petra wanted to know if her old gaming PC was working, since it hadn't been used in a while.
i unplugged my PC, hauled the 15kg hunk of metal out of the way, set her 10kg hunk of metal up, plugged in the seven different cables it needed, turned it on... everything worked perfectly! even the wifi card that i'd lost the screw for and stuck down with sticky tape!
except... only one of the monitors worked. the HDMI one worked, the DVI one didn't. after i updated her OS from fedora 36 to 38 to 40, i tried a whole bunch of things. the monitor was working fine before i swapped the PCs, so i tried moving the cable between GPU ports - no dice. i powered it off, unplugged the HDMI, and booted into UEFI with just the DVI connected - nothing. the monitor states "the cable is connected, but your PC isn't sending a signal".
i spent an hour and a half researching xrandr, the kernel DRM structure, DVI-D vs DVI-I, dual-link vs single-link, different graphics modes, driver and firmware updates, spurious kernel message logs... nothing could fix it. i declared the GPU's DVI ports dead. i knew she was having some weird graphics issues when this computer was last used (over two years ago!), so i chalked it up to that.
then, i swapped the machines over, set mine back up, and... no output on the DVI monitor! is my trusty decommissioned dell monitor that i got for free from university ewaste finally dead?
i reached behind the monitor, wiggled the DVI cable, and it sprang to life.
so, uh, just because the monitor says "the cable is connected", doesn't necessarily mean it's properly connected.
the moral of the day is: make sure you try the dumb things first. question the most basic assumptions you make when debugging - if i hadn't assumed "it was working before, so it must be plugged in properly at the monitor end", i would've saved myself a ninety minute goose chase.
no no, not a teams meeting, it's a meet meeting. on google meet. it might be called duo for you? i sent you a hangouts to the drive link on messages. no no not your gmail inbox, it's under "all mail", not every email goes to the inbox, haha. or if you're using the classic mode it might be under meetups or promotions. yeah where the chats used to be, before they made google voice an RCS thing. have you got it from google play? no not the green one, the new one with the multicoloured icon. you can only use the green one with legacy members. ok so the problem is you're on workspace for business, it's under google one basic now. did you try quick sharing it? no see you can't use it on a tablet, only a phone or laptop, unless you want the plus features, that only works on phones of course. honestly the easiest way from here is through the docs plugin, unless you wanna family share if you can do vowifi
decided to try out google's gemini chatbot thing... i started by asking about new features in ARMv8 and ten minutes later it was arguing and doubling down that powerPC was a CISC architecture
its reasoning was:
newer powerPC chips can run code written for older ones, and backwards compatibility is pretty complex
SANDY TOKSVIG: yes, the windows NT kernel was first introduced to the public in 1993. it is still used to this day! windows 11 states that its kernel version is NT ten point oh.
ALAN DAVIES: and uh, what's the NT for?
SANDY: new technology. it replaced the previous--
DAVID MITCHELL: new technology? the new technology kernel?
SANDY: yes, and the filesystem, NTFS, is the--
DAVID: new technology file system. and - to be clear - this is from nineteen ninety three?
ALAN: yes, but you have to consider that it was new at the time.
DAVID: oh, i have to consider... everything was new at the time! that's what "new" means! i-- when i was born, i was new! but they don't call me "new david", do they? because - by definition - things stop being new after a point!
AMERICAN CELEBRITY GUEST: ok, but, like... you know, like, with the... the other one was like, the old one, right? so they--
DAVID: but you must understand that anything that has ever been replaced by anything ever could be described as "the old one", right? it's a completely useless name! "hello, my name is new man, my father is old man, because i'm new and he's not and we don't need to specify any further details!" it's madness!
AMERICAN: yeah, but [laughs]
DAVID: so what happens when they replace the new technology kernel, then? do we get the new new technology?
ROB BRYDON: i think it would be, they rename the new technology to old technology, and the replacement gets called new technology. so the NT kernel is now the OT kernel, and--
This game, like most Scringle Engine 3 games, does not support widescreen, and instead crops the 4:3 image to a 16:9 ratio. This can be fixed with Jambo's Game Tool, although this will disable the "Advanced Features" video option, which will remove reflections from puddles and mirrors.
To fix the immediate crash when starting the cutscene on level 3, download GregFix.dll from the GregUtils website (no link provided - Greg will send DMCA takedowns to any websites besides Google that provide his website's URL) and drop it in your system32 folder. Run the game with administrator privileges twice, letting it crash both times, then start it normally. This is confirmed to work on December 2022 through April 2023 builds of Windows 10.
according to wikipedia, only the north americans are allowed to use the ¢ symbol, while us poor southern hemispherians and the EU folk have to make do with the letter c
so if an australian shop tells you that a freddo frog costs 90¢ they are most likely a CIA front
i don't know if it was vine, or tiktok, or music.ly, or someone else, but whoever it is that invented "video players, but you can't dismiss the on-screen UI or scrobble or have closed captions or stop it from looping" is going to Super Ultra Hell
the thing is though, i've been going back and boosting posts from like 3 years ago, which obviously aren't cached, and yet my egress is still in the sub-megabyte range 🤷♀️
authy just moved their desktop app EOL date forward - authy desktop will cease to function on the 19th of march!
they have no official way of exporting your data (of course 🙃), but there's an unofficial tool for getting your data out. i'll probably move to keepassXC to prevent something like this from happening again