So my phone only occasionally asks for my PIN when unlocking, and this has led to me thigh-dialing twice in one day. That is annoying. Does anyone know how to fix that?
It also occasionally switches to the symbol keyboard randomly when I'm typing, and that's thoroughly insufferable.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
I have a problem with one of my flash drives: every time I plug it in, Windows pops up a thing telling me the drive needs to be "scanned and repaired".
So I thought, oh, I can't be the only one who has that problem; maybe a little bit of Googling will reveal the answer.
I did find other people claiming to have the same problem of the "scan and repair" prompt appearing every time the drive is plugged in...but the "solutions" were extremely unhelpful.
Every single "solution" assumed that the person having the problem is extremely stupid and just yanks the USB drive at random. They literally offered to advice on how to fix this beyond "make you're you're clicking 'Safely remove drive' every time", which I was already doing.
I just feel kind of insulted right now. There's something distinctly annoying about your problems being assumed to be the result of your own incompetence.
Is this pertaining to a certain cheapo brand of thumbdrives with a swing-around cover that tends to be given out as freebies? I've had two of those drives fail on me, and what you're describing is a symptom that they exhibited before they failed outright.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
There's no brand name on it, but it looks like this:
I got it at Roses, so I guess I can't expect a lot out of it, but...yeah.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
I have a couple better ones but they're full
If you'd like to send me one, I certainly won't say no
A blog post giving a rundown on which films featured on Mystery Science Theater 3000 pass the Bechdel Test:
521 - Santa Claus: Ambiguous. The conversations between Luptia and her mom center around Santa, briefly turning to Jesus, so wouldn't pass. The conversation between Lupita and the doll in her dream might count, since the doll had a female appearance. However, it could also be argued that the doll is a mouthpiece for Pitch and is therefore disqualified.
601 - Girls Town: Pass. Lots of girls, lots of topics.*
606 - The Creeping Terror: Fail. The only time we see two women talking to each other is at the dance hall, and the sound is out. It was likely rhubarbing anyway.
621 - The Beast of Yucca Flats: Fail. Not only was there never any instance of two women speaking to each other, there was barely any dialogue of any sort.
706 - Laserblast: Pass. At the birthday party, Cathy and Fat Girl talk about the crappiness of said party.
908 - The Touch of Satan: Ambiguous. While the conversation between Melissa and Lucinda appears to be male-free, it's not certain as the latter is impossible to understand. There's also the possibility of when Melissa pledges her soul to the Devil, as Satan had a female voice in that scene. But again, it's inconclusive.
1011 - Horrors of Spider Island: Pass. There are multiple non-male conversations between the members of the Shrill Harpy Dance Troupe.
I'm just saying, history is a whole lot more if you assume all the accounts are true.
I want to believe that Brian Boru died in a legendary dawn-to-dusk battle at the age of 88, during which his son killed 50 vikings with the sword in his left hand and 50 vikings with the sword in his right hand.
I want to believe that Edward the Confessor could cure diseases with his touch.
I want to believe that the Beale Ciphers really do hold the location of an extremely valuable treasure that nobody has found yet.
103 - The Mad Monster: Pass, but also skin of the teeth. The Shirley Temple clone and her mother briefly negotiate on how late the former could stay up.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
It is long for a pop song, but I dunno, I spent most of last night reading about the music of Julius Eastman and have been getting back into Morton Feldman, so under ten minutes feels pretty concise?
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
My yardstick for "long song" is "American Pie" by Don McLean, which clocks in at 8:33. Anything longer than that and you start to push the limits of my attention span.
Like, Eastman's Crazy N—r is an hour long and seven minutes of it is basically building to one chord. And Feldman's late work can't fit on less than three CDs for the most part.
To me, by pop standards, over five-and-a-half minutes is long, and longer than "American Pie" is an epic. With rock music or the like—"popular" music but not "pop" music—longer than "American Pie" is long, but it isn't until it passes the fifteen minute mark that it's an epic. And classical suites... well, it varies, but to me they bear more in common with albums, where short singular pieces are just songs. And I like long albums.
Like, to me, something like Feldman's "Bass Clarinet and Percussion", despite being very simple and not "going anywhere" over twenty minutes, feels like a comfy length, because it's about feeling still and calm and contemplative. But if something's over twenty minutes and it's driving and intense, that's also great
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Are people too bored by my liveblog to comment on it, or do they assume "Let's Watch LoliRock with Central Avenue" must be a shitpost?
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
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It also occasionally switches to the symbol keyboard randomly when I'm typing, and that's thoroughly insufferable.
Sadly I have no idea who made them.
Get your data off of it as soon as you can.
uh, sort of.
Roll Fizzlebeef!
I enjoyed it, because sometimes I enjoy garbage.
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