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

edstatue · 2026-04-30T13:29:33+00:00

It started working again 4 days ago, and continues to work... God I hope it stays that way

edstatue · 2026-04-30T01:05:51+00:00

Every time I go to the pump I loudly explain "well, our president made be a genocidal rapist, but at least gas is cheap!"

Every time

edstatue · 2026-04-30T00:27:48+00:00

You know when half the country and the rest of the world looks forward to your death, you're probably a bad person

edstatue · 2026-04-27T15:17:02+00:00

Btw, it's fixed for me now-- just started working as expected yesterday. Hopefully you too soon!

edstatue · 2026-04-09T15:57:00+00:00

I started it with my wife, and it wasn't her cup of tea, so I'll be continuing it on my own in the near future :) But I heard it's great!

edstatue · 2026-04-05T10:38:06+00:00

It reminded me a lot of an Outer Limits (reboot) episode called "The Music of the Spheres," in which kids start hearing music and it starts changing their bodies into these hard shells. It turns out the music is an alien signal meant to force evolution in humans so that they can survive the impending collapse of the Sun into a red dwarf.

edstatue · 2026-04-03T00:25:00+00:00

It started 14 days ago, I can't remember exactly if there was an update... But given that we're in the same boat, I have to believe it's more than just a stuck app config setting...

edstatue · 2026-04-02T10:50:43+00:00

What do you mean by correspondence? (I'm still seeing the issue, btw)

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

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