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thathonkey posted:this is one of the most annoying recent trends. search for technical assistance like eg. how to do something moderately advanced in windows and the only relevant results they return are youtube videos of this. its the absolute worst way to consume that type of information, not that they give a poo poo, because monetization !!! whats really hosed is that stupid youtube video is actually the best way to review that information because text websites are endless bot written listicles just republishing the same utter garbage for SEO text on the internet has fully become the realm of bot creation -> bot consumption like above posters mentioned
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This is an actual article about how to save your progress in a modern videogame. I didn't actually look this up, I just googled it based on a videogame I was playing earlier tonight. There were also two ads covering roughly the top 1/4 and bottom 1/4 of the screen, along with ads down either side of the screen. quote:With a game full of tactics and strategy such as Marvel's Midnight Suns, saving the game frequently is something experienced gamers are conditioned to do. On tougher difficulties, one bad draw or a mistake in movement can spell doom for one of the characters or even wipe out the whole team. Here's how it should be written - and, admittedly, it's not as obvious as many modern games: quote:- Press Pause
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Captain Beans posted:whats really hosed is that stupid youtube video is actually the best way to review that information because text websites are endless bot written listicles just republishing the same utter garbage for SEO that's true... both options are pretty bad. at least with text you can cmd+F for keywords and block ads (more reasily) so i think i still prefer that. i suppose before too long bots will be able to create that type of video content themselves too. they already basically can
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Manky Tungeon posted:Remember when a "blog" was something a person wrote about their life or a topic they were interested in, instead of a SEO tool grafted on to the website of every dental office and law firm, written by bots to be read by bots
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One of the only people I ever followed on Twitter was a server at a bar I frequented. She would post about a hundred times a day and almost 100% of her posts were of this format: "yup .. im at the store lol" "yup ... i m n a movie theater lol" "yup.. i am at home lol" It was unironic and fascinating.
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I skipped a million pages to tell y'all i watched a linus tech tips vid today on how to de google your life and one of his suggestions was a search engine called startpage. it's got plugins to make it default. I've been playing around with it for about an hour and it's pretty good. I have been using ddg but it uses bing as a back end which is also a bunch of ai bull crud? try it out.
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My phone autocorrects a to s, like "this autocorrect is s piece of poo poo" now I know how the guy in misery felt when he lost his e key
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Olympic Mathlete posted:Soundcloud is def shittier though. The way they'll just block some tracks in your country is dumb. I had to use it to upload a few tracks first time in like a decade and it was CLICK HERE TO BUY PREMIUM CAN'T DO THAT ON A FREE ACCOUNT BUY PREMIUM TO UPLOAD MORE THAN 1 TRACK HAVE YOU CONSIDERED UPGRADING TO PREMIUM PLUS?
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You guys are just allergic to marketing. There's a bimonthly shot for that now. I saw it on a Reddit ad. This is what I see. Often I don't even look at a website ... Plus every single website is now just an ad delivery vehicle, so often I'm looking for (query)<reddit> because I just want people's opinions. moist banana bread fucked around with this message at 05:28 on May 24, 2024 |
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blackmet posted:About 25% of my job is opening, reviewing, and editing PDF's. The battle for the crown of the One True PDF Reader.
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PDFs have always been bullshit. Why send plain text when you could send a file with a format complicated enough maybe there's malware in there?
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blackmet posted:About 25% of my job is opening, reviewing, and editing PDF's. The answer here is honestly to get something that can generically edit them with no conditions because it doesn't actually use the file format features for editing. My software of choice for this is Affinity Photo. You don't get things like, 'Signature Boxes' and 'Fields' - you have to manually make a new text object and just place it on the form, but it never doesn't work. Boomers somehow think PDF = Secure. All the paperwork for buying my house was just me editing realtor PDFs this way, and no one was really the wiser.
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The AI (who I guess doesn't get to be named Cortana because they blew that load too early) says it was meant as an os cross compatibility thing, and to make viewing a document on a computer and printing it consistent. It makes more sense in the context of it's inception, just barely predating HTML. Which sounds good. The not being able to edit it is basically "people are stupid." moist banana bread fucked around with this message at 06:05 on May 24, 2024 |
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moist banana bread posted:PDFs have always been bullshit. Why send plain text when you could send a file with a format complicated enough maybe there's malware in there? I felt the same way until I had to start writing physics and math papers. I do what needs to be done in LaTeX and it spits out a PDF that looks the same no matter who's reading it, with any ambiguity being my fault and not some quirk of the reader. I also like how it handles vector formats well, so all my diagrams look nice and crisp no matter what resolution it's being read on. I use SumatraPDF so that might also be why I don't hate it so much.
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I mean that makes a lot of sense, if it's been an open standard since 2008 I'd think Office would do a better job of editing them. Maybe it does now, I never use my computer for anything that matters.
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Canine Blues Arooo posted:Boomers somehow think PDF = Secure. All the paperwork for buying my house was just me editing realtor PDFs this way, and no one was really the wiser. I really need to try exploiting that at some point. How did PDFs get to that stage anyway? Yeah sure Adobe but what's the full story? It's always been a pain in the arse so why did people stick with it?
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meat police posted:I'm bringing back livejournal
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Croccers posted:It's always been a pain in the arse so why did people stick with it? This is my impression of it: (Rubbing a can against concrete to open it) "gently caress why did they make this so hard!"
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Croccers posted:I really need to try exploiting that at some point. I had to get a physical for a job abroad a few months ago, which I got done while still in America. The doctor forgot to sign it, which I didn't notice until the company sent it back to me, and his office tried to charge me $40 for the privilege of him signing a form he forgot to in the first place, so I just signed his name and edited it into the form, obviously secure since it's a PDF. gently caress you, I have universal healthcare now. I would cite American healthcare as something that's gotten shittier but I'm pretty sure it's always been this way.
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teen witch posted:Still around actually, owned by a Russian company but it exists. One of the best celeb news sources, ONTD, is still on there (I was and will eternally forever be a millennial teen girl on the internet, w/e) My first fiance wrote or contributed or something to that in... 2003? 2004? That's so wild it's still there.
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Croccers posted:I really need to try exploiting that at some point. here I will summarize it concisely for you 
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moist banana bread posted:PDFs have always been bullshit. Why send plain text when you could send a file with a format complicated enough maybe there's malware in there? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48tFB_sjHgY
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The pdf retains the elements of the original especially when they are scanned Also not everyone had WordPerfect back in the day I guess word now (rip WordPerfect)
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WordPerfect is still sold and updated!
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Arms_Akimbo posted:My phone autocorrects a to s, like "this autocorrect is s piece of poo poo" now I know how the guy in misery felt when he lost his e key Mine autocorrects as to SS with alarming frequency.
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blackmet posted:About 25% of my job is opening, reviewing, and editing PDF's. skooma512 posted:The battle for the crown of the One True PDF Reader. If you're working on a Mac, Apple Preview opens all pdfs, and can make pretty much anything *into* a pdf, and the fields issue disappears entirely bc you can just edit straight on top of poo poo. It's free and built into the Mac OS and it's my go-to for pdfs because of this issue. I even have my signature saved in it and then just auto-sign poo poo, resize it to fit the signature field and everything, whammo blammo If you're on PC, my apologies that you have to work with pdfs. It's a big enough gap in how the two devices handle pdfs that I've brought my personal apple laptop into work before just to be a pdf workhorse. PCs are *that bad* at it. The difference between just dragging and dropping poo poo into Preview and now I've got a usable multi-page pdf, vs the clusterfuck that is importing pages into Adobe Acrobat, is night & day. (that said I'm mostly filling out and processing pdfs, not making them for business - so if I was on the other side of the equation and designing the docos, I probably wouldn't think Acrobat is a rip-off, because it absolutely does offer more robust options in the pdf-building world. But Adobe convincing people they need Acrobat just to fill out/sign pdfs is a loving racket) StrangersInTheNight fucked around with this message at 14:43 on May 24, 2024 |
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Fruit computer bad.
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There's no such thing as a good computer. You just have to pick the one that pisses you off the least. I'm currently in my Linux phase for the simple reason that, for all the fiddly nonsense involved, it doesn't deliberately try to gently caress you over. The user does that to themselves.
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The hip hop operating system.
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Coxswain Balls posted:I use SumatraPDF so that might also be why I don't hate it so much. SumatraPDF is the way to go and it doubles as the only EPUB reader I've found for Windows that isn't hot garbage.
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