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8:49:24
mood
Based on the stats Backblaze publishes every quarter you can slightly increase your chances by avoiding Seagate, but there's never any guarantees. In my experience the SMART stats are pretty good predictors once you have the drive running though
8:57:51
mood
Visiting some friends, playing some games, perhaps building some small things, doing some nothings.
8:58:41
Shinmera
I should do the same, but I've already been unsuccessful at doing so over the weekend
10:42:46
Shinmera
Good to see noted channel-shitter paule32 has been unbanned to poison #lisp again.
10:45:37
no-defun-allowed
I recall someone said that #lisp had as many bans as you could have, but that is indeed a shame.
11:30:01
selwyn
i've spent an hour trying to figure out if my mum was pwned or not. fortunately it seems to be a combination of old hardware and microsoft update shenanigans.
11:36:58
selwyn
that's cool. having access to microsoft office is probably necessary for her. but there's office365 for that, so it could work
11:37:26
Shinmera
libreoffice has been working well enough for the rare times my mom's needed to read a .docx
11:37:52
no-defun-allowed
We almost got away with using LibreOffice, except apparently something doesn't work for my mum's training course.
11:39:48
selwyn
i am worried that she would just send .odt 's as email attachments and run into problems. i've encountered places which require either .docx or .pdf
11:40:00
no-defun-allowed
Rather than question it, I'll probably just use my university to get a copy.
11:40:35
no-defun-allowed
I think you could set LibreOffice to save docx by default. Then it's fairly hard to send out an odt accidentally.
11:46:04
Shinmera
and it's making me painfully aware again at how little I know about what the game should actually be like.
19:56:03
selwyn
i am reminded of the short story 'clockwork' by philip pullman in which a storyteller is unable to finish a story.. with unfortunate consequences :