wizardbeard

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[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 10 months ago

Consider the pyramids of Giza. On the one hand, they’re one of the wonders of the ancient world. On the other, barriers to entry for Egyptian pyramid construction have come down drastically since the twenty-sixth century BCE. If people in Egypt were to build the pyramids today, we’d look at them and say, “Cool?” They wouldn’t be impressive. But give me a human genomics pattern search engine that can generate predictive analytics modeling infectious disease growth through sub-Saharan Africa to help optimize ad targeting for end-of-life wearables, then yeah, okay, Egyptians: now we can talk.

That's it. Pack it up. I've read the best satire can offer.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Man, I just find the whole thing unfunny, and it feels like some fake forced viral thing. No hate on her trying to capitalize on it, I just don't find it funny and never did.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 10 months ago

You care so little that you made a meme about it, and have now reposted a slightly edited version of it roughly a day later.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You can re-enable microsoft store etc with a single line of powershell if you really need.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Common Redist is used for "commonly redistributed" installers of other software the game relies on.

Like how sometimes when you install a game through steam and it also installs a Microsoft .net framework (because it needs that installed to run). In that case you'd the .net installer in the common redist folder. In this case, all those VCredist files.

OALinst is just an installer for OpenAL, a piece of audio processing software. A lot of games use it for handling positional audio, like something exploding to your left and behind you actually sounding like it exploded behind and to the left. Some games will also use it for more complicated audio things, like actually simulating sound echoes against the walls of a room and their material.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 10 months ago

If you're talking about crowdstrike... They didn't all blue screen. That was caused by third party software that caused the same sort of issue (kernel crash/panic) on Linux boxes not even 3 months earlier.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

How could I ever forget

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 10 months ago

When you show it they stop and stare

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 25 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Protip: don't scribble shit out in screenshots. Too easy for people to figure out what's underneath. Put filled in rectangles over whatever you don't want people to see so there's nothing that shows through. Most built in photo editors on phones have this functionality.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 10 months ago

Estimates from earlier this year are that they spend $2.35 for every $1 they make.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 10 months ago (3 children)
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