#fix computer problem

[heavyweaponz]

These fuckers.

[thysilus]

honestly this popup is like a microaggression

[apologetic-artist]

After burning my fingers many times, eating too many breadsticks, and watching a ton of video essays, I've come to make an announcement...

COLIN IS DONE!!!! HERES A LOOK AT DA BOIIII :DDDD

IM SUPER HAPPY WITH HOW HE TURNED OUT AND I HOPE YALL LIKE HIM TOO!!! X33

He doesn't have a tail or outfit yet, but I don't really care right now. This was just for fun. Once I get more supplies and hot glue, I will make the rest of him.

Here's a 360 of his head under the cut!! (Ft. Kaleidoskull by Lemon Demon since i thought silence was too weird and awkward)

Ababababaabababa X]

[soren245]

Cosmo on MS paint!

He was a paint to draw I didn’t finish shading cuz I got lazy

[bewitchingbloom]

I'm going to McFuckingLoseIt 🙃

[algrenion]

reminded tonight once again that to fall in love with a tech-savy coder when you are a tech-clueless artist is a gift from god that keeps on kissin'

[rustedgate]

ripping my computer apart with my teeth

[torchickentacos]

My local bestbuy tech support counter is shockingly competent and wonderful. Over the summer there was the thing I posted about with my phone battery and the employee who drove to the next town over to get a new battery since they didn't have one for my old phone model. And THIS time, my wifi card was loose in my computer and he was like 'okay well it might come loose again because [xyz slightly-damaged but functional part], and even though it's fixed for now, I'd feel bad for charging you about it when it's not a full replacement so don't worry about it'. so shoutout to my local bestbuy again

[velidewrites]

I COULD FIX HIM THO TRUST 🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️🙏🙏

Hear me out though: why fix him when you could just happily live out your days in his dungeon?

You’d be his prisoner but he’d make you enjoy it — forget it, even 🫦

[radlegowaffle]

inspired by this post

[valiantwolf]

it is honestly a crime that i have to do my laundry every week for the rest of my life

[girderednerve]

i have a very technical work complaint

okay so basically every modern library has a piece of software i am accustomed to calling an "ILS" (integrated library system), which is basically a big database that tracks all of our patron, item, and bibliographic records, with all of the various complex states these might be in, plus some front-end stuff so you can do things in the database conveniently. (the patron side of this, btw, is called an "OPAC," an online public-access catalog. yay, jargon!) so anyway we have this big database, right, with all of our records in it. one of the basic things that it's very helpful to do, if you work in a library, is run reports to pull lists of records from this database—all the patrons whose library cards are expiring, all the items at a given branch that have been marked missing, all the bibliographic records that don't have any items attached, all the items in a given section that haven't been checked out in a couple years, whatever. so at work we implemented this fun little tool in the OPAC (yay, jargon!) that shows you where a given item is physically located on a floor map of the library. to set up this tool, my boss had to do a bunch of configuring behind the scenes to tell the tool where a given item is, but there are a bunch of hard-to-catch items that don't render correctly because they have little errors in their records (for example, like fifteen years ago the librarian at my library would add paperbacks to the collection with a different material type than hardcover books; we stopped doing this, but there are still a few items with the old material type, and the new tool is confused by it & won't render their locations correctly). the thing i actually wanted to complain about is that this problem is incredibly easy to rectify in most ILSs: you would just run a report with simple parameters (items, filter for our branch, filter for material type) to find all of them, and then you would have a set of records that you need to make a predictable change to, so you would just batch update or whatever they call it. OUR ILS DOESN'T DO THAT! IT'S BEEN SET UP SO NO ONE IN A BRANCH HAS ACCESS TO RUN REPORTS AT ALL, MUCH LESS DO BASIC MAINTENANCE TASKS ON THE RESULTING REPORT! we have to email someone in central cataloging with our list criteria, who will then email us back an xls in 1-3 business days, which has made me fucking nuts—this system is slow, stupid, and prevents you from sitting there & tweaking your terms to get exactly what you want. it's dumb as hell. also i did a phone interview with a different branch in our system today & they told me that they handle weeding by having staff manually pull a cart of books, then manually check those item records to manually write down their total checkouts and last checkout date, like, i don't know, people trapped in 1903???????? i'm going to explode. these people cannot be serious. the excuse given apparently is that they don't want everyone to run reports at once & slow down the servers, but you can just, like. tell people when it's okay to run lists. also, most lists are not that taxing. if the servers choke & die every time i run a shelflist then you need to buy some more servers, buddy, that shit is not on me. but HONESTLY? a library in 2025? that can't RUN REPORTS in-house??????

fortunately our ILS is old enough that it's being sunsetted soon so they will be forced to switch to a twenty-first century catalog service, so maybe they'll let the librarians run reports, like adults, oh my god i'm so peeved. i think my willingness to poke around in the database has made me seem like a computer-loving egghead but actually what i love is not wasting time for no reason????

[fili-gremlin]

I did not expect to spend my evening attempting to fix more computer problems for my mother, but here I am. I have never met someone who somehow manages to screw technology up this badly, this often.

She hardly uses her computer but it seems like almost every time she does there's another problem. Usually a reboot fixes it. Sometimes it takes a bit more. This has, so far, taken me about an hour and a half and I've had no luck fixing anything.

After about an hour of messing around with it and replacing cables inside the computer I finally got it to do something besides endlessly hang on a black screen after the motherboard logo. But I haven't had much luck beyond that. So far OS repairs haven't worked. (Which at least I can attempt now. I had a hell of a time forcing it to give me an option for safe mode or the repair environment.)

Here's hoping I can figure this out in the next half hour or so, so I can go to bed without my inability to fix this hanging over my head.

[butchlesbiannero]

i feel insane

[branmuffins22]

COMPUTER FIXED

AHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAAAAA

[dogplane]

I'm starting to make a name for myself working on a particular kind of jet :3