First time I saw a facebook "your friend is safe" alert. I'd just dropped kids off at school at 6:30 am, phone buzzed, and facebook let me know he was safe after the explosions in brussels, which I hadn't heard about before the alert.
 
First time I saw a facebook "your friend is safe" alert. I'd just dropped kids off at school at 6:30 am, phone buzzed, and facebook let me know he was safe after the explosions in brussels, which I hadn't heard about before the alert.
This morning my phone had a message from my family chat saying dead/wounded/location, and a Facebook notification of a friend being safe. I think when Paris happened someone used it way after I knew they were safe, but this time it was actually useful.
 

GasBandit

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I don't even have a facebook account. Well, not a real one anyway, just a fabricated account with a false name and picture I use for things that require a facebook login or "like us on facebook for your free code to xyz."


In unrelated news, the cat thinks I'm in dire distress if I sing in the shower. He starts meowing piteously until I stop, but I thought he just didn't like the sound until today, he actually poked his head around the shower curtain to check on me. He usually won't even go near the shower if it's on, so that was full on "sticking your hand inside the box full of venomous insects" time for him, except it was his HEAD. All to make sure I wasn't drowning/dismembered in the horrible coldwet-maker.
 
Don't know your Mundane name.

Daniel Stephenson on Facebook. Current profile pic is a pair of handcuffs forming a 4-leaf clover. Y'all can all add me if you like.
 
Don't know your Mundane name.

Daniel Stephenson on Facebook. Current profile pic is a pair of handcuffs forming a 4-leaf clover. Y'all can all add me if you like.
When I saw your name in my Twitter list, all I could think of was Pascal Dupuis of the Penguins going "thanks Daaaan" at the end of his interviews with Dan Potash of Root Sports. :D
 

fade

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Facebook creates dislike button, just for Fade to interact with Halforumites.
Most of my FB posts are mini-blog posts about things I don't like, so there's consistency for you.[DOUBLEPOST=1458663545,1458663271][/DOUBLEPOST]man what the hell. Creepy tracking algorithms recommended Buzzy Paloma as a friend even though he only has one friend.
 

GasBandit

Staff member
Most of my FB posts are mini-blog posts about things I don't like, so there's consistency for you.[DOUBLEPOST=1458663545,1458663271][/DOUBLEPOST]man what the hell. Creepy tracking algorithms recommended Buzzy Paloma as a friend even though he only has one friend.
And that one friend isn't even anybody either of us knows, to my knowledge!

But yeah, Facebook has figured out who I am, it's recommending me friends in the form of my aunts, uncles and cousins. And coworkers.
 
man what the hell. Creepy tracking algorithms recommended Buzzy Paloma as a friend even though he only has one friend.
I hate that crap. My wife has Facebook on her phone and it started pulling in people from Instagram, and then she found it had connected with the map and tracked her location, and then the phone drew off that data to recommend routes and ask if she wanted to tell people she'd gotten to work or home.
 

fade

Staff member
I would guess it's because I friend requested some of you and you guys had clicked mutually on Buzzy.
 

Dave

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So my computer has died on me twice today, each time making a noise that took me FOREVER to find anything on:



Looks like they said it might be the motherboard. God damn it.
 
I went to my local diner to get dinner last night. I was not really paying attention to what was going on... I walk into the second dining area and there was a large table with about 20 people sitting there. They were all sitting quietly, looking down. I supposed they were praying. Then I sat down and the diner's owner said in a loud voice, "B - 20"

...oh, Bingo
 

GasBandit

Staff member
So my computer has died on me twice today, each time making a noise that took me FOREVER to find anything on:



Looks like they said it might be the motherboard. God damn it.
At first I was all "I don't hear anything" and then "WTF"

Anyway, that sounds like a moving part spinning down, my first suspicion is a cooling fan. A heat dissipation problem could definitely cause frequent reboots/crashes. You might check all your heat sinks/fans to make sure they're properly seated and spinning freely.

Or did that noise come out of your speakers? If that's the case, and your sound is built into your motherboard... then yeah... you're probably hosed.
 
It sounded like the speakers made a pop and then crapped itself. My guess is the motherboard overheating. Possibly the south bridge. You could try keeping the case open with a fan blowing directly into it.
 
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