TheQuinbox

@TheQuinbox@dragonscave.space

Cybersecurity student by day, programmer nerd who yells at computers to do things by night. Lover of cats, books, tea, synthesizers, and programming. I'm always either hacking on something, reading, or petting a cat. Come say hi!

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TheQuinbox, to random

Bottom front fan went out on my main desktop today. I was alerted of this fact quite abruptly when I started it up and was greeted with an incredibly loud grinding noise that literally shook my fairly large case. Unplugged the bottom fan and it all works again, but damn. Never had a fan give out on me like that before. Think it may be time to upgrade them. My case does support I believe 140 MM fans, at the very least it supports 120 MM ones, and I'm eyeing some that are supposed to be super, super quiet.

TheQuinbox,

@FluidEscence It sure doesn't. At least I get new fans, though. And got a new hard drive today!

MamaBraille, to random

Looking for microwave for daughter's dorm room next year. I have an old Hamelton Beach that talks and has buttons, but its a bit large for it's cooking speed. I can slap dots or Braille on anything, but just wondering if people are finding microwaves out there with actual buttons or even a dial?

TheQuinbox,

@MamaBraille How's the Amazon smart one? Optionally connects with Alexa super easily and you can get a braille overlay. @BrailleScreen was the one who told me about it first.

TheQuinbox, to random

Parallels users, any idea why I can't send, of all the absurd keyboard shortcuts to have break, control+enter to my Windows 11 VM?

TheQuinbox,

@matt Just left control.

NoahCarver, to random
@NoahCarver@c.im avatar

In future, I will never, ever, ever, ever again by anything from Western Digital or any of its subsidiaries/brands. Just had a year-old top-of-the-line NVMe SSD die for no good reason. Honestly, I have no idea how much data I’ve lost. In future, I will also be much more militant about taking off-line backups.

TheQuinbox,

@NoahCarver My experience with WD has been the opposite. Knocked my 18-TB WD drive over, it was two days out of warranty with amazon. Created an RMA with WD, sent my drive off, should be getting a replacement in a couple days now.

TheQuinbox, to random

Stupid and dumb discovery of the day. Having a Foobar2000 FooYoutube window open will completely 100% make both firefox and chrome not send proper accessibility events to my NVDA. Furthermore, it doesn't happen in a devbox VM to try and repro, because of course it doesn't; it wouldn't be a day without technical bullshittery.

TheQuinbox,

@x0 @NoahCarver It very well could be.

TheQuinbox, to random

Knowing how to code can be such a double-edged sword at times. Anyone can come up with an idea, that's the easy part. But it's probably very easy for someone who's not a programmer to think of a program idea, think about it for a second, go "not my field, let's hope someone does it" and move on, just like I do with so many other fields. But it's so frustrating as a programmer when you know that you won't be able to do something due to lack of time/energy/etc., even if you know how it should work. I came up with a random idea a few minutes ago that I have absolutely no time or anything to work on or finish, but I can see the code in my head, I can see the UI, I can see the DB schemas... and it's frustrating. Because I know I could in theory do it.

TheQuinbox,

@ivan_soto You just described what kept me primarily in BGT and PureBasic for so, so many years.

TheQuinbox, to random

I didn't see this advertised very many places, but it's saved my ass so many times. One of my friends wrote a C program for Windows that works like a pipe, and puts any output from a command line application into a multiline text field that you can search through and read. For example, astyle -h|show. https://github.com/samtupy/pipe2textbox

TheQuinbox,

@jcsteh Haha, can't say I'm too surprised. The only annoyance I have with this at the moment is that it blocks, and waits for everything to be cued up and spit out of the process before it begins populating. My eventual goal with this would be something where I can open an SSH session, pipe it to show, and see all my ssh output in the show window. Unfortunately neither me nor Sam has that kind of time to dedicate to sitting down and writing that much low-level Windows API C code, but maybe this summer.

TheQuinbox,

@matt @jcsteh Yes please. I'd really, really like a mushclient-like interface to a terminal. Input window for typing, output window accessed for output, easily searchable or savable to a file, with keyboard commands to review the screen from within the input field. Yum.

TheQuinbox,

@pitermach @matt @jcsteh I'm closing mastodon. People here have far too many good project ideas. LOL

TheQuinbox,

@x0 Yup

TheQuinbox,

@x0 @matt @jcsteh Not really, it already works shittoly enough that I have to use the review cursor, the selected item doesn't read when you arrow, even though it totally used to.

TheQuinbox,

@FluidEscence It's on, some harddrives, somewhere. Like most software.

TheQuinbox,

@jyarbrough @FluidEscence We should make it accessible through scoop

TheQuinbox, to random

Today I learned: killing Windows Defender can seriously speed up Thunderbird. If it's ever unusable try it, magic will happen. Not my discovery, but this just made my life so much nicer.

TheQuinbox,

@jackf723 That's not what I did at first, but that works yup.

TheQuinbox,

@JamminJerry Sorry, should've clarified. Killing Windows defender on the thunderbird profiles folder.

TheQuinbox,

@x0 I excluded thunderbird's profile directory, but a quick stopgap is to turn off realtime and cloud-delivered protection.

TheQuinbox, to random

Yeah so. Hey. Body. Bro. I'm done waking up at 3:00 AM. You can stop that now. Any time. No complaints.

TheQuinbox, to random

Quite the function signature. Even worse, I don't remember what it does. aabb@[][]@ check_exhaustive(aabb@[] boxes, int x, int y, map_area@ area, aabb@ player = null) {

TheQuinbox,

@x0 @FluidEscence @threlm4280 He talked about it officially in his most recent blog post.

cublanco, to random

Does anyone think that the higher sample rate of eloquence in iOS feels like its been upsampled way too much? Unless this is how the higher sample rate is supposed to sound.

TheQuinbox,

@cublanco That's how it's supposed to sound, but Eloquence was never intended to run at that samplerate.

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