They did that to my daughter. I’d setup a laptop for her. The windows boot partition was still there (my bad for scraping every last bit of Windows off - it was setup in haste) and she accidentally chose windows from grub one day. The Windows Bootloader decided to change boot options in the bios and then remove grub somehow, but there was no windows on disk to launch so it was bricked.

The next time I could out hands on the computer I scoured that disk clean of Microsoft’s plague rats so they wouldn’t get a finger in edgewise again.

He goes to this, but writes to get out of attending criminal case sessions? He does this mostly because he hates losing to women and he likes fucking up NYC traffic with his motorcade shit.

Cool, but we also take Finland’s law about tuition: it’s illegal to charge it.

No private schools. It’s done wonders for their society because the rich people invest in the same schools as everyone else.

I accidentally started a video way outside my usual feed. It was some right wing fascist starting to talk about replacement theory bullshit. I closed it fast, but it was like a starter gun for YT to race every kind of conspiracy theory, right wing, Nazi supporting, women hating, christofascist channel it could try out to me. I had to block channel after channel for weeks until it gave up.

Of course not. They are obviously suffering from Obama Derangement Inferiority Occupational Unawareness Syndrome (ODIOUS).

Geez. I really had to reach to get that acronym to work.

Our fucking stupid car enslaved cities claim another person’s life. It happens hundreds of times per day, thousands around the world. We have to change how we build our transit infrastructure to stop this horrific death mill we call roads.

Hyperbolic? Maybe. Wrong? Not really.

I had not considered the Mooch. That’s a great point.

How long as Vance been on the ticket in Mooches?

Lay off Vance, everyone! The risk of actually showing how stupid and robotic this guy is is that he might get replaced on the VP candidate slot. He’s a terrible choice that’s driving people away, but if he gets replaced literally a bowl of soup would be a better choice.

My university is trying to write a new policy to handle student protests. The first draft basically said “don’t disrupt anything or make anyone uncomfortable” “don’t protest in a way that is loud or visible” “only protest during approved times and at the approved locations” “also: immediately disperse if asked to by any member of the university staff”.

It was hilariously unaware of the definition of “protest”.

As long as you still vote in November, then it’s healthy to take breaks from this firehouse of crazy.

If someone takes (or tries) to take your vote they want to have you live in a dictatorship. We had a war about this and sent King George packing. If we have to do it again with people more home grown, then so be it.

Yes. A 12 year old is better at handling Alt-Right misinformation than the main steam media journalists.

At one point my 1GB disk was the “big one” in the dorm. It was the windows share of some random media. I had room for the whole 40MB videos “Jesus vs Frosty” (The Spirit of Christmas) and “Jesus vs Santa Claus”. It was before South Park became an actual show, but people watched those 100’s of times off my hard drive.

When I bought a 3GB from Fry’s it was an open question how we’d fill it. Of course, that was just as the mp3 codec started to gain traction… Problem solved.

All $5 mil? Yup.

He’s a grifting liar and traitor to the Republic. The $5mil is just the start. The Smartmatic defamation suit is just getting started and he’s out of money for lawyers.

He probably sold his moustache to pay for bus fare because that’s eventually where everyone who support the felonious king of con ends up.

Surprise! A right wing candidate is in support of a very right wing candidate: news at 11.

I have it on the shelf, but haven’t gotten to it. I’ll put it in the reading queue.

There was also a competition (long ago) to see who could build a computer that would successfully boot Windows 95. The goal was to boot the slowest possible time (no arbitrary delays allowed).

The winner wrote a shim that emulated a floating point unit of the i486 so it would boot on a i386 (no floating point). The result was… booting after many weeks. They won big time.

I did some similar stuff on a Raspberry Pi. I had to NFS mount my desktop and make a swapdisk on the NFS mount to have enough RAM to build. It wasn’t fast, but it did eventually work.

We used a RPi 4 for a Plex server for a while. It was fine except it couldn’t do any live transcoding or handle h265 worth beans.

I upgraded to an OrangePi 5. I’m on a sata drive for the OS and a external USB disk for media. The thing is amazing!

No, it’s not a $50 computer. Yes, it works great.

I love RPi boards, but their hardware limitations are quick to be found as you move past simple hobbyist projects.

I use Intel NUC boards for desktop systems. The form factor is nice and compact. The only limiting factor would be the volume limits the GPU, but that’s not a requirement for me.