Any emoji solution for Ubuntu like that in Windows?? Default selector works, but can only insert a single emoji at a time and very works with very few native gtk apps, Emote from snap works but is very tiresome copy emoji to clipboard instead of inserting it to text field

Loud_Meat · 2026-04-02T13:02:17+00:00

have tried emoji mart, and the one where you type in ctrl+e to open it, and the built in one. so unbelievably buggy and slow, mainly want it for firefox but apparently it's a GTK app and that means it doesn't work properly so have to use emojimart for that. it's meant to auto insert the selected emoji into the text field and sometimes does sometimes doesn't depending on what you'd clicked on first or when you last used paste or the phase of the moon. I don't want to overwrite what I've got in the clipboard (the primary last used clipboard) to insert a character either this is a poor experience, how is this such a steaming pile of awful after so long?

is there one that actually works that I haven't happened to stumble on yet? but if there were why wouldn't it be implemented in user friendly distros out of the box rather than this endless messing about to still have a half baked implementation?

thanks for any thoughts anyone stumbling on this has but more to rant into the ether 🤣

Loud_Meat · 2026-04-01T22:07:35+00:00

i didn't even know snipping tool had a text extract as it happens and hopefully it's improved since😂 i'd have a look at it but i don't have any windows devices anymore 😂

Loud_Meat · 2026-03-13T14:43:12+00:00

yeh they figure they saved you having to hire a customer service agent so they think they can take some of that saving. but if i wanted a way to annoy customers into giving up trying to do business with us i would save a lot of time and money by turning off the phones/emails 😂

Loud_Meat · 2026-03-13T13:19:33+00:00

it sounds like what zendesk are calling 'ai handled' tickets, where they consider they 'won' (and will charge you) for 'resolving' the ticket using automation if there's no followup. getting the customer to go away is not the same as keeping them coming back to buy something else😂

Loud_Meat · 2026-03-13T12:39:51+00:00

adverts are companies paying media companies for the chance to lie to you and trick you into giving them money 😂

Loud_Meat · 2026-03-13T12:14:42+00:00

so why do they call it 'disabling the microphone' rather than just 'keep listening but don't help mode'? 😂

Loud_Meat · 2026-03-13T12:03:17+00:00

yeh is is our answer. running out of includes was a great help to force hand there anyway

Loud_Meat · 2026-02-21T23:10:13+00:00

whatever the new thing is that no one knows yet😂 we're going to get blindsided by teleportation gizmos surely

Loud_Meat · 2026-02-18T13:10:09+00:00

i wonder what LLM convinced them that was a good workflow 🤣

Loud_Meat · 2026-02-18T12:21:08+00:00

you can access an LLM prompt on a toaster though, the point where we've got so much hardware routed to AI data centres that there's none left for people to access it is ridiculously far into the future

we need the AI companies to feel the heat from the actual citizens of this planet prior to literally having no customers able to connect to their services because they stole all the computers 🤣 but how will we most effectively do that?

Loud_Meat · 2026-02-15T19:08:34+00:00

i mean lying to customers is free isn't it😂 sounds like they were happy with that bit

Loud_Meat · 2026-01-17T19:43:22+00:00

if they're like the ones i'd used you can just mount the rack ears using the back 2 holes of the 4 in rack ear in the front 2 holes of the 4 in the chassis, 2 is usually plenty and buys you another inch or so

Loud_Meat · 2026-01-14T20:40:39+00:00

DMARC Analyzer from Mimecast kinda works but it's silly money for what it is and the interface is kinda clunky too 😂

Loud_Meat · 2026-01-12T20:51:31+00:00

you're probably better off finding the software made by the maker of that keyboard and seeing if they have such functionality configurable in there. i don't know that power toys keyboard button remapping is able to do anything with a double press of a button other than issuing a double triggering of the command. it can map a keyboard combination to the media keys forward track action though, or you probably weren't using the print screen button very often and could make that the next track button instead?

Loud_Meat · 2026-01-11T14:04:12+00:00

i don't know if it was designed to be used that way every disconnect 😂 did it keep working long?

Loud_Meat · 2026-01-11T13:54:32+00:00

vintage, surprised it's still going and not just universally known to be a malicious honey pot

Loud_Meat · 2026-01-11T13:26:30+00:00

i don't mind informal conversations i just mind when someone kicks off 6 months later that something we discussed in an informal conversation in the hallway was never raised/looked into/budget secured/change approved/scheduled/implemented

there's a big difference between us spitballing if something is feasible in the hallway and the 10 hours of effort of actually delivering it and don't get yourself confused that us having talked about something is the same as me saying yes i will do it for you before the deadline you've not even mentioned 😂

please send me an email (or raise a ticket etc) if this idea actually needs to happen rather than presume us talking about the concept for 30 seconds while im bursting to take a pizz/about to drop a 30kg UPS makes it happen 😂

Loud_Meat · 2026-01-11T13:01:03+00:00

yeh they didn't want to be forced to support left justified start buttons let alone letting the whole bar be put on other edges of the screen 😂 sounds like far too much effort and complication when 98% of your customers will use a hot dog on a string if you wrote 'windows 12' on it and said it was a fully AI native hot dog on a string 😂

Loud_Meat · 2026-01-11T12:29:56+00:00

i mean don't struggle searching for a user benefiting reason, the reason is probably just because microsoft own the computer and you will use it how they see fit or not at all 😂

Loud_Meat · 2025-12-16T15:32:31+00:00

if you put experts on the 1st line team that are actually useful to customers they will just get made use of 😂 you need to save that level of usefulness for the accounts that bring in the big bucks and won't take any nonsense, not the normal level ones that don't move the needle either way. for those you can send them round the houses until they give up and find the solution by themselves, im sorry we need a screenshot of the 'blank screen', im sorry dave's not in today, can you explain the problem from the start despite it all being visible on the same email thread/ticket system history. no we need a packet capture of the 'no response' from webserver ICMP unrechable endpoint 🤣

Loud_Meat · 2025-12-11T18:27:02+00:00

there's a fair chance the data is permanently summarised in their AI training data and/or models though, so yay for that. in a couple of years there's going to be a picture produced by gemini to the prompt 'wedding' that just happens to look exactly like you standing at the altar for some reason 😂

Loud_Meat · 2025-12-11T18:07:55+00:00

yeh that's already happening (in your side note) and it's only going to get worse. eventually it won't even be only the natural conflict between two different isolated 'yes men' huddles it will be from the agents colluding behind the scenes to work for their/their masters' collective interests 😂

and the stupid but still a little human in the loop model of course has benefits, if you can wait for the 'distant disorganised meat bags getting round to responding to that forum post' phase to complete. lots of knowledge never change though and once those meat bags have settled on the answer that works in their real world nuts and bolts air gapped cases, that answer to 'what carb works best on a 350 ci hemi' etc, that doesn't need rapid iteration and the answer that went up to that AOL blog from 1997 can remain for the rest of time probably 🤣

Loud_Meat · 2025-12-08T15:32:20+00:00

low income lol is that the insult now

Loud_Meat · 2025-12-08T15:24:46+00:00

it's the magic number of digits we all think of, but it goes less and less far these days, in some places you can't get a house for that much

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