we're all going a little crazy, but this is just the right kind of insane. make it run pong with powerpoint controls next please.
this post was submitted on 29 Jan 2024
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EVERYONE IS SO MUCH BETTER AT COMPUTERS THAN MEEEEEEEE
Everyone? You sure? Just off the top of my head, I've witnessed:
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A fellow millennial recently calling his tower "the modem".
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A user who thinks a computer experiencing a "crash", as in the unexpected termination of a process, means everything on the hard drive was just lost.
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A teacher who swears their fiber optic internet connection always slows down when it rains.
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A family member who thinks cell phones are actually miraculous.
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An IT director who decided to save time while rewiring an entire school district's network by forgoing patch panels completely, terminating hundreds of CAT-6 cables (which he first laid directly on top of the drop ceiling grid) with RJ45 connectors plugged straight into switches, labeling each with masking tape.
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A police officer who called his chief and supervisor over to his desk in order to explain that he discovered a massive vulnerability on the agency website, demonstrating the risk by showing them how he was able to change some text with the browser's element inspector.
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A software developer who only used Internet Explorer (years ago when Chrome was still arguably the best option) because "Google tracks you". He was later sentenced to decades in federal prison for organizing the production of CSAM on the surface web, not the darknet, mostly over Craigslist.
To be fair to 4, cell phones are miraculous.
3 is possible if the physical run to your home is in bad shape. I've known two people who had weather dependant internet due to that.
Actually, I'd chalk it up to a radio backhaul between the fiber demark and the ISP's router. Providers do weird shit sometimes.
But I'd be surprised if getting a fiber connection wet would affect it.
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6 got me LMAO
My boss called me immediately to tell me about that one because he knew I'd laugh my ass off.
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that doesn't make my unencrypted jellyfin server look so bad.
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I've been that, only it was "processor", not "modem".
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I've met a guy of the "Windows reinstaller" kind, who thought that you can reformat a hard drive if it has SMART warnings and they'll go away.
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This may not be entirely false, if it rains in a wider area. Say, lots of people use the same infrastructure via wireless connections, and when it rains, their have packets dropped more often etc, sometimes connections interrupted because of this, then even on L3 there's more actual traffic because of resending packets, even on application level trying to do something many times instead of doing it once. So in the end there's more load on the same infrastructure, and the connection may be slower even for people connected via fiber. I'm not a network admin so this may look clumsy.
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Well, life is less interesting for them than it could be.
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Seen too much of similar things.
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I've been that.
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Actual criminals think differently from us, and I'd say there's an element of evolution to this, so they are likely right and we are likely wrong.
The last one bugs me. I keep my mouth shut about my issues with tracking because I fucking hate being a product for corpos, but because child predators avoid it as well, I get looked at like a perv for doing that. Apparently good people do their utmost to remove their privacy in order to avoid such appearances.
Number 4 is kind of correct, but I suspect the family member means it in a magical kind of miraculous?
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I know how to navigate a Windows file system and my 13-year-old daughter doesn't. So I can still feel superior to someone!
so its technically possible to run excel with excel
This is right up there with portal on the n64
Sadly, Portal64 has come to an end after cease & desist letters were issued to James. Still, it was a fantastic series and he is a great presenter, he makes the technical challenges he faces so Interesting to follow.
Source? All I see is that Valve kindly asked him to take down the project before Nintendo comes after them for using Nintendo's proprietary libraries, but the project could hypothetically continue if he switched to an open source library instead.
Nintendo has yet to do anything but as we've seen from Pokémon mods in the past they like to wait up until release. Dudes got a video on the topic if you want to hear it from his own mouth https://youtu.be/AdBzok8GjA0
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It really sucks and i wish i had cloned the repo. To me the code was so clean and easily readable, i wanted to look over it more to learn for my own n64 project.
Can it run doom?
Doesn't meet the minimum requirements :P
at 3hz it would be a really long game
But can it run crysis?
heard you like cpus so imma gonna put a cpu in your cpu dog
It runs DOOM?
What doesn't run Doom? They have probably gotten cashew nuts to run Doom.
Everything is doomed to run DOOM.
If you enjoy watching 1 frame per x time period sequences, and you're okay with x being decades, it might "run" doom.
3hz processing is probably achievable by some humans
They say it can't run DOOM however you can use it to display the video output from DOOM.
Does that make Excel the operating system? Or is it the firmware/BIOS
Excel would be emulating the silicon here
Excel would be closest to a virtual machine software in this case
But does it run Crysis?
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