Too edgy for Tesseract 2026
I watch a dude on yt- adept ape I think- CAT guy. Really cool how those machines actually work.
Still think a lot of the modern things like variable water pumps are a bit silly myself. More complexity helps on power and efficiency but makes them horrible to live with and keep outside warranty.
Seems like gains from that would be awfully small, but okay then.
A very interesting take on a new malware distribution method.
Every single 2%#^ing day, a new “dumbest fucking thing ever”. I’m so tired, boss.
You overestimate people. The general public will cry and bitch and moan, but the minute they can access things again, they immediately forget and move on.
I wish I was joking.
Same- actually I’ve been okay with LibreOffice since about 2016 when I tossed Microsoft out of my life.
NHTSA said an improperly sealed electrical connector on the water pump may be exposed to water and short circuit, increasing fire risks.
I have never worked on a car that had any kind of ‘electronically actuated/controlled’ water pump. The hell? And they’re all ‘older’ cars now…
Hard to read things like this and still have any hope for the future.
It’s still down. 9 hours later. Don’t worry. It’s only everything.
Edited again: It’s STILL down, 24 hours later- only the list of services that are fucked got LONGER.
GTFO of the cloud, people.
They pushed an update yesterday that makes applications hang when users try to print. If your machine shits the bed whenever you try to print, remove KB5132061 and reboot.
This has to be the worst timeline. If it isn’t I don’t want to see what is.
Okeydoke.
Walk in to my office one day, see the shop lights flickering. Not flashing- pulsing, like someone’s playing with a light switch as fast as they possibly can. “Uhoh, that can’t be good.” During the afternoon, lights flickered repeatedly over and over, in a kind of pulse- like half the waveform disappeared, over and over every maybe 15 minutes or so. I’m no electrician but I think a transformer down the road was in the process of exploding, dropping out a phase maybe?
Each time, our big APC unit with 8x addon battery packs slaved to it- (About 15U worth of rackmount battery packs) the relays cutting to battery and back to AC cycled so fast each time, a professional heavy metal drummer would have been impressed. Horrifying sound to be honest.
After this a handful of times, it happened again and this time, the APC spewed white sparks out the back of the main unit, about 4-5 feet, which meant it was blasting the plaster behind it with sparks bright enough to see them bounce off the wall and roll on the floor. I’ll be honest it looked like welding sparks and the back of the server rack looked like a fireworks show. I don’t know if you’ve ever heard this expression before, but I was “shitting purple twinkies”. Full blown panic. Brain couldn’t even compute what I was seeing.
That was the day we lost about $6,000 worth of battery backup for my office’s server rack.
INB4 “But why didn’t you go to the manufacturer for help after?” I did. APC gave us a mind-melting great offer: gigantic discount for the replacement unit, shipped for free (these things come on pallets by the way) but my drooling idiot of a boss decided calling the insurance company and getting an incredible deal from APC for a direct replacement was “too much effort”. Instead he ordered some “normy” 1500’s. We went from ~ 10,000VA of battery backup down to 2,000. Used to be we could stay up/online for hours worth of outage. Now maybe 45 minutes.
At least they’re cheap to replace cells in. Urgh.
Edit: forgot to mention, it spared our gear, none of these insane power events reached their power supplies.
Hi. Computer guy here. How many times has a UPS saved me/my clients’ machines? Too many to count- BUT
I do have a story of a UPS absolutely ruining my day if anyone is interested.
I hate to be “that guy” but who/what do you think is writing Windows updates
I was just listening to a fitting song on the way to work this morning, by Memphis May Fire.
What goes around comes around
That’s how the world turns
You’ll get what’s coming to you
Then maybe you’ll learn
The price that you pay
For being two faced
Is sleeping in the bed that you made
We all knew he was a dumbshit but GOD DAMN
They’re so desperate to suck on that fuckwit’s schlong that they’ve bought fancy magnifying glasses and rubber tweezers to find it with.
Lol, fun read. I agree, no dipstick is completely mental. Weird to think “burping” air out of the coolant can involve more than a funnel and a breather. I think my car ('24 Civic) is one of the last almost completely analog cars left. 2 liter with a 6 speed.