.

  obviously I can’t say for sure how many AI emails I have gotten, but I can say that I’ve gotten some that are obviously AI where I skip over it because of that. it’s just excessively wordy and if somebody couldn’t have been bothered to be concise, I can’t be bothered to read it - I very much ascribe to the belief that somebody should not have to put in extra effort because the person requesting something didn’t. but if you have it working for you, then great. I do think that that is a good use case if it is dialed in — if it’s got the right style and verbosity, it’s much easier to just review something and tweak it than it is to write it all out from scratch.

  I have found it helpful as a search engine when I don’t know the exact terms that I need to be searching for, but that’s about it. It’s just the initial search, and then once I know where I’m going I can use regular means to get the rest, because it really breaks down once you start asking it very specific stuff in my experience (engineering stuff). but again, I haven’t really needed to use it too many times.

  One other time that I did find it helpful was when I didn’t know a particular API function call, and I just could not figure it out from the documentation or what I knew of the API. it got me the function I needed (although did not at all understand how to actually use it lol, but that was fine because I just needed to get there and then use the documentation for the rest).

  I have a demo for an AI tool soon that is supposed to automatically create engineered parts drawings. I am very skeptical, but we’ll see how it goes. my expectation at this time is that it will only be good for very basic parts, not even moderate complexity, which means it’s functionally useless for me. if it’s turning out drawings at the quality level of a junior designer, that doesn’t help me — I need those juniors to turn those out so they can improve and do the same on the moderate complexity stuff. if they don’t have the opportunity on the simple stuff, then they won’t improve to handle the more difficult stuff that the tool cannot. and those simple drawings can be churned out in a minute each, often, so the time savings are just not there on that type of part.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: listening to audiobooks and reading books both activate the same language related areas of the brain⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  no thanks, I like saying words wrong for a decade until finding out one day that the big smart word that made me sound like a big smart boy is actually stressed on the other syllable

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨QWERTY Phones Are Really Trying to Make a Comeback This Year⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  omfg yes please I would actually buy a brand new phone again for that

  I fucking hate entirely touchscreen stuff. using a sheets app on a touchscreen phone takes 10x as long as it should

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jensen Huang Is Begging You to Stop Being So Negative About AI⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  well stop shoving it in my face everywhere and I wouldn’t be bothered enough to comment on it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨And the cold in particular.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  this is why I hate going to the office. I can’t work in 24°

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨And the cold in particular.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  it got to -19 a couple times so far this year for me

  of course, a few days later it was above zero again

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jensen Huang says relentless negativity around AI is hurting society and has "done a lot of damage"⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  what mundane tasks do you find it useful for?

  so far the only useful thing I’ve found (outside of being another search engine) is processing image to text, but I’m pretty sure it’s just using existing OCR tools to do that (not sure, I haven’t used it much because I only needed to do it once like a year ago)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do I do?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  hey, care for others is good

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Good luck⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess that’s the YMMV part. haven’t had anything like that happen in five years on this machine

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Good luck⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  why hot wash?

  I wash everything cold, and generally all together

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do we have shampoo, conditioner, and body wash soaps?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  as a guy who often has shoulder length straight hair, if I don’t condition, I go from having nice flowing waves to a frizzy dry mess that won’t stay in place and just sticks out every which way

  most recently I am trying the whole no shampoo thing, so we’ll see how that goes

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows users keep losing files to OneDrive, and many don't know why⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The thing that pisses me off with the auto sync option is that it’s just not how a lot of files that we have are used

  I don’t want to see a file with 10 different versions in the past week all because somebody opened it and didn’t modify it and closed it. I want to open a file, find out what I need to, and close it while knowing that I did not make any changes to that file.

  sure, this problem could be avoided somewhat by managing user permissions, but oh guess what that’s a fucking pain in the ass the way Microsoft has that set up too

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows users keep losing files to OneDrive, and many don't know why⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve had something similar. It’s absolutely infuriating and shows the complete lack of respect they have for the users.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows users keep losing files to OneDrive, and many don't know why⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I still prefer them hijacking a particular drive letter to Microsoft’s approach of not even using a drive at all

  Yes thank you so much Microsoft for making every single employee’s file path different when we’re trying to send each other the location of files, all of them within unnecessary multiple levels at the start because the default installation is c users user documents OneDrive

  this is actually one way that I see which of my new hires actually read the fucking onboarding document and followed the instructions. One of the first steps is “unlink your OneDrive account and set up a OneDrive folder in the root of one of your drives instead” (with actual instructions on how to do that). two out of three new hires without fail will send me a link in their first week that points to c users. It’s a nice litmus test for who is going to be useless and/or a pita

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows users keep losing files to OneDrive, and many don't know why⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  everybody, back when I bought it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows users keep losing files to OneDrive, and many don't know why⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  yeah it’s on my list, but ty

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cheapest way to back up a *lot* of data?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  what’s the difference to storing it on a company’s platform?

  sign a thing that says there’s nothing illegal in it. done.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Needs money but has his limits⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  yes, penis-only is fine

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Removing the auto-off timer from my coffee machine⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  you and me are different, and that’s okay

  I appreciate good coffee. I don’t care enough to have it on a work day when I just want something hot enough that I don’t drink it all immediately and with some caffeine in it because I have a severe caffeine addiction that’s developed over years and years that I haven’t addressed yet

  I will rebrew coffee grounds in my single cup maker because I am that lazy and do not give a fuck about it being shit weak tea that it produces on the third rebrew. my recent upgrade was to using a regular drip machine again and I chose to lower the bean amount to near piss water levels to compensate for the fact that I was previously getting less and less caffeine with each brew whereas now it’s just equalized across all cups

  there are a couple reasons I drink coffee, and how I drink it is reflected clearly by them:

  • caffeine addiction (withdrawal headaches)
  • I want to drink something at my desk, and not always just water (I do drink tea sometimes but idk it just doesn’t hit the same and I don’t like the taste as much once it cools)

  I make better coffee backcountry camping than I do at home

  yw for the horror story