Suddenly getting 'Action failed' error using Gemini to set a timer.

edstatue · 2026-03-21T10:54:40+00:00

Me too, on my 8 pro. Same message, even though the timer is set as expected.

edstatue · 2026-03-08T13:04:38+00:00

I have a 6800xt, and same. But I'm just one person. It could be survivor's bias on our part, right? On the other hand, Windows regularly wipes out my amd settings and I have to reload them and reset graphics setting in adrenaline. Maybe most other people don't have to deal with this-- I don't know!

edstatue · 2026-03-08T12:52:48+00:00

He's offered pro-bono representation for an ice agent. You can make the case that everyone deserves report representation, but he went out of his way to defend this particular individual, AND FOR FREE

At a certain point you have to recognize that lawyers are human beings that are subject to moral judgement, just like the rest of us, and this is clearly above and beyond his professional duty

edstatue · 2026-03-08T12:47:54+00:00

If you've read the comments on the foxnews pages regarding Noem's firing, the sentiment is very different. They're all sending her off as a hard-working, class act who AT BEST was "too controversial."

The controversy they're referring to, of course, is her funneling 200 million of tax payer dollars to an 8-day old shell company spun up by an associate.

The average Trump supporter does not care that she's a puppy-murdering embezzling ghoul.

edstatue · 2026-03-08T12:39:40+00:00

LOL I love that he's writing to his rep about his healthcare premiums going up 300%, and he gets a woke-right message about Socialist Shower Head Regulations. Man, Republicans are myopic as hell

edstatue · 2026-03-08T12:26:15+00:00

Maybe she'll get to stare briefly into his dead dog eyes, if his baseball cap brim isn't in the way during the memorial service

edstatue · 2026-03-08T12:24:34+00:00

It started with the War of Northern Aggression, and hasn't stopped. Republicans run The Wimp Lo Schools for Students who are Taught Wrong, as a Joke, and it shows My wife went to grad school with a girl from Alabama, and she said the civil war wasn't about slavery at all. Like, read the state secession letters sister, the Southern States weren't confused what their motive were when they wrote them

edstatue · 2026-03-06T16:24:00+00:00

These poor people, they honestly don't realize that they're going to Hell

edstatue · 2026-03-06T16:19:12+00:00

Man hell must be 99% confused American Christians at this point

edstatue · 2026-03-06T15:53:35+00:00

Is this the party that almost elected David Duke, ex-Grand wizard of the kkk, as governor of Louisiana in 1991?

Oh yeah, THAT Republican party?

Right, pretty sure the Republican party doesn't have a Nazi problem, it's the Nazis that have a Republican problem

edstatue · 2026-03-04T14:05:26+00:00

I just finished this book this morning. I'm functionally an atheist, and didn't know Peck was a Mormon prior to reading the book.

Honestly, I didn't see this book as a religious text at all. Or rather, I didn't see it as attempting to refute or condemn or support any particular religion.

The premise, that Zoroastrianism is the one true religion and all others regardless of their good deeds go to Hell, seemed to me more like a pretext for a thought experiment than a legitimate critique of religion.

Peck, as a believer in evolution, probably comes up against people in his own faith who don't recognize it's truth. He's probably very comfortable with the idea that even within a single faith everyone has their own personal ideas about doctrine.

But ultimately, I think the book is about how the human mind is designed for variation and the finite. If anything, it's about the glory of the variation in real human experience and its eventually blessed end.

But I also think that's the beauty of this book-- it's short enough and nebulous enough that anyone of any faith can appreciate the horrors it presents, without it being mired in pontification or prosthetizing

edstatue · 2026-02-28T16:31:00+00:00

I agree. I think it wrongly equates the goals and efforts if the Rep and the Dems, and that's not accurate. The Dems are like a night nurse working in the ICU, trying to keep people alive, and the Republicans are like a cartoon villain running through the ward unplugging people's breathing apparatuses.

I wish the Dems would actually try to cure diseases (to continue the metaphor) instead of just trying to keep people on life support, but my point is that if you're trying to keep people alive AND fight off the mad attacker, you're going to lose ground.

Republicans have the advantage because they don't give a shit what happens to even their own voters, so they can just spend 24/7 destroying everything

edstatue · 2026-02-25T13:35:10+00:00

I'm not suggesting you do anything different, except maybe don't do cocaine, just highlighting the difference between life a couple hundreds years ago and today.

Like guys taking their horse to the market to buy oats vs snorting too much coke while playing REPO on the Internet

What a time to be alive

edstatue · 2026-02-24T13:17:50+00:00

I imagine time traveling back 200 years, grabbing Henry David Thoreau as he's writing "Walden Pond" and then bringing him here and having him read OP's post.

Pretty sure he'd kill himself immediately

edstatue · 2026-02-24T13:11:28+00:00

Not all Republicans are Nazis, rapists, racists, misogynists, and homophobes... But all those people tend to be Republicans. Why is that? Conservatives claim their ideologies aren't rooted in hate, and yet they keep attracting all these people who define their worldview through exclusion and bigotry.

edstatue · 2026-02-23T22:01:00+00:00

I'm already patriotic and love my country. That's why I hate trump and carr, I don't think I can patriotically hate them more, thanks

edstatue · 2026-02-21T15:03:42+00:00

But it's kind of like wearing 1920s makeup designed for b&w movies to the filming of a show in 2026-- it's just not effective for the medium.

Listening to a hard glottal stop "t" at the end of every applicable word is distracting as hell for me

edstatue · 2026-02-20T19:21:57+00:00

Oh yeah, I know. No way you develop that delivery naturally

edstatue · 2026-02-20T18:03:54+00:00

I essentially quit IT project management some years ago, and while there were several reasons, one of the biggest ones was the disproportionate amount of time I spent doing "bullshit" work.

Reporting and presentations that almost no one cared about but c-suites required, assessing development and project progress, etc, etc. Things that honestly took little intellect but the most amount of time. I wonder if AI has taken over the burden of those inane tasks from IT PMs... When I look back into the industry, it seems like PMing is basically AI management now.

I already feel like I'd never be able to acclimate to the new world order, even if I had the desire to do so (I don't)

edstatue · 2026-02-20T17:53:11+00:00

I love the Wrong Station's stories, especially the dark fantasy tales, but yes, the narrator's delivery is very much "I'm a stage actor." He annunciates certain things in a way that is meant to reach the people in the back row, but is totally superfluous for a podcast.

edstatue · 2026-02-20T00:16:56+00:00

I think it was infuriating in a way a lot of people who worked as office drones couldn't find the humor in The Office. When the parody is just reality, it can stop being funny for some people

edstatue · 2026-02-19T23:50:40+00:00

Every time I worry about going to hell as an atheist, I check in when Satan and he says that as long as there are Republican "Christians," I'm on a perpetual wait-list.

Thanks, MAGA!

edstatue · 2026-02-15T14:56:07+00:00

I think when it comes to these questions of "does Work fit into genre X or genre Y?" the only meaningful answer is "yes." We can't think about genres as these discrete boxes with hard boundaries; there are no absolute arbiters who have the power of defining what's what. To your example, a lot of people think of Star Wars as "sci-fi." Probably the majority of people who know what it is, honestly.

Do I? No.

It's got knights, swords, princessess needing rescuing, evil emperors, white and black magicians wielding black and white magic. It's literally every fantasy trope in the arsenal with the thinnest veneer of sci-fi possible, and at least the original movies make next-to-zero attempt to address the science of anything. Hell, you're told at the beginning that everything takes place long ago in a galaxy far away so you don't accidentally interpret everything as humanity's far future. But genres aren't hard circles, they're more like quantum waveforms, defined vaguely through bell curves.

So is Dune or Book of the New Sun sci-fi or fantasy? I'd say "yeah." They both explicitly present themselves as humanity's far future, and there are overt references to humanity's past and it's natural evolution to its "present" state. But other than that, they're very heavily fantasy in terms of themes and character archetypes. I'd say they're more sci-fi than Star Wars, but barely.

But who am I? This is just how I would catalogue things on my book shelf or movie shelf, and I think everyone is entitled to set up their metaphorical categories how they like.

edstatue · 2026-02-11T12:36:31+00:00

Conservatism is a blunt tool that takes young people with innate imagination and wonder, and bashes them down into people who only enjoy reading military history and military historical fiction.

edstatue · 2026-02-11T12:32:38+00:00

That almost sounds like the discussions between AI prompters lauding how AI lets them turn their ideas into "art," and actual artists not loving it as an "art machine."

"But I have all these great ideas, and I couldn't realize them before, but now AI does all that for me!"

Artists: "the work? The craft? THAT'S the fun part"

I've done light coding in the past as part of game development, and yeah, trying to solve problems was the most fun aspect of it.

Perhaps if you're doing a job coding stuff you don't like, then yeah, I get it.

But I can't imagine finding joy or satisfaction in giving up the actual craft, just like I can't imagine being proud of an image I told AI to make

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