Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

@quirk i force myself to never drink coffee after 12 for exactly this reason.

@quirk same.

i confess it took me a while to figure out why i couldn't mount the windows drives in linux after shutting down windows but could after rebooting windows & letting grub choose linux instead.

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i don't think it's related, but an almost-coincidentally timed incident of microsoft being microsoft was just brought to my attention: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/02/05/windows_10_binged/

@Russwilde@mastodon.social good find. it's possible, but the timing between microsoft's bing-up and my customer's experience was a bit off, and search results at the time said to try restarting 2 or 3 services or just rebooting first.

fast startup can be disabled, but manually rebooting once a week or so for decent daily use does the job, too.

there's no permanent solution for that because, since #windows 8, microsoft cheated to get decent startup and shutdown times: the fast startup feature.

when you tell windows to shut down, it goes into a hybrid sleep/hibernation state instead, & the next startup is basically a wake-up instead of a true kernel startup.

reboots don't do that. windows goes through a proper shut-down & actual startup.

go long enough without a proper reboot, & windows does strange things. this is one.

i have a customer who uses #windows 10, and they said they couldn't reach the internet anymore: all they got was a big black box. turns out, they actually use the taskbar search box to type web addresses, and the search results popup is what went blank. simple fix: reboot the pc.

@plsburydoughboy i think it's everyone this time. i can't tweet either, and there's no new tweets from anyone.

tech is broken today. google maps is pinning some of my would-be customers 1,500 miles away, & no one can tweet on birdsite.

That first bit is frustrating, but that last bit is kinda relaxing. blessed silence.

*migrates files including firefox profile from old pc to new pc*

*installs firefox*

firefox: "the old profile is for a different firefox"
me: "crap, that's right, they use esr"

*uninstalls firefox*

*installs firefox esr*

firefox esr: "this profile is too new"
me:

@mavica i use opennic at home, but it's been a while since i went to any opennic tlds. i should be able to check tonight.

@mavica it's been a while since i used opendns, but the only bad things i've heard about it are the "family safety" related annoyances.

there are quite a lot more public dns servers than i realized: https://www.lifewire.com/free-and-public-dns-servers-2626062

@monorail keep sneezing, and we'll be blown away to oz. :v

@monorail AUNT EM! AUNT EM!