People will probably just post a Powershell script on Github to make it update directly from the official servers without paying the extra fee. It’s funny how the most popular activation scripts are on Github, even though Microsoft owns Github and could easily just delete them.

Yeah I’ve had that one happen. Big team, more than a year of work, thousands of hours, over 1500 of my own hours. Internal presentation to the team at the customer end, they loved it and couldn’t wait for actual launch day. We were all so proud and everyone was happy.

Alas that day never came, the customer went bankrupt due to one of the investors pulling out. Nothing to do with us, just some bean counter did the math and decided they were better off letting the company fold.

I spoke to one of the people at the customer we had worked with throughout the project. She was devastated it was all for nothing and she lost her job as a result. By the time a new investor came around to pick up the pieces, she had found a new job. Spoke to the former ceo of the customer, he had a new job for a couple of days a week at the company that bought up the remainders. He fought to get the project going again, but the new company is very non IT focused, oldskool. So they vetoed it. I later found out one of the project leads was consulted and he had pretty much killed any chance. I always disliked that dude, but he got a pretty good deal out of it or so I’m told.

That’s just the way the cookie crumbles sometimes.

Led lights need constant current with a limit on the max output power. Chargers output a constant voltage. Too high of a voltage can be damaging to leds and if they get too much current they burn out quickly. So there is a difference between for example a phone charger and a proper led power supply. Also modern phone chargers communicate with the phone to deliver the right amount of power and often will fall back to a very low amount when a “dumb” device is connected.

That said, the led light might have a power supply or power converter builtin. In that case you can supply just about anything with enough power into the input and it will be fine.

If the light wasn’t expensive and a random charger works, just connect a random charger. It probably isn’t worth looking for the perfect power supply.

Based

Very true, I would do the same and feel my stomach drop farther each time.

Hmmm command not found, let me just try the same command a couple more times, this time it will work right?

In IT teaching users to actually read and understand errors is always an uphill battle.

Just kill the messenger, that has always done the trick in the past.

Most of the bots on Lemmy have been well meaning, but ultimately annoying.

The issue is there isn’t really a lot of traffic on Lemmy. And from the people that are here a lot of them are lurkers, just consuming, maybe upvoting once in a while, but that’s it. This leads bots that reply to a lot of comments/posts to become a large part of the traffic and thus the experience for the users. There isn’t enough for the bots to get lost in the noise. This also leads to the user experiencing the feeling of only interacting with bots, instead of other people. Most people commenting are looking for people interaction and get annoyed when they think they have such an interaction only for it to be a bot.

Lemmy is also very focused of an audience at the moment, which leads to bots not really being necessary. People here are usually very tech savvy and know how to do most of the things. A bot that explains how to do things people already know how to do comes across as unneeded.

I can’t help but notice your excellent taste in books. However I’d feel remissed if I didn’t yell at you in the voice of Homer Simpson.

NEEEEEEEEEEEERD

Anything from the Loop Hero OST is awesome, but I favor Loop Hero - Loop Blues the most.

https://youtu.be/2O4C8J4bcXw

My computer is like “Kernel panic” and I’m like “Same man, same…”

Like the insect/spider kind or in my code?

Disagree, if you need a custom big machine made, there are some really good people on AliExpress.

I have had a couple of customized CNC machines custom built for a fraction of the price it would have cost to have it done over here. Even with the shipping costs it came out cheaper. And the people were really helpful, they use machines like mine all the time so they know their stuff. They offered really good advice and were excited to work with me. It’s a bit butt clenching to fork over a lot of cash and hope a big ass pallet shows up 4 months later, but they’ve come through for me every time. YMMV.

Temu on the other hand can fuck off. It’s just a scam site like Wish.

It’s pre-cooked for your convenience

I fucking hate this modern way of living.

The world is going to shit, for a large part because of terrible wars. So the “economy” and “markets” get unstable and prices rise. This causes companies to hike up prices way beyond any reason, because it’s an easy excuse to fill the pocket of the rich shits. All the prices going up is inflation, the price of living for the regular person going up and their money becoming less valuable. So that little bit of money a regular Joe has saved up is becoming less and less valuable by the second.

Then, and this is the real kicker, all the companies start going like “Damn the inflation is so high, we have no choice but to raise prices, sorry not sorry”. No shit you dumb fucks, you are inflation, this is your doing.

And thus we are stuck in this endless loop where the rich become richer and the rest of the world just gets fucked one day at a time.

But luckily phones are cheap and we have access to the internet at all times. This way we can watch people die in the wars every day, see the rise of fascism in real time and get a second by second play of how fucked we all are.

I try to be optimistic, but the list of big issues keeps growing and instead of doing something useful about it, the world is falling apart. And this is on a macro and a micro level. The tensions and issues on a global scale are big, but people in day to day have also gotten worse in my experience.

I did the exact same. Google Play Music was actually a good service back in the day. I hated it when they turned it into YouTube Music. I complained about all the broken stuff, so they gave me a home speaker for free and upgraded me to YT Premium for a year. After that year I stuck with YT Premium, since it was less than $2 extra. They also fixed a lot of stuff I complained about. Not everything, but a lot of it. I think YT Music was released a bit before it was ready. Now it still has some issues, but is mostly fine.

Usually I watch 1 or 2 YouTube videos a day and without Premium I would most definitely not. I opened a YouTube video on a computer I wasn’t signed in the other day and it started with a 2 minute unskipable ad about crypto stuff (an obvious scam). So I closed it real fast, no video is worth sitting through that. Even with Premium I still need SponsorBlock. But with that combination watching videos is actually fun.

Still listen to YouTube Music all day at work, so that’s a good value for money for me.

If it’s in doubt it just gives you extra challenges. So in the end everybody will get there, or not and then fuck you I guess.

Only on Windows machines serving PHP using Chinese and Japanese language locales. And it’s already been patches some time ago. So the impact is pretty limited, yet a lot of news is being reported like the world is ending.

Segmentation fault (core dumped)