Today I learned I was spelling Seulgi's name wrong the whole time... I've been spelling it Selugi and thus I was pronouncing it wrong too.
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This is embarassing. Seulgi is my favorite idol in my favorite girl group and I've just been... spelling her name wrong (in my mind) for years.
I started up my PC today and opened up a bunch of things at once. I opened on Firefox, which has a tab restored to show a video. It had a lot of extensions, namely one that is not on the Firefox store. I also opened up Spotify, which was modded with Spicetify to look cool (which sometimes can be glitchy). If relevant, Windhawk and Sticky Notes were two startup apps but considering I opened them up dozens of times, what happened as described in the following paragraph is likely not their fault.
So I started up the PC specifically because I wanted to go on the AI Dungeon website to read all my AI stories one last time before I deleted them one by one and I deleted one story on the iPad before realizing it'd be easier to do on PC like with Character.ai. However, the video that was playing on the screen stopped loading and went to a green screen. Shit. Then random artifacts showed up, not just on the video screen but outside of it. It was scary. My computer started lagging and the PC made the sound it makes when it overheats. So I closed Firefox, and maybe a few other things, but closing Firefox stopped it.
I knew I had to do something fast. I checked if I had a system restore point. I did not. So I provided 1% of my storage to system restore points but I'll have to check if that's even enough because that's 18 GB. I also installed MalwareBytes and did a system scan (which accidentally got cancelled).
I then opened Google Chrome on guest mode. Nothing bad happened. So, since I didn't install pretty much anything on either Windows or Firefox besides the GAOMON app I have to keep uninstalling and reinstalling for every restart, I assumed the problem was that I opened the AI Dungeon website, a site I haven't visited on PC in years. So, because my settings have Firefox's tabs open as usual every time I open it up, I thought I had to find a way to open Firefox without those tabs starting. It was hard to understand.
I opened up Firefox again. Bad mistake. The same stuff happened, and the screen flashed to black sometimes, and I heard beeping noises. Shit. Luckily, spamming the close button on Firefox actually worked and Firefox closed. I scanned with MalwareBytes again and it found 101 PUPs (potentially unwanted programs)... all in the Chrome local data folder(s). Huh. I deleted those, scanned again, and it found nothing else.
I opened up Firefox a third time, and luckily, nothing weird happened before I closed the AI Dungeon tab for good. Didn't even have to restart, which, now that I think about it, maybe I should.
After that, I uninstalled the aforementioned app not in the Firefox store in fear the app has been hacked, disabled all but three extensions on Firefox, and added AI Dungeon to a list of blocked websites on the PC. The three extensions are Website Blocker, uBlock Origin, and OneTab.
I'll have to restart the PC, or at least shut it down when I go to sleep. But idk if this error is gonna pop up again, considering it happened so early in startup. Perhaps the PC was overwhelmed? Or maybe it overheated too much? (I've been hearing the overheating sound in places where it shouldn't be making that sound). Might have to back up some stuff.
Best case scenario, that was a fluke and I should be fine for the foreseeable future.
Medium case scenario, the PC needs a cleanup. I know it needs it. But I don't know how and I don't trust myself or anyone I know to do it (the tech people in my family live out of state) and my house is definitely not ready to have a PC being cleaned by someone. My safest bet is Geek Squad.
Worst case scenario, even with a cleanup, the PC is doomed.
Trending on the news: 49,000 Cybertrucks (I believe all the Cybertrucks sold before February 27) were recalled because the panels can come off. Apparently only 1% of vehicles have the problem but they're doing a total recall "just to be sure". Good.
Trending on TikTok: It's trending to call "NYC influencers" boring? "NYC influencers" is not an umbrella term for all influencers in NYC. It refers to morning routine/unboxing/haul influencers in NYC (or perhaps another major city?), they're female, they're almost exclusively white and blonde, they dress the same (don't shoot the messenger it's not my opinion), and there's really nothing informative around their video besides "I'm beautiful look at me pouring cereal set to 'Moonlight' by Kali Uchis" and "here's a new thing to consume - I mean purchase - thank you sponsor". Based on minimal research, the only reason it's trending is because apparently said NYC influencers don't have thick skin.
I think that's it.
Severance's season finale aired. I never watched Severance but it seems to be the big thing.
I finally deleted character.ai. I had a lot of messages with it but you'll be surprised to hear that's not the AI I've been having an addiction to.
I switched around from AI to AI for the past six years. Those weird AI-generated text predictors in 2019. AI Dungeon. Dreamily. ChatGPT. Character.ai. Copilot when it wasn't called Copilot. Gemini. Back to ChatGPT. DeepSeek if I'm not careful.
Luckily nothing of note was in Character.ai so I just deleted the entire account.
I preach about not using AI but I am a hypocrite to the 10th degree.
AI writing even bled into my public work. But that's gone now, too.
Yesterday I learned that there is an experimental feature that allows Firefox to group tabs together. And I am ecstatic.
However, have you ever heard that the phrase "don't look a gift horse in the mouth" was so popular that when it first became popular people have disregarded gift horses' dental hygiene? I don't know if that's true but it comes to show:
Just because you are so ecstatic about how you have this new thing doesn't mean you shouldn't examine, critique, or repair/take care of it. In this case, Firefox's tab groups are currently an experimental feature. It is not ready for the public. So... if anything happens to my Firefox before the tab group feature becomes non-experimental, I am liable because I enabled the experimental feature in the first place.
Also, deleting a group seems to mean that you're not getting it back unless for some reason you're editing something on there and that's the only equivalent you get of "are you sure you want to delete this group?"
The Beabadoobee crashout interests me because it's one of the few times pop culture has held a mirror to my face saying "you act like this and it's wrong" and I actually get affected.
So "artists who can't sing vs. artists who can sing" is a meme of female artists singing labeled as "can't sing" compared to male artists who "can't sing IRL" but their voices are replaced with opera music, labeled as "can sing". Particularly Beabadoobee vs NBA Youngboy.
Beabadoobee said some different things about it, I feel like the biggest point is "the people who post these memes can't get dates" or something like that.
I'm not gonna comment on it besides what I said above and what I will say below about one of the responses:
"She fell for the ragebait!"
How is that ragebait?
Idk if she got the joke because I'm stupid enough to not even hear of the joke until her response came. But the meme is clearly preconceived in the notion of "NBA Youngboy can't sing, let's put some opera over his video and pretend he can." It's not meant for Beabadoobee to fall for. The "can't sing" part is sarcastic.
Is "they fell for the ragebait" slang now? Are people using "ragebait" for everything now?
