Posts by vxo@digipres.club
(DIR) Post #B14zFafp2pczDApmN6 by vxo@digipres.club
2025-12-09T17:16:01Z
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earlier this morning I hissed loudly during the process of filling out an order for work on the vendor's own website/shopping cart to determine what the shipping and tax would be... then have to go and manually enter each line into the company's ordering system to have it generate and send off a PO to the vendor!I immediately thought, wow, there should be a Standard* XML format or whatever for transferring invoices since they all pretty much do the same thing and oh wait* xkcd 927'd!
(DIR) Post #B14zFfK1lIAHd1fwau by vxo@digipres.club
2025-12-09T17:18:26Z
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nope nope the world cannot ever win that one. I will just continue to be amused at the idea of exactly how much the company has paid me for the mind numbing task of manually populating a purchase order in its absolutely wretched web interface that makes me feel like an old green screen terminal with needlessly baroque cursor key navigation would be a MAJOR IMPROVEMENT
(DIR) Post #B14zFk1QHtFoCm0en2 by vxo@digipres.club
2025-12-09T17:21:36Z
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and by needlessly baroque I mean one of those DOS things where a fairly nicely built looking set of forms and UI elements (dialog boxes, buttons, checkboxes, drop down boxes/menus, radio buttons...) are implemented using ASCII text and box-drawing characters, and it looks like it should also support mouse input buuuuut it was written to only work with one particular kind of mouse and seems to only work with it on one specific motherboard, and doesn't support the Microsoft mouse driver
(DIR) Post #B14zFpNEOEfYnrFdya by vxo@digipres.club
2025-12-09T17:23:25Z
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so you're expected to just navigate a seemingly logical layout with cursor and tab keys but in reality because your input method is snapping to different input widgets instead of just moving across screen coordinates, it becomes an inscrutable hellmaze.ok I love the Phabrix video test equipment but the SX and RX series units have an EXTREMELY BAD CASE OF THIS in their menus, which you navigate with a d-pad + center select button
(DIR) Post #B14zFuLzsFeYFTiEFM by vxo@digipres.club
2025-12-09T17:24:59Z
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there will be menu options (particularly on the signal generator options page) that are just... orphaned out there in space, floating under an unseen but impenetrable labyrinth. you have to just guess at and hopefully remember what the secret path is to Mario warp between three or four quadrants of a screen with completely illogical navigation.At least I didn't have to wade through that to put a picture of my cat on the test pattern output.
(DIR) Post #B150FakgqvYjPQfwdk by vxo@digipres.club
2025-12-09T18:01:27Z
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@discatte multi-purpose documentation, tangible space occupier, cat perch, emergency fire kindling or suboptimally low absorbent toilet paper
(DIR) Post #B150TW5Qzlvqzg1CHw by vxo@digipres.club
2025-12-09T18:03:58Z
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@discatte oh yes. that's excellent catting!
(DIR) Post #B150hO2fhYie69L8Nc by vxo@digipres.club
2025-12-09T18:06:30Z
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@discatte I wanna kiss his little fuzzy noggin
(DIR) Post #B1CAQtCswChlTlbo7U by vxo@digipres.club
2025-12-13T04:35:45Z
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Cassie would like to politely inform you that she is extremely cute and wants all the scritchies #TortiesOfFediverse #torties
(DIR) Post #B1DjOzB1Sgk4y9Wct6 by vxo@digipres.club
2025-12-13T23:03:07Z
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My makeup from last nightI feel like now that I'm on vacation I... actually have those long missed feelings of actually being alive and not just a walking zombie. I haven't done this in months now.
(DIR) Post #B1PwplnMx6AgaS5Bc8 by vxo@digipres.club
2025-12-19T19:48:37Z
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@MLE_online remember those kick scooters with the skateboard deck and small pneumatic bicycle wheels? I'm wondering if anyone has made one with a full size bicycle wheel. Just straight up Penny-Farthing style
(DIR) Post #B1U0waD3rzg3bCCO4e by vxo@digipres.club
2025-12-21T13:33:46Z
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Nyao ฅ^•ﻌ•^ฅ
(DIR) Post #B1grcdESY6hoeIk9k8 by vxo@digipres.club
2025-12-27T22:58:10Z
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I'm sorry I am done with this, take it awayI'm not either of theseI'm an ✨ experience ✨
(DIR) Post #B1x8DlkAZdiDYbfHBA by vxo@digipres.club
2026-01-04T20:25:24Z
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In my professional opinion.... nyaaa
(DIR) Post #B1yUzVcuBzpncWOd0a by vxo@digipres.club
2026-01-05T12:35:01Z
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@discatte oh I absolutely would too. I would come ready with treats and to give plenty of scritchies to get all the fun stuffthen promptly be too distracted by Babka being adorable to do anything with what he offers other than the happy purrs
(DIR) Post #B1zROgJXO72PLf2pXM by vxo@digipres.club
2026-01-05T22:46:55Z
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i have absolutely lost it sitting in the office in front of everyone because someone said "PoE Magic Wand".....to be fair daaaaamn that could deliver power to a STRONG little motor, 25W on 802.3at
(DIR) Post #B26yVh6qAIS5UM5olU by vxo@digipres.club
2026-01-09T14:42:55Z
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@foone just gonna casually start carrying an emergency buck converter board around by hanging it from my collar(the number of times I have been able to fix a Major Drama Issue by having and deploying one of these little boards is nonzero)
(DIR) Post #B2RnY1P6Nvh3ZPFb1s by vxo@digipres.club
2026-01-19T15:43:23Z
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Is there anything that works well to prevent a motorcycle helmet visor from fogging up or getting covered in small water droplets when riding in the fog, or am I just being screwz0r3d by physics and weather no matter what?
(DIR) Post #B2RnxtHRD8dDu807m4 by vxo@digipres.club
2026-01-19T15:54:17Z
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@GummyNerds@noauthority.socia oh you mean the thing I throw the cover in before I leave in the morning?
(DIR) Post #B2YysOgM0PeF9zxRnU by vxo@digipres.club
2026-01-23T02:44:37Z
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#piss