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Tried converting a story from TIFU to greentext because I'm bored at work.

I saved a Gimp Template while working on it: https://files.catbox.moe/ipnjzk.xcf

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 36 minutes ago

You know, you only need to be around 5% smarter than the tool you are using to be successful with it. Humanity is right fuckered isn't it?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

Oh, 4chan is back Your post is how I got to know it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

There are consequences to being stupid.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

His life was set to ‚dim’ for six years
Cause in the dark no one could see his tears

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

Once you get used to proper bias lighting, suddenly overhead lamps become insufferable. I don't know how people do it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 hours ago

you can make things feel much comfier with a well positioned cheap lamp

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

what's bias lighting? i've never heard of it and if it works as a complete replacement to overhead lamps, i don't think looking it up showed me the right thing

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

Lights that you place behind things, like your bookshelf, TV/monitor, bedframe, etc. It's so much more cozy and inviting compared to direct lighting. Like the other person said, a simple cheap lamp works wonders.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

Sounds like "light pollution" but indoor.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

But do they humm akin to angels like my long tubes of clinical white?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago

Anon needs a hug. 💔

[–] [email protected] 18 points 14 hours ago

Okay, I'm sorry, but this is totally true and heterosexual. I have seen two people do this in real life.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

My grandmother gifted me their old TV back in the 2000s because it was only showing black and white.

They had a mechanic look at it who said it was broken

Their was a button to change the saturation to get the TV back to show colours

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 hours ago

Ha. I had a coworker gift me a high end amp because the volume was all crackly. Opened it up sprayed electronic cleaner on the volume rheostat thingy and gave it a few back and forth turns. Perfect sound. I offered it back but he'd already purchased a new one. :/

[–] [email protected] 4 points 12 hours ago

I know someone who bought a new laptop and complained that the display broke after only a couple weeks

It only showed a super dim display and the viewing angle sucked

I pressed the fancy new "privacy screen" button and it "worked flawlessly" again

[–] [email protected] 7 points 13 hours ago

When you don't read the "friendly" manual.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 19 hours ago

I'm pretty sure the fan was not the only thing set to "dim".

[–] [email protected] 61 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

Me plugging my monitor into my mobo instead of my graphics card for three years. I thought I had just gotten reeeeally unlucky in the silicon lottery.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Or getting a high refresh rate monitor and not changing the refresh rate in your os.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 12 hours ago

Afaik fullscreen should bypass that one.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 20 hours ago (3 children)

Last time I did that I just didn't get any output to the monitor, isn't that how it's supposed to work?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago

one time i was testing something with the monitor in the motherboard, which worked fine, and then i put the gpu in the motherboard but forgot to plug the monitor in the gpu, and it showed a black screen.

there might be systems where you can plug both a gpu and the igpu into the monitor and it'll use one for most things and the other for games and stuff (i dont remember what that is called), but i have only ever seen that in laptops so idk

[–] [email protected] 23 points 19 hours ago (3 children)

If your cpu doesn't have integrated graphics yeah.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 19 hours ago

Massively depends on the system.

if you get a F series CPU with no igpu then you will likely get no output.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 15 hours ago

idk if this is gay or fake, but it's funny as shit

[–] [email protected] 105 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Baited by the date. I thought it was back. But, it does say "see you soon!" now when you try to load the website, so that's promising.

I don't really think converting reddit threads to fake greentexts should be allowed here

[–] [email protected] 88 points 1 day ago (18 children)

The idea that people are making fake greentext screen shots is both puzzling and embarrassing. If you have the idea, just post it as a normal comment somewhere else—forging 4Chan screens is the path of madness.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 37 minutes ago) (5 children)

Be me

see qt 3.14

wanttosex.exe

Show her my translated green text

She rips off her clothes

Give her the best three minutes of ~~her~~ my life

See you later virgins

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago

Give her the best three minutes of her life

holy shit dude, save some for the rest of us

[–] [email protected] 3 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

>be me
>know how to escape characters
>make smirk remark to failed greentext
>my own text is not even green
is this a win?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

I tried twice, couldn't figure it out on mobile. Characters were just ignored

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)
\>test  
\>test

Be sure to add 2 spaces at the end for a linebreak.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

> thanks

Now I know, I certainly would not have thought backslash would have done it

[–] [email protected] 1 points 59 minutes ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 41 minutes ago

> be me

> want to escape characters

> fail (like at everything in life)

> Anon shows me the path

> still had le sex...

[–] [email protected] 19 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

qt 3.14 [...].exe

Damn, I'm too deep into programming so it took me a bit to realize that the second line was not about the framework.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

It took me a while to realize it was short for cutie pie

[–] [email protected] 7 points 12 hours ago

qt3.14.tar.gz

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 18 hours ago

this is a vegan greentext no animals were harmed in the creation

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I was gonna say “CFLs just plug into a normal socket, those don’t generally just ‘go bad’”

[–] [email protected] 13 points 23 hours ago (9 children)

The text is about a halogen bulb, though, not a CFL. Those generally use flanged prongs.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago

Anon has never heard of lamps, either.

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