BagOfHeavyStones
@BagOfHeavyStones@piefed.social
- Comment on LibreOffice blasts 'fake open source' OnlyOffice for working with Microsoft to lock users in 3 days ago:
Understood. I need to be able to add text and draw slaps shapes etc on PDFs.
- Comment on LibreOffice blasts 'fake open source' OnlyOffice for working with Microsoft to lock users in 4 days ago:
I use OnlyOffice for PDFs since it can set a default zoom level. LibreOffice can’t, which it just stupid.
I use LibreOffice for other stuff though.
- Comment on Amazon service was taken down by AI coding bot 6 days ago:
I don’t think they’re capable of learning from their mistakes, the probability engine and underlying model data will remain the same. It might ‘learn’ briefly while the conversation history remains current, but will forget it all.
I could be wrong. I just recall trying to teach it something a year or two ago and it was unable to learn.
- Comment on Save as PDF 2 weeks ago:
So that the recipient can’t tell it was an image I pasted onto the pdf instead of a page I printed, signed, then scanned in again.
- Comment on Save as PDF 2 weeks ago:
Still using it today whenever I need to flatten a PDF with my scanned signature.
- Comment on Microsoft sets Copilot agents loose on your OneDrive files 2 weeks ago:
So, just need to prompt for a person’s name and get to find the contents of all the files with that name in it?
- Comment on You won: Microsoft is walking back Windows 11’s AI overload — scaling down Copilot and rethinking Recall in a major shift 3 weeks ago:
Another task for “Feedback Hub.”
- Comment on Windows 10's extended support ends in eight months, but users are still rejecting Windows 11, at least in Germany 3 weeks ago:
It was your computer, and it was friendly.
- Comment on Since men have a longer urethra, they can experience the pleasure of urinating more intensely :< 5 weeks ago:
Re-verify our range to target. One ping only.
- Comment on quack 1 month ago:
Never found that one.
Back then I was a dialup ISP I used to host network games of Quake 1 with my customers. At the peak though we found the Xylogics Remote Annex couldn’t handle it, and it rebooted mid game.
- Comment on quack 1 month ago:
Used to love going to the console in quake 1 and setting gravity to 1. Each jump and you could hit the roof.
- Comment on Jensen Huang says relentless negativity around AI is hurting society and has "done a lot of damage" 1 month ago:
I agree that for some coding things it’s handy and saves time. It wrote me a WordPress plugin for an abandoned radio streaming plugin so I could get usable stats. It would have taken me a long time to write the SQL and php code by hand, for something I’ll likely never do again.
It didn’t get it entirely right first time though.
- Comment on Jensen Huang Is Begging You to Stop Being So Negative About AI 1 month ago:
It sometimes works for me. But the old computer truth of garbage in garbage out still applies. It’s got the world’s garbage to sift through.
- Comment on A Project to Poison LLM Crawlers 1 month ago:
Faults in replication? That can become cancer for humans. AI as well I guess.
- Comment on Definitely the safest source for advice 1 month ago:
- Comment on Microsoft May Have Created the Slowest Windows in 25 Years with Windows 11 1 month ago:
Mostly linux at home, windows at work due to needing windows apps that can’t run on linux.
- Comment on Cube me 1 month ago:
Use that mesh from bird cages, he should end up as a few mega pixels when viewed front on.
From the side it’s gonna be more like cheese sticks, but with more colours.
- Comment on NOOOO JAPAAAAAAAN DON'T CALL IT THAT 2 months ago:
Well, it killed off the Martians.
Oh wait, that was bacteria.
- Comment on Reading and working out 2 months ago:
Those arms look a bit long for a kangaroo. I could be wrong.
- Comment on Mozilla’s Betrayal of Open Source: Google’s Gemini AI is Overwriting Volunteer Work on Support Mozilla 2 months ago:
#Error
- Comment on Thieves are starting to steal RAM now that it's as expensive as gold — a memory kit disappears in the snail mail at four in the morning with a bogus signature 2 months ago:
Reminds me of when students used to pull the 5¼” floppy drive blanking plates off PC’s, reach inside and steal the RAM.
- Comment on What did I forget? 2 months ago:
- Comment on The struggle is real 2 months ago:
Shower pending…
- Comment on “You heard wrong” - users brutually reject Microsoft's "Copilot for work" in Edge and Windows 11 2 months ago:
One step ahead - installed Syncthing on an always-on Windows box located at my office, pointed it at some needed Google Drive folders, and synced to Debian. The Windows box has other syncing tasks anyway so it’s not costing anything in power. The Debian laptop is becoming my main workhorse.
rclone is too much of a PITA to configure.
insync is way too expensive, especially with multiple Google Drive accounts.
Gnome’s sync thinggie does weird stuff with filenames in LibreOffice etc, is basically unusable.I need Google Drive due to my existing business setups.
- Comment on turing completeness 3 months ago:
I thought it was just Pokémon go, but for dickbutt?
- Comment on Rate my printer gore 3 months ago:
My ender3 will do that if printing by usb and it loses mains briefly. The brain stays alive but the body stops.
- Comment on Engine fell off US cargo plane before deadly crash: officials 3 months ago:
Along with 38k gallons of
crude oiljet fuel after thefrontengine fell off. - Comment on YSK: you can stop Microsoft users from sending 'reactions' to your email by adding a "x-ms-reactions: disallow" header 3 months ago:
Does anyone miss Incredimail? Hehe
- Comment on Banana 4 months ago:
When they’re still a bit green they taste rank.
- Comment on The Sodium-Ion Battery Revolution Has Started 4 months ago:
And me my ’02 Mitsubishi wagon.
