Author | Lightnews

Jonah Magar @octopusjones.bsky.social · 1d

Oh, sweet! I’ll check it out, thanks much 😸

1

Jonah Magar @octopusjones.bsky.social · 2d

Noooooo 🤦🏻
Sigh. Thanks. Just. Sigh.

1 1

Jonah Magar @octopusjones.bsky.social · 2d

Love teaching someone to find games in the catalog, and then immediately watch them teach others. Warms the cockles of the ol’ dark heart. 🫶

5

Jonah Magar @octopusjones.bsky.social · 2d

While we’re at it, what’s with Windows 11 now taking a solid 30 seconds to do basic things like CREATE A NEW FOLDER on a high-spec system?

The OneDrive-ification of everything??

3 3

Jonah Magar @octopusjones.bsky.social · 2d

How does Windows still NOT have a setting to auto connect WiFi UNLESS plugged into Ethernet?

1

Jonah Magar @octopusjones.bsky.social · 3d

Hmm…10 did be like that, I don’t even know if it was the age of the machine or whatever. Probably couldn’t run Win11 due to hardware config?

1

Jonah Magar @octopusjones.bsky.social · 3d

If you be willing to dm his handle…I won’t shame I just wanna check it out! lol

Jonah Magar @octopusjones.bsky.social · 3d

Seems worthwhile…Thanks!

1

Jonah Magar @octopusjones.bsky.social · 3d

Nope, I’m impatient with tech everywhere lol, and I’m salaried (not hourly), so time lost is accomplishment lost.

What happened to the home laptop?

1 1

Jonah Magar @octopusjones.bsky.social · 4d

Every time a sucker is scammed, a bank account gets cha-chinged.

Deregulating everything couldn’t possibly make this…worse???

Benny Six-Cats @teeveeben.bsky.social · 4d

Ya know… you think maybe the Trump family has connections to all these scam calls?

2

Jonah Magar @octopusjones.bsky.social · 4d

Maybe not directly, but certainly indirectly at least

1

Jonah Magar @octopusjones.bsky.social · 4d

Worth looking into that potential antivirus conflict, at least, thanks

1 2

Jonah Magar @octopusjones.bsky.social · 4d

Maybe, but it wasn’t like this for the first solid year+

I’m stuck on Windows for work, though. They won’t support Linux and I’m not competent enough to use it for everything by default.

1 2

Jonah Magar @octopusjones.bsky.social · 4d

Seriously, I’ve disabled everything at startup except:
ESET (anti-nasty)
Ivanti (VPN)
OneDrive and Sync svs
Teams
Realtek audio
iCloud

HDD has 100gb free

Why does this always happen, and how do you deal with it shy of replacing the machine?

1 1

Jonah Magar @octopusjones.bsky.social · 4d

Love that point 1-2 years into a laptop’s life when it just…takes a full 5 minutes to start up absolutely minimal apps before it will allow any use whatsoever.

Feels just like my aging body!

1 2

Jonah Magar @octopusjones.bsky.social · 4d

But Adobe has taken great pains to make sure it’s impossible to submit feedback. Just one on the stack of countless reasons they are the worst.

2

Jonah Magar @octopusjones.bsky.social · 4d

Oh, of course, it’s Adobe garbage!

Forever perplexed at how this exemplar of enshittification across an entire brand and myriad industries hasn’t been overtaken by something less absolutely awful.

I couldn’t even minimize Premiere yesterday while it was exporting a video for 20 minutes…

1 2

Jonah Magar @octopusjones.bsky.social · 4d

What the fuck is “userworkspace.xml” and why the fuck does it constantly hang at 100% OneDrive sync, preventing OS restart?

1 3

Jonah Magar @octopusjones.bsky.social · 4d

Can you use it once to transfer playlists, cancel, and then never look back?

1

Jonah Magar @octopusjones.bsky.social · 4d

Curious…

Couldn’t deal with Tidal as an alt (several-second delay before any track would play, too many tracks entirely missing, etc.), so Apple is the hopeful escape.

Really not looking forward to building a listening history from scratch again…😫Apple at least does new music discovery, right?

Angela Vasquez-Giroux @ayeveegee.bsky.social · 4d

What apps are folks using to port Spotify playlists over to Apple?

I don’t care if it costs $$$, but I do care if it involves anything like side loading or ten steps listed in a Reddit post.

1 1

Jonah Magar @octopusjones.bsky.social · 5d

Findings: republicans cannot tell the difference between actual harm and their own hurt feelings.

1

Jonah Magar @octopusjones.bsky.social · 5d

Real heroes, capes, etc 🫡

1

Jonah Magar @octopusjones.bsky.social · 5d

Hard agree!

Dancing with my dog was worth the tradeoff of spotty signal at the end of the wireless range

1

Jonah Magar @octopusjones.bsky.social · 5d

Hahaha fair enough! It’s amazing how many different ways a setup can go together these days.

Thanks for keeping these kids inspired musically 🤘

1 1

Jonah Magar @octopusjones.bsky.social · 5d

CDB?

If you have the carry capacity, I will send you a Bluetooth speaker! Lol laptop speakers are rough these days

To be fair, my laptop is atrociously rattly, so that’s hot bias

1