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Anon owns a fan (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by rovingnothing29@lemmy.world to c/greentext@sh.itjust.works

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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[-] bluewing@lemm.ee 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?

[-] lb_o@lemmy.world 4 points 7 hours ago

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

[-] peaceful_world_view@lemmy.world 4 points 8 hours ago

There are consequences to being stupid.

[-] Juliee@lemm.ee 11 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

[-] Psythik@lemm.ee 11 points 14 hours ago

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

[-] umbrella@lemmy.ml 5 points 14 hours ago

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

[-] festnt@sh.itjust.works 2 points 13 hours ago

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

[-] Psythik@lemm.ee 6 points 13 hours ago

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.

[-] M0oP0o@mander.xyz 8 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

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

[-] Psythik@lemm.ee 3 points 13 hours ago
[-] toddestan@lemm.ee 5 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.

[-] goldfndr@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 hours ago

Sounds like "light pollution" but indoor.

[-] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 20 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.

[-] No_Money_Just_Change@feddit.org 14 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

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

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

Edit: There and their

[-] BCsven@lemmy.ca 5 points 16 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. :/

[-] toddestan@lemm.ee 3 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.

[-] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 6 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

[-] Sculptor9157@sh.itjust.works 52 points 1 day ago

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

[-] hakase@lemm.ee 64 points 1 day ago

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.

[-] Alchalide@lemmy.world 34 points 1 day ago

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

[-] x00z@lemmy.world 3 points 18 hours ago

Afaik fullscreen should bypass that one.

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[-] RedSnt@feddit.dk 7 points 19 hours ago

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

[-] _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 21 hours ago

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

[-] match@pawb.social 17 points 1 day ago

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

[-] JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 points 13 hours ago
[-] lessthanluigi@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 11 hours ago

He doeeees!

[-] fahfahfahfah@lemmy.billiam.net 24 points 1 day ago

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

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