Root Access

12:11 AM

So to bring some closure to this: I've had some private discussions over the last couple of hours and have worked out a way forward. I realize that folks here are tired of this and want to see actual results, but I'm afraid it will take some time. That said, I have a much clearer understanding of precisely what the issue is and among other things, I'm planning to see an actual professional about my emotional struggles.

bertieb

Good luck! Hope it's fruitful :)

bwDraco

Thanks for being so patient with me about this.

Burgi

is this any different to the other times you promised to get help and change?

bwDraco

Let's keep things positive...

Burgi

yeah ok...

Ramhound

1:05 AM

Anyone want a shot at making superuser.com/questions/1519110/… sound less angry?

BTW: I am 90% sure that superuser.com/users/1132162/dfdfdfsdfs is the author. If they are not the author then they are way to angry

DavidPostill

8:19 AM

Happy birthday @Burgi!

🎂

CaldeiraG

8:49 AM

Happy birthday to you! @Burgi :)

avazula

Happy birthday! :hap:

djsmiley2k in darkness

My first ever answer (and post) on meta.so repcapped with +96

djsmiley2k in darkness

9:07 AM

you old now @Burgi?

Journeyman Geek

@djsmiley2kindarkness there's no rep on MSO :D

djsmiley2k in darkness

then wtf did I get a medal for

Burgi

9:23 AM

Happy Birthday @DavidPostill!

@djsmiley2kindarkness yeah :(

DavidPostill

@djsmiley2kindarkness Still not as old as me :/

Burgi

i really wanted a lie in today

DavidPostill

Hehe. Today is my normal day off. And I took yesterday and tomorrow as holidays :)

rahulatschool

11:39 AM

Microsoft Office update will make Bing the default search engine in Chrome

Fun stuff. This will totallllly not piss users off.

Ave

@rahulatschool that sucks

Burgi

@rahulatschool here is a crazy idea... don't use chrome?

i admit that the browser market is starting to look very lopsided

Journeyman Geek

@Burgi everything is a chrome-alike

Vivaldi is nice but... chrome based

Opera is full evil now

Burgi

Firefox is.... firefox based

Journeyman Geek

Ya, its the last holdout

Burgi

11:53 AM

and IE11 still sort of works

CaldeiraG

Vivaldi +1 from me :p

Journeyman Geek

ewwww

CaldeiraG

IE11 on SO:

in The Awkward Silence, 21 hours ago, by CaldeiraG

Journeyman Geek

They finally dropped IE support :D

CaldeiraG

there is a big banner saying that

I was using it on a server and no chrome installed :o

Burgi

11:55 AM

they could have kept modernizr

Journeyman Geek

I'm rather intrigued by this ekioh.com/flow-browser

but its still vaporware

Burgi

i'll be honest they've actually gone out of their way to make it look ~~shi~~ terrible

djsmiley2k in darkness

@rahulatschool cough cough antitrust.

Burgi

we still support IE11 in our development cycle

and most of the major FE frameworks still support it

Journeyman Geek

@Burgi SE's policy was always Latest-2

Burgi

11:58 AM

we go with visitor stats

5% or more over 12 months gets you IE11 support

Burgi

12:23 PM

are SO's traffic stats public?

rahulatschool

@Burgi I don't. Haven't in a very long time now

@Burgi I don't usually test my stuff on IE.

Mostly because there's no intersection between the kind of people who'd be interested in the stuff I make and the kind of people who use IE

Burgi

IE11 isn't a big development investment at the moment

rahulatschool

Then again, my stuff also usually has very simple UIs and doesn't require fancy cutting edge web features

I get why companies and all have to support it tho

Burgi

you should develop to the standards and the browser should just work

but because we are human we end up developing to the browser

which is why having an ecosystem entirely chrome focused is a really bad idea

people develop something that works with X feature in chrome but it is non-standard

chrome then starts dictating the direction of the web standards

when MS killed edge was a really bad day for the open internet

DavidPostill

12:49 PM

@Burgi Actually when they locked in Explorer was the start of the bad day for the open internet. Explorer was always the worst at tracking standards.

caniuse.com/#compare=ie+11,edge+79,firefox+74,chrome+82 is illuminating. Scroll down and look at the red blocks :)

Burgi

yeah i know

@DavidPostill you make a fair point here. i guess you could extend my comment to say "what remains of the open internet"

DavidPostill

1:33 PM

And in other news: Terry Jones: Monty Python star dies aged 77 - BBC News :/

Burgi

2:00 PM

well thats crap

djsmiley2k in darkness

2:27 PM

Pining for the fjords... :(

Boris_yo

3:10 PM

Slight highly pitched noise comes from desktop PC. What can it be?

DavidPostill

@Boris_yo Coil whine, fan or hard disk. Take your pick :)

bertieb

Fan[s], coil whine (also from monitor), bad spindle in HDD, the small child you've told to clean the PC...

Burgi

@DavidPostill the user? ;)

DavidPostill

Open the case and see if you can figure out where the noise is coming from ...

Journeyman Geek

Solar flares.

Boris_yo

3:16 PM

It is not constant. It stops for example when I right-click on "Properties" of directories. Then it starts again.

Journeyman Geek

@bertieb now now. That's chimneys.

bertieb

@Boris_yo Sounds like monitor coil whine, mine whines more when it's closer to a full-white screen

Changing what's on the screen changes the whine

in my case

@JourneymanGeek Gotta adapt to the ~~20th~~ 21st century, yo

Journeyman Geek

._.

djsmiley2k in darkness

Hahah

I remember at our old house, I thought one of the monitors had coil whine

i spent ages trying to figure out where it was coming from

bwDraco

@bertieb CRT monitors do that :p

djsmiley2k in darkness

3:20 PM

then one day the whine changed very slightly and I was like "wait, that sounds like someone talking"

then I lsitened even more carefully, and was like "wait, that's Matt LeBlanc!"

bertieb

@bwDraco Yup! But also my very-definitely-not-CRT monitor does so too

@djsmiley2kindarkness Speakers acting as a radio receiver?

I've had that

Boris_yo

Does RGB lighting have influence on CPU resources?

bertieb

when I turn them full down or full up

@Boris_yo probably negligible?

if anything at all

Boris_yo

I hear slight high pitched noise and then I hear slightly different high pitched noise taking its place.

Burgi

@djsmiley2kindarkness matt leblanc lived under the desk in your old house?

Boris_yo

3:26 PM

They seem to be switching one for another.

djsmiley2k in darkness

oh yes so I should finish the story

so then i glare at my wall

try and get my ear to it - nope can't hear anything

still glaring at my desk

then i look at my speakers

they're turned off

but.... sound is coming out

bertieb

Aye :P

Burgi

is this site broken to you guys? developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/…

bertieb

3:44 PM

@Burgi Aye, it's weirdly scrolled in Chromium

Burgi

i really wanted to read that heatmap information :(

bertieb

Could probably fix it with devtools

djsmiley2k in darkness

Where's the take a screenshot thing in chrome devtools?

i enabled all the scripts and it's loaded for me

but...... how to share with @Burgi D:

What happened to the top of the page chrome?

Burgi

weird#

how did you get it back in its container?

devtool hacking?

DavidPostill

@Boris_yo I get a faint high pitched whine from my touch sensitive bedside lamp, which changes in frequency as I change the brightness (on, bright, bright, off). I suspect it's because LED bulb and built in dimmer.

@Burgi It's full of HTML errors

CaldeiraG

4:07 PM

site is definitely broken here too

Burgi

i've managed to get the JSfiddle

djsmiley2k in darkness

@Burgi I had ublock origin turned on,

turned it off and it was fine

if you want a perticular bit of code or somethin @Burgi just say

Burgi

i don't run an adblocker in chrome and it was broken

djsmiley2k in darkness

4:31 PM

weird.

/me shrugs

bwDraco

4:41 PM

@DavidPostill My dimmable LED bulbs generate a buzzing noise that varies with the dimmer setting.

(PAR20 floodlights installed in a track light fixture)

djsmiley2k in darkness

not so dimmable D:

bwDraco

They were specifically marked as dimmable.

I haven't had issues with them otherwise, audible and electrical noise aside.

djsmiley2k in darkness

yah

most stuff coming out of china ain't what it says on the tin tho

Burgi

its almost like in the race to the bottom, quality has been overlooked

bertieb

5:00 PM

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bwDraco

5:27 PM

chat.stackexchange.com/search?q=unno&user=&room=118

DavidPostill

5:42 PM

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