algorithmae

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algorithmae ,

‘I’ve worked here for a year already. It should be clear by now that I’m not a talkative person. This is a question I don’t want to answer. And I hope that you respect that.’

This won't be taken well at all and sounds incredibly assholish.

‘that I don’t talk doesn’t mean I hate you, it means I have nothing to say’ < I find it ludicrous even having to explain this.

Still kinda rude IMO

‘I don’t see what that has to do with the job’

Depending on the situation could also be rude.

‘I don’t talk about religion, politics or my private life with coworkers and I hope you respect that’

Yes, this is good. Firm and clear.

‘all right, I need time to unwind, which means today I’ll spend my pause somewhere else.’ and proceed to eat alone somewhere else.
And if they pester yet again:
‘leave me alone’

How about just "Sorry, I don't feel like talking right now." except you say that every time like a broken record. They'll move on eventually since you never have anything to add.

algorithmae ,

So... Match em? It's not "unfair" if you don't even bother to keep up

algorithmae ,

What do you have against windows updates?

Forced windows 11 upgrades, breaking VPNs, breaking recovery partitions, intentionally targeting and breaking the win10 start menu for win11, installing unwanted software, enabling ads, adding additional telemetry, adding half baked AI nonsense that nobody asked for, restarting without a prompt and losing progress or canceling a running program... Should I keep going?

algorithmae ,

Download and install sysinternals suite: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/sysinternals-suite

then run:

psexec -i -s services.msc

and disable Windows Update, Update Orchestrator, and WaaSmedic if it's there.

Alternatively, do the same psexec but regedit instead of services, navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services, find those same services I listed above, change the Start value to 4 to disable. I went to the next step and neutered all the registry entries for each of those services to make sure they stayed dead.

algorithmae ,

To run as System and prevent permission issues from wagging its finger at you and saying "nuh uh". Yes obviously you can open Services the normal way if it wasn't windows update BS

algorithmae ,

Eeyup, same exact situation here. I leave my work computer overnight reencoding video pretty frequently, and would lose so much productivity due to restarts I didn't ask for.

algorithmae ,

Win11 was forcibly installed on my coworker's computers. This happened more than once.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/1607264/why-is-my-windows-10-pro-system-automatically-forc

What if you needed to use a VPN between May 1 and May 14?
https://www.pcworld.com/article/2320535/microsofts-newest-windows-update-breaks-vpns-and-theres-no-fix.html

I guess I hallucinated my computer restarting by itself on multiple occasions due to Microsoft updates, even after I disabled the services, before I nuked every sign of it from the registry and the reboots suddenly stopped. Crazy.
https://superuser.com/questions/1277757/windows-updates-forcibly-rebooting-my-pc-at-night

Copilot appeared with regular updates on my sister's computer, unprompted.
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/why-is-it-that-you-install-software-i-never-asked/a4fce101-b9e8-4d10-9c15-1f8350004e09

There were easy to find examples of everything that I said, some of them happened to myself, my family, or my coworkers. If you're going to be blatantly wrong and easily disproved then maybe you shouldn't go on after all.

algorithmae ,

I wish it were as easy to make money on stock prices going down as it is to make money on stock prices going up

algorithmae ,

I'm not employed by Nvidia though? Unless I'm misunderstanding

algorithmae ,

I can't reliably predict when line go up, but I have a pretty good idea of when line go down. Let me make money on that lol

algorithmae ,

That goes back to my original point, "I wish it were as easy..."

algorithmae ,

Man I miss this time. I still recognize most of those guys and have fond memories of their content and collaboration.

How many people actually want fully on-site IT jobs?

I've been looking for a new job as a software developer. The huge majority of job listings I see in my area are hybrid or remote. I just had an introductory phone call with Vizio (which didn't specify the location type in the job listing). The recruiter told me that the job was fully on-site, which I told her was a deal breaker...

algorithmae ,

I guess I'm rare in that I like working in an office. My house is for relaxing and enjoying my time, so the few times I did WFH I really just want to curl up on the couch instead of work.

algorithmae ,

One of the main things I kinda ran into recently, credit unions are set up for private accounts and don't do business accounts very well. I bought a car recently and the business owner was telling me that it was a hurdle to deal with large amounts of money on a regular basis with his credit union, and he didn't have issues with his conventional bank in that regard. I don't know the specifics unfortunately but it does make sense.

algorithmae ,

Literally just make ads less obnoxious, and/or make YouTube premium not stupidly expensive. That's all you fuckin have to do, YouTube, and you can cut a huge portion of the cat and mouse game.

algorithmae ,

As much as I don't want to believe it, it must be true. I guess development is cheap enough when you have foreign countries doing it for you

Is there any significance to people using emojis that match their skin tone?

I'm asking because as a light-skinned male, I always use the standard Simpsons yellow. I don't really see other light-skinned people using an emoji that matches their skin tone, but often do see people of color use them. Maybe white people don't naturally realize a need to be explicit with emoji skin-tone or perhaps it's seen as...

algorithmae ,

Maybe you'd feel differently if your country wasn't 90+% homogeneous with a light skin tone

algorithmae ,

It's still pretty light if we're considering the array of skin tones that are throughout humanity. If you weren't Finnish, but instead African or Indian or South American for example, maybe you wouldn't feel that yellow was representative of you and your people. Saying yellow is fine for everyone because you feel it's fine isn't taking into account the other billions of opinions in the world.

algorithmae ,

Yeah you don't get it and never will, that's a shame

algorithmae ,

No, but having a blindfold on doesn't suddenly make it okay to punch someone

algorithmae ,

Reject modernity, embrace 13th century BC Chinese practices and write stuff down instead. They invented it after all, it would be fitting

algorithmae ,

China: let's get more money through glorious capitalism

Also China: wait not like that stop it

algorithmae ,

I think this is a sign that you might have too many apps

algorithmae ,

I like to use folders in my app drawer to organize them, maybe it's something you can try? I run an old version of Nova before they got bought out

algorithmae ,

Similarly, I was reading about a music artist and it said on their bio that nobody knows who they are or their real name... They have concerts and make millions from sales, surely someone somewhere has to put their name down to send money to them?

Before you tell me about crypto, that's not how the real world works

algorithmae ,

Buy a new printer and cremate the old one, preferably with an exorcist supervising

algorithmae , (edited )

"The term "Web3" was coined in 2014 by Ethereum co-founder Gavin Wood, and the idea gained interest in 2021 from cryptocurrency enthusiasts, large technology companies, and venture capital firms."

That tells me everything that I need to know.

algorithmae ,

That's horrifying. Why would a potential life-threatening device be controlled by a smartphone app? What functions could possibly not be handled on the pump itself and need to be offloaded? What FDA crook was paid off to allow such a stupid thing to hit the market?

algorithmae ,

Why does it need a connection to another device in the first place though? Silicon is tiny and cheap; all the logic, sensing, and scheduling could be done inside the pump.

algorithmae ,

Do you mean "and" instead of "or"?

If you have money but no gas, just buy gas. If you don't have money but have gas, then you're just the average American.

algorithmae ,

Understood, it was a semantics issue.

I've finally gotten out of hitting single digits every month, and it's nice to finally not have to micromanage the order my bills are paid to not overdraft

algorithmae , (edited )

Does anyone know the last version that didn't do this?

Edit: trying messages.android_20240123_01_RC04, we'll see if it works

Edit 2: for posterity, no that version also bugs you to update. The search continues.

algorithmae ,

That was one of the tamest comments I've seen on the internet. There wasn't even remarks about your mom.

algorithmae ,

I personally like Thunder. Jerboa felt too limited for me.

Safest way of using WeChat

I live in Canada. My girlfriend is Chinese (also living in Canada), and while we are able to communicate via SMS, her mobile carrier isn't the best, and so there have often been issues for us with regular texting. She expressed a strong preference to use WeChat, at least as a backup option for when texting fails us. While I...

algorithmae ,

Why not another app, such as one that offers end to end encryption?

algorithmae ,

Why do we need a server to handle notifications anyway? Why isn't it local to the device?

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