Random remarks about whatever. Commentary, philosophy, fiction - whatever comes to mind....
I left the machine alone yesterday. Today I wasn't going to touch it, but I got bored (always a dangerous thing). So let's see how it did. Well the MacroSlop initial screen had some new, unbidden click spots for no reason, but we can't blame Ubuntu for that! Once operating, I clicked Libreoffice. It started, quite normally. Good. Poke at the ol' open/save stuff and ... Uh, what happened to the…
There are many aspects to organising data: alphabetical, numerical, hierarchical, and chronological for example. It's that last one that seems to have vanished, at least from the Internet. When you search for some information you get many, many, often too many returns. "How do I do this ?" becomes one hundred and thirty six thousand explanations, some dating back to when the World Wide Web was in…
So much for success. sigh After letting the computer sit, just sit, it was time to try Libreoffice and GIMP "for real". As in file handling. As in read/write. As in make a couple of test files. As in look at a couple of existing files. As in fail. Since Libreoffice would be the program I use most I started with that. "This is a test file." I wrote. Fine. Now save it. What the hell is that? Or "You…
Yes, I speak English very well and no I did not mean to ask " may I read your blog". I'm talking about how easy is it for someone to read your blog, as in "easy on the eyes" (refrains from mentioning certain members of the human race who fit that description). Not just your blog, though; there are a lot of web sites and programs and so forth which although artistically very clever are nevertheless…
When we left the project yesterday it has just produce some unexpected yet expected negative results with the Linux terminal jamming and the computer demanding an update reboot. I closed the terminal and let it get on with whatever it thought it should do. Which, to no one's surprise, it didn't do. O-kay then; let's make it reboot and do its updates or reconfiguration or both or whatever. While…
It's impossible for there to be a war anywhere now, because we have AI. Surely someone brought up an AI chat and told it to stop the war? And AI being the magic solution to all mankind's woes would have ended the war instantly! After all, so far it has cured cancer (indeed ended all diseases), put out the wildfires, solved the homelessness crisis, eliminated unemployment, put a stop to world…
So there's a stupid conspiracy theory going 'round that says the wildfires are caused by "weather manipulation'. Okay, if you're all through laughing at the sheer idiocy ... Apparently the government does it with satellites or something in order to control the population or make rich people richer or turn frogs gay. I don't know. I do know you'll never convince idiots that they're idiots. Clearly…
Well you just know how this is going to go, right? Another hour of my life gone. The first 30 minutes disappearing into the rabbit hole of switching from Microsoft document telling me to 'click here' for the relevant graphics driver file and the resulting trip to the mirror universe that is Intel's web site where they talk about the same thing but in a completely different way. Okay, fine.…
Okay so I have a horrible Win11 laptop. The BIOS is locked to Windows: you change the settings to 'boot from usb' and there's one that reverts on boot-up so it absolutely will not boot from usb. This is a con made possible by an illegal agreement between the manufacturer(s) and Microslop to limit competition and force people to use the worst OS ever. In other words, doing what I did before and…
"Eby says there are 'lessons to be learned' after fast-moving wildfire overwhelmed authorities" HEY MORON: THE PROVINCE HAS BEEN ON FIRE FOR TEN YEARS! HOW FUCKING SLOW OF A LEARNER ARE YOU?!
(Done in Imperial measure for ease of understanding.) I have a cat. He weighs 25 lbs. He's big, but he has small feet. When he steps on you, you feel it. I calculated the size of his feet and worked it out to approximately 8 pounds per square inch. Okay, if he were a man how much would he weigh then? I took some measurements of my own feet. I know they are 'average' because every time I go to buy…