Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

So the app my emplyer offers had a bug, where photos were not being automatically rotated for a few weeks. Lots of photos got affected. I have been fixing them manually through the desktop site.

Click on a picture, move the cursor to the other side of the page... Move it back to another picture... After about a thousand I thought... "There has to be a better way"...

And that's how the "rotate right" function got mapped to the "ñ" key.

Now I just need to make sure I remember to remove that once I'm done.

@Morpheel Hooray for macros! I had to use KeePass for a similarly mundane situation last year. I found an issue in clinician scheduling that required me to correct a month’s worth of calendars for 50 people. I managed to rig up a way to just hit CTRL+V to auto populate what I needed and submit changes.
@Tyranexx I like CB, tho any time I go I always get the same thing. The Big Boy breakfast with a steak.

What's all this talk about Cinco de Mayo? Why the hell would I want to order/eat/celebrate five portions of mayonnaise?
(for the record: obviously just joking. My Spanish is completely fluid... )
(and yes, that too was a joke, and spelled incorrectly on purpose)

@NEStalgia There's patches for all of that. You just need to put a little effort into getting yourself informed about them, and then go to Firefox's "about:config" page to edit the desired settings. I was able to, so you can too. Over the years, I've changed dozens of settings in Firefox, that the average user isn't supposed to tamper with, but all of them have been to my benefit, so far.

As for Sony: you do know that they're dead to me, right?

@Tyranexx Oh, I definitely agree: it's the people that stick to the basic versions and/or who simply don't know Jack-you-know-who about keeping their PC's secure that are the ones that cause (and have) the most issues.

That's probably also a large part of the people who fall for ransomware schemes and what not...

My PC, on the other hand, is like a fortress. Not the fastest perhaps, but most certainly far more secure than most other users of the general public. Then again: with my download/upload activities, I always had to, ever since Windows 98...

Mayo party sounds great though.

Cinco de mayo is a day people in the US celebrate because they think it’s a day people in Mexico celebrate.

In the context of Mexico, it’s the date of a battle in Puebla, where the Mexican army successfully fended off the invading French army. The day is a free day off, but it’s not really “celebrated” in any significant way here.

@Tyranexx I feel like I'm the only one that always hated XP, starting with it's Fisher Price default theme. Win2k for life.

@ThanosReXXX Sure you can deep dive into the config - only if you're running a nightly/dev build, not a stable build....they removed that! But that's not the point. If you have to deep dive into obscure manual variable settings to fix the fact that the "private and free" browser is trying to spy on you, that doesn't really fix the fact that it's turning into Chrome-lite. And if you're often deploying on various machines that makes it pretty difficult to keep the configs straight on everything. Unless of course you're using the cloud sync....which defeats the whole point of disabling telemetry.

It literally means the fifth of May; I feel so stupid now.

@Morpheel THANK YOU I've been telling people that for years. I've often wondered why the "Mexico" the mobs of angry people who wrap themselves in Mexican flags and defend "their heritage" (and the white upper middle class sympathizers that do their screaming for them) never sounds very much like Mexico at all.... Somehow pointing that out makes me an evil racist who hates Mexicans. Apparently, along with the rest of Mexico.

The reminds me of the "hysteria" of Mario wearing a poncho and sombrero....how offensive that was.....North of the Rio Grande only......

@NEStalgia That's like saying that you'll just accept any setting of any device that isn't to your benefit, or that allows companies to track/monitor you. That's either just lazy or naive. I'm going to go with a bit lazy, on your part. First off, it isn't a deep dive at all, and second, it takes all but a minute or two at most, to make these changes.

The standard version might be bad, but it's still open enough to be able to do something about it. And far as I'm concerned, if you have the means and the wits to do it, but you don't... well, then that's only one person's fault. As my mentor always used to say: trust is good, control is better.

On a side note: I do have to say that all I've said about it so far, only concerns private use. I don't give a hoot about companies who have issues with browsers, no matter which one they use. I take care of number one, and I'm perfectly satisfied with my not-quite-the-most-recent-and-modded version of Firefox...

@Morpheel I do hope that explanation was meant for @Octane and not for me, seeing as I already made clear that I was just kidding. I know that it's a fifth of May celebration. Over here we have it as well, except here, it is to celebrate that the Dutch were liberated by the allied forces in the Second World War. On the day before that, we have a national remembrance day, to take a moment and pay our respects to all the people who have given their lives to free the world from the German invaders.

Meanwhile, 5 May is Kodomo no Hi or Children's Day at Japan.

According to my Japanese-Indonesian calendar. 😉

There’s parts of the country where the date is more significant. So it’s possible the US festivity was started by immigrants from those places.

According to Wikipedia, in the US it’s celebrated as a Mexican inheritance recognition day. So that’s cool.

@ThanosReXXX If we were talking about a Google product that happens to allow you to toggle some hidden stuff deep in the settings to not make it suck so badly I'd agree. But we're talking about a product that on the surface exists to be free, and safe and private.....yet in reality it's actual offered state isn't, it merely lets you dig in and disable stuff if you research it. Not via offered configuration - we're not talking defaults is on but the config lets you disable. We're talking about manual variable changes in manual config. conf file edits. That's not cool.

@Morpheel That's one of those Wikipedia weird edits to meed political expectations kind of things. It's kind of sort of true but if you ask most people here including people (supposedly) from Mexico they'd tell you that it's "Mexican independence day".....which....it isn't. That would be like Americans abroad making a big deal about the date of victory at Little Big Horn and telling everyone it's American independence day.

At times I wonder what portion of "Mexicans" here are actually from places like Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, etc and just pretend they're Mexican for acceptance as part of a larger more common group, most here aren't familiar enough with the dialects/accents to tell apart the countries by speech. I'm not good at telling most difference either...but a lot of the accents heard don't sound terribly like any actual Mexican residents I've known...though it could be Northern versus Southern accents.

Mexicans raised in the US, and most of those living here for long periods of time, don’t really sound Mexican.

The accent slowly disappears, and they get that Chicano Spanglish accent.

Or at least those I know.

@NEStalgia I really don't see the problem here, honestly. I don't think that the difference between an actual switch or option in the official settings, or being able to manually change/remove rules is all that insurmountable. It's making a mountain out of a mole hill, really.

@ThanosReXXX Because the former is a direct feature offered by the product in it's native setup with options presented to the user to control their experience by design - which is what Mozilla says they promote - vocally. The latter is carving your own solution by working around the actual product's offerings by using some of it's existent, but not actively presented features. You shouldn't have to delve deep into "hidden" functionality to arrive at the product the organization claimed they were offering.

@Morpheel That's probably it. Though oddly that sounds more "foreign" than the real thing....

@AlohaPizzaJack Food-wise, CB isn't too bad. The only complaint I usually have is a small, petty one: I prefer rolls over cornbread muffins/biscuits. I ultimately feel that, in terms of the price and menu, a local non-chain dining business has similar stuff with better offers and (sometimes) better prices.

My main problem with the place is that we tend to get there during their lunch rush if we decide to go there on Sundays, which typically means that we have to wait awhile due to having an odd-numbered group that exceeds four people. I have absolutely no interest in their overpriced shop area, and the country music that they normally play is an assault on my eardrums. Plus, I'm not too fond of eating in loud environments due to the place's general acoustics.

To yesterday's credit, they somehow weren't too busy for a change, and we got right in.

@ThanosReXXX The number of home users bringing those in has thankfully fallen recently, so the hope is that before long, those calls will be nonexistent.

@Morpheel That's more how Cinco de Mayo is usually celebrated around here, minus the day off. It's acknowledged but isn't really a big deal otherwise. Some people just use it and some other "it's a holiday but not really" days as an excuse to hit the booze. XD I can't speak for other areas in the US though.

@NEStalgia Most of my enjoyment of XP is rooted in nostalgia. That was the era when I did most of my PC gaming. I can't count how many hours I spent playing Roller Coaster Tycoon and Space Cadet on my mom's old machine....

@Tyranexx If you missed Win95 gaming, you missed the living nightmare best part! The sheer exhilaration of getting a new game, finding out it crashes/corrupts because you need new nVidia drivers, only for that to leave you in 640x480 8-bit color inexplicably until you can find the registry hack to fix things is timeless. Either that or it just BSODed the machine and require a new OS install - that was pure magic. Imagine an era where, especially gamers had to reinstall the OS several times a year. Including obscure boot floppies to get the BIOS to recognize the hardware. Good times!

@NEStalgia That sounds painfully annoying great! Our first family computer was a Win95, though I was so young at that point that the only games I recall playing on it were a couple of Disney point and click games and a really obscure Flintstones-themed game. I think the original Oregon Trail Deluxe was on it too, but I'd have to beg my mom to play it as I couldn't understand how at the time.

We had various SIM games where I went to elementary school too that I enjoyed, but I couldn't say what Windows OS those were on (guessing 95 or 98). I still like booting up SIM Ant on Internet Archive sometimes.

...There was also an old Apple machine (at school) that took Floppys, but I can't even remember what games we played on that nor what Apple version it was. I just recall that the graphics were similar to that of an Atari 2600.

@Tyranexx "BUT it's Win95B!", "BUT it's OSR2!"

You haven't lived until you've installed Win95 from...what did it come on...35 floppy discs? Only for the HDD to die 6 months later... OSR2 required a CD-ROM drive. The rebel....