#computers are hard

[xellandria]

A couple weeks ago I started bluescreening a couple times a day, typically when I would try to do anything graphically intensive. We eventually narrowed it down to a ram issue (ran several memtest86-es in various configurations and they all failed) so now I get to go through the exciting process of either RMAing my ram (leaving me without a working computer for however long it ends up taking) or buying new stuff, and either way hoping I can install it properly.

For now, my computer is sitting on top of my desk and my cords are a nightmare and everything sucks. We'll see how long it takes Corsair to get back to me on this rma process to see where we'll go next. I don't know why I keep saying "we" as if it's not just me over here lol

It's really brought into sharp focus how bad I feel about myself when I'm not actively avoiding pretending to exist as a meat sack by being bits and bytes on the internet. I don't want to have a physical form, physical forms suck ass and they hurt and they're not good at things and they get in the way, but here I am twiddling my thumbs without a computer* with nothing to do** and I'm just straight out miserable.

*the computer is working now, though it's still prone to crashing **I'm sure there's plenty I could do, including draw since I've been doing that exclusively on my ipad lately, but you know how it is.

[onemanscienceband]

oh my god

windows powershell aliased "dir" and "ls" to the same thing, but it's a commandlet or something under the hood that they're both referencing. so the whole search functionality of "dir" doesn't exist.

or at least i THINK that's why i can't do any searches with it even though the internet is very sure I can

[sinning-with-dragons]

let him go apeshit !! let him go absolutely bonkers, i say !!

[paperkoifish]

Kiss!

[pinkd3mon]

This is what happens inside the buddy towers while they wait for Kirby, me thinks

Based on this post I made about Dedede watching TV and this amazing tag someone reblogged it with

[moredifferentthanusual]

I was always told never to share my password, so when password managers first appeared I went 🤨 nice try scammers. I don't understand why they'd be an exception but now known computer understander msdemeanor says they are? 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫

For those who are not aware: Bitlocker is encryption software, it encrypts your computer and makes it impossible to access the information on the computer unless you have the key.

It should be standard practice for IT companies to document the bitlocker keys as they are configuring bitlocker on a computer; generally you would do this by creating a record in your client management software for that specific device and putting the key in the record. Sometimes software can be used to extract that information in the event that it's necessary, but even if there's theoretically a way to extract the key, it should be documented somewhere *other* than on the encrypted computer.

This is something that a lot of IT people fuck up on kind of a lot (we've definitely had problems with missing bitlocker keys and I'm quite happy that the people who didn't document those keys aren't my coworkers anymore).

So what do you do if you want to use encryption software and you're NOT an IT company using a remote management tool that might be able to snag the keys?

When you are setting up encryption, put the encryption key in your password manager. Put it in your password manager. Document the important information that you cannot lose in your password manager. Your password manager is a good place to keep important things like your device encryption key, which you do not want lost or stolen. (If you run your password manager locally on an encrypted computer, export the data every once in a while, save it as an encrypted file, and put the file on your backup drive; you are going to have a bad time if your computer that hosts the only copies of your passwords shits the bed so *make a backup*)

This is my tip for home users for any kind of important recovery codes or software product keys: Print out the key and put it in your underwear drawer. Keep it there with your backup drive. That way you've got your important (small) computer shit in one place that is NOT your computer and is not likely to get shifted around and lost (the way that papers in desks often get shifted around and lost).

[bedupolker]

Norm & Sparkalina 🌟

Newspaper readership has gone down so they've resorted to desperate measures

Not uploading these to webtoons anymore because my old email associated with that account got blasted and now I'm locked out forever :/

[carnivorous-eden]

"Not so funny now, is it?"

[toonlets]

COMPUTERS ARE HARD!

Monsters get tired from all this computering!

[phagon]

hey!! just popping in to remind you that these pics are of the same person

[thelawfulchaotic]

"oh I'm gonna add a cute little court scene excerpt in this part of the novel"

to

"I can't just have a random case number, those are assigned according to systems"

to

"I can't just have random statute numbers, that needs an organizational structure"

to

"well I know who wrote this code; which title of the intraplanetary system legal code would be the criminal code?"

to

"what are all the titles in the intraplanetary legal system code?"

to

to

"Okay, the criminal code is Title 6. I know I have battery, murder, perfidy, terrorism, and some sort of adulteration of air supply. How would these be classified?"

to

to

"ok now I guess I can write the actual dialogue in my head"

[disastrousorchid]

sister daniel tramp stamp anyone?

[paperkoifish]

祇想一生跟你走

Extra↓

I liked the artstyle (new favorite brush wahoo!!) just rlly unfortunate i didnt like pretty much everything about this piece :pp it did change alot compared to the draft didnt stick to the vision.. I lost sight of the grind

[lazylittledragon]

absolutely devastating that i actually have the art skills now to produce the dating sim/visual novel my teenage self dreamed of and the only thing standing in my way is being a very mid storyteller and even worse at coding

[stellarzidal]

if edgar was real, i would've kissed him many, many times on his screen <333

LMAO i fear that this movie is computer lover propaganda and i absolutely fell for it. not in an objectum way (... i think.) but i srsly fuck with all of the art on this platform about this lil guy 🫶 i lob him and everyone else should too. he is too good for us

[heartorbit]

make a wish! 🍃

happy 1st anniversary, in stars and time 🤍