Are you sure about that? Straight courses are used for drag racing.

Almost makes me wonder if this is a mechanical turk situation.

It is also the origin of the anime “wow” sound effect. https://soundeffects.fandom.com/wiki/Anime_Wow_Sound

I’m still hoping for good customer support AI. If I’m going to be connected to someone who barely speaks English and is required to follow a prewritten script, or worse plays prerecorded messages to fake being fluent, I might as well talk to an AI, especially if it means shorter hold times.

AI is a bad replacement for good customer service, but it could be an improvement over bad customer service.

Settings itself has been around in one form or another since at least Win95. 29 years…

Settings in Windows 11 is close. I rarely find myself going to control panel when it was about 50/50 in Windows 10. Still more clicks than I would like but workable.

Companies don’t even have to pay people for the time spent going through their own required security checks… https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrity_Staffing_Solutions,_Inc._v._Busk

Private comment. Do not read.

Pretty sure that’s a banana

I was waiting for: dear sandwich theif, this is IT. We have the printer logs. HR brought us donuts. Your move.

Random guess, a php error caused Apache to log a ridiculous number of errors to /var/log and on this system that isn’t its own partition so /var filled up crashing MySQL. The user wiped /var/log to free up space.

They’ve overhyped the hell out of it and slapped those letters on everything including a lot of half baked ideas. Of course people are tired of it and beginning to associate ai with bad marketing.

This whole situation really does feel dotcommish. I suspect we will soon see an ai crash, then a decade or so later it will be ubiquitous but far less hyped.

I used to be polite to these things. They used to work. Neither is true anymore.

• Me: hey google play soft piano music
• Google: spopht
• Me:… hey google play soft piano music
• Google: I’m sorry, who did you want to call?
• Me: Cancel
• Me: hey google pllaayy soft piano muusiicc
• Google: playing piano music on youtube… sorry I cannot do that on this device
• Me: hey google play soft piano music on spotify
• Google: ok, playing the album chainsaw death by the murder orphans.
• Me: cancel cancel cancel CANCEL

Given an infinite number of rooms and guests, it is highly likely both he and the boulder are already there. So he should go to the hotel where he already is and has a room

Happy comes from hap, which is essentially luck. So happy can imply lucky or fortunate. If he gets to the hotel and finds he already is checked into his room in an otherwise full hotel, then he is indeed lucky and likely happy.

Was the bandage store there before he turned around or did it come into existence to maintain causality for the time traveler?

killall daemon

kill -9 666

Yep. Trying to maintain a consistent startmenu for computer labs with Windows 11 is annoying.

The layout is stored in an encrypted file that cannot be editted directly. You have to manually setup the start menu on one profile then copy the file to all the others. This works fine for intial deployments, but is a massive pain if you need to add any other apps later.

The old powershell commandlet for importing layouts does not work in Win11. The old group policy settings don’t work either. The actual DLL calls used by the end user to manually configuring the start menu are deliberatly coded to prevent being called from a script.

It is freaky how much work Microsoft has done to prevent scripting changes to the start menu.

The only officially supported method for an IT department to manage the start menu is intune, but microsoft’s device licensing for intune is a mess out folks have yet to figure out.

They encrypt the damn start menu and they cannot encrypt this?

Not if aren’t familiar with control characters. Might was well be three seashells…

Holy Christ!