Please don't drag the "This PC" icon into the Recycle Bin. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_XaJdDqQA0
I’m gonna need everyone in security to internalize this.
Hell, my local country fair (y’know, the place where you can submit your veggies to go on display and get judged and get ribbons and shit) is requiring online registration.
Guess how many people that’s locking out? How many of the people whose submissions are what keep the exhibitions going don’t have emails or cell phones?
If your solution doesn’t work for my friend who can only be reached via landline phone or mail, it doesn’t work.
It's been about 15 years or so since Microsoft's first version of the Windows Media Creation Tool, and the latest version STILL needs to run while logged into an Administrator account, even when downloading and writing to a USB thumb drive.
"Run as Administrator" from a Standard User account STILL isn't good enough.
Periodic reminder: Make backups, check that your backups are actually what you think they are, and test your backups.
For the first time in what feels like forever, or at least since HP brought Compaq all those years ago, I found an HP laptop that did NOT need me to remove, buy, and replace the rubber foot strips in order to take it apart! An HP Laptop 15-fc0037.
The bad news? It came to me because its SSD (M.2 NVMe) died so suddenly and so completely, out of warranty, that the firmware diagnostics said nothing was installed.
@mavica_again The amazing uses of
RE: https://mastodon.online/@mwichary/116952836351215165
Friends don’t let friends install Chrome.
Every now and then on my wanders around Glasgow, I come across one of these upside down T-shaped keyholes on the door of a Victorian building. It's for an Odell Night Latch Key, of the type shown on the right.
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we removed the slop that microslop inexplicably added to comic chat because we are part of the fuck off ai code movement? https://github.com/theAlexes/comic-chat-deslopped
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