popekingjoe

joined 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 15 hours ago

In the earlier days of Plasma 6, it would crash on me when waking from sleep, so I had a small script that would basically restart plasmashell when waking so I didn't have to wait the several seconds for the system to realize that it was frozen before I had a functional desktop.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago

The final straw for me was Microsoft reinstalling software I had removed with updates, as well as installing crapware like Candy Crush, all in the background and without permission or notifying me. I left Windows back in August 2021 for Arch.

Until recently I had kept a Windows VM with a GPU passthrough set up until I decided I was done with Destiny 2. Now the only remnant of Windows in my life is a simple desktop in my living room that has a game I can only play on Windows, which is currently being ported to PS5. Once that port is released, it'll be converted to a server running some atomic distro and become a fully dedicated server, and Windows will be fully removed from my life, ignoring PCs outside of my control like embedded systems.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

My babe. 🖤

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

Man I wish it was that cool. Controlling it remotely would be primo. Unfortunately, it's not, and I work in a building that's 183,000sqft. If I have it running automatically on the other side of the building and it gets stuck, I'm suddenly burning time to run over and unstuck it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

It's a floor scrubbing robot. It uses LIDAR, a 3D depth camera, and a couple 2D side cameras to map and navigate its routes. It was cool for about six months and now we just default to manual driving because it's slow and gets stuck very often.

 
[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

Those crazy sons of bitches.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

That is really cool.

 
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (6 children)

My company has a robot scrubber that runs a custom Linux distribution.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Same. I'd recommend it to almost anyone, especially if you liked the previous ones.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Taco Tuesdays, eat your heart out.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

This is more of a horror story than a sad one.

Anyway...

"It was yours."

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

They drew me in with the shark maid, and kept me around with her and Nicole's midriff.

 

This one was a little over a decade ago, when plasma TVs were still manufactured and sold, and LCD TVs were still catching in terms of awesomeness.

I was a young, bright-eyed electronics associate working for the big "blue and yellow save money" company. This particular day was a steady but peaceful day, and I was working the counter, cashing people out and directing them to various areas in the department where they could find things.

I had just finished ringing a customer out for a PS3 game when a fella walks up to the counter and the following exchange took place:

Strange Customer: "Hey man... do you sell TVs?"

Me: caught off guard by the question, I slowly turned to the TV wall that sat in full view roughly 30ft away, filled with 30+ different TV models, then slowly turned back to him "Sir, I don't think I can help you."

SC: "Oh alright man, no problem."

And then he just left. It remains, to this day, the most bizarre customer interaction I have ever had, and I would not be surprised if it was a part of a YouTube prank video. I've been at the store I work at for over 13 years now, and nothing has topped this one for weirdness.

 
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