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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] 4 points 6 hours 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] 4 points 6 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 hours ago

There are consequences to being stupid.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 13 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] 4 points 13 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 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] 5 points 12 hours ago (3 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] 5 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 hours ago

Sounds like "light pollution" but indoor.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 hours ago

That's mostly just indirect lighting.

Bias lighting is specifically lights that are placed behind screens to help reduce eyestrain from viewing a bright screen in a dark room.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 20 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 19 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 16 hours ago (1 children)

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] 1 points 12 hours ago

I had something similar, except it was a blown fuse.

Granted, the fuse was soldered in place and you had to take it apart to get to it. But once it was replaced it worked perfectly. No idea why the fuse blew either, unless it was just defective.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 18 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] 2 points 13 hours ago

Anon needs a hug. 💔

[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 day ago

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

[–] [email protected] 61 points 1 day 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] 31 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 18 hours ago

Afaik fullscreen should bypass that one.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day 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 13 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 1 day ago (3 children)

If your cpu doesn't have integrated graphics yeah.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day 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] 7 points 18 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 20 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago

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

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 day ago (13 children)

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

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

Anon has never heard of lamps, either.

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