WanderingThoughts
@WanderingThoughts@europe.pub
- Comment on Microsoft renames "Remote Desktop" to "Windows App". Good luck googling for any help or troubleshooting it. 7 hours ago:
Remote desktop manager from devolutions.net at the moment. It’s what our admins recommend.
- Comment on Microsoft renames "Remote Desktop" to "Windows App". Good luck googling for any help or troubleshooting it. 8 hours ago:
And the thing figured as I was on a corporate network, so it locked itself down and needs settings done by the office 365 administrator. They checked and apparently you need some paid tool to get it working. We’re using an alternative now.
- Comment on Speak American 1 day ago:
A tourist wanted since directions so he asked: "Sorry, do you speak American.’
My buddy who can be a purist: “I understand American but I speak English.”
- Comment on Wet your hands with clean, running water, turn off the tap, spread cheeks, and apply soap. 3 days ago:
Yeah, that one deserves the “instructions unclear” title.
- Comment on I am convinced the makers of those ads are on something strong and very illegal 5 days ago:
These ads always seem to me like someone was way too ambitious and made a feature length script with a full story and world building. That got cut up in just a few scenes that are filmed. The bosses said it’s still to long so those scenes got cut up in just a few fragments of a second each. In the end you get this fever dream kind of thing and nobody knows what’s happening.
- Comment on Viva la Revolucion (becomes cancer) 5 days ago:
We’re only pretending to be in control. It’s like being the spokesperson for an organisation trying to explain what all the different departments came up with. But on the other hand, if the spokesperson makes s compelling argument, the rest might fall in line.
- Comment on Scientists have been studying remote work for four years and have reached a very clear conclusion: "Working from home makes us happier." 5 days ago:
The assumption is that if you have time to be happy, you have time to work more so happiness needs to be stamped out to increase productivity. That’s of course a myth as data shows happy workers are more productive. The result is workers stuck in the twilight zone of not being happy and not getting more work done. It’s one of the business religious beliefs.
- Comment on My password is not accepted because it is too long 6 days ago:
Had that yesterday.
“Must use special characters!”
“Okay, no problem. Here you go.”
“Not that one! It’s too special!”
“Dude, I haven’t even touched extended ASCII yet.”
- Comment on Grow up 6 days ago:
- Comment on useless people 1 week ago:
Useless people are perfect as cannon fodder and human shields.
- Comment on The kids are ready for it... 1 week ago:
Wikipedia:
The first volumes were much criticized because, although they were called “Children’s Tales”, they were not regarded as suitable for children, both for the scholarly information included and the subject matter.[3] Many changes through the editions – such as turning the wicked mother of the first edition in Snow White and Hansel and Gretel (shown in original Grimm stories as Hänsel und Grethel) to a stepmother, were probably made with an eye to such suitability. Jack Zipes believes that the Grimms made the change in later editions because they “held motherhood sacred”.[4]
They removed sexual references—such as Rapunzel’s innocently asking why her dress was getting tight around her belly, and thus naively revealing to the witch Dame Gothel her pregnancy and the prince’s visits—but, in many respects, violence, particularly when punishing villains, became more prevalent.
- Comment on The kids are ready for it... 1 week ago:
Eh, the original version was basically pre-internet porn fanfic. Brothers Grimm cut out most of the x rated stuff. Disney cleaned it up further with a lot of bleach to get the smut and kink off and made it into movies.
- Comment on Einstein-Landauer culinary units 1 week ago:
Hundred sextillion terabytes. Yeah, everybody of calling it hungry sex bites in minutes.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
“I voted for a power fantasy”
Well, the rich / big business did too, and their power is bigger than yours.
- Comment on Give an inch take an inch 2 weeks ago:
The guys that went to the moon were engineers and highly trained to use the computer. We can dream to have users half as competent.
- Comment on Things are getting really crazy. 2 weeks ago:
The re-open is already being discussed so that’s on track.
- Comment on Socialism bad 2 weeks ago:
Because of shrinkflation it’s now the size of a thimble.
- Comment on ich_iel 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Want happier employees? Start with a 32-hour workweek – and 4 weeks vacation. 2 weeks ago:
“If the have time to be happy, they have time to be more productive! Increase the targets and quotas!”
- Comment on I am sick of seeing the rich and powerful on my screen. Where are all the TV shows about normal people? 3 weeks ago:
Yeah. Enough of celebrities going on and on about their introspections, how this experience will grow their personality. Show the guy that spend years building a model train track in his garage.
- Comment on Pearson complaining about using Linux to access my course material 3 weeks ago:
Money makes might makes right
- Comment on I'm jealous 3 weeks ago:
One Jewish visitor said that she had lost many relatives to the Holocaust at Auschwitz and that the water misters looked like the showers are family had had to endure before going to the gas chamber. Many Israeli visitors who have experienced the water misters have criticised them as distasteful.
- Comment on I'm jealous 3 weeks ago:
They also installed sprinkler system for tourists at some tourist attractions in the very hot summer of 2015. Except they also did this at the Auschwitz camp. It was quite the uproar.
- Comment on When you are ruining your day ranting about something remember THIS 4 weeks ago:
Just because some things are intangible doesn’t mean they’re not real.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Like many things they won’t bother for occasional personal use, but will come down with the hammer if it turns into a business.
- Comment on I will not go quietly 4 weeks ago:
There might have been a reason for that
- Comment on Same as it ever was 4 weeks ago:
“What’s the worst that can happen?”
- Comment on God is a dick. 5 weeks ago:
And sending a space ship at at least a good fraction of light speed to a nearby star uses more energy than our total civilization uses at the moment. We’ve got some work to do before climbing up the Kardashev scale we’re anywhere close to that kind of travel.
- Comment on A funny thing about Americans and calendar dates 5 weeks ago:
With the way things are going over there, the whole thing falls apart soon enough and this issue can be fixed in the rebuild.
- Comment on Hotel prices 1 month ago:
That’s the same psychological effect like 9.95 for a product versus 10.00 I guess.
