Notices by Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com), page 2

“They were so preoccupied whether they could do it that they didn’t stop to wonder whether they should do it.”

♲ @kaiserkiwi@corteximplant.com: No Samsung. Just no. Nobody asked for this.

#IFA2024

Strong Terry Pratchett's Luggage energy.

♲ @decarpentier_nl@mastodon.gamedev.place: Enjoying the fruits of my labor now that I finished my 12-legged 'Carpentopod' table project. See
decarpentier.nl/carpentopod for project info. (Or come see it live at Maker Days Eindhoven this 14 & 15 Sept.)
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@Abdelkader Thanks! I’ve used a plastic basket one before and it was finicky, the thinner parts snuck out and ended up stuck between the basket and the bowl.

It isn’t perfect either, the double-sided geometry of LEGO parts means that they need to be thoroughly mixed between strain cycles. But it gets more water out than anything else I’ve tried with colanders.

The main pain point in my #LEGO hobby process is drying the parts of the sets I sell or store. So much so that I finally bought a $100 Williams-Sonoma exclusive salad spinner with a stainless steel basket suitable for “microgreens” and, I assume, the smallest LEGO parts.

Please like and subscribe for the upcoming unboxing video, followed by a demo and later a tips and tricks segment.

Love when an internal corporate swag email looks exactly like the phishing tests the security team sends periodically.

I ended up sending it for phishing review.

I’ve not been able to do a complete reset on my buggy MSI yet, but it’s been helpfully encouraging me by suddenly dropping support for the whole Start Menu. It doesn’t open anymore at all. The Windows key has also lost several of its features like bringing up a native emoji picker in any text field (Win + .).

I found an online article suggesting 9 ways of fixing this known issue that pops in year in year out according to the Microsoft community forums, but none of the first 7 worked, and the last two consist in reinstalling Windows and resetting the computer to factory settings. 😰

♲ @hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com: I finally caught it in the act!

I've complained before about my laptop frequently rebooting on its own friendica.mrpetovan.com/displa…, usually at night. I initially thought it was for Windows Updates, but the increased frequency has made me doubt this.

This time I caught it rebooting on its own during the day after a blue screen of death too fast for me to see the error code. I went to the Windows Event Log and I saw an error logged after the reboot but nothing specific at the time of the crash itself. It generated a dump I can't open by myself, which is a poor hint at what might be the problem.

The laptop seller offered me to repair the computer at their facility, but for that I first need to save my data on an external storage as I last transferred my data directly from my old computer to the new. I know I had some 2.5" drives stashed somewhere in my house so I ordered an enclosure.

However, I'm not able to find the drives anymore so I'll have to order an actual drive since I now have an empty enclosure, which will delay the troubleshooting process further.

Stay tuned for the next episode of my modern computer woes!

After years of struggle, I’m finally trying something out.

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#MiniReview #Movies Dune: Part 2 (2024) is a faithful continuation of the first movie. A lot of spectacular and pointless fighting and too little but tense intrigue. Overall a good spectacle way showier than the books.

Awaiting the hopefully last movie in the series. Much like Star Wars, this franchise has the potential to bog down with each subsequent release.

I remember when large supermarket chains switched to cheaper bags made with 30% less plastics allegedly to “save the environment”. They were so weak cashiers had to double-bag groceries, resulting in a net plastics usage increase.

Good times.

@Michael Vogel They looked like they were standing their ground, no help intended at all.

On a different note I personally hate the Dutch language and its dialect, for me they are at a weird intersection of English and German without being that close to either of them. I know English, I know some German and Flemish and Dutch still elude me which is infuriating. I don't have the same problem with other languages that I don't know but that I can't easily relate to languages I already know.

If I knew more Spanish, I could have the same issue with Portuguese for example, but thankfully I am not versed into either.

Today we arrived by car in Bruges, Belgium. The plan was to immediately park the car until we leave on Monday but thanks to an inaccurate map and my inability to read Flemish street signs, we ended up driving in crowded pedestrian streets.

And on two occasions, presumably local men stood right in our path to prevent us from progressing. I’m not even mad, I’m impressed these two men would willingly lay down their lives to prevent cars from invading their Renaissance town.

Filed to #ImagesThatHurt

♲ @504DR@climatejustice.social: Waymo vehicles trying to come and go from a San Francisco parking lot at 4am.

Yeah, I'd be pissed too if I lived near there.
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