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Baader-Meinhof Effect has to be a real thing:
There's a PA speaker in the trash at work. I proudly told my boss that I had resisted taking it. He explained it would be pointless because they're 70V driven. I did not know this.
Ten minutes later, this post was made:
This keeps happening to me. This is stuff I would recall if I already knew it or if I encountered it often.
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Explaining to my coworkers that they are, in fact, just script execution engines with very advanced natural language processing capabilities and universal API access.
Which is to say, it's easier to tell you to do the repetitive task on the computer than it is for me to figure out how to tell the computer to do the repetitive task. And if that doesn't sum up the economy for the last forever, I don't know what does... -
Hey, uh UGreen, I think your article writer bot is a little off: https://www.ugreen.com/blogs/usb-cable/how-to-charge-laptop-with-hdmi-cable
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Other Lenten tech issues I've dealt with:
My phone (Pixel 4a 128GB) started draining its battery >2x the normal rate, causing me to have to charge it before the end of the work day (usually I'd get home around 60%). I chased several leads including Adaptive Connectivity, my Fitbit, and bad cell service, before I (accidentally) discovered it was the USB-C magnetic charging adapter I have in it.
The weird thing is that those aforementioned tasks were listed as having had huge battery usages, but eventually it settled on the "Android System" task. Based on the phones eventual reaction to the adapter of "Unsupported analog audio device", I suspect something shorted-with-resistance internally to the adapter, and Android either was prevented from sleeping or otherwise was spending most of its time trying to figure out what to do.
Switched adapter, battery life back to normal. Happy camper.