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spankmeister posted:Swype is pro-brexit. SwiftKey 4 lyfe
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klosterdev posted:SwiftKey 4 lyfe I like SwiftKey, but it drives me insane sometimes. No matter which I mean and typed, it always corrects in<>on and if<>of. No amount of removing them from the dictionary seems to fix it, so I just have to fix it manually every time.
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Aug 17, 2020 01:21
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I turn auto correction off and just use the word suggestion bar.
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Aug 17, 2020 01:45
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Collateral Damage posted:I turn auto correction off and just use the word suggestion bar. This is the way.
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Aug 17, 2020 09:52
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RFC2324 posted:I think its a bit much to ask that the software be able to interpret ever accent and dialect, as spoken by every individual, without giving it a final pass to personalize it. Its on par with asking for bug free software: nice to wish for, but reality would disagree with it being common. Introducin' Dragon Naturally Speakin', now updated with special Jersey calibrations. Youse guys are gonna fuckin' LOVE dis thing, fugeddaboudit. Trainin' the voice? Ayyyyy ohhhh, ba'fangoul! Save the talkin', kid, you're gonna need to tell Richie Bones why youse didn't make tribute dis week.
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Aug 17, 2020 20:07
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MJP posted:Introducin' Dragon Naturally Speakin', now updated with special Jersey calibrations. Youse guys are gonna fuckin' LOVE dis thing, fugeddaboudit. Trainin' the voice? Ayyyyy ohhhh, ba'fangoul! Save the talkin', kid, you're gonna need to tell Richie Bones why youse didn't make tribute dis week. I would pay for this.
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Aug 17, 2020 20:42
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MJP posted:Introducin' Dragon Naturally Speakin', now updated with special Jersey calibrations. Youse guys are gonna fuckin' LOVE dis thing, fugeddaboudit. Trainin' the voice? Ayyyyy ohhhh, ba'fangoul! Save the talkin', kid, you're gonna need to tell Richie Bones why youse didn't make tribute dis week. I want this as my GPS voice
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Aug 17, 2020 21:30
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Many years ago, there were the "official" Star Wars voice packs available for I think TomTom GPS units. One of our fraternity brothers was due to leave on a long road trip, and we thought it appropriate to contribute our own Star Wars voice that for whatever reasons, those geniuses missed — Chewbacca. Being engineers, it was a fun reverse-engineering exercise that was absolutely worth the long weekend spent figuring out how to get in there. Needless to say, he was not amused by our poor (I disagree, I have an excellent Wookiee impression) dialogue and the uselessness of "rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr, rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgggh turn rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!" but I'd like to think it was a magical road trip.
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Aug 17, 2020 23:55
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Oh god, Dragon Naturally Speaking. One of my first "jobs" was volunteering to do tech work for a lady in my neighborhood who wrote a humor column for the local paper, and she had MS. I put quotes around "job" because I was 14 and when her caretakers offered to put me on the payroll, there was a lolarious moment where they realized I was in middle school, not college...anyway. This was in the mid 90s, and she had a computer with Windows 3.11 and Office. I was brought in to help her set up Dragon, which at the time involved having a person laboriously read every word in its internal dictionary for it to build a baseline. We got to "Byzantine" before we both cracked up and said gently caress this poo poo, and I would ride my bike over twice a week to take dictation and help her edit because loving hell, it was so much easier that way. I learned a lot about writing from her, plus she was a genuine hoot to hang out with. I worked for her until I went to college, and then another enterprising young lady nerd who liked writing took over for me  Claudia passed away two years ago, but she lived a massive life, and is still a huge inspiration for me.
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Aug 18, 2020 06:41
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RFC2324 posted:I want this as my GPS voice Tomtom has a KITT voice from Knight Rider, it owns so much, especially if your name is Michael. Sadly, there's no Paulie Gualtieri voice pack :-(
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Aug 18, 2020 19:21
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I had Brian Blessed as my TomTom voice on my old sat nav. It was, an experience.
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Aug 18, 2020 20:01
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ellspurs posted:I had Brian Blessed as my TomTom voice on my old sat nav. It was, an experience. This came immediately to mind: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YP11L9jRW94
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Aug 18, 2020 20:07
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ellspurs posted:I had Brian Blessed as my TomTom voice on my old sat nav. It was, an experience. i bet he managed to chew scenery outside of the car. "TURN RIGHT, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, MAN!"
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Aug 18, 2020 20:09
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ellspurs posted:I had Brian Blessed as my TomTom voice on my old sat nav. It was, an experience. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dA-KO0Q2_hs so you don't have to just remember!
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Aug 18, 2020 20:12
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Dirt Road Junglist posted:Oh god, Dragon Naturally Speaking. At the television station, they paid something like $14k for a live transcription service for captions so they wouldn't have to pay someone to type them live. The company they went with basically sent us a copy of Dragon Naturally Speaking and it didn't work AT ALL. It's the reason we accidentally listed the county fair as the "oval office gently caress" It was not used very much after that.
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Aug 18, 2020 20:47
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Shugojin posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dA-KO0Q2_hs so you don't have to just remember! Oh, that is perfect.
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Dirt Road Junglist posted:Oh god, Dragon Naturally Speaking. One of my first "jobs" was volunteering to do tech work for a lady in my neighborhood who wrote a humor column for the local paper, and she had MS. I put quotes around "job" because I was 14 and when her caretakers offered to put me on the payroll, there was a lolarious moment where they realized I was in middle school, not college...anyway. This was in the mid 90s, and she had a computer with Windows 3.11 and Office. I was brought in to help her set up Dragon, which at the time involved having a person laboriously read every word in its internal dictionary for it to build a baseline. Glad I'm not the only person who had a great experience doing that. Was after my first year of college, and I had an internship at the newspaper. Got referred to help out the retired former Head Editor, who was getting on, was 1/2 blind, etc. Still wrote 2-3 columns a week. Great guy, had a lot of fun working with him. Ended up taking him to workshops all over the province when he couldn't drive anymore. He passed away...god, 10-12 years ago, and I still miss the guy. He had a billion stories, knew everyone who was anyone during the post-war era up until the early 2000's. Defining moment of my life, and definitely helped my writing.
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Aug 19, 2020 12:48
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ellspurs posted:I had Brian Blessed as my TomTom voice on my old sat nav. It was, an experience. One of my coworkers at OldJob, a Brit, got drunk and recorded a bunch of his own cues for his nav (I don't remember if it was a TomTom) one night. In his version of an American accent. He came in to work still laughing about it, and I can still hear him saying "Please drive to highlighted route" with the accent weirdly on "route", and it still cracks me up to this day.
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Aug 19, 2020 15:04
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22 Eargesplitten posted:I apparently swear too much, because my phone has corrected at least one conjugation of duck to gently caress. My iPhone has given up and started recognizing/correcting misspellings of "fuckstain". 
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Aug 19, 2020 17:13
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I love teaching phones to swear. It makes my loving day
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Aug 19, 2020 17:57
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RFC2324 posted:I love teaching phones to swear. It makes my ducking day 
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Aug 19, 2020 18:05
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I'm currently watching support from a product vendor who is remoted into this server and she's trying to export a .csv. She keeps trying to save it with a / in the filename and it doesn't save, obv. She then backs completely out of the program and starts over, only to do the same thing. She's done this 4 times now. I want to see how long she can get stuck in this loop.
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Aug 20, 2020 00:36
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I’m sure that’s exactly what her script tells her to do and by god she better not deviate!
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Aug 20, 2020 00:42
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larchesdanrew posted:I'm currently watching support from a product vendor who is remoted into this server and she's trying to export a .csv. She keeps trying to save it with a / in the filename and it doesn't save, obv. She then backs completely out of the program and starts over, only to do the same thing. She's done this 4 times now. I want to see how long she can get stuck in this loop. I need to start counting next time I see someone try to copy/paste something into a PuTTY window, but accidentally click and drag when they click into the window, overwriting their clipboard.
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Aug 20, 2020 06:16
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:I need to start counting next time I see someone try to copy/paste something into a PuTTY window, but accidentally click and drag when they click into the window, overwriting their clipboard. Oh god. Oh god, right? And now for a less technical rant. Maybe it’s just me, but if you’ve already had a 4 hour team summit starting at 8am, maybe it’s not the day to put a 2 hour working session on the calendar as well? Which actually went until 6:30pm where the only breaks were during bits where the process involved file copies that took an excessive amount of time? Oh, and apparently we’re getting back on to mop up the rest today, though I don’t know where I’m squeezing that in between my other 5 meetings and tele-therapy. My dude, I like you. I enjoy your company. Your voice is, no lie, the sort that could read guided meditation professionally. But my dude, I don’t even spend this much time on the phone with my mom and my D&D group combined in a week, plz stahp. I don’t mind the OT, but I’m literally social time overloaded and dreading more of this poo poo, and it’s barely 8am.
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Aug 20, 2020 16:06
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Dirt Road Junglist posted:Oh god. Oh god, right? Yeah, my fellow team leads understand the need for breaks thankfully. If we get to the third meeting in a row together, one of us will usually suggest a 15 minute break to make some tea or whatever.
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Aug 20, 2020 17:57
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:I need to start counting next time I see someone try to copy/paste something into a PuTTY window, but accidentally click and drag when they click into the window, overwriting their clipboard. I feel extremely attacked by this post
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Aug 20, 2020 18:11
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nullfunction posted:I feel extremely attacked by this post My personal specialty is copying in a carriage return and auto-running whatever I'm pasting. I totally haven't hosed things up by doing this, though!
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Aug 20, 2020 18:15
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nullfunction posted:I feel extremely attacked by this post always click the title bar if you can't just alt-tab into it
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Aug 20, 2020 19:33
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Schadenboner posted:My personal specialty is copying in a carriage return and auto-running whatever I'm pasting. I was only feeling mildly attacked until this
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Aug 20, 2020 19:42
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lol got asked if the printer not working was the ISP's problem because their neighbor said it was for them i kept my patience enough to find out that it's connected by a USB cable so unless this printer is in full NO I MUST TALK TO THE SERVERS BEFORE I WORK* it's not my problem *I wouldn't put it past HP to do this but I still think that's the printer's problem anyway not mine
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Aug 20, 2020 22:04
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Shugojin posted:
this is absolutely a thing HP does. Still not your problem though.
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HP's printers as a service system is Captain Planet villain evil
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Aug 21, 2020 00:47
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Had a CP4525 that ran low on yellow toner and wouldn't let me print a black and white text document until I replaced the yellow toner cartridge. Didn't give any outward indication of error, just wouldn't print.
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orange juche posted:Had a CP4525 that ran low on yellow toner and wouldn't let me print a black and white text document until I replaced the yellow toner cartridge. Didn't give any outward indication of error, just wouldn't print. Thats been a thing for at least a decade. Bane of everyone trying to print porn on the sly
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https://twitter.com/cursedPC/status/1296533967907229699 ticket closed: working as intended as printers are horrible mechanisms
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quote:Hi! For some reason my VPN isn't working correctly. Can someone please look into this? I'll be working on paperwork all day so you can just log into my computer at any time today and look at it as soon as you can. Thanks! So, naturally, I remote into her computer since it's not being used. She's on a video call. It's a video call where both parties are holding cats in front of the camera and waving their paws around conversationally. The actual humans are off camera. I've never wanted audio more than I did for the three seconds I was connected to that computer.
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MrBling posted:https://twitter.com/cursedPC/status/1296533967907229699 you can just FEEL that accounting denied the request to buy a new printer
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larchesdanrew posted:So, naturally, I remote into her computer since it's not being used. This is why our helpdesk forbids our techs from remoting in to users home pc's while they're on WFH. Company PCs are ok, but there's not enough issuable laptops from our device guys for everyone so some folks are on home PCs with all the associated problems and privacy concerns.
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larchesdanrew posted:I've never wanted audio more than I did for the three seconds I was connected to that computer. nice linux
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