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
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.
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
hermy life
See you later virgins
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.
I actually almost made one of those
>be me
>know how to escape characters
>make smirk remark to failed greentext
>my own text is not even green
is this a win?
Is a green text actually a 4chan screen?
Or is it a distinct meme template to tell stories in ab engaging way that just happened to originate on 4chan?
Especially when the content literally never existed on 4chan, it looks like it but isnt.
I ask this with some rhetoric. We did click the content. Would it have been equally enjoyable as a twitter post: “after 6 years of living in the dark i discovered my light is dimmable, fuck me”?
Greentext definitely did exist on 4Chan before becoming a meme format, and even then, it only became a meme format because screenshots were an easy way to transfer the gold out of the sludge mines of 4Chan.
The idea of greentext is good, but photoshopping fake 4Chan screens is like digging up your dead grandma and puppeteering her corpse to prove that you definitely didn’t write a birthday card to yourself.
It’s time to start posting new greentext as text so people will screenshot Lemmy. Let the old bones of 4Chan rest until they may or may not be reincarnated by the admins.
you’re right… it is fake, and yet it is true. so is it true or is it fake? and if it’s fake, is it a less or more genuine greentext?
But here’s the real question: did OP convert a TIFU to greentext themselves, or did they use AI?
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.
Or getting a high refresh rate monitor and not changing the refresh rate in your os.
Last time I did that I just didn’t get any output to the monitor, isn’t that how it’s supposed to work?
Hmmm, maybe that’s what happened, but I’m pretty sure I was getting output without the GPU plugged in, but that was a long time 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
I’m pretty sure the fan was not the only thing set to “dim”.
I was gonna say “CFLs just plug into a normal socket, those don’t generally just ‘go bad’”
The text is about a halogen bulb, though, not a CFL. Those generally use flanged prongs.
It still wouldn’t be dim, it would either work or not. If it’s dim, it’s either a bad bulb or a setting on the light housing causing less voltage (I think?) to make it to the bulb.
or a setting on the light housing causing less voltage (I think?) to make it to the bulb
Aren’t you just describing dimmers, the topic of the post?
Depends on the CFL. I had to replace one in a fixture in my new house a few months after I bought it, and it was some goofy round one with a rectangular attachment point and some clips. Thankfully it was pretty easy to replace and was easily gettable from Dom Depot, but I was definitely surprised by the socket when I went to replace it.
That sounds like one of those fixtures where the ballast is in the fixture and the bulb is just a bulb, similar to a regular fluorescent light fixture. As opposed to the screw-in CFLs that most people are familiar with where the bulb also contains the ballast.
Those are kind of unusual in homes - I’ve mostly seen them in commercial applications like hotels and stuff like that.
Worst case scenario just replace the light kit and check your wiring but yeah obviously that wasn’t OP’s issue
Of course doing that with the fan still together/hanging is much more of a pain than just getting a new one, usually, especially if the fan is old. Most other electricians I know don’t bother doing ceiling fan repairs, they’ll swap em but any more than that’s not worth their time. I’ll do whatever but I’ll be up front about it.
Especially since you’re usually doing it for retired folks who can only afford so much…
Okay, I’m sorry, but this is totally true and heterosexual. I have seen two people do this in real life.
