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Re: The Generic Computer Advice Thread
« Reply #5040 on: May 30, 2023, 11:04:24 am »

After our PM thread and the above - Are you really just looking for recommendations on which "get the equation of a circle that passes through three points" method among the many to use?
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« Reply #5041 on: May 30, 2023, 12:35:37 pm »

Truth be told, it was a "there must be a <Foo>, it's not logical thst there isn't, I must be looking at old SVG definitions" moment of madness, and chose to bother you guys in leiu of failures to Google what might not be there (or something like that). Coupled with my usual overexplain/beat-around-the-bush as to why I was looking for it, confounded by it being a late-night post of dubiously wise consideration.

With no "yep, here's the blatently obvious thing you missed" so soon, I rather put that bit on the back burner over the weekend/dealt with differently from how I thought I might, and I'm appreciative of your answers but it sort of became a different type of discussion from that I originally thought of (or I might have sought out the mathematics thread, instead).

In the cold light of day, I'm also very conscious of this not being a good spectator sport. It might whoosh=>[head] for many, because I'm no good at keeping a question (or answer!) short and sweet. Apols to all those affected.
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Re: The Generic Computer Advice Thread
« Reply #5042 on: May 31, 2023, 07:30:05 pm »

Eh, don't be so hard on yourself... it was an interesting diversion!
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« Reply #5043 on: June 29, 2023, 09:35:50 pm »

To day i hate Captchas, there F'ing hard of late as the AI art bots have got inthere and jammed up the easy photo recognition path we used to use.
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Agree, plus that's about the LAST thing *I* want to see from this kind of game - author spending valuable development time on useless graphics.

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« Reply #5044 on: June 29, 2023, 10:11:49 pm »

I tend to only see them on a wiki I frequent, and occasionally edit. I can give you a masterclass on some aspects of (my instance of) their expectations. Except whether "Traffic Lights" should be just the lights, the entire housing or also the supporting poles/cables. ;)

My 'favourite' is the (usually, and certainly no less than) three tiles in the grid that matches the desired description. If you're asked for Tractors and you've selected the actual two tractors, you do have to decide whether to also click the non-Tractor (e.g. a road-grader) that the system clearly thinks you should think is also a tractor.

The one with individual images where clicked things get replaced by further tiles (which may or may not also be worthy of clicking) quickly devolve into keeping an eye on the tile you just tapped and seeing if you need to tap it again, what with those that never were then not being made to change.

But Traffic Lights (or perhaps "Motorcyles" - which are often mopeds, really) in a full-CAPTCHA scene as a multi-tile single source image can be more troublesome, IME.


(I do occasionally get an "I am not a robot" tickbox on a Google Search, apparently my IP (i.e via my ISP's chosen shared gateway, I presume) has been over-used for suspicious searches. But never more complicated than that, plus whatever residual meta-activity data it harvests to try and determine I'm a person browsing.)
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« Reply #5045 on: June 29, 2023, 10:46:58 pm »

It's the mopeds that that motor bikes but are the riders a part too? what about the 15% of the wheel that's in the square?
An the is that an X? with a photo taken by the crappiest 240p mobile from an odd angle.

I really get the idea that where mostly training ai to deal with traffic now, gone are the days where we scanned old books.
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Agree, plus that's about the LAST thing *I* want to see from this kind of game - author spending valuable development time on useless graphics.

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« Reply #5046 on: July 08, 2023, 03:03:07 pm »

I just ran into this "prove you're not a robot stuff", and it is out of control.

I had to click through about a dozen or so grids of select all squares with a ___ only for it to tell me I failed.  I tried a second time and failed again.  So I gave up and just guessed a bunch of login possibilities until 1 worked.

If I ever truly forget a password, I think I'm going to be permanently locked out the way that system works...
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« Reply #5047 on: July 09, 2023, 06:31:19 am »

Are.. are you sure you are not a robot? Bip bop?
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« Reply #5048 on: July 09, 2023, 06:47:40 am »

I just ran into this "prove you're not a robot stuff", and it is out of control.

I had to click through about a dozen or so grids of select all squares with a ___ only for it to tell me I failed.  I tried a second time and failed again.  So I gave up and just guessed a bunch of login possibilities until 1 worked.

If I ever truly forget a password, I think I'm going to be permanently locked out the way that system works...

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« Reply #5049 on: July 09, 2023, 11:29:30 pm »

I just ran into this "prove you're not a robot stuff", and it is out of control.

I had to click through about a dozen or so grids of select all squares with a ___ only for it to tell me I failed.  I tried a second time and failed again.  So I gave up and just guessed a bunch of login possibilities until 1 worked.

If I ever truly forget a password, I think I'm going to be permanently locked out the way that system works...

00110000 00110111 00110001 00100000 00110001 00110000 00110101 00100000 00110001 00110001 00110110 00100000 00110000 00110011 00110010 00100000 00110000 00110111 00110001 00100000 00110001 00110001 00110111 00100000 00110001 00110000 00110000

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« Reply #5050 on: July 10, 2023, 03:40:59 am »

I had one of those weird Captchas things where I didn't have to interact with it it just had to check mark itself for some reason, it only took trying three different computers before it would work, because apparently my computer is a robot.
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Re: The Generic Computer Advice Thread
« Reply #5051 on: July 20, 2023, 11:58:41 pm »

So, need help with Linux (Xubuntu more specifically). I was updating and some stuff went wrong and now when I reboot, I can only access the command line, not the desktop. I tried the command startxfce4 but got an error. Tried the command startx and also got an error.

What else should I try next? Or is there some other information I should provide first?

Edit: I know one of the things being updated was drivers for my nvidia graphics card, so thst might be the source of the issue. Problem is I don’t quite know how to revert to a version of the drivers that works for me.
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« Reply #5052 on: July 21, 2023, 12:52:55 am »

The nature of the error(s) might be useful. I'm not particularly familiar with *buntu/xfce but as it shows up at that level, and with startx, then anything it given at that stage is likely to be an important pointer, at least.

(Although I do think it's a good chance to be graphics drivers, or something quite similar, which is also not my speciality beyond my own infrequent need to find my own particular version of this answer. But I'd expect something important to be revealed if it's failing in any halfway sane manner.)
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Re: The Generic Computer Advice Thread
« Reply #5053 on: July 21, 2023, 01:13:29 am »

Might have left a file in the wrong position or state while updating the xfce interface. Honestly might just try reinstalling xfce from the commandline.

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Re: The Generic Computer Advice Thread
« Reply #5054 on: July 21, 2023, 04:04:25 am »

I drive xubuntu daily.

The nature of the error is important.  If you can get a shell, we might be able to fix your issue.

I'd be willing to bet that this is an 'nvidia pushed an updated driver' issue
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