What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[Ghosty]

7 hours ago, somewhatfoolish said:

Orson Welles doing an advert while trolleyed.

 

Found these myself recently. The story of Orson is wonderful. 

[Dick Cheeseburger]

[hairnet]

I wasn't expecting this

@PhilA

How much did it cost them to post that?

i only bought it on the 29th april - royal mail learn from this

120 bucks for a shit econo lodge - i dont think so lmao - hampton ftw

 

[hairnet]

On 5/7/2022 at 8:57 AM, Wack said:

That's what we've got now  isn't it 

the rope is attached to the wrong bit

[richardmorris]

[Wack]

Ryan will be pleased 

[reb]

My new monitors mean I can browse the entire forum at once.

All are perfectly readable, each window is roughly the resolution of a normal 1080p screen.

[hairnet]

Ouch @PhilA

[beko1987]

1 hour ago, reb said:

My new monitors mean I can browse the entire forum at once.

All are perfectly readable, each window is roughly the resolution of a normal 1080p screen.

It's great isn't it! You don't need one big window, just many tiny small ones all massive! 

Going into the office sucks as my programs open at their last size. So what was a small sensible window showing all of the content on my 4k screen suddenly spans across 2 1080 screens and vanishes into nowhere 😂

Then when I'm back at home everything's tiny

[reb]

4 minutes ago, beko1987 said:

It's great isn't it! You don't need one big window, just many tiny small ones all massive! 

Going into the office sucks as my programs open at their last size. So what was a small sensible window showing all of the content on my 4k screen suddenly spans across 2 1080 screens and vanishes into nowhere 😂

Then when I'm back at home everything's tiny

I wish I'd done it ages ago! There's two of them so I could have 8 sensibly sized browser windows open at any one time.

The only issue is if I maximise one them they're not hugely readable, entire paragraphs end up on one line! It's going to take a little bit of getting used to I think.

The reason I did the upgrade now is I've got so used to having a 4K screen attached to my work laptop (I bought the screen myself) that the 1080p ones just weren't comfortable to use anymore. It's amazing how a resolution and screen size that felt impossibly roomy when I got it can feel so cramped now. 100% scaling is nice for fitting as much as possible on the screen, but it's maybe a bit small for extended use, I'll try 125% and see how I get on.

I think we've reached the peak resolution of sensibly sized monitors now though, 8K might be a bit of an improvement, but I can't see anything past that actually being any more useable at sensible distances. Maybe one day once the prices come down a bit I'll get a couple of 40" 8K monitors!

[hairnet]

Dutchies are crazy too

[hairnet]

[beko1987]

1 hour ago, reb said:

I wish I'd done it ages ago! There's two of them so I could have 8 sensibly sized browser windows open at any one time.

The only issue is if I maximise one them they're not hugely readable, entire paragraphs end up on one line! It's going to take a little bit of getting used to I think.

The reason I did the upgrade now is I've got so used to having a 4K screen attached to my work laptop (I bought the screen myself) that the 1080p ones just weren't comfortable to use anymore. It's amazing how a resolution and screen size that felt impossibly roomy when I got it can feel so cramped now. 100% scaling is nice for fitting as much as possible on the screen, but it's maybe a bit small for extended use, I'll try 125% and see how I get on.

I think we've reached the peak resolution of sensibly sized monitors now though, 8K might be a bit of an improvement, but I can't see anything past that actually being any more useable at sensible distances. Maybe one day once the prices come down a bit I'll get a couple of 40" 8K monitors!

I still keep a 1080 in portrait mode for outlook and etc. Needs barely a glance to see what's there. Bar that like you I just resize to what's good (long thin windows are amazing) 

You tried the fancy zones program that's within windows power toys? That's handy 

[reb]

10 minutes ago, beko1987 said:

You tried the fancy zones program that's within windows power toys? That's handy 

I run Kubuntu on my desktop and my work laptop is quite locked down. What does it do? Kubuntu lets you snap to a quarter of the screen, is it like that?

[hairnet]

2 hours ago, beko1987 said:

 

Then when I'm back at home everything's tiny

SNORTLEROFLSNIGGER

[hairnet]

3 hours ago, reb said:

My new monitors mean I can browse the entire forum at once.

All are perfectly readable, each window is roughly the resolution of a normal 1080p screen.

 

38 minutes ago, beko1987 said:

I still keep a 1080 in portrait mode for outlook and etc. Needs barely a glance to see what's there. Bar that like you I just resize to what's good (long thin windows are amazing) 

You tried the fancy zones program that's within windows power toys? That's handy 

can all the nerd FRO please

*looks blankly at screen on potato

[reb]

10 minutes ago, hairnet said:

 

can all the nerd FRO please

*looks blankly at screen on potato

If all the nerds were indeed to FRO you'd be without a forum to tell them to FRO on.

[hairnet]

This made me larf until I realised it picked Denver to start not Newark like I oicked

[808 Estate]

[PhilA]

9 hours ago, hairnet said:

I wasn't expecting this

@PhilA

How much did it cost them to post that?

i only bought it on the 29th april - royal mail learn from this

120 bucks for a shit econo lodge - i dont think so lmao - hampton ftw

 

International postage from here is steep, regardless.

Those are $0.58 each.

[andy18s]

[myglaren]

They missed a chance with Welding's.

[MikeR]

 I cut my Netflix subscription , and Markle gets the push ....

Win win ....

[Remspoor]

27 minutes ago, MikeR said:

and Markle gets the push

[High Jetter]

5 hours ago, myglaren said:

They missed a chance with Welding's.

And repairs! Think that pic is in the shite spelling and punctuafon fred

[myglaren]

I had cause to sit in my car for an hour or so the other day.

When I went to Northallerton I attempted to put the AC on as it was hot but opening the windows too noisy.

What I had actually done was to put it on recirculate which didn't help at all.

And I discovered the AC button.  Only right in front of my nose so no wonder I was unaware of it.

I have been using recirculate all winter and wondering why it was steaming the windows up.

Also discovered lots of things that the 'radio' does, except I never use the radio part of it.

Listened to a lot of music, I have a USB dongle that would take a month or more to plough through everything on it so lots of surprises as I have mostly forgotten much of what I put on it.

All very pleasant until I tried to start the car and had flattened the battery.  Could have done without that.

 

Also the American spell checker can sod off.

[adw1977]

20 hours ago, PhilA said:

International postage from here is steep, regardless.

Those are $0.58 each.

Minimum international postage from the UK is now £1.85, about $2.30.

[RoverFolkUs]

7 hours ago, andy18s said:

Think they could do with some grammar lesson's .......

[Richard_FM]

1 hour ago, RoverFolkUs said:

Think they could do with some grammar lesson's .......

Maybe the signwriter's parent's were grocer's!?

[AnnoyingPentium]

The left control key had stopped working on my laptop due to some software shite I really don't understand. It's now working again after I've done precisely fuck all to fix it.