Why Not Zoidberg? 🦑Nothing says "Easy to use" like having to reinstall the bluetooth driver thru Device Manager after a Windows Update.
C.You know the trope about "when you're in the know about something, you see every example of that something which is bad, and you feel bad"?
Like "teach someone typography, and they will examples of it done wrong every day", that sort of thing.
Well, one of the things I have knowledge about and experience with is cinematography - film & video. And here's one I run into regularly.
I watch an online video.
On my 16:10 monitor.
The browser letterboxes it into a 16:9 area of the screen.
It's some bloody stupid video site with vertical video, so it's 1:2 (or even worse), pillarboxed into the browser viewport.
And then the video maker is commenting about another video, so it's a 16:9 letterboxed into a tiny section of the pillarboxed video, with enormous borders on the top and bottom.
This hurts my head, even without considering that it results in trying to watch a video that takes up about 5% of the screen.
#letterbox #pillarbox #video #aspect #AspectRatio #VerticalVideo #argh #aargh #TeachAManToFish
John BurnsYes... but no... it was an article in a monthly Sci-fi magazine. I think it was in 1980s, but it could have been late 1970s.
I wished I could remember author and magazine... I think it was Asimov, but could be wrong.
The author wrote for the magazine each month. Generally a short story of one page.
😱 #Aargh --- why can't I remember.
Too many moves resulted in purges of magazine stacks.
Peter Coles 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ 🇮🇪"Fine Gael is +1%, Soc Dems -1%, Labour +2%, Aontú +1%...
...the Margin of Error is +/- 2.8%"
#AARGH #Insignificance
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Nicolai SchwarzVor Jahren habe ich mein Konto bei #LinkedIn gelöscht, weil ich genervt war. Neulich habe mich vorsichtig wieder angemeldet. Um mal zu schauen. Ich war nach 2min direkt wieder hart genervt. Und nun kommt eine E-Mail mit »Nicolai, folgen Sie Friedrich Merz, Bundeskanzler bei Bundeskanzleramt«. Nur um mich nochmal daran zu erinnern, dass die Plattform nervt. #aargh
LJ1 hour & 17 minutes.
I have been on a support call this long (including holds & escalations) with the folks at America's Test Kitchen because despite having a confirmation email for purchasing a year of online all access, despite being able to log in & see my account, neither the website or the app allow me access to online content.
This is clearly something at their end. So far, I've had CS ppl have me log out & change my pw multiple times.
I am still being polite.
#aargh
acffh morst@yurnidiot evidently they are also known as The Electorate. #aargh
John Faithfull 🌍🇪🇺🏴🧡✊🏻✊🏿@sellathechemist @StephenCurry Seems terrible to me - easy for those at rich institutions, otherwise 👎. Just has a look at the link you sent. What the hell does this mean for this jounral, and the other ACS journals ?? 🧐 🤡 😭 #Aargh #OpenScience
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