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  • I love modern printers.

    We have a super fancy one in work that requires one to log in (or fob in with an NFC-style tag), to enable access to their own virtual print queue or printer services.

    Weirdly, if it doesn’t shut down correctly (software failure, power cut, flicked at the wall switch etc), it reboots but with some quirks like not enabling the 10 second auto logout.

    It’s satisfying as fuck walking up to a printer that’s still signed in, scrawling a comedy dick in red pen on a bit of A4 paper, and using the cloud scan function to scan it and have it directly emailed to the user as a PDF.

    I’m pretty sure there’s some serious security issues there but it’s funnier to hear someone’s “new email” tone, and their eyes widen when they’ve got an email attachment from themselves making a suggestion that they crudely be elsewhere, or who see a masterpiece drawing of a hairy rocket with a helium leak manifesting itself from the very top.






  • Nah that’s cool, thanks for your view. I’m on board with what you’re saying.

    I fucking hate launchers with a passion, almost as much as I hated when Steam came out with one of the Half Life patches.

    Admittedly though, if there was going to be one current launcher to rule them all, Steam is the best bet.


  • Going against the grain here, but conceptually is that really such a good thing?

    Yes, Steam is pretty decent and yes, Valve have consistently shown good business practice and a pro-consumer stance, and yes third party launchers are generally absolute donkey tonk… but isn’t converging onto one launcher like Steam very anti-consumer at its core?








  • PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uktolinuxmemes@lemmy.worldNice
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    2 months ago

    nice

    Specifically, process niceness - a very basic view is how “nice” a process is at handing over control to the CPU scheduler when asked to.

    It’s a similar situation as when your mam (the scheduler) tells you to give up the SNES (the process) because you (the CPU) need to do the homework (another process), the dishwasher (another process) and the bins (another process) - but the SNES is saying “just thirty more seconds bro, and the boss will be done”.

    edit: in context, these function keys manually force the niceness value up or down, determining whether the process allows you to finish the boss and give up the CPU at a more appropriate time, or whether the scheduler is like “nah absolutely not, homework, now”.

    edit edit: my assumption is that this is a process manager app anyway, else the rest of the above is bollocks


  • We’re across the water from you in the UK. I understand your predicament and agree on the ick factor, but your country has chosen the lesser of two evils.

    The amount of oil and gas coming in to the UK is declining, but it is still a vast volume - and since the 1970s, it has seen billions (maybe trillions or another scale higher?) of pounds worth flow through the UK.

    The problem is, it goes through the UK, and doesn’t stop here.

    Aberdeen, Hull, Milford Haven, Norwich… all towns that have seen money that is exponentially times larger than their tax incomes flow through, and all of which have little to show for it. It’s made us look like mugs, and all the money has flowed out to the US, the middle east, or other firms based in rando countries for tax reasons shareholder benefits.

    The Norway model with their sovereign wealth fund may be ethically questionable, but fuck me I personally wished we followed your lead in the 70s while we had the chance.




  • PhobosAnomaly@feddit.ukto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneRule
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    Not sure if it was intentional, but fair play to Britney, that’s literally what she did.

    I’ve not read any of her family’s accounts so there’s a huge knowledge gap on my part there, but to break out of that shitty legal arrangement and sing for herself is pretty badass.