Computery things
Apr. 29th, 2023 07:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sunnyskywalkerI finally got a new laptop, since given how long it takes to get electronics these days I thought I'd better make sure I got a new one before the old one finally dies. The past six years apparently erased my memory of how long it takes to configure everything. There has been a lot of NO, MICROSOFT, STOP THAT and swearing. And not a lot of anything else I wanted to be doing. It's taking even longer because Windows 11 is new to me. (Why are so many "updates" apparently nothing more than moving controls around? Did you like that button in the bottom left? Cool, now it's in the middle! Which accomplishes nothing useful but makes us look productive!) I think I'm getting there, so...better luck tomorrow?
At work, the hard drives of the shared workstation computers are critically full. IT asked us all to clear our downloads folders and browser caches. Between us all, that freed up maybe 300 MB. Yet many of the user accounts are showing huge numbers of files and many gigabytes of space used--even though they don't appear anywhere! Our working theory is that we've spawned an AI which is hiding itself in the shared computers. We can only hope it is a friendly AI.
At work, the hard drives of the shared workstation computers are critically full. IT asked us all to clear our downloads folders and browser caches. Between us all, that freed up maybe 300 MB. Yet many of the user accounts are showing huge numbers of files and many gigabytes of space used--even though they don't appear anywhere! Our working theory is that we've spawned an AI which is hiding itself in the shared computers. We can only hope it is a friendly AI.
