RE: https://mastodon.social/@silentexception/116233438254843396

It works actually, I have just tested it with UTF-8, my fav testing topic with #LLMs #techsupport #encoding

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Windows refuses to boot. Cannot boot from USB. Rare fresh install screen but no USB input. PNP Driver Watchdog error BSOD

https://lemmy.world/post/44533190

This didn't entirely fix the issue, and the frustrations typing on a real keyboard are beginning to mirror my frustrations "typing" on a phone. It makes me feel drained in exactly the same way, and my brain is reforming in the same way, where I'm needing to recheck 3-words ago instead of focusing on what comes next. A keyboard has always been my most comfortable interface, disappearing from my awareness as I put my thoughts directly into the machine at real-time speeds. I no longer have access to that capability in any device. "Flow state" is impossible.

It's a very tiny lag. And it misses keys. I am having to pound very hard. The above fix helped a little, but it is still there. I also turned on clicks, and I swear to god I hear it click when it fails to register the letter. This is not my fingers' fault, nor the physical keys.

I feel like it's related to a scroll bug that also appeared in Scrivener on that update. I found an in-app workaround for that, but I notice scroll lag (sometimes) now in Word, too.

It really feels like software "lag," like there's a short delay, milliseconds where it's processing something, and it's not only that am I sensing this delay, but that it's dropping letters if my finger is not still on the key after the delay stops. I am a very, very fast (if sloppy) typer.

The mental fatigue this is giving me (holding my thoughts while I go back to fix, plus trying to be aware of what letter is being missed, plus trying to be aware of hitting the keys squarely, and listening for the click) is so draining. The same drain I feel when trying to write in this here phone. I hate what this is doing to my productivity and my mind.

Are we going to be done with #enshittification soon? I paid a lot of money for this laptop, and I hate that this happened because I decided to do an OS update so I could run necessary things that refused my previous version. I intentionally did not update to the very latest major release to avoid this sort of thing.

I will try harder to troubleshoot, but I'm expecting a black-box layer of impenetrability that will be beyond my skills. (I'm not great with reverse engineering tools, so I will not be going so far as memory dumps or whatever.) If the dev team at Scrivener couldn't figure it out (if related to the scroll lag), then I don't see how I'll manage...

That said, I did discover the scroll lag workaround when Scrivener's team did not... ;)

#Mac #techsupport

Okay, please help me. #TechSupport #Linux I installed pop_OS as a dual boot together with Windows. Now when I go to the file viewer and click "OS" I get an error saying "Error mounting /dev/sdb3 at /media/sagaliciouzzz/OS: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb3, missing codepage or helper program, or other error"

I'm guessing I should be able to click OS without an error message. Did I make the wrong choices when I partitioned my drive? How do I solve it?

Google Gemini success: constructing regular expressions to get what I wanted out of Google Docs search & replace. Though \t doesn't insert tabs in Google Docs — copying a tab character from a doc and pasting it into the replace field worked instead.
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2/3🧵 : This post seem to confirm it might be a wider #Microsoft policy to block some servers from #Europe, affecting many companies https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jeroen-jacobs-8209391_something-interesting-happened-today-it-activity-7382774062164516864-GSKT/. If that were the case with the push for #EU #digital #sovereignty, that would spell disaster.
Of course I tried to contact #MS #Outlook but 3 times they took me through the same dumb scripts. The actual #techsupport is offbounds as login is infinitely looping (they know). The only place you can get some human feedback? #X. Kid you not.
Something interesting happened today. It seems Microsoft outlook/hotmail blocks all e-mail traffic that originates from European Cloud providers like Scaleway and Hetzner. I took this up with MS… | Jeroen Jacobs | 148 comments

Something interesting happened today. It seems Microsoft outlook/hotmail blocks all e-mail traffic that originates from European Cloud providers like Scaleway and Hetzner. I took this up with MS support and they just told me that they won't allow it. I wonder what the legal basis is for blocking the entire network range of a European cloud competitor, especially since MS is considered a Digital Gatekeeper under the European Digital Markets Act (DMA). I'm not talking about blacklisting single IP's here. Screenshots below show they blacklist the entire network range belonging to Scaleway, without any way to get them delisted, even if those IP's were never used for mail abuse. And it really doesn't matter if your server is not an email relay, and you have stuff like SPF/DKIM/DMARC set up correctly... you will remain blocked forever. | 148 comments on LinkedIn

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