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  • Lethal humanoid monsters, weird voice acting (likely not AI though) and "telephone"-distorted audio (it's not just because I limited the bitrate to 20 kb/s to fit under 10 MiB, the YouTube video is like that). It's an artistic choice but not a very rare one, so likely not directly inspired by H. P. Lovecraft's audiobooks.

  • Some of them use bismuth, which is as weakly radioactive as it gets, but why? It's still a heavy metal and might be poisonous if parts of it shed off.

  • Yeah, I'm using Joplin over Nextcloud and it would absolutely be compatible, the Markdown syntax is the same after all.

  • Atheism @lemmy.world

    I left a satirical comment under an insane Christian article and they ate it up

  • This is GRUB’s final warning before you dig too deep in the OS list. Never hold ⬇️ for more than 45 minutes. If you do, make sure you have punch tape with a bootloader available or you'll have to manually enter machine code instructions to get your computer back up.

  • If cookie clicker was real:

  • Keyword: cirno head empty

  • I am not aware of any receipt printers using lasers - thermal printers have an array of resistors that get hot when necessary. I know how a laser printer works and it is hard to explain in 12 or so words. Inkjets are way easier, you can just say "squirt squirt oops". Anyway...

    1. A photosensitive drum gets a negative electrostatic charge.
    2. A laser shining through a rotating prism scans lines across the drum's surface. This removes charge from parts of the drum that should not be covered in toner.
    3. A high-voltage corona wire inside the toner reservoir charges an amount of toner positively.
    4. The charged drum rotates past the corona wire, getting covered in toner where its negative charge remains.
    5. Paper is pushed against the drum and the powdery toner is transferred to it.
    6. The paper continues into a fuser, a little oven where a heating element briefly makes the toner so hot that it melts, its powder particles making a permanent bond among themselves and with the paper. (The heater is usually stationary and heats the paper from below. The fuser drum that pushes paper against the heater can get sticky and pick up some of the toner, making images repeat down the page. This is the most common failure mode that cannot be resolved through regular maintenance such as replacing the toner cartridge and printing cleaning pages. However, almost all laser printers have a cheap fuser module or its drum available so it is usually worth replacing.)
  • Laser printers more accurately "bake paper so that number powder sticks to it"

  • I wonder if there is a notification ad blocker with community-submittted sets of regex patterns that root users can use.

  • Finally we know...

  • Here is the auto-generated transcript (for research purposes only)

    oh isn't it a beautiful day how cutiethe sun's bright the birds are singingnicely it's a good as day as any to goand touchgrass yeah I I know I know um it'simportant though I need to go to thestore it's been a while and you knowreplenish thepantry um it'll be okay though I promiseI'll be back soon it shouldn't take toolong and no no you don't you pleasedon't come with me I can touch enoughgrass for the both of us and I promiseI'll be back soon okay nothing bad'sgoing tohappen but in case I don't come backplease feedmocha and take care of her formeno I've got to go now before I check itout I'll I'll see you later okay youjust stay nice and safe insideokay goodcutie all right that was easy goteverything I need yeah okay I've got tohurry home now uh I've probably got toswitch out the cutiesbandages maybe we refill the ice packand ah goodness oh I didn't see thatpuddle it was surprisingly deep and nowmy boots aremuddy that's okay though once I get homeI can wipe them huh holy goodnessgracious why is no one watching wherethey're going right now I almost droppedthe eggs all right well that's okayanyways it's that a car please braout think I'm okay oh no not another onethe in myankles no please stop this way please nohappens I need to gethome if I can make ithome

  • If you look at the collection, it is apparent that they often group unrelated clipart into one picture. Therefore, the four icons, the penguin, the bow and the "comic" panel are likely completely irrelevant to each other. Despite being bundled with DOS software, the monochrome pictures are likely best suited for the Mac's high-res monochrome screen, and many seem to have been made by Mac fans mocking PC users in comics like these. They would hot have known about Tux the Linux penguin back then so it's a generic penguin.

    As for how the comic is supposed to be funny, I'd guess that the point is how difficult setting up a PC used to be(?) No idea if the thought bubble with the pirate is relevant but it is in a dithered area, meaning it's likely not meant to be cut and pasted elsewhere.

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  • 196 @lemmy.blahaj.zone

    linux vs dos nerd rule

  • Is this rendered correctly? (Android 10)

  • That’s exactly what Microsoft did in the 1990s after an antitrust lawsuit for hindering free browser selection: integrated Internet Explorer into Explorer to have an excuse for having it preinstalled.

    The EU is taking similar steps but I tgink Edge WebView will stay essential. Removing it on a laptop broke biometrics (aka Windows Hello: fingerprint sensor and face recognition) and I had to use a restore point. Seems sketchy to use a browser engine for essential security features – at this point, I would hope I had triggered some OS tamper-detection because the alternative is an OS whose login system is infected with an unpopular browser not because it enhances security but out of spite, and I don't think exploiting legal loopholes leads to most secure solutions.

  • Duh. To be honest, should have checked before making the post.Are you WestEnd?

  • I once got Top 7 Luxury Cruise in (Landlocked) Czech Republic from Microsoft. Also, The Flight Price From %user.location% (village of 200 people) To New York Will Surprise You

  • Thanks. I should have checked earlier before making a fool of myself. A lesson for me, I guess.

  • Mildly Infuriating @lemmy.world

    I screwed up something in Windows and this is what it takes to close Microsoft Edge now

    tube.tchncs.de /w/msPi6p5xoEDEPGddrRhN4h